Thursday, June 22, 2023, 4:18 pm | Randy Thomasson
SCROLL DOWN FOR ACTION STEPS
AUGUST 21, 2023 UPDATE: Are you encouraged to realize the horrible, anti-parent-bill AB 665 has been stuck on the State Senate floor for nearly two months? The next opportunity for the Senate to vote is this Thursday.
Which is another big reason for you to squeeze off some strategic, anonymous voicemail messages. See our previous alert below and act now!
* * *
You’ve heard that AB 665, permitting the anti-family Left to manipulate pre-teens and teens to leave their parents, has passed its Senate policy committee. Now, target the California State Senate floor with new information and strategic action. Please participate with SaveCalifornia.com in weighing down and weakening, and perhaps defeating, AB 665.
AB 665’s author lied about parental rights
The bill author, Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo of Los Angeles County (her district includes Glendale, Los Feliz, Echo Park, and East Los Angeles), lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 20 when she claimed AB 665 was really about “homeless youth.” Where is AB 665’s requirement that a minor be “homeless”? This “homeless” condition is NOT in the bill.
Another big lie was when Carrillo told committee members, “It is important that we realize that this does not change existing law as to the parental rights of a child.” But that’s not what the Legislative Counsel’s office says.
Instead, the Legislative Counsel’s Digest reports the main point of AB 665 is “removing [from current law] the additional requirement that, in order to consent to mental health treatment or counseling on an outpatient basis, or to residential shelter services, [the specific condition that] the minor must present a danger of serious physical or mental harm to themselves or to others, or be the alleged victim of incest or child abuse.”
AB 665 therefore eliminates existing parental consent before children can be taken away to a “residential shelter” and given drugs (“mental health treatment”).
EXISTING LAW IN CALIFORNIA FAMILY CODE 6924(b): (b) A minor who is 12 years of age or older may consent to mental health treatment or counseling on an outpatient basis, or to residential shelter services, if both of the following requirements are satisfied: (1) The minor, in the opinion of the attending professional person, is mature enough to participate intelligently in the outpatient services or residential shelter services. (2) The minor (A) would present a danger of serious physical or mental harm to self or to others without the mental health treatment or counseling or residential shelter services, or (B) is the alleged victim of incest or child abuse.
BUT AB 665 REPLACES THESE WORDS WITH: (b) A minor who is 12 years of age or older may consent to mental health treatment or counseling on an outpatient basis, or to residential shelter services, if the minor, in the opinion of the attending professional person, is mature enough to participate intelligently in the outpatient services or residential shelter services.
By deleting existing law that prohibits taking away children from home unless “The minor (A) would present a danger of serious physical or mental harm to self or to others without the mental health treatment or counseling or residential shelter services, or (B) is the alleged victim of incest or child abuse,” AB 665 erases parental consent in this section of Family Code.
AB 665 would permit children 12 years and up, who are neither harming themselves nor are victims of abuse, to “consent” to “mental health treatment or counseling services” or to go live at a “residential shelter.” Again, current law requires parental consent, but this bill wipes out parental consent.
AB 665 would replace the existing law’s two exceptions by letting children as young as 12 somehow “consent” to “treatment,” “counseling,” and a secret “residential shelter,” without parental involvement, parental consent, or even requiring proof of efforts to notify parents, if a “professional person” (under AB 665, this could be non-experts, such as “a psychological trainee, an associate clinical social worker, a social work intern, a clinical counselor trainee”) simply opines the minor is “mature enough to participate intelligently.” By deleting the current law’s harm or abuse conditions, AB 665 eliminates parental consent prior to children being taken away to live a “residential shelter” to receive “mental health treatment.”
AB 665’s sponsor lied about parental notification
And Carrillo’s chief witness lied when she told the Senate Judiciary Committee parents will be notified, saying, “This bill does nothing to make the existing parental notification that’s currently written in the law, so any providers of residential shelter services or of outpatient mental health care are required to go to their best efforts to notify parents that the young person is receiving the treatment.”
Yet the text of AB 665 neither requires parental notification nor any consequences for failing to notify parents.Look at all these “holes” in the bill:
(c) A professional person offering residential shelter services, whether as an individual or as a representative of an entity specified in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a), shall make their best efforts to notify the parent or guardian of the provision of services.
Our analysis: “Best efforts” is not defined. There’s no notification form, or even notification deadline, in AB 665. Parental notification isn’t real in this bill, which eliminates its so-called notification requirement if one believes it’s “inappropriate.”
(d) The mental health treatment or counseling of a minor authorized by this section shall include involvement of the minor’s parent or guardian unless the professional person who is treating or counseling the minor, after consulting with the minor, determines that the involvement would be inappropriate. The professional person who is treating or counseling the minor shall state in the client record whether and when the person attempted to contact the minor’s parent or guardian, and whether the attempt to contact was successful or unsuccessful, or the reason why, in the professional person’s opinion, it would be inappropriate to contact the minor’s parent or guardian.
Our analysis: Legally, “involvement” of a parent is not requiring parental consent. To ignore parents, a “professional person” merely needs to opine that parental “involvement would be inappropriate” and simply make a note why they didn’t, or why they thought it was “inappropriate” to even try to “contact the minor’s parent or guardian.” Again, parental notification is not required by AB 665.
TAKE ACTION: Target the State Senate floor
It’s up to concerned Californians to tell the truth about AB 665, which is on the Senate floor and could come up for a vote as soon as Monday, June 26.
ACT NOW! Please call 1) your own state senator, and 2) up to 21 “swing-vote” Democrats.
HOW TO CALL Call your own state senator (either during business hours or by leaving an after-hours voicemail) and here, identify yourself and where you live. Yet for the 21 “swing-vote” Democrats we’ve identified, leave only brief, anonymous voicemail messages Thursday evening and Friday morning (7pm to 8am) and all this weekend (Saturday and Sunday).
WHAT TO SAY Leave your message, saying, “I’m calling to urge you to oppose AB 665. The bill author lied in committee. AB 665 does not require the prior condition of homelessness, yet blatantly eliminates parental consent, doesn’t even require parental notification, and threatens families statewide. Vote NO on AB 665!”
LEAVE ANONYMOUS VOICEMAILS (DON’T SAY YOUR NAME OR COMMUNITY) The California State Senate is composed of 40 senators, of which 32 are Democrats. Bills such as AB 665 require 21 votes to pass. Here are the names and numbers of half of the Democrat caucus members to call, listed from in priority from 32 down to below 21:
IMPORTANT NOTE: The following list of “swing-vote” Democrats includes 6 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who’ve already voted yes on AB 665. However, they could easily change their votes on the Senate floor, due to new information about how the bill author and bill sponsor deceived them and how AB 665 clearly erases parental rights.
32. Melissa Hurtado (family area, barely “won” reelection, voted NO on SB 866 last year) 916-651-4016 and 661-395-2620
31. Dave Min (in somewhat conservative area, his worsening reputation, abstained on SB 866 and SB 33, is running for more conservative U.S. House seat) 916-651-4037 and 949-223-5472
30. Richard Roth (abstained on SB 866, has abstained on other bills, from somewhat conservative area, termed out in 2024) 916-651-4031 and 951-680-6750
29. Bob Archuleta (family man, abstained on SB 866, has abstained on other bills) 916-651-4030 and 562-406-1001
28. Benjamin Allen (abstained on SB 866 last year, questioned AB 665) 916-651-4024 and 310-318-6994
27. Anna Caballero (family area, has abstained on SB 866 and other bills) 916-651-4014 and 559-264-3070
26. Henry Stern (abstained on SB 866 last year) 916-651-4027 and 818-876-3352
25. Angelique Ashby (new, untested, calls herself a Christian) 916-651-4008 and 916-651-1529
24. Tom Umberg (abstained on SB 866 last year) 916-651-4034 and 714-558-3785
23. Susan Rubio (abstained on SB 866 last year) 916-651-4022 and 909-469-1110
22. Marie Alvarado-Gil (new, from somewhat conservative area) 916-651-4004 and 916-933-8680
21. Catherine Blakespear (new, from somewhat conservative area) 916-651-4038 and 760-642-0809
– – – If AB 665 does not receive 21 yes votes, it will be defeated – – –
19. Anthony Portantino (abstained on SR 33 pushing “LGBTQ+ Pride Month”) 916-651-4025 | 818-409-0400
18. Aisha Wahab (new, Muslim, misses parents who died when she was a child) 916-651-4410 and 510-794-3900
17. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (new) 916-651-4028 and 213-745-6656
16. María Elena Durazo (wild card) 916-651-4026 and 213-483-9300
15. Lena Gonzalez (wild card) 916-651-4033 and 323-277-4560
14. Steve Glazer (wild card) 916-651-4007 and 925-754-1461
13. Bill Dodd (wild card) 916-651-4003 and 707-224-1990
12. Steve Padilla (an open homosexual, yet represents strongly “pro-family,” largely Hispanic Imperial County) 916-651-4018 and 760-335-3442
PA’RENT, noun [Latin parens, from pario, to produce or bring forth. The regular participle of pario is pariens, and parens is the regular participle of pareo, to appear.] 1. A father or mother; he or she that produces young. The duties of parents to their children are to maintain, protect and educate them. When parents are wanting in authority, children are wanting in duty. Noah Webster, 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language
Wednesday, May 31, 2023, 9:17 pm | Randy Thomasson
Sadly, the unneeded, ineffective, harmful, anti-family Gardasil bill AB 659 passed the Democrat-controlled California State Assembly Wednesday, May 31, shortly after 11 a.m.
Two Republicans spoke against it: Joe Patterson and Devon Mathis
51 Democrats voted yes
10 Democrats abstained: David Alvarez, Sabrina Cervantes, Evan Low, Tina McKinnor, Blanca Pacheco, Sharon Quirk-Silva, James Ramos, Esmeralda Soria, Avelino Valencia, Akilah Weber (later in the day when vote changes were permitted, Alaverez, Cervantes, Low, McKinnor, Ramos, Soria, and Valencia changed their votes to “yes”)
1 Republican voted yes: Greg Wallis
5 Republicans abstained: Phillip Chen, Laurie Davies, Diane Dixon, James Gallagher, Tom Lackey (later in the day, when vote changes were permitted, Chen and Gallagher changed their votes to “no”)
ALL 18 Republicans should have stood and spoke against this dangerous bill, which if signed into law, will injure many children and young adults. Sadly, the foolish and deceptive “deal” of early April between the AB 659’s author and the “Freedom Angels” to replace the official “mandate” with unofficial dishonesty, coercion, and threats was the key to pass this devilish bill in committee and advance it to the floor.
THANK YOU to all who called and who steadfastly fought against this lie-based bill this winter and spring. Sadly, Big Pharma, Big Medicine, and Big Lies were stronger.
Thanks also to the two Republicans who stood and spoke against the deceptive AB 659: Joe Patterson of Rocklin and Devon Mathis of Visalia.
To be clear, the amended AB 659 does not legally require anyone to bare their arm for a series of Gardasil shots. Yet AB 659 requires parents of every 6th grader in both “public” and private schools (including church schools) to be told:
“It is the public policy of the state that pupils are expected to be fully immunized against human papillomavirus (HPV) before admission or advancement to the 8th eighth grade level of any private or public elementary or secondary school.”
Unfortunately, this means millions of California parents (and hundreds of thousands of collegians, who AB 659 also threatens with Gardasil shots) will falsely think they must be injected or else they can’t go to school or college.
Because the Democrat-controlled State Senate is all the more likely to pass the tyrannical, deceiving AB 659, call and email Governor Gavin Newsom to urge him to veto this misleading bill: 916-445-2841 gov.ca.gov/contact
… he was talked into a flu vaccination. October 13th, Zach returned for a follow up and was talked into accepting the Gardasil and meningococcal vaccines. It was shortly after this that the first phase of his health decline began … I have watched my only child age decades within the span of less than 2 years. It has taken a year and a half later for him to finally find a group of doctors who believe he is Gardasil injured, but they do not know how to treat him. “Gardasil: Sharing the Carnage with Boys,” VaccineImpact.com, June 29, 2016
The good news is the unneeded, ineffective, harmful, anti-family Gardasil bill AB 659 did not come up for a vote all last week.
The bad news (or rather, the persistent threat) is that it could pass this week if swing-vote Democrats fear their Democrat bosses or Merck’s lobbyists more than they fear all the opposition phone calls they’ve been receiving.
So, this deadline week (bills must pass their house of origin by June 2), please keep flooding the deciding votes!
CALLING INSTRUCTIONS Whether you can leave one, some, or all of the voicemails, thank you!
1. Call your own state assemblymember. Find them by entering your voter address. When you leave your voicemail message, say your name and that you live in the district. Say, “The latest amendments to AB 659 make the deception even worse. You can’t say it’s not a mandate when you instruct parents that their children ‘are expected’ to ‘be fully immunized against human papillomavirus (HPV) before admission or advancement to the eighth grade level.’ Oppose this dishonest bill!”
2. Call Democrat Assemblymember Akilah Weber, an OB-GYN who abstained twice in committee on AB 659. Call 619-465-7903 or 916-319-2079, anonymously. Leave your voicemail, saying, “Thank you for not supporting AB 659. On the floor, please stand and speak against this misleading bill.”
3. Call the Democrats SaveCalifornia.com has identified, leaving your voicemails, anonymously, 7pm to 8am, for some or all of them. Tell these Democrats, “The latest amendments to AB 659 make the deception even worse. You can’t say it’s not a mandate when you instruct parents that their children ‘are expected’ to ‘be fully immunized against human papillomavirus (HPV) before admission or advancement to the eighth grade level.’ Defeat this misleading, dishonest bill!”
FIRST PRIORITY 14 NEW DEMOCRATS WHO MIGHT NOT BE BIG PHARMA PROSTITUTES YET Dawn Addis (916) 319-2030 Capitol office | (805) 549-3001 district office Jasmeet Bains (916) 319-2035 Capitol office | (661) 335-0302 district office Juan Carrillo (916) 319-2039 Capitol office | (661) 266-3908 district office Damon Connolly (916) 319-2012 Capitol office | (415) 479-4920 district office Gregg Hart (916) 319-2037 Capitol office | (805) 564-1649 district office Josh Lowenthal (916) 319-2069 Capitol office | (562) 429-0470 district office Stephanie Nguyen (916) 319-2010 Capitol office | (916) 670-7888 district office Liz Ortega (916) 319-2020 Capitol office | (510) 583-8818 district office Blanca Pacheco (916) 319-2064 Capitol office | (562) 861-5803 district office Diane Papan (916) 319-2021 Capitol office | (650) 349-2200 district office Gail Pellerin (916) 319-2028 Capitol office | (831) 425-1503 district office Pilar Schiavo (916) 319-2040 Capitol office | (661) 286-1565 district office Esmeralda Soria (916) 319-2027 Capitol office | (209) 726-5465 district office Avelino Valencia (916) 319-2068 Capitol office | (714) 939-8469 district office
SECOND PRIORITY 7 DEMOCRATS FROM SOMEWHAT CONSERVATIVE OR PRO-FAMILY AREAS Tasha Boerner (916) 319-2077 Capitol office | (760) 434-7605 district office Eduardo Garcia (916) 319-2036 Capitol office | (760) 347-2360 district office Timothy Grayson (916) 319-2015 Capitol office | (925) 521-1511 district office Brian Maienschein (916) 319-2076 Capitol office | (858) 675-0760 district office Sharon Quirk-Silva (916) 319-2067 Capitol office | (714) 525-6515 district office Cottie Petrie-Norris (916) 319-2073 Capitol office | (949) 251-0074 district office Carlos Villapudua (916) 319-2013 Capitol office | (209) 948-7479 district office
THIRD PRIORITY 23 DEMOCRATS WHO MIGHT STILL THINK INDEPENDENTLY AND WANT HONESTY David Alvarez (916) 319-2080 Capitol office | (619) 498-8580 district office Joaquin Arambula (916) 319-2031 Capitol office | (559) 445-5532 district office Steve Bennett (916) 319-2038 Capitol office | (805) 485-4745 district office Isaac Bryan (916) 319-2055 Capitol office | (310) 641-5410 district office Lisa Calderon (916) 319-2056 Capitol office | (562) 692-5858 district office Sabrina Cervantes (916) 319-2058 Capitol office | (951) 371-6860 district office Laura Friedman (916) 319-2044 Capitol office | (818) 558-3043 district office Jesse Gabriel (916) 319-2046 Capitol office | (818) 346-4521 district office Mike Gipson (916) 319-2065 Capitol office | (310) 324-6408 district office Chris Holden (916) 319-2041 Capitol office | (626) 351-1917 district office Jacqui Irwin (916) 319-2042 Capitol office | (805) 370-0542 district office Ash Kalra (916) 319-2025 Capitol office | (408) 286-2535 district office Kevin McCarty (916) 319-2006 Capitol office | (916) 324-4676 district office Tina McKinnor (916) 319-2061 Capitol office | (310) 412-6400 district office Al Muratsuchi (916) 319-2066 Capitol office | (310) 375-0691 district office James Ramos (916) 319-2045 Capitol office | (909) 889-7145 district office Anthony Rendon (916) 319-2062 Capitol office | (562) 529-3250 district office Eloise Gómez Reyes (916) 319-2050 Capitol office | (909) 381-4100 district office Robert Rivas (916) 319-2029 Capitol office | (831) 759-8676 district office Luz Rivas (916) 319-2043 Capitol office | (818) 504-3911 district office Freddie Rodriguez (916) 319-2053 Capitol office | (909) 902-9606 district office Blanca Rubio (916) 319-2048 Capitol office | (626) 960-4457 district office Miguel Santiago (916) 319-2054 Capitol office | (213) 620-4646 district office
In February 2013, my healthy, active, academically gifted daughter received the 2nd of three recommended HPV-4 (Gardasil) injections. Within a week, she developed cold symptoms and a barking cough. I did not think it was related to the vaccine. How could a vaccine cause a cold? She went on to develop repeated lung spasms. After her third injection, she experienced dizzy spells, loss of balance, weakness, anxiety, ear pain, abdominal pain, and nausea. I was never an “anti-vaxxer” (if I were, I wouldn’t have agreed to the HPV vaccine) so. I never even associated her new symptoms with Gardasil … It was only when another mom contacted me via social media, asking, “Has your daughter had the Gardasil shot, by any chance?” that I began to put the pieces together. To be honest, I thought she was crazy at first. But I started reading the stories of other young people who have been injured by Gardasil. Their stories are so similar to Caitlin’s. Now, that same mother’s intuition which made me question her pediatrician before consenting to the Gardasil injections tells me that my child has been devastatingly injured by Gardasil. Today, my brilliant daughter has bouts of brain fog and she can’t piece together thoughts. “Gardasil Vaccine Devastation is No Coincidence,” HealthImpactNews.com, July 20, 2016
RSS 2.0 Feed