Category: Repeal Measure R
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Del Norte County GOP
Opinion Piece by Linda Suter – April 21, 2022 Corruption doesn’t fall far from the tree. Today in the mail the Republican Party endorsed three people who are running for Board of Supervisors. Chris Howard in District 3, Patty Adams for District 4, and David Jones for District 5. The Chair of the Republican Central…
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TAXPAYERS BURDEN
By Linda Sutter – April 18, 2022 Local governments have been placing sales tax measures on the ballot in response to alleged “budgetary problems.” Such “budgetary problems” are often a result of wasteful or excessive spending by local government officials, including high pension costs and excessive personnel costs. Local governments also like to play budgetary…
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The County’s Supervisors Continue To Hide From Voters
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – April 13, 2022 Irregardless of the Del Norte County’s Board Of Supervisors on goingefforts to hide from the public and the voters in the Fall, there is agrowing movement and outrage over the behavior of those that feed at thepublic trough and in particular those that have…
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New District Five Supervisor, No Change 5-0
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – April 13, 2022 With all the celebration of the swearing in of newly appointedSupervisor Fifth District, Susan Masten, the question became, “Wouldanything really change?” We have the answer to that, No! The Board ofSupervisors remains firmly locked in the oh, so, bland state ofuniformity, conformity, with no…
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WHILE YOU WERE WORKING
Opinion Piece By Linda Sutter – April 12, 2022 Board of Supervisors Meeting April 12, 2022 The Board of Supervisors proudly and boastfully made clear that although the current Repeal of the 1% sales tax was placed on the ballot, it will not repeal the sales tax. Joel Campbell-Blair stated the repeal only repeals the…
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Let The Whining Commence, Oh Wait It Already Has
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – March 26, 2022 Looks like the month of March has been “Whine About Measure ‘R’ RepealMonth” for members of Del Norte County’s Board of Supervisors and itsBureaucrats. Both Board Meetings this month have contained a suitableamount of whining from District Three’s, Supervisor Chris Howard, AnimalControl, and the…
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Observations about County Employees and Measure “R”
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – March 12, 2022 Most in the County will have heard that a Measure”R” repeal is to appearon the ballot for the voter’s to have a chance to assess whether theCounty’s government has wisely used the additional funding provided bythe Measure. If you are employed by the County…
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The Downside of Sales Taxes
By Linda Sutter – February 19, 2022 Remember when former Chief Administrative Officer, Jay Sarina, was quoted as saying, Measure R funds will not be used for salaries and benefits? Let’s spend a little time on sales taxes with new news. Had the advertising for both city and county included, “We plan to hire new…
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Just What Does The Local Republican Central Committee Stand For?
Opinion By Samuel Strait – February 17, 2022 I attended the most recent local Republican Central Committee meeting togauge how effective they were as a political group. I’d been told thatthe group consisted of mostly RINO’s (Republican’s in Name Only) who did not stand for much of whatthe Republican Party tells it’s adherents it stands…