AIDS group targets Assemblyman Mike Gatto over condom bill
An advocacy group backing a proposed state law requiring adult film actors to use condoms launched a robocall campaign Thursday targeting a Los Angeles-area state assemblyman who they accuse of stymieing the legislation. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation said it is blanketing Gatto’s district with 100,000 robocalls, pre-recorded messages featuring former adult film actor Derrick Burts and Playboy bunny Rebekka Armstrong, who are HIV-positive. The group said the calls urge constituents in Gatto’s district, which includes Atwater Village, Burbank, Glendale, Hollywood, La Cañada Flintridge, La Crescenta, Los Feliz, Montrose and Silver Lake, to call his office and tell him to “free AB 640 from his hold and let it come to a vote immediately before anyone else is harmed.” Foundation officials said the matter has taken on added urgency after an adult film actress tested positive for HIV last month, prompting a week-long nationwide moratorium on filming. What’s the acceptable number of cases before realizes there’s a huge issue here?” Gatto, who chairs the Assembly appropriations committee, said he had held back a previous bill with similar language in the spring, based on concerns about the costs of potential litigation over the law’s constitutionality.
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