This Is The Most Annoying Sound in The World

Why Are We Voting on Cage-Free Eggs and Dialysis Funding?

BY TIM ANAYA

The other day I was thumbing through California’s official voter information guide to read up on some of the propositions that we’ll be voting on in November.  This year, we’ll decide 12 statewide propositions, plus numerous local and county measures.

In general, I believe direct democracy is the only way that hard-working Californians can go around an out-of-touch Legislature to try and enact fiscally responsible policies.  For example, overtaxed Californians would never get the chance to vote on the gas tax absent the people’s right to referendum.

But looking over this year’s propositions, it makes you wonder if things really have gone too far and it’s time to rein things in.

Consider these questionable measures on the November ballot:

• Proposition 7 would give the California Legislature the ability to change the state’s observance of daylight savings time by a two-thirds vote.

• Proposition 8 would regulate what private kidney dialysis clinics must spend on outpatient care.

• Under Proposition 11, “private ambulance companies could continue their current practice of having emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics stay on-duty during their meal and rest breaks in order to respond to 911 calls.”

• Proposition 12 would establish new requirement for confining certain farm animals, and prohibit the sale of meat, eggs, and poultry that don’t comply with the new requirements.

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Liberalism is a Mental Disorder
Instead of addressing real world California issues like poverty, the homeless and high taxes we see Leftists pushing "feel good" projects like cage free chickens.

When weighing in on California’s misplaced priorities, former Assemblyman – and soon-to-be State Senator – Brian Jones would frequently ask, “Are you kidding me?”  Looking at these propositions, I think most voters would agree.  Should government really be getting involved in issues like spending at private kidney dialysis clinics?  Probably not.

It’s just plain silly to ask voters to decide if we want to keep daylight savings time.  With California facing the nation’s highest poverty rate and runaway housing costs, there are more important priorities than judging what kind of eggs we should be allowed to buy.

These trivial measures are also a sign of just how broken the Legislature really is.  Lawmakers are seemingly capable of finding a reasonable solution on issues like break times for private-sector paramedics.  Voters shouldn’t have to do their job for them.

Voters have repeatedly affirmed their strong support for the initiative process in public opinion surveys over the years.

Perhaps that’s what is really behind this year’s deluge of trivial ballot measures – overwhelm voters with lots of silly votes so they eventually get fed up and demand reform.

My advice – grin and bear it and make your voices heard on these measures that shouldn’t be on the ballot at all.  It’s a small price to pay to ensure that we’re able to make our voices heard at the ballot box in the first place.

Tim Anaya is the Pacific Research Institute’s communications director.

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San Francisco - A "Safe Space" for Drug Dealers

San Fran Deliberately Chooses

The Path of Insanity

And the Sheeple Leftist voters keep re-electing the certifiably insane.

(San Francisco Chronicle)  -  “There’s one,” the police sergeant said as we drove through the Tenderloin. “There’s one of them there. That guy, see him?”

And another. And another. Sgt. Kevin Healy was showing me known drug dealers, and they were everywhere — swarming the neighborhood, chatting and smiling. They didn’t seem to have a care in the world.

That’s because they don’t. Not in San Francisco.

“It’s almost impossible to get convicted in this city,” said Healy, who works in the Police Department’s narcotics division. “The message needs to be sent that it’s not OK to be selling drugs. It’s not allowed anywhere else. Where else can you walk up to someone you don’t know and purchase crack and heroin? Is there such a place?”

San Franciscans love to think their city is like nowhere else, but this distinguishing factor isn’t anything to brag about.

When Gov. Jerry Brown recently nixed San Francisco’s plan to test the country’s first safe injection site where drug users can legally shoot up, he wrote in his veto letter that the plan was “all carrot and no stick.”

While I thought his veto was wrongheaded, he has a point. This city doesn’t seem to know the definition of the word “stick,” let alone consequence or accountability. Unless, of course, you’ve parked your car at a meter for five minutes too long. Then you can expect an immediate stick in the form of a high-priced ticket.

As a safe injection site now appears at least a year off, city officials must come up with other ways to combat San Francisco’s dire drug crisis. Obviously, far more drug treatment services are needed. But one area officials barely mention is an obvious one: cracking down on the people supplying the devastating drugs. Police say drug dealers from the East Bay ride BART into San Francisco every day to prey on the addicts slumped on our sidewalks, and yet the city that claims to so desperately want to help those addicts often looks the other way.

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You can walk through the Tenderloin, Civic Center, South of Market and the Mission and easily spot men handing over little plastic baggies with drugs in exchange for cash like it’s no big thing. In broad daylight. In front of pedestrians. Even in front of police.

Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said he’s recently gotten complaints from homeless people that they’re afraid to use the restrooms in Dolores Park because they’ve been taken over by drug dealers.

Lava Mae, the nonprofit that turns trailers and old Muni buses into showers and restrooms for homeless people, is stationed outside the Main Library every Tuesday. Staffers say they used to see one or two drug dealers milling around, but in just the past month, that’s risen to 10 to 15.

The dealers are so brazen, they plant themselves in Lava Mae’s chairs and deal beneath the nonprofit’s awning. The nonprofit has already canceled its Friday morning sessions outside the library because of the prolific dealers and is debating whether to continue on Tuesdays.

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Democrat doesn’t know where he lives

Liar, Liar Pants on Fire

Democrat takes a tax break in Maryland as his principal residence but claims he lives in California.

Via Fresno Bee:

TJ Cox “made an honest mistake” when he marked a second home in Maryland as his principal residence, the Fresno Democrat’s campaign said Tuesday.

Spokesmen for the campaign last week claimed the principal residence declaration was the result of an error by the state. The campaign then characterized it as Cox’s mistake after The Bee provided it with a notarized public document showing Cox had initialed and signed a section saying the home was his primary residence.

Cox, a Democrat who owns several businesses in the central San Joaquin Valley, is running against Rep. David Valadao, R-Hanford, for California’s 21st Congressional District seat.

The Bee previously reported that Cox owned a three-bedroom, four-bathroom house in Bethesda, Maryland – a Washington, D.C., suburb – and claimed the nearly $1 million home as a principal residence. Cox also claimed a Fresno home as his principal residence, and federal tax laws do not allow an individual to claim more than one.

Campaign spokesman Phillip Vander Klay said Tuesday that, after The Bee brought the issue to his attention, Cox contacted the state of Maryland and Montgomery County, where his home is located, to change his residency status. He also is willing to refund the $692 tax credit he received from the county as a result of the error, Vander Klay added.

State property records show the home is no longer classified as Cox’s principal residence.

When asked why Cox did not notice the error in 2017, when he collected the tax credit, Vander Klay said: “It was an honest mistake that he filled out the principal residence not knowing the legal definitions. His family was living there.”

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United States House of Representatives elections, 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	David Valadao (incumbent)	75,126	56.7
	Democratic	Emilio Huerta	57,282	43.3
Total votes			132,408	100.0
	Republican hold

21st Congressional District