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• I just uploaded a .pdf copy of CalOSHA's draft regs over at BPPA, if anyone is interested in reading them:

  http://bppa.blogspot.com/2013/10/measure-b-was-only-missile-calosha.html

  This is the CalOSHA/AHF coup that I feared the most. Measure B and the 332/640 trainwreck was mild compared to this...and this could potentially go nationwide, too.

• As long as OSHA doesn't reach Prague and Kiev, then barely legals will still be seen taking condom free dick in the ass and I'll keep on fapping.

• This is entirely predictable. There has been a sub rosa entente among AHF, Cal-OSHA and the doctors from The UCLA Working Group since before Measure B had even been ginned up. They're all on the same side and when one element seems to be losing the fight, as AHF is quite likely to after their encounter with The Ninth Circuit, another steps up to push this agenda forward by any means necessary. It's no coincidence that these new regs appeared just as AHF faces its next day in court, where if they do get intervener status they will attempt to demonstrate that "reasonable" industry-specific legal standards already exist to justify the enforcement aspects of Measure B.

  I don't see this as a particularly effective argument and doubt it will be considered relevant even if AHF does kick its way into the courtroom, as state regulations are not within the purview of the case under consideration.

  And after Measure B gets tossed out, I wouldn't expect Cal-OSHA to become the mighty threat some people would like it to be. It's a relatively small agency with many industries to supervise using limited staff and other resources. It's process is complaint-driven and can only be invoked on behalf of employees, which it has yet to be established that day players in porn are or ever will be.

  This is more a nuisance than a threat and further evidence of AHF's growing desperation. As they lose one battle after another and face Medicaid fraud charges and an uprising within their own staff, they may yet go away from this fight they started with their tail between their legs.

  • Yes, the timing is amazing. The Cal/OSHA standards board has been working on these new regs for 4 years, yet a purported draft appears now.

    As for Cal/OSHA becoming the mighty threat some people would like it to be, that's where the fear mongering around "$60K Fines" came into play. AHF & friends are waging a war of disinformation and intimidation. The facts are our greatest defenses, but we have few weapons. If AHF goes down it will be because Weinstein has been ensnared by his own corruption and obsessive lust for control. The political / governmental status quo fights back, and hits harder than we on the outside ever could.

• Well said. If someone were to ask me what NOT to do in LA, I'd put suing The Board of Supervisors, particularly by name, at the top of the list. Funny how that nasty Medicaid fraud investigation appeared on the horizon so suddenly and the long simmering resentments and divisions inside AHF bubbled to the surface.

  We wouldn't seem to have a lot of friends right now, but if the enemy of our enemy is our friend, I'd say some of the few we have are among the best we could hope for.

• An email today (Oct 24, 2013) from Amalia Neidhardt at Cal/OSHA, entitled "Update on Cal/OSHA Adult Film Industry Project," includes the draft posted on Mike South's pro-AHF, anti-adult biz website, and reads in pertinent part:

  Thank you for your participation in this project. The Division has edited the previous draft, which was provided in June 2011. This draft has been sent to the Board staff for their review. It is not a rulemaking proposal at this time. The draft can be found at:

  http://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/doshreg/Section-5193.1-STI-form-9-text.pdf