The Two Faces Of Public Service

No one visually embodies the type of person who has no business telling you or anybody else how you can have sex or use your body than  LA City Councilman Paul Koretz. That's him on the right.

Koretz feels the best approach to eliminate AIDS from the adult industry - which is unquestionably more important than eliminating AIDS from the community, is to mandate condoms in adult films.  Getting on board with the proposal put forth by Michael Weinstein and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, who collected more than 70,000 signatures calling for a condom-in-porn measure on the city ballot, he underestimated one small obstacle - Carmen Trutanich.

The City Attorney filed a complaint in Superior Court, saying that "Los Angeles voters have no power to adopt the proposed measure," because only the state -- not the city -- has the ability to make such rules.  While it's not clear where Trutanich stands on the issue itself, I like the fact that he's looking at the situation with a clear and level head, which just happens to prevent human slugs like Paul Koretz from putting rubbers on people who fuck consensually for money on camera.

Like a good bureaucrat, Trutanich raises the question that a voter-approved condom requirement could attract a lawsuit, forcing “the needless and wasteful expenditure of public resources made in connection with a measure which the voters have no power to adopt.”  He pointed out for Koretz and others who want their agenda to supersede what's legal, that his complaint, which helps freeze the action, seeks "judicial clarification to see if the city of Los Angeles is pre-empted from regulating condoms in adult film shoots or whether those powers are relegated to other state agencies." 

The response?  Trutanich's action to block the ballot measure is "anti-democratic", according to Koretz. "Usually, we have the people have their say first," he added.  No, you disgusting troll, the people get to have their say in the appropriate forum and under the of framework of the law.  That's why as far as you'll get in government is councilman.  And aside from keeping porn raw, I'm happy to see my local tax dollars not being wasted on bad legislation and the challenges that will surround it.  Koretz should worry about the bigger picture and bigger problem of AIDS, and not other people's literal fucking business.