Elaborating on her op-ed piece in this week’s issue, Journal Publisher Judy Hodgson took to the airwaves this afternoon, telling KHUM’s Mike Dronkers that the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors’ recent vote to replace the guiding principles in the general plan update was “one of the more blatant power grabs that I’ve seen in all my years watching the Board of Supervisors. … It was absolutely outrageous, and people should be angry.”
She also expressed anger over the new principles’ assertion that landowners should be “honored.” “Why shoud we honor landowners?” she asked. “Shouldn’t renters be honored? Everybody who rents in Humboldt County should be looking around and saying ‘Wait a minute, am I a second class citizen?'” As for a course of action, Hodgson had a suggestion: “We ought to find good people who are willing to run against … [5th District Supervisor] Ryan Sundberg and [4th District Supervisor] Virginia Bass.”
Here’s the full interview:
This article appears in Humboldt, The Book.
Absolutely correct! Virginia Bass and Ryan Sundberg are classic “smiling hacks” who try very hard to convey a warm and friendly appearance, while really working their hardest behind the scenes to benefit their friends and s-crew everyone else. Just like Rex. What a coincidence. Their voters are easily fooled.
a coup–the fox is now watching the hen house!Raging Granny
The only thing that might break the Good Ol’ Boy’s generational stranglehold over local politics is public interest media with the guts to routinely report the quid-pro-quo they receive and what it has actually cost our working families.
Offering occasional stories of outrage over the their worst excesses accomplishes the same as the endless drone of crime stories in addressing the bigger issues that cause it. (Nadda!).
We have to return to 2010 and the NCJ’s “Interested Parties” by John Osborn, to find the only local report on who’s politically running this county and why.
Start focusing on the problem and it will motivate the unregistered majority to seek solutions…and start voting!
I thought we hired (elected) these folks to contribute to the general plan. Things are changing. I think most of these comments are an overreaction. Estell and Rex are doing what we hired them for.
Think you can do a better job ? Throw your hat in the ring.
This issue has now been turned over to the sophists to defend the indefensible by claiming that the wholesale rewriting the GP’s guiding principles, (that took months of public input to finalize), is merely “Contributing”.
None of the supervisors voting to rewrite the principles ran on that agenda.
They did, however, state strong belief’s in the public process and public input.
My parents insisted that integrity was a virtue. How did it become out-dated? Perhaps 2 of the Supervisors could’ve been expected to sell-out, but the other two are more of a mystery. Their willingness to compromise themselves for favorable consideration by those that bought them their office should be a lifetime embarrassment.Their ravaging of the GPU contradicts their promotion of “environmental safeguards.” Their shift from “public guardians” to “the public be damned” will reverberate for years to come. I hope they don’t sleep well at nite.