Now this is ironic...

Winner of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Essay Contest for High School Students:
Paul V, Gallegos Courage under Pressure
from www.jfklibrary.org

uhhhh, guys....

[PDF] Paul V. Gallegos: Courage Under Pressure
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Thus, when Humboldt County District Attorney Paul V. Gallegos decided to ... and I voted for Paul Gallegos. Unfortunately, now we see what his true platform ...
Winning Essay

Given that the hero of the story Paul Gallegos is now shown to be ripping off Robert Kennedy's quotes...
ER - A second Gallegos column raises questions about attribution

RELATED STORIES:
THE OX-BOW INCIDENT by ROBERT LOUIS FELIX
a copy of THE OX-BOW INCIDENT in case the link goes down
TS - Paul Gallegos' My Word
ER - WHOSE WORD WAS 'MY WORD'?
ER - A second Gallegos column raises questions about attribution

Any doubt what Local Solutions' agenda is?

Any doubt what Local Solutions' agenda is?

It's identical to the so-called "Alliance for Ethical Business."
A quick look at their websites shows the same roster of anti-Palco postings, the same claims to fame, including getting Gallegos elected and protecting him from the Recall. The same people involved, Salzman, Twombly, Ken Miller, Michael Shellenberger, the same agenda.

You've seen the proof of connection if you have been reading any of the posts on this blog -

The genesis of Local Solutions appeared in another "My Word" in the Times Standard. This one was ostensibly penned by Michael Twombly.

Maxxam machinations demand local solution
My Word by Michael Twombly
Article Last Updated: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 6:12:41 AM PST

The full text of his My Word in the FIRST COMMENT on this post.

Paul Gallegos is a Plagiarist?

It's tempting to say something flippant like "Plagiarism is not a victimless crime."

But there's just nothing funny about this.

When I posted Salzman's Plan for the Trust Fund, the idea was that their own words tell the story. You don't have to make up a conspiracy theory, which is what any criticism of Paul is said to be. The story is all there. In their own words. In their emailed communications, and quotes in articles in various publications. Lies and spin. Manipulating public opinion. I figured if people could see it for themselves, it might help them make an informed decision

Paul Gallegos lied to the Times Standard about the Trust Fund proposal, and about many other things. Sometimes, the lie is printed one day, and a few days later the different version of the truth is printed, and the reporter never questions the discrepancy. Because it is Paul.

Now, in the Times Standard's "My Word" op-ed forum, it is Gallegos' own words that do him in.
Or rather, his own choice to plagiarize the works of others that clearly demonstrate his dishonesty.

In the fullness of time, the full extent of the dishonesty, and the dishonest tactics that permeate Gallegos' tenure is being exposed, and will continue to be exposed.

He should resign.

RELATED STORIES:
THE OX-BOW INCIDENT by ROBERT LOUIS FELIX
a copy of THE OX-BOW INCIDENT in case the link goes down
TS - Paul Gallegos' My Word
ER - WHOSE WORD WAS 'MY WORD'?
ER - A second Gallegos column raises questions about attribution

Local Solutions' 460 Campaign Statements

Fascinating. Big Donor. Ken Miller.

Funny. Donation to Ken MIller's Humboldt Watershed Council.

Wow. Big Donor. Michael Shellenberger.

Biggest surprise? No contribution from Richard Salzman. That's funny. he told KMUD listeners that he was SO impressed with this "grassroots" group that he was donating himself.

Maybe I'm missing something.

BUT....

You Eureka voters might note that most of these people trying to tell you who to vote for don't live anywhere near Eureka. And, for all their support of Measure T, these people don't have ANY trouble taking money, big money, from out of the area. And, David Cobb's column in the Times Standard is obviously just another tool for Local Solutions. The TS should suspend his column until after the election.

Filing period 10-17-04 to 12-31-04
Contributions:
$100 from Scott Holmquist, Garberville
$1,200 from KEN MILLER
$100 from Ray and Marie Raphael, Redway
$100 from Barbara and Jim Truitt, Redway

Donations:
(Summary of Expenditures Supporting/Opposing Other Candidates, Measures and Committees)
$300 to Kaitlin Sopaci-Belknap
$500 to Chris Kerrigan

Payments
$450 to Kate Casali, Garberville
$200 to Eileen McGee (training for radio producer)
$203.52 to Verizon

***

Filing Period 10-23-05 to 12-31-05
Contributions:
$199 from Lily Bhavani Aquarian, Redway
$600 from Kelly Baraka in Mill Valley
$100 from Sonia Baur, Garberville
$600 from DAVID COBB
$100 from Michael Courson
$100 from Marilyn DeWitt, listed as working for HSU
$198 from Mark Greenleaf
$445 from G. J Gregori, Garberville
$100 from Maureen Hart
$293 from Dennis and Ellie Huber, Redway
$100 from Erik Jansson
$101 from Ron Kokish and Niki delson
$200 from Judith K. Little
$100 from Therea Malloy
$1,750 from KEN MILLER ($2,950 total to date)
$100 from ANNE PIERSON
$3,000 from WILLIAM S. PIERSON
$198 from Charles J, Powell
$200 from PAUL SALZMAN (significance unknown)
$1,000 from Ester A. Saunoras, Petrolia
$1,000 from MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER & KARIN ROSSMAN, El Cerrito (interesting. related to Jared Rossman?)
$198 from Ronald M & Molly Sinoway
$150 from S. Brian Wilson

Loans received:
$200 from MICHAEL TWOMBLY

Non-Monetary Contributions:
$203.78 from Lost Coast Brewery
$100 from Fiesta Cafe
$200 from Six Rivers Restoration

Donations: (I'm listing the cumulative to date/calendar year amounts)
(Summary of Expenditures Supporting/Opposing Other Candidates, Measures and Committees)
$894.01 to Friends of CHRIS KERRIGAN
$200 to Shane Brinton
$600 to Humboldt Coalition for Community Rights (MEASURE T)
$370 to the Humboldt Democratic Central Committee
$690 to Friends of Mike Wilson
$665.86 to Becky Kurwitz for Northern Humboldt Union High School District
$665.86 to Don Avant for Northern Humboldt Union High School District
$665.86 to Steve Cole for Northern Humboldt Union High School District
(geez, Shane got gypped)
$550 to Elect Maggy Herbelin
$400 to Jeff Dunk for McKinleyville Community Services District
$400 to Javan Reid for McKinleyville Community Services District
(I'm disappointed in you guys)
and finally:
$100 to (Ken Miller's) HUMBOLDT WATERSHED COUNCIL (For what?)

Payments made:
$1.285 to ALICE WOODWORTH, Arete Business Services (isn't that nice, paying yourself)
$159.71 to Dennis Huber for reimbursement fro fundraising event
$350 to Kevin Frank, Frank & Associates for Database development
$250 to Javan Reid for McKinleyville Community Services District
$600 to the Humboldt County Democratic Central Committee for rent
$100 to HUMBOLDT WATERSHED COUNCIL
$250 to Jeff Dunk for McKinleyville Community Services District
$100 to Matt Koglin for Website development. (Matt is the Matt on Salzman's roster, Matt's list)
$475.85 to MICHAEL TWOMBLY for reimbursement
$165.98 to SBC

Accrued Expenses: (Unpaid Bills)
$159.71 for Dennis Huber for Fundraising reimbursements
a total of $983.30 for MICHAEL TWOMBLY for reimbursement (not clear what for)
$940 for ALICE WOODWORTH for Professional services (hiring yourself)
$81.68 for SBC
$250 to the Humboldt County Office of Education for Fundraising Events. THIS NEEDS EXPLANATION!

Miscellaneous Increases In Cash
$561, City of Eureka, Wharfinger Bldg, refund deposit for fundraising event
$182.25 Campaign to elect Don Avant to defray cost of signs for Northern Humboldt Union High School District

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Filing period
5-21-06 to 6-30-06

Contributions:
$100 from Alan Maret
$100 from Javan Reid
$1,000 from Ester A. Saunoras (THat makes $2,000 to date as far as I can tell)
$1,100 from ALICE WOODWORTH Friends (event)
$2,000 from Mary Yates in GILROY

Loans received:
$1,200 from Dennis Huber (guess this activism is harder to raise money for than you thought?)

Nonmonetary Contributions Recieved:
$1,823.90 from ALICE WOODWORTH for database development (forgive debt) and pay web costs
$200 from Kevin Frank & Associates for database development (this gets more interesting)

Donations: (I'm listing the cumulative to date/calendar year amounts)
(Summary of Expenditures Supporting/Opposing Other Candidates, Measures and Committees)
$500 to the Humboldt Coalition for Community Rights (MEASURE T)
$517.50 to the Humboldt Coalition for Community Rights (MEASURE T) with notation
$500 to the FRIENDS OF PAUL GALLEGOS

Payments made:
$150.10 to AT&T
$400 to Kevin Frank & Associates (database development)
$100 to the Humboldt County Democratic Central Committee for rent

Accrued Expenses: (Unpaid Bills)
still a balance of of $983.30 for MICHAEL TWOMBLY for reimbursement (not clear what for)?
$1,763.90 for ALICE WOODWORTH for database reimbursements (donated)

Miscellaneous Increases In Cash
$673, FRIENDS OF PAUL GALLEGOS for database share expenses

So there ya go. All you candidates who think Local Solutions endorsement and support is worth something - the most you are going to get is about $500. Is it worth it?

What is the "Transition Mission"?

Developing.

Plagiarism?

Could this be why Paul Gallegos had to go to LaVerne - an unaccredited Law School? Plagiarism? It will not only get you an "F", it can get you kicked out of school. Sheer speculation on my part.

But it's not just the lifted phrases that are interesting here, it is Gallegos' instinctive, immediate, denial. It is part of his pattern. Deny, then admit, defend obliquely, then blame someone else. It shows up in the Pelican Bay incident, the Victim Witness debacle, and many more. If you are looking for the "tell" phase, the one that indicates an untruth is about to follow, try "certainly," "absolutely" and "at the end of the day."

I pity Richard Salzman, who now has to find a way to cover for Paul Gallegos yet again. He must be getting tired. But you can't blame this one on politics, there is no political campaign in play, and Gallegos did this to himself. You can't blame the Eureka Reporter, though the Orks will surely try, because that is the same as saying that everything that is critical of Paul must be censored. (Which did seem to be the theme of his plagiarized piece.)

ER - WHOSE WORD WAS 'MY WORD'?
by Heather Muller , 9/7/2006
http://www.eurekareporter.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=14767

Significant portions of a guest commentary submitted by Humboldt County District Attorney Paul Gallegos, and printed in the Saturday edition of the Times-Standard, appeared earlier in an academic paper written in 2000 about a World War II-era Western starring Henry Fonda.

Gallegos’ commentary appeared as a “My Word” guest column in the Times-Standard, under the title “Vigilantism a force of anarchy.” In it he argued that vigilantes put the rights of all people at risk by overriding the safeguards of due process — an argument legal scholar Robert Louis Felix made six years earlier in “The Ox-Bow Incident,” a paper written about a 1943 film by the same name.

“There’s certainly nothing earth-shattering about the thoughts,” said Felix, a professor emeritus of legal research at the University of South Carolina School of Law.

But it was not just the thoughts that Gallegos used. In at least 10 instances, complete sentences and parts of sentences from the 2000 paper — found on the Internet by using the Google search engine — appeared in Gallegos’ submission.

“There’s such a thing as fair use, which means that within certain limits work can be quoted for academic purposes. I’m saying quoted now, not lifted. I think clearly phrases are taken out of the article,” Felix said.

“If I knew that the article had been read and parts of it lifted without any intention to acknowledge or attribute it, I’d be offended.”

The movie, based on a 1940 novel by Walter van Tilburg Clark, tells the story of three innocent men who are lynched for a crime that didn’t occur.

“I couldn’t say if this is a crime or not, but in academic circles we call it plagiarism,” said Lee Bowker, Ph.D., emeritus dean of Humboldt State University’s College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

Bowker had not seen the two articles and spoke only in general terms about a problem that is common on college campuses. “The taking of even a single line from another source without attribution is plagiarism. That’s the academic standard,” he said. “It’s an extremely serious offense. It’s so serious that presidents of universities have been fired for it. Faculty members have had their tenure revoked. A single instance proved against a faculty member can ruin that person’s career.”

“I would not accuse him of plagiarism,” Felix said, “but it’s difficult to imagine he wrote this particular (opinion) piece without some knowledge of the article.”

Reached by phone Wednesday afternoon, Gallegos initially said he was not specifically aware of the article Felix had written, but later said that he believed he had read it, adding that he had read a lot of articles about the “The Ox-Bow Incident.”

“It’s one of my favorite stories. ... As a prosecutor, I loved the story.”

When asked if he knew that swaths of his “My Word” commentary had previously appeared in Felix’s article, Gallegos responded, “No. I was not aware of that.”

“Obviously the question here is whether I intended to take direct quotes without attribution, and no, I didn’t intend that,” he said.

“Certainly when you’re getting ideas sometimes you write them back in a way that sounds very similar.”

But Gallegos maintained that he did not intend to represent Felix’s work as his own. “If I’ve done that, I certainly apologize to the professor.”

Felix said his paper had originally been presented at a 2000 meeting of the American Culture Association in New Orleans. A version of the article has been collected in “Screening Justice,” a book of essays about law and film.

Felix said he does not know who currently holds the copyright on the article.


Paul Gallegos

From “Vigilantism a force of anarchy”
Times-Standard (Sept. 2, 2006)

Vigilantism is a force of anarchy without much promise of justice.

Since absolute truth regarding guilt is not possible in all cases, some toleration of error is necessary.

… manages the risk of error in a way that is most favorable to the citizen.

If the accused is found guilty, the system has worked.

If the accused is found not guilty, the system remains intact …

Vigilantism is when all or most of the functions of the administration of justice are performed by one person or persons.

When the legal system is adhered to, the system demonstrates its commitment to … laws … .

… our legal processes have greater importance than getting the right results.

Today, I see a growing tendency for individuals or a group of individuals to disregard our established practice in the administration of justice: orderly progression within the limits of official power and rational decision making.

Robert Louis Felix

From “The Ox-Bow Incident”
Legal Studies Forum (2000)

Vigilantism is a force of anarchy without much promise of correction.

Since absolute truth regarding guilt is not possible in all cases, some toleration of error is necessary.

… manages the risk of error in a way that is most favorable to the accused.

If the accused is found guilty, the system has worked ...

If the accused is found not guilty, the system remains intact …

… vigilantism, in which all or most of the functions of administration are performed by the same persons …

When legal forms are adhered to, the system demonstrates its fidelity to law.

… adherence to legal forms needs more to commend it than getting the right results.

(T)he novel and the film provide narrative and dramatic illustrations of the evils caused by the deliberate or misguided failure to observe established practice in the administration of criminal justice: orderly progression within the limits of official power and rational decision making.

Copyright (C) 2005, The Eureka Reporter. All rights reserved.

RELATED STORIES:
THE OX-BOW INCIDENT by ROBERT LOUIS FELIX
a copy of THE OX-BOW INCIDENT in case the link goes down
TS - Paul Gallegos' My Word
ER - WHOSE WORD WAS 'MY WORD'?
ER - A second Gallegos column raises questions about attribution

POWER GRAB

During the Recall, Salzman drummed up an army of Orks and true-believers. One can forgive the likes of his defenders such as Sylvia de Rooy and Ellen Taylor, who believe in the cause and do not yet realize how they have been - and continue to be - used.

Everything "R. Trent" Salzman does serves to further his agenda. From getting into the neighborhood poker game in Trinidad to infiltrating the county's political power structure and orchestrating smear campaigns against those who stand in his way.

I have watched the lies unfold - everything from the so-called "Alliance for Ethical Business" and "timber yes, fraud no" to soliciting letters to the editor against Debi August to resorting to writing the letters himself under false names.

Through Salzman's efforts, his activist group believed they had secured in Paul Gallegos a powerful weapon and they would do anything to keep it. He has covered for Gallegos' bungling and incompetence, blaming others and misdirecting public attention wherever possible.

He has cultivated reporters, especially at KMUD, which became his mouthpiece. He has bullied and threatened and cajoled the local news media, directing the news coverage and with the help of the high powered public relations expert, Michael Shellenberger, he has been successfully "framing the debate."

Salzman has worked diligently to spin Gallegos' catastrophic failures in a positive light. He didn't lose the grant, it was politics, he didn't lose the grant, he was simply weaning the office from grant funding, he's not losing prosecutors, he's building for the future (though the imaginary bright young prosecutors failed to come knocking at Paul's door.) His non-existent relationship with the men and women of law enforcement is a plus not a negative, because it will allow Gallegos to prosecute the cops in the Cheri Moore matter (never mind that is what Ken Miller wants him to do).

Meanwhile Salzman works to secure a larger power base here in Humboldt County. He needs more politicans who will do what he tells them. He is frustrated by people who are independent, and who he cannot bend to his will.

Months ago Salzman began laying the groundwork for his takeover of the Eureka City Council - the "Good Old Boys" and the class warfare cards, which are the only cards left in his deck. You could hear Bob Ornelas and Michael Twombly and his "Local Solutions" cohorts pumping the message on KHSU, and KMUD.

He hopes to get you foaming at the mouth at the thought of "Big Boxes" and "evil Corporations" in order to get his way

Fortunately, in the fullness of time, Salzman's antics are being exposed, and being seen for what they are. The lies exposed in the North Coast Journal's investigation were, and are, just the tip of the iceberg.

Do not be fooled by groups that pretend to be grassroots, that give themselves nice sounding names that disguise their true intent.

You deserve to know who is behind groups like the so-called "Alliance for Ethical Business" the sham "Local Solutions", and the newly created "Redwood Progressives" - and CREG, the Citizens for Real Economic Growth. they are all one and the same.

*****

Two new aliases for Richard "R Trent" Salzman

A new name and new pretend title for Richard Salzman. Maybe a pretend paycheck, too. How many different ways can he convince you to hand over your hard earned money?

Citizens for Real Economic Growth, another nice little euphemistic name, hiding the fact that this group is for anything but Real Economic Growth. He thinks you are stupid enough to fall for it.

Richard Salzman
Communications Coordinator
Citizens for Real Economic Growth
post office box 738
Eureka, CA. 95502
www.SaveEurekaWaterfront.org
cregmail@cox.net
707.267.8878


And, yet a new fake group to add to his list:

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What's he have to say?

aebmail@cox.net writes:

The best party in Eureka this Arts Alive will be the grand opening of the dual campaign headquarters of Friends of Larry Glass and Friends of Nan Abrams, candidates for Eureka's 1st ward and 5th ward City Council Seats. 

Question is, will we hear the Salzman Tribal Heart Beat?

The anti-cop agenda

Paul Gallegos' supporters HATE cops. You've already seen Ken MIller's agenda for the future detailed in AEB emails.
Here are some more - and for those of you who are asking "isn't this old news?" "why is this relevant today?" you need only read Ken Miller's last two My Words, in which he continues his rant against cops (though he tries to sugar coat it.)

Support for Ken must be drying up since he has come out from behind the shadows and resorted to writing the pieces himself. The same thing happened to Salzman, who first had people who agreed to sign his letters, then had to resort to signing them himself, and finally took to making up fake names to sign to his letters in order to make it look like he had widespread support.

Salzman and Miller desperately want to discredit local law enforcement, who they see as an impediment to their precious Paul's ability to fulfill their agenda. They have seized upon the Cheri Moore tragedy, and are attempting to milk it for all it is worth, trying to drum up support from the Orks, like those below:

aeb_humboldt@topica.com

From: silhouette@asis.com    Add to Address Book
Subject: Sweet Victory
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 19:41:04 +0000

From the Alliance for Ethical Business (AEB) List serve:
First I want to say, OHHHHHHHHHHHHH YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!1

The funcion of the AEB will not go away. Despite our wonderful victory,
the Good Ole boys are not going to disappear. They will lame-duck
Gallegos and it's up to us to relentlessly monitor and dog these
corrupt thugs all the way from beat cops up to Dikeman in Paul's office. In a
sense, our work has just begun.

The dummies brought this on themselves. Talk about putting all their
eggs in one basket. What a mess! What was just sound speculation has
now been represented as fact in the media. Yes, the cops are bad. And
if they're not bad themselves they fear ousting from their "leaders"
should they take a stand for the good. This is a serious serious
matter. It's up to us to citizen monitor them and free Gallegos to
carry on his promise to uphold the law equally.

Good work everybody. Relax, pat yourselves on the back; stretch and
get ready for round three...the "lame-ducking" of Paul.

Victory is won in inches not in miles. Celebrate every inch of the process.

Jennifer in Trinidad

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aeb_humboldt@topica.com

From:
silhouette@asis.com    Add to Address Book
Subject: Time to get real
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 17:14:14 +0000

From the Alliance for Ethical Business (AEB) List serve:
I read with tongue in cheek this AM in the TS about how the cops want
everything to go back to "normalcy" and "professionalism". I also note
that the editor wishes this is so. Here too in our listing I notice
people who wish this as well. How quickly we revert to passivity when
the dust settles temporarily in our favor.

I can assure you, as I did Paul in the very beginning, that the issue
of rank high-ranking cops and their political allies aren't going to go
away. They are VEHEMENT that they will take their power back. There
is way more going on with them behind the scenes that involves
racketeering. Racketeers NEVER simply give up their trades and
alliances, nor powerholds, simply by losing an election.

I personally will never forget the cops rallying against our DA,
especially because our DA stands and stood for equal justice. If that
doesn't rile you to your foundation, you don't belong in the USA. 

These cops are bad. They're not going to stop representing
totalitarianism just because we wish it, or because we won this round. 
They need to be monitored. It is a campaign we must fight as
vigorously as we did for Paul's retention. Because the battle is only half won. 
They can and will lame-duck his authority. Until Paul is rubbing
elbows with their kind at the Ingomar Club, the Scotia Inn and out in those
huge private no-fly zone hunting ranches out east; they will not rest
their cause of usurping him. 

The AEB's function must be to organize a citizen's watch group against
their continued momentum to corrupt our government. Yes, the lawn
looks nice with all the dandelion tops mowed off. But it will only stay that
way if we meticulously pry out all the root parts in the coming months/years ahead.
I'm so sick of the corruption in this County that I want it to look like a friggin putting green.

Jennifer in Trinidad

Seeking excellence?

In Daniel Mintz'a recent article, Paul Gallegos opines that his yet-to-be-created "environmental crimes unit" will be about "excellence." This is laughable when you consider what has happened to Paul Hagen and Allison Jackson. Both were excellent - and effective - prosecutors. Both fired by Paul Gallegos. It seems excellence is not something Gallegos strives for.

Both disappeared from public view after years of service - almost without a trace. But they didn't sink entirely unnoticed beneath the waves (see the following letter to the editor and My Word):

Stewards disappointed about Hagen's dismissal
by Tim Ayres and Aryay Kalaki, 7/17/2006

We were stunned and deeply disappointed to learn that the environmental prosecutor for Humboldt, Del Norte and Lake counties has been fired.

Paul Hagen has prosecuted environmental crimes effectively since he was hired in 1999. We feel that this is a huge loss for all three counties.

When Humboldt County District Attorney Paul Gallegos was first elected, he brought Hagen to the Dunes Forum, where the prosecutor offered precise information on the court system and how the community could best participate in environmental cases, also offering to provide a public workshop, which the forum then organized for the community.

After the presentation, he graciously made himself available for any future projects we thought would be helpful for the community.

We provided information ourselves to Hagen regarding Clam Beach violations and he proved diligent in exploring every possible avenue of action that the evidence warranted. His dedication and action were impressive and greatly appreciated.

From his work on the job to his involvement in the community, including an eloquent statement as a citizen at the historic Eureka LNG hearing, we were confident that the public interest of Humboldt County had a strong advocate in the D.A.’s Office in the person of Paul Hagen.

Humboldt District Attorney Gallegos says that the California District Attorney’s Association, the organization that employed Hagen, is solely responsible for his termination, yet the chairperson of the Humboldt County Democratic Central Committee, Patrick Riggs, states to the press that he understands why Gallegos would “clean house” and fire Hagen (himself a Democratic Central Committee member), for what appears to be primarily a request for a review of the committee’s endorsement process as two Democrats (Gallegos and Dikeman) were running against each other for the same position of District Attorney in the last election.

The Committee rejected the request and voted to endorse Gallegos.

Even with the California District Attorney’s Association pulling the trigger, what was the nature of the Humboldt D.A.’s office input in that decision? Hagen’s record of prosecuting environmental crime is impressive and in the past D.A. Gallegos has publicly praised him.

Following an $800,000 fine against a mill for polluting bay water brought by the North Coast Regional Water Quality Board, Department of Fish and Game and the Humboldt County District Attorney’s office, in an April 2003 press release Gallegos stated, “None of this would be possible without the hard work and commitment of Deputy District Attorney Paul Hagen. We’re grateful that he’s part of our office and for all the work he does.”

Now, Gallegos has stated that the decision to terminate Hagen was not political, but there appears to be little other reason for it.

The Del Norte and Lake County district attorneys appear to be interested in answers as well, since they both are on record as saying they were not notified of the decision until after the termination and have questions of their own as they face the hole left by Hagen’s departure.

All that we know for certain is that we have lost an intelligent and dedicated prosecutor of environmental crime, and that this move warrants full examination and accountability, as people of this caliber are few and far between.

We ask: Has the public’s best interest been served here? We sincerely hope that those who care about the environment in all three counties, which were served so well by Paul Hagen, will join us in pursuing the answers.

(Tim Ayres and Aryay Kalaki are members of the Beach and Dunes Stewards.)
(The Eureka Reporter did not carry any of Riggs’ comments.)
http://www.eurekareporter.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=13075

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Puzzled and concerned over DA's dismissal of Jackson
http://www.times-standard.com/Stories/0,1413,127~2906~2215979,00.html
My Word by Dave Parris

I have been a detective in Humboldt County for 20 years, and in law enforcement for 27. In all of those years, I have rarely seen decisions made that so clearly and negatively impact the safety and well-being of our community as the dismissal of Allison Jackson from the District Attorney's Office.

Allison Jackson has served as a senior prosecuting attorney for 10 years in this county. Her relationship with law enforcement is one of mutual respect and dependence. Seasoned detectives and patrol officers gladly work with her to provide tight, thorough investigations. Younger, less-experienced officers have sought her instruction and advice, resulting in an educated force dedicated to finding the truth. She continually cross-trains with law enforcement, developing professional relationships with individuals while learning what law enforcement has to teach, never assuming she stands in place of investigators, but instead, at their side.

Allison Jackson has been a front-runner in this county for promoting investigative and prosecutorial procedures which keep in mind the complexity of child abuse dynamics, the sensitivity surrounding the details of a case, and the inherent strengths of child witnesses. She has participated in the Child Abuse Services Team, the Sexual Assault Response Team, and Child Death Review, all with the intention of keeping Humboldt County's awareness of child abuse sharply in focus. She actively seeks out and implements state-of-the-art practices formed around laws that protect our youngest victims. Child examinations, whether in the form of an interview, a medical procedure or testimony have been uncompromisingly guarded by Allison, as she requires her colleagues and her opponents to maintain standards of practice much higher than those held across the state.

Allison Jackson is a seasoned, winning litigator. Noted as a "bulldog" by law enforcement and defense teams alike, she aggressively charges, resolute in her responsibility to hold people accountable for crimes they committed. The defense teams who speak against her do so for her disinclination to plea-bargain away counts of criminal activity she can prove occurred. When Jackson knows she can protect a child for 10 or 15 years more by going to trial instead of plea-bargaining, she'll do it. She lays waste to "defense experts" who are paid high prices to tear down child victims and keeps their often outdated, irrelevant testimony out of a trial. Prosecuting to the fullest extent possible, while upholding the integrity of the judicial system, is the earmark of a talented, committed attorney.

I am astounded at the decision to dismiss Allison Jackson. For 10 years she has prosecuted child molesters, and of those cases she has had one hung jury, no other losses. Her partnership with law enforcement is outstanding, and more importantly, necessary to the ongoing development of well-balanced investigations. Her commitment to children and families has repeatedly drawn praise from public and private organizations, as well as the Board of Supervisors.

I am confused. In April of this year, in the month of Child Abuse Awareness, Paul Gallegos stood in front of the Board of Supervisors and invited Allison to speak on behalf of his office. He followed that invitation by handing her the proclamation from the Board of Supervisors which applauded the efforts of the Child Abuse Services Team. In doing so, he publicly recognized her in particular, among all the team members surrounding him.

And finally, I am devastated at the loss this represents to the professional and private communities of Humboldt County. With one less outstanding deputy district attorney, the quality of service will diminish. The talent and skill she brought to the DA's office is lost to this county. And this over a "personnel matter."

Was the matter of her dismissal "personnel" or "personal?"

The community deserves an answer.

Dave Parris is a detective with the Eureka Police Department. He lives in Eureka.

The answer is here:
http://northcoastjournal.com/051806/news0518.html#news

Forged documents and six pounds of weed
Why did District Attorney Paul Gallegos fire a top prosecutor?
by HANK SIMS

They tried to tell you

Two letters to the editor, from the Arcata Eye, 2001

Gallegos is a phony

I am a Deputy District Attorney in the Humboldt County District Attorney's Office. I prosecute crimes against children. The views expressed below are my private ones, but obviously my role as a deputy d.a. is relevant here.

Terry Farmer has the whole-hearted support of every person in the District Attorney's office. He is physically, mentally and emotionally more than equal to the job, and his experience as well as judgment eclipse that of his young opponent.

The opponent's suggestion that the elected District Attorney should try cases shows that he does not understand the job, or how complex the office is. Do you hire Seiji Ozawa or Leonard Bernstein to conduct, or to play first violin? Anyone immersed a trial has no time to manage the office, and vice versa. It is impossible to do a good job as a trial lawyer and simultaneously run a complex office, and anyone serious about the job should know that.

Terry does a great job dealing with local, state and federal agencies, and in running the people who work here. And when he needs to, he does go to court. In fact, he goes farther afield than that. Recently he traveled to Vacaville Prison, attending a so-called "lifer" hearing, ensuring that the killer of a two year old girl stayed where he belonged.

The opponent has never been to a homicide scene and then watched the autopsy, drafted the search warrant, conducted a grand jury investigation, or attended weekly meetings with the police agencies of Humboldt County. He has never managed a budget as big as the District Attorney's Office budget. He has no understanding of how the office is funded, what grants we apply for, get and maintain to pay for people, technology and training. He has no relationship or experience with the numerous state, federal and local agencies the District Attorney works with, that support us and that we support. These are just a few of the things that go into the job of District Attorney, and this is the kind of experience Mr. Farmer has. The opponent does not.

The opponent's claim that he would go easy on marijuana growers is not thoughtful, and is not a promise he can keep. Remember the line from the Glenn Frye song – "You got to carry weapons, ‘cause you always carry cash"? Drug dealing means drug ripoffs. We had at least one such homicide last year. Juries are full of smart people, and when they see large amounts of cash, packaging materials, scales, records of who paid what, who owes what, and guns, they quickly figure out that it's not medical marijuana we go after-it's drug-dealing. Every dealer has a 215 card – they would be crazy not to; cards are easy to get; everyone knows that.

Whether they admit it or not, drug dealers put their neighbors at risk. Drug dealing kills, directly and indirectly. Cases are winnowed; many requests from police agencies are not prosecuted. But when the facts suggest dealing, even when the dealer tries to hide behind medical marijuana, the case goes to a jury. Of course, a lot of dealers plead guilty before trial.

Another thing – a 215 card is not a license to drive stoned, especially with kids in the car. Nor does it allow one to carry a little meth and a syringe. Or cash bad checks. Or shoplift. People who care about medical marijuana know that. Many of them, like the Humboldt Patient Resource Center, endorse Terry Farmer.

One of the public defenders buttonholed me in the courthouse hall and asked me what I thought of the race, and we discussed it:

• Paul's only criminal experience is as a defender, yes? Yes.

• If Paul is qualified at all then, it is as a defense lawyer, certainly more than as a prosecutor, yes? Yes.

• Would you hire Paul to be your boss, to be The Public Defender? (VERY STRONG NEGATIVE RESPONSE.)

• OK then, don't send him to be my boss since he's not even ready to be yours. (The defender in question is supporting Mr. Farmer.)

It is nice that the opponent wants to "give back" to his community. But it is bold for him to assert that he should start at the top. Even the boss's kid is supposed to start in the mail room and learn the business. Where the D.A. is concerned, that's good for Humboldt County.

Five years ago I started here as a Deputy DA level one (out of four, four being the highest). When I did I already had 18 years experience as a trial lawyer – seven as a prosecutor, including four as a homicide prosecutor investigating and prosecuting from the death scene, the autopsy, through trial, and then to arguing appeals in the state Supreme Court and ultimately in Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal. Then I spent 11 years as a defense lawyer and plaintiff's civil rights lawyer, doing mostly police misconduct cases. I have worked both sides of the street, and I can tell you there is a big difference. Another experienced lawyer was hired by Mr. Farmer a year after I was. He had 20 years experience, 10 as a deputy D.A.. in San Francisco, 10 as an assistant U. S. Attorney prosecuting drug cases. He too started at the bottom here. Everyone does. The opponent wants to start at the top. That's wrong, and it's not good for the people of this County.

The opponent claims he can "lead" the current deputies. He admits we are good at what we do, he says he respects us, he says we deserve civil service recognition, but he does not hear us when we endorse Mr. Farmer in this race. Most of the attorneys in the office have far more experience than the opponent does, in some cases as much as twice or even three times as much. One of us, Worth Dikeman, was chosen Prosecutor of the Year by the state's leading legal publication not long ago. Maggie Fleming was convicting killers of little girls when the opponent was barely out of law school. The office has specialized prosecutors for methamphetamine, domestic violence, juvenile justice, violence against women, child abuse, welfare fraud, to name a few. How can the opponent tell us how do to a job he has never done? Will he ask our advice? He is not listening to us now – is he supposed to be a better listener if he becomes our boss?

To make money, private lawyers pick and choose their cases, even dump clients after taking them on. The District Attorney has a broader responsibility to the community. In the public interest we must take and keep cases even when our witnesses and victims may be unsavory, or hard to understand, or unwilling to assist us. We can't just walk away when things get difficult, or expensive.

Mr.Gallegos has done just that, as described in the Eye. After taking the case, Mr. Gallegos had second thoughts about how tough it might be. Rather than carry the case, he decided the client should pay expenses. She could not, so he dropped her. That is not thinking like a public servant, even when the "public" is just one person.

The time will come for a new District Attorney. When it does, vote for one who knows the whole job, knows the County, knows the State. Pick one with the judgment, experience, and credibility to represent the County at all levels: in the office, in court, with local police, government, and business, with Sacramento, with the Federal government. Right now, that's Terry Farmer.

Andrew Isaac
Arcata


Bring back the boss

We are the attorneys and investigators in the District Attorney's Office. We write to urge the reelection of District Attorney Terry Farmer.

We are proud of what we do and the reputation that we have. It didn't happen overnight and it didn't happen without Terry Farmer. Terry's opponent has no prosecutorial or administrative background. Despite this, he aspires to go from being one-half of a two-person office to head of the largest law firm in Humboldt County supervising those who experience dwarfs his own.

The enforcement of our criminal law is a serious business. Platitudes and sound bites are no substitute for results. Terry Farmer gets results. He is an innovative leader who has earned our respect and support. We urge you to vote for him on March 5.

Max Cardoza, Worth Dikeman, Rob Wade, Elizabeth Norton, Maggie Fleming, Jim Kucharek, Allen Woodworth, John Wright, Peter Martin, Gloria Albin, Allison Jackson, Eamon Fitzgerald, Wes Keat, Andrew Isaac, Nandor Vadas, Heather Gimie, Murat Ozgur, Frank Dunnick, Stacey Johnson, Paul Hagen, Jim Dawson, Eric Olson, Kathy Philp, Mike Losey, Chris Cook, Paul Blake, Scott Smith, Chris Andrews, Dave Rybarczyk, Dave Walker, Mike Stone

Humboldt County District Attorney's Office
Eureka

(Anyone care to count how many of them are left? Probably on the fingers of one hand.)

It's in the Headers

There are dozens if not hundreds of examples which prove that ecent attempts to deny any connection between Richard Salzman, the AEB and Local Solutions are patently false. Here it is evidenced by the headers in emails sent out via local solutions listserve. See an example in the FIRST COMMENT on this post.

What you are looking for: (for those who don't want to scan the entire email...)

in a Local Solutions PAC email...
alliance@oxide.webserversystems.com
michael@localsolutions.org
Local Solutions PAC < michael @ localsolutions.org >
http://www.ourhumboldt.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi?f=archive&l=4tnc

From Richard's List
alliance@oxide.webserversystems.com
salzman@inreach.com
http://www.ourhumboldt.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi?f=archive&l=Richards
Richards.oxide.webserversystems.com
RSVP to: mailto:aeb@inreach.com or call 707.677-0241

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To unsubscribe from: Richard's List, just follow this link:
http://www.ourhumboldt.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi?f=u&l=Richards&e=____.com&p=9192749

As previously noted, triggering an error in the unsubscribe link will lead you to a complete list of Richard's groups, which has now evolved to include "Redwood Progressives."

No connection? Once again, you be the judge.

And again, the question is - why LIE about it?

_________________
UPDATE:
Open Letter from "Local Solutions"
"Local Solutions" sham
No connection?
Any doubt what "Local Solutions" agenda is?
For more of the story click on the labels below.
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Note: Personal email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers have been either altered (so spam crawlers won't harvest them) or replaced with the words 'address' and 'phone' - business or organizational addresses remain intact.
New note: the deal is off, Richard.

"Forest Ethics"?

Green Groups Find Their 'Green' Can't Buy Ad Space
By J. Zane Walley

Something new is in the wind. Newspapers have begun refusing to run attack ads from radical environmental groups.
Anti-timber campaigns run by coalitions that include the Rainforest Action Network, American Lands Alliance, Forest Action Network, Student Environmental Action Coalition, EarthFirst!, Greenpeace, Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council have used full page ads to pressure retailers like Home Depot to stop selling wood products.

Some newspapers, such as the New York Times, readily accept green-group ads making the most outrageous claims so long as they skirt the libel law. Many other newspapers used to do the same, but now a few are holding environmentalist attacks to a higher standard than merely evading prosecution.

In March of 2001, the Boston Globe refused to run an attack ad against Staples; the respected paper products retail chain. A little-known Berkeley, California-based organization, "Forest Ethics," which has never filed an IRS report form and doesn't exist in California Department of Justice nonprofit organization records, submitted the ad. The group, which is actually a front for the multi-million-dollar Rainforest Action Network (RAN), attempted to smear Staples by name and the Globe turned them down.

"The ugly truth is that thousands of acres of forest are needlessly destroyed every year to supply Staples with cheap, disposable paper products," the Rainforest Action Network ad said. RAN’s ad implied that everyone should stop using wood to make paper and that Staples was somehow bad for selling paper made out of trees.

The RAN ad urged readers to call Tom Stemberg, Staples' CEO, "at (508) 253-7143 and ask him to stop destroying our forests, or send him a fax at www.StopStaples.com."

The RAN ad was a masterpiece of propaganda writing. It misdirected attention toward one target by mentioning no other paper retailer than Staples. It asserted that making paper from trees was "wrong," and accused Staples of "destroying our forests," as if they were going out into the woods with a bulldozer and smashing trees into useless splinters for the sheer meanness of it. It offered the reader a "fleeced" opportunity to scold a corporate executive.

The worst was invisible. The RAN ad had a hidden agenda: the campaign behind it was actually created and funded by wealthy foundations and designed to force Staples and all forest-related firms into a "certification" program operated by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). FSC is a foundation-created group that offers a "seal of approval" to companies that subordinate their operations to foundation-funded overseers.

And, most loathsome of all, the campaign was designed to force Staples into signing an agreement to pay environmental groups so they would stop the harassing tactics of the campaign. That sounds a great deal like extortion.

The Boston Globe refused to run the ad. The "Forest Ethics" front-group offered to take out the phone information. The Globe still said no and refused to run an ad that mentioned Staples by name. Dennis Lloyd, an advertisement manager at the paper, confirmed they would not run the ad.

The paper's refusal to carry malignant advertisements criticizing corporations is a gratifying reinforcement of the notion that the press will serve as an institutional check on abuses of power. The social and political clout of massed environmental groups orchestrated by enormously wealthy foundations has long crossed the line into abuse of power. It’s about time newspapers start acting responsibly and refuse to be tools of elitist propaganda.

The Seattle Times, too, acted responsibly -- by refusing to run a different Rainforest Action Network ad. This ad was one proposed during the "Green Building Conference," a meeting held in Seattle in March 2001, to persuade homebuilders to stop using wood.

RAN wanted an advertisement that smeared the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), a certification program of the American Forest and Paper Association and the American Tree Farm System that competes with the Forest Stewardship Council’s certification program. The FSC is funded by a number of the same foundations that fund RAN -- and RAN is also a member of the Council.

RAN wanted to say the Sustainable Forestry Initiative is "a sham," and urge wood buyers to give preference to wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, which RAN sweetly called, "an independent organization." It’s certainly not independent from RAN.

RAN's proposed ad mocked the SFI's "bold approach to sustainable forest management" with a picture of a cutover area in British Columbia, logged by the Interfor Co., which SFI had recently certified as sustainable -- evidently with the belief that any tree cutting whatsoever is unsustainable. Asking whether SFI was "promoting green wood or a greenwash," the RAN ad also criticized the SFI certification of Boise Cascade. RAN has been running a vicious anti-Boise Cascade campaign for months. "SFI's endorsement of Boise Cascade, the largest logger of old-growth in the U.S., is further evidence of SFI's toothless standards," the ad's text read.

The Seattle Times refused to run it. The sticking point, according to Todd Paglia, anti-logging campaign director, was the mention of Interfor and Boise Cascade by name. But "at that point, the ad is worthless," Paglia said.

The Seattle Times disputes Paglia's version of events. Lloyd Stull, national sales manager for the paper, said the Seattle Times only requested documentation to support RAN's assertions. RAN and its allies decided not to allow the ad to run if they couldn’t mention the two companies by name.

Environmentalists don’t like to document their claims because most of them are misleading, erroneous, or flat-out lies. In RAN’s case, it is more anti-corporate ideology than concern for nature that drives their campaigns. It’s about time newspapers caught on.

Congratulations, Seattle Times and Boston Globe.

We hope your new "Truth in Whining" policy gets around.

This article was made possible by a grant from the Paragon Foundation. If you would like more information on how special interest groups use paid advertisements as a propaganda tool, contact the Paragon Foundation toll free at 1-877-847-3443

THE PARAGON FOUNDATION
PRESS RELEASE
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Office of Public Relations
505-653-4024
Toll Free 1-877-847-3443
For Immediate Release: April 20, 2001

They always say follow the money

IT’S THE TAX STATUS, STUPID
By J. Zane Walley

Rainforest Action Network is in the headlines again.

This time it’s 20 celebrity environmentalists carrying a banner blaring, “Save Free Speech! Stop Boise Cascade!”

They all got arrested for disrupting a Boise Cascade paper facility in Chicago. Much-arrested singer Bonnie Raitt was one of the busted. So was John Densmore, former drummer of former rock group The Doors. You probably wouldn’t recognize the other 18 celebrities by name – mostly non-profit types – even though the rainforest radicals spent a lot of money marketing them.

“Save Free Speech?”

Aren’t those banners supposed to say “Save the Rainforest?”

“Stop Boise Cascade?”

Okay, radicals don’t like big corporations.

But what, you may wonder, does a forest products company have to do with saving free speech?

I wondered too. So I looked into it.

The Rainforest group claimed that Boise Cascade tramples free speech by objecting to protesters disrupting their business. Rainforest radicals recently trespassed to hang a nasty banner on the company’s corporate headquarters in Boise, Idaho.

“We have a right to civil disobedience,” said a Rainforest spokesperson.
Well, amigo, to me “civil disobedience” means breaking laws for political reasons. Does anyone have “a right” to break the law?

A lawyer friend told me that speech which incites people to unlawful action is not protected by the First Amendment if there’s a direct connection between the speech and violation of the law. Trespass is a violation of the law. So is obstruction. Civil disobedience is strictly AYOR – At Your Own Risk. It’s not protected free speech.

That’s what I always thought.

The Chicago Police Department thought so too. The cops hauled off the Rainforest lawbreakers.

Which brings us back to the question: what’s Boise Cascade got to do with trampling free speech?

The answer: nothing.

The banner was a smoke screen.

What’s really going on is this: Rainforest Action Network (RAN), according to several non-profit critics, has been violating the terms of its privileged tax status.

RAN not only doesn’t pay income taxes, but its contributors can also deduct donations from their own income tax.

That’s quite a favored status, and many non-profit organizations have it. It’s called a 501(c)(3) status, named after the pertinent section of the United States Tax Code.

But it comes at a price. To get and keep a 501(c)(3) status, an organization has to engage primarily in educational activities. Advocacy – lobbying and direct action – is strictly limited. Go beyond those limits and your exempt status may be revoked.

RAN has gone beyond the limits, said the Washington, DC-based conservative think tank, Frontiers of Freedom (FOF), founded by retired Senator Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming. RAN should be stripped of its tax exempt status, FOF said.

It’s who FOF said it to that has RAN in banner-carrying hysterics: Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rossotti. Sen. Wallop’s organization sent a long list of RAN’s advocacy violations to the commissioner and asked that RAN be stripped of its exempt status.

About a month later, another group sent Commissioner Rossotti a complaint against RAN, this one alleging unlawful acts. The Bellevue, Washington-based Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE), presented the IRS with evidence of RAN’s alleged unlawful acts, including a document they say appears to show extortion. CDFE asked the IRS to investigate.

That’s what really happened.

But RAN can’t face being accused by fellow non-profit groups. They had to find a big bad corporate villain to blame it on.

It wasn’t hard. RAN operates shakedown campaigns against various large corporations, including Citigroup, Texaco – and timber giant Boise Cascade Corporation. RAN runs boycotts, protests and blockades against numerous companies and offers to stop in return for concessions and money payments.

CDFE’s Ron Arnold said, “If that’s not extortion, what is it?”

RAN immediately claimed that Frontiers of Freedom and the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise were on the take from Boise Cascade. RAN said the whole tax exemption thing was a dirty trick by a corporate villain.
Not so, said the two groups. Neither has received grants from Boise Cascade or even talked to executives from the company. Both non-profits were founded to educate the public about American freedoms. Each singled out RAN for their own reasons.

CDFE, for example, has operated a public exposure Web site about RAN since last year (www.RANamuck.org) as part of a massive project exposing the funding of hundreds of environmental groups.

It’s the funding that makes RAN hysterical. Rainforest Action Network rakes in over $3.2 million a year. Over 75 percent is in tax deductible grants from big foundations with fat stock portfolios. Less than 12 percent comes from membership dues.

If the IRS strips RAN of its educational status, the outfit will have to reorganize as an advocacy group. Advocacy groups are not eligible for foundation grants or tax deductible donations. There goes nearly $2.5 million a year.

The Sierra Club changed to an advocacy group years ago when its mission changed from education to activism. RAN doesn’t want to do that. RAN doesn’t want to lose all that money. I’d get hysterical about losing two-and-a-half-million bucks, too, pardner.

Bottom line? It’s about the money. Not free speech. Not Boise Cascade. Not dirty tricks.

As President John Fitzgerald Kennedy once said, “Where there’s smoke, there’s usually a smoke-making machine.”

THE PARAGON FOUNDATION
PRESS RELEASE
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Office of Public Relations
505-653-4024
Toll Free 1-877-847-3443
For Immediate Release: August 13, 2001

AEB listserve topics

For those who are following this, the FIRST COMMENT on this post is a list of the messages sent out by the AEB listserve.

You decide. What was the primary purpose of the so-called "Alliance for Ethical Business"?

Get Palco? Promote Paul? Destroy Roger Rodoni? Elect Sal Steinberg?

Did the AEB provide unambiguous support for Paul Gallegos? The true test of whether a group crosses over into territory that requires FFFC disclosure... unambiguous support

"Pursuant to section 84100, et seq. and 82031, a person must file campaign disclosure statements if the person makes expenditures of $1,000 or more for communications which expressly advocate the election or defeat of a candidate or the qualification, passage or defeat of a measure, or unambiguously urge a result in an election."