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!
Friday, January 14, 2022, 8:38 am | Randy Thomasson
The January 13 rulings on “Covid vaccine mandates” by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) won’t directly help Californians, but might indirectly provide some relief.
There’s no direct relief, since the high court’s 6-3 ruling only blocked the federal OSHA “mandate” of “the jab or your job,” which had threatened, nationwide, some 10 million employees of companies with 100 or more employees.
Because this ruling only told Biden & Co. what it can’t do — not what any state or local government can’t do — the unscientific, unconstitutional tyranny of Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom will continue unabated, for now, oppressing California government employees, health care workers, schoolteachers, and threatening schoolchildren too.
However, the decision against Biden & Co.’s OSHA “jab or job” mandate could indirectly provide relief for some Californians who work for large companies, and by example, mid-sized and small businesses.
Because business owners and managers can decide to “go with” SCOTUS as their higher standard (above Biden & Co., above Dr. Fauci, above the CDC). Since there is currently no “jab or job” mandate from Newsom & Co. upon private businesses, with the exception of health care workers, SCOTUS striking down Biden’s OSHA mandate might “free up” large businesses in California, or those with a California presence, to avoid becoming their own employees’ “vaccine police.” It’s time to stand for truth — no pro-science, pro-health, pro-people business will impose a “Covid vaccine mandate”!
Now, to protect conscientious Californians from Newsom & Co.’s anti-people, injurious “mandates” of “the jab or your job,” we desperately need SCOTUS to rule in favor of medical freedom, or religious freedom, or both.
If and when SCOTUS takes and hears one or more of these cases, and if the court majority rules states must offer religious exemptions to vaccines, or that religious exemptions to vaccines are a right of every American adult, this would supersede, defeat, and overcome every state, city, county, school district, or corporate denial of religious-right declarations of employees and contractors. Such a heroic, constitutional ruling would also run interference against “vaccine passports,” because religious exemptions would have to be permitted everywhere.
And SCOTUS would be “supreme” over California’s Democrat rulers, just like its 2020 ruling affirming the First Amendment right of religious congregations to meet in person.
Tuesday, December 21, 2021, 4:16 pm | Randy Thomasson
Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom and his California HHS head, Dr. Mark Ghaly
Good news! The December 15 mask mandate of Gavin Newsom is falling flat. People want their facial freedom after 1.75 years of unscientific oppression by unconstitutional Democrat politicians and bureaucrats, along with prostituting “Republican” county supervisors.
On our SaveCalifornia.com social media pages (primarily Facebook and Instagram), we’ve asked people to report in. And it appears that most California businesses – outside of the 10 tyrannical Democrat-controlled counties that have imposed their own mask mandates — are NOT requiring customers to wear masks, even if their door signs say so.
Stop and realize these door signs are the business owner’s sign of submission to tyrannical, unscientific, anti-people government and to the aggressive, lie-based “Karens” out there, not a sign to you.
What people tell us is encouraging. Because most business owners and managers are showing they no longer believe in mask mandates. Especially since there’s no new government enforcement.
And despite Costco’s own statewide mask mandate, health-conscious Californians tell us they still walk in maskless and successfully shop. All you have to do is say “no thank you,” or something else (or say nothing) when walking in and the door monitor says you need a mask. Apparently, no Costco employee stops shoppers who do this and confidently walk forward!
Molly told us, “My husband went to Costco and Target and they both said he needed a mask and he told both stores nope, I’m not wearing one & walked past them. They didn’t enforce it on him.”
“JWest” wrote in about his Costco experience, saying, “If you take a mask at the door and then take it off nobody says anything while you shop.”
Jessica reported in, saying, “Also Costco Carlsbad hands you a mask at the door if you don’t have one. After entering, I didn’t wear it and shopped without receiving any comments.”
And Jaremy told us: “Costco tried tonight. We said no three times, then asked to speak to a manager. Be polite but firm. Let them witness lions after herding the sheep. The manager was good and told us we could shop maskless. Told us to say we have a medical exemption next time to avoid any issues, but that shouldn’t be necessary. Stand firm Californians.”
So please, stop wearing these useless masks, even where signs are posted. Ignore them and just bravely walk in. We must be bold to turn this around. Because, like me, are you done with this lie-based near-slavery? California is not a “hospital,” and we must get these useless signs of submission off our faces. Just remember the choice is yours.
So we must keep sharing with as many people as possible the facts, evidence, and logic Big Government, Big Pharma, Big Medicine, Big Media, and Big Tech won’t. This is a matter of life, health, truth, and love!
Evidence shows cloth and paper face masks are useless and worse:
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