California’s state assembly just voted to allow card-carrying Communist Party members to work in their state government.
The vote, which was passed on a 41-30 majority, ends a decades-old ban.
Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, who sponsored the bill, explained that it’s a “cleanup bill that removes archaic and outdated references to the Communist Party in our state laws, specifically those stating that a public employee may be dismissed from employment if he or she advocates or is knowingly a member of the Communist Party.”
Some of Bonta’s Republican colleagues were appalled, however, at the thought that actual communists could soon be working in their government.
“This bill is blatantly offensive to all Californians,” said Assemblyman Travis Allen, R-Huntington Beach. “Communism stands for everything that the United States stands against… To allow subversives and avowed Communists to now work for the state of California is a direct insult to the people of California who pay for that government.”
The bill now goes to the state’s upper chamber—where, if passed, it would have to be signed into law by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown.
AAN Staff
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