NANNY-STATE WATCH!

From Eric Dondero:

This from Eater.com, "Your Tax Dollars at Work" April 5:

Today, NYC Councilman Leroy Comrie is expected to introduce a piece of legislation that will effectively ban happy meals at fast food restaurants in the area. Under the proposal, kids can only get toys with their junk food if the meal has less than 500 calories, and 600 milligrams of sodium. A similar piece of legislation was passed in San Francisco last fall. [Chicago Breaking Business]

The Councilman calls McDonald's tactics "predatory" (via Townhall):

"The City Council can empower parents by making it harder for the fast food industry to target children with predatory marketing techniques", Councilman Leroy Comrie, of Queens claims.

And another Council member chimed in:

"The child wants the toys. Not that fries and nuggets", says Councilwoman Inez Dickens, of Harlem.

Dickens has been under fire lately for having a Charlie Rangel-type problem of owing back taxes on her Harlem properties.

From the NY Daily News March 21:

City Councilwoman Inez Dickens co-owns four Harlem apartment buildings that have for months owed the city more than $100,000 in property taxes.

Dickens' properties have also been the subject of numerous building and housing-code complaints in the last few years, a Daily News investigation found.

Note - the NYC Council has 51 members; 46 are Democrats, 4 Republicans, and 1 (Republican Caucus) Libertarian Party member Dan Halloran of Queens.