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Sacramento: Refrain From Legislating to the Minority

While in Sacramento this past week, I was confronted with an ironic juxtaposition.

As many of you know, I stand for the conservative principals upon which our country was founded, including and most importantly, liberty.

As I sat at the Public Safety Committee hearing Tuesday, I was saddened to witness first-hand, the liberal left destroying the liberties upon which our country is based.  Democrats introduced and passed bill after bill to limit our citizens’ right to “keep and bear arms.”  From limiting the storage size of magazines, to criminalizing the very possession granted in our constitution, the Democrats in Sacramento, and in Washington, frankly, are effortlessly undoing what was done by our founding fathers.

Couple this degradation of our rights with the earlier news that Governor Brown had signed AB 1266 into law. The rights of our children in public school have now been sabotaged by allowing transgender students the right to choose which bathroom, locker room and shower they use… if a boy wakes up and believes he is a girl that day, that boy now has the protected right to disrobe in the locker room with your daughter.

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I find this law to be a violation of the safety, security and privacy of the very youth we have been elected to protect.

I do not believe our schools should be used as a test bed for societal experiments. 

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The juxtaposition to which I refer is that while in Public Safety, actress Alison Arngrim, who portrayed Nellie Oleson in the television series Little House on the Prairie, testified on a separate bill.

Obviously, Little House on the Prairie reflected a much simpler time in American history.  Nevertheless, it was a stark contrast to what we see today. The bills that passed had many Californians begging for elements of the past, when life was a little simpler, a little more innocent and the difference between right and wrong were more clear.

While I work hard to protect the rights of those in the 67th Assembly District, this last week certainly provided glaring differences in philosophy.  I’ll continue to fight and work to get us back to some simpler elements of existence, where our rights are protected and we refrain from legislating to the minority.

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