Gawdammit CA - Prop 65

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Rock auto had a clearance on big boy alternators for my Jeep's LS. $75...

But can't buy because they need to tell me that alternator can cause cancer if I eat it.

/rant
 
Prop 65, saving untold numbers from certain death since 1986...
 
Interesting read on Prop 65:

www.vox.com

Prop 65 was meant to protect residents from toxic water. How did warning stickers end up on everything?

A California law has meant cancer warnings adorn everything from bikinis and faux leather jackets to certain foods and, for a while, coffee.
www.vox.com www.vox.com

Basically, it got ruined by lawyers. As usual.

Where the authors of Prop 65 saw a radical way to hold companies accountable for their products, a small group of private enforcers pinpointed an opportunity. By 1998, a crop of private enforcers began targeting small companies just barely outside the bounds of the law in what one business journal called a “high-volume, settle-and-run tactic.”

It has increasingly become big business. Unlike Sivas, some of the most successful private enforcers are law firms that make use of a provision in Prop 65 allowing California residents to file actions against companies for the public good. Last year, one of these firms — the Chanler Group — was paid $3,096,725 in attorney fees from Prop 65 lawsuits that used a combination of eight individual plaintiffs. Another firm, Brodsky & Smith, received $2,660,850 in attorney fees. (Neither the Chanler Group or Brodsky Smith replied to requests for comment.)

Because of a relatively small number of lawyers, warning labels have blanketed California department stores, appending everything from kitty litter to play sand. Since Prop 65 covers online sales, the labels turn up far outside California. As economist Michael L. Marlow notes, an individual hotel that attempts to comply with Prop 65 must include warnings for everything from cleaning supplies used during maid services to swimming pools, soap, shampoo, and office supplies.

“Every dry cleaner, every restaurant you walk in has a Prop 65 warning in the window,” says Tom Houston, who helped draft the initial bill as chief deputy to then-Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. “Everybody just ignores that. The major purposes have all been established. The major bad chemicals are off the market, the major bad actors have been corralled by the initiative. Now this is getting down to be almost ridiculous.”
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Ya, let our brothers outside enemy lines assist. Fu<k California.
I do it any chance I get
 
@RiverDave @Adam G @Mac

Thanks guys! I also got an offer from @Kraut_n_Rice to forward. I have the address, this was more of a gripe about CA Prop 65 and how lawyers ruined something meant to protect people (cough ADA, Endangered Species Act cough). This is a constant, I suppose.
 
@BaBaBouy can handle this, ship it to him on Idaho.

A NAMBBLA meeting has him coming to CA soon and a Case of Keystones is pretty cheap

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