Only in California

Gotta love it.

From the Western Outdoor News.

CAT’S OUT OF THE BAG — California Fish and Game Commissioner Dan Richards is taking intense heat from animal rights activists for engaging in a legal Idaho mountain lion hunt and then committing the “crime” of sharing his success with fellow outdoorsmen in a hunting and fishing publication. Grandstanding state assemblyman Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, and a candidate for congress in outdoorsman rich coastal northern California, is all over the San Jose Mercury News calling Richards’ resignation. Why? He told a constituent the photo was akin to a full-blown public statement. Ridiculous, but for fellow hunters and anglers, here’s another photo.

Assemblyman Ben Hueso, D-San Diego, has issued a letter calling on Dan Richards to resign his post on the Fish and Game Commission. As of Friday afternoon, 40 state assemblymen had signed on, all Democrats, just one shy of the majority Hueso needs should he advance to a recall vote.

Last month, Richards celebrated a successful and legal Idaho mountain lion hunt with a photo shared in WON.  Within days, critics ranging from animal rights activists to state assemblymen unleashed furious invective, death threats, and calls for Richards’ resignation or forced ouster. The issue: California preservationists are outraged that a state commission appointee participated in a hunt legal across the Idaho border, but beyond their tolerance here at home.

The Hueso resignation demand letter reads in part, "Your actions have raised serious questions about whether you respect the laws of the people of California and whether you are adequately fit to enforce those laws. Your actions… show a lack of judgment and a disregard for how such action would be perceived by California citizens, many of whom find such actions offensive."...

But its gets better.

Das Williams Proposes Strip Club Tax

Assemblymember Das Williams recently proposed legislation to tax certain California strip clubs at a rate of $10 per customer. The money would fund programs that treat victims of sexual assault and human trafficking, and help pay for forensic rape kits.

It would be up to the clubs to determine how they pay, whether by taking steps to increase profit (i.e., creating a cover charge, upping drink prices, etc.) or simply absorbing the cost. The tax, however, may not be passed to the entertainers, the bill says. “There is a clear nexus between alcohol consumption and violence against women,” Williams said in an interview with The Sacramento Bee. “This [bill] only affects those that serve alcohol.” The two gentleman’s clubs in Santa Barbara County — the Spearmint Rhino locations in the City of Santa Barbara and Santa Maria — don’t serve booze and wouldn’t be affected...

A man legally shots an animal outside of the state and a close to majority of the Assembly (and the moron now Lieutenant Governor, former Mayor of LA) want to remove him. It's not like the state is on the verge of bankruptcy, loosing industries left and right, having a population drain of its productive class while getting a growing welfare class. No, they need to worry about a man's hobby and if they can tax business some more. This idiot Das Williams really think a tax will not be born by the customers or employees. What planet is he is? Oh yea, California.