Well if you guessed from "One of Dems' Favorite Places" that it was LA, SF, or Sacramento County, you would have been off by hundreds of miles. So much for stereotypes.
The population of the county is less than 140,000, and of the county's largest city, less than 40,000. Maybe "Favorite Places" refers to a frequently smoked agricultural product grown there.
The mole hill here is no mountain, it's a molehill, one that obviously needs cleaning out.