Michael Bloomberg's assault on democracy and the free will of people just came to a halt. If this were a movie there would be a record scratch sound on the soundtrack, as someone with a brain, and realizing the Pandora's Box, can of worms, and any other cliche you can think of that the Soda Ban would ignite for the moment put a halt to the law.
For those not in the know, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the man who subverted democracy by allowing the city council to overturn a law that was enacted by popular vote, through the Health Department enacted a law that banned sugary drinks of 16 ounces or more. This includes 2 liter sodas with pizza deliveries, regardless of the fact that most people share two pies and a bottle of soda. This also doesn't include certain places that sell these drinks depending on how they are defined as an establishment.
This being the good old U.S. of A., a place that Bloomberg does not yet fully control, there is a lawsuit. So for now there is a freeze on the fizz!
Yay Judge Milton Tingling!
"The portion cap rule, if upheld, would create an administrative
Leviathan and violate the separation of powers doctrine," by straying
into territory that should belong to the elected City Council, not the
board appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Tingling wrote.
That, he wrote, "has the potential to be more troubling than sweetened beverages.
2 comments:
You left out the part about the law being "arbitrary and capricious"
mississippi has a new "anti-bloomberg law" that doesn't allow limits on any portion size. heh heh.
I think they are the most obese state in the Union
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