It is not the soda pop that is causing the obesity problem. It is the toxic culture that makes it unsafe for families to have fun outdoors.
When I was growing up we had baseball games in the summer and flag football after school. Of course, we loved to dig underground tunnels and build tree forts and a hundred other activities. When our moms called us for dinner we always gave our words of disappointment. Dinner meant we had to end our time having fun.
City Councilman Ash Kalra are the nanny government nitwits on steroids, sucking every kind of outlet for having fun out of the culture. They want all the families in their cages watching the boob tube and not “making trouble.” This is the formula for creating fat cows.
Councilmember Kalra sits on San José’s Community and Economic Development Committee, and is also a liaison to San José’s Planning Commission, where he previously served for over 2 years prior to taking office. Ash serves as a member of the Santa Clara Valley Habitat Plan Liaison Group, the Association of Bay Area Governments Executive Board, the Santa Clara County Cities Association Legislative Action Committee, the Housing Trust of Santa Clara County Board, and is also currently serving on the Sister Cities International Board of Directors. In January of 2013, he was unanimously appointed as the chairperson of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) Board. Councilmember Kalra was also appointed as the vice-chairperson of the Santa Clara County Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) Board in January of 2013. Kalra also serves on the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers (CalTrain) Board as a representative of the VTA, and was recently named to the newly formed CalTrain Modernization Committee.
Councilmember Kalra earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a law degree from Georgetown University. Ash is a Professor at Lincoln Law School of San José, where he teaches “Race and the Law,” and he previously was an instructor at San Jose State University, where he taught “Law and the Black Community.”
For 11 years, Kalra worked as an attorney for the Santa Clara County Public Defender's Office representing indigent clients in Drug Court prior to being elected. He is the first Indian-American to be elected to the San José City Council. In 2012, Kalra was honored to receive the San José Silicon Valley NAACP Legislator of the Year Award and the Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee (BAYMEC) Straight Ally Award.