Column: Nine-Bill Housing Package Derails Local Choices

By Tom Elias : Brentwood — excerpt

The silver lining provided by some past pandemics has been that they opened minds, awakening entire nations and continents to what was wrong with the way things previously were.

So it was, for example, with the bubonic plague of the 1300s, also known as the “black death,” which produced labor shortages that started the demise of the feudal system, turning serfs into free people if they could reach the walled cities of the time.

But there is little evidence that California’s leading lawmakers have seen the many changes the coronavirus pandemic has wrought in California. No, even though COVID-19 has killed well over 8,400 Californians, current legislative leaders still pursue their old, pre-pandemic goals as if nothing were different…

New and current reality, which sees office leasing around California at its lowest levels since the Great Recession, with more and more companies telling workers to operate from home, has not dented these folks’ thinking. They persist in fighting the last war, always a losing proposition for military leaders and often equally disastrous for politicians.

The best example of their thinking is a nine-bill package mostly sponsored by Wiener and Atkins, joined by other knee-jerk liberals like Berkeley’s Sen. Nancy Skinner and Assembly members Buffy Wicks of Oakland, Richard Bloom of Santa Monica, Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego and David Chiu of San Francisco…(more)

Voters may want to divest themselves of some of their state representatives who support the issue they oppose. Please let your representatives know how you feel about their actions during the period of crisis. Pressing forward with old ideas that ignore the present at the expense of the public health and safety should not be tolerated. Crisis procedures should be limited to dealing with the crisis at hand. For more details on how to fight the bills go to these sites and take action.
https://www.livablecalifornia.org/act-now-3-2/.
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Originally published at http://discoveryink.wordpress.com on August 6, 2020.