Editor:
It was both amusing and depressing to read your Blog Jammin’ piece in last week’s Journal (June 7) regarding Rex Bohn, the winner of the 1st District supervisor race. It appears to have been a rather slippery exercise for you in attempting to get some straight answers from him regarding the campaign mailers and just who it was that financed and backed him. Oh, and what about the childlike glee with which he reacted to the amount that was spent on his campaign?
And then there was the complete confusion concerning what he did or didn’t support in the Prop. 28 and 29 issues. It is quite hard to believe that he is so ignorant of who was supporting his campaign and how they were going about it. This all from someone who decided he shouldn’t run for office as a Republican, unless you want to call that a coincidence. I think of it more as a pattern, i.e. Virginia Bass.
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what he has to say once he is actually sworn in! And we will also see what the other candidates who won with the impressive help from the developers will do when in office. To try to tell us that they are not beholden to those interests is almost laughable.
Bruce Edwards, Redway
This article appears in Tsunami Boats.
After reading your legal complain filed with the courts all I can say is you are a dipshit.
It’s up to Individual citizens scrambling to survive to sue elected officials for answers.
Pathetic.
Bohn’s lips are sealed…as they were in 2004, the last time his campaign benefited from corrupt, phony front-group mailers and TV spots.
This time, 6 of them put him over the top.
The odd thing is none of Bohn’s supporters ever refuted the facts asserted in the NCJ’s story. They just cried “Smear job! Unfair!”
If there weren’t a number of deceptively-worded mailers sent around by the Bohn campaign, why not deny it flat out instead of crying foul?
What facts?
Here’s a paragraph that sums up the article nicely:
In the last week, Bohn has appeared on mailers supporting both Democrats and Republicans, both “Yes on 28” and “No on 28,” and both “Yes on 29” and “No on 29.” And according to the mailers themselves, he has paid to share space with each and every one of these positions.
No one that I’m aware of has claimed that Bohn did not in fact send out those mailers.
….and nobody has presented a shred of evidence that he did send out those mailers.
Yet, isn’t it odd that it’s only Bohn’s 2 campaigns where corrupt, phony front groups are used in Humboldt County’s political history?
Thirdeye:
1) His name was on every flyer.
2) He’s designated as one of the parties paying for and authorizing every flyer.
3) He didn’t deny any of it in the phone interview. Heck, he wasn’t concerned enough to ask to see the flyers — he had to go for a 90-150 minute walk instead.
4) He hasn’t ever denied paying for or authorizing any of the flyers.
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and looks like a duck, there’s an excellent chance you’ve got a waterfowl of the Anatidae family on your hands.
And someone broke into Gag’s house and turned up the heat.
rolls-eyes
Honestly, if some storywriter from the NCJ called you up, would you take them seriously? With hard hitting stories of the Bimbo Dancing Bear, Pepsi Mascot Drinks Water and Clit Clamp Criminals, would you care?
But if you want to talk about bullshit, we can go through Bruce Edwards’ and Company bullshit lawsuit and rip it apart piece by piece if you like.
Since we all have access to that lop of shit.
Hell, let’s do it!
1.The trucks aren’t oversized.
2.Yeah and?
http://www.saverichardsongrove.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/EndorsedRichardsonGroveComplaint.pdf
What’s funny is they say “Moving Vans, no big deal” When Moving Vans are much much MUCH longer than a standard STAA truck, and corner worse due to their axle set-ups. A standard moving van can have a 53 foot long trailer WITH ADDED CARGO TO THE OUTSIDE REAR OF THE TRAILER and can use a longer than standard tractor unit with a drome box. Adding their size almost 10 FEET longer than a standard STAA unit.
But hey, that’s just a moving van. And 102 inches is oversized only when pulled by a semi truck, not a F250 with grandma behind the wheel.
Not that Rex Bohn would know who Anon-r-Mouse is, but I doubt that he feels any need to be defended by a scumbag troll.
Slate mailers are old news. They’re pay to play.
Seems the NCJ could count as a corrupt phony front group for the Seidner campaign, posing as journalists. The Herald, too, since Seidner’s campaign manager is one of its big wheels.
Tsk tsk. Investing so much time searching the web for a trump card to use against me. But even if you were to find something, you’d still just be a gutless, talentless troll. Insulting me anonymously in a public forum will not turn a mouse into a man.
Joel, your gender-bias is showing.
No secret Joel backed Rex.
Question is, WHY?
And how did I “back” Rex?