VP Harris ripped by sheriff for refusing to reveal her vote on anti-crime measure in home state

Vice President Kamala Harris is facing scrutiny from a California sheriff after refusing to say whether she voted for a proposition in her home state aimed at curbing the surging crime and theft in the state.

“California’s Democrat leaders have long taken the side of criminals instead of standing up for crime victims and ordinary residents,” Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco told Fox News Digital. “Proposition 36 will roll back some of the most harmful soft-on-crime policies California Democrats have enacted. It is the single most important thing on California’s ballot this year, and will help clean up our streets and keep our neighborhoods safe.

“The Vice President’s reluctance to vocally support this critical public safety measure is yet another failure in a long career of failures when it comes to keeping our citizens safe.”

Harris, a former San Francisco district attorney, California attorney general and U.S. senator before she was elected vice president in 2020, declined over the weekend to answer about how she voted on Proposition 36. The California ballot measure would reverse criminal justice reforms made in her home state in recent years.

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“I’m not going to talk about the vote on that because honestly it’s the Sunday before the election, and I don’t intend to create an endorsement one way or another around it,” Harris said. “But I did vote.” 

The initiative, if passed, would make the crime of shoplifting a felony for repeat offenders and increase penalties for some drug charges, including those involving the synthetic opioid fentanyl. It also would give judges the authority to order people with multiple drug charges to get treatment.

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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at Jenison Field House on the campus of Michigan State University, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, in East Lansing, Michigan. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The ballot measure is an effort to roll back Prop 47, labeled by supporters as the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, passed by Californians in 2014. Prop. 47 reclassified felonies down to misdemeanors “unless the defendant had prior convictions of murder, rape,…