Friday, August 19, 2022, 12:30 pm | Randy Thomasson
On August 18, 2022, the Democrat-controlled California State Assembly passed SB 1479 to force every K-12 government school (including charter schools) to have a “Covid testing plan” (for the purpose of testing, tracking, and quarantining children, shoving aside parents’ rights and wishes).
Final passage of SB 1479 in the State Senate is expected by August 31.
What can you do?
Urge Governor Newsom to veto SB 1479
Rebuke assemblymembers who voted for, or refused to speak against, SB 1479
1. Demand a veto
Believe it or not, you should actually urge a veto of SB 1479 based on Governor Newsom’s Department of Finance signficant opposition to the bill, citing its shabby financing and redundancy with current Covid policies. See DOF’s August 2 letter opposing SB 1479
Newsom’s daytime, weekday constituent services number is 916-445-2841 and here’s his web form. When you send your comment opposing SB 1479, make sure you select “Con,” meaning “oppose.”
2. Rebuke the silent Republicans
SB 1479 initially only passed by 3 votes (41 votes are needed to pass bills). So this anti-parent, medical-tyranny bill passed with only 43 yes votes, while 16 Republicans silently voted no and 3 Republicans abstained. Later that day, 12 Democrats “went with the flow” and added their yes votes.
Realize minority Republicans (only 19 out of 80 assemblymembers) don’t have the votes to win, so their voices are worth more than their votes. Thus, you can reasonably conclude a non-fighting, silent Republican is a useless Republican.
Kudos to Republican Assemblyman Kevin Kiley, the sole speaker against SB 1749 on the Assembly floor. Showing it’s not too hard to stand and speak, Kiley raised his microphone and said: “It’s time for our schools to be educational institutions rather than arms of the public health bureaucracy. This state has had the most onerous school shutdowns and mandates and testing regime of any state in the country, and we have done inestimable harm to our students as a result. No other state has taken the approach that we have. Parents and families are fed up with it. This week, for the first day of school in Los Angeles Unified, 50 thousand kids were absent. Enough is enough and I urge a no vote.”
But where were the other Republican voices? Because if even 3 more Republicans had risen to speak — about the August 11 new CDC “guidelines” recommending against screening those without symptoms, about the fact that parental consent is missing from SB 1479, and about the current California “Covid” data proving there’s no epidemic — this would have informed and pulled away or scared off several more Democrats, enough to deny this bill the minimum 41 votes to pass. Truly, a missed opportunity.
Tell these 18 silent Republicans, “Your refusal to speak up for parental rights and against medical tyranny is wrong. I’m angry with your cowardice not to speak against SB 1479.”
Because assemblymembers tend to “trash” messages from non-constituents, please call anonymously afterhours and all weekend. Yet with your own assemblymember, identify yourself for maximum impact.
Frank Bigelow 916-319-2005 and 209-267-0500 Phillip Chen 916-319-2055 and 714-529-5502 *Steven Choi 916-319-2068 and 714-665-6868 Jordan Cunningham 916-319-2035 and 805-549-3381 Megan Dahle 916-319-2001 and 530-223-6300 Laurie Davies 916-319-2073 and 949-240-7300 Heath Flora 916-319-2012 and 209-599-2112 Vince Fong 916-319-2034 and 661-395-2995 James Gallagher 916-319-2003 and 530-895-4217 *Tom Lackey 916-319-2036 and 661-267-7636 Devon Mathis 916-319-2026 and 559-636-3440 Janet Nguyen 916-319-2072 and 714-843-4966 Jim Patterson 916-319-2023 and 559-446-2029 Kelly Seyarto 916-319-2067 and 951-894-1232 Thurston Smith 916-319-2033 and 760-244-5277 Suzette Valladares 916-319-2038 and 661-286-1565 Randy Voepel 916-319-2071 and 619-258-7737 *Marie Waldron 916-319-2075 and 760-480-7570
* Also abstained on SB 1479
3. Protest the anti-parent Democrats
Tell the 55 Democrats who voted yes on SB 1479: “I’m angry that you voted for SB 1479, which parents don’t want and children don’t need. Stop oppressing us and stop trampling parental rights!”
Again, since legislators tend to “trash” messages from non-constituents, please call anonymously afterhours and all weekend. Yet when contacting your own assemblymember, identify yourself for maximum impact.
Cecilia Aguiar-Curry 916-319-2004 and 530-757-1034 David Alvarez 916-319-2080 and 619-338-8090 Rebecca Bauer-Kahan 916-319-2016 and 925-244-1600 Steve Bennett 916-319-2037 and 805-564-1649 Marc Berman 916-319-2024 and 650-324-0224 Richard Bloom 916-319-2050 and 310-450-0041 Tasha Boerner Horvath 916-319-2076 and 760-434-7605 Mia Bonta 916-319-2018 and 510-286-1670 Isaac Bryan 916-319-2054 and 310-641-5410 Lisa Calderon 916-319-2057 and 562-692-5858 Wendy Carrillo 916-319-2051 and 213-483-5151 Jim Cooper 916-319-2009 and 916-670-7888 Tom Daly 916-319-2069 and 714-939-8469 Mike Fong 916-319-2049 and 323-264-4949 Laura Friedman 916-319-2043 and 818-558-3043 Jesse Gabriel 916-319-2045 and 818-346-4521 Cristina Garcia 916-319-2058 and 562-861-5803 Eduardo Garcia 916-319-2056 and 760-347-2360 Mike Gipson 916-319-2064 and 310-324-6408 Adam Gray 916-319-2021 and 209-726-5465 Timothy Grayson 916-319-2014 and 925-521-1511 Matt Haney 916-319-2017 and 415-557-3013 Chris Holden 916-319-2041 and 626-351-1917 Jacqui Irwin 916-319-2044 and 805-482-1904 Reginald Jones-Sawyer 916-319-2059 and 213-744-2111 Ash Kalra 916-319-2027 and 408-277-1220 Alex Lee 916-319-2025 and 408-262-2501 Marc Levine 916-319-2010 and 415-479-4920 Evan Low 916-319-2028 and 408-446-2810 Brian Maienschein 916-319-2077 and 858-675-0077 Kevin McCarty 916-319-2007 and 916-324-4676 Tina McKinnor 916-319-2062 and 310-412-6400 Jose Medina 916-319-2061 and 951-369-6644 Kevin Mullin 916-319-2022 and 650-349-2200 Al Muratsuchi 916-319-2066 and 310-375-0691 Adrin Nazarian 916-319-2046 and 818-376-4246 Patrick O’Donnell 916-319-2070 and 562-429-0470 Cottie Petrie-Norris 916-319-2074 and 949-251-0074 Bill Quirk 916-319-2020 and 510-583-8818 Sharon Quirk-Silva 916-319-2065 and 714-525-6515 James Ramos 916-319-2040 and 909-476-5023 Anthony Rendon 916-319-2063 and 562-529-3250 Eloise Reyes 916-319-2047 and 909-381-3238 Luz Rivas 916-319-2039 and 818-504-3911 Robert Rivas 916-319-2030 and 831-759-8676 Freddie Rodriguez 916-319-2052 and 909-902-9606 Blanca Rubio 916-319-2048 and 626-960-4457 Rudy Salas 916-319-2032 and 661-335-0302 Miguel Santiago 916-319-2053 and 213-620-4646 Mark Stone 916-319-2029 and 831-649-2832 Curtis Ting 916-319-2019 and 415-557-2312 Christopher Ward 916-319-2078 and 619-645-3090 Akilah Weber 916-319-2079 and 619-531-7913 Buffy Wicks 916-319-2015 and 510-286-1400 Lori Wilson 916-319-2011 and 707-399-3011
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. The Bible, Romans 12:9
Saturday, August 6, 2022, 9:50 am | Randy Thomasson
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Will you join me in trying to kill a bad bill? This time, we’re going to demand the author DROP his own bill!
AB 1940 is the center of a package of medical-tyranny bills advancing in the Democrat-controlled California State Legislature. SB 866’s coercive injections, SB 1419 hiding “health” records from parents, SB 1479’s perpetual “Covid tests” — they all hinge on the powerful presence of AB 1940’s immoral, anti-parent, school-based “health clinics.”
School-based clinics in California already push upon children fornication, abortion, injections, mind-altering drugs, and “sex changes,” all behind parents’ backs.
And consider there is no state law preventing immorality being pushed on children in government schools. In fact, there are Democrat-authored laws encouraging it.
One of the worst California laws permitting mental molestation of children is SB 543 signed by “Republican” Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010, which permits school staff to remove children — aged 12 and up — from classrooms and take them off-campus for immoral “counseling” sessions (which includes grooming kids to become “LGBTQIA+”), without parental permission or involvement.
Or, as devilish Democrat State Senator Scott Weiner of San Francisco explains, “Young people age 12 and 17 can also get birth control and abortions, as well as medical treatment for sexually transmitted infections, drug and alcohol-related disorders, injuries resulting from sexual assaults and intimate partner violence, and mental health disorders – all without parental consent.”
AB 1940 takes advantage of existing bad laws and medical-tyranny bills this year to group all these “services” to children (as young as kindergarten) and fund them at as many “public schools” as possible. Children will be targeted with this garbage, and parents won’t know about it until it’s too late.
With AB 1940, there’s practically no “service” these school-based clinics can’t provide. And yes, Planned Parenthood can be paid to run them, as a “health provider relationship.”
As the Democrat-run Legislative Counsel’s office says, “This bill would rename the program as the School-Based Health Center Support Program and would redefine a school-based health center to mean a student-focused health center or clinic that is located at or near a school or schools, is organized through school, community, and health provider relationships, and provides age-appropriate, clinical health care services onsite by qualified health professionals. The bill would authorize a school-based health center to provide primary medical care, behavioral health services, or dental care services onsite or through mobile health or telehealth.”
Again, “clinical health care services,” “primary medical care,” and “behavioral health services” are very broad phrases. Of course, they can include pushing upon and providing children with birth control, abortions, risky vaccinations, mind-altering drugs, and “sex change” treatments, all behind parents’ backs.
Salas lied, said AB 1940 is about ‘eyeglasses’
On May 25, 2022 on the Assembly floor, Democrat Rudy Salas of Bakersfield spent only a half-minute describing his AB 1940, and he brashly lied about it, saying:
“Thank you, Madam Speaker and Members, I present AB 1940, which updates and modernizes the existing school-based health centers. Members, this will allow kids that need eyeglasses to get eyeglasses and health checks. Respectfully ask for an aye vote.”— Source: Official Assembly video, May 25, 2022 floor session, 09:46:19 to 09:47:15
Without any Republicans rising to speak in opposition, AB 1940 passed the Assembly floor with the “aye” votes of 54 Democrats and the two most liberal Republicans, Jordan Cunningham and Suzette Valladares.
AB 1940 has been gliding through Democrat-controlled Senate committees. Unless the bill is pulled by the author, it will pass the Senate Appropriations Committee by August 12 and go to the Senate floor for a final vote, then to Gavin Newsom for his signature.
Rudy Salas can be pressured to drop his anti-family bill
Over the years, I’ve seen enough “heat” upon San Francisco Bay area Democrat legislators that they’ve shelved their bad bills — bills promoting communism, mandating the “Covid vaccine,” banning spanking, and banning Biblical counseling for struggling homosexuals.
Therefore, Rudy Salas, who’s from one of the most pro-family (but often Democrat-voting due to a large Hispanic population) parts of California — the southern San Joaquin Valley — can be pressured to drop AB 1940. People in his district are strongly for parental rights, and will be offended by Salas and his bill if they hear about it. Help the people there know they can call to say “Drop AB 1940!”
With enough calls, it can happen. Especially since Salas is running for Congress against incumbent “Republican” David Valadao (in the June primary, voters supported GOP candidates more than they did Salas). He wants to leave Sacramento behind for Washington, D.C. If Salas thinks AB 1940 will kill his chances, he’ll kill his own bill.
But time is of the essence. AB 1940 is scheduled to “escape” the “suspense file” of the Senate Appropriations Committee by August 12. That means today and this weekend and early next week are key days to urge Rudy Salas to drop this anti-parent bill, AB 1940.
ALERT: Please call Rudy Salas at 661-335-0302, 559-585-7170, and 916-319-2032
Leave a message such as, “Drop AB 1940. Your bill tramples parents and parental rights!”
You can leave voicemails at 661-335-0302 (his Bakersfield district office), 559-585-7170 (his Hanford “satellite” office) and 916-319-2032 (his State Capitol office).
And no matter where you live in California, you can leave an anonymous voicemail message weekdays (7pm to 8am). Don’t identify yourself or where you live, so that Salas’ staff won’t “trash” your message.
However, if you live in Kern, Kings, or Tulare counties, please call anytime and say where you live. Also please spread the word to all your friends in these three counties. That’s the new congressional district in which Salas is running. He will become very nervous if he receives many phone calls from people in the district he wants to represent.
You can see a detailed map of the new 22nd Congressional district near the bottom right of this page (look for map entitled “California District 22 after 2020 redistricting cycle”).
Here is the area of the congressional district Salas wants to reprepresent:
Tulare County: From Lindsay in the north and south along on 65 and everything east Kings County: Nearly all of the county except Lemoore and north Hanford Kern County: Delano, McFarland, Wasco, Shafter, Buttonwillow, Los Hills and westward; Bakersfield east of Chester Avenue and southeast Bakersfield, south of California Avenue, south of Ming Avenue, east of Ashe Road, south of Panama Lane, east of Gosford Road, north of Taft Highway (119), east of Wible Road, north of Houghton Road, east of 99 Freeway all the way so to the 5 Freeway interchange
IMPORTANT: If you live in or near this congressional district, please call and urge your friends to call. Salas needs to receive hundreds of calls urging him to drop AB 1940, from people he either knows (or thinks) are from Kern, Kings, and Tulare counties.
But everyone seeing this emergency alert can call, at least anonymously at night and on weekends, to “mix in” with the other calls Salas is receiving. Yet please send this alert to friends in the southern San Joaquin Valley, whose calls to Salas “will count” all the more!
If you live in the new districts in which these five pro-homosexual “marriage” Republicans are running, it’s your decision whether to keep supporting them. But consider this:
2. These five Republicans’ pro-perversity votes are symptomatic of slavish fear of the Tyrannical Left, instead of respectful fear of God or love for impressionable children. To flip from being pro-man-woman-marriage and pro-traditional-family in an election year, in the general election cycle where they might be beaten, is indicative of fear, not moral principle (for how can a principle be moral if it violates the commands of Holy God?). Don’t we need constitutional fighters, who will do what’s right under pressure, not cave and sell-out?
3. Homosexual “marriage” is a harmful role model for impressionable children. Because not only are most male homosexual relationships “open,” their behavior has very high rates of sexually-transmitted diseases. And children are being roped into this, by the government schools or other strangers. What’s more, state schools aim to “groom” children not just into homosexual behavior, but also into cross-dressing and “sex changes.” Most of all, promoting homosexual “marriage” all the more rapidly erodes the difference between Right and Wrong on every moral issue. With fewer and fewer moral absolutes, our culture becomes exponentially more confused, divided, and dangerous.
4. This is not the first time three of these five Republicans have voted very wrong:
Also in 2017, David Valadao abstained on this pro-family amendment that would have banned taxpayer-funded, military “sex changes.” And in January 2021, Valadao was the only California U.S. House Republican to vote “yes” to impeach former president Donald Trump (for the second time).
In 2018, as a California state assemblyman, Jay Obernolte voted “yes” on AB 2439 to establish an “official” State of California “LGBTQ Veterans Memorial.” Then, in 2019, Obernolte voted “yes” on AB 711 to force schools to retroactively falsify a student’s “sex” on former student records. That same year, Obernolte abstained on ACR 99, a Democrat resolution blaming pastors and religious leaders for “LGBTQIA+” suicides. In 2020, Obernolte’s liberal positions were exposed by his conservative opponent, Tim Donnelly.
Back in 1994, Ken Calvert was publicly exposed for having sex in his car with a known prostitute. Still, in light of Calvert’s strong pro-family record since then, I was surprised he caved to the “homosexual marriage” agenda this month.
I am most surprised by Mike Garcia’s capitulation to darkness. Garcia votes pro-life on abortion and calls himself a Christian. And in 2021, he admirably voted against putting homosexuality and transsexuality into federal employment and housing law, stating “equality that comes at the expense of or as a detriment to other free citizens is contrary to American ideals.” Yet now, succumbing in fear to “LGBTQIA+” activists is Garcia’s inexplicable, head-shaking act.
So whether you live in the new District 22 from Hanford to Bakersfield (where David Valadao is running), or in the new District 48 from Murrieta to Santee, then south to the Mexican border (where Darrell Issa is running), or in the new District 23 which includes Ridgecrest, California City, Barstow, Baker, Victorville, Big Bear City, and Twentynine Palms (where Jay Obernolte is running), or in the new District 41 from Corona to Indio (where Ken Calvert is running), or in the new District 27 which includes Santa Clara, Palmdale, and Lancaster (where Mike Garcia is running), now you are more informed and the decision is yours. See the new California congressional district map
“Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them…” Moses’ father-in-law Jethro in Exodus 18:21
“When Christians face two clearly immoral options, we cannot rationalize a vote for immorality or injustice just because we deem the alternative to be worse,” Moore said. “The Bible tells us we will be held accountable not only for the evil deeds we do but also when we ‘give approval to those who practice them,’ (Romans 1:32). “Russell Moore, “Should Christians Vote for the Lesser of Two Evils?”
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