The details of just a fraction of the #corruption here in @GavinNewsom's #MontereyCounty did not develop because one grifter real estate salesman from NYC was elected president.

It also is NOT a surprise to some local #journalists in my insular area. I've been helping
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journalists in my area and elsewhere when they asked for help understanding something they didn't understand for years - or when I was backing a certain political candidate. In 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 I was on the phone daily and in 2014 two or three times a day.

They
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knew, they cannot say they were never told.

When you hear or read journalism it doesn't mean journalists are the end-all-be-all of information - that they know it all. No one does. They rely on a cadre of behind the scenes "experts" and sometimes those experts have
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a "special interest" in helping or giving them scoops. Some of the worst misleaders of journalists are governmental PIOs or public information officers. For cop shops that means a cop who has a unique relationship. And they throw journalists bones too - often dirty bones.
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Who was known for planting stories with compliant journalists? Donald Trump. They knew this dude was a marketer, puffer, a real estate guy in Manhattan - and worse.

When I hear these same journalists say now, seconds after the election was decided, oh thank God, we are
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going back to "normal" it is disappointing to put it mildly.

They are speaking as though the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris is the immediate elixir to cure all that ails us.

I'm personally thrilled that #BidenHarris won. I voted for both of them. I saw a window
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to something we can focus on that will not happen under four more years of Trump. Two candidates who made a solemn pledge, whatever they have done in the past, whatever mistakes they have made - trust them, they will lead, and I don't have any reason to disbelieve them.
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But like Trump and Pence, @KamalaHarris and @JoeBiden are just two people. They are about to become two of the most powerful people in the world but they remain just two people.

We are here after DECADES of ignoring very real problems we can see in our own communities.
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The People are not stupid. The majority of people place such a low rating on Congress because our Congress is #corrupt.

So there is a lot of work left to be done. There is no time for resting on our asses and going back to the latest sedative of the day.
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Life was never going to be easy for any of us. But it's the best gift I've ever received and I think most people feel the same. The ups, the downs, the moments of happiness followed by trauma and pain - I wouldn't change anything other than - we need to wake da' fuck up.
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The work has just begun. Democracy is a great system, if we can keep it.

#USA

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