Sufficient far-left bias from the coastal fee

In a not-so-stunning admission this week, the California Coastal Fee conceded political bias — and apologized.

That’s a begin.

From right here, the fee must finish its ideological crusades and refocus on its core mission: defending public entry to the state’s seashores.

The 12-member fee — filled with the appointees of the governor and left-wing legislators — settled a 2024 lawsuit from SpaceX over political feedback its members made about that firm’s proprietor, Elon Musk. 

As a part of the settlement, the fee apologized for “improper” remarks about Musk’s political opinions at a 2024 listening to on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch program.

These feedback apparently included disparagement of Musk’s tweets, of his alignment with President Trump, and of his Republican assist.

On the identical time, the fee refused a SpaceX petition to extend the variety of Falcon 9 launches from Vandenberg Area Drive Base in Santa Barbara County.

Political bias doesn’t get extra blatant than that.

Additionally this week, California Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Corona, launched a invoice to curb the fee’s ideological meddling in native July 4 fireworks shows.

The Fireworks for Freedom Act would loosen up sure environmental guidelines to forestall the coastal fee from denying permits for Independence Day pyrotechnics — because the panel did with Lengthy Seaside.

The fee apparently would have the organizers use drones, reasonably than fireworks, at 5 occasions the value. (One other instance of inexperienced insurance policies driving prices skyward.)

In reality, the standard present, “Huge Bang on the Bay,” has delighted coastal spectators for 15 years — with no environmental spoil noticed thus far.

And Lengthy Seaside is house to one of many largest ports in the USA: a significant, near-continuous supply of air air pollution, carbon emissions, and ocean contamination.

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It’s onerous to imagine, then, {that a} 15- or 20-minute fireworks present, yearly, is way of a risk to the world’s nature.

Fireworks on Independence Day are as American because it will get, proper alongside the celebs and stripes, the nationwide anthem, and Western freedom itself.

Maybe that’s why the lefty fee seeks to dam them.

Sufficient, already, with the far-left mission creep.

The panel ought to return to its authentic remit from 1972: preserving public entry to state seashores so the sand may be loved by all.

Additionally: Let freedom ring.