Category: Corruption
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Reflections on the Life and Death of Bernie Madoff – Master of the Ponzi Scheme
By Donna Westfall , Opinion Piece- April 25, 2021 Bernie Madoff is dead at 82 Quick recap. He swindled investors out of billions of dollars. How many billions? About $65 billion but that includes fake profits. How he did it for so many years is a mystery since the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigated…
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Are Our Police Nuts?
By Jeff McCaddon – April 22, 2021 Copyright Jeff McCaddon, April 22nd, 2021. All Rights Reserved. The entire United States is a hostile environment for Law Enforcement Officers. The United States Government is run by the American Mainstream Media and the Pop Culture values they represent. Mainstream Media, in turn, derives a majority of its…
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“Trump’s” Border Crises
By Jeff McCaddon Copyright Jeff McCaddon, March 25th, 2021. All Rights Reserved. “Trump’s“ Border Crises has been making headlines. Despite the fact that “El Diablo” has been removed from office, and has been banned from every mainstream media network and social media venue; “Orange-Man” is Badder than ever. To listen to the Biden Administration rhetoric,…
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Hypocrisy?
Opinion Piece By Roger Gitlin – February 23, 2021 Unequal justice? Mayor Pro Tem Alex Campbell is under attack. In May of 2020, Candidate Campbell declared he was establishing City residence to run for the Council. He declared he intended to live at least four days a week at his City domicile, establishing his residence.…
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RECALL DERANGEMENT SYNDROME
Submitted by Linda Sutter from Assemblyman Kevin Kiley’s Facebook Page – February 18, 2021 The latest signature count is 1,689,000, and “alarmed party leaders” are panicking, making “all hands on deck” calls to try to head off this extraordinary citizens’ movement. Their arguments combine a disdain for both logic and democracy. If I were still…
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Another Newsom Scandal?
Submitted by Linda Sutter – February 17, 2021 SACRAMENTO – Tuesday, February 16, 2021, Assemblyman Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin) called for a legislative investigation into Governor Gavin Newsom’s no-bid contracts awarded during the COVID-19 State of Emergency. This morning CapRadio reported the following concerning findings in their story, “Investigation: Big Newsom Donors — Including Blue Shield…
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WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES DEFYING PUBLIC OPPOSITION
By Linda Sutter – February 8, 2021 After reading an email sent by Tamera Leighton of the Del Norte Local Transportation Commission regarding Richardson Grove and STAA Trucks, one has to scratch their head. The following email was sent to Supervisor Chris Howard and Gerry Hemmingsen from Tamera Leighton, “On Sun, Jan 3, 202L at…
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Sick of career politicians? Sick of the double standard by Democrats?
By Donna Westfall – February 1, 2021 Credit to BlazeMedia/News by Paul Sacca – January 30, 2021 When you think of Nancy Pelosi being in politics the last 34 years and second in line to the becoming the US President, how does that make you feel? Remember her ripping up Trump’s speech? No class. Too…
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Is Reporter Jessica Cejnar doing a disservice to her profession?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 31, 2021 A recent article by none other than Jessica Cejnar in the Lost CoastOutpost, titled, “FPPC Clears Del Norte County Of Misusing Public FundsTo Promote Measure R,” contains only two significant errors, along witha number of minor ones. It helps immensely if you as a reporter…
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QUID PRO QUO? And other Corruptive Practices
By Linda Sutter – January 15, 2021 During the Board of Supervisors meeting held on January 12, Tuesday on Zoom, Consent Agenda Item# 17 stated the following; Approve and authorize the Department of Health and Human Services to accept an anonymous donation of two ultra-low temperature freezers for use of vaccine storage and distribution as…