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The January 8-10 Re-Open Cal Now Public Policy Conference would not have happened without the vision and commitment of California County Supervisors who chose to go against the grain of conventional wisdom.
Don Wagner is the District 3 Supervisor in Orange County who saw that more answers, proper science, and an inclusion, rather than exclusion, of local and regional elected officials was needed in order to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in California and to safely re-open the State. Wagner speaks more about this in his opening remarks at the conference on Friday, January 8.
Jeff Hewitt is the District 5 Supervisor in Riverside County whom Supervisor Wagner asked to come on as co-organizer. I was able to do a brief interview with him where he explained why he felt this conference was needed, and how he wanted to bring back knowledge to Riverside County to see it safely re-open.
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California’s District 4 Representative Tom McClintock opened the first annual Re-Open Cal Now Public Policy Conference with a dig at Governor Gavin Newsom.
“For those of you who can’t see it the mask, it says, ‘This mask is as useless as our governor’ ”.
The audience broke out into laughter and applause.
“It’s the only one I actually enjoy wearing!” McClintock interjected.
The Re-Open Cal Now Conference is being held from January 8-10 in Rancho Murieta, California at an Equestrian Center. Kind of appropriate, since our Governor and many of our elected officials have been making horse’s asses of themselves. However, the purpose of the Center was that the conference be as open air as possible in light of COVID restrictions. And speaking of that, because California is currently under another government-imposed lockdown, everyone who is attending the event (including yours truly) is in violation of said health department orders.
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