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California State Lawmaker Withdraws Bill Allowing Communists to Work in State Government

Updated: May 18, 2017 at 9:17 am EST  See Comments

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — A bill that would have let communists legally work in California government was withdrawn Wednesday after the sponsor said he learned it caused veterans and Vietnamese-Americans “distress and hurt.”

Assemblyman Rob Bonta, a Democrat from the San Francisco Bay Area, announced he was shelving the bill and apologized to veterans and people who fled the communist regime in Vietnam. His bill, AB22, would have repealed part of state law enacted during the Red Scare of the 1940s and ’50s when fear that communists were trying to infiltrate the U.S. government was rampant. The Cold War-era law made belonging to the Communist Party a fireable offense for public employees. Bonta said such provisions have since been ruled unconstitutional. Under his bill, employees could still have been fired for belonging to organizations they know advocate overthrowing the government by force or violence.

The Assembly narrowly approved the bill last week. Some Assembly Republicans spoke forcefully against the measure before voting against it.


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Pointman
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7 years ago

Long past time to start voting the idiots in Sacramento out and put an end to crap like this.

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