Assembly adopts anti-profanity resolution

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Sure, the state budget may be $20 billion in the red. Unemployment is near record levels. And it’s been raining enough to make you want to go out and build an ark.

But the Assembly has an important message for you all -- watch your mouth.

Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (D-La Canada Flintridge) introduced a resolution to declare next week ‘cuss-free week.’ Portantino called cuss-free week ‘a moment for all of us to take a breath and focus on a civil discourse.’

Portantino and Republican Cameron Smyth (R-Santa Clarita) distributed cuss jars to each legislative office for people to pay up when they violate next week’s code of civility.

The only profanity-free dissent came from the newest assemblyman, Chris Norby (R-Fullerton). ‘With the state broke, I don’t know that this is what we should be spending our time on in here,’ Norby said. The measure was adopted by voice vote.

--Anthony York in Sacramento