The Greenlining Institute, which is funded by money diverted from class-action lawsuits brought in the name of consumers, is now lobbying the California legislature to enact an intrusive law that would force charities to report on the race, sex, and sexual orientation of their board members, staffs, and suppliers in the name of “diversity.”  Thanks to the far-left ideology of California’s legislature, the bill, which has already passed the California Assembly on a party-line vote, will likely become law unless Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoes it. 

I earlier wrote in the Washington Post about how class-action lawsuit “settlements intended to benefit consumers get paid instead to groups that lobby for affirmative action, hate-crimes laws,” illegal aliens, “and public funding for abortions.”  Some of these same groups are slated to receive taxpayer money under earmarks in federal housing and mortgage-bailout legislation.