California Co-Chair of National Crime Victims’ Organization Endorses Tom Harman for Attorney General
Sacramento, CA- Force 100 California Co-Chair Ryan Hawks today announced his support for Senator Harman (R-Huntington Beach) as California’s next Attorney General. Force 100 is a national crime victims’ organization composed of crime victims from every state who help to balance the justice system by affording U.S. Constitutional rights to victims of violent crime. Senator Harman has already received the endorsement of National Force 100 Chairwoman Collene (Thompson) Campbell.
Ryan’s father and stepmother were brutally murdered in Newport Beach in 2004 by a couple claiming they were interested in purchasing their yacht. During the test cruise, the couple and three other accomplices bound the couple, tied them to an anchor and tossed them overboard. The group had planned to steal the yacht and raid the Hawkses’ bank account. In April 2009, Skylar Deleon was convicted of murdering Tom and Jackie Hawks and was sentenced to die by lethal injection.
In the State Senate and Assembly, Tom Harman has been an advocate for tough-on-crime measures and legislation. He is a strong proponent of California’s death penalty law and in 2008 introduced SB 315 that if enacted would have sped up the long and tedious process needed to ultimately carry out justice against criminals on death row. Recently, Tom has stood with law enforcement leaders and organizations against the release of “non-violent” drug offenders and was a key vote in law enforcement’s effort to limit the availability of pseudoephedrine (which is directly linked to California’s explosive methamphetamine problem).
As California’s next Attorney General, Tom will continue to defend California’s death penalty law and vigorously prosecute those who commit fraud with public funds.
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