Banning salt in restaurants?

An Assemblyman from New York City, Felix Ortiz, has introduced a bill to ban all salt use in restaurant cooking.  The penalty would be a $1000 fine for each individual addition of salt by restaurant staff, whether before, during or after cooking.  There's an article from the Times Union here.  Yes, his father aparently had heart disease and high blood pressure that he links to excessive salt use.  But as anyone who watches Alton Brown can tell you, NaCl is essential to the chemistry of cooking. 

 

The Assemblyman freely admits to eating ham, cheese and bread in restaurants and says he will continue to do so; Of course, since he is a politician, he contradicts himself by stating, "I think salt should be banned in restaurants. I ask if a dish has salt in it, and if I does, I get something else that doesn't have salt,"   I think the Assemblyman should be forced to subsist on a diet with no added salt for a month.

 

Or, maybe with a name like Ortiz, he just hates the Irish and doesn't want them to have their corned beef and soda bread on St. Patrick's Day...