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Lawmaker Pulls California Legislation on Cold War-era Communist Ban

A bill that would have let communists legally work in California government was withdrawn Wednesday after the sponsor said he learned it caused veterans and Vietnamese-Americans "distress and hurt." Assemblyman Rob Bonta, a Democrat from the San Francisco Bay Area, announced he was shelving the bill and apologized to veterans and people who fled the communist regime in Vietnam. His bill, AB22, would have repealed part of state law enacted during the Red Scare of the 1940s and...


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