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Nanny State Madness: California‘s Proposed ’Fitted Sheet’ Law

When California’s elected officials come back from their month-long recess they face a mountain of proposed legislation (almost 900 bills are lined up and waiting), including a new law (SB432) that would require hotels to eliminate flat sheets. Not having fitted sheets on hotel beds would now be a crime in California. This is not a joke. . .

Californias Fitted Sheet Law Nanny State Madness?

California, the state trying to deal with a massive $26 BILLION dollar debt, is considering a law that some hospitality industry experts claim would add an estimated $15 to $30 million dollars in costs to an already hurting hotel industry. The low-end estimate of fifteen million is the projected cost to purchase new fitted sheets for the 550,000 hotel beds in the state. Of course the hospitality industry is claiming that these added costs will hurt their business and put jobs at risk.

Californias Fitted Sheet Law Nanny State Madness?

The fitted-sheet bill is the brainchild of State Senator Kevin De Leon (a Democrat from Los Angeles), whose mother suffered back pains while working as a hotel maid. Kevin has been quoted as saying this was “an issue close to my heart.” It is also a bill that has the support of Big Labor. Sen. De Leon’s bill passed through the State Senate in June, but not before some spirited debate, including a statement from one of the two dissenters, State Senator Sam Blakeslee;

“We are now going to make it a crime in California not to use a fitted sheet? Really?”

Californias Fitted Sheet Law Nanny State Madness?

If the law passes, who will be assigned to enforce it? Will California be the first state in the union to have “Mattress Police” checking for fitted sheets? Is this really a good use of law enforcement manpower?

There does seem to be a problem as a significant number of workplace injury claims have been filed by housekeeping employees, the LA Times reports:

More than 7,400 housekeepers working in California hotels have filed workers’ compensation claims for injuries they say they suffered last year, including 883 who said they hurt their backs, according to the state Industrial Relations Department.

Just over 10% of the claims filed are related to back injuries, however the reports do not specifically state if the injuries were mattress related or suffered in some other situation.

Media outlets all across the country have picked up this story. Indianapolis’ Fox 59 reports that hotel workers have a higher injury rate

Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that hotel workers have markedly higher injury rates than other service industry workers on average: 5 injuries per 100 workers, while the average for all service industries is about 3.4 injuries per 100 workers. A 2009 report in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine found that housekeepers have higher (7.87 per 100) injury rates than other hotel workers, including banquet servers (2.82 per 100), dishwashers (5.97 per 100) and cooks (5.99 per 100).

The second part of the bill has a new requirement that actually appears to make sense:

(2) The use of long-handled tools such as mops or similar devices
in order to eliminate the practice by housekeepers of working in a
stooped, kneeling, or squatting position in order to clean bathroom
floors, walls, tubs, toilets, and other bathroom surfaces.

The statistical breakdown on hotel worker injuries did not differentiate between housekeeper injuries suffered while changing sheets or scrubbing bathrooms, so it is difficult to ascertain which of the problems posted in SB 432 would be most effectively addressed by passing the new law.

The question still remains – Are fitted sheets really the most important issue facing California? If the answer to that question is yes, I offer a compromise solution – something called “The Sheet Keeper.”

H/T – The Los Angeles Times -

Comments (571)

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  • Uechi
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:07am

    California the Marxist land of fruits and nuts, Where’s a good earthquake when you need it? Unbelievaable BS.

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    • chazman
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:37am

      They should ‘fit’ a sheet around this woosie’s neck and hang him from the nearest palm tree!

      Calling all conservatives still stuck in CA! Come east into the light! Escape from the dark sickness known as California Liberal Marxism!

      I lived in LA back in the early 80′s. I moved back east after three years because I hate California. I feel as though I left an unbelievable evil behind me when I drove over the border into AZ!

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    • old white guy
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:39am

      fruits and nuts, that does not even get close to describing the idiocy that is california. jeez, 900 bills waiting to be pushed,pulled or what have you. how can anyone possibly come up with 900 new items that any government needs to address unless it is total bs.

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:50am

      @Uechi
      Real cute…thanks a lot

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:59am

      7,400 Claims
      Means 7,400 bloodsucking DEMOCRAT Lawyers,, sucking the life out of CA. What percentage of Lawyers make up the CA legislature??

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:59am

      Great idea!!! Pile on!! How ’bout manditory suspenders for all sex offenders, too?

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    • robert
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:01am

      California is almost dysfunctional as well as being on the verge of economic collapse. Dwelling on nonsensical laws reveals how far the state has fallen into whirlpool of craziness and nonsense, especially since matters of importance by the liberal controlled government there are given last priority if they given any priority at all.

      They’ve been out of the news for a while, but don‘t regard their absence as meaning they’re back on track. They’re too far down the radical leftist road to ever straighten out without a complete cleansing of the entire state, beginning at the basic population level.

      They will be the first state to implode financially and the first to turn to armed conflict, which, by the way, is occurring right now on a low intensity level.

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    • GIDEON612
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:02am

      These progressive atheists need fitted jackets.
      The ones with the really long sleeves.

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    • Utah Conservative
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:03am

      I can‘t tell if you’re trying to be funny or if you‘re just crazy but think about how upset you’d be if you read your comment on HuffPo about conservative leaders.

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  • NOT A CRAZY
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:06am

    So illegals are allowed to file workman’s comp claims in California? It doesn’t suprise me since they collect on everything else there too.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:14am

      Heehee, that was my thought. If they can’t handle the work, I’m sure there are Americans who will. I stayed in a hotel in June in Missouri and the staff couldn’t even speak English. She could say hi and beyond that I got the dumb stare.

       
    • NOT A CRAZY
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:12am

      *Surprise

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    • ILUVAMERICA
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:27am

      government
      “GET the HELL out of MY ROOM!!”

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    • freeus
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:40am

      So you don’t want to tackle the big stuff, huh?

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:45am

      .
      Thank god they finally addressed this burning issue.
      Now like California has any other problems to deal with.

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    • 101
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:09am

      Kevin De Leon was also a bed wetter so his next bill to cover every mattress in plastic.

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    • mycomet123
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:18am

      Maid union workers unite. I don’t know though, I think it would be easier to commit suicide with a flat sheet than a fitted–it’s so hard to knot the bottom of a fitted sheet. Sooo time consuming- if your wanting to off your self —may want to pack a lunch first.

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    • WTH
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:29am

      When will California get serious about real issues? This is actually on someone’s priority list. Forget that the state is broke and that illegals are pouring into the state and applying for social program benefits. They chose to focus on plastic bags, gay marriage, “medicinal marijuana” and now sheets. These are not and should not be a priority! I‘m so glad I don’t live there.

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    • Timbotim
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:36am

      “It is also a bill that has the support of Big Labor. ” SEIU strikes again, folks! Sur-PRISE, sur-PRISE, sur-PRISE! When are they going to make it illegal for legislators to propose stupid, meddling, job-killing bills?

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    • Baron_Doom
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:46am

      This is flat out tyranny.

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    • becker88
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:18pm

      This is the comedy story of the day huh

      http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos

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    • Marci
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:58pm

      Not all, but a large portion of workers comp claims are fraudulent. Now, I’d like to know if they are going to be required to purchase fitted sheets from one factory……?? Look for the union label…..

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    • Jediusetheforce
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 1:35pm

      Yeah and then they will pass the savings on to the customer. LOL!!!

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    • Hula Calhoun
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 1:38pm

      I used to clean houses for a living. There were women in an age range of 20-something to 40-something. In the 3+ years I worked there, the only complaint of back problems (worker’s compensation claim) was phony and the person was caught in her lies. And you can’t clean a bathroom without stooping, squatting and/or kneeling. It’s part of the job.

      I think more than likely the cause of back trouble with hotel cleaners is those heavy carts they have to push around. I imagine they are heavy.

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    • pavepaws
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 1:49pm

      Maybe it’s a case of Workmens Compensation abuse instead. Word gets around when someone comes up with a successful scam.

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    • t00nces2
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 1:52pm

      I thought the libs wanted gov’t out of the bedroom…

      Can’t you hurt your back having homosexual sex?

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    • Zoomie
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 2:00pm

      Have you ever tried folding a fitted sheet? Look for additional laws addressing this inefficiency. Perhaps a few more maids will be required to keep up with the folding chores. Un-freaking-believable.

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    • Lolly811
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 2:06pm

      ARE YOU KIDDING ME? The people from California are so damned stupid. What a ridiculous thing to wast our government time on. You have to bend or lift the mattress to put on fitted sheets anyway. With so much wrong with this country, you would think that the people of CA would have some better ideas to waste our governments time on. These people should be drowned like they used to do to runts of a litter.

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    • junkmaninohio
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 2:09pm

      Don’t forget tp put that mint on the pillow.

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 2:52pm

      Do not try to reason with these Liberals you must obey. These Liberals need to be treated like rabid dogs. Eating with forks will be next.

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    • mikem1969
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 3:09pm

      someone please nuke commiefornia and get it over with or at least let a massive 12.0 quake take it out. Anyone who still lives there deserves it. Anyone with any sense would have left already.

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    • docvet
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 3:20pm

      ZOOMIE -Good point (I still can‘t and I’m almost 70 years old).

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    • BORNONTHEFOURTHOFJULY
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 3:55pm

      Trust me! I used to be a Worker’s Comp nurse case manager for cases in California. Not only CAN and DO illegal’s file (BOGUS) worker’s comp claims–they CANNOT be deported as long as they have a case open, or are receiving treatment for it!!! California is one big CORRUPT group on doctors, chiropractors, physical therapists, and armoatherapists, and herbalists, etc, etc, who all refer bogus cases to one another, putting the “patient” on “TTD” (Total Temporary Disability) status, often for life!!!! The company I worked for, a once huge insurance company for worker’s comp totally closed down ALL California business and let all of us nurses go because they were losing money by the buckets-full. They could not even challenge a bogus case (with photos and tons of evidence) without going through months and months of litigation–again very costly. What a RACKET—the stories I could tell you. Sickening how they, as well as citizens, rip us all off with their well-protected lying and cheating.

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    • filene
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 4:32pm

      Back pain is difficult to prove. Perhaps if so many of them were not over weight they wouldn’t be having back pains. This new law is absurd! I am nearly 79 yrs old , had 7 children, worked in factories lifting heavy metal, as a computer operator lifting heavy disc packs, and as a waitress as second jobs in addition to my main job in a bank. I had back pain once in my life and taking a break from overwork soon healed it. Too many goldbrickers!

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    • Cindy in CA
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 5:48pm

      I am a Workers’ Comp Adjuster and according to CA Workers’ Comp law, illegals are entitled to workers comp benefits. Some will file a claim and collect temporarily disability payments and then they go to work elsewhere using a different name. So now they are collecting benefits plus their pay from their new employer. If you tried to prosecute them for fraud, they leave and go back to Mexico. Six months later they are back in the states working again. They just keep using different names and ss#.

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    • kabrown
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:53pm

      Not funny. I am UNITED STATES CITIZEN and I am forced to work as a housekeeper at minimum wage even though I EARNED two vocational certificates right out of high school, I am a married mother of two, AND I am a full-time university student. Oh and by the way, my English is perfectly fine. I love it when SOME, NOT ALL, people like to make incorrect assumptions. Just because I’m a housekeeper, doesn’t make me any less of a person. Thanks to those idiots in Washington, I have to work a minimum wage job, even though I am completely overqualified for a better paying job. I agree that this bill is a waste of taxpayer dollars, let’s all be nice and not make such negative assumptions. It’s people like me that everyone else forgets about.

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    • tutilal
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:54pm

      How do you think they survive???? they get an illegal job, get paid “under the table” get hurt, always the back (hard to prove different) get hook on all kind of medicnes (drugs) given by the insurance company, paid by the employer…..then they are “permanent disable” move back to their country…. and guess what…..
      The insurance company send their check to their country. They dont have to pay taxes or anything else, but if their checks are late.. they call the insurance company right away complaining.
      If they have to come back to a doctors visit, guess what…. the insurance company pays transportation, meals, hotels, etc, etc, etc.
      That is where your money and my money are going….
      Every thing for the illegals, free school, free housing, free everthing!!! lets stop it.

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    • EverVowed
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:55pm

      Yes, here in California, illegals are allowed to file work comp. As someone who had a serious spine injury and went through work comp in this state, I can tell you how insane the system is out here. I’d guess at least 90% of the other claimants I cam across in Southern California were Hispanic, most of them not english-speakers, and there was no penalty or punishment for illegals… on threat of being deported. And most of the other claimants I spoke with were openly and admittedly faking their injuries and taking advantage of the system. Makes it impossible for the honest folk.

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    • GOTT-EM-MAUSER
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:01pm

      This is no more RIDICULOUS than the FACT that Barrack Hussein Obama was ACTUALLY ELECTED by a majority in this country. When we have a Muslim, Communist, Racist, Halfrican, Shoe Shine Boy running this country, Exactly WHAT ELSE would anyone EXPECT???

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    • incatnito
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:36pm

      If someone will sponsor me, I’ll gladly move myself, my mom and 100 yr old grandmother from CA. I live in a small rural town 80 miles from Reno. The majority of people are “stuck” here….our unemployment rate is close to 16%. A lot of people would move, but they cant afford to. The fruit-and-granola state isnt all loonies. Unfortunately the idiots with all the money get heard while the sane people are trampled upon. PS anyone notice when you apply for a job you have to be able to speak Spanish? People cant get a job in their own country because they dont speak a foreign language…how ridiculous is that??!!! I’m Caucasian and fast becoming an endangered species. I need the wildlife federation to come in an save me I guess. Maybe I can relocate by putting a windmill on my roof and get a green tax deduction at the same time?

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    • Silence is Golden
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 12:19am

      Loriann12

      Do you honestly believe Americans will do that type of work? You must be joking. Most Americans think they are better than anyone else on this planet! Why would they even dare to do work that is laborious? Were lazy and need illegals to do the hard work for us. If we let them in to work when times are good why do we demand the jobs now and kick them out when the economy is bad? The least we can do is be fair to these people.

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    • liberum1776
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 8:47am

      Why should California get serious with the big issues, they will be bailed out by us anyway. Get to the important issues, like workers comp for illegals. Odd, nobody (I think Glenn did mention this) mentions that many minorities (Legal) lost jobs as a result of the illegal population taking the jobs at hotels. I’m sure these minorities are really interested in the facts (sarcasm). If you think California legislators are funny, Massachusetts had a few joke bills as well: While riding in cars, dogs would have to wear seatbelts (the “rep” that put this one up said he was asked to do so by a constituent…I’m sure if that person asked him to jump off a bridge, he would have) and, the topper, every year a law which would allow a person to use any bathroom they wanted (male or female) is brought up. So, if you happen to see a hot women walk into the womens bathroom, you can say to yourself “I feel like a women today” and follow her in. Or, how about if you are a freak that likes little girls, you can head right into that bathroom (or a teacher who likes her students a little to much). So, California is nuts and apparently close to being as nuts as Massachusetts. Solution (which will never happen in MA or CA is to vote them out, but the stupid people won’t do it).

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    • megaziodss
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 8:56am

      this is really stupid can not belive these nut jobs
      check out this site please you will like it read the one about illegals

      http://peoplehurtingamerica.blogspot.com/

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    • liberum1776
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 8:56am

      @Silence is Golden
      Americans were doing ALL those jobs. The reality is that if the wage is proper, Americans will do any job. The problem is the wage is not proper because the companies don’t have to worry about being reported. Prior to all the illegals doing the jobs, people actually got paid a great wage doing these things (my sister used to work the farms in the summer for instance). The argument that “Americans” won’t do the job is completely false. It is based on lies propagated by those who want illegal labor. This labor is akin to slave labor whether you wish to admit it or not. The same reason given for keeping slaves is the same reason companies use today to hire illegals. It is the same reason the South gave for keeping slaves: “American‘s wouldn’t do the job”. That is NOT a reason to violate the law or validate why someone who has broken into our country to live here.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 11:28am

      The only reason I like fitted sheets, is they don’t pull out, but in hotels, they are changed each day. The only thing I don’t like about fitted sheets, is they are a bio*ch to fold. If his mommie hurt her back putting on sheets, perhaps she needs a different job.

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    • seriously12
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 6:54pm

      U are crazy! americans won’t do those jobs and when they do they are the ones who complain! you need to do some new research and realize that illeagles arnt monstors. they are humans, who were unfortunately born into poverty and come to the US to try and make a difference in their lives. So if you hate foregners coming to your country so much, then vote for some people who actually care about the whole world, not just how much money they can shove into their pockets and how many bombs they can drop a year.

      Becoming a citizen costs an arm and a leg, and I bet more than half the american population couldn’t pass the tests needed to become legal! People need to get their heads out of their asses and see that the US is not so wonderful, they just rob and steal and take all they can……and leave the rest of the world with absolutley nothing. these people arnt poor because they choose to be poor. They are poor because they were born poor, just like their parents and their parents parents, who would be working on farms selling their hard labored crops for dirt cheap or in sweat shops making the clothes you buy in walmart. Ignorance isnt bliss and speaking out of your ass like you know what your talking about dosn’t make you look patriotic…just like a talking ass!

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:05am

    Commiefornia strikes again.Next they will make Gay Marriage Mandatory and eating meat a crime.

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    • Bruce_Almty
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:02am

      It’s Kalifornistan….Even Mexico does not want it back, that’s why they deport all their criminals across the boarder.

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:17am

      Isn’t that a contradiction in terms? How can you be gay and not be a meat-eater?

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    • Vickie Dhaene
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:31am

      I think the idiots that still live in and vote in California deserve everything they get. INSANITY !!!

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    • korbin
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:13pm

      Eating meat and gay marriage? dont gross me out please. Commiyfornia will probably make it manditory to eat the meat of gay’s Something like that, it’s Monday give me some slack.

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    • 1proud_Texan
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 1:29pm

      Today is “meatless Monday”

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    • llotus
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 2:29pm

      If you cant take the heat in the kitchen…..go back where you came from. Every jod that is physical hurts your back!. Never heard American maids whining and gettin bills passed to make work “easier”. If flat sheets are and were good enough for American maids they are dam sure good enough for illegals. You know that the guests of the hotels are going to be the ones that pay for their easy sheets. No more tips. Lotus.

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    • WeDontNeedNoStinkingBadges
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 7:36pm

      Californians would save QUITE A BIT MORE if they FIRED all the legislators and other office holders. Then, to further help, they could be put to REAL work … like dog-catchers, street sweepers, and illegal alien underwear cleaners (before exportation — America has a bigger heart than Mexico).

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  • drago
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:05am

    Its Californica, what do you expect.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:15am

      I guess too many of the “rent by the hour” hotels were getting complaints of the sheets coming undone. My mom, a former nurse, still prefers flat sheets over the mattress, and “hospital” corners.

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    • My Two Cents
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:13pm

      I expect bankruptcy.

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    • Cameraman
      Posted on August 17, 2011 at 8:51pm

      I agree! Can”t we the US just give Commiefornia back to Mexico? Does the KKK Use Flat or Fitted Sheets in Commiefornia? Gotta Love those Commie Democrats in the Land of Fruit and Nuts!

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  • blindpig
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:05am

    Do California residents have no shame? The stupidity of a society that continues to elect morons that pass this type of legislation is astounding. You know that eventually our dollars are going to be spent bailing these fools out.

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    • cowpill
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:15am

      But these dinks elected these fools, they get what they deserve.

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    • Incredulous321
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:32am

      Our money has already been used. California has received more Obama stimulus money than any other state. If I crunched the numbers, they’ve gotten more than most states combined. Those life guards need their 6 figure salaries, and their teachers are too stupid to save some money, so we had to bail out their teacher pension funds.

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    • Xkiller
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:41am

      You KNOW what will happen…these jackwagons will pass that law and two years down the road, there will be lawsuits over wrist injuries and carple tunnel injuries due to having to ssstttrrreeettcccchh those dang sheets. That elastic can be tough stuff…..

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    • freeus
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:45am

      South of LA County is different, however not big enough to make a difference, so we don’t get represented. I use to live in upstate NY and it was the same way, the liberals in NYC ran the state.

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    • This_Individual
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:05am

      We residents of California have lost control of our government. Although this law wil not be allowed to pass,
      the unions and the federal government have usurped our capitol. Believe me, we do get out and vote. But even though we are making our voices heard, The People‘s Republic of Sacramento has given in to the federal government’s trashing of our states constitution. Either we kick these unions out of our government, or the formerly soft sound of secession will ascend into a loud roar. Just keep in mind that most of the residents in California are NOT represented in our capitol. And those of you bad-mouthing my state have no idea what you’re talking about. So, either find some way to help us out, or SHUT THE (explative) UP. Sit back and keep watchin your tv, and listen to the planes fly over your ignorrant heads. CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC!

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    • ConsiderThis
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:21am

      @ This Individual
      I think we understand but how can we help other than to suggest Californians stop electing liberals?

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    • Incredulous321
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:29am

      Let’s see. We have to pay for you and shut up at the same time? My brother has lived in so Cal his whole life, and he’s pro union, democrat voting, and Obama loving. You say the peoples vote doesn’t count. I say you’re wrong. You are getting what you’ve voted for.

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    • Incredulous321
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:33am

      And, by the way, we ignorant people that don’t live on the coast are tired of a-holes like you calling us ignorant. You Californians are the ones that are broke, represented by Boxer and Pelosi, and pass sheet laws, so bite me!

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    • AHLB
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:15pm

      I know to the rest of the country Californians appear ignorant, liberal fools, but this is not the case entirely. There are MANY conservatives here, it‘s just that our votes don’t count, LITERALLY. The amount of voter fraud that goes on in this state is beyond compare. They bus them in over the border to vote REPEATEDLY with “absentee” ballots. They have illeglas vote at the polls, then when you show up later in the day, “sorry you already voted – here’s a provisional ballot (that won’t be counted)” We even had the head of our local county registrar of voters CHANGING THE SIGNATURES of absentee ballots, so that they could vote in the voters name. (she has since been fired, but so what? damage done) We had one country vote at 101% in 2008. No, the thing Californians should be held accountable for is allowing this crime to continue, not for those frauds in office. WE, the CITIZENS of California, did NOT put them there. Other than the large cities of Los Angeles, San Fransisco and Sacramento (and a few hippie beach towns) MOST of California CITIZENS are conservative. We just have no voice. The “officials” seem to be more concerned with a “fair vote” in foreign countries than they are for a “fair vote” here.

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    • SanDiegoCountyCitizen
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 1:19pm

      I have found the biggest problem in California is that it’s “anything goes” attitude attracts the socialists and outcasts from other states. Combined with the tens of millions of communist-anarchist leaning anchor babies from Mexico, and that sir, is how California was lost.

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    • Trailblazer
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 1:42pm

      Not all of us living in this god-awful place support these pot smoking hippies and their lunatic laws!

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    • rocker98
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 1:44pm

      I left California when I was 26 (1982). I remember a road sign that I saw every day on my way to work that should explain it all. “The problem in California is apathy. But, nobody cares”

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    • incatnito
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:42pm

      Three people in my house and none of us voted for the idiots running the state. Unfortunately, idiots seem to out populate sane people here. I’d move if I could, but cant afford to.

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  • MOHAWK SAVAGE
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:05am

    Just imagine how many people will be injured when the sheet hits the fan.

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  • Al J Zira
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:03am

    Oh my God. Are they also going to check the mattress tags while they’re at it? Since this comes from a state that gave us Nancy Pelosi I’m not surprised. It’s the lame leading the lame.

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    • afishfarted
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:08am

      How much longer will it take the democrat voter to understand their party is now completely socialsit and are not the least bit interested in freedom, personal responsibility, or just plain ‘ol common sense?
      The dem voter is generally a very good person–their understanding of the Constitution ain’t worth a lick though

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    • davida61
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:56am

      And don’t forget Barbara Boxer.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:58am

      The dems I know try to make everything their business and will stab you in the back as soon as it is turned.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:12am

      Anonymous which is why they love the Muslims so, that is one of the primary life lessons taught in the koran.

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    • SlimnRanger
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:21am

      and don’t forget the lonny Barbara Boxer

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    • starman70
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 5:30pm

      Also don’t forget Sheila Jackson Lee and Henry Waxman. They represent the thinking of most Commiefornia politicians. It seems that every day some idiotic moron in California dreams up some other idiotic law. They must have a large monetary prize to be awarded to the politician who dreams up the most outrageous law of the year.

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  • drhunt
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:02am

    None of this surprises me. As a third gen Californian, I’ve seen over-regulation play a major role in destroying the greatest State in the union. Add to this type of imbecilic government intrusion, the liberal agenda of a welfare State, illegal immigration, DREAM Act passage, union thuggery, high taxes and over-bloated State and local governments…and it’s no wonder the eighth largest economy in the world has been driven into the dirt by >30 years of liberal rule. How big is our State government, you ask?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_state_agencies

    Read it and weep.

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    • 65Mustang
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:24am

      You couldn’t pay me to live in this ________state. I can’t think of a word that describes the ignorance of California.

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    • drhunt
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:58am

      65Mustang-this used to be a GREAT State. We were once the 5th largest economy in the world, and at one time, were the “engine’ that drove the US economy…sending federal tax dollars to other states for their needs. Now…as California goes, so goes the US…into the ditch because this State has been driven into the ditch from the liberal agenda. Anyone that wants to see where we’re going as a country, only needs to look at what has happened here in California.

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    • BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:18am

      65Mustang-

      Careful what you say. I SWORE- swore. I’d never live in CA. Alas, my husband’s job was suppose to relocate us to Arizona, but first he had to do 3-6 months training here in California. That was last October. Those of you who may have not had a US public education can figure out the math. We have recently asked the company, “so, what’s up with this relo? are we moving on to Az. or not?” The response was devastating. With the economy the way it is and so much uncertainty, the company is reluctant to move forward. We were told that we are not a priority- right now. And, what may be worse, if things don’t turn around, the program may fail altogether and my husband may end up laid off. I would have NEVER moved here knowing it would be for more than just a couple of months. AND- for what it’s worth, CA. is everything it is cracked up to be.

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    • Persimmon Knob
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:28am

      Mustand—I can think of two right off the top.
      They are, unfortunately, ——————-“Buenos Dias” !!

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    • KingDork
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 1:06pm

      Yeah I was born and raised here all my life and saw things decay. It is unlivable here in California and as soon as I can afford to, I’m moving out and not looking back.

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    • This_Individual
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 4:23pm

      Good 65. Just keep looking up at those planes flying over your state.

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    • Charles O
      Posted on August 16, 2011 at 4:14pm

      I was reading a post back about 2008 that North Korea would soon have Nuke Tipped Missles capable of reaching the Left (West) Coast of the USA. My response was SO WHAT, it would be no big lose, and would actually benefit the rest of the Nation, except for the fall out.

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  • atechgeek
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:02am

    Come On San Andres !!!!!!! We’re with you !!!!

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  • Speak without Fear
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:01am

    So I wonder how many of those work injury claims were actual injuries and how many just wanted to collect a paycheck while at the beach and get some drugs prescribed by the doctor.

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    • MagnumForce
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 6:46pm

      Let’s see…based on my own admittedly cynical opinion, I’m going to make a wild guess, and say about 90% of them

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  • Steve
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:01am

    and my F&c*en tax dollars are helping bail out this state.

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:00am

    Government is the problem.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:17am

      And the Tea Party is the solution….we need SMALLER government, not no government. Get out of our personal lives and the lives of businesses that hire people. That’s going to make it more expensive to stay in a hotel, which is already expensive enough.

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    • muhamadhater
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:22am

      Dam straight Its the government that is the problem..and who runs the government? polititions, we need 2 get rid of these idiots and government. and put people with common sence in the white house GOD fearing people who want 2 make this country great like it once was!! I* am so sock of what has become of this country and its the polititions that have done..Yes we vote for them cause they tell us everything we want 2 hear then once they get there its all about whats gonna help them, I be willing 2 bet that senteor kevin de douchebag didnt mention that he would be putting fitted sheets on every hotel bed, in his campain when he was running for his position..most polititions are momma boys who havent even seen what its like 2 have it rough, most have probably never even made there own beds..bunch of biatches..if we get rid of most of these panty waiste polititions we could probably make this country great again!!

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    • DarthMims
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:40am

      I don’t know, I think that the government has done some pretty nice things for us over the years. I agree that there can be too much of a good thing, like this sheet thing, but overall I still give the U.S. Federal Government a better grade than any other country in the world.

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:57am

      And believe me, there are PLENTY of us Tea Partiers he. It’s just that the contributors (taxpayers) who were able to escape, already have. Now we’re outnumbered by “takers” and illegals.
      The electronic voting machines are ‘adjustable.’ The mexican lobby/socialists have a stronghold on the state

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    • This_Individual
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 11:06am

      STUCK. Let’s take our capitol back!

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:00am

    Hey, the cops need something to keep them busy. It‘s not like there’s any real crime in California or anything. Most criminals vote Democrat anyway so cops can’t touch them.

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  • Ex_Masshole
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:59am

    I have a better idea. Make it illegal for people to lie about their ability to lift things, crouch, kneel, etc, when they apply for a job that requires those things. Rather than collecting disability checks, these people should be fined for lying on their job applications.

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    • muhamadhater
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:29am

      hey they probably lie 2 get the job cause they want 2 work and not collect and be a burden on this country..atleast there willing 2 try and work..I respect them for that!!

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    • Ex_Masshole
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 10:26am

      Sure. Because collecting a disability check is not a burden on anyone. If changing sheets and cleaning toilets is too difficult for them, one would think that they could have gotten jobs putting burgers in a sack.

      For what it’s worth, we’re talking about SEIU members here, not your average worker. I’m not claiming that their injuries are fake, but I don’t see the state making laws to protect hard-working people from the “dangers” of lifting hay bales, repairing tractors, installing fence.

      I don’t care from what angle you look at this, it’s ridiculous.

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    • azjeff1963
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 12:27pm

      EF STUPIDfornia…was born and raised there for the first half of my life….born in 63 and it was actually kind of desent then ….now when i visit my relitives even they concour its a efen Shiet hole and if they could they would leave….there is no ammount of $ that would make me move back to that god forsaken place….hope all you Dumb Libs fall off in the efen ocean…….l8tr ef tater.

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    • Trailblazer
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 1:47pm

      literally “lying” or figuratively?

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  • Grasshopper42
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:59am

    You’ve got to be kidding!

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  • SREGN
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:58am

    When everything is illegal we will all be criminals.

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  • jhonjhonson1
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:58am

    Smoke some more dope, Senator Braindead!!!

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  • HumbleCitizen
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:57am

    What do we expect from a country that says we’re smart enough to kill a human baby in utero but too stupid to buy the right light bulb? Expect more of the same.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:57am

    Indeed the nanny state is running out of control in the state of CA. And watch for the inevitable and final collapse under the weight of the taxes and legislation the people there will continue to suffer as more and more massive taxes and regulations descend upon them.

    Obtain a copy of Glenns book “Broke” and read the first chapter on the decline and fall of Rome and the Spanish Empires — this is the pattern happening to both the state of California, and on the larger scale America unless we turn it around.

    Anyone who does not have a copy of this book please obtain one and read it.

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    • AlansTigg
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:46am

      Thanks for the reminder, I have it at home, really need to read it

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  • boca_chica
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:57am

    If this is important, why doesn’t the hotel industry make the changes and prevent lost time injuries? regardless who is paying for the medical bills? There must be more to this. And the nanny state getting involved again.

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  • Perspective
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:56am

    Where does it end? They are already in the hole bad and now they want to wreck their tourism industry with ridiculous regulations. Does anyone with a brain besides Michael Savage live in California?

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:56am

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    They need to outlaw stupid……..

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  • ambuldog
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:54am

    Wiil they go after the Klan next ?

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    • pscully17
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:01am

      its all part of the free trade agreements with 3rd world fitted sheet makers … its the lastest attempt to redistribute our wealth through laws made by our own citizenry!!

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    • muhamadhater
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 9:05am

      Are u freakin serious??? I can not even believe the democrat moron who is worried about fitted sheets,in california..when we are watchin our country fall apart..these polititions never cease 2 amaze me. My GOD, what will they want next?..I can see it now, A new law that resteraunts have 2 serve there steaks cut into pieces cause some democrat may cut them selves if they have 2 cut there steak on there own…WOW just WOW

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    • BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
      Posted on August 15, 2011 at 1:26pm

      MUHAMADHATER-

      You realize that you probably just raised the next initiative for CA. Someone out there is saying, “now that’s not a half-bad idea!” Think of all the time patrons will save not having to slice through every tender piece of their ribeye! OMG! Think of the new jobs created. They can hire 5-10 workers who just hand carve steak into little pieces. Day after day after day. But, of course there will be some who will accidentally stab themselves or hurt their wrists from cutting all that steak and before you know it, the state will need a new policy enforcing restaurants to use robots or something.

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  • AlansTigg
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:54am

    WOW…and I thought the fish bridge was a huge waste of time and money

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  • hempstead1944
    Posted on August 15, 2011 at 8:54am

    If it were anywhere but California, no one would believe it !

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