CA AGAIN PUSHING TOWARDS LEGALIZED DISCRIMINATION

by Bob Walsh

The legislature of the formerly great state of California holds on to some bad ideas more strongly than a good case of the clap.  The latest proposal, introduced just AFTER the voters rejected a similar proposal on the ballot, would REQUIRE state agencies to use race, gender and other similar factors to make decisions about promotion of state civil service employees.  Christ Holden, D-Pasadena, said the death of George Floyd was the impetus for his proposal.  

According to Assemblyman Holden the state's entry level work force is sufficiently diverse but people other than White males are under-represented at higher levels in the civil service.  His proposal would expand (and aggressively enforce) that state's Upward Mobility Plan so that incompetents of any race, not just White men, could be promoted to positions of power and authority within the state civil service.