How many activists will we need to keep track of missing information?
The July 24 vote on AB23 (28 yes, 43 no, 8 not voting) has been officially expunged - erased as if it never happened.
"The whole thing seems to me rather Orwellian," Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine, author of the oil-drilling bill, said Friday in a phone interview. "It does strike me as trying to take an inconvenient historical fact and shoving it down the memory hole."
The erasure of recorded votes is not unheard of in the Assembly, but it's most common during late-night sessions, when fewer journalists and activists are paying attention. This vote occurred in midafternoon, and was broadcast live on the California Channel, where anyone could follow the red and green lights next to members' names during the roll call.
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