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The illogic of Newsom’s half-on, half-off ‘mask mandate’

Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 4:05 pm | Randy Thomasson
Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom at the January 30, 2022 Rams/49ers playoff game in Los Angeles, a “mega-event” for which Newsom & Co. “ordered” everybody to wear masks.

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Gavin Newsom’s public shaming at the Rams/49ers play-off game, plus the peer pressure of other Democrat governors and mayors ending their “mask mandates” helped push Newsom on February 7 to announce via Twitter (see how laws being birthed through the legislative process is so old-fashioned?) that his “indoor mask mandate” will go away for many Californians on February 15 (unless you live in a Democrat-run county that wants to keep it going, or you’re a school student or employee).

So now, California “mask mandates” are going away, unless:

1. You’re a student or employee of a government school
2. You take a bus or train or plane or other “public transit”
3. You step foot in a nursing home or “other congregate living facilities”
4. You attend an indoor ‘mega-event’ with more than 1,000 people (required “vaccine verification” or a negative test; those without either, and admitting they’re unvaccinated, will be told to wear masks.
5. You live, work, or shop in a Democrat-run county, where the ruling Democrats have decided to continue their own unscientific, dehumanizing muzzling “mandate”

So far, Solano and Marin are the only San Francisco Bay Area counties dropping their own “mask mandates” (last Friday, Contra Costa County ended its “vaccine passport” edict for restaurants, bars, and gyms). And Democrat-run Sacramento County is ending its own “mandate” too. Right now, according to news reports, most other counties with their own “mask mandates” are “undecided” or “studying” what to do. Yet in Southern California, Democrat-controlled Los Angeles County is unscientifically and pridefully continuing theirs.

The good is a lot of the unscientific, lie-based, dehumanizing face-mask tyranny is going away. More good news is you can help turn back even additional “mandates” this very week. The bad is that this evil is going to continue for a lot of California adults and children. And this, for a variant that hasn’t verifiably caused anyone to die.

TAKE QUICK ACTION: Science and momentum are on our side, so seize this opportunity to exert much-needed pressure on recalcitrant politicians. Please call and email your county’s Board of Supervisors, your city council, and your local government school board to demand they “end all Covid restrictions, end the state of emergency.”

To find your city council members, search online, “(Your city) city council.” To find your local government school board members, search similarly: (Your city) school district.”

To grant us that we,
Being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
Might serve Him without fear,
In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.”
John the Baptist’s father Zacharias in Luke 1:74-75

How government-controlled health care was stopped in California

Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 9:49 am | Randy Thomasson

Pro-family, constitutional Californians are breathing a sigh of relief now that one of the worst Democrat bills of the year has been stopped.

On January 31, AB 1400 to replace private insurance with a big-government program that would have rationed medical treatment, created long waiting lists, and imposed new, high taxes was stopped on the floor of the California State Assembly.

So now, AB 1400, which was introduced in 2021, is dead for the year. Because the California State Constitution, Article IV, Section 10(c), in its first sentence, reads: “Any bill introduced during the first year of the biennium of the legislative session that has not been passed by the house of origin by January 31 of the second calendar year of the biennium may no longer be acted on by the house.”

But how was AB 1400 defeated? Especially when there are currently 56 Democrats in the 80-member Assembly (there are four vacant Democrat seats), who have a vise-grip hold that’s more than a two-thirds majority, allowing Democrats to pass any bill they want?

Because it was a perfect storm. As ultra-left-wing “resetting” Democrats pushed government-controlled health care, it seems most everyone else came against AB 1400: Doctors and hospitals and insurance companies, business associations, and taxpayer advocates strongly opposed it. And most private unions, which want to keep their high-paid health plans, sat on the sidelines, refusing to support AB 1400’s elimination of private health insurance.

These large, secular forces provided the primary lobbying. Providing secondary influence were concerned Californians (like you), who called and emailed, creating a noticeable flood of opposition. The calls and emails the last few days before the scheduled vote were “insurance,” if you will, for the direct lobbying of all the others.

A final takeaway is that even when the New Communist Democrats have a sizable majority, you can depend on new topics — like eliminating private health insurance — containing more shock value than old ones. And, in my opinion, this big “spanking” of the Assembly Democrats by ferocious direct and indirect lobbying should be remembered — and provide restraint against a new bill — for at least a year. Thank you for participating in this important, rare victory against big, new tyranny!

See more about AB 1400 (and its funding mechanism, ACA 11, which is also likely dead for the year) at the SaveCalifornia.com Legislation Center.

Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?
Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

Psalm 94:16

Will you ‘hire’ or ‘fire’ Gavin Newsom?

Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 7:05 am | Randy Thomasson

SaveCalifornia.com provides this solely for educational purposes and does not support or oppose candidates for public office.

Do you have any regrets in life? Of course you do. And if you could go back in time and choose differently, would you?

Apply this to life in California under Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom, where:

One-third of California restaurants were permanently closed in 2020-2021
— Thousands of Californians lost their jobs just because they didn’t want the “jab”
— He sided with anti-family teachers’ unions, not science, to keep schools closed
— Millions of children are being unnecessarily masked for several hours each day
— Children in government schools are being sexually indoctrinated all the more
— Preborn babies are even more in danger of losing their God-given right to life
Tens of thousands of convicts — including violent criminals — have been released
— Convicted murderers — who forced victims to lose their lives — won’t lose their own
— Water has been released, wasted, and prohibited without building new dams
$150 million has been siphoned away from the state’s fire protection budget
— California wilderness has 163 million dead trees, providing explosive wildfire fuel
— Homelessness and transient crimes have skyrocketed, endangering families
$30 BILLION In fraudulent payments have been made by the Governor’s EDD
— California has abnormally high gas taxes and regulations driving up prices
— We no longer are a “government of the people, by the people, for the people”

So today, the question for you and your friends is would you “hire” Gavin Newsom again by voting “no,” or will you “fire” him by voting “yes,” in the September 14 Recall Election?

Please seize this opportunity to use social media and email to tell others how you’re voting, why it matters so much, and urge them to vote today. Act now before it’s too late!

See and share the SaveCalifornia.com Recall Election Center (candidate report cards)

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice;
But when a wicked man rules, the people groan.
Proverbs 29:2