Via <i>Wired.com</i>: Gov. Brown, Don't Sign <nobr>SB 1161;</nobr> It Will Damage CA's Broadband Future

(Aug. 27, 2012) -- Wired.com links to the opinion piece below by Susan Crawford, urging Governor Jerry Brown, Jr. not to sign SB 1161. "[I]t leaves Californians without a protector to keep watch on the cost, service quality, safety, and availability of access to information, data, and entertainment -- everything on which modern life depends. Because just a few giant companies control the wires, they’ll be picking the economic and social winners and losers in America," she writes.

To view her opinion article, click here

To view the state Senate's Legislative Analysis of the bill on final passage (includes list of supporters/opponents), click here.

For the record, Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal (D., LB) voted "no" on final passage of the bill; state Senator Alan Lowenthal (D., LB-Paramount) voted "yes."

LBReport.com provides the full recorded votes on final passage below.

	UNOFFICIAL BALLOT
MEASURE:	SB 1161
AUTHOR:	Padilla
TOPIC:	Communications: Voice over Internet Protocol
DATE:	08/20/2012
LOCATION:	ASM. FLOOR
MOTION:	SB 1161 Padilla  Senate Third Reading  By BRADFORD
	(AYES  63. NOES  12.)  (PASS)


	AYES
	****

Achadjian	Alejo	Atkins	Bill Berryhill
Block	Blumenfield	Bonilla	Bradford
Brownley	Buchanan	Charles Calderon	Campos
Carter	Cedillo	Conway	Cook
Davis	Dickinson	Donnelly	Eng
Fletcher	Fong	Fuentes	Beth Gaines
Galgiani	Garrick	Gordon	Gorell
Grove	Hagman	Halderman	Hall
Harkey	Hayashi	Hill	Huber
Hueso	Jeffries	Jones	Knight
Lara	Logue	Ma	Mansoor
Miller	Mitchell	Morrell	Nestande
Nielsen	Norby	Olsen	Perea
V. Manuel Pérez	Portantino	Silva	Smyth
Solorio	Swanson	Torres	Valadao
Wagner	Wieckowski	Williams


	NOES
	****

Allen	Ammiano	Beall	Chesbro
Feuer	Gatto	Huffman	Bonnie Lowenthal
Monning	Skinner	Yamada	John A. Pérez


	ABSENT, ABSTAINING, OR NOT VOTING
	*********************************

Butler	Furutani	Roger Hernández	Mendoza
Pan

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UNOFFICIAL BALLOT
MEASURE:	SB 1161
AUTHOR:	Padilla
TOPIC:	Communications: Voice over Internet Protocol
DATE:	08/22/2012
LOCATION:	SEN. FLOOR
MOTION:	Unfinished Business SB1161 Padilla Concurrence
	(AYES  28. NOES   7.)  (PASS)

	AYES
	****

Alquist	Anderson	Blakeslee	Calderon
Cannella	Correa	De León	DeSaulnier
Dutton	Emmerson	Fuller	Gaines
Hernandez	Huff	Kehoe	La Malfa
Liu	Lowenthal	Negrete McLeod	Padilla
Price	Rubio	Steinberg	Strickland
Vargas	Walters	Wright	Wyland

	NOES
	****

Corbett	Evans	Hancock	Leno
Simitian	Wolk	Yee

	NO VOTE RECORDED
	****************

Berryhill	Harman	Lieu	Pavley
Runner

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