No to Measure B. No to Government Waste.
Measure B is an unnecessary waste of taxpayer dollars that claims to end AIDS, but actually just hurts the Los Angeles economy and kills jobs.
Today from 9am PST to 10am PST, Steven St. Croix and others in the industry are asking ALL adult video companies, their social media directors, producers, directors, talent, crew, assorted executive and management people and THE FANS of adult films to Tweet, ReTweet, post on their blogs or websites, link to or embed the following two NoToMeasureB clips for one hour between 9am PST and 10am PST.
As I've written before, I believe AHF is not motivated by genuine concern for the health and safety of adult entertainers. Instead "the ballot measure may be a cynical ploy to motivate more social conservatives to vote" in California elections in an otherwise liberal and Democratic area. In this way it is not different than the anti-gay marriage and anti-immigrant ballot measures being used to mobilize social conservatives and backwards people to vote this November in many states.
Taxpayer dollars are being wasted in AHF's bizarre crusade (as well as supposedly charitable contributions being spent on unnecessary electioneering). This only seems t serve serve to raise AHF esteem amount their peers in the anti-sex counterevolution, like the Pink Cross Foundation, and get free media for more vain self-promotion, without reducing the public health dangers of sexually transmitted diseases.
AHF would better serve those at risk of contracting STIs by distributing condoms and performing STI testing to largest number of persons, instead of obsessing about the rigorously self-testing adult entertainment community. Or AHF could focus on proving any worth of the ordinance adopted by extraordinary and undemocratic methods to circumvent their electioneering stunt during the primary, where LA Councillors said,
“We can spend literally millions of dollars on an unnecessary election or we can do the right thing for free”
AHF is wasting valuable taxpayer dollars on a cynical ballot measure in big election year in the service of far right religious extremists like Shelly Lubben's Pink Cross and benefiting Romney, et al. Romney has committed to a war on pornography, to restricting our constitutional right to free speech and self expression.
Please join in or at least faithfully represent this effort for what it is in your own blogging, news gathering and writing today. Vote No on #MeasureB and vote no to government waste. Vote No to preserve artistic, aesthetic freedom in protected free speech. Thank you.
UPDATE - for the comment trolls here is info you requested about the ordinance, legal perspective: Here is the important information about the “Condoms in Porn” Ordinance – it will ONLY apply to UNINCORPORATED areas of Los Angeles County. Almost all of the populated areas of Los Angeles County fall outside those areas. Here is a quote from John Krattli, Los Angeles County Counsel from a Memo prepared for the County Board of Supervisors on July 23, 2012;
8:40 AM PT: Examples of tweets from performers engaging in this now:
@jizlee: While I'd personally love to see more barriers used in porn, mandating condoms is NOT the way to make it happen. #VoteNo #MeasureB
@jizlee: Porn performers can make safer sex choices based on assessed risks. (Tools: testing, barriers, type of sex act.) #VoteNo #MeasureB #sexwork
@ElaDarling: I don't need govt supervision in order to have sex or perform my job. No On Measure B No On Government Waste Video 2: http://youtu.be/...
@mrwhiteacre: CompAHF: Follow The Money: http://youtu.be/... #NoToMeasureB