How hard is it to push against corruption and the enablers of it, in #MontereyCounty?

Sponsor of @mcweekly is the Blue Zone Project. Speaking for the project is Katy Castagna She slipped into the United Way ED job after her predecessor Mary Adams was elected County Supe.
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Castagna's husband, Gary Ray, is the primary local attorney for Salinas Valley Medical Hospital. That attorney, and former media person Karina Rusk, peddled misinformation that was carried by local media as true - in a discussion about a golden parachute former SVMH CEO Sam
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Downing awarded himself. The pension spiking occurred at a time the hospital was seeking a half billion dollar bond measure so tax payers could give SVMH some heavy cash.
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The other Blue Zones project sponsor is Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. Another powerhouse when it comes to the spending of marketing dollars and community influence. One key donor to CHOMP is Jimmy Hill, the super rich guy that brought a Mine Resistant Ambush
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Protected vehicle to the small city of Del Rey Oaks.

Formerly little Naziville with a police department stacked with old retired cops and rich guys all wearing parachord brackets on the off chance they need to repel a wall at social security.

Influential nonetheless.
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And the key figure in working with Blue Zones and the health initiative?

Bruce Taylor. The billionaire AG guy whose reach goes well beyond Monterey County.

You will be hard pressed to find a terrible thing said about Taylor. His money elevated him to automatic good guy.
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A "good guy" whose dollars reach into every aspect of MoCo life and state and national politics as well.

The enablers silence is deafening - and Trump didn't start the decline of a representative government - he only pulled back the curtain and revealed the
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grotesque nature of politics, with his own 24/7 crudity.

#Resistance starts with one and being aware of what is taking place in your own community, with the powerful, with the super-rich, is key to pushing back against all their resources.
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The truth is powerful.

They pay billions to distort it, every year.

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