Retarded state laws: California edition

From Capitol Weekly, a news service that tracks the California General Assembly:

Only the Assembly could create a controversy out of a non-binding resolution calling for the Day of the Cowboy. The trouble began when Jackie Goldberg wanted to amend the measure to include cowgirls. Dennis Mountjoy derided Democrats for wanting to make the measure "cow neutral." Things took a turn for the odd when Greg Aghazarian announced that his wife was the past winner of the "supreme champion heifer award." (We're guessing it was his wife's cow that won the award.) Then Lloyd Levine had to go and bring up Brokeback Mountain, for what reason we're not really sure, though West Hollywood is in the Senate district he'll be running for in two years. Levine's mention brought an angry retort from Doug LaMalfa, who belittled the two Brokeback protagonists as "nothing more than sheep herders masquerading as cowboys." After all the hemming and hawing, the measure did get off the floor. From there, the Assembly took up another resolution honoring the Assembly Fellows, to which Mountjoy wondered, "Why aren't we honoring the Assembly gals?" Just couldn't help yourself, could you Dennis?