In case you missed it yesterday, the Times-Standard‘s Thaddeus Greenson delivered the definitive account of 3rd District Supervisor Mark Lovelace’s sarcasm-powered slap-on-the-back, which he delivered last week to fellow supervisors Virginia Bass and Rex Bohn at a meeting of the California State Association of Counties in San Jose.
Lovelace was reportedly frustrated at being replaced by Bass as co-chair of the Coastal Counties Regional Association (among other frustrations). That disgruntlement evidently found an outlet post-meeting when Lovelace approached Bass and Bohn from behind and delivered a pair of facetious “thanks-a-lot-guys” thumps. As Greenson reports, there’s some dispute as to the velocity of the gesture. Bass said it aggravated an existing shoulder injury.
Lovelace reportedly apologized, and both Bass and Bohn said they hope the board can move forward.
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The local Tea bags smell blood! They want to see Lovelace go down in flames!
I was very upset back when Rob Arkley shoved Larry Glass in the Avalon restaurant but find myself simply shrugging off Mark Loveless smacking Virginia Bass and Rex Bohn on the backs down in San Jose. I guess that pretty much makes me a hypocrite. Embarrassing but that’s me.
“Good Old Boy” is not a compliment but considered recent
4 to 1 votes, sometimes Frustration occurs.
I was at the CSAC (California State Association of Counties) in San Jose, and while I did not personally witness the back pounding, I am appalled at the lack of judgment displayed by Mark. Elected Supervisors from around the State attend these conferences, and we need Supervisors representing us to put on a good face for Humboldt. Striking a fellow Supervisor (spin it what you want, but it was not a gentle slap on the back) is incomprehensible, and when one of them was a woman it is indefensible. This irresponsible act done in public has cast us in a very poor light. No frustration at continued 4-1 votes justifies physical attacks.
Suddenly somebody cares about Humboldt’s reputation? Really?
Humboldt County has been “slapping” official state and federal regulations and their regulators for decades before “slapping” our citizens with the resulting costs in fines, pollution, lost grants, capital flight, and civic shame.
Mark was probably providing a visual metaphor of this legacy.
(Did Arkley ever apologize to Glass? Has he apologized to Eureka for continuing to “slap” the Coastal Commissioners as an excuse to delay Eureka’s “Marina Center”?).
Adults apologize and move on.
The climate is changing at an accelerating rate, not just in this county but state/nation/worldwide. Mark is the only supervisor trying to curb new subdivisions from blowing up in rural areas. Humboldt County is our “local” in “think global, act local”. The other four supervisors are not only creating new legal loopholes to accommodate urbanization, they’re also intentionally disregarding the future state of our environment related to their planning. Not to mention the influx of population, crime, etc. They are tied to developers. Follow the money on this one.
thee wanna be District attorney gets into the act with
distortion and exagaggeration —