One Guy's Opinion on the Political Scene By: Jim Herndon
Although it may be just one more instance of the Berkeley city council embarrassing itself and the sane, straight, and common sense gays in the community, it will be a wonderful breakthrough for the crowd that have made Berkeley infamous the world over. Notwithstanding the fact that the state and most California cities are bankrupt or near insolvency and the ongoing scandal is that a principle cause is the unconscionable overextension of benefits to public employees, Berkeley is planning to add one more benefit to city employees: they are going to pay pay for sex-change operations. In ding-dong Berkeley City Council language, is going to set aside funds for "city workers' gender-reassignment surgery," because the city's two health care providers, Kaiser and Health Net do not cover the procedure. The city of Berkeley has rung the silly bell many times in the past, one of the silliest when it declared itself a sanctuary city for illegal aliens.
