California's governator has a bill (AB2567) on his desk for signature that would make each May 22 "Harvey Milk Day" in California. The bill requires California schools and educational institutions to treat that day as having "special significance" and to "conduct suitable commemorative exercises" on that day. The governator can veto the bill, and in fact has said he will sign no bills until he gets a budget he likes. California will be better off if he does not sign the bill.
The bill is a sop to gays and lesbians, an essential segment of the Democrats' base. Democrats control the California legislature. Harvey Milk was a gay San Francisco city and county supervisor in the 1970s who was murdered in 1978 by a former supervisor. Milk served in no statewide post. He was simply a gay San Francisco politician who was murdered. San Franciscans and/or the gay and lesbian community should consider having a "Harvey Milk Day" but other Californians should be free to do what they usually do on May 22.
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