Posted on 04/29/2024 8:27:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
With the proliferation of bureaucrats in leftist-run California, they're descending like locusts onto the farms of not just California's lower Central Valley, but now the Napa Valley and its wine makers, according to the U.K. Daily Mail. The farmers are swatting back.
The Daily Mail reports:
Napa Valley's prestigious wineries have launched a revolt against 'abusive' county officials, accusing bureaucrats of killing the region's famous vineyards with absurd and excessive red tape.
Wealthy vintners say they are being 'crushed' by 'gross regulatory overreach', which has included penalizing wineries for planting trees, making jam and conducting wine tastings on their own land.
One vineyard was even fined $1million for making too much wine.
Making wine is already a heavily regulated industry. California's has always been more regulated than most. But the bureaucrats are getting out of control now, apparently watching every little move a grape farm or winery makes and then swooping in to descend, crawling all over them like bugs, draining the lifeblood of these pride-of-California operations. The Mail has a string of horror stories.
It's sad, sorry, stuff, this overregulation of little farms for trying to sell jams and jellies on the side, something all farms do worldwide to earn extra cash, or to hold wine-tastings, which is what these farms are expected to do, or telling a Napa Valley farmer from a farm that got burned out in the monstrous 2020 Glass Fire (brought on by environmental regulations) that he can't plant the trees he lost to create the windblocks he needs to protect his crops. That was a doozy. One farmer, who tried to take advantage of his farm's beautiful scenic location by offering yoga classes, was snidely told by the karen-like county representative that he didn't want Napa to become 'Disneyland':
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The county sued Hoopes in 2022, alleging she had created a 'public nuisance' by offering yoga classes, wine tastings, selling greeting cards and hand sanitiser, and not getting a permit for her 120 square feet chicken coop.
A lawyer representing the county said the rules are in place to keep Napa Valley from becoming 'Disneyland', a statement Hoopes believes is preposterous.
Last I heard, Disneyland doesn't offer yoga classes. The farmers only offer these things to boost their cash income, because of all their ongoing taxes and regulatory burdens from their main operations. Maybe that's the real problem.
If moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it.
Jimmy crack corn
This is simply an extension of Newsome’s corruption. During the lockdowns (that he personally championed) his winery was allowed to stay open, sell wine, conduct tours.
This is him killing off competition and getting revenge upon his winery neighbors who complained about his special treatment.
Study the soviet union. The trend in California is always towards growing government, political control, and social-engineering, while needing ever-more resources to sustain it
eventually the parasite kills the host.
Demonrats are the party of hypocrisy and rules for thee, but not for me.
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The heavy foot of bureaucratic control is threatening every industry nowadays. Creeping socialism.
I haven’t been to Disneyland since I was a kid, but I don’t remember there being any chicken coops there.
Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
That’s what bureaucrats do.......................
The county executive apparently does not want any more chickensh1t as it might metamorphosize into a political challenger which might run against him.
mob boss daughter nanzi will be the last winery standing,, mark my words,, then after that, all regs and rules will just be ignored.
jmho
geeze
hope nan doesnt send her
D.C.C.H.P.D/CCP Secret Police after me now ...
May is going to be a great month. Two wine club pickups in Burleson and Driftwood (Lost Oak & Fall Creek Vineyards). The latter is primarily located on land once owned by Colonel William B. Travis. Their commemorative Mission Wine is my favorite Cabernet Sauvignon. We’ll be spending the night in Fredericksburg, dining at Der Lindenbaum. It never gets old.
Welcome to New York state
Quit voting rat people. It’s not hard to figure out.
How does Napa Valley vote in presidential elections? Is that a Republican strong hold? Did they vote for Gavin Newsom? They might be getting exactly what they deserve, I need more information.
I wonder how many of those vineyard owners voted democrat?
Bureaucrat regulators are all leftists, taking bribes and raiding the public treasury. The solution is a constitutional sheriff to investigate them.
My sheriff makes a sport of catching these bureaucrat thieves and seeing them sent to state prison.
The problem can be solved the democrat way; offering partnerships in the wineries could make the irritants go away. It’s a time-tested strategy by pols, so bureaucrats should be able to scam it too, right?
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