Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Put it out in the open.

From: "Redwood Progressive"
Date: February 18, 2014 6:41:55 PM PST
Subject: DA's race - TOWN HALLS -- Trinidad 3/9 - Arcata 3/16 - Garberville 4/4 -

As most of you know by now, Paul Gallegos is not running for a fourth term as our District Attorney. You are likely well aware that prior to Paul's tenure it was "business as usual" when it came to the M.O. of the Old Guard that controlled that office. Gallegos stopped the demonization of marijuana, instituting an orderly process for discerning Mom and Pop growers from industrial grows. Gallegos was also firm that he "worked with law enforcement, not for law enforcement" and he stopped the vendetta against activists. In this year's election, the choice may come down to taking the county backwards by re-installing the Old Guard versus honoring the progress of the last twelve years and taking us forward.

Current Deputy District Attorney Élan Firpo is the candidate who will best honor the reforms the office has made under Gallegos, pursuing Justice, not Vengeance, and tackle the problems we face with justice and fairness as the goal. She is the only working prosecutor in the race and the only truly Independent candidate. Firpo is also the only candidate with a background in management. In her former career in the private sector Élan Firpo managed teams of engineers designing computer components and production facilities with over 2000 employees. Not content with working simply for monetary gain, she earned a law degree with the specific intent of becoming a prosecutor and giving back to the community.

These are the first in a series of Town Hall meetings where you can hear the candidate's vision for the future of the District Attorney's office and for her to hear your questions and concerns. Each Town Hall is scheduled to run from one to two hours and they are open to the public and the media.

If you can not make any of these public events listed below, reply to this email as there may be open seats at one of the numerous private house parties being held continually through out the county until election day, including the ones currently on the calendar being hosted by: Julie Fulkerson, Chuck Powell, Paul & Joani Gallegos or Jim Lamport. There will also be additional Town Halls scheduled shorty.

For more information, to volunteer, or to host a house party of your own, please contact Elan's campaign manager: Jaison Chand 707.496-5368 Donations may be made online at:www.ElanFirpo.com/donate (she's going to need your financial support as her primary opponent is backed by The Deputy Sheriff's Organization, The EPD Association, as well as Rex Bohn and his well-heeled backers!).

Thank you,
Richard (Salzman, a.k.a. "R Trent" Salzman, a.k.a. Sara (the dog) Salzman
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By all means, let's "(honor) the progress of the last twelve years." Do you realize that the "progress of the last twelve years" means losing grant money, losing all of the county's experienced prosecutors to the point that the office is running at half staff or less? Come on, Humboldt County. Pay attention this time!

13 comments:

  1. so, Ms. Firpo proudly announced her 4 co chairs, but has been utterly silent up to now on Salzman. Cat's out of the bag, so we shall see where this goes.

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  2. Yes. Let's see who supports running the office into the ground, and wants to see that momentum continue.

    If you think you can run the office with 9 (soon to be 7) instead of 20, how about 5? How low can you go?

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  3. The only thing potientally worse than Firpo's backers are Flemming's backers. I'm strongly leaning Dollison or Klein. They may not have some of the experience but at least no one owns them.

    Rose: the immage challenge letters are nuts! It takes 5 or 6 tries every time to get it right, and no I'm not blind or dumb.

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  4. Holy shit she is still running. Does she get that this is a waist of time. Anywhere you go people talk about how they think she sucks. What a waist of money! hahaha satlzman is not my manager! What a liar!

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  5. If it is a "waist" of money, then I can't stomach it.

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  6. And you can guarantee that Gallegos is indirectly endorsing her. Not that it carries any weight as he has done a horrible job managing the Office. We should all take this election as an opportunity to rebuild the office to what it needs To be. No more Gallegos-onomics. It is also very disturbing to see that john woolley is backing firpo. I have lost all respect for him!

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  7. Salzman and John Chiv must be BFFs now.

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  8. Ah yes, Sara the dog! I remember him, her or ? I remember Trent too.

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  9. Well I've been asking Chiand if Salzman and Gallegos were backing Firpo. Here is the answer, I do believe Firpo's initial reports to her co-workers in the DA's office that Paul asked her to run is true. So here you have it, Paul's choice.

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  10. If Paul is not backing her, why is he having a house party for her?

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  11. Yooohooo!!! House party at Paul's house!!!!!! How do we get a invite? Will the joints be hand rolled or machine rolled?

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  12. Anon at 5:45 to your knowledge Klein and Dollison are not owned by anyone.

    As for the comment on Fleming's backers, at least 1 comment can be identified to a Fleming supporter.

    The rest could be anyone. And none of the other comments give me any information on any candidate, so who cares?




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  13. I'd like to take this opportunity to THANK Mike Losey and Max Cardoza for using their own real names. It's a good thing.

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