This Sunday I will be receiving the Legislator of the Year award at 10:30 am from the League of Humane Voters (California chapter) at the Beverly Garland Hotel, 4222 Vineland in North Hollywood. Feel free to stop by.
Ted Lieu
Is it humane to force students to attend schools that they cannot choose, schools that do not have to compete, schools that cannot fire the most reprobate of teachers, or to go to schools which spend more time than ever raising test scores are the expense of the proper education of the student?
Is it humane for students to suffer in classrooms with fifty students per class, while the schools are prevented from dealing with the most difficult and unruly students? Is it humane to allow students to harass teachers who are trying to teach, and prevent the rest of the class, full of students who want to learn?
Is it humane for the prison guard lobby to maintain a stronghold on Sacramento, along with the SEIU and the California Teachers Association? It is humane for a state legislator to receive the majority of his campaign dollars from outside the state senate district which he claims to represent, only to support at best piece meal reforms of overgenerous pension obligations?
Is it humane to support legislation which steps into the intimate matters which affect families and their children, or to micromanage the private sales of pets, or the microchipping of pets, when most people in the state of California cannot afford a pet because of high taxes, higher regulation, and the height of spending sprees?
It is humane to even think of tripling our state' car tax?
It is humane to care about the animals, when the men and women who elected you expect a representative who offers more than boutique bills so that the legislator can get awards from minute interest groups?
State Senator Lieu's Legislative agenda is anything but humane.
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