.@kimbleycraig is a legit menace to the #Salinas community. The mayor's seat is at large but the good news is Craig is only one more vote on the Salinas council.
Before the local media starts spinning for Kimbley, it's important to note - 29,389 people DID NOT VOTE FOR
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Kimbley.
In other words nearly 64% of the people who voted in the @CityofSalinas Mayoral election CHOSE SOMEONE ELSE.
That's what @SalinasPolice money bought them. One more vote, a woman who calls the police, her police, when 63% + said NO to Craig.
The intro to the @PacificGrove city council, as they say farewells, can best be described as saccharine.
This is a city so bold that it's one major accomplishment (minus the massive financial impropriety) was awarding fmr. Mayor Morrie Fisher free life-time golf.
And the Chief blames Government Code Section 3300-3312. Colloquially referred to as the Police Officers Bill of Rights. But the Chief claims that the process works.
This is #Salinas' new mayor @kimbleycraig. Craig was endorsed by the so-called "left" @mcweekly in #MontereyCounty. Craig's biggest backers are Trump supporters or non-voters who still give $1,000s.
Craig received 95% of fmr. Salinas Mayor Joe Gunter and @SalinasPD's
Ricky Cabrera not only endorsed Craig but he gave her π°.
Ricky Cabrera's brother, Victor Cabrera, murdered a single mom for insurance money to fund a stolen car ring in Monterey & San Benito County, Mexico. #BelieveWomen
Ricky's other bro
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is a doctor, gives money to Salinas Police and was a named Executive Director of #MontereyDowns - a failed @PotterForMayor pushed horse park, betting and residential real estate project.
County Supervisor @PhillipsForSup (John Phillips) has a special interest in Craig.
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.
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/policβ¦
8 years of warnings @GavinNewsom. Police unions are out of control.
βBecause myself, Councilman Gary Monahan and Steve Mensinger were not giving them our loyalty, our families were the next victims,β Righeimer [said]. βThis is what happens in third-world countries.β
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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."