GOOD! – AT 11:26 A.M. ET:  Leftist financier and all-around bad guy George Soros has been trying to influence district attorney races around the country, in order to produce prosecutors who are soft on crime and tough on police. This year he's been focusing on California.  So far he's not making it.  From Fox: 

New York billionaire George Soros’s multimillion-dollar effort to reshape California's criminal justice system by propping up progressive district-attorney candidates backfired Tuesday, with most of his candidates suffering major defeats.

Soros, together with other wealthy liberal donors and groups, spent millions on would-be prosecutors who favor lower incarceration rates, crackdowns on police misconduct and changes in a bail system that they argue discriminates against the poor.

But most of the money went to waste as their candidates lost to more traditional law-and-order prosecutors who didn’t share progressive views or have hostile attitudes toward police.

In Sacramento County, District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert defeated Noah Phillips by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, getting 65 percent of the vote. Phillips led an insurgent campaign, attacking Schubert for failing to prosecute a police officer who shot a civilian.

He reportedly received around $400,000 from Soros and admitted Soros's team scripted and paid for a TV ad during the campaign, the Los Angeles Times reported. His fundraising efforts received help from Cari Tuna, wife of Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, who contributed more than $650,000 to a political action committee led by Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King.

"This is a good day for the people," Schubert told to a crowd of about 100 supporters after she won the election, the Sacramento Bee reported. "You can't buy an election in the county of Sacramento. Here's to four more years."

COMMENT:  Soros is a prime example of the fact that the very wealthy are not always wise.  His "progressivism" is utterly depressing.

June 7,  2018