Category: election
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Where In The World Is Our Local Republican Leadership?
Commentary by Samuel Strait – October 26, 2022 I suppose if one intended to follow the lead of the Local RepublicanCentral Committee, one might as well join the Democratic Party, of “BigGovernment” and the higher taxes to pay for it. There does not appearto be much to distinguish them, the Republicans, from Democrats on theissue…
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Let The Whining Begin
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – October 22, 2022 With November’s election date rapidly approaching, seventeen days forthe City and County’s spin machine to howl every chance they get aboutthe potential loss of funding from a sales tax increase repeal that wasgenerously granted to them by local voters in 2020. For those voting…
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“Tea Party Time?”
By Branden Bieber – October 21, 2022 It’s not Massachusetts 1773, but the fight for independence is ongoing. Our elected officials’ are void of accountability, and want to impose increased hardships on their neighbors with ongoing tax increases and welfare dependency. County officials claim their failures of deferred maintenance and lawlessness are the result of…
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Disassociation of Endorsement of Fifth District candidate for Supervisor from the Del Norte Sheriff’s Employee Association.
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – October 21, 2022 EYE ON DEL NORTE has received a communication from the Del Norte Sheriff ‘s Employee Association it has NOT endorsed appointed Supervisor Susan Masten for the position of Fifth District Supervisor. The DNSEA respectfully demands a retraction. One of the Association’s members appeared…
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New faces and changes needed on the Harbor Commission
By Roger Gitlin – October 9, 2022 – Updated October 13, 2022 Voter ballots are enroute to your mailbox as you read this column. Before you hastily complete and send back your ballot, please take a moment and review the not-so-obscure Harbor Commission election. The mix of candidates running is very interesting. I do recommend changes…
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Our Closing Argument
By Assemblyman Kevin Kiley – October 17, 2022 We are three weeks from Election Day, and last night on Fox News with Steve Hilton I previewed my closing argument. The 2022 midterm elections are a referendum on the historic failures of Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi’s Congress. And our race for the House of Representatives, a high-stakes…
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The Final Lap
Commentary by Samuel Strait – October 17, 2022 With a bit more than three weeks before the November 8th mid termelection, candidates and various measures on the ballot are making theirfinal pitch to the public in order to garner the necessary votes to besuccessful. Mailboxes stuffed with flyers, candidate forums, debates,and all the typical political…
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Has Roger Gitlin been duped by the City’s Use of Measure S?
Commentary by Samuel Strait – October 16, 2022 As much as I respect the opinions of Roger Gitlin in his weekly columnin the Triplicate, he is after all entitled to them, I respectfullydisagree with his latest effort, Eye on Del Norte, “Don’t let some ofthe letters of the alphabet confuse you”. Within the article is…
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Did You Ever Wonder?
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – October 14, 2022 After seeing the recent sample ballot for the upcoming Novemberelection, one has to wonder just who is responsible for the descriptionsfound on the ballot for the various Propositions and Measures. Is it anunbiased third party, particularly when who ever writes the ballotmeasures and propositions…
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Biden’s Model State
By Assemblyman Kevin Kiley – October 13, 2022 Joe Biden is in California. He’s attending an LA fundraiser for the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, the organization backing my opponent among others. While he’s in town, perhaps Biden will get a glimpse of what Newsom and the Supermajority have done to our beautiful state. Because he’s…