{"id":537315,"date":"2021-05-22T14:20:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T18:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=537315"},"modified":"2021-05-22T14:20:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T18:20:59","slug":"kentucky-republicans-push-back-against-californias-ban-on-state-funded-travel-to-the-bluegrass-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kentucky-republicans-push-back-against-californias-ban-on-state-funded-travel-to-the-bluegrass-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Republicans Push Back Against California\u2019s Ban On State-Funded Travel To The Bluegrass State"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkentucky-republicans-push-back-against-californias-ban-on-state-funded-travel-to-the-bluegrass-state%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=537315&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kentucky.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Republicans in Kentucky are reportedly \u201cseeking payback\u201d for restrictions imposed in 2017 by then-California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who is now President Joe Biden\u2019s health and human services secretary.<\/p>\n<p>The Lexington Herald-Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/news\/politics-government\/article251509963.html\">reported<\/a>, \u201cKentucky lawmakers are ready to disapprove two state contracts with California companies because of that state\u2019s ban on taxpayer-funded travel to Kentucky due to a Kentucky law that California leaders view as discriminatory against gay and transgender people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The outlet quoted Republican state Sen. Stephen Meredith, chairman of the Kentucky legislature\u2019s Government Contract Review Committee, who predicted the contracts in question would be rejected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope they are changed to businesses elsewhere or canceled,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want California trying to replace our values with theirs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While serving as California\u2019s top law enforcement officer, Becerra blocked state-funded and state-sponsored travel to Kentucky and other places in response to legislation enacted in each state. Becerra\u2019s issue with the Bluegrass State was a law called Senate Bill 17, which he claimed could allow student-run organizations in colleges and K-12 schools to exclude classmates based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. Proponents of the law said it protects the constitutional rights of students enrolled in public schools to express their religious and political opinions.<\/p>\n<p>Staffers with the California Attorney General\u2019s office told the Herald-Leader that the travel ban would remain in place until the legislation is repealed.<\/p>\n<p>As the Herald-Leader reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"21.985401459854\">\n<p><em>At issue are two contracts<\/em><em> <a href=\"https:\/\/louisville.edu\/\">University of Louisville<\/a> officials took to the review committee on May 11. They were told the panel would not vote immediately on them to give the university time to look for other vendors. The contracts were deferred until the committee\u2019s June 10 meeting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One of the one-year contracts is worth $373,600 with<\/em><em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kornferry.com\/about-us\/global-offices\/los-angeles\">Korn Ferry International<\/a> of Los Angeles, Calif., to provide consulting services to assist a search committee in identifying and recruiting qualified top-level candidates for top U of L jobs on an as-needed basis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The other is a search committee contract worth $252,800 with<\/em><em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaexec.com\/about-us.html\">SP&amp;A Executive Search<\/a> in Whittier, Calif.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The contract review committee approved six other search-committee contracts for U of L but those businesses were in Washington, D.C., and other states besides California.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf the state of California doesn\u2019t want to do business with the state of Kentucky, Kentucky shouldn\u2019t do business with the state of California,\u201d said Kentucky state Rep. Mark Hart, a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky State Treasurer Allison Ball, another Republican, said she is \u201cdeeply disappointed that coastal elites in a wealthy state like California are trying to mandate legislation in Frankfort through threats and economic sanctions against hard-working Kentucky families and businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Becerra said the restrictions were based on a California law that went into effect on January 1, 2017. The legislation prohibited state-funded travel to states \u201cwith laws that authorize or require discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression or against same-sex couples or their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the California DOJ works to protect the rights of all of our people, discriminatory laws in any part of our country sent all of us several steps back,\u201d Becerra <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/news\/press-releases\/attorney-general-becerra-alabama-kentucky-south-dakota-and-texas-added-list\">said<\/a> at the time. \u201cThat\u2019s why when California said we would not tolerate discrimination against LGBTQ members of our community, we meant it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other states affected by California\u2019s travel ban include Alabama, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The Herald-Leader noted, \u201cCalifornia has exceptions for the ban for \u2018required\u2019 travel, such as litigation, participation in meetings necessary to maintain grant funding and for the protection of public health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans in Kentucky are reportedly \u201cseeking payback\u201d for restrictions imposed in 2017 by then-California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who is now President Joe Biden\u2019s health and human services secretary.The Lexington &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312704,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kentucky.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Kentucky Republicans Push Back Against California\u2019s Ban On State-Funded Travel To The Bluegrass State","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kentucky.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Kentucky Republicans Push Back Against California\u2019s Ban On State-Funded Travel To The Bluegrass State","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}