众议院议长暂时停止这个法案的继续发展，SCA5应该不出现今年的选票上。但我们会继续努力，让美国政客看到亚裔不再是永远沉默的“良民”--
the invisible model minority
See link:
The
safest bet is to put more Republicans in both the state senate and assembly to
eliminate the Democrat supermajority to balance them, so that no party would
come up with another SCA 5, SCA 6...plus, SCA 5 is not dead yet and can come
back in the future, keep your eyes open.
Thank
you all for spending your precious time to make the phone calls, sending the
faxes and e-mails. We need to unite and work together to make sure our kids,
grandkids and future generations will never be treated as second-class citizens
because of their race. They can have equal opportunities like everyone else, and
have no limit to their dreams, and can be what they want to be: a president, a governor,
a superstar or...
If you
cannot open the NPR article at above link, her is the full text:
Affirmative action bill SCA 5 'dead for the year'
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The SCA 5 legislation was aimed at bringing race-conscious admissions and recruitment to California's public universities, such as UCLA.Assembly Speaker John Pérez on Monday returned SCA 5 — short for Senate Constitutional Amendment 5 — to the Senate without the Assembly vote required to get the question placed on the November ballot.
Pérez said he did so at the request of the bill's sponsor, Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina. Hernandez's office has said he's more focused on placing the measure on the 2016 ballot.
During a press briefing in Sacramento, Pérez said SCA 5, did not have the two-thirds vote needed in the Assembly to get on the ballot.
Pérez and Senate President Pro-Tem Darrell Steinberg are instead calling for a task force that will look at ways to expand "student access" to the public university system. Pérez said he and Steinberg would work over the next two weeks on crafting "language dealing with the specific charge of the task force" and who would be on it.
"It is important we engage in a very broad conversation with all interested stakeholders, with academics and with leaders of our institutions of higher education to understand where we are and where we’d like to get as a state to have the broadest access to our public university system as possible," Pérez told reporters.
Hernandez had said the point of SCA 5 was to admit more students of color from groups underrepresented at University of California and Cal State schools, including African-Americans, American Indians and Latinos.
Supporters of SCA 5 say that campus diversity has declined under Proposition 209, the ballot initiative voters passed in 1996 that barred the use of race, ethnicity or gender in college admissions. It took effect in 1998.
But some Asian-American groups are worried that allowing race-conscious recruitment and admissions would cost college placements for Asian-Americans, the most-represented racial minority of the UC freshmen class.
Organizations such as the Joint Chinese University Alumni Association of Southern California have pressured Asian-American Assembly members to oppose SCA 5.
Olivia Liao, leads the 40,000 member-strong organization, and said she was "happy" to hear SCA 5 was not advancing this year. But she worried about it coming back in 2016 - the soonest SCA 5 could get on a ballot.
"I think we need to continue to monitor this bill and continue to influence our legislators," Liao said. "And we are going to be talking about this to see what we can do to encourage all the Asian voters to make sure they get registered and get them to vote."
The Senate's three Asian-American members had all voted for SCA 5 in late January. Under fire from SCA 5 critics, they've been distancing themselves from SCA 5, saying in joint statements that they were not aware of the opposition to the bill until after the vote.
One of them, Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, put out a statement Monday, praising Pérez's decision to return the bill to the Senate.
"Without action in the Assembly, SCA 5 is dead for the year," he said.
This story has been updated.
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