watchpaul: So, about those raises...

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

So, about those raises...

The D.A. got a 13% raise (6-4-3). As did all other elected officials, department heads and ALL county employees, EXCEPT the Board of Supervisors (3-3-3).

Fifth District residents rc'd a mailer from Randy Garcia/HDSO (Humboldt Deputy Sheriff's Organization)a few days ago, complaining about this.

Care to guess what the Sheriff's raise was?

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Anonymous11/05/2008 8:17 AM
Don't have to guess - it was 21% OVER THREE YEARS.

Again, we taxpayers take it in the shorts. What the hell is HDSO complaining about. With that high of a raise, you would think that they would say thank you instead of screw you. My hunch is that another political agenda is at play. Anyone wanna guess who it is?
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Anonymous11/05/2008 9:23 AM
Did this come in a plain brown wrapper or was it stuck on parking meters?
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Anonymous11/05/2008 10:08 AM
There is only one elected Sheriff who would have received that raise. The deputies are in a separate category and so far I don't know if their raises have been decided as they were still negotiating about a month ago and I haven't seen anything else about it.
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Anonymous11/05/2008 10:09 AM
down goes Geist
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Anonymous11/05/2008 11:15 AM
Nope you are wrong there 10:08 the 21% goes to the rank and file deputies over 3 years (with 2% of that as an immediate incentive to help bring recruits in fast. And I believe that it has worked because I hear that there are only about 2 unfilled spots at the sheriffs office now.

No - this is about Bonnie’s quest for power. Systematically removing her opposition with the help of some very disingenuous persons who call themselves progs. There is a reason why this flyer only went out in the
5th district and only had Geist’s name and picture on it. This didn’t go to Bonnie's district with her picture even though she voted for her own raise. Nor Jimmy who also voted last time for the raise. Nope - only Geist. The reason is that Bon Bon et al wants her gone. (See Jimmy doesn’t like Bonnie's death stare so usually backs down when she gets her back up.) Kerrigan is the solution. The plan is for him move to the 5th district because he termed out on the EKA city council and has decided to eat from the political trough for the rest of his life. This is how he will do it, by moving and running in the 5th. And I am sure Chris Lehman is involved to given his past history of moving to the county to become our next career politician. I also believe that he is involved with HDSO. So.... you play connect the dots. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist.
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Anonymous11/05/2008 11:55 AM
couple that with heraldo and you have a multipronged attack
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Anonymous11/05/2008 1:34 PM
I had heard Kerrigan was going to move to the fifth district to run since Bonnie is already getting her next campaign contributions started for her next term and he was supposed to get her seat. I don't think Bonnie ever liked Jill from the beginning. A couple of times Jill has gotten back by getting someone to make a motion and it went 3 to 2 against Bonnie with John being the other yes. Will the Marky Mark be just another pawn for Bonnie so looks like she will control the board for a few years with Clif getting in. I have noticed the death stare at Jimmy and have to agree - he caves.
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Anonymous11/05/2008 2:10 PM
kerrigan is just wrong!

did he ever finish college? DR? HSU? does he have a real job?
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Anonymous11/05/2008 9:27 PM
Pretty hard to feel sorry for Geist. She has been unresponsive to her district save a few "special" exceptions. She could be another Neeley if she only had the skill.None the less truth is truth and this mailer is a slimmy piece of work. Let the games begin as the 2010 elections are not far away.
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Rose11/05/2008 9:51 PM
Perhaps the mailer would be fair if Garcia had included all the Sups that voted for the raises - He didn't. That would be Neely, Geist and Woolley.

It is also disingenuous and in fact downright dishonest to imply that the HCDSO Deputies did not get raises, when in fact they got a 19-21% raise in addition to all the overtime pay they wrack up.

You all know that I am a big fan of the Sheriff's Deputies, in general, with deep respect for the tough jobs they do on a daily basis.

This mailer is beneath them.

And it begs the question - what is Garcia's problem, and who is Garcia working with? Why DID this mailer coincide with the heraldo attack post?

I think it is possible that the printing company involved here shipped this one out at the wrong time - shipped it when they mailed the postcard endorsing Clif Clendenen - and not one of the Supervisors who voted AGAINST the Sups raise, Johanna Rodoni, and Jimmy Smith

Something doesn't pass the smell test.

And, quite honestly, if he wants to get upset, he ought to be upset at GALLEGOS getting a raise for destroying the District Attorney's Office.
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Rose11/05/2008 9:54 PM
He also ought to be asking what defending the piece of shit Measure T has cost the County thus far - and what it is projected to cost.
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Anonymous11/06/2008 7:16 AM
Measure "T" !! Another Humboldt County jewel/joke.

It is/was a piece of shit "Measure" that local whackaloons and big pot growers money got on the ballot.

How much has Measure "T" cost? How much did the pursuit of the PL case cost? How much did the sham of going after D. August cost? And did I leave out Gunderson? Oh yes and how much did it cost going after former Chief Douglas and Lt Zanotti on the Moore case?

How much money has been pissed away by the county, by victims/suspects because of bad judgement (at a minimum) or in pursuing personal vendetta's by the DA? And he gets a raise to his already heafty salary.
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Anonymous11/06/2008 4:10 PM
Don't worry,be happy. Uncle Obama is on the job. The milk and honey is'bout to flow our way.
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Anonymous11/07/2008 6:49 PM
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Anonymous11/07/2008 10:04 PM
sounds pretty bad but did you hear the a-hole cobb on kmud today? Now that's some real twisted proggie radio.
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Paul Gallegos

The Humboldt County Grand Jury found that "Weak leadership and poor managerial practices" have undermined the office... Implicit in all evidence gathered by the Grand Jury - including interviews with the D.A. (Paul Gallegos) - is the unfortunate truth that the D.A. (Paul Gallegos) exhibits a limited understanding of how things are done in the department" Gallegos "lacks the global perspective needed to keep the department operating efficiently," and quotes an unnamed staff member as saying, "The D.A. (Paul Gallegos) does not fully understand the functionality of many of the things we do here" - Years later, in his own words: "I’m not an administrator, they didn’t elect me to be an administrator, they elected me to make sure this office runs..."

Douglas & Zanotti

CASE TOSSED The district attorney misrepresented the law and failed to provide evidence of former Eureka Police Chief David Douglas' and Lt. Tony Zanotti's innocence during a criminal grand jury inquiry into the 2006 shooting death of Cheri Lyn Moore, defense attorneys argued in court documents filed Thursday... ”Our judicial system stands as a real and necessary check on the grand jury indictment process,” one of the documents states. “This court has the authority and the means by which to halt this prosecution, which is justified neither by the undisputed facts, nor by the law.”

Gallegos has taken what was "arguably the state's best small DA's office, with a cutting edge CAST program that "trained the trainers"... into a bunch of time serving bureaucratic wannabee brown nosers, lightly sprinkled with a couple of earnest learners who are sure to split as soon as possible.

One weeps for Max Cardoza who won Angellel, and for Maggie Fleming who won so many impossible victories. Mired in Humboldt for personal reasons, they have to suffer the ignominy of working for Paul, with Yougo, yes, yougo who has freed more people as a prosecutor than he did as a defense attorney. As has Paul. Anonymous comment

Gallegos has answers for everything. I’ve never met anyone whose answers came so quickly, with such polish - except about his law school(s). He likely sounded the same way when promising to get prosecutors off their anachronistic “at will” status and onto civil service status. It never happened. Indeed, he told them, “Disloyalty will not be tolerated” – a real morale builder.

He sounds great. What progressive doesn’t want to believe in him? But it’s a myth. He’s an intellectual lightweight and self-aggrandizer who tries to please everybody with glib answers. Jim Fahey for The Arcata Eye

The Humboldt County DA's office is one of the most exciting prosecutorial
offices in California.

Its District Attorney, Paul Gallegos, is willing to charge anyone who commits
wrongdoing--no matter how wealthy, sacrosanct, or ruthless. He believes in total equality before the law. He also plans to be innovative in promoting programs of prevention and treatment. He wants to make it the best prosecutorial office of its size in the nation.... Gallegos' Help Wanted ad

Gallegos' OWN Quotes

★ ...District Attorney Paul Gallegos said he believes the statute of limitations clock, even on misdemeanors, doesn't start running until law enforcement knows or reasonably should have known of the offense. In this case, Gallegos said, that means the statute of limitations would not run out at least until Feb. 8, 2009, or one year after Gundersen's arrest and the discovery of the photographs in question...

★ "...some people actually molest out of different feelings, some times out of feelings of love....” DA Gallegos explaining why Child Abuse prosecutions were down

★ “I never said that the information was not available under the Freedom of Information Act. Quite the contrary, I informed you that our use of force policy is not a public record.” Paul Gallegos to the Times Standard 5/25/07

★ ...“One is that I do everything to make people happy which means I don’t stand for anything except for just something,” he said. “The other is I stand for something and I try to be a leader and take some people, a group of people, a community someplace and I say guess what folks, this is who I am. I stand for your beliefs. We share these beliefs or we don’t. You get the option to judge that. This is who I am and I am committed to leading us this place, wherever it is...." Eureka Reporter Gallegos defends record, looks ahead 7/3/2005

★ Note the difference between what he SAID, and what he DOES..."...So what are these issues? Top on Gallegos' list is the proliferation of "garbage cases," small-time crimes and overcharged cases that he said are clogging up the court system.

Garbage cases, said Gallegos, come in two forms: Cases that would lose if actually brought to trial and cases that are overcharged for the crimes committed. The idea behind filing both kinds of garbage, he said, is to get the defendant to plead guilty, netting a conviction without having to go into court.

Again, the IRONY is astounding! Look at what he SAYS, and then think about what he DOES! "Probably 95 percent of the cases that are filed plead guilty. In fact, there are a lot of cases that are filed on the assumption they will plead guilty, because of the time and expense involved in defending them. But these cases shouldn't even be filed in the first place, because if they were challenged, they would lose," Gallegos said. Better yet: If they weren't filed at all, it would save the county time and money...." North Coast Journal 2/21/02 Too bad he didn't take his own advice.

★ “Tim’s a stud,” he said. “He really is; anyone would be stoked to have him.” Gallegos on his second in command right hand man Assistant District Attorney Tim Stoen. (Former second in command right hand man to Jim Jones/People's Temple.)

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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

So, about those raises...

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