My previous blog challenged readers to provide positive accomplishments during Gavin Newsom’s two terms as Governor of California.
Here, from Daniel Greenfield’s article at frontpagemag.com, is one of Newsom’s “accomplishments”. See if you’re impressed (the bold print is mine):
Even while Epstein drama is consuming the country, David Allen Funston is being set loose.
Funston became notorious for luring children as young as four years old in Sacramento into his car with candy and dolls then raping them. A little girl had a knife held to her throat while he raped her so badly she bled. One 5-year-old girl was raped, beaten and left by the side of the road. He raped a little boy and kidnapped two sisters, 4 and 5, before he was finally stopped.
Funston was known as “the monster parents fear the most” and was sentenced to three life terms in prison in 1999. But in 2020, even as he was having surfers arrested and small business owners shut down, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 3234 into law which took the state’s already generous ‘elder parole law’ and redefined ‘elder’ as being any criminal over the age of fifty.
Now, Funston, who was convicted of 16 counts of kidnapping and child molestation, is being granted ‘elder parole’ under Newsom’s law to the horror of the children he once abused.
California’s original ‘elder parole’, passed by state Democrats and signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown, had jettisoned life sentences for criminals over sixty. Newsom’s expanded addition lowered the age to fifty and effectively eliminated life sentences for most criminals.
Including the child rapists now potentially headed for the exits.
Other child rapists who benefited from Newsom’s free pass for pedophiles included Israel Ceja, a Mexican convicted in 2000 of over 20 counts of forcible rape for crimes that began when his victim was 11-years-old and included attempted murder and other assaults to induce a miscarriage, who qualified for parole despite a sentence of 139 years in prison.
Michael Dausey, who raped his 14-year-old niece at knifepoint, and had previously raped a minor in Oregon, has also qualified for parole.
Cody Woodsen Klemp, who was sentenced to 170 years in prison after raping at least 5 women and girls, after charges that included 20 counts of committing a lewd and lascivious act on a child, 10 counts of rape, and 10 counts of forced oral copulation on a child, was deemed by the parole board to be at ‘low risk for violence’ and was set for release. The decision was only overturned after major protests by victims, one of whom warned, “He will absolutely rape again. He has been committing rapes since he was eighteen years old. The only time he did not rape was when he was in prison.”
Republican Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones introduced SB 286, also known as Mary-Bella’s Law, in an attempt to block rapists, child abusers and murderers from qualifying for elder parole at an appearance with key victims including those who had been assaulted by Charles Mix, sentenced to 350 years in prison for the 2005 kidnapping of a 5-year-old girl, and Cameron Hooker, of the ‘girl in the box’ story, also suspected of the murder of Marie Elizabeth Spannhake.
As of February 2026, the bill has been blocked in the California state senate.
So what do we have here? We have California Governor Gavin Newsom signing legislation that allows some of the worst sexual predators imaginable out of jail, because they are “old” – old being defined as 50 or more years of age (FYI: the average male life span in the USA is 76).
And when the Republican minority leader tried to undo this sick perversion of “justice”, the majority Democrat senate made sure it stayed as is.
There is an “accomplishment of Gavin Newsom’s – and the “fall-in-line” behavior of the Democrats of his state.
Are you impressed?
