No Harvey Milk Day, Schwarzenegger says

  Here's one less movie tie-in for Focus Features, which will soon release a biopic on gay activist/San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk. Activists wanted to honor Milk, but the governor didn't agree, according to AP:

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would have made the birthday of gay political icon Harvey Milk a statewide “day of significance.” In his veto message issued Tuesday, the governor said that while he respected the measure’s intent, he thinks Milk’s “contributions should continue to be recognized at the local level by those who were most impacted by his contributions.” Conservative groups had lobbied Schwarzenegger not to sign the legislation, sponsored by Assemblyman Mark Leno of San Francisco. Milk became the nation’s first openly gay man to hold a prominent political office when he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.

-Shelby Grad