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03Mar2009

Sean Penn Fights for Harvey Milk Day

DateTuesday, March 3, 2009 at 2:22PM
Sean Penn is putting his Oscar to good use, campaigning to honor the character he portrayed with a "day of significance" in California. A new bill sponsored by state Senator Mark Leno would honor Harvey Milk, the slain gay rights activist and San Francisco politician, on May 22nd, Milk's birthday.

Penn appeared at a news conference today with Leno, who says the bill would not give state employees and schools the day off. Rather, the initiative would put special attention on Milk in schools, encouraging them to conduct exercises on Milk's contributions and life.

"Given California's fiscal crisis, the bill was written to have no cost to the state, and state workers and school employees would not get the day off from work," Leno said.

This bill has come up before; Leno introduced it as an assemblyman last year, only to have Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger veto the measure, saying that Milk should be honored in San Francisco, but not statewide. Milk was nominated for eight Oscars, winning for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay.

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Good for Sean : ) i hope they pass it

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterlara petersen

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