It’s an example of big government overreach gone insane: A California woman who had the nerve to cook a meal for a pot-luck dinner club is facing PRISON!
The charge? Mariza Ruelas was allegedly operating a business without a license and selling food without a permit, which could supposedly lead to safety issues with the food she served.
“It’s basically a health code violation,” Robert Himelblau, supervising deputy district attorney of San Joaquin County, told the Stockton Record.
But this wasn’t someone running a restaurant.
This was a POT LUCK CLUB – a group of friends on Facebook swapping meals.
You know how Facebook is. This group got big, eventually involving thousands of people.
But at its heart, it remained a place for people like the 37-year-old mother of six to trade recipes, kitchen tips and even fully cooked dishes.
Sometimes, members of the club would kick in a few bucks when they didn’t have a dish to share, just to cover the cost of ingredients, like the ceviche – a raw fish dish – that Ruelas became known for.
“I gave the same food away that I fed to my family never would I bring them any harm,” she wrote on Facebook.
In this case, an undercover cop infiltrated the group as if it were a terrorist cell waiting to attack the nation with delicious home-cooked meals.
The Nanny Staters claim someone in a pot-luck club might prepare a meal in unsanitary conditions. But if that’s a risk you’re worried about, here’s a better solution: DON’T join a pot-luck dinner club!
Ruelas and five others were busted. The others copped a plea deal, but Ruelas says she was given a much stiffer offer because she had the nerve to exercise her First Amendment rights and complain about this injustice on social media.
Even worse, because she demanded a trial, spiteful prosecutors added more charges that could lead to TWO YEARS in prison over this nonsense.
San Joaquin County Chief Deputy District Attorney Sherri Adams told the Los Angeles Times that Ruelas is “making more of this than it is” as if it’s all her fault that the DA’s office is acting like an ugly bully.
“It’s not the big, bad D.A.’s office trying to take this woman down,” Adams told the newspaper.
Just one problem: The big, bad D.A.’s office IS trying to take this woman down, because that’s what a D.A.’s office does… by definition… when it decides to prosecute.
Adams even admitted as much, flippantly saying Ruelas would likely get “no more than” 10 days in jail.
Even more outrageously, the Times noted that she laughed when she said it… as if that’s somehow a vacation and not a terrifying ordeal for the six kids who will be without their mother.
The case is so absurd even other prosecutors are publicly griping that it’s an embarrassment to their profession.
“We don’t dispute the legality,” Motecuzoma Sanchez told the local ABC station. “Our argument is the priorities. We’ve got unsolved murders. We’ve got a high crime rate – a violent crime rate that is on the increase, not the decrease.”
And now, people have one less place to trade delicious home-cooked meals.
–The Horn Editorial Team
Main Street says
She needs a better lawyer.
benevolent dictator says
She shouldn’t need a lawyer as the charges are an over reach by the government because there are too many government workers with nothing to do so they have to find a problem that does not exist. Its called Parkinson’s law.
diane says
Is it not ironic that the government allows us to eat poisonous food like products
ch says
Yes as they allow Monsanto to completely destroy our food groups with their genetically altered foods
Rick says
Only in America>And they let 1st Amendment protestors riot, burn R flag, loot, destroy property
SW says
Jail time for shared recipes and pot luck food. Monetary donations for ingredients. Next Thing the government will do is make you account for the number squares of toilet paper used in a day. Bored people with nothing better to do. Restaurants used to donate their food that had to be disposed of until some gd alarmist decided someone might get sick, (someone with no food might get fed). Hockey like padding for kids on bikes. Don’t go out and play, strange danger is everywhere.
rat bastard says
To call this situation pathetic is a gross understatement. The folks in the DAs office need to get a life and stop interfering with normal people.
patricia wright says
u got that right having a club getting together to eat a meal they want to put her in jail. good god whats next cant eat in our back yard to bbq and a party? they better put there law degree to the killers,drugies,drugs, and all the other stuff that really hurts someone that a club
Arnie says
It can only happen in California.
Arthur Hartsock says
Hey, California cops, how many wanted murderers and rapists do you have running loose on your city streets? Probably so many that you’ve lost count? Well, get to work on important cases and leave these minor rules violators alone. If someone gets sick at one of these events there is a means to collect damages through civil courts. You police get to work on important issues.
Tweeter says
The government is overpopulated by employees of the democrat politicians to enhance support for lifetime power. With nothing to do and in order to make money for their paychecks, they arrest those innocent law abiding citizens accusing of violations.
Potluck has been a tradition since the beginning especially during especial events. Now under the democrat control, it became a crime.
They ignore the crimes of their own leaders.
1958Debs says
Not just Democrats, law enforcement actually swings the other way. It’s the “endowed” few morons getting power over the many. As in thousands? Geez. Does that mean that when we have a potluck at work have some people kick in some money and someone picks up the cooked meat that we’re in “violation”? Some people can’t cook, so they kick in a few bucks.
Ms.Vickie T says
That’s just another reason that President Elect Trump wants to DRAIN THE SWAMP! There are just too many employees that are worrying about snagging someone like this, but say they don’t have time or money to deal with the really bad behavior such as murder, kidnapping, rape, etc. For Pete’s sake!! I pray that we can turn this country around before it’s too late!! A good majority of Californians are real nut jobs. I heard they are considering seceding from the Union. It can’t happen fast enough!! They can take Oregon and Washington with them!! It reminds me of the little kids who were charged with running a lemonade stand without a license. It’s INSANE!!
Norbert Ueberschaar says
This is hussein obama’s country!
Norbert Ueberschaar says
CALIFORNIA IS THE BIGGEST GARBAGE DUMP OBASMA SURVIVED ON IT!!
1958Debs says
What would that have to do with the president? Some of the “reddest” states tend to have a few cops and prosecutors that bring shame upon their profession.
Terry says
So true, The 60’s destroyed the State. Like organized crime.
Catherine Pizzotti says
Don’t worry President Trump. That will not happen any more
1958Debs says
And just how is he going to stop this? I have yet to hear about any law enforcement being held to their acts, no matter what the party in power. Only by suing for violation of their civil rights has there ever been any justice.
Linda says
this so stupid come on now u made it clear she should do this and make them get a license or stop what they r doing but most of all stop putting it on the media. DAHHHHHHHHHHH. but jail come on u didn’t put that woman who ran for president in jail so let her go now
Rob says
This county in my opinion has a very incompetent DAs office. I have served as an expert witness in many bogus cases there involving insurance fraud. They never build a case on beyond any reasonable doubt, and instead go with cases built on preponderance or circumstantial. This is where innuendo and assumption are masqueraded to appear as fact. That’s fine for civil court, but these goofs use preponderance as their threshold in criminal cases! Idiots!
chuck garrison says
Every housewife who cooks family meals may not be doing it safely so lets inspect all homes for food violations. Rediculous!!!!!!!
Carol says
Yep.
Jack Kinch says
Yes, a better lawyer. Beyond the Constitution. Too much FedGov, too much demo.
Jack Kinch says
This is when the ACLU should get involved
ricarrdo says
Over a cheese casserole?
ricarrdo says
We need a less tyrannical government
ricarrdo says
We need a better government or much less government. However this is the government the peasant class demanded. Be careful what you ask for. Ill bet the farm these people were Clinton supporters. They got what they asked for, now they are complaining?
Terry A says
This is just as insane as our current legal and government systems
Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Colonel, USA (Ret) says
We have neither a Government nor a Legal SYSTEM. they both operate a la carte. Pick an offense (Crime) from column A and a penalty from column B. just keep picking combinations until you find one that is close. To hell with the Constitution, legal statutes, municipal codes or the United States Code. it is no wonder the American public is fed up with how the legal authorities bend, break and manipulate the laws under which we live. It appears that every prosecutor, regardless of jurisdiction, picks and chooses rather than follow the letter and intent of the law. The judiciary has become a major part of the problem with which every citizen is faced day in and day out. It is no longer a case of “Have I broken the law?” Rather, it is a case of how is the cop in the police car going to act or react. Every Police or law enforcement agency with which I am familiar operates according to what is sometimes called an SOP or Standing Operating Procedures. They are too frequently NOT followed resulting in a disagreement between Citizen and Cop.
Dallas Yvonne Auldridge says
MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY. PERFECtlY STATED COLONEL
tcurry says
Well, who voted in the corrupt government you are screaming about? A thought. Does this family collect any type of government assistance?
Carol says
This case exemplifies the moral frustration and legal disgust with the system of justice deterioration and invasiveness in the ordinary lives of Americans.
Wonder why they voted for change.?
Carol says
Yep.
Ernst says
Dumbass California needs to get its priorities in order. Potluck dinners is obviously not a commercial enterprise, and a jury will uphold that. Stupid. Go solve a crime. Deport a few drug dealers and murders.
MH says
ie. Church luncheons after service
Ms.Vickie T says
The thing here is that all of these people in the Potluck Club did so VOLUNTARILY! They were not forced to participate. They KNEW that the food from the other participants was not being prepared in a Health Department regulated and approved facility because their own kitchens weren’t. It’s no wonder that more and more people are filing law suits against the government agencies for false arrest. And when they win the suit, the taxpayer gets to pay the bill for the awarded amount. If they are so bored in their job that they have to resort to this kind of stuff, they have too many employees and need to have their force reduced in number and their budget cut.
Brad says
California should be booted out of the union.They are always so offbase and ridiculous.Anything for a dang dollar.They can do this while illegals steal daily and they do nothing at all about that.
Linda says
So true we just need more strong laws for all
Rita says
Since the crybaby liberals’ candidate Crooked Hillary lost, they have a petition going on social media to secede from the U.S. Just like the neighborhood bully who says if you don’t play my way, I’ll take my ball and go home. I say let them go. Let the honest intelligent people leave the state first (there must be SOME sensible adults there. Just leave the leftist loons and the nuts. They are really pushing for it. They haven’t thought that if they are no longer part of the U.S., their goods and services can’t be sold in the U.S. without a trade agreement. Plus there goes all their federal subsidy money. I say again, let them leave. We’ll all be better off.
Ms.Vickie T says
SHUSH UP! Don’t give them any reason to change their minds about leaving. I say the sooner they are on their own, the better for all of us. Let them establish their own little Cuba. They can keep their sanctuary cities, illegal aliens and migrants. But, when they leave, they won’t be able to be considered for re-entry to our union for 20 years.
Walt says
They are doing the same thing to not for profits that are trying to provide hot meals for the poor.
fran says
CALIFORNIA land loons and nuts glad I left in 1981 would never go back!!
connie Condra says
The People’s Republic of Kalifornia and the Left Coast. A bunch of communists–all of them
Dallas Yvonne Auldridge says
Lucky for you. Take a look around. News reporting more and more crime in every state. Due to all the fucking liberals.
Thomas C says
I moved here from Florida last year to be near my wife’s family. This state will be a banana republic in a couple of years. What I have seen and heard in Ca. Is unbelievable. They want to secede from the country, good luck they don’t deserve to be part of the U.S. I am in Florida now looking for a home.
gene smith says
This would qualify as ” Compounded Stupid.”
Danielle Johnson says
Cali,such a crazy place. Run by busy body nut jobs.How special .Leave the Mom alone.
Melba says
What you have here is a bunch of bullies in the D.A.s office who need to be arrested and jailed for using their positions to prove they can do whatever they want to do to the American citizens of this country. Cases like this and the “lemonade stand” scandal just show how stupid they are and why people no longer respect the police and lawyers of this country.
Nona says
Well said Melba.
John G. says
Makes perfect sense considering all of Hillary the “Hun’s” issues – e-mails, Benghazi and the Foundation et all go unanswered, but the government can crack down on a potluck dinner.
Thank God a competent, sober thinking individual will be assuming the Presidency in January so all this PC B. S. will come to an abrupt end.
Dallas Yvonne Auldridge says
WELL SAID. WHO RESPECTS IDIOTS
SW says
Was it a “terrorist” potluck club? Perhaps they are hiding hand grenades made to resemble potatoes in the beef stew.
lizaz says
Officials in CA spend too much time stoned and their brains have been negatively affected. This is an example of why we haven’t been in CA for many years and have no plans to visit there ever. I suspect a lot of CA citizens may not be happy with the newly elected President. They probably see their power waning away…….
Dallas Yvonne Auldridge says
GOD I HOPE SO. IT’S TIME TO TAKE THESE EFFING LIBERAL, WOMEN’S LIB, MOVIE STARS, SPORTS PLAYERS ETC. ON THE TRAIN TO KNOW WHERE.
My2cents says
How about going after Monsanto, a real criminal with all their cancer causing chemicals poisoning our food. What? That’s liable to cost the state millions in legal battles,never mind go after the potluck dinner lady I’m sure you can win that one. Over reaching
A..h..es.
Hank says
If a renegade prosecutor can go after a small group like this, there is no reason that church-sponsored “potlucks” couldn’t also be targeted. Where have our freedoms gone? This comes close to attacking freedom of assembly.
Putting a “snitch” at the potluck is reminiscent of governments that encouraged citizens to report neighbors who were criticizing the government. It appears that the charges were enhanced upon the person who objected to the prosecuting attorney’s overbearing approach ..
john d says
I left CA in 1984 and have never looked back or regretted it!
Biggest al says
You all are right on . People with too much time on their hands do stick their noses where it does not belong.Nazis.
RON says
I BEAT YOU BY 10 YEARS ! AND I WAS BORN THERE. I LOVE CALIF. OF 40-50 YEARS AGO BEFORE ALL THE LIBTARDS MOVED IN.
Fran says
Just plain NUTS!!!
Randall Thompson says
The Persecuting Attorney(s) are the ones who need to be taken to court, tried and convicted for violating these peoples Constitutional Rights! Their overreach in this and thousands of other violations need to be stopped!
Caroline Cofer says
Hah! You are just ” babies”…I left in 1960 and have never gone back. Will never go back, either. Our umm old-fashioned name for L.A. was non PC. It was ” Granola-town…full of nuts, flakes and fruit”. Now it seems it is even worse.
And Sanctuary cities?? What a stupid idea that is!
Patricia Bennett says
Called ‘The Continental Tilt.. All the nuts and fruit rolled to California’ Believe it or not that statement has been around for more than 50 years. Was raises in CA, left as soon as I was of ‘majority’, haven’t been back since.
Doug Rodrigues says
California….Land of ftuits and nots.
Bruce says
Thank God I left that land of MORONS like Jerry Brown. This guy must have been elected by voter Fraud. He has been killing California’s economy, not to mention this type of issue. It doesn’t surprise me that Ca. voted for Hillary. They are getting what they deserve by electing the Democrats. They can say good bye to owning a firearm, but good news, Pot will be legal.
Dallas Yvonne Auldridge says
WELL SAID. WHO RESPECTS IDIOTS
Cliff says
OK so some people live like low life’s in worse than disgusting rodent and bug infested conditions (yes inside their own homes). Besides being gross, it is more than true. If you are concerned, have the chief (club friend) send a 30 second video of their kitchen and the inside of their refrigerator. Sounds like that county needs their funding cut because they have way too much extra money on their hands to do stupid things with. I guess there is no dirty dining going on in their area that needs their inspectors attention. I also NEVER heard of a restaurant owner getting 10 days for having health code violations, that might keep restaurants cleaner and safer.
Cap'n Five says
Maybe Facebook should be banned
Dallas Yvonne Auldridge says
WONDERFUL IDEA. NOW THATS A BUNCH OF LOSERS
Ms.Vickie T says
I feel like Facebook, Twitter and all the rest of those sites are used by people who want to waste time and their life. I often wondered if they even have a REAL life. I just never had the time or inclination to become involved with any of those social media things. I have many more and better things to do.
Vivian says
I left California after over 50 years of seeing it go into the toilet! Prices are off the charts for everything. Potlucks have been going on since I was little and beyond. What the hell are they thinking? The DA’s office needs to apologize to that woman. I hope she beats them soundly in court. They wouldn’t want me on that jury panel.
Dallas Yvonne Auldridge says
I THINK SHE SHOULD SUE THEM NAMING THE BITCH DA AS.DEFENDANT. GET HER DISBARRED. FATE WOULD BE WELL PAID.
CJ says
The FOOD GESTAPO!
Steve Johnson says
Communist California! Don’t expect justice there.
Ron Paynter says
This is really not a surprise. California is the worst state in the union for the idiotic laws and “crime prevention” programs,not to mention how the rulers don’t seem to give a damn about their citizens. I lived California for 7 years and was so glad to get away from the crooks and idiots in state government. If the populace had any sense,there would be a mass migration out of this screwedup state.
Carolyn Reilly says
Years ago a group of police raided a dinner party and put the guests on the floor at gunpoint; This occurred in California. the police felt it was suspicious for some reason. It was a fundraising dinner for Congressman Ron Dellums.
Dagonet says
This is what lawyers do, they try to validate themselves. They can’t write anything in simple English, they have to complicate things with not only legalease but with a foreign language, a DEAD language, actually, Latin! Lawyers make it impossible for people to do anything without them and they enable business and industry to get away with all kinds of ****. Who thinks Ohole wrote Obamacare himself, who underwrites for insurance companies and why are there laws that force (auto, health) insurance on us? Lawyers are the scum of the earth as they sell out our Republic to pad their own pocketbooks.
wvhillbilly says
Lawyer mentality: Someone once asked a lawyer, “What you charge me to answer two questions?”
His reply: “$400.00. Now what’s your other question?”
Larry says
another liberal brainless telling us what do in running our lives. Get rid of those brainless California morons.
adrian wallen says
California has always been picky. Just look at all the “shown to cause cancer in the state of California” labels you see on everything. You try driving across the border and you get stopped by inspectors looking for bugs in packages in your car because they don’t want new bugs to attack their vineyards. My brother and I had driven cross country from Viginia and the grill of our car had zillions of bugs stuck to the front and the inspector takes a look at it and gives us a smile. When I tried to get a job to flip burgers at the McD, I had to first take a food handlers course. (!!!!). I had already had a years’s experience as a vent nurse in Virginia but Cali required that I take an 8 hour ventilator class which luckily my employer paid for. I feel bad for the gal, but in Cali you have to be more careful.
Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Colonel, USA (Ret) says
Many of this Republic’s problems began when Thomas Jefferson and James Madison formed the Democratic-Republican party as a counter-measure to Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist big Government just getting going following th Constitutional Convention of 1787. Jefferson was President Washington’s Secretary of State, Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury. They disagreed on just how big the Federal Government should be and just how much power it should have. The die was cast, Andrew Jackson, a Democrat won the election of 1828 and thus began the corruption, “Patronage” and “Spoils” still hallmarks of today’s blatantly corrupt Democratic party.
This as covered quite well in my book, “Federalism vs Factionalism-How the Democratic Party Raped the Republic” a inexpensive, short, explosive book available from Amazon at this link: (https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-E.-Davis/e/B00IXWE0C6); all royalties are donated to Children’s and Veterans’ Charities. Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Colonel, USA (Ret) May of bless America and President-elect Trump. We need all the help we can get!
Ron says
This is California, what more could you expect from all those Liberals. Its their way or you are wrong. I hope they are successful in their attempt to “Calexit” then we can build a wall around California and keep them out as well.
Elizabeth Davis says
Stay in Calif and soon you will have no rights at all and can only say whatever when ask a question. Why don’t the search for the ones that have really caused a crime? Are they afraid they might find one and have to deal with it . There use to be many cottage industries but now no one can earn extra money because they are breaking the law. In my entire life I can think of no one hurting a person with a cottage industry or clubs just the gov pockets. Are they going after weight watchers, Atkins next. They are clubs. What if I want to have a Weight watchers group meeting with members and fix a meal am I going to be arrested or if I have friends over for a meal am I going to be arrested because I might feed them tainted food. That is the most asinine thing I have heard in a long time.
rick says
California, copmmonly known as MEXI – ?FORNIA, has gone to far.//////////////////
Sense when is it agaisnt the law to hold a pot-luck dinner where you have to have a PERMIT to do so. ????????????
LIBERAL CALIFORNIA is a prime exapmple of what can happen when BIG GOVERNMENT GOES TO FAR. ////////////////
Justin W says
Maybe the people of California should consider seceding from their state government rather than the United States. The state of California seems to embrace every counterproductive idea someone can invent.
I would agree with the author. If you question the cleanliness of the food preparation/handling, don’t eat it!!!
Clearhead says
Lynch Lorettta — AND this single digit I.Q. “D.A.” ! ! ! ! !
Philip Allen says
That is why I don’t and would not live in California. All there laws are stupid just like this one being applied to pot luck dinners. Look at California gun laws, they have just about outlawed any citizen owning or having a gun. Prices are higher for fuel such as gasoline and diesel. And Hollywood and it’s stuck up elites suck. Also all the Liberal Democratic Politicians suck too, I remember when water for crops were rationed to save some stupid darter fish out in California by the stupid US Senators and US House Of Representatives. Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer were just two of these Politicians involved in the darter fish story. It caused the US and California to import tomatoes from foreign countries because of water restrictions placed on farmers in California. Also California is a state which always comes up with stupid laws such as the transgender law where a person who’s a boy but feels like a girl etc. can use the women’s bathroom. Next thing California will want to do is make pedophilia legal. Well this is the crap that comes out of California and as far as I’m concerned California can fall into the Pacific Ocean. I have never lost a damn thing in California and never will. In my op[inion California sucks too.
Dee says
California Loves their Liberalism . This is what Big Government gets you . I bet if it was anyone from Hollywood the story would be different . Wake up and get the Bums out of office . We as a Nation just voted the Bums out !!
wvhillbilly says
Unfortunately the bums are not going to give up until they have destroyed the country. Even now they are busing people around, stirring up riots just like they did at Trump’s rallies, just like they did in Ferguson MO. The police need to identify the bums responsible for inciting these riots and clap them in jail.
If you don’t believe this, take a look at the Project Veritas website. They have undercover videos of DNC puppets bragging about how they do it.
Robert Hagedorn says
Raw fish can kill. If she had cooked the fish, the authorities may have ignored her.
SW says
Not if it’s sushi grade. No one force fed anyone. This is extreme paranoia and government overreach. Stop trying to control every single thing the people do.
JohnB says
Only in our Peoples Republic Of California under Moonbeam rule.
bakersfield hillbilly the deplorable 1 says
taint no repub. no more. now is democratic state R.I.P. CA.
David says
PEOPLE PLEASE… As a California resident, I can tell you that the people most upset with the DA’s position are Californians! If your state is somehow, “PURE” and does not have idiots of every kind in it’s government, from the School Board to the Governor’s office… You need to tell the rest of us. We Republican and Democrat “moderates” are also fed up with this BS, no matter what State it happens in. There is no division in the middle! Moderate’s lives in the true United States of America, where we accept the conservative and liberal views as the “norm”, and try to integrate it all into what works for the Nation, while not tampering with what already works and has been proven to advance our goals. Allowing immigration of people not friendly to the US is un-American! Hiring them under the table at slave wages is slavery! THESE ARE ALL BIG $ PROBS.
robert says
Big brother has too much time on its hands. What the f%#k is wrong with Cal. that they go after a potluck dinner situation. Had she poisoned someone or made lots on money and didn’t declare it on her taxes ,anything that would fall under some sort of legitimist law I might see this as having some merit. This is just too stupid for words. Who is the morrow that decided to bring this woman up on charges. He or she need s to go get a job at payless. They have clearly shown they don’t have the skills in take to be in government. Common sense is out the window on this one.
steve wilson says
California is one of the few states left in our country that does
not have a health law requiring food establishments to use
gloves when preparing food. Even their TV commercials show
people using bare hands to put together parts of a salad, etc.!
Now, they want to prosecute someone who is sharing her cooked
food with her friends?! (BTW.. cooking food gets rid of bacteria).
If this is a problem for the DA’s they better arrest themselves
(or EVERYONE ELSE) when they prepare Thanksgiving or Xmas dinner.
Yes, CA has some VERY weird “thingees”!
Arschloch says
California there they are, in the land of cooks and cars, fools one, fools all, they need to stand out in the hall, till the Principal paddles one and all.
Alberta Newlin says
Well, lets add to the list church suppers, collations after a burial, food served at weddings (attended by a few or hundreds), food served at family unions (everyone bring a dish), any club’s gathering that serves food brought by members, and so on and so on. I’ve just attended an oyster supper, prepared and co=hosted by a town’s fire station and church members. This has been a twice-a-year affair and I’ve attended every one since my children were teen=agers and they have all joined me in seniorhood…not a single pain in the tummy in all that time. The California idiocy seems to be the work of a single government entity there and they should be the ones taken to task about their uncalled for persecution of this woman. Has anyone heard of such action anywhere else? And…how does the President become responsible for the idiot out there who that thought his action was justified?
Rancher says
California, the land of fruits and nuts, what do you expect. This is the state that had a vote on whether porn stars should have to wear condoms, by the way I know you are dying to know the results, it was voted down. I am surprised that they also kept the death penalty which was brought to vote also.
Paul E says
Maybe they should send her to get the needle … that’ll learn her!!!
(PS. for those of you who are too stupid to understand sarcasm … don’t bother replying … you’ll only make a fool of yourself)
Rancher says
That is California, the land of fruits and nuts, what do you expect. This is the state that had a vote on whether porn stars should have to wear condoms, by the way I know you are dying to know the results, it was voted down. I am surprised that they also kept the death penalty which was brought to vote also.
Clarence Lipscomb says
This is the absolute perfect example of Government Regulation gone ‘over the edge’ crazy. Common sense is wanting here. This innocent woman has been put into a crock of s*** by these ‘legal idiots’ who need to be ‘bitch slapped’ by higher authorities and Nol Pros all charges as soon as possible together with an apology to the poor woman !!!
wvhillbilly says
RIDICULOUS!!!!
If that’s all they have to do, to bust up a harmless pot luck dinner club, these tyrants need to shut down and go home. This is like using a wrecking ball to swat a fly!
bakersfield hillbilly the deplorable 1 says
i was born in ca, parents moved often, i was raised all over the u s. i still think ca is one of the most beautiful states in the union, but when i read things about people being arrested for a potluck dinner it makes me ashamed to admit where i live. my church has a potluck lunch every sunday after services, guess we should all be arrested. this state has gone totally bonkers. think i`ll just move to texas i hear they still like my bible & my gun. ok so much for that, now how do we help this lady.
Phillip Lake says
Now this kind of stupid bullshit is exactly why people all over the country keep getting pissed off at the law and the courts. The streets are full of drug headed gang bangers and paid off protesters beating up innocent people because of the way they voted and these idiots arrest and promise to convict people for breaking bread. Damn what a bunch of idiots.
Ted Crawford says
It is, after all Del Norte de Mexico, formerly known as California! Home of Fruits, Nuts, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Barbra Boxer, Henry Waxman, Moonbeam Brown, Actors, Entertainers, Directors, Illegal Aliens and every manner of Ne’er do wells! We can only hope, through the phenomenon of massive Subduction and the cleansing effects of massive wildfires, thanks in part to Pelosi’s extreme efforts that dried up the San Joaquin Valley, America might soon be freed of this feted and festering Albatross of Leftist garbage!
Steve DeWildt says
I’m not so sure we got the whole story hear.
ricarrdo says
Hey, everyone stop complaining. They broke the LAW. Obviously the people voted these tyrants into office and these tyrants saw fit to create this law. So who is at fault? I think the libtards who did the voting.