Newsom and Democrat Leaders Attempting to Take Proposition 47 Repeal Off Ballot

California Gov. Gavin Newsom confirmed to local media on Friday that he and Democrat leaders in the state Legislature are negotiating to remove the bipartisan Proposition 47 reform measure from the November ballot, amid opposition from GOP leaders. “There’s a lot of moving parts, a lot of negotiations concurrently happening,” Mr. Newsom told reporters in San Francisco on June 7. “Prop 47 is included.” Commonly referred to as Prop 47, the ballot measure passed by California voters in 2014 aimed to reduce the prison population by reclassifying some crimes, such as drug possession and shoplifting, as misdemeanors, while raising the threshold for felony theft charges from $450 to $950....