[ April 30, 2024 ]
Orange County Sheriff says he will not enforce Guv. Nusance’s closure of Orange County beaches! The governor is being vindictive to the Orange County people.
County supervisors voted 5-2 to sue the little tyrant for abuse of power and illegal closure order.
Huntington Beach Will Sue Over Gov. Newsom’s Order to Close OC Beaches for Coronavirus; Newport Beach May Follow
By Noah Biesiada and Hosam Elattar, Voice of OC, May 1, 2020:
Story continues below advertisementHuntington Beach intends to sue the state after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he would be closing all Orange County beaches.
The Huntington Beach City Council voted 5-2 to file a lawsuit against the State of California, with Councilmembers Barbara Delgleize and Kim Carr opposing the move.
While Newport Beach did not take any action Thursday night, Councilman Kevin Muldoon suggested that the city follow Huntington Beach and sue the state, claiming that Orange County had “flattened the curve.”
A recent Voice of OC story shows coronavirus hospitalizations in Orange County have been steadily increasing over the last month, leading to questions over whether or not the county has “flattened the curve.”
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“I would like to call for a special council meeting,” Muldoon said. “That would allow us to join the city of Huntington Beach, or any other Orange County cities and seek all legal means available to fight the arbitrary and unconstitutional exercise of power by the governor, that would take away control of our local beaches.
“That would essentially hand our prior decision to keep the beaches open into the trash bin.”
Earlier today, County of Orange officials downplayed any legal action, with Supervisor Don Wagner stating that he preferred to work with the state through negotiation rather than litigation.
After Huntington Beach announced they would be suing the state, Wagner said he thought this may be the first of many lawsuits in a text to Voice of OC.
“I continue to believe that the county has no legal standing to sue the state but I know lawsuits from individuals and businesses in Orange County are coming,” Wagner said. “I would hope the governor will not fight a destructive legal battle, but instead listen to local leaders, who are in close consultation with our own health care professionals.”
“I’m disappointed that the governor’s making decisions based on a few photos rather than on the reality of the situation on the ground.”
Both cities met in closed session to discuss their response to the governor’s action, with no public discussion on the items in Huntington Beach and limited comments from several Newport Beach councilmembers.
Both cities also expressed confusion over the governor’s order and what it would require from them.
At the beginning of Huntington Beach’s meeting, Mayor Lyn Semeta stated they had not received the precise language of Newsom’s order.
“We have not received any written directorate from the state regarding the governor’s announcement,” Semeta said.
Newport Beach Mayor Will O’Neill said the directive was not entirely clear in some aspects.
“What we will anticipate is that our police department and our fire department will spend significant time endeavoring to determine what the directive is calling for and will do their best job to make sure we are conducting education and to the extent the directive is clear enforcement as well,” O’Neill said.
Earlier this week on Tuesday, the city council decided to keep Newport’s beaches open with a greater police and lifeguard presence for the upcoming weekends despite Newsom’s remarks.
On Thursday, Newsom chose to only close Orange County beaches after seeing photos of Newport Beach from the past weekend, where an estimated 40,000 people came to the beach on Friday and Saturday.
“We’re going to do a hard close in that part of the state. Just in the Orange County area,” Newsom said during a news conference on Thursday. “The images we saw … were disturbing.”
Newport Beach officials insist that the photos were misleading and that city officials were enforcing social distancing on the beach.
Newport Beach Police Chief Jon Lewis and Fire Chief Jeff Boyles said a majority of the beach goers they observed on April 24, 25 and 26 were spread apart. The city shared aerial shots of the beach taken on April 25 that showed more people spread out.
The rest of the state’s beaches will remain under the contro
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24 Comments
3 years ago
Pretty easy for hospital admissions to increase if every patient is diagnosed with covid for cash payouts.
3 years ago
The Little Lenin in Sacramento isn’t going to be happy w/the bourgeoisie resisting his worker’s revolution — it’s for their own good donctha know?
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
His familial connection with that hag, Paleolosi, will ensure that he gets to do whatever he wants, unchecked, unfortunately. But, for how long?
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
His familial connection with that hag, Peleolosi, will ensure that he gets to do whatever he wants, unchecked. Unfortunately. But, for how long?
3 years ago
If the effects of the virus are pure fake, disguised within the influenza season, then the hoax extends across the entire medical community in the USA and across the entire globe. Perhaps the virus adds lethality to the existing influenza and pneumonia of the cold/flu season and adds numbers due to its highly contagious nature.
Whatever the details, the purpose of this scare (fear campaign) is to get voting by mail in the USA to put a Democrat in the WH. That is certain.
So, the number of deaths from COVID-19 would be exaggerated whether it was a complete hoax or only a partial hoax. The more death the more fear. If the desired effect (rapid, high body count) was dulled by early mitigation efforts, then the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 that would normally be attributed to influenza/pneumonia would be exaggerated even more, and that seems to be the case. Data is available (charts) that point out deaths from pneumonia dropping rapidly after about mid January, yet many people started dying from massive infections in the lungs, so those deaths must have been defined as COVID-19 instead of pneumonia. The question is, is that by typical protocol or by devious manipulation?
3 years ago
Reply to
spfoam1
Unbelievable when U dont know the facts U just feel free to make them up in your own little head dont ya? They only report Covid 19 deaths on tested positive ppl. So if anything its an under count… U just completely made up your own little fake facts in your head…
3 years ago
The beach in the photo is about 100 yards wide and a mile and a half long. It takes 30 minutes to walk its length. The photos Emperor Newsom saw, as did we all, were taken with a 200mm telephoto lens that foreshortens the the scene. That means the far away objects appear to be real close, the entire scene is squashed tightly together. As you can see from the above photo and from the news video from the air, there was indeed social distancing going on. The chances of anyone contracting Coronavirus in the bright UV sunlight, salty air, and heat is less than zero.
3 years ago
Reply to
IndigoRed
The election is all this is was ever about, We never reacted this way to a virus before. The only difference is that Trump is president
3 years ago
Reply to
Jay
SMH an idiot that thinks the Covid 19 is just a way to annoy Trump is a complete moron!
3 years ago
Reply to
Steve Wilson
If there is nothing else the past few weeks has taught us, it’s that STUPIDITY travels faster than any virus!! Once again, there is absolutely ZERO evidence of Chinese Wuhan Virus Hoax. The only thing We have is the word of the Media. Chinese Wuhan virus, Hoax
3 years ago
Reply to
Jay
I dont know what exactly U R referring to, so I’ll be clear. Covid 19 probably came from Wuhan. Its a NATURALLY created virus that has jumped to humans fairly recently. It was not made in a lab. Unlike influenza It kills ppl of all bck gnds and states of health. Its scary because its extremely unpredictable… Those R the facts
3 years ago
“We’re going to do a hard close in that part of the state. Just in the
Orange County area,” Newsom said during a news conference on Thursday. “The images we saw … were disturbing.” “Disturbing?” No, what’s disturbing, is this Nazi who is drunk with power, who has now made it his personal mission to make an example of HB and NB. Why doesn’t this POS governor just say what his wish is; and that is for calling martial law. Of course, it’s more than likely that any judge who hears these city’s arguments, will no doubt, side with the gov., unfortunately.
3 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Orange Country USED to be REPUBLICAN so they are being excluded. I would bet they still are MINUS the FRAUD. They are being punished.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
There are lots of degenerate insane dem0rats in OC now. A lot of them suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. When I talk to them I usually tell them to relocate to San FranFreaksco where they can enjoy the smell of warm human excrement while feeling sanctimony running down between their legs.
3 years ago
Doesn’t OC have a larger number of republicans than other areas of Southern California?
3 years ago
Reply to
Malsikcuf
It might very well be the last county in Californication that still has a significant Repub population.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
If you do the measurement by County most of the rural/suburban counties come up Republican Majority.
But the Congressional Districts in California have been massively gerrymandered by the Demoncrat Controlled State Legislature [which has an unbreakable 2/3rds majority of Demoncrats] every time redistricting happens so that Republican votes are divided and diluted by the urban Demoncrat voters. wherever possible.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
There is Kern County and various counties in Northern CA (away from the coast), that are still Republican.
3 years ago
Reply to
Malsikcuf
Yes.
And “vote harvesting” was used in the last elections to steal both state and federal level legislature/congressional seats in OC. Seats formerly held by Republicans.
3 years ago
Newsom is a real nuisance.Time for Orange County to declare itself an indepoendent sovereign state and dare the Libtards in Sacramento to do anything about it. The Frisco snowflakes will melt faster than a snow storm in July.
3 years ago
This is the same sort of arbitrary vindictive action that is leading to the Impeachment, if not the forcible removal from office, of Governor Whitless in Michigan.
Newsom’s “excuse” [it doesn’t achieve the standard of a reason] for the closures are based on photographs taken from shalow angles to deliberately make it appear that people are closer together than they actually are. the same groups of people photographed at the same time from a near 90 degree angle demonstrates that they were practicing social distancing.
This is just another example of propagandists manipulating reality in order to advance a partisan agenda.
3 years ago
Some people are trying to take back oour country.
