In California, Fitted Sheets Equal Strait Jacket Minds

As noted in the previous post, there is a little more lunacy from our vaunted legislature here in the once Golden State of California.
In this installment is the latest from state Sen. Kevin De Leon (D (Of course)-Los Angeles).
The senator wants a bill to become law that would require hotels to use fitted sheets instead of flat sheets. And that is not all. Also hotels would have to provide "special tools" so that the maids would not have to stoop to the floor or anywhere else to clean said hotel rooms.
And please, why not throw in some adult beverage to get the maids in the mood to clean the room in between. Provided by the employers no less?
Let me start at the obvious.
Being a hotel/motel maid is hard work. Not for everyone. But correct me if I am wrong on this point. Does anyone put a gun to the maid's head to get the job in the first place? If the job is that difficult on the body, as is claimed, then look for other work. Granted it is not easy to do in this economy, but I just do not get it.
According to the article, 7,400 hotel maids in California have filed worker's compensation claims in the last year. Out of that, 883 claimed that they received lower back injuries.
Now, being a guy and barely knowing the difference between bed sizes, I asked an expert on the subject.
Mrs. RVFTLC said that it is a lot easier to put a fitted sheet on a bed vs the flat sheet. We were switching bedding last night here at Right View From The Left Coast Manor when this subject came up. We were using fitted sheets. Yet I found that I did have to pick up the mattress on our side a little bit to get the sheet to fit right.
So, what is the real point of this?
And the article does not differentiate between hotels and motels.
There is a major difference. Even among hotels.
The overwhelming majority of hotels and motels are franchises. Meaning that they are not owned by the company name per se. Like McDonalds. There is the corporate name that we all see. But somewhere not really in plain sight is something that indicates that some one or another small company actually runs the restaurant. Same for many hotels and motels.
Stay at a Best Western? News flash. It is almost entirely franchise driven. In fact, this is at the bottom of the home page:

Each Best Western® branded hotel is independently owned and operated. © 2002-2011 Best Western International, Inc. All rights reserved.

Get it? Yes, there is the Best Western name and reputation. But it is a small businessman or woman that own and operate each one. Or can be a group. But it is not Best Western running them all.
Think that it will not cost them to make this change? Of course it will. One estimate is that it will cost about $30,000,000 to change from flat to fitted sheets. And who gets stuck with the bill? We, the people that stay at these hotels and motels.
But, Sen. De Leon admits that this is a personal crusade for him. For you see, his mother was a maid. And as he says, she worked herself to the bone. And I do not doubt that. But this is a huge problem. That a state legislator would waste time to, in his or her mind, rectify a wrong that the eeeeevvvvviiilllll hoteliers are doing to the poor maids.
And why not force the citizens that hire maids to provide only fitted sheets to use so that they do not have to have a potential back injury? Or special equipment so that they do not have to stoop down to do some cleaning?
This is the insanity of big government. To allow some crusading politician to come up with a hair-brained scheme that while maybe well meaning will have a direct effect on an already battered state economy.
Sen. Kevin De Leon is the poster child as to why California must return to a part-time legislature. And make sure that term limits are strengthend, not weakend. And to maintain an independent redistricting commission, flaws and all.
I almost think that Sen. De Leon is wrapped a bit too tight in a fitted sheet strait jacket.