This is Beth Painter, #Napa City Council Member-elect. Beth works as a professional land use planner, and has worked for many real estate developers. Beth has also spent a number of years as a planning commissioner. Call me crazy, but it sure seems like a conflict of... 1/10
interest for someone who works for developers to serve as a planning commissioner, where they can help sway the system to their colleague's benefit. Maybe as City Council Member she'll get to vote on projects that she passed as Planning Commissioner.

In 2016 she helped... 2/10
one of her contributors, Napa Vault Storage, obtain a permit to build 130 condo storage units in south Napa County over the objections of environmentalists and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife because of loss of foraging habitat for the threatened Swainson’s....3/10
hawk.

Another corporate contributor, Nova Business Park, LLC, hired her last year to help gain approval of a wine warehouse the size of seven football fields in south Napa County over the objections of the California Department of Transportation and the Laborers... 4/10
International Union of North America–Local 324, which expressed concerns about traffic, parking, hydrology, and the environment, including again the protected Swainson's hawk.

Finally, she has been, and perhaps still is, the local land-use consultant for campaign... 5/10
contributor SRGA, LP, the development firm behind the Stanly Ranch luxury resort and residential community currently being built in south Napa (credit: Shirley Knight for her research).

While most city council candidates are relatively unknown before they are elected.... 6/10
Ms. Painter was the establishment darling. Even our Congressperson, who is famous for staying out of local issues and rarely, if ever, gets involved in local council races, came to walk districts with her. But that's not all, in a sickening display of cronyism, she was... 7/10
endorsed by four supervisors, three city council members, the mayor, the State Senator, the Assembly Member, even the DA.

Her donor list is very long indeed and is comprised of multiple land developers, real estate agents and winery owners, such as Nova Business Park,... 8/10
California Real Estate PAC, Altamura Enterprises, CAB Consulting Engineers, Castello di Amorosa, Holman Teague Roche & Anglin, Oxbow Ventures, Preslar Ventures, Silverado Partners, Sonoma RSA, SRGA, V Sattui, Gordon Heuther & Partners, Mochizuki & Associates, Rombauer.... 9/10
Vineyards, Settlers Hill LLC, Mayor Techel, Safe Harbor Partners and multiple owners of smaller vineyards.
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Here's the link to her full donor list: southtechhosting.com/NapaCity/Campa…

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