As for your idea: “Why don’t you extend these benefits to Californians who are willing to serve as reserve officers with any police force in the state?” I’ll look into that. Thanks. Similarly with your other ideas. We’ll do what we can to move the issue forward.

Thanks again.

All the best,

Chuck DeVore
State Assemblyman, 70th District
http://www.ChuckDeVore.com

1. Why haven’t you ask KFI Radio for an interview to discuss this bill? I couldn’t believe that you didn’t mention it during your last call with John and Ken. (I’ve mentioned this bill twice to KFI and they seem to have done absoultely nothing to support you.)

2. Why don’t you extend these benefits to Californians who are willing to serve as reserve officers with any police force in the state? In Los Angeles, for example, there is an extremely dangerous short-fall of reserve police officers which this bill could reduce quickly. In terms of readiness for any national emergency, I can’t see how the Guard is more important than our reserve police officers.

3. Why don’t you put forward legislation to require our state universities to give special priority to admit members of the Guard into any undergraduate or graduate program as long as their test scores fall within the top 90 percent of all applicants?

If AB 1758 passes, you can be certain that many of our state universities - especially, Berkeley — will deliberately avoid admitting National Guard or Air Guard students so they don’t lose any tuition income from these volunteers. Before you introduced this legislation, our best state universities had little interest in the military. And if it passes, these educators — and I use that term quite loosely — will have solid financial reasons to ignore potential students in the Guard.