Editor:
While I enjoyed the column by Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on Arkley (“A Villain Intervention for Rob Arkley,” Oct. 10), I would have liked one more Arkley action mentioned. Some years ago, Arkley tried to start a war against homeless folk by announcing that he would be addressing the issue at an open forum and all were invited. He claimed, in his speech that other counties were buying bus tickets to Humboldt and shipping their homeless here, telling them that Humboldt would give them a large amount of money to live on. After Arkley spoke, I took the microphone and said that what Arkley had claimed were lies, there is no big money being given out by social services nor were there bus tickets being given out by other counties. I was loudly booed and then realized that the audience was bought and paid for by Arkley. It was an ugly day. There is no low that is too low for Arkley.
Sylvia De Rooy, Eureka
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