Gov. Jerry Brown (Dem) signs 4 of 5 worst bills
Oct. 9 update: Brown harms family values and awards unions more power.
AB 499 -- SIGNED Our veto letter to Gov. Brown | Associated Press story
AB 499 allows school staff, nurses, and others to push the risky HPV vaccine upon girls as young as 12 years old, without parental consent.
1. The Gardasil or Cervarix vaccine can harm or kill. The CDC reports there have already been 18,727 reports of adverse events, including 68 deaths.
2. Giving to pre-teen girls is equivalent to telling them to have teenage sex, resulting in disease, pregnancy, abortion, emotional damage, moral ruin, etc.
3. Tramples parental rights because no parental consent is required.
4. Paves way for more anti-parent laws.
5. These injections of minor girls will eventually be paid for by the state (the taxpayers), even though there is no money in the state budget.
Our Oct. 5 news release | CDC: 68 deaths | CalCatholic.com article | AB 499 text
SB 651 -- SIGNED
SB 651 would eliminate the requirement that homosexual "domestic partners" live together (opens door to fraud); allows minors to become "domestic partners" (roping kids into homosexual lifestyles).
The purpose of SB 651 is to erase any and all legal distinctions between man-woman marriage and homosexual partners. According to the author, San Francisco Democrat Mark Leno, "This bill will remedy those final inequities, including the denial of long-term care insurance to domestic partners who are state employees and requirements related to age and whether couples live at the same residence. As we inch ever closer to equality, the only way to ensure fair treatment is to allow all loving couples the right to marry. Separate is seldom, if ever, equal," he said."
"San Diego Gay & Lesbian News" | SB 651 text
AB 101 -- VETOED
AB 101 would have unionized in-home childcare, forcing it in many cases.
Veto news story: Brown vetoes home child-care labor bill (Oct. 4)
Veto statement: Gov. Jerry Brown's AB 101 veto message (Oct. 4)
According to the Sacramento Bee, "The measure would allow small-business owners who provide child care in their own homes or the child’s home and – this is key – who care for children who receive state child care subsidies to unionize. The child-care providers targeted for unionization, many of them unlicensed grandmothers and other relatives or neighbors, would not be forced to join a union. However, if the child they care for receives state subsidies, they would have to pay union dues whether they joined the union or not…If the bill is approved, like IHSS it will inevitably increase state costs at a time California is broke. Citing costs, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed several previous baby sitter unionization bills. Given California's precarious financial situation, increased costs alone should be enough to sideline AB 101 this year."
AB 101 text
Sacramento Bee: Democrats make last-minute push to unionize California child-care workers
Editorial: Baby sitter bill deserves some adult supervision
SB 397 -- SIGNED Sacramento Bee story
SB 397 permits online voter registration, opening up for more fraud.
There is already voter fraud happening by all the vote-by-mail shenanigans (dead people voting, illegal aliens voting). Can you imagine the fraud if Jerry Brown signs online voter registration? Can you imagine entering in your existing address under another name and thus vote twice or more? There is no reliable way for election officials to ferret out fraud, especially registrations that are close to an election.
SB 397 text | Senate floor analysis | Criticism of similar Michigan proposal
SB 126 -- SIGNED
SB 126 indirectly forces unionization, raising prices for consumers.
Another bad Democrat bill passed to force unionization and gain more political power for themselves, SB 126 isn't fair and it isn't right. If signed by Brown, expect food prices and the price of California-based products and services to increase in the next few years.
As explained in the San Francisco Chronicle: The Assembly easily approved state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg's SB126, which would punish employers who interfere with a union election. Currently, the Agricultural Labor Relations Board simply orders a new election if intimidation or other interference occurs. The Sacramento Democrat's bill, which has also been passed by the Senate, would instead allow unionization to move forward in such cases.
The measure -- meant to be a compromise after Gov. Jerry Brown's veto of another farmworker unionization bill -- was passed over objections from Republicans, who noted that the bill was only introduced last week.
"The sad thing is this could have been a bill worked out with agriculture," said Assemblyman Bill Berryhill, R-Ceres, a grape farmer. "Instead, we end up with language that literally, if I go out and talk to my farmworkers and don't have witness with me, and one wants to claim I did an unfair labor practice, the ALRB will have the power to unionize my ranch, whether my workers want to or not ... This is giving too much power to unelected, appointed bureaucrats."
SB 126 text | Raft of union-backed bills taking money, power, and freedom from others