A California Republican

There were lost of silly, wasteful laws that went into effect on January 1, 2009. Some of these seem like common sense (if you don’t think that texting while driving is against common sense - please give up your license and take the bus). Yet in California, it seems that people having common sense isn’t enough, we also have to legislate when you can use common sense or not.

However, thanks to the veto power of the Governor, there are some silly laws that didn’t go into effect, including:

• An edict to be sure that rodents (mice and things) who are going to be food for other pet shop animals are killed in a humane manner.
• A measure that would allow pacemakers to be returned to the manufacturer when the body they are in is gonig to be cremated.
• A proposal to ban having a live animal on your lap when you are driving (better than having a dead animal I think).
• A law that corrects the punctuation on bottled water labels - can anyone tell me why these people get re-elected? Why do we pay them? Is punctuation on a bottle of water that important! There are other crises in town - water, education, budget - but let’s put bottled water punctuation on the list.
• Requiring coroners/funeral home owners to make “best efforts? to notify next of kin if body parts had to be kept for forensic evaluation.
• A plan to establish the California Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Sesquicentennial Commission.
• A whole package of bills to improve the response to oil spills.
• A bill to require a health exam before elective cosmetic surgery.

Thank goodnes he shows some common sense…..wait…did I mention he also vetoed heath care reform bills, bills to stop shady lending practices and a bill that would make publishers pay a penalty when they don’t deliver goods to schools as they say the will in their contract?

So maybe he isn’t exercising common sense.

At least there are a few bills that aren’t currently laws. I wonder what the Legislature will come up with next.