Governor Brown shows courage and leadership

[renard_ruse]

Stands up to draconian, anti-male, legislation to persecute customers of prostitutes...

No more mandatory minimum sentences for some prostitution crimes in California


Gov. Jerry Brown ... rejected ... bills that increased consequences for sex buyers, saying current laws are sufficient.

... Brown rejected lawmakers' efforts to increase consequences for buyers, vetoing a bill by Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) that would allow authorities to impound a vehicle used by buyers to solicit prostitution.

He also turned down a bill similar to Huff's, which was authored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) and tried to go further by imposing a minimum period in county jail for solicitation by buyers.

"I believe the existing law provides sufficient flexibility in punishing these crimes appropriately based on circumstance," Brown said in a signing message.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/ess...n-repeals-mandatory-1475015156-htmlstory.html

 

[renard_ruse]

Never the less, the insidious idea that only the customer is "guilty" of anything in a prostitution transaction is gradually seeping into California law...

...He... approved SB 420 by Senate Minority Leader Robert Huff (R-San Dimas), which recasts the crime of prostitution so the statute differentiates between people getting paid for sex, and the people who are paying for it.

 

[renard_ruse]

Saying only the customer is doing something wrong when there is consensual agreement for physical intimacy in exchange for payment is like blaming the casual drug user rather than the drug dealer.

We don't do that for drugs, so why are we doing it for sex?

 

[BotanyBoy]

Saying only the customer is doing something wrong when there is consensual agreement for physical intimacy in exchange for payment is like blaming the casual drug user rather than the drug dealer.

We don't do that for drugs, so why are we doing it for sex?

Because the government wants control over peoples genitals.