Clint Eastwood, Bill Lee (Cannery Row days), Denny Levett x 2.
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And why local reporters are busy joking about who has the cutest pet or what they will stream next during the boring Pandemic, these dudes are doing serious business:
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.
Why does Dave Potter get away with all his Dave Potter shenanigans?
... he has friends.
Dave Potter is in business with @RepJimmyPanetta's political consultant Plasha Will.
According to at least one published report, Mike Bitar, a marijuana functionary, requires
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anyone subleasing from Mike Bitar & Co. marijuana grow space that they MUST use Plasha Will's Political Frameworks and Dave Potter's Potter Consulting.
"During the trial, the lawyers have shown pictures of boxes filled with cash, $192,000 in all, that Bitar delivered to Agha as a deposit when Grupo Flor begin renting space in Moss Landing."
"was at the center of an effort funded by the Costa Mesa Police Association to dig up dirt on Councilman Jim Righeimer and former mayor Steve Mensinger in 2012 during tense contract negotiations with the police union" ocregister.com/articles/polic…
8 years of warnings @GavinNewsom. Police unions are out of control.
“Because myself, Councilman Gary Monahan and Steve Mensinger were not giving them our loyalty, our families were the next victims,” Righeimer [said]. “This is what happens in third-world countries.”
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"During a 2015 court hearing, Costa Mesa police Officer Jason Chamness, who was police association president in 2012, testified that he and union officials believed Mensinger and Righeimer posed a threat because of their statements about cutting public safety funding."
This is a major player in local and state Democratic Committee politics. He worked to see that the one Black woman running for County Supervisor not receive any resources or guidance during the primary with three opponents, two Democrats and a Republican.
Political consultant - charged with rape in Monterey County, at a local fmr. @CityofSalinas council-members house (who now works as a political consultant).
The case is grinding its way through the MoCo judicial system with a jury trial scheduled for February 2021.
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This trial should prove to be interesting for two reasons. @SalinasPD's role in the investigation. @MCoSheriff Sgt. Bryan Hoskins digging in and pushing the case forward - as he is supposed to do (well done).
The second reason is an @FBI investigation into Fickas' role in
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a wide ranging, public corruption investigation. Information revealed during the rape investigation led to leads which allegedly implicated multiple public officials - including county supervisors John Phillips & Louie Alejo receiving cash money from Fickas associates