Lockdown rebellion surfaces in California
In an indication of what's going on in the California suburbs, a craft beer pub owner in the offramp town of Covina used his truck to block a health inspector, bringing himself a visit from the local cops.
According to a report by radio host Todd Starnes:
The owner of Bread & Barley in Covina, California decided enough was enough when a public health Nazi ordered his restaurant to shut down.
So Carlos Roman parked his truck behind the vehicle belonging to the public health inspector.
“He wants to come in here and say nobody can work—well, then he can’t work either!” Roman told a police officer who responded to the scene. “If we can’t work, he can’t work.”
As many as a half dozen police officers showed up and demanded the restaurant owner move the truck.
“This is what happens when people get desperate,” Mr. Roman said. “I’m desperate. Who’s going to pay her car payment? Who’s going to pay my cook’s rent?”
He then asked the police officer and the health department Nazi whether they got a paycheck on Friday.
Before we go on, first, I have to say I don't agree with Starnes's characterization of the officials here as 'Nazis.' Listen to the video, it's very clear they are not.
But it's also clear that the owner's pain was real, he was a man living off GoFundMe donations, in desperation making a Quixotic protest. There was no way that pub owner, Carlos Roman, was going to win this encounter, and the cops gave him time and time again to just move his truck, they didn't even threaten him with a ticket, they just warned him he either needed to do that or he was going to get a tow.
This encounter was one of many small rebellions from small shop owners, seen in Texas, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and elsewhere in Southern California. It's not guns-and-God territory either, the stuff of Democrat disdain and legend. Bread & Barley is a small upscale brew pub in a fairly wealthy suburb 22 miles outside Los Angeles.
In other words, this happened in a very blue California suburb, run for years by Democrats, not the Texas badlands. That's a little unusual.
The town of Covina, population 47,000, is just outside Los Angeles, abutted by West Covina, San Dimas, Walnut, and Irwindale, home of the Sriracha hot sauce factory. It's also majority-Latino, mostly Mexican-American. Its congressional representative, Rep. Grace Napolitano, a member of the House's progressive and Hispanic caucuses, is 84 years old and been in office 22 years. And in Covina's surrounding areas, such as Hacienda Heights, Walnut, Fullerton, Yorba Linda, and La Habra, congressional seats were "unexpectedly" won back from the ballot harvestors of 2018, this time for the Republicans.
According to Wikipedia, Young Kim defeated Gil Cisneros in District 39, Michelle Park Steel defeated Harley Rouda in District 48
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There is more.
I think I accurately described this as a lockdown rebellion. The Democrats' war against small business is driving the owners to desperate measures. It is also driving voters away from Democrats. The Democrats' claim that these lockdowns are based on "science" is looking more bogus by the day.
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