Xavier Becerra drew criticism when he gave Gavin Newsom an “A for effort” on homelessnessat the recent debate.
Talk about grade inflation.Homelessness is higherthan it was when Newsom took office, despite modest recent improvements.
Becerra, too, has benefited from a kind of grade inflation as he hassurged among Democratic candidatesfor governor.
No one knows why: He had no money, until recently, and still has no big endorsements.
All that happened was that oneDemocratic consulting firmcame out with a poll claiming he was surging.
The media suddenly had a frontrunner toreplace Eric Swalwell.
That is a familiar pattern in Becerra’s career: He is unremarkable, until pushed into the limelight.
Becerra had been a junior player in Congress when then-Gov. Jerry Brown brought him back to California to fill in as attorney general after Kamala Harris left for the Senate.
One problem: Becerra had not renewed his law license with the State Bar in over 20 years.
Things went downhill from there.
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