Hank Johnson: “30 percent of the state's prisoners come back to Los Angeles County, which cheats us of resources”

It’s a really important principle, and I hope that we can employ that, because it makes a big difference in the calculations.

Democrats have to help negotiate this, and they've to this point shown no interest in finding a reasonable solution for that.

They’re professional protesters. So, why would we give them a forum to do that right now?

I’m not going to stand by and support an effort to dismantle our democracy through the budgeting process.