We have defeated SB 871, the student vaccine mandate, with the bill never receiving a single vote. What’s more, we have forced Gavin Newsom to back down.
Things happened very quickly on Thursday. Shortly after I sent you
the post about how we almost had the bill killed, the author made it official. He acknowledged he would not try to move it forward.
I then released
a statement calling on Newsom to rescind his own mandate immediately. For once, the Governor listened; shortly thereafter, he called it off. One
headline read: “Student Vaccine Mandates Fall Like Dominoes.”
Technically, Newsom says the mandate is
delayed to July 2023, but in my opinion, that’s a way to save face. For all intents and
purposes, it’s gone. This decision is back where it belongs: in the hands of parents.
This comes six months after Newsom announced the mandate, trumpeting California as the “
first state.” As time passed, we remained the
only state. His grandiose hopes of “leading” the nation were shattered when no one followed.