Category: Corruption
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Why is Government Withholding Information?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 10, 2021 It doesn’t seem all that long ago that the citizens in this Country wereviewed as the employers and the government was considered theemployees. At least that is what the founders of this once great nationassumed would be the dynamic if this new form of government…
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Errors, inaccuracies, clarifications and moot statements
By Jeff McCaddon – October 28, 2020 At the conclusion of this letter is a public comment made during the October 27th Meeting of the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors. In all fairness, I must state from the onset that I was in error over two statements, and used confusing language in another. My…
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Pay Cuts Before Sales Tax Hike
By Angry Old American – July 29, 2020 One Percent Tax Hike? Ever heard of death by a thousand cuts? What we have in Crescent City, Del Norte County and the State of California is an endless succession of skin deep razor cuts that will eventually drain the life’s blood from all of us. How…
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EDUCATING THE PUBLIC REGARDING EXPENDITURE OF PUBLIC MONEY? TAXPAYER FUNDS
Submitted by Linda Sutter, December 22, 2019- In order to avoid a finding that an expenditure is a gift of Public Funds, courts require a legal consideration received by a government agency in exchange for public funds expended. So what is a legal Consideration? A legal consideration is a return commensurate with the value of…
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Disappointment with Congressman Huffman over Impeachment
Opinion Piece By Roger Gitlin, Letter to Congressman Jared Huffman – December 19, 2019 It is with sadness in which my wife, Angela, and I write you to express our disappointment in your voting for two counts of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Impeachment is a serious, somber action. You have trivialized this rarely used…
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BREAKING: Jury rules against Daleiden, pro-lifers who exposed Planned Parenthood’s sale of baby body parts
Credit to Lianne Laurence of LifeSite News – November 15, 2019 SAN FRANCISCO, California, November 15, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress undercover investigators have been found guilty of multiple crimes and must pay millions in damages to Planned Parenthood for the work they did in exposing organ harvesting on…
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Are the Fairground Boards Guilty of Embezzlement?
Email letter to Mr. Quiroz, Branch Chief of Calif. Dept Food and Agriculture, published with permission by Linda Sutter – (letter emailed on April 22, 2019). Publishing this on April 30, 2019 NOTE BY EDITOR, Donna Westfall: Local county resident, Linda Sutter, started her own investigation after reading the 2017/2018 Del Norte County Grand Jury…
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A recount of the December Fairground Boards’ meeting – “Unquestionable Integrity?”
By Donna Westfall and Linda Sutter – December 18, 2018 – For ease of reading we’ll use DW and LS to denote who said what. LS: The Park and Recreations Special District began the meeting at 5:30 pm on Thursday night, December 13th. The meeting was not appropriately posted. You can not find their agenda…
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Local Public Corruption? Who Do You Call?
By Donna Westfall – October 2, 2018 – During the days of the Wastewater Treatment Plant upgrade/expansion, I became a whistleblower. The only thing wrong with that is that I didn’t know squat about whistleblowing, or whistleblower laws. This is what I did. I went and talked with our City Manager(s) and requested public records…
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“The nominee will be reported to the floor”
By Donna Westfall – September 28, 2018 – Brett Kavanaugh just passed the first hurdle. This morning, the voting by the State Judiciary Committee on the Kavanaugh nomination took place. The vote: 11 to 10. This is how it shook out. Republicans all voted yes…11 total Democrats all voted no…10 total Apparently the Dems are…