It has nothing to do with the specific issue.

My point is simply that Dunleavy was no victim here.

He knew this would happen.

If you're part of a legislative leadership and you vote against the leadership's position, you're going to be removed from that leadership if you don't voluntarily resign from it.  That's just how it works.

My characterization of Dunleavy as a reactionary is based on his medieval views on sex education-especially his delusional insistence that schools shouldn't teach anything to teens about sex OTHER than not to have it until your married if you're straight and to live your life as a lie or in hiding if you're gay) and access to contraception, his support for cuts in social benefits and environmental protection laws, and his support for the massive giveaway to the oil industry that created the current state budget crisis, not his position on this specific issue.