Bill Monning is on a podcast with @VoicesofBay, and it’s worth listening to. Pay close attention to this full hour of Monning, mostly reminiscing about local politics.
Reminder: Bill Monning remains a state senator through November 3rd.
Monning said it’s important to get @realDonaldTrump out of office (and there is broad consensus there so that’s not the hard thing to say in California) so why doesn’t Monning once mention #corruption?
It is as though Monterey County is #corruption free.
But we know it isn’t from the great reporting ‘Voices’ is doing and specifically @Calkins_Royal -
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Re: C O R R U P T I O N.
Yet in the interview, Monning goes over his accomplishments (there are many) and his history with the CRLA and Monterey College of Law (a corrupt feeder school for the local bench) and his work with three governors. @Schwarzenegger , @JerryBrownGov
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and @GavinNewsom. Of Arnold, Monning says he was approachable but not that hands on. (In other words he didn’t do the work, he glad handed policy decisions) but @JerryBrownGov is VERY hands on, that in fact Jerry Brown didn’t run a Chief of Staff. He had three aides but
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no Chief of Staff. That’s remarkable because it’s looking more and more like political pieces were moved for a very sinister pardon Brown issued in his lame duck wind down.
Dave Drew.
This will end up being a big deal:
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Monning mentions @Laird4CASenate is running for his seat in the State Senate BUT he fails to mention the @FBISanFrancisco investigation into Laird’s political consultant - Plasha Will - who has taken enormous sums of money from Mike Bitar’s “East of Eden Cannabis” operation.
Let's not kid ourselves, @FelixKSBW - we both know, and we both can prove that the City of Salinas City Attorney is acting as a defacto "board member" of the city council via his advice that is above their competency and while breaching duties to remain counsel for the entity.
And the same can be said for Les Girard, and prior to that Charles McKee, because of the manner in which they insert themselves in decision making while hiding behind attorney-client privilege, illegally, attempting to claim public record memorandums they issue our elected are
advices. Their advice, when they breach the (Entity Client >< Attorney ) bubble and give advise illegally, thereby making the work product a public record.
The records will show that Les Girard knew of the Conflict @AdamsSupervisor had by employing Det. Archie Warren's sister
Here is an @latimes article that was Public Relations driven. Mike Kanalakis was sheriff (and a corrupt one at that) and he was in the election fight of his life. Or as Kano saw it, life and death, because Kano LOVED glad-handing and freebies.
I had just put Scott Miller into
the 2010 @MCoSheriff's race and Kano, as Sheriff Kanalakis was called, was punishing everyone. Kano was afraid of my truths and what I knew about his past conduct so he largely kept his Miller attacks to political ads making Miller look bizarre. (notice I do that here on Twitter
now as an Ode to Brandon "Thailand" Gesicki's style of politicking. (The one thing Joe Livernois over at @VoicesofBay got wrong is, its Gesicki and Plasha Fielding Will who don't want their names mentioned ever - and Livernois and others cater to them, I don't give a shit)
@B1968Big@TajhaLanier@stevemcshane@kimbleycraig@reym12 Jim Pia is scared. He told me so. We met at the sign installation with all the politicos wanted to take credit. Pretty sure this was long before Kelly McMillin was sued twice for sexual thuggery. We walked back to city hall together and I told him, it’s bad and I told him I had
@B1968Big@TajhaLanier@stevemcshane@kimbleycraig@reym12 gone to the FBI in 2021 after a host of people who were credible in the past, came to me to ask for help in laying out some details. One of them being award winning journalist Royal Calkins.
Jim just said “oh man, I’m a short timer” - meaning he is retiring in a few years. He
@B1968Big@TajhaLanier@stevemcshane@kimbleycraig@reym12 doesn’t want to hear that level of bad news because he is so close to being done. Gunter was corrupt. There is no 1/4 corrupt or 1/2 corrupt. Gunter was provably corrupt. And I liked Joe. We always got along but in his last two years he grew more secretive - then dies on me.
It’s shocking the lack of ethics that exists within @SalinasPD.
When I say this I’m talking about leadership and that begins and ends with a Chief.
Kim Craig, @CityofSalinas’ right wing Mayor is outted by her neighbor (quite innocently) as residing in “her” home with
Bobby Richardson, who fits the textbook definition of common law partner under California and federal law on Willow Street in South Salinas.
Craig was so alarmed that this truth was revealed she sent me a threatening letter on City letterhead to no longer speak about her South
Salinas residence. The panic of Craig was inspired by the fact that Craig had just run for Supervisor against Glenn Church and Regina Gage and lost spectacularly BUT Craig used her North Salinas condo to qualify as her domicile for legal purposes even though she was living on