Posted on 10/08/2005 3:17:02 PM PDT by calcowgirl
SACRAMENTO -- Acting on bills carried by South Bay lawmakers, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday unloaded on Internet "hunting" and unplugged junk faxes.
However, Schwarzenegger vetoed a third bill carried by Sen. Debra Bowen, D-Redondo Beach, that would have uncloaked some of the secrecy behind big-money initiative campaigns.
The governor also dismissed legislation followed by those in the South Bay clinging to hope that it could have provided a small opening to once again challenge the state's decision to implement a new 424 area code.
"Killing animals over the Internet is about as sporting as shooting fish in a barrel, and it ought to bother animal lovers and true hunters everywhere," Bowen said in praising the governor's signature on her SB 1028.
"It takes absolutely zero hunting skill to log on to a Web site and click a computer mouse to kill an animal," she said.
Bowen's measure is the ninth in the country to ban sites that allow people to use Internet technology to fire rifles guided by remote control. There was only one Web site known to be in existence, this one on a private ranch in Texas.
Hunters supported the measure, and the California Fish and Game Commission has adopted emergency regulations barring click-and-kill sites.
The legislation, which goes into effect Jan. 1, makes it illegal to operate the sites as a business in California and bars importing trophy animals killed over the Internet. Violators are subject to a $1,000 fine.
Schwarzenegger also signed Bowen's SB 833, which allows California to block unsolicited faxes at the beginning of the year. California had such a law, but Congress implemented weaker legislation that superseded the state's initial ban. Bowen's bill restores the tougher ban.
But Schwarzenegger vetoed Bowen's SB 469, which would have required those gathering signatures for initiatives to reveal they are being paid and publicize the top five contributors to the campaign.
Schwarzenegger said the measure "attacks" the initiative process by imposing additional burdens on citizen-reformists.
Bowen unleashed a furious assault, suggesting that voters would have been less likely to sign petitions if they had known which "big-money corporations were spending hundreds of thousands of dollars" to qualify the governor's own reform agenda for the special Nov. 8 ballot.
In another veto issued late Thursday, Schwarzenegger rejected legislation launched by the late Assemblyman Mike Gordon, D-El Segundo, that would have reformed the process of determining when phone numbers in area codes are nearly gone.
AB 1380 was originally part of the campaign to keep the 310 area code intact. But, the Legislature, and now the governor, have upheld the Public Utilities Commission's decision to approve a 424 overlay within the 310.
The veto angered Rep. Jane Harman, a Democrat who is pressing the issue in Congress.
"The governor ignored phone calls from deserving seniors and small businesses in order to serve the convenience of cellular companies," Harman said.
Schwarzenegger also vetoed a measure by Assemblywoman Betty Karnette, D-San Pedro, that would have required a study of port security. He called it "duplicative" and insisted it would do nothing to improve port security.
He also disposed of legislation carried by Assemblyman Jerome Horton, D-Inglewood, that would have required the state to survey and report how many workers at large businesses are enrolled in state-subsidized health care programs. Horton's goal in AB 89 was to demonstrate that many large companies are paying few health benefits, so taxpayers are forced to pick up the bill.
In a signing, Schwarzenegger did approve legislation carried by Assemblywoman Jenny Oropeza, D-Carson, that requires the Department of Health Services to develop programs to protect those exposed to X-rays.
Oropeza introduced AB 929 after she recovered from a bout with cancer, but only after enduring weeks of chemotherapy. "Diagnostic radiation is often invaluable in the practice of medicine ... but patients have the right to be protected from unnecessary exposure to ionizing radiation," she said.
Thanks for the post!
Arnold should veto everything that has a bill number.
He has actually done better than I had expected. The Unions are under the gun, and they want him stone cold dead.
State revenues are up 5.2 billion over the past 12 months.
would probably be up 10BN if he took down the rest of the public unions
See also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1499073/posts
CA: A look at the governor's action on key bills Friday
Kind of hard to kill the teachers unions when Kennedy/Bush doubled their income !!
I read them. With a few exceptions, Arnold is doing a fairly good job. He needs to kill that Davis boondoggle to give state employees 100 % pensions. The CEO of GE doesn't get that!!
Yeah, I guess the second amendment doesn't really matter. /sarcasm
btw, the pension abuse involves a small group ("safety workers"). IMO, what was done to enhance those benefits should be able to be undone, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
The second amendment matters deeply to me. I just applied for a CCW in Ventura County, and expect to get it. Mine is only good in 30 states : )
This bill was obviously an attempt to intimidate citizen-led reforms and strengthen the tyranny of the Dem legislature.
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