watchpaul: How far Peter Martin has fallen

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

How far Peter Martin has fallen

◼ Resident (read that Richard Salzman, or whatever he is calling himself these days) plans to sue Arcata if panhandling ordinance not amended
Attorney Peter Martin submitted the letter on Feb. 14 on behalf of Richard "Web of Lies" Salzman. The letter stated it was intended to “invite” the city to begin amending its ordinance within about 30 days to avoid the “expense, uncertainty and unpleasantness of contested litigation.” Salzman is a local political consultant who recently worked on Humboldt County District Attorney Paul Gallegos' re-election campaign.

”A speaker's rights are not lost merely because compensation is received; a speaker is no less a speaker because she is paid to speak,” Martin stated in the letter. (WTF?)

The ordinance passed in 2010 and restricts where people can panhandle, banning such behavior on pedestrian bridges and other areas, including at intersections with signs and within 20 feet of the entrance to a supermarket, ATM machines, parking lots, bus shelters, restaurants, bars, retail stores, or check-cashing businesses. Panhandling aggressively is also prohibited by the ordinance anywhere in the city. Aggressive panhandling is defined to include following or touching a person intentionally, using profane or aggressive language and disrupting or blocking traffic while panhandling, according to the ordinance.

Salzman said on Tuesday the council appeared “well-intentioned” when they passed the ordinance, but he alleged the ordinance is unconstitutional. He wanted the city to be able to consult with its legal counsel on the matter before he pursued legal action....

Lawsuits aren't cheap. A minimum of 10 grand usually, just to get started - how's he going to pay you? Where's the money going to come from this time? Gives new meaning to the term "nuisance suit."

”Mr. Salzman objects to the near-total ban on begging in public fora..."

You can't make this stuff up. It's too bad, though. Peter Martin was once one of the good guys.

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Anonymous2/23/2011 9:45 AM
I'm curious... who else is on your list of "good guys"?
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Anonymous2/23/2011 2:02 PM
HAHAHAHA... great header, wow, that packs a punch and is close to the mark.
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Anonymous2/23/2011 8:39 PM
So do those flames represent the Allison Jackson 2010 campaign, or this blog, or are they a blatant attempt to curry favor with the arsonist community. Inquiring minds want to know.
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Anonymous2/25/2011 2:59 PM
Showing up the City of Arcata's stupidity used to be a favorite pasttime of local conservatives...

...and really Rose, haven't you asked yourself why your friends in Eureka, Fortuna, etc. haven't passed such a ridiculous and invasive BIG GOVERNMENT ordinance? Because they know it's lawsuit bait, and useless to boot.
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Anonymous2/26/2011 7:07 PM
Peter Martin was supposed to be a good guy (Deputy DA), he was paid to be a good guy (Deputy DA), but he has always been a slimey self serving $#@*

So, bottom line, you shouldn't be surprised by his actions.
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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.)

NOTE:

"Helping Crush Progressivism" - ie: exposing the predatory litigious orgs and those who seek power for power's sake.... The original purpose of watchpaul is to post important documents relating to Humboldt County District Attorney Paul Gallegos and his handlers who seek to gain power through the acquisition of political offices. This includes, but is not limited to, the manipulations of "Humboldt Watershed Council," "EPIC," "Baykeeper," and other activist groups - the unregulated orgs. It also includes the master manipulators, such as Richard Salzman and Ken Miller.

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

How far Peter Martin has fallen

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