On Measure T: "Large out-of-county corporations are corrupting the integrity of our local elections and undermining the confidence of citizens in our government," said Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, who is managing the campaign for the measure...
That was then.
Given what you know now - that Gallegos' Palco suit never passed muster, never made it to court, never had any legal merit whatsoever, and the influences that brought about the Palco suit...
Tell me. WHO is corrupting the integrity of local elections?
Hint... it ain't the corporations.
Palco corrupted the legal system when they set legal precedent that it is okay to lie about tree inventories. Palco attempted to corrupt the integrity of local elections by funding the recall attempt of PVG. Your distaste for the DA does not make outside influence by outside monied entities in the local electoral process a positive thing for the will of the people that live in Humboldt County.
ReplyDeleteAnd YOUR distaste for Palco does not make your claims factual or accurate. Nor does it make the DA's actions agaist Palco OK.
ReplyDeleteWatch the 6 minute video.
Wow anon...
ReplyDeleteDespite all that clout and all that money
Palco lost
Walmart lost
Seems like the system worked pretty well.
And your point is?
They lost after a sustained battle. No company can make it in the face of a 15 year concerted effort to destroy it. An effort that was waged all the way to the halls of Congress, included reneging on deals (headwaters) - the cynical taking over of governmental rules and bodies (water boards and the like), and then getting a sitting DA to file the suits against them.
ReplyDeletePalco is gone. Simpson/Green Diamond is next. You watch. It wasn't just about Maxxam.
And, anyway - on the one point, Gallegos politically motivated lawsuit, HE LOST at every turn, at every appeal - his, Tome Stoen's and Ken Miller's PATHETIC lawsuit was found not to have any merit.
This community was ripped apart by that battle, and we remain saddled with that incompetent and dishonest DA. So "Progressive."
Green Diamond is a different company with a vision for sustainability and, no tendency to self destruct.
ReplyDeleteSo unless the tree hugger's true objection is no more wood products...HRC and MRC are similarly doomed.
The Miller crusade won't work here. Palco provided far too much ammunition for its enemies to fire bak at them.
What is Ken Miller up to lately? Is he still writing those 215 recommendations? Is he in therapy over his most recent disappointment, the Douglas - Zanotti case?
ReplyDeleteHe's taking Marky-Mark's training classes to become the next 'speaker' for the "progressives"; now that they have lost their advocate/speaker they have no one. hey, wait a minute they STILL have no one - Ken trips over his tongue and Salzman trips over his _ _ _ _. Kinda fun to watch though. Oh lest we forget Chrissy Kerrigan Nazi-fest!
ReplyDelete11:01 a.m. you are funnnnie. Thanks for the update.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering how the measure T people feel about out of state Billionaires using their money to place disasterous measures on the state ballot? If Arkley pisses them off they should really hate George Soros!! But I'd bet they don't.
Kind of makes you wonder if there really is such a thing as a "true" progressive.
Mr. Gallegos was and is all for "Measure T", see the video. BUT he is not one of the 38 DA's in California who publicly oppose proposition 5. How can that be?
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