Editor,
Most residents of San Mateo County, among them active voters, are not aware of how various boards and executive committees are dictating our lifestyles. Recent proposed edicts by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District would essentially ban the use of natural gas in our homes and businesses, starting in 2025. In addition, various cities have already passed so-called reach codes that would severely restrict the use of natural gas in new construction or in major renovations.
Does anyone wonder where these draconian measures originate? Who are the members of these boards and districts and how did they become such an authority? Many boards have elected members, as in school boards, but many have appointed members.
Did you know that the Peninsula Clean Energy’s Board comprises elected political members, mostly mayors, who have no discernible experience in energy matters? And PCE is the main driver behind the reach codes which benefit PCE’s bottom line.
Did you know that the BAAQMD Board comprises the same cast of elected politicians? While we elected these individuals to represent us, did we elect them to tell us what energy source we are allowed to utilize in our homes and which appliances we are allowed to buy? Belmont’s vice mayor is even on the California Air Resources Board.
We are dealing here with Soviet style government; first we democratically elect these people, and then they turn around and mandate how we should live and what choices we can make.
Dirk van Ulden
Belmont
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(11) comments
So, do they democratically elect people in Soviet-style governments?
Yes, GE52. They have elections as well. Rigged like ours.
"Rigged" hilarious!!
You mean rigged like the 2016 election, by the Electoral College and foreign adversaries in Trump’s favor, against all common sense and our own best interests? Should be a no-brainer that certain foreign powers would prefer someone as easily fooled and manipulated as Trump, instead of someone better educated and more suited for the highest office in the world!
Yes Jorg - and because of voters like you we now have the highest educated, experienced, articulate, transparent, virtuous father, agile, ice cream connoisseur, and thoroughly respected world leader in the WH. It is a pity that he can only run twice for this office.
Jorg, certain foreign powers (actually all foreign powers) preferred someone even more easily fooled and manipulated in the form of treasonous Biden, who is much less educated and much more suited to be a clown in a circus act, or a mime, as Biden’s been known to shake hands with invisible people. Stolen elections have consequences.
GE52, not sure what your point is, but yes, they do. For those on the left, just ask Wikipedia. Actually, I believe Stalin and Brezhnev said so, too.
I was responding to an earlier post in which was stated, "rigged like ours". But then I forgot about all of the court rulings, audits etc. that were conducted following the '20 election that proved widespread voter fraud...oh wait. Never mind.
GE52 - FYI, voter fraud and rigged elections are not necessarily the same but may have the same outcome. Court decisions only mean that there may have been fraud but that there was no sufficient conclusive evidence.
Dirk: The proven attempts at voter fraud have mainly been a few Republicans trying to vote for dead relatives. No great surprise there.
GE52, it’s difficult to give credence to your assertions considering that you push the misleading CDC-report that gun violence is the “number one cause of death among children” while conveniently ignoring the fact that to reach this conclusion, the CDC counts 19 year-olds as “children.” Oh wait, never mind that. BTW, although you won’t do the homework, there’s plenty of evidence of widespread voter fraud, just as there’s plenty of evidence of Biden crime family corruption and fraud, but oh wait. Never mind that, too.
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