Editor:
Hilary Mosher explained in her views piece “Disquiet on the Mobile Home Front” (Aug. 13) that the board of supervisors won’t even put the issue of rent stabilization at mobile home parks on the agenda and expressed that Ryan Sundberg, Virginia Bass and Rex Bohn are subverting the public process.
I hope that neither Ms. Mosher nor anyone else who’s been paying attention is surprised that the these three supervisors are more concerned with the profit margins of the owners of the mobile home parks than with the plight of Humboldt County’s seniors and other low-income citizens.
All one need do is look at the public records of the donations to their campaigns to see that Sundberg, Bass and Bohn are funded and backed by the largest landowners and the related development industry business owners. The reason these well-heeled folks back these three supervisors is that they know they can count on them to always vote for industry’s interests over those of the average citizen. And you have to give all three of them credit for being unabashed in their public display of contempt for the rest of us.
As to the McKinleyville Advisory Committee (MAC), Hilary is wrong to refer to them as in any way representing the citizens of McKinleyville. The MAC is a sham, created by the board of supervisors, which appoints all its members, as a way of further subverting the will of the voters and to provide cover for Sundberg’s actions on behalf of the land developers’ cabal.
It is long past time to vote these supervisors out of office.
Richard Salzman
This article appears in Free and Afraid.
Spot on, Mr. Salzman. Spot on.
Regarding the majority of Supervisors as with all politicians…..we have the best government that money can buy.
Public shame means nothing to any of them.
As seems to always be the case be it city, county, state or national ‘politics’, the governing of the masses is bought and sold to the biggest contributors.
We few in number manufactured home residents are easily disregarded.
Too bad we don’t have the $$$$ to buy us a Supervisor.
Thank you. Of course it only adds insult to injury that in this case the landlord they are protecting is an out-of-state corporation.
Richard-
Thanks for your support! We are thinking of filing complaints with the Grand Jury against the supervisors for failure to uphold the General Plan regulations, and for subverting the public process in this issue. Might you be interested? I think the more complaints that are filed, the better!! And let’s not forget that Estelle Fennell is also failing to put the issue on the agenda– she is just keeping her mouth shut about the whole thing…
There are many rent control ordinances working in California cities and many more that apply only to mobile home parks.
Pick one for the 2016 election! The ordinances are already written! Start gathering signatures now.
Thanks to the development industry’s control of this county’s supervisors, we have a disastrous 23% home affordability rate and a massive constituency of renters that would vote for their first time to support such an measure.
Two popular measures on the 2014 ballot finally gave the development industry the boot from Eureka’s city council.
It can work for the county too.
Two birds…one stone.
Hilary,
Please contact me as I don’t seem to have your number.
You can call me at 707 – 822 — 5500
Thanks,
Richard