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A Democrat California state senator working to prolong the time pedophiles spend behind bars is fed up with members of her party for not being fully on board. On May 23, lawmakers were considering legislation that would make it a felony to buy or solicit a minor for commercial sex, the New York Post reported Thursday. While speaking on the State Senate floor during the meeting, State Sen. Susan Eggman (D) said, “I’d like to say, as a progressive, proud member of this body for the last twelve years, I’m done. I’m done with us protecting people who would buy...

California Democrat State Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) has called out her own party for their stance against tackling child sex trafficking and protecting child predators. Eggman’s explosive speech agaisnt her own party comes after Senate Bill 1414 (SB 1414), which was debated in the California Senate last Thursday, May 23rd. SB 1414, introduced by Senator Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield), aims to make soliciting sex from a minor a felony, aiming to address the issue of child sex trafficking by imposing harsher penalties for pedophiles.

SACRAMENTO - Siding with Wal-Mart and other large employers, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday vetoed legislation that would have required they provide health care benefits for their employees or pay into a state health fund. In a veto message, Schwarzenegger said the bill was the wrong approach to tackling spiraling health care costs. "Singling out large employers and requiring them to spend an arbitrary amount on health care does nothing to lower costs or guarantee that even one more person has health care coverage," Schwarzenegger said. Supporters had argued the bill was needed to prevent companies with at least 10,000...

California businesses have been hit hard by this past legislative session. First, they have been forced to swallow a minimum wage increase and caps on industrial emissions of greenhouse gases as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger seeks to bolster his centrist stance in an election year. Now, there are dozens of other bills on the governor’s desk that could impose additional costs on doing business in California. Meanwhile, only a handful of bills supported by business made it through. But it could have been worse. Dozens of other bills dubbed “job killers” were defeated in the closing weeks of the session. Among...