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Re:AT&T Successfully Derails California's Tough New Net Neut... by devindotcom on Thursday June 21, 2018 @03:56PM (#17368720)
The amendments weren't approved 8-0, are extremely hostile to the bill as voted on by others, were introduced in a very unusual way and were not negotiated - they just cut out like half of the law including some pretty critical parts.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xht...

Normally (I think) the committee would just refuse to pass the bill and propose amendments that would make it passable, and there would be negotiations. Instead they introduced huge changes the night before the vote and passed a massively modified version of the bill that does not at all reflect the intentions of its authors.

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Re:AT&T Successfully Derails California's Tough New Net Neut... by DannyBee on Thursday June 21, 2018 @04:08PM (#17368817)
You are correct, i edited the post. It was 8-2

All the news stories that claim 8-0 are wrong, including

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/California-net-...

https://medium.com/@fightfortheftr/at-t-funded-democrats-in-...

https://www.wired.com/story/california-net-neutrality-bill-w...

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Re:AT&T Successfully Derails California's Tough New Net Neut... by rsingel on Thursday June 21, 2018 @07:40PM (#17370110)
The chairman called two votes. The first one came at the opening of the hearing BEFORE any testimony to accept the chairman's amendments. That passed with the help of Republicans and was a rude slap to the entire point of a hearing (voting BEFORE testimony?).

The second vote (8-2) was to pass the bill as amended out of committee. The chairman did not allow Wiener to pull the bill. Several Dems who voted for the final vote say that they did so so the bill would survive, not because they approved of the amendments.

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Re:AT&T Successfully Derails California's Tough New Net Neut... by masonic on Friday June 22, 2018 @03:44AM (#17372221) 

  That passed with the help of Republicans
No, it didn't. It didn't even need a single Republican vote. It's recorded right on the public leginfo site.
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Re:AT&T Successfully Derails California's Tough New Net Neut... by pas on Friday June 22, 2018 @06:13AM (#17372828)
Could you copy and explain the relevant part from the leginfo site please? I don't really know what to look for.
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Re:AT&T Successfully Derails California's Tough New Net Neut... by masonic on Friday June 22, 2018 @03:36PM (#17376724)
Just pull up a given Bill and click on the Votes tab.
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Re:AT&T Successfully Derails California's Tough New Net Neut... by ChuckMcM on Thursday June 21, 2018 @05:22PM (#17369411)
It also says it was referred to the Privacy and Consumer Protection committee. As the changes kill the 'consumer protection' aspect perhaps they can be unamended in that committee.
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