This is Scott Sedgley, #Napa's Mayor elect. As City Council Member, he gained popularity because he was one of the leaders of the Measure C campaign to protect the watershed, which he talked about as a water use issue.
But if you think he's a staunch defender against... 1/4
overdevelopment of vineyards and tourist traps, you might want to take a look at his donor list, which includes oligarch Craig Hall (of wine cave infamy), the Wiseman Company ($5000!), Altamura Enterprises, the Doctor's Company ($8000! Wow!), First & Main (also the Wiseman... 2/4
Company, another $5000!), the Wine Train, Senator Dodd, JBD Consulting, Alfredo Pedroza, Truchard Vineyards, BLT Enterprises (LA based developer), David Phinney, Luna Vineyards, Eagle Eye LLC, Mazotti Holdings, Congressperson Thompson, Sacramento International Jet Center,... 3/4
Teaderman Business Park, V Sattui and Polvora Inc.
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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
Almost all of us know what's right regarding #healthcare, regarding #environment, regarding #education, regarding the #economy, but our lying government refuses to do it so the rich can make money. Yet somehow almost all of us convince ourselves that the next liar isn't ... 1/4
a liar, that they deserve the chance for us to completely disregard their record and everything terrible they've voted for, all the #death that is on that person's head, and give them another chance.
And then when that person starts to do more terrible things that lead to...2/4
more death, many of us say "Give her/him time" and as time passes, the next election approaches, and those people say we shouldn't question because the "other" party might win. It's high time we start holding government officials accountable right away, instead of ... 3/4
This is outgoing Mayor of #Napa Jill Techel. Jill has donated to Diane Feinstein, who fought to keep the Confederate Flag flying over San Francisco City Hall in 1984, Mike Thompson, who voted to allow more poisons in our waterways and who supports policies that rob the... 1/4
poor and give to the rich, and Hillary Clinton who rigged the 2016 primary and hand picked Donald Trump as her opponent, only to lose to him.
Jill only makes about $1000 per month as Mayor, yet she gave $2500 to establishment pick Beth Painter, $2000 to former Republican... 2/4
Bernie Narvaez and $5000 to Scott Sedgeley for Mayor. That's almost $10,000 an outgoing Mayor paid to influence the City Council. What results are Jill buying? Can it be a coincidence that all three are heavily in favor of (and being enriched by) endless development of... 3/4
This is the Open Corporates page for Peter T. Stravinski, real estate developer from Madera, CA, which is in between Fresno and Merced. I was strangely unable to find even one picture of Mr. Stravinski that I could say for sure was him. Mr. Stravinski is associated with... 1/5
12 different companies, serving as President of at least eight.
One of his companies, Peter T. Stravinski & Associates Inc, as you can see by the first image, is listed as a foreign profit corporation with jurisdiction to operate in Georgia, where David G. Hanna happens to...2/5
reside.
Mr. Stravinski has somehow found himself in American Canyon, developing some of the low tax, low job warehouses that our city has allowed to be put in.
Climate change demands that we cease endless development and protect the natural environment, but protecting... 3/5
Too many people believe that corruption, once exposed, should be "gotten over", forgotten, that people should just move on, that to keep mentioning how @RepThompson voted to allow more poisons in our waterways or how our Supervisors voted to allow deforestation or even how...1/3
the DNC rigs primary elections, giving us a choice between corporate rule and fascism (essentially the same) is just "being negative", that we shouldn't name it.
I like positive messages. I like hearing that someone wants to close the camps on the border or to stop...2/4
bombing people. But as long as we have corrupt officials in office, who have worked for death & destruction to line their own re-election coffers, it is imperative that we continue to name it, again and again. Allowing the public to forget that the reason substantial change...3/4
I am so horribly disgusted at the reports I'm hearing of mass numbers of sexual assaults and then mass numbers of forced hysterectomies in the border camps that Latino refugees have been locked in, and frightened for the future of our country if these stories are true. 1/7
Unfortunately the news has become so partisan, and so rarely in agreement, that it's hard to know what's true and what's not.
I'm glad that there is going to be an investigation into these crimes, and if these stories are NOT true then whoever is making them up should be... 2/7
cast out of media or politics (including corporate lobbying) and have to clean toilets at a middle school.
"So vote for Biden" I hear you call. The problem is that he and Obama are the ones who built those camps and he's never said, even once, that he would free those... 3/7