Newsom, who is becoming known to Californians as Nussoloini, is really stretching to find excuses to keep businesses closed and Californians unemployed and reverting to race-pandering.\u00a0\u00a0Jennifer Van Laar of\u00a0RedState<\/a>\u00a0writes:<\/p>\n Now that more counties are set to move out of the most restrictive tier, Newsom’s changed the game again and has added an “equity requirement” counties must also meet before they can move down a tier.<\/p>\n From the California Department of Public Health website:<\/p>\n For a county with a population of greater than 106,000, the county must:<\/p>\n With Democrats enjoying absolute dominance of the state Legislature, Newsom’s unilateral dictates will not be challenged by the lawmaking branch of the state government.\u00a0\u00a0And, with the state’s media at least as dominated by leftists as the national media, few voices will be heard by the public, who have been passively accepting economic strangulation in the name of safety, and now in the name of racial grievances.<\/p>\n There are real victims of this high-handed maneuver: businesses like restaurants that have been barely keeping their noses above water will go bankrupt and close permanently, and their employees will be jobless.\u00a0\u00a0I am an investor in a restaurant that was thriving until COVID, and despite the valiant efforts of its manager to stay alive, this may be the death blow.<\/p>\n Update: There are signs of revo; against Covid restrictions if you venture beynd the populous coastal enclaves. Michael Lewis writes at Bloomberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n [Matt] Pontes is now the county executive officer of Shasta County in Northern California and goes to work in thin socks, but another crisis has found him. \u201cYou cannot get closer to total disobedience of any kind of law,\u201d he said, referring to the local response to Covid-19 strictures. \u201cWhat\u2019s happening up here is full-on anarchy.\u201d Then he listed for me a few of the things that had happened recently: The county sheriff had announced that he wouldn\u2019t enforce the state\u2019s pandemic restrictions on social gatherings and businesses. People who had never before attended county board meetings were accusing local officials of treason. The county\u2019s health officer, who had the unhappy job of imposing the state\u2019s Covid rules on the citizens of Shasta County, was now receiving so many threats that Pontes had brought in a new threat-assessment team; he\u2019d also ordered the bushes cut back away from her house, installed a security system and floodlights, and ordered police patrols of her neighborhood. \u201cShe still doesn\u2019t feel safe out there,\u201d he said. \u201cAt all.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/e849c4907c7ce7f2813ebc7a71e394e265ac3db5.jpg\")
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