McCarthy Blames Crime on Dems While It Rages in His GOP-Led Hometown

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OPINION | The murder rate in Bakersfield, California, is double that of New York or San Francisco. The mayor and the prosecutor are Republicans.

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McCarthy Blames Crime on Dems While It Rages in His GOP-Led Hometown
The murder rate in Bakersfield, California, is double that of New York or San Francisco. The mayor and the prosecutor are Republicans.
10:03 AM · Jun 11, 2022

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Hours before the House Jan. 6 committee commenced its televised hearings into the violent lawlessness by Trump supporters at the Capitol, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy sought to blame the Democrats for the violent lawlessness surging across the county.

“As Democrats in Washington abuse their power to attack their political opponents, they are ignoring America’s crime crisis,” he tweeted. “The Democrat Party is for lawlessness and the breakdown of society. While they defund the police, violent crime is skyrocketing in our communities. Enough is enough.”

McCarthy posted a collection of video clips of violent crimes in New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Los Angeles.

“Violent crime is skyrocketing,” the accompanying text repeats.

But McCarthy said nothing about Bakersfield, the California city where he was born and which he now represents in congress. The murder rate there in 2021 was 11.91 per 100,000, more than double the murder rate in New York City (5.55) and Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco (5.6). The murder rate for Los Angeles is 6.74, also considerably lower than McCarthy’s hometown.

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1. A lot of those California valley cities have terrible gang problems

And Kevin needs to just shut the hell up because he is an idiot and doesn't know what he is talking about.