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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking The Siege | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dealing From A Crooked Deck | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welfare Carrots and Sticks | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Just Chop Off Those Cities | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Police Brutality! | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

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