Memo to California’s Democratic lawmakers: Soliciting minors should be a felony

Why are California’s Democratic lawmakers so ambivalent about protecting 16- and 17-year-olds from sex trafficking?
It is the strangest hill to die on, but so many in Sacramento are adamant that this is a tough question, one requiring much pondering.
This week, Assemblymember Nick Shultz, the Burbank Democrat who chairs the Assembly Public Safety Committee, forced a colleague to strip language out of her bill, AB 379, which would make it an automatic felony to purchase sex from a 16- or 17