No big surprise, the Sen. Kuehl bill on discrimination in curriculum and behavior towards homosexual individuals or ideology passed off of our floor today on a 47-31 vote today.  It was pointed out that it is redundant to current law that protects all students.  The Governor had promised a veto of the bill.  The original language, which had the requirement of curriculum reflecting historical contributions by homosexual individuals, was amended out last week to what we had today.  We received an enormous amount of mail from constituents on this bill, the most of any, perhaps a tie with illegal immigration, as a topic.  

On a ‘higher’ note, the legalizing-of-hemp bill passed out as well, 44-27.  The unlikely duo of my desk-mate Chuck Devore and Mark Leno "joint" [update: quotes added] authored this bill to the Governors desk as well…I don’t think it received more than 1 Assembly Republican vote last I checked.  Chuck makes a very principled argument but we couldn’t get there.  

"ALL I NEED ARE SOME TASTY WAVES, A COOL BUZZ AND I’M FINE!"

This entry was posted on Monday, August 21st, 2006 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.