California Equal Rights Update

by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

I suppose the Right would call this post "Gay rights Update", but as they aren't anything special, IMHO, "equal rights" is a better term.  So, anyway, it seems the right is hard up for cash. From the newly free Capitol Alert, we learn that the push to repeal SB 777, the Sheila Kuehl bill to stop discrimination based on sexuality in the schools, is flailing. It's running low on cash, and is getting desperate:

Not so much for the Capitol Resource Institute, the conservative Christian group that is trying to launch a referendum on recently passed anti-discrimination legislation for gay and lesbian students.

"The Save Our Kids campaign is running out of money," Karen England, executive director of the group, pleaded to supporters in an e-mail late Wednesday. "We cannot print or mail any more petitions without financial support." (Capitol Alert 11/8/07)

That noise your hearing? It's that "Waa, waa, waa" sound on the Price is Right. It's kind of hard to reproduce in text.

In other news, Randy Thommason is angry. I know, I know, it's something akin to saying it's sunny in Death Valley, but you know this time it's about Rudy Guiliani. It seems he's angry about Pat Robertson endorsing Rudy. So mad, that he sent out a press release with a link to the YouTube video here.  Ah, well, it's funny stuff at least. (More props to Capitol Alert.)

Finally, just as an optimistic note: Of the 10 bills sponsored by Equality California, 9 passed. The one exception? Marriage Equality, which was vetoed by the Governor.