By Gonzalo Santos, Published on 10/28/25 as an OpEd  in The Bakersfield Californian . Last Tuesday, October 21, a large number of Kern County citizens from every walk of life – young and old, of all ethnic backgrounds, U.S.-born and immigrant, veterans and lawyers, educators and community advocates, and faith leaders – turned out to the county’s Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting to call on the supervisors to rescind their September 23 resolution opposing Proposition 50, pass