It's all Democrats: California Legislators Fight Divisive Ethnic Battle

What few Republicans that are left in Sacramento just watch the ethnic dustups from the sidelines. Diversity doesn't run deep. m/r

California Legislators Fight Divisive Ethnic Battle - Reason.com

Steven Greenhut|May. 9, 2014 

SACRAMENTO—Republican legislators had often been criticized for being divisive when they held up the passage of state budgets to exact concessions—something that has subsided after the 2010 passage of Proposition 25, which requires a simple majority to pass budget bills.

Yet the fading of Republican power has not led to an era of Kumbaya. In fact, the state Capitol recently has been plagued by some of the ugliest and most divisive political battles in years as Democrats fight one another over ethnic-related issues. A new bill that recently passed a Senate committee is likely to keep the hostilities boiling.

The flashpoint was in March, after Asian-American legislators backed away from their previous support of SCA 5, a constitutional amendment that would have asked voters to repeal Proposition 209. That was the 1996 statewide initiative that banned racial and ethnic quotas in the state university systems and other public facilities.

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