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Measure B Would Affect Only 280 Adult Performers In Los Angeles County In Colossal Waste Of Taxpayer Dollars
October 16, 2012
A detailed analysis of the adult entertainment industry’s medical testing database reveals only 280 performers live and work year-round in Los Angeles County and make up the bulk of scenes shot and subject to the provisions of Measure B, the so-called “Safer Sex” initiative on the Nov. 6th ballot in Los Angeles County, dramatically underscoring the miniscule effect the measure would have with significant cost to county taxpayers, according to the No on Government Waste Committee.
“It’s mindboggling to think we are subjecting the voters of LA County to this ballot fight over 280 performers that are already subject to one of the most stringent sexually transmitted disease testing programs in the world,” said James Lee, communications director for the No on Government Waste Committee. “When you couple that with the over $4 million already spent by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation in supporting this measure, you have to wonder what kind of porn obsession Michael Weinstein has and what it is taking away from the real threats of HIV.”
The Free Speech Coalition, the adult film industry’s trade association, analyzed the testing database of performers who undergo regular tests for HIV, chlamydia, syphilis and gonorrhea every 14 and 28 days, and determined there were a total of 1,266 performers nationwide with 280 living year-round in Los Angeles County, representing 22 percent of all adult performers. The database represents the vast majority of those affected by Measure B since Measure B would not impact productions, such as amateur shoots, that avoid county permitting or simply operate out of someone’s home.
“This points up the greatest failing of Measure B, which is that it’s practically unenforceable when you consider that productions and performers affiliated with the larger studios and production companies are simply going to move out of LA if Measure B passes,” Lee said. “What you would be left with are small, amateur productions that will not only evade permitting, but also avoid testing and thus put even more people at real risk.”
Measure B, funded and placed on the ballot by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, would require the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health to license and permit adult movie productions in the county and require performers to wear condoms and create an unworkable system of on-set inspections and enforcement by county personnel. The county estimates initial start-up costs for the program to be in excess of $300,000, but acknowledges that regardless of the level of compliance by the adult film industry, there would be significant cost to the Department of Public Health.
Lee reiterated that no adult performer has contracted HIV on set since 2004 and in the same period, 6,447 residents of Los Angeles County have contracted HIV, highlighting the need to focus on increased testing and detection in the general population where the real HIV threat is today.
“According to the Los Angeles County Dept. of Public Health’s own HIV risk assessment, the adult film industry wasn’t even mentioned as a potential high risk area, while the highest at-risk population in the County are young, African-American gay men, a population the AIDS Healthcare Foundation has chronically and shamefully underserved,” Lee added.
No on Government Waste Committee
The Committee is comprised of entertainment companies, local business organizations, community activists, adult entertainment performers and healthcare advocates who oppose Measure B’s plan for creating an underfunded government inspection program diverting badly needed resources from local community clinics and underserved minority communities. For more information, please visit: www.noongovernmentwaste.com.
Millions and Millions of Dollars will be spent to pass a bill that will effect only 280 people?
This is a very strong argument to vote on this motherfucking piece of crap they call Measure B.
Real threat of HIV? Where is that? Weinstein is a microcosm of the AIDS industry, itself, inventing tales of plagues and pandemics through lies, money and terror tactics, in order to amass a mountain of wealth for himself and his assholesheeits. All of these scumbags have their fortunes based on the foundation of a criminal opportunist named Robert Gallo, saved from prison during his scientific misconduct trials because of his powerful political connections…
Only a drooling IDIOT thinks this has anything to do with 280 performers.
What is has EVERYTHING to do with is every porn company in L.A.
Who actually believes this BS? No wonder it will pass this is the best the FSC can do?
It has never ever been about protecting and taking care of the 300 or so porn performers. Its a multi facted attack by Weinstein and his flunkies to get rid of the porn industry in CA (couldn’t get them on obscenity laws so plan B is a back door attack) while lining his pockets at the same time from the sale of condoms, vaccines, and various other treatments for HIV and social diseases.
Its all smoke and mirrors to fool the yuppie voters into thinking they are doing something good for the poor performers well being while also helping to raise revenue for the cash strapped cities by charging them for fees and liscences to make sure all male performers are wearing rubbers while they work.
Whine Stein doesn’t want to get rid of porn, he wants to USE it. Everyone wants to use porn, for their own purposes.
He wants to get rich off of porn but the people he is in bed with (like Shelley Lubben) want porn gone.
Make love, not war on love.
I tells you. If you get rid of the guys from the hood, that like to be with other guys and then goes with those girls on other pornos, You wouldn’t have these problems and Measures being put on the voter’s heres in LA. And you gots to stop those hoes from tricking too. If theres are having sex with peoples outside the biz for $10,000 a ling for unprotected sex, and then you have those guys selling butt-sex to other men outside the biz too. whats a fuck? no wonder you gotsa problem. Too many outside the biz, unprotected sex and that will become a problem with porno companies.
Wow, first Riktard Madrid shows up here pretending to be a Latin porn star—sorry, bukkake mope—then adopts a female’s stolen identity. Now he’s pretending to be a an ebonically challenged African-American. What next, ‘Tard? A homosexual little person with a clubfoot?
Pathetic. I vote for a lifetime ban from LIB for this useless fool, Cindi.
Truly as pathetic as he is stupid is Rick, Third.
That’s what Mexi meth will do to someone’s brain. But ‘Tard has no brain, so the tweek just shoots out of his ass, like his posts here on every thread.
How many aliases has Madrid come on here as? I’ve lost count. Evidently, he’s too stupid to realize how stupid he is. He always gets identified right away, yet each time he comes on he thinks he’s gonna fool us this time. I’m suprised he didnt mention himself in the third person making 10 grand a day doing construction, when he’s not busy making 10 grand per b/g scene. I havent known anyone this dumb since Mr. Orion Compass East.
Hey stupid ass Steeless, How about getting you a contruction job for $10,000, if you could even get a fucking job, convict!. The other thing, Cracker, I am 100% black and 57 years old, and I live here in Compton. So won’t you bring your stupid, want-to-be Black ass down here and JermaTurd?? Pussy!! Like riding that laptop keyboard, but you ain’t no man. And bring that HO with you, I’ll pimp her out out here on Alondra Blvd and the tricks will give her some really big, black dick. You are totally stupid Honky!
Stupid, Madrid. “Stuiped”.
Is Weinstein’s axe beyond limelight and money raising, does he have a personal connection to the porn world, and I am talking the straight porn world.
Perhaps Weinstein saw a straight porno once and got excited and he’s a closet heterosexual.
How’s your “O.J.’s son did it” theories going, btw?
Larry — As the leaked AHF emails demonstrate, Weinstein has neither any connection to, nor any interest in understanding, the ‘straight’ porn world. AHF’s dictator is a wannabe Caesar; he just wants to plant a flag and have a statue erected in his likeness.
Then Weinstein is a very sick man, especially as he is using AHF as a cover for political greed.
Not just as ‘cover’ — it’s the mechanism.
He’s sicker than I thought, he’s going on the radio against Ms Rebecca Bardoux. Who’s advising this guy?
No one advises the dictator, Michael Weinstein.
He and Derrick “RentBoy” Burts will be opposed by No on Measure B communications director, James Lee and Rebecca Bardoux on KCRW’s “To The Point” with Warren Olney.
That’s Derrick “Butt hurts” Burts.
What a name… Burts.