( Matt Ortega )

Chuck DeVore penned a piece for the Andrew Breitbart website, Big Government, decrying California’s “nanny-state” government.

Last night was one of those nights when I was mad as hell at the California State government and their foolish, micro-managing, Big-Nanny ways.  (Caution, dear reader, such rage at the machine has been known to cause the temporary insanity of running for public office.)

The anecdote DeVore used in the column was his search for a brass bathroom fixture. DeVore blasted the state government for “foolish, micro-managing, Big-Nanny ways” because of state law on brass piping that contains lead. He gave a detailed account of the legislation’s path through Sacramento but curiously ignored his own bout of “nanny-statism.”

In 2008, DeVore proposed legislation that would allow pregnant women in their third trimester park in handicap parking spaces.

It was a move decried across the political spectrum and disability advocates. California Republicans blasted the legislation, AB 1940, as “unnecessary” while conservatives called it a “frivolous social engineering law.” An editorial in the Orange County Register celebrated the bill’s rejection in committee with a lone vote in favor:

We’re pleased a Nanny State intrusion wisely was rejected Monday in a legislative committee vote that killed Assemblyman Chuck DeVore’s plan to extend special parking privileges to pregnant women.

Mr. DeVore, R-Irvine, often has lambasted Nanny Staters for their know-it-all intrusions into peoples’ lives. But apparently he isn’t immune to the “fix-everyone’s-problem” syndrome. His bill would have extended temporary handicapped parking passes to pregnant women, despite the obvious fact pregnant women aren’t handicapped. This GOP version of Nanny Statism had the usual flaw we see when Big Brother “helps.” It’s entirely arbitrary. [emphasis added]

Tags: CA-Sen, Chuck DeVore