The City Journal has an interesting article exploring California’s mandated preference for gay businesses in the energy industry. If the state hits its target, “LGBT-owned businesses” will receive $633 million in contracts. Putting aside the imposition of such agendas on companies at a time of rising energy costs, the certification process for being an LGBT business is astonishing.
This is only one of various categories of preferential treatment under state law. It began in 1986, under Governor George Deukmejian, requiring certain CPUC-regulated utilities to submit annual “plans” for buying goods and services from woman- and minority-owned companies.
The specific LGBT preference began under former Gov. Jerry Brown in 2014, but was expanded by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2019 to encourage energy companies to favor LGBT businesses.
The law is based on the protected class status under state law rather than proof that LGBT business people are discriminated against in the energy field or that LGBT owners make substantially less than straight owners.
The National LGBTQ+ & Allied Chamber of Commerce informs companies striving to come out of the corporate closet that “certification is a journey, not a destination.”
So here is how you prove that your company is LGBT.
Applicants can secure certification by providing a letter from an “LGBT organization” attesting to their sexual preferences; proof that a newspaper identified them as “LGBT”; or three letters from “personal contacts” written “on company letterhead” attesting to their homosexual orientation. Corporate officials who “falsely represent” their business as gay face up to a year in county jail.
Supplier Clearinghouse also accepts gay-certification letters from the National LGBTQ+ & Allied Chamber of Commerce. The chamber has its own list of accepted documents, including human resources complaints or police records claiming LGBT discrimination.
So a company can submit its own criminal complaint alleging discrimination as proof that it is LGBT, or you can submit letters on some company letterhead on your corporate gayness.
It is not clear if businesses can challenge such benchmarks on the basis of sexual orientation. A company would have to claim that it has a straight ownership and suffers from a real or cognizable injury from the loss of contracts. That is no easy task and would likely produce a consumer and political backlash in California for the company.
For Californians who gripe about having the highest fuel costs, they do not have to look far. California has created layers of taxes and regulations that drive costs for the industry. At the same time, Newsom and others continue to hamper efforts to pursue energy resources within the state.
These types of laws empower a network of activists and groups who tap into an effort worth hundreds of millions of dollars in offering “certification letters.” The website declares that “NGLCC’s exclusive LGBT Business Enterprise (LGBTBE) certification works hard for you, giving you a competitive advantage to succeed.”
What is fascinating about this effort is that it, first and foremost, benefits the owners rather than consumers and employees. Given the percentage of LGBT citizens overall, it is likely that any sizable company will have a majority of non-LGBT employees.
One can certainly argue that an LGBT owner is more likely to have a tolerant company, but there are already robust laws protecting LGBT individuals, particularly in California. This is about a preference going to companies based on the sexual orientation of their owners as opposed to the company as a whole.
The benefit to the consumer is far less obvious in encouraging companies to favor one company over another based on the sexual orientation of owners or management. Rather than encouraging price competition on contracts, Democrats have inserted an additional criterion that impacts as much as $633 million in energy contracts.
Simplify this article’s defined action “California Certifies” into a simple legal context and wording.
“Therefore, practice bigotry and hatred against anyone you deem deserve hatred and bigotry. Consume their freedom, wealth, prosperity, and work and redistribute it as reparation to those who practice YOUR hatred and bigotry . Create slavery to support you, the slave owners.”
Welcome to California culture.
There is a history of oppression that would only continue.
At least he still has the potential to make something of his life. For you, however, it is too late.
Trump insults his political enemies and his supporters cheer. Dustoff is a hypocrite.
Trump doesn’t insult–he tells the truth and they just THINK it’s an insult.
Come on.. Is that the best (Put-down) you’ve got.
So disappointing.
You’re damned if you earn a living, and you’re damned if you’re on the dole (which would be the alternative to being denied work and business.). There’s no pleasing some people.
The American Thesis: Freedom And Self-Reliance
California Billionaire Tax
“…the proposed ballot initiative for the November 2026 election would impose a one-time 5% wealth tax on California billionaires….”
The billionaire tax in CA is a flagrant and egregious manifest violation of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause.
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14th Amendment
No State shall…deprive any person of life, liberty, or property…nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
It applies equally to every billionaire.
Trump is pulling similar scams with his friends and family.
“Gavin Newsom’s wife made over $1.4 million after charging schools to screen her documentaries: report”
“Siebel Newsom’s ‘gender identity’ films are produced through her for-profit operation, Girls Club Entertainment”
– Fox News
That is illegal and California knows it. Noting like increasing the money flow to Newsoms lawyer buddies.
Yes, seriously. Rig up a scam and split the profits.
“From a purely algorithmic standpoint, any policy that treats Person A differently than Person B based on an identity trait—resulting in a benefit for one and an injury to the other—is a violation of the literal command of the text.”
— AI Textual Analysis on the Literal Phrasing of the 14th Amendment
No more handicap parking spaces then.
typical murderous commie, nothing to say but insults. You suck. everybody hates you for it.
Another topic that irritates the TDS afflicted I see.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the content of their character, but by whether they have homosexual sex instead of heterosexual sex.
-Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963, “I have a Dream” speech
Now that is quite the nightmare.
They just can’t leave the kids alone can they?
Something is very, very wrong in Western Civilization.🤔
The “civil” part is gone.,
“[Racial separation] [is necessary], and [though difficult] must be effected by colonization… The enterprise is a difficult one, but ‘where there is a will there is a way’; and what colonization needs most is a hearty will… Let us be brought to believe it is morally right, and at the same time [not against] our interest, to transfer the African to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it.”
– Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois, June 26, 1857
oops!
Speaking of Illegal Aliens and Population Replacement
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“Baroness Casey’s audit of group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse”
The Home Secretary updated the House on the National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (‘grooming gangs’) carried out by Baroness Casey.
The Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP
Mr Speaker, with your permission, I will update the House on the audit the government commissioned from Baroness Casey on child sexual exploitation and grooming gangs, and on the action we are taking to tackle this vile crime – to put perpetrators behind bars, and to provide the innocent victims of those crimes with support and justice. The House will be aware that on Friday, 7 men were found guilty of the most horrendous crimes in Rochdale between 2000 and 2006. They were convicted of treating teenage girls as sex slaves – repeatedly raping them in filthy flats, alleyways and warehouses. The perpetrators included taxi drivers and market traders of Pakistani heritage, and it has taken 20 years to bring them to justice.
oldmanfromKs……….change the word “judged” to the word “rewarded” and you’ll have it!
love how the “age of rage” guy just rage baits you boomers all day for traffic to his website. you dont control policy your ideas are not intellegent like you think and your not radical. you booomers just need to get out of the way so the rest of us in real america. your old outdated racist homophobic sexist wasy of thinking is just that old and outdated. bye bye boomers
Written by an angry loser simp living in momma’s basement.
🙂
Yep… As usual. Nothing but hate
What a moronic comment.
The left is so worried. Throwing insults at everyone, is all they know.
“Blah blah blah”, your typical response. Gutless wonder. Use your name.
I count 17 grammatical mistakes in the “bye bye boomers” post of 71 words. Twenty if ‘boomers’ needs to be capitalised.
A couple of typos, fine, but you’re your own worst advertisement.
And…. you will be seeing boomers for many years.
Listen lefty, just make sure you better follow the law or we are gonna lock you up.
You have a supremacy problem. What makes you think gays deserve more than the rest of us schmucks?
You’re a gay supremacist.
Do you think that all this perverse behavior is new? Do you not understand anything of a morally based society?
Your post just shows how ignorant you are of history. 1932 Berlin as woke as it gets, the flappers of the roaring 20’s, Love Sex and Rock and Roll 60’s….Sodom and Gomorra, as old as man Skippy, now skip along while the grown ups converse.
Promise? ☺
“…you dont control policy your ideas are not intellegent….”
The Constitution controls policy; the Constitution is intelligent.
If the boomers don’t like the way their children turned out, it’s boomers’ own fault.
California is toast. Get out while you still can.
Alternatively, President Trump Could Pull A Full Lincoln.
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Proclamation 80—Calling Forth the Militia and Convening an Extra Session of Congress
“On April 15, 1861,…President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling forth the state militias, to the sum of 75,000 troops, in order to suppress the rebellion. He appealed ‘to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union.’”
Proclamation 92—Warning to Rebel Sympathizers
“[On] July 17, 1862,…I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to and warn all persons within the contemplation of said sixth section to cease participating in, aiding, countenancing, or abetting the existing rebellion or any rebellion against the Government of the United States and to return to their proper allegiance to the United States on pain of the forfeitures and seizures as within and by said sixth section provided.”
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Abraham Lincoln was a Great American President.
Now President Donald J. Trump MUST implement his rendition of “The Lincoln Era”; close the border; rescind rebel sanctuary cities; compassionately repatriate all illegal and unassimilable aliens; issue mass temporary work permits with no path to citizenship; revoke birthright citizenship; make English the sole official language; commence a war to defeat the rebellion; impose martial law; suspend habeas corpus; “smash” rebel printing presses, networks, podcasts, and social media platforms; and imprison political opponents and rebel judges, all in order to save not the Union but the Nation, eradicate communism and the communist American welfare state, and place America squarely back on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, including absolute freedom, free enterprise, free industries, free markets, private property, and minimal taxation and regulation, alongside infinitesimal constitutional government.
Gavin Newsom’s wife made over $1.4 million after charging schools to screen her documentaries: report
Siebel Newsom’s ‘gender identity’ films are produced through her for-profit operation, Girls Club Entertainment
– Fox News
Gavin Newsom’s wife killed her own sister and devotes her life to girls and boys. It’s biblical.
Homos and sims in the transgender spectrum.
All utility companies have been obsolete for more than a 100 years. Tesla’s free energy, is available to everyone, see David Icke’s. Website all utility owners are scamers. Put all behind bars for life, THEY PRODUE CANCER INTENTIONALY.
No, this claim is entirely false. Nikola Tesla did not create a “free energy” generator, nor is such a device secretly available to everyone. The concept of “free energy” as a perpetual, limitless power source generated out of nothing violates the fundamental laws of physics. Promoters of conspiracy theories, such as David Icke, frequently distort Tesla’s actual historical work to support unfounded narratives.
– Gemini
All utility companies have been obsolete,for 100 years. Tesla’
It’s time to get a butt buddy and cash in on some of these contracts.
The main object of the Left is to persuade Americans that they are first and foremost some oppressed minority with a grievance against the rest of society rather than being satisfied as American citizens. The Roman saying was “divide and rule”.