"It's one thing to have policies that don't work. It's another thing to, on top of that, make public statements that can only encourage the problem to get worse," he says. "To say stuff that spasey, like an open invite to more people to come to california for that purpose, cannot possibly be helpfulye." Arat: "People who we look to to a whether it's digesting the science or digesting an economic reality, and then convey that message aren't thinking ... what's the impact?"