The state of #journalism in Monterey County.

Wine lobbyist tweets out mystery tweet.

Managing editor of @mcweekly, forever on the lookout for #breakingnews quickly responds.

Meanwhile MoCo is saturated with BRIBE taking politicians and dirty businessmen who are ...
Robbing the community while killing newspapers.

Does that sound extreme?

This is a town billionaire telling @Gannett Salinas Cal. @salnews, he doesn't much care for the news ... BUT when he does, it better be sweet to him.

(Bruce Taylor of @YourTaylorFarms)
@DarwinBondGraha
It was public relations. That's the key news that dominates the interests of MoCo intelligencia while Rome burned.
This is the bribe taking politician, clearly laying in bed, drunk (on power) Tweeting his two cents:
The bribe taking politico took cash from a local cocaine trafficker who dabbles in dazzling the local corrupt politicians and dirty narcs at @SalinasPD & @MCoSheriff - so he is in the clear (as far as they know) that cocaine trafficker is Mike Hackett.

And this is Louie Alejo:
(with @GavinNewsom the @CAgovernor of course)
Louie Alejo is famous for his glamour shots, he thinks it insulated him from the cops while he is out taking bribes and cops violating the law on a daily basis.
And this is the local cocaine trafficker who is good friends with @bradleyzeve's managing editor. Locally the story has been stricken from the paper of records reportage.
That local cocaine trafficker is friends with this former cocaine trafficker, who isn't ... exactly ... a concert promoter but a distribution and transportation magnate - who hires experts on transportation logistics - which seems a lot more interesting than concert promoter.
And remember @kimbleycraig wants the @CityofSalinas to rename the @SalinasPD building after now deceased Mayor, and bribe hustler, Joe Gunter:

(2010)
(and all the friends)

County Supervisor Judge John Phillips. @PhillipsForSup

(2010)
Retired @MCoSheriff's Commander Fred Garcia:

(2010)
Fired @MCoSheriff's Commander Mike Richards, Dave Drew's best friend:

(2010)
Crooked former @MCoSheriff Mike Kanalakis:

(2010)
Crooked @SalinasPD background checker and silver fox, Gary Edwards:

(2010)
Crooked @CityofSalinas Mayor (ret.) Dennis Donohue whose PAID consultant Plasha Will is @RepJimmyPanetta PAID consultant:

(2010)
And that concert promoter was pardoned by @JerrryBrownGov on ...

🥁 🥁 ...

@AGBECERRA's watch!

The 🍎 is rotten to the core and we need serious clean up of public corruption.

Thankfully, despite what @realDonaldTrump says, the @FBI works tirelessly, everyday, to
investigate and arrest these subverters of democracy.

That's all corruption is about. People in positions SELF DEALING.

In the end they are all doing it for themselves.

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