Editor:
I just sent the following email to the three supervisors that claim the General Plan Update (Blog Jammin’, Sept. 20) is too difficult to understand:?I’ve had a copy of the GPU for a couple of weeks now and I haven’t yet garnered the gumption to try to read it because it appears insurmountable. However, IT’S NOT MY JOB!! I did not launch a high-dollar campaign to be in your seat, claiming to be the best man for the job. As it is part of your job and you’re whining about your difficulties comprehending it, I can only reach one of a couple conclusions. Perhaps you’re not qualified for the job. Perhaps you’re just playing a game to derail the GPU process, for reasons I can only guess. Either way, that makes you a liar. I’m disappointed but not surprised.?Thanks for nothing.
Robert Jones, Kneeland
This article appears in Propping Up Schools.
The development community has no problem winning average citizens into office, their republican team always pulls together no matter how average their candidate is….while democrats and liberals will only coalesce (and volunteer) behind “Jesus”.
I can only count six times in a generation that a Eureka council member won without the developer’s support. They almost lost control of the county, but have firmly “taken it back” now.
Liberal communities around the nation expected the New Depression to swell their ranks. That’s why republicans began early to hinder black, Latino, poor and elderly voters with strict voter I.D. laws…in a nation where over half the eligible citizens never even participate!
No local media covers this story, not one print published demands to now who was behind Rex Bohn’s numerous phony front-groups or what the occupations of Bohn’s top 60 donors were, (missing from his election reports).
You had to search the blogs!
It’s a vicious cycle…more corruption, mediocre candidates, and zero press means less voters.
Less voters means even more mediocre candidates and corruption.
great letter! I agree! Unqualified puppets backed by developers.
Good letter ! A well aimed kick in the butts of the 3 sups.
I just returned from a trip to Santa Cruz County where I once lived many years ago and after seeing what has happened to SC I came back fearing for the future of Humboldt Cty. SC Cty has been destroyed by growth. It’s jammed end to end with strips of endless stores everywhere. Driving is a nightmare, bumper to bumper. I used to live in Aptos, a 12 mile drive from SC that once took 10 minutes. Now it is a crawl from start to finish. Aptos has crammed houses in everywhere they could get a backhoe in and downtown Aptos is a strip mall. All that took between 10 and 20 years and once it’s done there’s no going back.