This speach is just as relevent today as it was then. Televised Campaign Address for Goldwater Presidential Campaign - 10/27/64.

Why am I running for Nevada Assembly? Because you can’t even have a BBQ without Nevada bureaucrats stepping in and telling you that you can’t.

What kind of a Nanny State do we live in when you can’t even raise and cook your own food anymore?

Monte and Laura Bledsoe, the owners of Quail Hollow Farm, a small organic farm in Overton, thought they would host a gathering to bring community together and celebrate local farmers. Instead they ran headlong into a bureaucratic buzzsaw.

The Bledsoes had planned what is called a Farm-to-Fork dinner, one featuring all locally grown food. Hoping for a large turnout they advertised in the local paper and spread the word around their small community.

A couple days before the dinner they got a call telling them they needed to pull a permit from the Southern Nevada Health District. Even though it was on their private property, since they had advertised it, the dinner was considered a public event requiring a permit.

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What happens next is a complete nightmare. After driving to Las Vegas to get the “permit”, the Bledsoes thought everything was OK….until the Health Inspector showed up.

The Bledsoes were told that the food had to be thrown away as it wasn’t “USDA Inspected”. That’s right, since the animals had been raised and slaughtered on Quail Hollow Farm the Bledsoes were not allowed to serve the meat to their guests.

Before you start thinking that this was just some rogue inspector taking out her frustrations on an unfortunate business, this outrage was sanctioned by higher-ups in the department. Bledsoe indicated the inspector was communicating with and receiving approval from her supervisor throughout the inspection and destruction of the meal.

Yes, the American Dream is getting closer to existing only when you’re sleeping. With endless rules and regulations, we’re not allowed to have a farm and invite friends over for a BBQ anymore without Nanny State Bureaucrats sticking their nose into our business and telling us what we can, and can’t, do.

This is why I am running for Nevada Assembly. To follow the Oath of Office and protect YOUR Constitutional Rights.