MEETING REMINDER - SEPTEMBER 22ND

PLEASE TRY TO ATTEND THIS MEETING - MANY GOOD CANDIDATES TO LISTEN TO!  WHAT BETTER WAY TO HELP MAKE YOUR DECISION! 

The North Central Florida Tea Party has been holding two meetings per month, on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays.  We are inviting all the candidates who will be on the November ballot.   We will be conducting a straw poll at each meeting so that we can do a “voter recommendation guide” prior to the election.  
The next meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 22nd  at the Jackie Taylor Building, Our speakers that night will be: Walt Dartland - U.S. Representative District 2;  Tim Murphy – Columbia County Commission District 5; Ronnie Richardson – Suwannee County Commission District 5; Oni Allen – Columbia County Commission District 1; Jessie Caruthers – Suwannee County Commission District 1; and Dianne Westcott – Suwannee County School Superintendent.  Everyone is invited to attend this meeting.  Please invite your friends and family.  Go to www.northcentralfloridateaparty.org

We meet at 128 SW Birley Road, Lake City.  This is approximately 3 miles west of the I-75 interchange, on the corner of U.S. 90 and Birley Road.

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Only In California - Governor Jerry Brown Signs Bill To Regulate Cow Flatulence

In yet another attack on California businesses, yesterday Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill (SB 1383) that requires the state to cut methane emissions from dairy cows and other animals by 40% by 2030.  The bill is yet another massive blow to the agricultural industry in the state of California that has already suffered from the Governor's passage of a $15 minimum wage and a recent bill that makes California literally the only state in the entire country to provide overtime pay to seasonal agricultural workers after working 40 hours per week or 8 hours per day (see "California Just Passed A $1.7 Billion Tax On The Whole Country That No One Noticed").

According to a statement from Western United Dairymen CEO, Anja Raudabaugh, California's Air Resources Board wants to regulate animal methane emissions even though it admits there is no known method for achieving the the type of reduction sought by SB 1383. 

"The California Air Resources Board wants to regulate cow emissions, even though its Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) reduction strategy acknowledges that there’s no known way to achieve this reduction." 

Among other things, compliance with the bill will likely require California dairies to install "methane digesters" that convert the organic matter in manure into methane that can then be converted to energy for on-farm or off-farm consumption.  The problem, of course, is that methane digesters are expensive and with California producing 20% of the country's milk we suspect that means that California has just passed another massive "food tax" on the country.

That said, many California dairies will probably elect to simply close down and move to other states as they did in 2015.  Per the California Department of Food and Agriculture, all but 1 of California's top 10 dairy producing counties saw a reduction in dairy production in 2015.

From ZeroHedge.com

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