George Rebane
Former county supervisor and current CEO of the Sierra Fund, Ms Izzy Martin, will most certainly become a significant factor promoting the formation of the new state of North California (see also State of Jefferson). The community organizer and environmental activist is an archetype leftwinger who is doing everything possible to grow Leviathan and achieve the objectives of Agenda21 (q.v.). One of her latest forays is to pass SB637 which would essentially eliminate small dredge miners on California’s rivers (for a start). The bill calls for such miners to obtain a $900 dredging permit for each site on which they set up their equipment and mine for a while before moving to another site. (more here and here)
The new law would do nothing to preserve the environment, but merely uses ‘green arguments’ for light thinkers to create the aura of doing something for the public good when, in fact, there is no such achievement present or even possible in the legislation. All it will do is remove another layer of freedoms. Then again, that is their real objective.
But the significant impact of such progressive proscriptions is that they highlight the need to separate out the less densely part of northern California into a new state whose population understands and can promote its local interests. Ms Martin emphasized that need by the way she got SB637 launched. She couldn’t find any northern legislator to sponsor such a bill, so she simply went south to the LA area and found a Santa Monica based state senator, who has no interest in norCal save assuring that the south gets our water, to sponsor the bill which the Sierra Fund wordsmithed. The near-term result of all this is appropriately communicated by our own RL Crabb in the above cartoon filched from the pages of the 5dec15 Union.
The longer term impact, of course, is putting more wind into the sails of the NorCal movement (nee SoJ). Present day California is an oversized ideologically dichotomized political unit that invites a minority socialist from a low density conservative region to carpet bag their agenda to a distant, high density liberal metropolis. This type of end-running local interests is in my mind both underhanded and reprehensible. With the overwhelming collectivist majority in Sacramento, such legislative maneuvers underscore that the majority conservatives of the north have no effective representation in their state’s legislature. Let the NorCal movement take new encouragement from the backhanded promotions by people like Izzy Martin.
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