CA Lawmakers Seek To Ban Airport Screener CLEAR

Politico reports:

In this deep blue state where Republicans rarely back Democratic colleagues in the Capitol, one issue is overcoming the partisan divide: line skipping at airports.

A pair of Orange County state senators from opposing parties — who frequently fly between their districts and Sacramento — are both boosting a first-in-the-nation proposal critics say would ban the expedited security screening company CLEAR from state airports.

“The least you can expect when you have to go through the security line at the airport is that you don’t suffer the indignity of somebody pushing you out of the way to let the rich person pass you,” Josh Newman, the Democratic lawmaker who authored the bill, told POLITICO.

Read the full article. CLEAR costs $189/year. Six airlines have joined to oppose the bill, which they say would hurt their best customers. The lawmakers appear to have no issue with TSA PreCheck.

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