Multnomah County Commissioner Lisa Naito's plan to ban trans-fats has been shot down. As Commissioner Jeff Cogen noted,
"I think its fine to have a sign saying your doughnut is fried in trans fats, but I'm not comfortable telling people you can't eat a doughnut," Cogen said last week. County Chairman Ted Wheeler and Commissioner Lonnie Roberts also expressed concern about regulation.
At length, even Lisa - apparently recognizing that she's not swimming in the estrogen pool any longer - gave it up, though she plans to carry on the battle against trans-fats somewhere, sometime, somehow. After so many years of getting her way in her relentless effort to do things for our own good (whether we like it or not), this has to be bitter medicine indeed.
