From: ACTION ALERT Moderator Subject: ACTION ALERT: California Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 19:11:54 -0500 (CDT) [ submitted by Lambdalp@aol.com ] ** SUMMARY ** Great news! A.B. 257 has passed the Senate Appropriations Committee. You all sent 255 messages of support to that committee, and I am sure that your efforts played a major part in the approval of this bill by the committee. A.B. 257 (Introduced by Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles) would add sexual orientation to California's Fair Employment and Housing Act. Thus it would prohibit sexual orientation based discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations. A.B. 257 would move the protections against sexual orientation based employment discrimination to the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, an agency whose major field of expertise is in combatting discrimination. In addition, A.B. 257 would add prohibitions against sexual orientation discrimination in housing and public accommodations. A.B. 257 is a very important bill. ** ACTION ** Next stop is the Senate floor. We must deluge our state Senators with messages of SUPPORT for A.B. 257. Thirty three Senators have E-mail addresses (shown below). Please send messages urging them to vote for A.B. 257. You may simply cut and paste their addresses into the address portion of your E-mail message. Seven Senators do not have E-mail. If possible, please FAX them, at the numbers provided below, asking them to support A.B. 257. The E-mail addresses and FAX numbers are as follows: E-mail Addresses: (Senator.Knight@sen.ca.gov Senator.Watson@sen.ca.gov Senator.Leslie@sen.ca.gov Senator.Hughes@sen.ca.gov Senator.Peace@sen.ca.gov Senator.Hurtt@sen.ca.gov Senator.Mountjoy@sen.ca.gov senator.haynes@sen.ca.gov Senator.Ayala@sen.ca.gov Senator.Kopp@sen.ca.gov Senator.Johnston@sen.ca.gov Senator.Johannessen@sen.ca.gov senator.greene@sen.ca.gov Senator.Maddy@sen.ca.gov senator.vasconcellos@sen.ca.gov Senator.Lewis@sen.ca.gov Senator.OConnell@sen.ca.gov Senator.Rosenthal@sen.ca.gov Senator.Monteith@sen.ca.gov Senator.Kelley@sen.ca.gov Senator.Wright@sen.ca.gov Senator.Calderon@sen.ca.gov Senator.Sher@sen.ca.gov Senator.mcpherson@sen.ca.gov Senator.Lockyer@sen.ca.gov Senator.Brulte@sen.ca.gov Senator.Alpert@sen.ca.gov Senator.Schiff@sen.ca.gov Senator.Karnette@sen.ca.gov Senator.thompson@sen.ca.gov mona.cano@sen.ca.gov joe.hall@sen.ca.gov alfonso.sanchez@sen.ca.gov LambdaLP@aol.com) The FAX numbers for the Senators who don't have E-mail are: John L. Burton 916-327-7229 Jim Costa 916-327-5989 Ralph Dills 916-323-6056 Ross Johnson Won't Tell Barbara Lee 916-327-1997 Richard K. Rainey 916-327-5297 Hilda L. Solis 916-445-0485 --- _____________________________________________________________________________ * ACTION-ALERT is a moderated mailing list. * * To subscribe to ACTION-ALERT, send mail to: majordomo@vector.casti.com * * In the mail message, enter ONLY the words: subscribe action-alert * * To unsubscribe to ACTION-ALERT, send mail to: majordomo@vector.casti.com * * In the mail message, enter ONLY the words: unsubscribe action-alert * * Words in the Subject: line are NOT processed! * * List Information: http://www.qrd.org/qrd/electronic/email/action-alert * _____________________________________________________________________________ =================== Subject: [Update] ACTION ALERT: California AB 257 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 16:24:37 -0500 (CDT) [ Moderator Note: I now have the email address for Governor Pete Wilson R-CA. I also have his voice and FAX numbers, courtesy of LambdaLP@aol.com ] Email: PeteWilson@ca.gov Telephone: (916) 445-2841 FAX: (916) 445-4633 Tell him to "sign AB 257 into law". *** SUMMARY *** For Immediate Release Contact: Ellen McCormick, Legislative Advocate LIFE: California's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and HIV/AIDS Lobby (916) 444-0424 LESBIAN/GAY/BISEXUAL CIVIL RIGHTS BILL PASSES STATE SENATE Sacramento - AB 257, proposed legislation to add "sexual orientation" to California's Fair Employment and Housing Act, passed the State Senate today by a vote of 21 - 18. Authored by Assembly Member Antonio Villaraigosa (D - Los Angeles), the bill now moves to the Governor's Desk for a signature or veto. The Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) is the cornerstone of protection from discrimination in housing and employment in California. FEHA currently protects individuals from discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, ethnicity, and physical disability in housing and employment. Historically, AB 257 represents the second time that a bill to prohibit sexual orientation discrimination under the FEHA has been put before the Governor of California. On the first occasion in 1991 Governor Pete Wilson vetoed the measure, AB 101 (Friedman). *** ACTION *** AB 257 creates better access to remedies for employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and helps to deter discriminatory practices before they begin. Although Governor Wilson has vetoed similar legislation in the past, letters to the Governor are crucial to be clear: current law is not solving the problem of workplace discrimination against gay, lesbian and bisexual people. Sexual orientation must be reflected in the Fair Employment and Housing Act in order to ensure equal access to protection from discrimination. [ Tell the governor TO SIGN AB 257 into law. ] Governor Wilson can be written to at the following address: Governor Pete Wilson State Capitol Sacramento, CA 95814 --- _____________________________________________________________________________ * ACTION-ALERT is a moderated mailing list. * * To subscribe to ACTION-ALERT, send mail to: majordomo@vector.casti.com * * In the mail message, enter ONLY the words: subscribe action-alert * * To unsubscribe to ACTION-ALERT, send mail to: majordomo@vector.casti.com * * In the mail message, enter ONLY the words: unsubscribe action-alert * * Words in the Subject: line are NOT processed! * * List Information: http://www.qrd.org/qrd/electronic/email/action-alert * _____________________________________________________________________________