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Comment by chrischen | Hacker News Reader

Who blocked this? I am a California voter and I do not recall having any say over this blockage.

From the latimes article, it was a state senator from the Los Angeles area: “Sen. Anthony Portantino (D-La Cañada Flintridge), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced at the beginning of the committee hearing Thursday that Senate Bill 50 would not advance this year, meaning the bill would not be debated again until 2020.”

Edit: Here is a video of him saying that despite the crisis, he doesn’t think the bill is right, and maybe something better will come along https://twitter.com/BryanRAnderson/status/112911212601702809...

As Chairman he blocked it from even being voted on... looks like I know who to axe on the next elections.

http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/

I believe the conventional wisdom is that legislators' offices pay more attention to calls than letters, and either of those are stronger signals to them than emails.

  legislators' offices pay more attention to calls than letters

The opposite is true. Written letters prioritize over phone calls and they over emails. But overall, constituent communications on current legislation are largely ignored.

Tell Sen. Anthony Portantino that you are unhappy that he abused his power to stop SB 50.

Tell Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins you want her to do everything in her power to get a floor vote this year.

https://cayimby.org/call/

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