First, read this great article written by Timm Herdtt about the 19^th Senate district race. Now, go read the comments that follow the article. There are allegations by the commenter elephantpower about a growing cult of communists in Sacramento.

It all traces back to Senate Bill 1322 which would allow communists to be teachers at public schools in the state. From reading the bill it seems that in that past it has been kosher for school districts to terminate a teacher or just not employ a prospective teacher, if they are a member of the Communist party, allowing legal discrimination. Earlier this year the state legislature passed SB 1322 and is awaiting the Governor's signature to become law.

You might wonder how this law would allow teachers to be communists. Well teachers have to take an oath to become a teacher. That oath goes against what communists believe in so they would not take it. If SB 1322 were to pass, it would allow a person to decline to take the oath, based on their religious or political beliefs.

With the Cold War being over for about 20 years now, I would not see why we should continue to discriminate against teachers who subscribe to communist propaganda. America must continue to evolve especially with the economic crisis we are in. I am not advocating switching over to a communist or socialist economy, we can see that did not work so well for the Soviets. What I'm saying is that we need to look at what got us in this mess, then figure out if there principles of that can be interweaved to bolster a bigger, stronger economy. And this can be done by the future generations who will be taught by the communist teachers.

So I really do not know if there are communists in Sacramento, but its always fun to speculate. And if elephantpower has a McCarthy like list i'd be glad to publish it.