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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Have we moved on? No.

◼ Are builders and developers calling the plays? - North Coast Journal May 1997 Cover Story

Can we move on now? Please.

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Anonymous5/15/2014 6:05 AM
When I read your post headline, I thought you were talking about Gallegos, Miller and Salzman

Sigh...
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Anonymous5/15/2014 11:16 AM
That's funny. So did I.

And meanwhile, back in the DA's race, the Gallegos/Salzman (yes indeed) campaign of alternate realities continues.

Regarding Rose's comment of May 8 that the Paul Fan club has closed its doors, apparently not. He's announcing his protege (again) on Sunday.
(Although Paul's Introduction is mentioned in some places, as here on Sohum Parlance II, KMUD, and the Independent, his name is omitted in several other announcements. No, not a timing issue, he's omitted.)

Elan Firpo at Beginnings on Sunday
May 13, 2014 in Uncategorized | by Eric Kirk | Leave a comment
From the Firpo campaign:
Join us for a good time, Sunday, May 18th from 4:00pm to 7:00pm at the Beginnings Octagon in Briceland
Spend the evening getting to know Elan and her team!
Introduction by Paul Gallegos
Music by Peter Childs and Chris McCurdy
With comments by: KMUD Monday Morning Show host, Dennis Huber, Michael Evenson, Mattole Salmon Group
etc...

Paul is there - to say whatever the people want to hear!
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Anonymous5/15/2014 11:34 AM
Well, the asshole is still her boss and like it or not every vote counts. You can't have a shot at a new vision if you don't win the election. Like dealing with God's own chosen 2nd son ( Ken Miller ) , you must just shake your. Head and move on.
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Anonymous5/15/2014 12:08 PM
11:34. Well said. She'd be crazy not to take help getting elected. She's said Paul has been supportive going all the way back to January. Anyone who knows Firpo at all knows she has a different vision for the office than Paul. That includes Paul. Says something to me that he still supports her despite how critical she has been of the office management.
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liberal jon5/15/2014 5:21 PM
I can't believe agree we agree. Can we please move on from builders and developers calling the plays?

If Sharon and Chris are voted in, we'd take a giant step toward putting the public back in public participation.
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Anonymous5/15/2014 7:25 PM
Fripo is a real positive you idiot LJ. Kerrigan and Latour are not. Ewald is a good guy for Fripo but an evil for Sundberg. LJ, you and Salzman and Miller and HCDCC and Baykeeper and on and on are fucking jokes.
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Anonymous5/15/2014 8:20 PM
Interesting. The post is not about the DA's race but some comments are.

Looks like some people are threatened.

Firpo must be the forerunner, her critics think so.
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Anonymous5/15/2014 8:33 PM
The beautiful thing is we all have our reasons to like it not like each candidate. I am with 7:25. Firpo might be the only thing Salzman and I ever agree on. There is not a candidate out there who wouldn't take the breadth of support Firpo has from the likes of Ken Miller all the way to the likes of Mike Harvey. You won't see these anons posting this garbage on liberal blogs.
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Anonymous5/17/2014 12:42 PM
Ya, look at Salzman's letter posted on this blog. He is saying Firpo is against law enforcement and there will be no change from the Gallegos era. If you expect Firpo to work with law enforcement as she says she will, forget it. Read his letter, he outlines how it will be with her in office. Firpo and her supporters must really be getting scared,speaking through Salzman they think will get her more votes, wrong!
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Anonymous5/18/2014 1:12 AM
You tried this on another thread Maggie-Arnie lemming.

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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.

Links to key stories and documents are also included in the sidebar, so that you do not have to try to scroll back through what has become a lengthy series of posts. I encourage you to use the Search and Labels features as well.

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Have we moved on? No.

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