check out the last quote of the story -- dude, i could totally be an assemblywoman, too.

SACRAMENTO -- As one lawmaker warbled his alma mater, the state Assembly on Thursday rejected a bill that would bar California public schools from using Indian names as their mascots unless they had permission from a nearby tribe.

The bill would bar schools from using redskins, Indians, braves, chiefs, papooses, or any Indian tribal name as a nickname or mascot unless they had an agreement with a nearby tribe to use the name. It also would prohibit schools from using warriors or sentinels if those names were accompanied by Indian imagery.

Bill supporters said the names and, sometimes the way they are used, are insulting to Indians.

"You do not have to have racist intent to have racist outcome," Goldberg said.

But opponents labeled the bill trivial and said schools choose Indian names to give their teams a sense of toughness and pride, not to insult Indians.

Assemblyman Tim Leslie, R-Tahoe City, whose high school's nickname was the Apaches, sang his school song to protest the bill.

He said the school, Arcadia High, near Los Angeles, had permission from an Apache tribe in Arizona to use the name.

"You people are so messed up it is just beyond description," he told bill supporters.