Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
January 30, 2014
Democrats in the California Senate used their two-thirds supermajority Thursday to pass a measure that would ask voters if they want to repeal the state’s ban on race- and gender-based preferences in government hiring and contracting and university admissions.
With the bare minimum number of votes needed – 27 – the upper house passed and sent to the Assembly Senate Constitutional Amendment 5, which would ask voters if they want to repeal provisions that became law 18 years ago with the passage of Proposition 209.
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As of July 1, 2013 California no longer had a white majority.
That seems to be ignored here. Prop 209 was in response to a multitude of job fairs and recruitment centers placing signs outside of the centers “White males need not apply” – I’m pretty sure it was the photo of the Orange County Firefighters recruitment center that got 209 rolling.
Regardless of the discrimination (telling a white male that they could apply for a job but for being white, they can not)
Before Prop 209 employers and universities to rejected applicants based on their race. (White)
Hiring the highest qualified applicant should be a right to a business owner as well a being rewarded for education and experience is to an applicant.
The reversal of 209 will put pressure on hiring squads to hire a less than qualified person….
And to black people: I am embarrassed for you that your culture embraces receiving reward not for being motivated and driven but for being a victim.
The quality of American made work will degrade if 209 is reversed.
After all, “Now that you work for the government, you never have to work another day in you life”
Well as long as Republicans keep voting for TEA Party candidates, they will never gain any seats and the seats they do have will be held by nit jobs like Morrell who can’t even debate a point. He’ll just stand up and quote then some scriptures yep that will get the job done!!!