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| Lawmakers move to block state contracts for any builders of Trump's border wall |
| 2017-05-16 |
| [LATimes] California legislators took the first step Tuesday to ban state government contracts for any company that helps build President Trump's promised wall along the Mexico border, with the author of the plan urging colleagues "to be on the right side of history." The bill by state Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) would prohibit any company from receiving a new or extended contract with the state of California if it participates in a future effort to build a new wall along the 2,000-mile international border. "The wall is another attempt to separate and divide us," Lara said in testimony to the Senate Governmental Organization Committee. "It sends a message that we are better off in a homogenous society." Senate Bill 30 won committee passage on a party-line vote, with Republicans expressing concern about the need for additional border security. Representatives of the construction industry also voiced opposition, arguing Lara's bill forces contractors into the middle of a divisive political fight. "This is precedent-setting," said Todd Bloomstine, a lobbyist representing the Southern California Contractors Assn. "What next unpopular project would be [on the] blacklist?" Lara told lawmakers he will amend the bill to exclude any work by a company -- including current bids on border wall projects -- that takes place prior to the bill's becoming law. Trump's campaign promise of a new border wall remains in limbo in Washington, as members of Congress on both sides of the aisle voice skepticism about its funding. Tuesday's hearing in Sacramento often veered into the appropriateness of the wall itself, with environmental groups expressing concerns about animal species that live on both sides of the border. That testimony became emotional for Juan Altamirano, an associate director of Audubon California who crossed the border with his family as a young child. "We need more migration and not stagnation," Altamirano said. |
| Posted by:Abu Uluque |
| #8 I have |
| Posted by: BigEdLB 2017-05-16 16:10 |
| #7 Members of the State Proletariat of The Democrat People's Republic of Mexifornia have decreed it be written, so let it be done. I Jane a suitcase packed and expect to be transported to the Gulag at any moment for opposing Dear Leader Moonbeam, and his merry band of Marxists. |
| Posted by: BigEdLB 2017-05-16 16:08 |
| #6 I want every single one of these "no wall" jackwagons to pay for their sedition when the next national security event takes place here that could have been prevented. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2017-05-16 14:22 |
| #5 #3 - Totally not legal. Public Contracting Code - State Law |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-05-16 12:44 |
| #4 We have the state of California and, in the article above, the city of Los Angeles acting independently to make it clear that taking President Trump's shekel will not be tolerated. I guess it's time to send the next generation off to Texas to establish his/her own completely independent company to do exactly the same thing with some of the excess personnel. Homo sapians: the tool-using animal that emigrates. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-05-16 11:23 |
| #3 Not a lawyer but somewhere in this is the idea of restraint of trade? |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2017-05-16 10:51 |
| #2 "The wall is another attempt to separate and divide us," Lara said in testimony to the Senate Governmental Organization Committee. "It sends a message that we are better off in a homogenous society." So you're going to build a wall between California and 'bad' contractors? Between your supporters and the other half of the country? My, aren't you virtuous! Hypocritical, but virtuous! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2017-05-16 08:10 |
| #1 "Weneed more migration and not stagnation," Altamirano said. Do it legally, then, Pendejo |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-05-16 07:10 |