Posted on 10/05/2020 7:18:30 AM PDT by karpov
Is California's deep-blue legislature out of control?
It sure seems that way to me. Recently, Gov. Newsom approved a clearly unconstitutional bill mandating racial and LGBTQ quotas for boards of directors of private companies. That's pretty brazen.
He also signed legislation creating a task force to examine the possibility of slave reparations—even though California was never a slave state.
A third example is last month's legislation forcing California State University students to take an ethnic studies course. If a conservative legislature had interfered with a curricular matter like that, the mainstream media would be going bananas.
Probably the most consequential legislation to pass in the last few months is the effort to repeal these words from the state constitution: "The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting."
Put there in 1996 by Proposition 209, those words were a response to over-the-top race-preferential admissions policies at the University of California and similar preferences for woman-owned and minority-owned businesses in public contracting.
The Left has been gunning for Prop 209 ever since. The legislature in particular has tried twice before. But maybe the third time is a charm.
Prop 209, however, can't be repealed without the consent of voters. So all the legislature could do was call for a referendum. Called Prop 16, it's on the ballot for this election. I'll be voting no.
Prop 16 is not an effort to help the disadvantaged. Under current law, the University of California is free to give a leg up in admissions to students from low-income families. And it's been doing so for decades (partly in response to Prop 209).
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Have conservatives and their supposed party (the GOP) absolutely abandoned the State? Why is there no push back?
Does it really matter what the voters in California say when the courts there can just override them? I saw that scenario play out too many times during my 59+ years living there.
I’m yes on 22. Straight no on the rest.
Prop 16 at least, the voters will have a chance to weigh in soon.”
And it will pass. I don’t know how our good friends at FR tolerate being surrounded by the incurable ignorant.
I lived there 1998 through 2005. California’s corporate, political and legislative insanity is by no means a recent phenomenon. Their crimes have been incremental, and voters have been, and continue to be, like the proverbial frog enjoying the water in the skillet.
California’s is the destiny of the entire USA if the American People are stupid enough to elect Biden and the rest of the Democrats the November.
It’s time. The liberals in CA have no sense of reason or accountability. Put a wealth transfer in place, punish the liberals for their foolishness. That is the only chance of getting through their indoctrination.
Nobody is putting a gun to the heads of these drivers to work for Uber, Lyft, etc. For many, it's just a way to use spare time to pick up a few more bucks. It's crazy to me that Prop 22 isn't running away with it to an easy victory next month.
If i remember right, voters don’t have a say in California.
Even if they shoot it down the court just overrides them.
Correct me if I've misremembered, but I recall that even California voted that marriage should be between one man and one woman, but was overturned by a pervert judge and then Justice Kennedy got it wrong too, so pervert marriage is legal (for now).
I believe that is correct. As far as I know, the citizens of California have never voted for gay marriage. But that might not be the case now, even without the voter fraud.
Ethnic studies course! I demand one on the history of Poland and its culture.
Amen to that. And in the meantime, one can bedevil critical race theory instructors by asking why the first president of free Haiti honored Poles by referring to them as “the White Negroes of Europe.”
Proposition 16 repeals the vote of the people. It amends the Constitution of the State of California to allow discrimination. The only venue for redress of such a claim will then be to Federal courts under the 14th Amendment.
Not only does it show the despicable cravenness of Newsom and his cronies, it shows that the end game for them is not “equality” but rather non-White supremacy: they aim to deprive whites not just of their civil rights, but of the actual wealth and society that they created.
The entire project is repugnant to every civil rights argument advanced in the last 60 years, and should be national news.
"You can't fix uber stupid" comes to mind whenever I think of California democrat voters.
Ummm correct me if I’m wrong, but California wasn’t a slave state was it? Did they allow slavery???
The Spanish probably had some slaves there when they were in control, and maybe some of the Indian tribes practiced slavery (I don't know one way or the other). So maybe reparations need to be paid by Hispanic Californians only.
James B. Utt was a conservative Congressman from Orange County and a member of the John Birch Society. His ancestor arrived in California with a slave--who immediately became free when they got to California. I guess the ancestor had not read the fine print about California.
When the California legislature — with the full support of Newsom (”a fool with unlimited power” — allows a 24-year-old man who has sex with a 14-year-old boy to not have to register as a “sex offender” (but only if the child gives his “consent”, you see), nothing the Democrat/Communist Party does surprises me any longer.
It’s amazing he liberals ruin one of the most beautiful and prosperous states in the country. It’s just such a waste.
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