FLASHREPORT

This just in from Cameron Smyth, the Chairman of the Assembly Republican Caucus...

No Class in the Assembly Education Committee
By Cameron Smyth, Assembly Republican Caucus Chair

Several weeks ago, members of the Traditional Values Coalition and the California Republican Assembly were in Sacramento testifying against SB 572 (Leno) in the Assembly Education Committee. SB 572 is, of course, the Harvey Milk Day bill that has sparked an uproar that reaches beyond just the conservative community.

I oppose SB 572, and will vote against it on the Assembly Floor (as I did with last year's AB 2567). I also opposed HR 17, recognizing June 2009 as LGBT Pride Month, but was in my district on legislative business when it was brought up for a floor vote.

Today, however, I want to draw people's attention to the way the conservative leaders who testified in the Assembly Education Committee were treated by liberal members of the committee, and to the way the chair of that committee allowed her members to dispense with any sense of decorum or respect for the witnesses in opposition to SB 572. I don't serve on the Education Committee, but I was stunned by the lack of class displayed by Democrats on that committee, and thought their actions needed to be shared with a larger audience.

I had this video posted to our caucus's video site, where it is available for the public to view, and for my Republican colleagues to use in their e-newsletters.