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AB 761 FAILS ON ASSEMBLY FLOOR!

Posted by admin on June 24th, 2009 | 0 comments

For your Information
At 2:20 this afternoon, Assembly Member Charles Calderon presented AB 761 on the Assembly Floor, followed by a strenuous debate with a number of our good friends speaking against the bill, and as many of our opponents speaking in favor of the bill. But in the end, all that mattered was that Calderon could not gather sufficient votes, 41, to pass the bill. Calderon persuaded 38 Assembly Members to vote for the bill, but could not round up 3 more, even though he worked on several members at length to persuade them to vote “Aye”.

When the Speaker Pro Tem announced the vote, and said that AB 761 “failed passage”, Calderon requested “reconsideration” which is fairly standard when a very controversial bill fails. Although Calderon could conceivably ask the Assembly floor to hear the bill again, it is highly unlikely.

Today was a resounding victory for manufactured home owners. This was a major floor fight, and even with their small army of lobbyists, they could not beat our committed troops and the lobbying team.

Assembly Members who spoke against the bill on the Assembly floor and should be thanked are: Assembly Members Ammiano, Brownley and Feuer. Members who spoke in favor of AB 761 were Harkey, Logue, and Salas.

Here is the complete list of members who voted against AB 761; all should be thanked for hanging tough with us against the considerable lobbying pressure from parkowner lobbyists and Calderon. Send a note or call their office and thank them:

Adams
Ammiano
Arambula
Beall
Blumenfield
Brownley
Caballero
Chesbro
Cook
Coto
Evans
Feuer
Furutani
Humber
Huffman
Jones
Lowenthal
Monning
Vava
Ruskin
Saldana
Skinner
Swanson
Torres
Torrico
Yamada

Here is a complete list of everyone who voted in favor of the bill; if you live in their district, call or send a note, expressing your disappointment: (yes, let them know that we are watching)

Anderson
Berryhill, B.
Berryhill, T.
Blakeslee
Calderon
Conway
Davis
De Leon
De Vore
Duvall
Emmerson
Eng
Fletcher
Fuller
Gaines
Galgiani
Garrick
Gilmore
Hagman
Hall
Harkey
Hernandez
Hill
Knight
Logue
Ma
Mendoza
Miller
Nestande
Niello
Nielsen
Perez, J.
Salas
Silva
Solorio
Strickland
Tran
Villines