Caucus News

SACRAMENTO – Senate Majority Leader Emeritus Bob Hertzberg of Van Nuys released the following statement today after the US Supreme Court overturning Roe V Wade, eliminating the Constitutional right for women to obtain an abortion:

“The Supreme Court is criminalizing women,” Hertzberg, a father of two sons and a daughter, said flatly. “The majority’s theological bent wants to keep women barefoot and pregnant and is a throwback to when women were property and knew their place. That past is our future if Americans don’t wake up and vote.”

California state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, today denounced the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to outlaw abortion:

SACRAMENTO –Senate President pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego) released the following statement following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organizations, which overrules federal constitutional protections regarding the right to abortion:

Slavery was an evil that will forever be a stain on the history of our great country.

We eliminated it through the Civil War and the adoption of the 13th Amendment.

Involuntary servitude – though lesser known – also had a shameful past.

After the emancipation, southern states sent many blacks to prison on trumped up charges, then “leased” them to farms and factories where they were forced to work without pay.

It was slavery by another name.

But ACA 3 is not about slavery. Slavery is banned in California by the state Constitution.

SACRAMENTO – Senate Majority Leader Emeritus Bob Hertzberg of Van Nuys released the following statement today after the U.S. Supreme Court revoked New York state’s 112-year-old gun-carry law:

Slavery was an evil that will forever be a stain on the history of our great country.
We eliminated it through the Civil War and the adoption of the 13th Amendment.
Involuntary servitude – though lesser known – also had a shameful past.
After the emancipation, southern states sent many blacks to prison on trumped up charges, then “leased” them to farms and factories where they were forced to work without pay.
It was slavery by another name.
But ACA 3 is not about slavery. Slavery is banned in California by the state Constitution.

SACRAMENTO, CA – California State Senator Bob Archuleta (D-Pico Rivera) released the following statement after learning of the tragic death of Pico Rivera resident Antonia Mendoza Chavez, who died after a fatal lightning strike while walking her dogs along the San Gabriel River Mid Trail on the morning of June 22, 2022.

Sacramento, CA - Senator Anthony J. Portantino (D – La Cañada Flintridge) released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decision against New York’s concealed-carry permitting law.  Today, Senator Portantino joined Attorney General Rob Bonta to announce Senate Bill 918, California’s legislative response to the courts action

Senator Cortese (D-Silicon Valley) made the following statement when SB 1341 failed to garner enough votes to clear the California Assembly Committee on Higher Education today:
“I am deeply disappointed that this bill to serve our most vulnerable young people won’t be moving forward. While this is an unexpected obstacle, we will not let inaction persist to the detriment of our future generation.

Sacramento, CA - Senate Bills 906 and 1327 – two gun safety and reform measures - passed the Assembly Appropriations Committee today.  SB 906, authored by Senator Anthony J. Portantino (D – La Cañada Flintridge), prioritizes student and campus safety by promoting safe at-home storage of firearms and robust investigations of imminent violent school threats.