watchpaul: People are talking about it, so...What do YOU think?

Saturday, June 07, 2014

People are talking about it, so...What do YOU think?

◼ MATTHEW IN THE MIDDLE: Four More Years! Four More Years! Four More Years! - LoCo

At least two of the points are relevant here. Maybe more.

LOSERS-

The Paul Gallegos Legacy: when all four candidates campaigned on how bad of a job the current District Attorney is doing, no amount of Richard Salzman spin can help.

Richard Salzman: speaking of, when was the last time Salzman won an election outside of District Attorney? Considering he worked on the Kerrigan and Latour campaigns and went lone wolf on the Firpo campaign (Redwood Progressive email blasts, blog posts, radio call-ins), I guess he got his own version of a trifecta. At least now I don’t have to deal with his ego-drivel on any media source (newsprint, radio, blogs) for another two years.

◼ Election Day - Eric Kirk
◼ Election over. Thank goodness. Campaigns are hard. - Samoa Softball

6 comments:

Anonymous6/07/2014 2:11 PM
There is such a thing as a sore winner. Stay classy Mr. Owen.......
ReplyDelete
Replies
Anonymous6/08/2014 6:05 AM
Since Paul's gone lets hope you shut down this site soon as well, no need for your bellyaching any more
ReplyDelete
Replies
Rose6/08/2014 6:29 AM
Paul's GONE?

Yeah. WHERE IS PAUL?
ReplyDelete
Replies
loser jon6/08/2014 6:31 AM
Thanks for asking.

I think it is a great example of what I'm trying to get across in right-wing* political dialog.

a) oops on facts. Can anyone link to someone associated with Chris' campaign that is talking about "no growth". What Chris and others like him (ie me) are talking about is growth - real growth, not growth simply of home and land prices. Growth that would make people interested in coming here, staying here, creating jobs here, etc.

b) Victimization. What Matthew says about Richard and 2006 is a great point. Richard has been using his status as a victim to confuse Democratic politics just enough to give his 5 or 6 friends in the HCDCC, including Matthew and Supervisor Bass a great deal of leverage. During the endorsement meeting, Chris actually had 10 endorsement votes to Virginia's 9. That's impressive given Virginia has been an all-star for volunteering for the Dems.
Remember, Virginia is a great person and great HCDCC volunteer. She is just wrong on policy

c)"Political power goes to those that can influence voters** and win elections, not to those who yell the loudest and write the most Letters to the Editors." Exactly. Matthew knows how to win. This is what he meant when he tried to sell me what he was selling by saying you can't progress unless you win.

d) policy vs mud-slinging. Which is Matthew partaking in?

Yeah, no. I am a little less cynical about politics. Matthew may be right, but I believe, if the electorate is educated on the issues, if policy matters are discussed and not run from, if people pay attention and vote, then it won't simply be about "influencing" voters.

So, congrats to Virginia, Richard, Matthew and Ryan. Maybe, now Virginia can finally answer a question on climate change. What should we at the county level do about this given Republicans are stalling any effort - even bi-partisan energy-efficiency bills - at the federal level?

* for those who are confused, one way of "influencing voters" is to be a little sly on your party affiliation b/c Democrats hold about a 10 to 15 point advantage in HumCo. This is why no one can run as a Republican. Matthew and Virginia are both right-wing Democrats on the most pressing policy issues for their particular pecking order in our layered hierarchy of elected officials.

**The amount of voter's Matthew and Supervisor Bass "influenced" was 16% (2,300 (people who voted for SVB /(75427 registered HumCo voters/5 districts)). SVB's mandate is with 16% of the voters of her district and about 8% of the people in her district.
ReplyDelete
Replies
Anonymous6/08/2014 6:49 AM
STF up LJ
ReplyDelete
Replies
Anonymous6/08/2014 10:18 AM
It's good to see Jon disagree respectfully with Virginia. This blog is all about anonymous mud-slinging.
ReplyDelete
Replies

Add comment

Comments are closed for the time-being.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

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.

Pages

Saturday, June 07, 2014

People are talking about it, so...What do YOU think?

6 comments: