Imagine, if you will, a man who pled guilty to having child s@xual abuse material and was thus put on the sex offender registry, decided to run for office. In California, where in some areas being a sexual predator is almost, but not quite, a prerequisite for social acceptance.
Now imagine that Senators and Representatives from non-degenerate parts of California decide that predators with criminal convictions should be ineligible to run.
What do you think would happen?
Democraps are so corrupt in California pic.twitter.com/bqQF0RfNy0
— NoHate/JustLove (@NoWarPeaceOnly) July 1, 2026
Well, in California, which has been on a tear lately, protecting sexual predators who intentionally infect others with HIV, traffic young girls, and have relationships with minors, the bill to ban sex offenders would die.
Senator Scott Wiener calls hoarding child sexual abuse materials a minor crime, not a crime committed on minors, about whom he cares not at all.
The State Senate's Elections Committee on Tuesday rejected the proposal, AB 2753, in a 2-1-2 vote. Democratic San Diego State Sen. Sabrina Cervantes and Republican State Sen. Steven Choi voted yes, the committee's chairman Democratic San Francisco State Sen. Scott Wiener voted no, while Democratic Santa Ana State Sen. Tom Umberg and El Segundo State Sen. Ben Allen abstained from the vote.
Legislative records show the proposal passed the State Assembly unanimously before reaching the State Senate.
Fresno Democratic Assemblymember Esmeralda Soria wrote the proposal after registered sex offender Rene Campos tried to run for Fresno City Council. He pleaded no contest in 2018 to a misdemeanor charge of being in possession to child sex abuse material.
Soria's proposal aimed to block anyone listed in California’s three-tiered sex offender registration system from running for office. Tier One offenders remain on the registry for up to 10 years, Tier Two for up to 20 years, and Tier Three for life.
Democratic State Senator Scott Wiener, chairman of the Senate Elections Committee, expressed concerns about the bill’s broad scope. Wiener said he would only support the measure and allow it to move forward if it applied exclusively to Tier Three offenders. Soria declined to accept the amendment, and the bill failed.
"I'm extremely disappointed and I feel like I'm still trying to process what we just saw," Soria said after the vote.
"I think the fight still continues, I made a promise to my community," she said. "We'll continue to make sure it's loud and clear to ensure no registered sex offender is able to run or get elected in state or local office."
When asked why she refused to accept the committee's amendments, Soria said all offenses in each tier should disqualify anyone from holding public office. Tier One, for example, includes child molestation and enticing a child to prostitution. Tier Two includes incest and sodomy with a minor.
Lawmakers in the same committee advanced a separate bill, AB 2961, which prohibits individuals convicted of felony sex crimes from running for office—but primarily if the victims are adults. The committee watered down the bill, allowing people convicted of felony child sex crimes, such as rape and sodomy, to still run for positions like school board, city council, or state legislature.
Of course, there is no such thing as a reformed pedophile, and Scott Wiener and everybody who opposes locking sexual predators out of making the laws of the state knows that very well. Their problem isn't that preventing convicted predators from running for office unfairly impacts reformed criminals, which is in itself no particular problem because the world has enough people eager to run for office that we really don't have a pressing need to expand the pool, but rather because they consider being a child sex predator to be no big deal, akin to being a bit of a heavy drinker.
Not all Democrats are moral degenerates, but almost all moral degenerates are Democrats because there is little opprobrium heaped on them. These are "lifestyle choices," and in many cases they are reasons to take "pride" in one's behavior.
Yesterday, California’s State Senate Elections Committee voted on a bill to ban those convicted of child molestation, enticing a child to prostitution, or incest and sodomy with a minor from running for office in the state.
— Bad Hombre (@Badhombre) July 1, 2026
The committee’s chairman and deciding vote, Scott… pic.twitter.com/mYwew7zYof
Yesterday, California’s State Senate Elections Committee voted on a bill to ban those convicted of child molestation, enticing a child to prostitution, or incest and sodomy with a minor from running for office in the state.
The committee’s chairman and deciding vote, Scott Wiener, voted no and killed the bill because he wanted a specific exception allowing convicted pedophiles to still run for school board.
Yes, school board.
I don't even know where to begin a discussion with anyone who might consider voting for Wiener or his ilk. While I am perfectly fine having a discussion with somebody who differs on the best size of the social insurance state, when it comes to issues like this one, or the spread of communism or Islamism, I see so little moral overlap that I don't know where to begin.
If you can't see before any debate that moral degenerates should be kept out of public life, then what is there to talk about? If you can't draw the line at pedophiles, there simply is no line at all.
Wiener has a good shot at being the next Congressman from Nancy Pelosi's seat, with his Jewish heritage being the biggest obstacle to his advancement. It's hard to say how that will play in San Francisco, although the Bolsheviks are now taking aim at him despite his otherwise spotless leftist record.
Scott Wiener showed up to the trans march and for the first time we kicked his ass out. It's sad because while he's written some good legislation for queers, hes ultimately a genocidal-supporting center right shill. Trigger warning: broken man walking away defeated. Vote Connie! pic.twitter.com/TXIB7omxde
— Dimitry Yakoushkin (@decadimitry) June 27, 2026
The fact that degenerates walk the earth doesn't shock me. They always have and always will, since man is fallen.
The fact that they have so much power, though, scares the hell out of me.
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