Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 9:49 am | Randy Thomasson
Pro-family, constitutional Californians are breathing a sigh of relief now that one of the worst Democrat bills of the year has been stopped.
On January 31, AB 1400 to replace private insurance with a big-government program that would have rationed medical treatment, created long waiting lists, and imposed new, high taxes was stopped on the floor of the California State Assembly.
So now, AB 1400, which was introduced in 2021, is dead for the year. Because the California State Constitution, Article IV, Section 10(c), in its first sentence, reads: “Any bill introduced during the first year of the biennium of the legislative session that has not been passed by the house of origin by January 31 of the second calendar year of the biennium may no longer be acted on by the house.”
But how was AB 1400 defeated? Especially when there are currently 56 Democrats in the 80-member Assembly (there are four vacant Democrat seats), who have a vise-grip hold that’s more than a two-thirds majority, allowing Democrats to pass any bill they want?
Because it was a perfect storm. As ultra-left-wing “resetting” Democrats pushed government-controlled health care, it seems most everyone else came against AB 1400: Doctors and hospitals and insurance companies, business associations, and taxpayer advocates strongly opposed it. And most private unions, which want to keep their high-paid health plans, sat on the sidelines, refusing to support AB 1400’s elimination of private health insurance.
These large, secular forces provided the primary lobbying. Providing secondary influence were concerned Californians (like you), who called and emailed, creating a noticeable flood of opposition. The calls and emails the last few days before the scheduled vote were “insurance,” if you will, for the direct lobbying of all the others.
A final takeaway is that even when the New Communist Democrats have a sizable majority, you can depend on new topics — like eliminating private health insurance — containing more shock value than old ones. And, in my opinion, this big “spanking” of the Assembly Democrats by ferocious direct and indirect lobbying should be remembered — and provide restraint against a new bill — for at least a year. Thank you for participating in this important, rare victory against big, new tyranny!
Saturday, January 22, 2022, 8:07 am | Randy Thomasson
Same baby in the womb, then out of the womb.
Do you remember when you were born?
Of course you don’t. Newborn babies are totally vulnerable and one hundred percent dependent. Same as you were inside your mother’s womb.
We were all in the womb once, which is why we need to identify with and have compassion for every baby still in the womb. These are little human beings who are very precious to Creator God.
This month, please do something to publicly remember and cherish babies in the womb. Since the 1973 unconstitutional Roe v. Wade court opinion forcing states to legalize abortion, more than 63 million pre-born babies have been slaughtered – 63.5 million! Remember them, victims of the American holocaust.
Luke 1:44: “For indeed, as soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.” Job 31:15: “Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?” 5th Amendment: “No person shall … be deprived of life … without due process of law.” 14th Amendment: “nor shall any State deprive any person of life … without due process of law.”
Monday, November 22, 2021, 9:42 am | Randy Thomasson
Will California voters rescue 6.1 million children currently held captive by the politically-correct, anti-family government schools? Specifically, will voters let parents choose public, private, or homeschooling for their own children with their own education tax dollars?
That’s what a new initiative would place on California’s 2022 ballot. And perhaps it could pass because so many parents of minor-age children are turned off by the closed-up, then masking, and now threatening-to-jab public schools. Parental dissatisfaction is high!
This principled state constitutional amendment aiming for next year’s ballot would provide parents $14,000 per child (the same amount designated for children in public schools) to pay for enrollment and education in accredited private schools, church-based schools, micro-schools, and homeschools.
It’s a daunting task to collect 1.5 million raw signatures by mid-April, and will likely take a loving multimillionaire to make this happen, since the lengthy petitions cannot be printed from home like the Gavin Newsom recall petitions were. Yet now is the time to push for parental choice, to rescue children from mental, emotional, and physical harm.
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