Richard Rider

Richard Rider
Location
San Diego, California, USA
Birthday
August 24
Title
Chairman
Company
San Diego Tax Fighters
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Biography of Richard Rider (Updated July, 2011) San Diego, CA 92131 E-mail: RRider@san.rr.com * AGE: 66 * EDUCATION: B.A. Economics, University of North Carolina, 1968 * MILITARY SERVICE: Commander, Supply Corps, U. S. Naval Reserve, retired after 26 years (four years active, the rest in the reserve). ** OCCUPATION: Retired stockbroker and financial planner. Lifetime member of the International Association of Financial Planners. Former business owner. * AFFILIATION: • Chairman, San Diego Tax Fighters • National Taxpayers Union • Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association • San Diego County Taxpayers Association * POLITICAL ACTIVITIES: • Successfully sued the county of San Diego (Rider vs. County of San Diego) to force a rollback of an illegal 1/2-cent jails sales tax, a precedent that saved California taxpayers over fourteen billion dollars, including $3.5 billion for San Diego taxpayers. • Actively supported a variety of tax-cutting ballot initiatives including Proposition 13. Has written ballot arguments against numerous county and state tax increase initiatives. • County co-chair of both California term limit initiatives (Prop 140 and Prop 164). • Libertarian Party candidate for governor in 1994. • Candidate for the 3rd District County Supervisor in 1992 (third place among six candidates with about 20% of the vote). • 1993 – appointed to (and then elected chair of) the San Diego County Social Services Advisory Board. • 1996 – appointed as a Commissioner on the California Constitution Revision Commission by state Assembly Speaker Kurt Pringle. • Has been involved in legal actions against City of San Diego to force a public vote on issuing bonds for Qualcomm stadium expansion, convention center, baseball ballpark and other projects. • 2005 – Unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of San Diego, though his reform ideas have since taken hold. • 2007 – Columnist for NORTH COUNTY TIMES and SAN DIEGO DAILY TRANSCRIPT • 2009 - The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association's "California Tax Fighter of the Year" * FAMILY: Married. Wife, Diane, is a retired public high school teacher. Two sons, ages 32 and 27.

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JULY 3, 2012 11:30AM

The Disability Regulation Madness Grows

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The fed's disability access madness continues.  While the insane pool handicap access mandate has been delayed (keeping hotel pools open the summer prior to this November's Presidential election), there is no shortage of new, expensive handicap access rules.  Now golf courses and mini-golf courses have new standards to meet.  I would expect many mini-golf courses to close, finding a better use for this low profit landscape.  Retrofitting golf courses surely will be a pass through cost to the 99.9999% of the golfers who don't need the handicapped adjustments.
 
The fun reg is the new rule requiring businesses to allow mini-pony "guide dogs" for the handicapped (a growing trend among the trendy or allergy sensitive handicapped -- ya have to wonder what the regs are when one handicapped person using an "old school" canine guide dog triggers allergies in ANOTHER handicapped person "needing" a pony for guidance).   Business access is mandated -- but once the horse poop hits the floor, the owner can THEN require the pony and owner to mount up and ride off -- not before. 
 
 
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Government Issues

July 3, 2012

New Disability Regulations

Although the Justice Department has extended the deadline for America's hotels to comply with regulations regarding handicap access to swimming pools, new Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines are already being applied at miniature golf courses, driving ranges, amusement parks, shooting ranges and saunas, says CNS News.

Many of these commercial establishments must simply make slight alterations or business decisions that will allow those in wheelchairs full use of their facility. This may mean wheelchair-accessible benches in saunas or disability-friendly machines in gyms. However, two of the newest regulations on behalf of the ADA are receiving increasing levels of attention.

The first is the incredible amount of regulation that is being thrown at golf establishments, which will find their course-constructing creativity severely hampered.

  • The standards now require that at least 50 percent of golf holes on miniature golf courses be "accessible" -- with a ground space that is "48 inches minimum by 60 inches minimum with slopes not steeper than 1:48 at the start of play."
  • Full golf courses, furthermore, must maintain "an accessible route to connect all accessible elements within the boundary."
  • Additionally, that accessible route must also "connect golf car rental areas, bag drop areas, teeing grounds, putting greens and weather shelters."

Stranger than these strict rules for mini golf, however, are the new provisions for miniature service ponies, which are being increasingly employed by members of the disabled community.

  • According to the new ruling, miniature horses "were suggested by some commenters as viable alternatives to dogs for individuals with allergies, or for those whose religious beliefs preclude the use of dogs."
  • A business owner can deny admission to a miniature horse that is not housebroken, whose handler does not have sufficient control of the animal, or if the horse's presence compromises "legitimate safety requirements."
  • All public accommodations will be required to accommodate service ponies.

Source: Elizabeth Harrington, "New Disability Regs Limit Slope of Mini Golf Holes, Require Businesses to Admit Mini Horses as Guide Animals," CNS News, June 26, 2012.

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http://cnsnews.com/news/article/new-disability-regs-limit-slope-mini-golf-holes-require-businesses-admit-mini-horses

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