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Last month, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger eliminated full funding--a mere $16.3 million--for domestic violence programs in the state. Highlighting the need for such a program, an 18-year-old girl was killed in her bed in the Santa Clarita Valley last Sunday. Her boyfriend allegedly committed the murder inside the family trailer in the Canyon Country neighborhood. That was the third domestic violence death for the valley in a year's time.
With Schwarzenegger's cuts, the Domestic Violence Center in the Santa Clarita Valley will be closing its doors later this year if donations do not cover what state money usual does. Taking note of the recent events, Assemblyman Cameron Smyth (R-Santa Clarita) has co-authored an emergency bill to fully restore funding in a no-cost move by shifting $16.3 million from the Victims’ Compensation Fund (in total, that fund has $136.2 million) to the Department of Public Health’s Domestic Violence Program.
“It’s important that we continue to fund Domestic Violence programs because they provide critical services to victims of domestic abuse, and often is the only thing keeping them from returning to their abuser,” said Smyth. “The program has proven successful, and this legislation will ensure that 94 domestic violence shelters in California, including several in my district, are able to remain open.”
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Schwarzenegger is bad news. It is the government's duty to protect citizens and to ensure their well-being. Schwarzenegger is not doing this. The funding priority for battered women's shelters(BWS)should be the same as for prisons, because human life is at risk. Prisons keep the criminals in, and BWS's keep the good people in, and the criminals out. The Governor's illegal veto,budget cuts, with the backing of big oil(Chevron Corp. of San Ramon), are very dangerous for women and children, who are victims of domestic violence and it is sub-human. During a recession. with its higher unemployment, government finding for BWS's should be increased, not eliminated. Obviously, this budget picks-on the most vulnerable, and it endangers children. If a battered wife is murdered in front of a closed-down BWS,then, Schwarzenegger and his oil industry tyrants, should be charged with first-degree murder.