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| Texas, three more states on California's banned travel list |
| 2017-06-23 |
| [Sacramento Bee] California is restricting publicly funded travel to four more states because of recent laws that leaders here view as discriminatory against gay and transgender people. All totaled, California now bans most state-funded travel to eight states. The new additions to California’s restricted travel list are Texas, Alabama, Kentucky and South Dakota. They join Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee as states already subjected to the ban. California Attorney Xavier Becerra announced the new states at a Thursday press conference, where he was joined by representatives from ACLU Northern California and Equality California. "We will not spend taxpayer dollars in states that discriminate," Becerra said. California’s Legislature last year voted to restrict state-funded travel to states with laws that allow businesses to deny services to gay and transgender people. California’s law gained attention after North Carolina enacted its so-called "bathroom bill," which prevented local governments from adopting anti-discrimination ordinances and required that people using bathrooms in public buildings choose the restroom that corresponds to their gender at birth. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott this month signed a law that allows child welfare providers to deny services because of "sincerely held religious beliefs," a provision that critics interpreted as permitting adoption agencies to deny services to gay families. Alabama and South Dakota were added to California’s listed of banned states because of similar adoption-related laws. The California Department of Justice said Kentucky’s Senate Bill 17 allows student-run organizations in schools to discriminate against classmates. The California law includes exemptions for law enforcement officers, tax auditors and training events that are required for grants. California’s tax-collecting Board of Equalization has an office in Houston. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #15 Texas should ban California government employees from travelling there grant money or not. Perhaps make a law that requires one to be a resident for significantly longer in order to be a Texas citizen in order to prevent California migrants from recreating CA problems in Texas. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-06-23 17:03 |
| #14 Can Texans demand passports from Californians flooding into Texas? |
| Posted by: Whusoque Flinemble2273 2017-06-23 13:42 |
| #13 Most government travel is a bullshit waste of money to begin with. This is the year 2017, the internet and video-conferencing are a wonderful thing. Is somebody wants to sell a system to the state of Kaliphornia, let that company travel to Kaliphornia. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2017-06-23 13:00 |
| #12 Maybe they're afraid that people will travel to those states and seek asylum. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2017-06-23 12:36 |
| #11 Secession by other means? |
| Posted by: Iblis 2017-06-23 12:18 |
| #10 California gets electricity from Arizona and Nevada. They haven't banned them - yet. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-06-23 11:34 |
| #9 So, I guess they don't want our electricity anymore? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-06-23 11:04 |
| #8 none taken. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-06-23 10:47 |
| #7 Is it too late to add Georgia ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-06-23 10:46 |
| #6 Where can I go to get my state added to the list? |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-06-23 09:59 |
| #5 Our state is one that is banned. No one would know unless this article was published. No one cares. Now, if California slid into the ocean, that would be noteworthy. No offence to Frank G. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-06-23 09:34 |
| #4 Giving how CA is blowing their money on illegals and single-payor those states may be the lucky ones. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-06-23 09:06 |
| #3 reading their press release, it is OK to travel to one of these icky states if grant money can be gained. official recognition that californication is full of whores. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2017-06-23 09:00 |
| #2 Let's see what happens when it's time for UCLA to have to travel to play their football, basketball, etc. games. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-06-23 07:39 |
| #1 Travel budgets usually take a hit when the belt starts to tighten. Quick Johnson, we need to come up with an excuse to cover the deficit, something virtuous that won't alarm the rubes of becoming another Illinois. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-06-23 07:33 |