This is installment number three of the case of C&C Coffee and Kitchen in Castle Rock, Colorado.
Last we heard, the governor pulled their business license for at least 30 days and potentially indefinitely because they opened up and we full on mother’s day.
Now this news:
Shutdown Castle Rock restaurant can’t open Colorado Springs location
The owners tell us they believe they’re being unfairly targeted because of the media attention that C&C received. Another restaurant, Karen’s Kafe in Calhan, has been open despite a cease-and-desist order, but their license hasn’t been suspended.
There is nothing like good ‘ol selective enforcement of the law to demonstrate that you are living under capricious tyranny.
C&C Coffee and Kitchen said it’s considering filing a lawsuit against Gov. Jared Polis.
They should, and they should win. It is absolutely unacceptable for a governor to make an example out of a business for wanting to make an honest buck when there have been so few cases of Coronavirus in the county.
This action is not unique to Colorado. In Maine, the governor pulled the licence of a restaurant that opened up in Bethel.
Maine restaurant owner defies state stay-at-home order, loses health license
A Maine restaurant owner who defied the state’s stay-at-home order and opened to dine-in customers, has lost his health license and has been summoned by the state.
The Maine Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages found Rick Savage was not compliant with Gov. Mills’ executive order when he reopened the Sunday River Brewing Company Friday afternoon.
The bureau confirmed to WMTW News 8 that the Department of Health and Human Services suspended the restaurant’s health license and could take further action if Savage reopens on Saturday without a health license.
The suspension automatically suspends that restaurant’s liquor license.
The restaurant had reduced capacity and spaced tables more than six feet apart.
We have two reports of governors specifically targeting restaurants that reopened by yanking their business licenses.
I suspect to see many more of these cases as states drag their feet on reopening.
It is crystal clear that this isn’t about stopping the spread of a virus. This is about government officials using an emergency to gain muscle and then flexing it.
The whole idea that you need a business license to run a business, or that the State can pull your business license for any arbitrary, non-specified reason is fundamentally un-American. I agree that some businesses need to demonstrate a minimum level of competence, but even then when I had an active PE license, I could loose it only for specified offenses, and only after a professional board determined that I was indeed guilty. For most businesses, a license is only a means of extracting revenue from the owner(s).
Yea its getting interesting here in maine. More and more people are getting mad. They original order was to expire may 11. Now its june 11. They have cancelled fairs and festivals well imto the fall. Blue state stupidity is way outa control here. Many business have come out and said they are not reopening ever. What truly amazes me is people Willingly shut their doors just because of an “executive order”. Now they are feeling the pinch. Unfrukinbelieveable how sheep like people have become. I have been out in the mess since it started and im still here. All this chaos over a 99% survival virus. Pretty stupid