"...affectionately sharing the name of California's most famous animated dog..."
Courtesy of this MetaFilter thread, I offer you California Bill Number: HR 36. Please go read it in its (modest) entirety. Here are Paragraphs 7 and 8:
WHEREAS, The deletion of Pluto as a planet is a hasty, ill-considered scientific heresy similar to questioning the Copernican theory, drawing maps of a round world, and proving the existence of the time and space continuum; andAnd here's a profile of the author, Keith Richman, as background.
WHEREAS, The downgrading of Pluto reduces the number of planets available for legislative leaders to hide redistricting legislation and other inconvenient political reform measures;
Quite nice.