Business Welcome In Newport Beach...Except If You Are A Restaurant

Here's a Question:

What do San Francisco and Newport Beach have in common?

Both are run by Liberal Leaders...? (Sorry, couldn't help that...)

Nope (well...we are looking to borrow more than 10% of the budget to BALANCE IT), Newport Beach now wants to join San Francisco (amongst many others like Berkeley, Portland, Oakland, the States of California and New York).

Gee...I see Republican majorities in all of those Government entities.

Wasn't Governor Moonbeam the Mayor of Oakland?

But alas, in Newport Beach, out of our Magnificent Seven, a whopping Six are "Registered" Republicans.

So what do these "Republicans" want to do?

"Ban on take-out containers moves forward in Newport"

Essentially, in a time of economic difficulty for Newport Beach restaurants, our "Republican" City Council wants to tell them how to run their businesses and what they are, and are not, allowed to buy.

Let me simplify.

OUR "REPUBLICAN" CITY COUNCIL WANTS TO TELL BUSINESSES HOW TO RUN THEIR BUSINESSES.

Go take a walk down Coast Highway in Corona Del Mar, and ask the Restaurants how business is compared to previous years.

Then go tell them that they HAVE TO BUY MORE EXPENSIVE SUPPLIES BY LAW.

You talk about California being unfriendly to Businesses, Newport Beach wants to add it's own difficulties to their own Restaurants.

Fun part of the article?

"Officials suggested they would include a hardship exception for business that can't afford alternatives to expanded polystyrene."

Why bother then?

The impetus for this?

Anyone who has done a beach cleanup (it's been decades for me) fills up their trash bags with these styrofoam containers and cups, but a good point was also made in the article.

"Most beachgoers come from other cities and arrive with pre-packed food, not fare purchased from city eateries, officials say."

And as Councilman Curry once eloquently explained to me, we have millions of visitors to our beaches every year.

I'd say there's a good chance that a ban on a Newport Beach Restaurant's supplies will not affect that trash bag of styrofoam.

Unless, of course, our "Republican" City Council steps up a bit and FORCE our Newport Beach Restaurants to label each to-go container with a Newport Beach identification mark so that when we go through the trash, we can properly identify where the trash came from.

Gee...that's almost as good as the "No Smoking On the Beach Ban."

When my kids and I go to the beach, I take more cigarette butts from my kids hands (yes, I know...perhaps I should watch my kids more closely) than styrofoam containers.

That No Smoking Ban is working great.

The City of Newport Beach want to make a "Green" gesture, perhaps they should follow what San Clemente does and

"ban the use of single-use polystyrene foam products in City facilities and at City-sponsored, -cosponsored, and permitted events."

Instead of going out and hurting our Newport Beach restaurants.