IMPORTANT NEWS: SJR 19 was passed

On April 21, 2008 the California Senate passed Senate Joint Resolution 19 by a vote of 22 to 11. The resolution is authored by Mark Ridley Thomas and co sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility- Los Angeles, The American Friends Service Committee, and the Los Angeles and Program for Torture Victims. The resolution sends a strong signal that we must protect California health professionals from complicity in torture by re-establishing ethics within our professional organizations and resolving that the state of California should request that the U.S. government remove California health professionals from settings that do not meet the international standards of moral, humane and legal conduct. We could not have done this without the hundreds of you who sent letters. Thank you and keep engaged. We will be sending letters to members of the Assembly in the next few weeks to encourage them to also pass this resolution.

Voted YES

Alquist, Elaine (D – Santa Clara)

Cedillo, Gil (D – Los Angeles)

Corbett, Ellen (D – San Leandro)

Correa, Lou (D – Santa Ana)

Florez, Dean (D – Shafter)

Kehoe, Christine (D – San Diego)

Kuehl, Sheila (D – Santa Monica)

Lowenthal, Alan (D – Long Beach)

Migden, Carole (D – San Francisco)

Negrete McLeod, Gloria (D – Chino)

Oropeza, Jenny (D – Long Beach)

Padilla, Alex (D – Pacoima)

Perata, Don (D – Oakland)

Ridley-Thomas, Mark (D – Los Angeles)

Romero, Gloria (D – Los Angeles)

Scott, Jack (D – Pasadena)

Simitian, Joe (D – Palo Alto)

Steinberg, Darrell (D – Sacrament0)

Torlakson, Tom (D – Antioch)

Vincent, Edward (D – Los Angeles)

Wiggins, Patricia (D – Santa Rosa)

Yee, Leland (D – San Francisco/San Mateo)

Voted NO

Aanestad, Sam (R – Grass Valley)

Ackerman, Dick (R – Tustin)

Ashburn, Roy (R – Bakersfield)

Cogdill, Dave (R – Fresno)

Cox, Dave (R – Fair Oaks)

Dutton, Bob (R – Inland Empire)

Hollingsworth, Dennis (R – Murrieta)

Margett, Bob (R – Glendora)

McClintock, Tom (R – Thousand Oaks)

Runner, George C. Jr (R – Antelope Valley)

Wyland, Mark (R – Escondido

ABSENT, ABSTAINING, OR NOT VOTING

Battin, Jim (R – Palm Desert)

Calderon, Ronald S. (D – Montebello)

Denham, Jeffrey (R – Merced)

Ducheny, Dense Moreno (D – San Diego)

Harman, Tom (R – Orange)

Machado, Mike (D – Linden)

Maldonado, Abel (R – Santa Maria)