Here is the problem, @GavinNewsom - California is awash in corruption.
You have said absolutely nothing about the corruption - the recall may have begun as a right-wing zero campaign but, like the last recall, which put in @Schwarzenegger, your recall is about more now.
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and it will grow to become more than just a farce. Once qualified it's a real issue - for you.
@TomSteyer will jump in and then it's an entirely different thing.
Here is something no one wants to talk about openly, including @cmarinucci.
The entire pardon was rigged and involved some of the biggest players in California politics - including right-wing county supervisor "Judge" John Phillips.
... also you just appointed a 43 year old white woman to a judgeship in MoCo.
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Why? Because she handled a political hot potato of a case - getting a Republican political consultant about 12 years, for raping several women, including minors, whose trial was poised to be very revealing from a bribery of public officials standpoint.
So, for the politically astute, it seems obvious you have very serious liabilities, tying everything to the defeated, and possibly soon indicted fmr. President, who has the total support of @JerryBrownGov's pardon
... and Salinas Mayor @kimbleycraig took over $40,000 in campaign cash from @SalinasPolice and Joe Gunter the former Mayor of @CityofSalinas (and supporter of narco-traffickers)
a nearly limitless budget for @MontereyPolice (though MPD seems unable to address real and serious crime like narco-trafficking and money laundering by the who's who in that city.
And here is Joe Gunter, ret. cop, writing a love letter to a drug dealer:
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and here is a corrupt former @MCoSheriff commander Mike Richards asking permission to hang out with a multiple times convicted narco-trafficker "friend" of his in 2003.
This is long term and wide spread police misconduct that has rarely been addressed (but for 2011-2014)
Here is a blast from the past, and a @SalinasPD fail.
1. Who was the drug dealer arrested because of Montes' testimony?
2. Who was the man "with a flat top haircut" where the claim is this man was with or arguing with Montes and a passenger in Montes' 1987 pickup?
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The least reassuring part is Robin Stuart and Joe Gunter worked on the case.
Fast forward to 2018 and @CityofSalinas Mayor Joe Gunter (now deceased) was writing letters of support for narco trafficker Mike Hackett (friend of @bradleyzeve's managing editor at the Weekly)
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#Salinas in 2010, where a handful of corrupt cops and a local judge wrote letters of support for a major player in drug dealing during the same period as Brian Montes - Dave Drew - the guy @JerryBrownGov pardoned in 2018.
... talking points in a RW funded sleazy race that saw @RepJimmyPanetta's future consultant Plasha Will (Will was with Sam Farr at the time, Farr and his dad were both creeps in MoCo, beloved by a whacky bunch of "intellectuals" on the Peninsula) route
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DARK MONEY through a PAC hidden in San Benito County under the name "Californians for Law & Order" - to unseat a Sheriff who was firing dirty cops and taking material to the regional @FBI, and others.
Joey Banuelos, a commander with the @MCoSheriff department, was FIRED by Sheriff Scott Miller for lying on his time slips, when he put in for overtime.
His fellow deputies, who I will not name, snitched on him (that was a good thing boys).
Their reporting to me led to
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Banuelos being fired after I gave the information to then Sheriff Scott Miller, who I successfully ran to replace a corrupt Mike Kanalakis in 2010.
Banuelos was then rehired by @SheriffBernal (who is a criminal IMO) and promoted.
Gavin Kogan and Mike Bitar are also partners with Grupo Flor.
Kogan admitted under oath to lying on his cannabis applications in sworn testimony during a 2018 civil trial covered by @Calkins_Royal.
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.@RepJimmyPanetta's consultant Plasha Will has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from Grupo Flor in cannabis consulting contracts while Jimmy Panetta Tweets about how great Grupo Flor is for our community.