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"[John] Phillips led the successful effort to award the contract to his friend without publicly disclosing the existence of the FPPC investigation. Phillips failed to respond to a request for comment."

⁦@GavinNewsom⁩ ⁦@AGBecerra⁩ voicesofmontereybay.org/2020/06/14/on-…
"At one point, according to Agha, while Grupo Flor was the leasing agent for his property, the firm required each tenant to hire the [#Carmel Mayor Dave] Potter- [@RepJimmyPanetta's Plasha] Will team as consultants."

On the face it reeks, dig deeper and it's much - much worse.
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With US Congressman are singing your praises and putting political weight behind you - you believe you are above the law and while these folks clap back at @realDonaldTrump (who @JimmyPanetta was asked to help on an "economic forum") like 78M others, they are not.
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Has anyone thought about this #COVID reality. People are going to work with a fever hoping it's not anything serious - because they don't have any sick time left, there is no support and they are broke.

This is an epic failure of government.

@RepJimmyPannetta, my rep. in Cali
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D20 makes approx. $200,000+ total compensation per year. He has never had to work for anything. Just show up. His wife was given a second judgeship by @JerryBrownGov in what Brown described as "unusual" (but did it anyway) and she makes over $200,000 a year in total comp.
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Jimmy's dad, the "great" Leon Panetta has made millions off his name and his time as CIA Dir., SecDef, and COS to Bill Clinton.

Leon is 81 years old and 5 years ago the guy buying up all of #Malibu on PCH, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, gave Leon a board seat worth
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With the help of a pliable Monterey County Superior Court judge Adrienne Grover.

MoCo judges are some of the most corrupt.

"In the end, Death Row Records, including music by Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg was auctioned off for $24 million." theblast.com/c/death-row-su…
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The reward for loyalty. Image
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And corrupt @JerryBrownGov who handed out the most suspicious pardon in California's recent history broke a norm for?

"An earlier opportunity to reunite the family was missed when Carrie Panetta was passed over for appointment to the 6th District Court of Appeal in 2012." Image
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Potter is an elected official who has access to millions of dollars - but as the @MontereyHerald reported - when @JoeLivernois & @Calkins_Royal were in charge - he wasn’t a great businessman.

But LH set up a trust to help him get his Casa in the CCBTS. Easy.

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Now his job, when he isn’t performing his duties as Mayor of #Carmel, is lobbying for the billion dollar #marijuana business.

Convenient. Friends in #high places.

@mcgreevy99 has written extensively (@latimes) about the 420 industry and allegations of #publiccorruption
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in #LosAngeles and #SantaBarbara county.

We know the County of San Luis Obispo was just raided under the authority of a sealed federal search warrant investigation (*reported* by @CalCoastNews )looking into #paytoplay - involving their elected board of supervisors - in
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1/ #AFVaDay Following the #Carmel news last week it seems there remains much confusion. Some defence media reporting it is a modernisation programme, or a platform agnostic upgrade package have really confused things and are wrong, so todays #AFVaDay is to clarify things.
2/ Carmel is a new AFV for the IDF, born out of the cancelled Merkava Mk5 programme. Previously dubbed Future Manned Combat Vehicle (FMCV) it is a medium weight AFV family, seeking < half Merkava Mk4 weight via use of soft/hard APS in place of physical armour as much as possible.
3/ As with all IDF AFV, it is being designed for combat in confused and dense urban environments, requiring high survivability, relatively small size and very high situational awareness.
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I hope everyone who can, across the US, does everything they can to signal boost and protect @AOC. The CongressWoman is breaking norms and is therefore an existential threat to unchecked power.

Remember when the 'real ones' would call out injustice - until they got elected?
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@RepJimmyPanetta my local congressperson is all about dialogue while refusing to be bold. I remember having a conversation about it with a friend, grousing about 'Jimmy', the friend said Panetta can't do anything because he doesn't have any power - yet.

His dad was #CIA,
Chief of Staff, SecDef, and a beloved congressperson from MoCo.

His mom and dad are multimillionaires who have the Panetta Institute where THE most powerful come and normalize power (I enjoy the lectures though, guilty pleasure)

Their homebase is #Carmel, where absent AG titans
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