This just in from Cameron Smyth, the Chairman of the Assembly Republican Caucus…
No Class in the Assembly Education Committee
By Cameron Smyth, Assembly Republican Caucus Chair
Several weeks ago, members of the Traditional Values Coalition and the California Republican Assembly were in Sacramento testifying against SB 572 (Leno) in the Assembly Education Committee. SB 572 is, of course, the Harvey Milk Day bill that has sparked an uproar that reaches beyond just the conservative community.
I oppose SB 572, and will vote against it on the Assembly Floor (as I did with last year’s AB 2567). I also opposed HR 17, recognizing June 2009 as LGBT Pride Month, but was in my district on legislative business when it was brought up for a floor vote.
Today, however, I want to draw people’s attention to the way the conservative leaders who testified in the Assembly Education Committee were treated by liberal members of the committee, and to the way the chair of that committee allowed her members to dispense with any sense of decorum or respect for the witnesses in opposition to SB 572. I don’t serve on the Education Committee, but I was stunned by the lack of class displayed by Democrats on that committee, and thought their actions needed to be shared with a larger audience.
I had this video posted to our caucus’s video site, where it is available for the public to view, and for my Republican colleagues to use in their e-newsletters.
July 10th, 2009 at 12:00 am
While California families and businesses pack their belongings into the covered wagons of today, to risk it all on a better life in a different state, our legendary majority legislature dithers on issues as unimportant and antithetical to solving California’s problems as whether or not to celebrate Gaydom in our public school classrooms. This is like a really boring episode of The Twilight Zone.
July 10th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Our public schools are for all students, straight and gay, religious and not. The main message is all of us deserve respect, despite one’s religion, politics or sexuality.
http://www.calchannel.com/channel/viewvideo/471 has the entire segment that was mentioned on this post. (last thirty minutes) in its full context.
July 11th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Mr. Munson:
What does any of this have to with with one Democratic elected official
(Supervisor Dan White, elected largely by public employee unions)
deciding to murder another Democratic elected official (Harvey Milk)?
How does tension between the wings of that Party logically lead to
a State Holiday or brain-washing (I mean “educating”) public school
students about this 30-year-old murder?