(Sacramento) – California Assembly Democrats say the Governor’s record setting use of his veto pen, and the rubber stamp veto message used on many of them, is not something to be proud of. Assemblymember Dave Jones (D-Sacramento) says Governor Schwarzenegger ignored his duty to carefully review all legislation when he decided to use a “canned” veto message to dismiss dozens of pieces of legislation. During a news conference Assemblymember Jones said, “Ordinary Californians throughout the state should be very disappointed with our Governor. The fact that he issued so many canned vetoes. He didn’t even bother to look at the work that so many people across the state contributed to.”

(Sacramento) - Hundreds of members of the Hmong community rallied yesterday afternoon on the steps of the State Capitol to cheer the passage of Assembly Joint Resolutions 36 and 37 by Assemblymembers Dave Jones (D-Sacramento) and Juan Arambula (D-Fresno) by the Assembly Judiciary Committee. AJR 36 calls on the United States government to use all diplomatic means to assist the Hmong people who are suffering in Laos and Thailand. As we learn in this Assembly Web Report, decades after the Hmong people worked with the United States military in the Vietnam War the communist government of Laos continues to torture and exterminate Hmong people and thousand more are refugees in Thailand with little or no support from the Thai government. AJR 37 calls on the State Legislature to commend the federal government for enacting a law that no longer classifies Hmong allies as “terrorists” that had inadvertently resulted from their support of the U.S. military during the Vietnam War.