California Family Minute

Governor Brown signed Senate Bill (SB) 48 into law without blinking an eye. He gave no regard to the phone calls, e-mails, faxes and letters that came into his office, and his telephone “poll” was nothing but a sham. This was the first notice of the length Gov. Brown will go to please pro-homosexual interest groups.

It should be a maddening and motivating truth that California has gone from an unprincipled governor who occasionally took the temperature of the people, to a governor whose sole principle may be to appease a few very powerful groups. 

A Special Interest Group is defined as “a group of persons working on behalf of or strongly supporting a particular cause, such as an item of legislation, an industry, or a special segment of society.” (from Answers.com) Corporations have a special interest in profit, and public and private labor unions have a special interest in job protection and benefits. 

It should come as no surprise that elected representatives are tempted every day to jettison selfless principles in return for special interest money, and many are unapologetic for doing so. They narcissistically reason that although they may not accomplish their campaign promises, at least they’ll survive re-election to do more things for more people.

Stop Special Interest Money is a coalition of individuals and organizations promoting a ballot initiative by the people, aimed at significantly reducing corporate and union influence on elections. The states of Utah and Idaho have found that passing similar campaign reforms has resulted in the decrease of corporate and labor union election power by 80%. However, the initiative allows for independent, voluntary contributions from corporate employees and labor union members.

Hundreds of thousands of signatures are needed in order to place this initiative on the ballot. You may still download a petition from the Web site; be sure to follow all of the instructions, and to return petitions as soon as they are signed.

The passage of SB 48 now mandates the inclusion of homosexual, bisexual, and transgender sexual orientation in the social science curriculum of public education for grades kindergarten through 12. A coalition of organizations will be sponsoring a referendum that will give voters the opportunity to reject this new law. The legal timeline of a referendum is quite short, and there will be less than three months to acquire more than 500,000 valid signatures. Referendum petitions are expected to be available within the next week. 

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