Editor:
I recently attended a town hall meeting between Supervisor Ryan Sundberg and challenger Steven “SunGnome” Madrone in Willow Creek. I was unimpressed by SunGnome blaming Supervisor Sundberg for the hardships of the small cannabis farmer in Humboldt County. As a stakeholder in the development of our local ordinances, I can say that no single person is responsible for the current reality for small cannabis farms. They are struggling because this is a massive industry transformation with many nuanced moving pieces.
SunGnome is either naive, uninformed or strictly reaching for political gain through his very limited understanding of the current cannabis situation. None of these are complementary traits in an elected official.
Terra J. Carver, Fieldbrook
This article appears in Death Visits the Zoo.
Name calling, really?
Did your mama give you that name?
Support or not is the question.
You have shown you don’t like Madrone, but not why you DO like Sundberg. . .maybe you don’t?
Holding incumbents accountable for problems that developed on their watch is perfectly acceptable, and in fact a necessary part of a functioning democracy. Appeal to emotion is not a valid defense against points on an issue, it is a logical fallacy upon which propaganda and disingenuity is founded. Your pearl clutching defense offers nothing besides claiming standing and attempting to defer responsibility off of a candidate that’s deeply in the pocket of your organization’s largest donors. Not a complimentary look in a “grassroots” organization.
Sorry, I spoke with a grower in Willow Creek who has applied and paid for all of his permits and had still not received county permits unlike the permits obtained by emerald family farms. The emerald family farms who contributed to Sundberg and Bass. What a nice thing to have in Willow Creek so we can smell it all summer long and all of the runoff that goes into the Trinity River.