2007March15: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signs legislation that moves up the state’s primary to Feb 5. According to California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, D-Los Angeles, “It gives issues like climate change and health care, coastal protection, and immigration, these issues that disproportionately impact California, much more prominence with the contenders on the national political scale (Sign on San Diego. 2007).
Reference: Sign on San Diego. 2007. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070316-9999-1n16primary.html
Image Description: Members of the South Central Farm attending the immigrant rights march for amnesty in downtown Los Angeles, California. The photo was taken 2006May1 by Jonathan McIntosh. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:May_Day_Immigration_March_LA04.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.
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