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ASSHOLES!

SANTA BARBARA, Calif — From Malibu to Santa Cruz, wealthy people are blocking access to California’s publicly owned beaches. And no group has fought the public longer than the gated community of Hollister Ranch, about 130 miles north of Los Angeles. For more than 36 years, residents there have spent millions of dollars on lawyers and lobbyists to bar the hoi polloi from an 8.5-mile-long beach adorned with several coves.

In May, after more than four years of litigation over public access to the beach, a settlement was announced between the ranch cooperative, on one side, and the California Coastal Commission and California Coastal Conservancy, on the other, to allow the public to get to a small stretch of the beach. But you won’t be able to walk, ride a bike or drive to it. Instead, beachgoers will have to brave a two-mile sea trip by surfboard, kayak or boat.

Wow, I thought it was only Vinod Khosla who was being an asshole by preventing public access to the beach, in violation of the law.

Turns out that lots of rich people are assholes. Who would have guessed?

Being a mere millionaire ASSHOLE in coastal Cali doesn't get you very far these days. You really need to be a multi multi millionaire ASSHOLE or a billionaire ASSHOLE.

If you can't be rich and be an ASSHOLE, what good is being rich?

"Some homeowners feared that allowing the public onto the beach would lure hordes who would litter it. Since Santa Barbara County is 46 percent Hispanic and has the highest rate of child poverty in California, at 28.8 percent, one could argue that there’s a whiff of economic and racial discrimination in that fear."

More leftoid idiocy. The same wealthy leftoids slamming Trump while advocating open borders surely close those borders when it comes to "their" beaches, because of all the Mexicans they brought in. The unhinged SJWs and other poorer leftist peons are just their pawns.

#walkaway already

Patrick says

In May, after more than four years of litigation over public access to the beach, a settlement was announced between the ranch cooperative, on one side, and the California Coastal Commission and California Coastal Conservancy, on the other, to allow the public to get to a small stretch of the beach. But you won’t be able to walk, ride a bike or drive to it. Instead, beachgoers will have to brave a two-mile sea trip by surfboard, kayak or boat.

That's not a settlement. The government basically gave away public beaches to the wealthy. Fucking corrupt government employees.