Posted on 09/28/2006 11:00:00 PM PDT by FairOpinion
The last two "sexual indoctrination" bills approved by the California Legislature that made up a "triple threat" to families have been vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Capitol Resource Institute confirmed last night.
The bills, AB 606 and AB 1056, were part of a trio pushed forward by homosexual activists in the state's lawmaking body this year, and would have forced a pro-'gay' agenda into all of the state's public schools, officials said.
An earlier part of the package, SB 1437, was vetoed by the governor earlier this month.
Turney said the priorities of the California legislature this year were "completely out of order."
"Schools should be centers of learning – learning the fundamentals of education such as reading, writing and arithmetic," Turney said. "Instead, the legislature has focused on advancing a radical social agenda in public schools. Hopefully, next session the legislature will make educating – not indoctrinating – students a priority."
The earlier veto, SB 1437, killed a plan that would have prevented any school teaching materials or activities from "reflecting adversely" upon homosexuals, bisexuals or transgenders.
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He vetoes the most eggregious bills the leftist, socialist controlled CA Legislature passed.
If Angelides were to get elected, the CA Legislature will pass these again and Angelides will sign them.
That's another reason that conservatives need to get out and vote for Arnold, instead of staying home or voting third party and thus voting for Angelides by default.
Arnold ...
Good for Arnold, but California's schools are still a sinkhole of ignorance and social engineering. What's he done to clean house in public education? Nothing.
Are any of these bills the really eggregious one that would have deprived state funds to private schools and other organizations that teach homosexuality is a sin? A lot of people on Free Republic were convinced Arnold was going to sign that. Was that part of some disinformation campaign?
At least he's vetoing some junk bills.
He's still a RINO.
Yes, but in some fairness to Arnold, where would you start a house cleaning at? The social engineering (or re-engineering) has been going on for so long that it would take many terms for a Governor to "clean it up".
Arnold did try to reform teacher tenure in the special election last November, which would have increased the period from 2 years to 5 years for public school teachers to reach tenure. Unfortunately the morons of California voted it down after an assault of millions of dollars by the teachers unions. I believe the bill also contained teacher testing provisions. It wouldn't have solved all problems, but it would have given a big boost to the goal of cleaning up the public schools. It failed through no fault of Arnold's.
It would be nice if Arnold showed the slightest interest in the condition of California's public education system. But he hasn't. Now that he's had his ears boxed by the teachers' union, he's content to pour more good money after bad.
did the Gub sign ab 32 by default as well?
"Was that part of some disinformation campaign?"
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Yes, it was. The bill Arnold signed, which was represented by some ( who are trying to get Arnold defeated) as you described, was just a relatively innocuous bill, which added sexual orientation to the list of things that state agencies or organizations receiving state funding aren't allowed to discriminate against. I forgot the bill number, but that's all it was. The anti-Arnold crowd misrepresented it.
yeah, he would have a huge battle to change the school system. It would be great if he could open the door to allowing creationism theory to be taught next to evolution to provide an honest balance instead of a one sided, hole filled bad science theory. It would do wonders for improving the outlook of alot of students who are struggling with personal demons of doubt and confusion which much of the public school system unwittingly instills.
Teacher tenure is the least of the system's problems, IMHO. I voted for those measures, not that it did any good. So what was Arnold's response to that defeat? Did he redirect his tactics to achieve the same strategic end? No. He said he was mistaken to have pushed the reforms in the first place, did a left turn, and is now taking political advice from his wife.
Arnold stood up to the Teacher's Union by having the reform propositions on the CA ballot, which CA voters defeated. Arnold can only do so much, with the Dem Legislature and the electorate who keeps falling for the mantra of throwing money at education "for the children".
Thanks to the electorate's cleaning his clock on the special education and the issue of tenure, Arnold may not feel he has the backing needed to do the job. The people need to wake up in order for a change to really take place.
"It would do wonders for improving the outlook of alot of students who are struggling with personal demons of doubt and confusion which much of the public school system unwittingly instills."
I'm not so sure it is all that "unwittingly" instilled. There are people working in Sacramento who have an agenda for public education and they are doing everything in their power to instill it.
Arnold can only do so much
-- Oh I think aRnold has already done a lot more for the dem agenda than they could have ever hoped for..
a bit of advice, rather then continuing to chuck spears in all directions here hoping to stab a few votes, you should focus your efforts where they would garner more votes for your grand poohbah of global warming.
Based on the hysterics I heard from those people, I sensed they were misrepresenting it badly. They never could answer how they could enforce some plan that forbids the teaching of homosexuality as a sin. It's not like the state could have armies of P.C. police going into schools and churches to make sure they're being nice to gays. I always just got "Well with the courts we have these days there isn't even any need of proof!"
Have any of these nuts on FR uttered a peep about the fact he's vetoed these bills?
I was one of the biggest Arnold promoters here on FR three years ago during the recall election, taking a lot of grief from the McClintock supporters here, but he's turned into a huge disappointment.
Well, when you have a losing hand you don't continue to play it. You just re-group to come back and fight another day. It's not as if a defeated ballot measure was going to gain some sudden momentum in a liberal legislature and he'd have looked like an idiot trying to continue to push it on voters or to start another initiative campaign. No, Arnold was right to let it go for now and direct his efforts at getting re-elected. Then in a 2nd term perhaps he can re-visit the teacher tenure issue. So let's be realistic. He did what he could and failed. Coming back the next day to push it all over again would have been folly. Indeed, it may be that the first battle needs to be to figure out a way to break the power, and finances, of the teacher's unions before any progress on reform can be made.
I don't like the left-hand turn Arnold has taken, but some of it is being exaggerated as we've seen with the article above that some on FR were frankly LYING in claiming Arnold was going to sign.
As I keep telling people, Arnold was NOT elected emperor or dictator. He has to contend with the socialist liberal Legislature. And when he went to the people to help him reform the state, the coters defeated his reform propositions.
What would you have him do?
He actually did a lot, for which he doesn't seem to get any credit around here: he kept vetoing the drivers licenses for illegals, he was steadfast and did NOT raise taxes, despite the Dem pressure, he reformed workers comp, he kep CA from going bankrupts, by clever refinancing, he vetoed the homosexual marriage bill and several homosexual agenda bills, he vetoed the min wage several times and even now, when he signed it, he forced the Dem Legislature to take out the automatic inflation adjusted increases, which would have been a real killer for businesses, he also vetoed the healthcare bills requiring businesses to pay for health insurance of their workers, he vetoed the universal healthcare, aka CA government run socialized medicine -- this is just to name a few. A Dem governor would have done the opposite of all this, and we would have had a runaway socialist government in CA.
I think these are MAJOR accomplishments, given the circumstances.
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