Bill on communist state workers dropped by sponsor — O.C.’s Little Saigon had fought it

SACRAMENTO — A bill that would have let communists legally work in California government was withdrawn Wednesday after the sponsor said he learned it caused veterans and Vietnamese-Americans “distress and hurt.”
Assemblyman Rob Bonta, a Democrat from the San Francisco Bay Area city of Alameda, announced he was shelving the bill and apologized to veterans and people who fled the communist regime in Vietnam.
His bill, AB22, would have repealed part of state law enacted during the