“California Bans State Travel To Florida And 4 Other States” (from state-sponsored NPR, June 29):
California added five more states, including Florida, to the list of places where state-funded travel is banned because of laws that discriminate against members of the LGBTQ community, the state attorney general announced Monday.
Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta added Florida, Arkansas, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia to the list that now has 17 states where state employee travel is forbidden except under limited circumstances.
“Make no mistake: We’re in the midst of an unprecedented wave of bigotry and discrimination in this country — and the State of California is not going to support it,” Bonta said.
Lawmakers in 2016 banned non-essential travel to states with laws that discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The 12 other states on the list are: Texas, Alabama, Idaho, Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Kentucky, North Carolina, Kansas, Mississippi, Tennessee.
Nearly half of the country is now unclean, from a California religious perspective, defiled by failure to fly enough rainbow flags. Why not also ban the untouchables from those 17 states from coming into California? Dig a moat and build a wall to enforce the ban (maybe people who swear a loyalty oath to the rainbow flag and bathe in a ritual bath that cleanses them of hate can be admitted through the checkpoints?).
Speaking of now-banned Florida, here are a few photos of Hate Central (St. Petersburg) from June 25/26 (“Every Day is Pride Day”):
I attended an opera performance in St. Pete and sat next to two middle-aged ladies who had formerly run a B&B in Provincetown, Massachusetts (not exactly the center of straightness). “We’ve been here for two years and love it,” one said. “The government seems to do a better job here. The city is clean, but you never see the cleaners. The roads are very well maintained. Everything is so much cheaper than in Massachusetts.”
Related:
- “California lawmakers take trip to Hawaii amid COVID surge, travel advisory” (Sac Bee, November 2020): COVID-19 has squashed most holiday and vacation plans this year amid travel restrictions and quarantine recommendations to slow the spread of the virus. Yet some California lawmakers have traveled to Maui this week for the California Independent Voter Project’s annual policy conference. … The Hawaii trip follows on the heels of backlash over Gov. Gavin Newsom attending a friend and political adviser’s 50th birthday party at a Napa County restaurant called French Laundry, known for its expensive meals.
Most Amerikans support this ban yet oppose the wolf amendment, which bans use of NASA funds to collaborate with China, yet China famously doesn’t allow women to have jobs after age 50.
Maybe a ban on space program collaboration is a bigger scale than a ban on state funded travel & maybe gays are more important than women over 50, but Calif* is the world’s largest economy. Anyone who needs a job has to live under Calif* rule for part of their lives & devote most of their productivity to funding the government.
Should California build a moat and a rainbow-painted wall around the state? Yes.
I live in California…I’m all for it.
Really, who in their right mind wants to live in Florida?
Jim: Who wants to live in Florida? Let’s look only at Jupiter. The answer then becomes “the smartest people in Germany”: https://mpfi.org/ Also, the smartest people from… San Diego: https://www.scripps.edu/campuses/florida/
https://www.scripps.edu/florida/neuro/jupiter_westpalm.html
The Scripps Research Institute Florida is located on the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Jupiter, Florida located just minutes from West Palm Beach It is known for it’s small town feel in a dynamic metropolitan region.
This coastal community and the surrounding areas are filled with all the things you love to do. Museums, parks, galleries and theaters offer a cultural dimension and world class salt-water fishing, beaches, surfing, kite-boarding, roller-blading, kayaking, camping, bicycling, jogging, motorsports, and golf offer a sporting and outdoor dimension.
Phil…I know you plan to move there…just rattling the cage. All states have their issues. California is a popular target for criticism, some of it deserved, most of it overblown nonsense, and almost all of it coming from those who don’t live here or have rarely visited.
I’m sure you’ll enjoy your new home (until you come to your senses :))
Jim: I think that California might not be taxing you enough. If it would be impossible for you to live anywhere else, the state government should be able to charge you a 90-95% tax rate for the privilege of living in the environment that they created.
I actually recently visited relatives in Vero Beach, Florida and have to say it was a lovely place.
Those with real money in California have an “address” in Nevada which let’s them claim residency in that state.
Isn’t California interfering with inter-state commerce? This is a federal offense.
This is an interesting excerpt; I gather that non-essential travel is defunded, which means it was funded before. Nice admission!
A wall would not go far enough. California should become part of Mexico! All land goes to people of color without compensation for the owners. Salaries at Google etc. will be on the Mexican median level to combat #WhiteSupremacy. #Equity will finally be achieved.
This whole thing is kind of ridiculous. Aside from sending department of corrections people to drop off or pick up people for extradition, I don’t see why California government employees should be going to other states on state business on a regular basis. Most of this travel is probably dumb government conferences. This can all be done within an entity the size of the state of California. (What I’m saying is that California should ban official travel to the rest of the 49 states, because it’s mostly a waste anyway)
I’m surprised the government workers don’t sue the state. It’s certainly not “their fault” that other states enact laws Senior Management doesn’t agree with, and California is (demonstrably!) perfectly free to shout its values from the rooftops, but restricting their travel for official business degrades not just their effectiveness on the job, it unfairly ostracizes them, prevents them from networking with other professionals (who are also not responsible for the laws their legislatures enact) and positively harms their ability to do their jobs vis-a-vis their peers in other “forbidden” zones.
And they don’t have any data to justify it! It’s just a WHIM and made to “make a statement.”
I would find a couple of good lawyers, get a few hundred or thousand CA employees together and sue Rob Bonta until he is gangrenous. This is insanity.
“We’re in the midst of an unprecedented wave of bigotry and discrimination in this country”
Even worse than when slavery was legal!
#Rainbow, #BLM, #SocialJustice, et. al. is the new religion of the US, you must follow them or you are #Deplorable.
Who cares about #FailingSchools, #RunAwaySpending, #DumbingDownUS, et. al.
And of course, while each month we celeberate our #HashTags, China is celebrating its communist party’s founding [1] and making money off of merchandises it makes and sells to us so we can celeberate our #HashTags of the month.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012053737/china-celebrates-its-communist-partys-centennial-with-spectacle-saber-rattling