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The sculpture of Prometheus by Robert Russin at the Natrona County Library in Casper, Wyoming https://midwesternartlovertraveler.tumblr.com/
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President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15, 1865 after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
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MEET THE AUTHOR! A conversation with Robert Russin – Author of “Light Burns”
Today Reader Views talks with Robert Russin about his book "Light Burns." #books #authorinterviews #reading #readerviews
Light Burns Robert RussinOlympia Publishers (2023)ISBN: 978-1804390566 I was hooked on the world of stories when Mom took me to the library for the first time. I typed a “story” on a manual typewriter and made up fictional worlds. I moved away from writing because the thoughts I had were strange to me. It was a religious experience shortly after Mom’s passing that brought me back. Hi Robert.…
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Song of the Day - “Just One of Those Things”
Today is the 70th anniversary of a recording session at Hollywood Studios in LA … April 7th, 1954...
for Frank Sinatra’s 8th studio album “Swing Easy”…which would get released in August.
But today was the first of two recording sessions, and is particularly notable for being the birth of one of the great pairings in music - Sinatra with arranger Nelson Riddle... a marriage made in swing heaven … this was their first collaboration with Riddle as the arranger...
The band was Harry Edison on trumpet, Tommy Pederson, Ray Sims, and George Roberts on trombones, Skeets Herfurt, Mahlon Clark, Babe Russin, Eddie Miller, and Joe Koch on saxes, Bill Miller on piano, Allan Reuss on guitar, Joe Comfort on bass, Alvin Stoller on drums, and Frank Flynn on the vibes…
Of the handful of songs recorded today, this one, Cole Porter’s “Just One of Those Things” is the perfect slice of this new duo’s magic.
The whole album is delicious, but this is the sweetest of the cuts… truly a trip to the moon on gossamer wings…
[Mary Elaine LeBey]
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Beaver in limestone placed on the south campus of City College in Manhattan, sculptor Prof. Robert I. Russin, 1957-1958. 
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George Emil Banks
The first call was chilling enough: Two lay shot on a Wilkes-Barre street.
But as Robert Gillespie headed to the scene where George Emil Banks began his massacre 35 years ago this week, the scope of the situation began to mount as the bodies piled up. Gillespie was on Interstate 81 when the next call from a detective informed him of a second crime scene, in Jenkins Township. Four shot dead.
When Gillespie arrived in Wilkes-Barre, he learned that not only were the two there shot outside a home on Schoolhouse Lane — one fatally — but eight more bullet-riddled bodies were inside. Four were children. The two youngest were 1. Decades later, Gillespie can still see them.
“You never forget seeing a child that has been brutally murdered,” said Gillespie, the former Luzerne County district attorney who prosecuted Banks.
Thirty-five years later, Gillespie and Al Flora Jr., one of the attorneys Gillespie battled in the courtroom over Banks’ culpability and competency, reflected on the details and aftermath of the murderous rampage Banks wreaked on the Wyoming Valley on Sept. 25, 1982.
Banks gunned down five of his own children and eight other people on Schoolhouse Lane and in a Jenkins Township trailer park in the largest killing spree by a single mass murderer in Pennsylvania history. Most victims were shot at close range.
After a highly publicized trial that lasted just under two weeks, a jury from Allegheny County found Banks guilty of 13 counts of first-degree murder on June 22, 1983. The next day, the panel returned 12 death sentences and one life sentence for the murders. For the prosecution, the outcome was bittersweet.
“We had done nothing but work toward it for a year and there was some pride, but no pleasure, in hearing the jury actually assert he should be put to death,” Gillespie said. “But if there was ever anyone who deserved the death penalty, in my opinion, it was George Banks.”
Yet Banks, inmate No. AY6066, was never executed. Now 75, he remains on death row at Graterford, a maximum-security prison in Montgomery County. He is a distant shadow of his former self.
First violent crime: 1961
It wasn’t long after Banks was discharged from the Army that he committed his first serious violent crime, the shooting of an unarmed tavern-keeper during a robbery in 1961. He was sentenced to six to 15 years in prison, then was hit with additional time when he briefly escaped in 1964.
Despite the escape attempt, Banks was granted parole in 1969, and his sentence was commuted by Gov. Milton Shapp in 1974.
After prison, Banks was hired by the state, first by the Department of Environmental Resources, then as a guard at the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill in Harrisburg.
Weeks before the murder spree, Banks was suspended from prison-guard duty after he locked himself in a guard tower with a shotgun and threatened to kill himself. Fellow guards also had complained Banks had been talking about committing a mass killing.
He was placed on involuntary sick leave and was supposed to see a psychologist on Sept. 29, 1982, but four days earlier he embarked on the unprovoked killing spree that defense attorneys have long argued was a product of paranoid delusion.
The night before the killings, Banks was at a birthday party in Wilkes-Barre where he drank beer, played darts and fawned over a woman’s T-shirt that read “Kill Them All and Let God Sort It Out.”
Banks and the woman switched shirts, and he donned it underneath military-style fatigues the next morning when he methodically began walking through his home firing an AR-15 rifle.
When the rampage ended hours later, Banks had killed 13 people at two homes — seven children, his three live-in girlfriends, an ex-girlfriend, his ex-girlfriend’s mother, and a bystander in the street. Five of the seven children were his own; he has fathered at least seven.
Banks holed up at 24 Monroe St. in Wilkes-Barre, where swarms of police tried to convince him he should give himself up because his five children were alive and in need of blood. A phony radio broadcast was played to support the ruse. Banks finally surrendered after a four-hour standoff.
‘A delusion’
Flora last met with Banks in 2010.
That year, after numerous rounds of appeals, Luzerne County Senior Judge Joseph Augello ruled Banks was too mentally ill to be executed, describing the inmate’s mindset as a “tossed salad of ideas and beliefs.”
Augello wrote that Banks is not competent to be executed “because he has a fixed, false belief, a delusion, that his sentence has been vacated by God, the governor and (former President) George W. Bush. He believes he is in prison illegally, and he should be going home. He should be out there ministering to the people, but there is a conspiracy against him.”
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the ruling in 2012.
At trial, Banks’ bizarre behavior was a constant obstacle, Flora recalled. He refused to cooperate with Flora and fellow defense attorneys Basil Russin and Joseph Sklarosky Sr., who had hoped to have him declared not guilty by reason of insanity.
Banks took the stand in his own defense, then delivered a rambling account of the shootings. During that account, he showed jurors the gory photographs of his victims that his attorneys labored to keep out of trial. Banks, who is bi-racial, then claimed he had only wounded the victims and said racist police officers had fired the fatal shots to frame him.
Prosecutors argued Banks’ motive was based on his fear of losing control over his extended family.
The trial attracted such a throng of attention from relatives, onlookers and national media that presiding Judge Patrick J. Toole instituted a lottery for courtroom seating.
Gillespie said Toole was clear on courtroom decorum: There would be no emotional outbursts from relatives of Banks or his victims.
And while not an outpouring of emotion, Gillespie acknowledged he had to hide tears from the jury at one strenuous point during the proceedings, when a child victim’s young brother testified about reporting the murders to 911 using a phone covered with blood and brain matter.
“No child should ever have to see that and tell a whole bunch of strangers what had happened,” Gillespie said.
Locked in isolation;
Flora, who long has fought to have Banks declared incompetent, said the case is now considered closed, and Banks is destined to die in prison.
“Being locked in a cell 24 hours a day and being in isolation will have a profound effect on someone,” Flora said. “George has significantly deteriorated. He is severely mentally ill … and there is likely no treatment for him.”
Gillespie, now in private practice in Hazleton, said he never thought of Banks as a victim, but as a misogynist who hid behind claims of a racial divide. But, Gillespie conceded, he was smart.
“I thought that George Banks was a very intelligent person,” Gillespie said, noting that during one of his first encounters with Banks, the mass murderer draped himself in a blanket so a psychiatrist couldn’t discern reactions to his analysis.
But Banks’ hatred also defined him, Gillespie said.
“He hated women,” Gillespie said. “He cared for his sons, but he had no feelings at all towards his daughters or stepdaughters. He was, quite frankly, a cold-blooded killer.”
BANKS’ VICTIMS:
Schoolhouse Lane home:
• Regina Clemens, 29: girlfriend, struck by a bullet on her right cheek that spiraled into her heart.
• Susan Yuhas, 23: girlfriend, shot five times while holding his 1-year-old daughter, Mauritania, who was fatally shot in the head.
• Dorothy Lyons, 29: girlfriend, shot in the neck while in a chair.
• Bowendy Banks, 4: son, shot in the left cheek while turning away from his father.
• Montanzima Banks, 6: daughter, shot in the head and chest.
• Foraroude Banks, 1 - son, shot and killed while being held by his half-sister, Nancy Lyons.
• Nancy Lyons, 11: stepdaughter, died of a gunshot wound to the head.
Outside Schoolhouse Lane home:
• Ray Hall Jr., 22: bystander, shot and killed when Banks left the Schoolhouse Lane home.
Heather Highlands mobile homes, Jenkins Township:
• Sharon Mazzillo, 24: former girlfriend, shot in the chest.
• Kissmayu Banks, 5: son, single shot to the forehead.
• Alice Mazzillo, 47: Sharon Mazzillo’s mother, shot in the face.
• Scott Mazzillo, 7: Sharon Mazzillo’s nephew, shot in the head.
• Survivor — Jimmy Olson, 22: bystander, outside Schoolhouse Lane home, gunshot wound to the chest.
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jellobiafrasays · 5 years
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The Cloud Messenger (1964 ed., cover illustration by Robert Russin)
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Putin in No Hurry to Congratulate Biden
LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), Nov. 9, 2020.--Waiting until he gets the green light, 68-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin sees to rush to congratulate 77-year-old former Vice President now president-elect Joe Biden for winning the  Nov. 3 election.  While Putin waits patiently to see if 74-year-old President Donald Trump concedes, he’s in no rush to congratulate Biden, knowing Biden’s history, along with his late buddy Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) of tough talk against the Kremlin. Putin remembers well Dec. 31, 2016 when former President Barack Obama and Biden ousted 35 Russian diplomats, with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that Russin stole the election from her.  Biden’s continued his anti-Kremlin rhetoric insisting that Moscow was up to no good in 2020.  Without any proof, Biden finds Russia his favorites scapegoat.
Putin and Trump developed good rapport, compared to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis atmosphere created by Obama and Biden.  But by far the most incendiary rhetoric, 17 U.S. intel agencies said in 2017 that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, fingering Trump in a FBI counterintelligence operation, insisting Trump conspired with the Russians to win the 2016 presidential election.  Putin took notice of the outrageous claims made by U.S. intel officials, all of whom like to blame Moscow for their own failngs.  Putin was listening carefully to Biden at the Oct. 22 Presidential Debate blame recent allegations of corruption against he and his 50-eyar-old son Hunter on “Russian disinformation.”  Putin’s had it with corrupt U.S. politicians blaming Moscow, trying to cover-up their own corruption and malfeasance
Putin sees Biden as continuing the anti-Russian rhetoric, not seeing the same opportunity to improve relations with the U.S.  Trump tried his best to improve U.S-Russian relations but was sabotaged at every turn by Democrats accusing him of Russian collusion.  Hillary’s bogus “Steele Dossier” was used by former FBI Director James Comey, before he was fired by Trump May 9.   When Comey was fired, corruption in the Democrat-led Congress pressured former Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein to appoint 75-year-old former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to investigate Russian meddling and alleged Trump collusion.  After wasting 22-months and spending $40 million, Mueller’s mob of angry Democrat prosecutors found nothing.  So Putin knows the Cold War hawks in the U.S. Congress that like to blame the Kremlin for everything.
            Russia will of course congratulate Biden once Trump concedes or when the world passes Trump by with his futile lawsuits.  But, for the time being, Putin’s in no rush to congratulate Biden for his big win.  “We believe it would be proper to wait for an official announcement,” said Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov.  “In any case, we hope that it will be possible to establish a dialogue with the next president of the United States and to agree on paths toward normalizing our bilateral relationship,” said Peskov, letting hope spring eternal.  But based on how it went with Obama, Putin isn’t holding his breath that he’s going to get Biden to change his anti-Russian stripes at this point.  Biden’s campaign accused Trump of an inappropriate relationship with Putin, accusing Trump of sick preferences for dictators.
            Putin’s well-aware of the fake accusations of Russian meddling in the U.S. election, especially knowing that Biden won the election.  Suddenly, talk of Russian meddling has disappeared because Democrats don’t need a scapegoat like Hillary, after she lost to Trump in 2016. Watching from afar the U.S. government charge Trump with a conspiracy with the Kremlin has to show Moscow how utterly sick American politics has become in the United States.  Listening to Biden blame Russian disinformation for his egregious corruption blacked out by U.S. media told Moscow everything they need to know about the so-called Free Press in the United States.  About the only thing free about the U.S. press today is that writers don’t wind up in a ditch for writng critical pieces about their government.  That about all that’s left.
            Putin watched during Trump’s four years in office of his own government spying on his 2016 campaign and presidency.  Now he’s asked to keep and open mind about a U.S. government that likes to blame Russia for acts of egregious corruption in the U.S. Watching Biden in particular call charges of corruption against hin and his son “Russian disinformation” tells the whole story of how U.S. politicians exploit Russia to deny their own wrongdoing.   Putin sees Biden in the same mold as Obama and Hillary, looking to undermine Putin’s rule. Putin recalls  when Hillary, as Secretary of State, tried to undermine his election, promoting the opposition and street demonstrations in Moscow.  Putin saw a real opportunity with Trump to improve U.S.-Russian Relations. He watched the U.S. Congress undermine his good will.
About the Author
John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news.  He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
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Kidsclub
De laatste dagen is het Rode Leger Hotel L'Etoile binnengetrokken. Op dit moment bestaat driekwart van het gastenbestand uit oost Europeanen. Voornamelijk Russen, maar ook mensen uit de Oekraïne en Kazachstan. Jen en ik hebben een Russin ontdekt met een apart loopje. Zeker geen onaantrekkelijk dame, maar haar manier van bewegen klopt niet. Onze conclusie is dat ze of de hele dag rondloopt met een buttplug of iedere avond anaal genomen wordt. Het is geen gezicht zoals ze loopt. Tijdens onze middag koffie raak ik in gesprek met een paar Turkse mensen. Ze spreken goed Engels en al snel stuur ik het gesprek richting politiek. Het is duidelijk dat de steun voor president Erdogan aan het afbrokkelen is. In de grote steden zoals Istanboel, Ankara, Izmir en Antalya heeft ruim 75% van de bevolking tegen hem gestemd. Ook de mensen in de toeristen plaatsen hebben in ruime meerderheid (80%) tegen de uitbreiding van zijn macht gestemd. De president heeft zijn winst behaald in het binnenland en bij de Turken in Duitsland en Nederland. Er wordt zelfs gesteld dat hij de nodige stemmen gekocht heeft. De mensen waar ik vanmiddag mee in gesprek was hebben geen goed woord over voor hun landgenoten in West Europa. Het woord verrader werd meerdere malen in de mond genomen. Zij zijn van mening dat alleen Turken in Turkije mogen stemmen over zaken die Turkije aangaan. Ik kan het alleen maar met ze eens zijn. Wie ooit die dubbele paspoorten heeft bedacht zou met terugwerkende kracht alsnog tot de doodstraf veroordeeld moeten worden. Als ik ze vertel dat er in Nederland gewaarschuwd wordt omdat de Turken na de Rotterdamse rellen kritischer zijn geworden richting Nederlanders schudden ze stuk voor stuk hun hoofd. ''Bullshit'' zeggen ze. Misschien in het achterland, maar zeker niet in het ontwikkelde gedeelte van Turkije.
Bij de lunch maakte ik een verkeerde keuze. Het was duidelijk mijn minste maaltijd tot nu toe. Niemand hoeft medelijden met me te hebben, want bij het diner kon ik het ruimschoots goedmaken. Vooral het dessert was weer van uitmuntende kwaliteit. 's Avonds om 9 uur is het standaard tijd voor het Demmink & Robert M. momentje. Dan begint de kidsclub. Iedere avond dezelfde 4 liedjes met dezelfde bewegingen. Het is voor een keertje best aardig om te zien. De allerkleinsten zijn het meest vermakelijk. Die begrijpen het nog niet zo goed en doen maar wat. Joris en Robert zouden hier avond aan avond met een harde plasser rondlopen. Vanavond zijn we koffie gaan drinken bij Ida. De wifi was ditmaal weer ouderwets slecht, maar ik kreeg nog mee dat 2 rooie graaiers niets hoeven in te leveren van hun buitensporige salaris. De heren Matthijs van Nieuwkerk en Giel Beelen. Het lijkt mij hoog tijd worden om de stekker uit het publieke bestel te trekken, want dit soort vergoedingen zijn niet meer te verdedigen. Daarbij is het mij duidelijk dat de NPO een verlengstuk is van het politiek correctivisme. Kritiek op de gevestigde orde wordt niet geaccepteerd en een tegengeluid van bv Thierry Baudet van het Forum voor Democratie wordt weggezet als racistisch, xenofoob, discriminerend, fascistisch en wat al niet meer. Het framen bij een programma als DWDD is dagelijkse kost en daarvoor wordt de gastheer door ons vorstelijk betaald. Demoniseren tot de dood erop volgt. Ik zal 6 mei 2002 nooit vergeten. Zo komt er weer een einde aan een heerlijke dag. Beetje politiek op zijn tijd houdt me scherp. Welterusten !
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Lincoln Monument located at the Summit Rest Area between Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming https://midwesternartlovertraveler.tumblr.com/
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US President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. on April 14, 1865.
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"Light Burns" by Robert Russin
An Intriguing and Evocative Experience in the Afterlife #books #bookreview #reading #readerviews
Light Burns Robert RussinOlympia Publishers (2023)ISBN: 978-1804390566Reviewed by Tammy Ruggles for Reader Views (09/2023) “Light Burns” by Robert Russin is a compelling fantasy novel with a twist. Follow Dawn Allegary as she discovers what most of us have wondered about at one time or another: What is the afterlife like? When lightning strikes Dawn and she dies, she passes from her mortal…
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I tell people I don’t like poetry. That’s not exactly true. I do like poetry. I like funny poems, I like poems that remind me of things that were important but have faded in memory. I don’t like my own poetry, even though when I was a teenager, I wrote a lot of it. I have to admit to a youthful passion for Ferlinghetti and ee cummings. Also, T.S. Eliot and occasionally, Ezra Pound, especially when they weren’t taking themselves too seriously.
And because he was so very much New England’s own poet,  Robert Frost. We even have an Eisenstadt (original) photograph of him in the house. Garry interviewed him during his last years. He understood this strange part of the world and the crazy people who live here. He understood the woods and the rocks and the roots and the snow.
Today, however, I am treating you to a T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” which opens with a line to which at long last, we can all relate: April is the cruellest month.
It has been a cruel month and sadly, although we have slid into May, the cruelty has not finished with us. When T.S. Eliot wasn’t writing about cats, he was not an easy read.
The Waste Land
BY T. S. ELIOT
FOR EZRA POUND IL MIGLIOR FABBRO
              I. The Burial of the Dead
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch. And when we were children, staying at the arch-duke’s, My cousin’s, he took me out on a sled, And I was frightened. He said, Marie, Marie, hold on tight. And down we went. In the mountains, there you feel free. I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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APRIL REALLY WAS THE CRUELEST MONTH: THE WASTE LAND, BY T.S. ELLIOT I tell people I don't like poetry. That's not exactly true. I do like poetry. I like funny poems, I like poems that remind me of things that were important but have faded in memory.
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California lawmaker, governor reach deal on vaccine bill
The author of a hot-button California bill limiting medical exemptions for vaccinations on Friday accepted Gov. Gavin Newsom’s last-minute demand for additional changes, setting up a final series of votes before lawmakers adjourn for the year next week.
Democratic state Sen. Richard Pan of Sacramento amended a companion bill to reflect the governor’s wishes, days after lawmakers sent Newsom a bill cracking down on doctors who sell fraudulent medical exemptions.
Pan said in a statement he appreciates Newsom’s commitment to sign the bill and the amendments, which he says will “ensure we maintain the community immunity needed to protect our kids.”
The amendments would give school children grace periods that could last several years on existing medical exemptions. For instance, a kindergartener with an exemption could retain it through 6th grade, while a 7th grader could be exempted through high school.
That is similar to the phase-out period allowed when California eliminated personal belief vaccine exemptions in 2015, officials said.
Another new provision could revoke any medical exemptions written by Robert Sears, a Southern California doctor who has been disciplined by the Medical Board of California for writing an improper vaccine exemption.
The provision would apply to exemptions written by any doctor who has faced disciplinary action, but at this time Sears is the only California doctor to be disciplined regarding vaccine exemptions, said Carlos Villatoro, a medical board spokesman.
Sears told The Los Angeles Times it would result in hundreds of his patients losing their exemptions.
“This seems like a broad overreach from a government that is supposed to protect its medically fragile children,” he said.
Other changes would make it clear that enforcement will start next year, meaning doctors who previously granted a high number of medical exemptions won’t face scrutiny.
They also would remove a requirement that doctors swear under penalty of perjury that they are not charging fees to fill out medical exemption forms. And one change would ensure that an expert panel reviewing appeals of exemption denials could consider additional information from the doctor beyond the exemption form.
Newsom spokesman Nathan Click said the governor would sign the bill once the new amendments have also won legislative approval.
“These amendments clarify legal and administrative processes in SB276 in order to ensure medical providers, parents, school administrators and public health officials know the rules of the road once it takes effect,” Click said in a statement, referencing the bill number.
Newsom’s 11th-hour demands had roiled the Legislature and frustrated the bill’s supporters, all of whom were caught by surprise when he announced them in a tweet this week.
It prompted several newspapers across California to editorially question the freshman governor’s commitment to limiting vaccine exemptions during a year of record measles outbreaks.
Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, a fellow Democrat from San Diego, said both chambers plan to vote on the companion bill on Monday, with the understanding that Newsom would then sign the original measure.
Signing the bill would also counter opponents who have threatened and harassed Pan and other lawmakers over the pending legislation, she said: “It is important that we send the message that loud and violent will not drown out reason and science in how we govern California.”
The last-minute amendments are unlikely to mollify opponents who have swarmed the Capitol and had hoped Newsom might veto the bill, given his insistence on significant changes in June and again this week.
But the compromise pleased the bill’s supporters.
American Academy of Pediatrics, California, chief executive Kris Calvin and Vaccinate California executive director Leah Russin both praised Newsom and Pan for working out their differences.
Russin called the agreement “a victory for science over fear and for sound public health policy over conspiracy and misinformation,” while also urging Newsom to immediately sign the bill already on his desk.
Calvin said her group supports the amendments if it means both bills become law.
“We are perfectly satisfied that this bill will satisfy its objective of making sure that bogus medical exemptions are uncovered … while protecting valid medical exemptions,” Calvin said.
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Associated Press Writer Kathleen Ronayne contributed to this story.
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