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Health & Fitness

"Moderate" Muratsuchi Too Extreme for the South Bay

But Huey's opponent contended his victory played out exactly as advance polling suggested, with South Bay voters from both major parties more willing to embrace a known moderate - Muratsuchi is a Torrance school board member - than an unknown Tea Party Republican. The Beach Reporter

Former School Board Member and currently 66th District Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi championed himself as the moderate alternative to his Republican opponent in the 2012 election. In debate and in discussion, he affirmed: "I am not an ideologue." Throughout his excessively negative campaign, Muratsuchi rarely shared his own views yet spent time and advertising shaming the "extreme" position of his opponent, many of which had nothing to do with South Bay or California politics.

Now that Muratsuchi has been in office for nine months, what's the record on "Moderate" Muratsuchi? Muratsuchi has voted 90% of the time with his party: ideological, to say the least. 

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Here are some of the bills which he has supported in Sacramento:

AB 60

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Authorizes Driver's Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants

-- He has voted to permit illegal immigrants to drive in the state of California. Ten states had toyed with this policy, and eight of them repealed the law. Instead of endorsing illegal immigration, with the flawed premise that those illegal aliens will at least purchase car insurance, the state of California should lobby the federal government to reduce the welfare state, relax naturalization requirements, and resurge a proper immigration policy for all legal immigrants.

Muratsuchi's vote on this issue is hardly a moderate position. The Hispanic Governor of New Mexico, Susana Martinez, has repeatedly fought to repeal licenses for illegal immigrants. Her arguments on this matter deserve more attention, which Muratsuchi failed to consider.

AB 154

Authorizes Certain Individuals to Perform Aspiration Abortion Procedures


Muratsuchi has expanded the types of individuals who can perform abortions. This legislation follows the growing decline of available doctors to practice medicine in the state of California, which results from the regulations and fines associated with Obamacare.

The state of California needs legislators who will cut the red tape and approve free market reforms in health care. Why is Muratsuchi making it easier to get an abortion? What kind of message does that send to pro-life and pro-choice constituents in the South Bay?

AB 1266

Amends Sex-Segregated School Programs and Activities


This law will permit transgenderes students to enter school bathrooms. Extreme, and extremely disturbing. I have already written about the reaction that his daughter might have to such a policy. What about the  other children in Residents in the South Bay? Torrance residents have shared with me their deep concern with a legislator who would permit an individual of decided gender to enter the bathroom of his choosing. The civil liabilities for such a law are incalculable. Why hasn't Muratsuchi advanced policies which would permit school choice, or vouchers, or strengthen the power of Torrance families to establish dependent charter schools in their neighborhoods?

AB 1401

Authorizes Non-United States Citizens to Serve on Juries


Jury duty is a solemn service, one which belongs to United States citizens. Why are Sacramento Democratics focused on expanding jury pools when workforce involvement is low, when businesses are leaving the state, and schools are not getting proper control over their funding?
 
Contrary to his campaign pledges, his voting record demonstrates that  Muratsuchi is too extreme for the South Bay.
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