Adam Schiff recounts luggage getting stolen in San Francisco and the concerning talk he had with store cashier after: Weve got a major problem
Sen.Adam Schiff revealed that his luggage was stolen in South San Francisco two years ago, and that a clerk in a nearby Target afterwards “basically said in not so many words, yeah, Democrats are a—holes” when he went shopping for toiletries.The Golden State senator used the anecdote to acknowledge that Democrats have a “major problem” and are fundamentally “going to have to change how we do business in California.”“We’re going to have to address people’s legitimate concerns about crime,” Schiff (D-Calif.) reflected on “Real Time with Bill Maher” Friday.“I thought, you know, if the cashier in San Francisco at 10:00 at night believes that Democrats are a—holes because that is shampoo is locked up and my stuff gets stolen out of the trunk, we’ve got a major problem that we have to address.”Schiff, 64, who was a congressman at the time of the theft, said he had left his luggage in the trunk of a car, where it was later stolen in an “experience in the city that all too many people have” in California.
Other prominent California Dems have similarly been forced to reckon with their management of the Golden State.Last year, California Gov.
Gavin Newsom (D), who is term-limited, privately recounted in a since-leaked Zoom meeting with state officials, how he witnessed brazen theft in front of him at a Target.“He picks it up and keeps walking out as we’re checking out,” Newsom recalled about the shoplifter before noting the clerk let him go.
“The woman says, ‘Oh, he’s just walking out,’ ‘He didn’t pay for that.’ I said, ‘Well, why don’t you stop him?’ She goes, ‘Oh, the governor.'”“‘The governor lowered the threshold and there is no accountability,'” the governor further recounted the clerk telling him.“And then she looks at me twice, and then she freaks out, calls everyone over.
She wants to take a photo.”“And I’m like, ‘No, I’m not taking a photo, we’re having a conversation.Where i...