Kuehl Single Payer Health Bill Passes California State Senate While Dozens of Major Bills Fly Off Both Floors of the Legislature

I've noticed on the internet that many appear to be going by "word of mouth on what people say in emails or what's put on webpages", and where they may not have actually read the Bill.

Via this link address is the latest copy of the Californian Bill, note that amendments have been made and yet more might be made, Californians have not only the right to appose or support the Bill but also have the right to offer suggestions or ideas that may amend the Bill, anyway have a read via here:-
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_1601-1650/ab_1634_bill_20070531_amended_asm_v94.html
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SB 110 is long overdue. After 30 years and 1,000 crime bills adding new crimes, lengthening sentences, and creating enhancements to the point that too many are actually serving life sentences but neither the court nor the legislature have the courage to admit it. Overzealous DAs have buried the defence with a myriad of charges and plea bargain lives away. With people like Spitzer and Runner making statements like "there is no such thing as a non-violent crime" still producing bills that are bankrupting the system forget compassion, lets have some sanity.

Actually AB 160 appears to be a much better bill because it would have fewers "punishers" on it and more "treaters" - we already know that the way to change sentencing is by organizing and doing initiative campaigns. AB 160 allows for the day when the families are going to get pro-active and organize into a voting block. Otherwise there will never be any sentencing reform

Great news that the California Sentencing Commission bills, AB 160 and SB 110, have passed the Assembly and Senate, respectively. Now each bill goes to the floor of the other house where they each have a very good chance of passing. I believe the Governor, too, realizes that a Sentencing Commisssion is the best chance for avoiding the looming Federally-mandated prison population cap. California's tangle of ill-imposed, ineffective, and in many cases unfairly harsh sentencing laws have been a major contributor to prison overcrowding, which has all but eliminated rehabilitation programs and has hindered progress in the Federal receivership programs underway to bring prison medical and mental health care up to constitutional standards.

Governor Schwarzenegger: Much is at stake; do the right thing! California desperately needs sentencing reform!

If only politicians were in office "to do the right thing." There are errand boys for the rich and the special interests that give them money. The poor and uneducated have no representation. While that is fully their own fault, it is still very sad that people are being treated like factory widgets and shipped away from their children at this Governor's hand. We will see no compassion or justice out of him as "his image" is more important than the people's well being.

It's sickening. What is even more sickening is that the apathy of the voters to get people to the polls to keep from letting Republicans get elected to any office whatsoever. They have bankrupted out state by expanding the bureaucracy into prison building and destroyed hundreds of thousands of families. These are not the Republicans of my father's day. Who are these people and how is it that we allow them to sit in elected office wasting our tax dollars and hurting us?

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