The Madness of Vaccine Passports

Vaccine passports would be a last straw for many Californians. I am introducing a bill to end this madness before it starts.

My legislation prohibits the mandating of vaccine passports “as a condition of receiving any service or entering any place.” I’m hopeful the bill will be voted on at the April 22 hearing of the Assembly Privacy Committee, of which I’m the Vice Chair.

Fundamental principles of privacy and liberty are at stake. Having to surrender your personal health information just to go about daily life is an appalling notion, one utterly incompatible with a free society. Passports would inevitably come to be used for other purposes, extending the ethos of control from this last year into the indefinite future.

Another of my bills, AB 54, will be heard by the Business & Professions Committee next Tuesday. This legislation prohibits state agencies from revoking a business license for non-compliance with lockdown orders, without proving the business actually caused an outbreak. In effect, this would restore all revoked licenses. I’m also looking to wipe clean COVID fines that have been slapped on businesses and churches.

Meanwhile, the anti-Recall chicanery has taken another turn. There’s a new bill to let the target of a recall like Gavin Newsom get the list of people who signed, so his cronies can harass them into withdrawing their signatures. Nothing terrifies our political class like a free and fair vote.

Finally, there was a disgraceful scene this week in the Education Committee – a new low for our Legislature, which is saying something. More on that in my next post.

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