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...before his own re-election challenge, he outtoughed legislators who ultimately cringed at possible voter reaction against them this November. "For the first time in my 10 years here, I was embarrassed to be a member of the legislature," admitted Republican senator Frank Hill. Lamented a forlorn Democratic assemblyman: "We might as well have painted targets on our foreheads...
...York State legislators, with the support of victims' rights groups, are seeking to crack down on the unsavory trading cards. Their bill, which parallels proposed legislation in a handful of other states, would make it a misdemeanor to sell such cards to minors. Argues sponsor Alan Hevesi, an assemblyman: "Where there is excessive violence in a film, children are barred from admission, and that's constitutionally protected." But Dean Mullaney, a Forestville, Calif., publisher of a line of cards featuring fbi agents and crooks, insists that such products do not exalt criminals. "Silence of the Lambs won the Academy Award...
...same time, it will allow working mothers to earn up to 50% of their welfare-grant level with no loss in benefits. And in a reversal of previous rules, the act will allow welfare mothers to marry without losing their benefits. The law was drafted by Democratic assemblyman Wayne Bryant, a black lawyer from Camden, who calls welfare "tantamount to slavery" because it fosters dependency...
Inflamed by tax squabbles, water fights and rampant north-south snobbery, Californians who can't get along often talk about cutting the state in half. Usually they imagine a line midway, somewhere around Monterey. But Stan Statham, a Republican assemblyman from far-north Redding, wants more radical surgery. He would draw the border above Sacramento for a new 51st state called Northern California. But that would leave most of the state's economic hubs -- including Los Angeles, San Francisco and Silicon Valley -- in the new state to the south. Hey Stan, whose side...
...racism was involved," says Jerome H. Skolnick, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, "but I believe that racist police are more likely to be brutal and brutal police are more likely to be racist." When black people see a police car in Los Angeles, says state assemblyman Curtis Tucker, "they don't know whether justice will be meted out or whether judge, jury and executioner is pulling...