The Signal editorial board published an editorial in the newspaper Saturday, May 10. It was justly critical of the shameful display by our Assemblywoman, Pilar Schiavo, regarding Assembly Bill 379.

Pilar, who appears very thin-skinned, complained to the paper. The paper took the OpEd down temporarily, but then placed it back up a with a slight correction — Pilar didn’t vote to remove the felony language from AB379, but she did vote against amending the bill to reinstate the felony language that was disgracefully removed.

Same difference, in my opinion.

Let’s be clear about something: As a Dad, a child abuse prosecutor, and just a basic human being living on this planet, ALL children should be protected from sex traffickers, and anyone trying to buy or purchase them for sex. Children INCLUDE 16- and 17-year-olds.

This isn’t up for debate, Ms. Schiavo. As a society, we should want to prosecute sex traffickers of children and anyone buying children for sex to the fullest extent of the law by holding them fully accountable for destroying a child’s life and innocence.

Schiavo claimed that since she isn’t on the Assembly Public Safety Committee, she didn’t remove the language making it an automatic felony to buy a 16- or 17-year-old for sex from the bill, the Public Safety Committee did, and therefore she was never able to vote for that, so she’s not responsible for this entire situation.

Her response is so ludicrous it is not even worthy of a reply. But, here goes:

I will start off by saying I am a Democrat. I’m pro-business, pro-law-and-order, less government, less taxes, pro-public-safety, military veteran, married to an L.A. County Sheriff’s Department detective, pro-family, and a L.A. County District Attorney’s Office prosecutor Democrat.

Yes, there aren’t many of those left here in California, but I’m one of them. And, I will always side with the protection of........

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