These are two big influencers in Monterey County. Two assholes who were implicated in a major cocaine case that also implicated Dave Drew, a man @JerryBrownGov corruptly pardoned in 2018.
The two men are partners in Monterey California's Cannery Row.
Brown's dad once had an
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ownership interest in Cannery Row property with San Francisco's Ben Swig.
Corruption is deeply rooted in our society.
County Supervisor John Phillips was in the DA's office at this time and he helped kill this major case. It was that easy for a few in power to do.
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John Phillips and a corrupt judge named Steven Sillman, whose history of misconduct is a quiet legend in MoCo, worked for the bad guys in undermining the People's case. And @salnews was pressured because of the epic journalism they did on this story.
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History will not be kind to these men who did untold damage to Monterey County and beyond.
This is @JerryBrownGov's pardon boy with a recent comment to this site.
(Scott Miller was the former Sheriff of @MCoSheriff)
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And this is @JerryBrownGov pardon boy Dave Drew making a thinly veiled threat early in 2020.
Can he and Mike Richards roll by my house. @SupervisorAskew's colleague @PhillipsForSup said Dave Drew is completely rehabilitated.
Nope.
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Dave Drew's best friend in all of law enforcement is a corrupt cop who I participated in having fired in 2011/2012 - Mike Richards. Mike Richards was a Commander under @MCoSheriff and their PIO.
Richards received a special "exemption" in 2003 from then Sheriff Mike
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Kanalakis who was undoubtably corrupt. Miller defeated Kanalakis in 2010. I ran the campaign for Miller.
Dave Drew has a unique problem. He doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut. That's a problem for the two boys on Cannery Row and all the other players in this act.
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The claim that helped John Phillips kill this case was the informant was unreliable.
History is instructive, in the moment Phillips was able to sell that bullshit.
Many of the players were later arrested and charged with other crimes like narco trafficking or laundering.
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Not the boys of Cannery Row though - @bradleyzeve's big advertisers at the @mcweekly.
The informant claimed they received 2 - 40 kilos of cocaine per delivery.
Monterey County has a corruption problem and it goes back decades.
Let's not kid ourselves, @FelixKSBW - we both know, and we both can prove that the City of Salinas City Attorney is acting as a defacto "board member" of the city council via his advice that is above their competency and while breaching duties to remain counsel for the entity.
And the same can be said for Les Girard, and prior to that Charles McKee, because of the manner in which they insert themselves in decision making while hiding behind attorney-client privilege, illegally, attempting to claim public record memorandums they issue our elected are
advices. Their advice, when they breach the (Entity Client >< Attorney ) bubble and give advise illegally, thereby making the work product a public record.
The records will show that Les Girard knew of the Conflict @AdamsSupervisor had by employing Det. Archie Warren's sister
Here is an @latimes article that was Public Relations driven. Mike Kanalakis was sheriff (and a corrupt one at that) and he was in the election fight of his life. Or as Kano saw it, life and death, because Kano LOVED glad-handing and freebies.
I had just put Scott Miller into
the 2010 @MCoSheriff's race and Kano, as Sheriff Kanalakis was called, was punishing everyone. Kano was afraid of my truths and what I knew about his past conduct so he largely kept his Miller attacks to political ads making Miller look bizarre. (notice I do that here on Twitter
now as an Ode to Brandon "Thailand" Gesicki's style of politicking. (The one thing Joe Livernois over at @VoicesofBay got wrong is, its Gesicki and Plasha Fielding Will who don't want their names mentioned ever - and Livernois and others cater to them, I don't give a shit)
@B1968Big@TajhaLanier@stevemcshane@kimbleycraig@reym12 Jim Pia is scared. He told me so. We met at the sign installation with all the politicos wanted to take credit. Pretty sure this was long before Kelly McMillin was sued twice for sexual thuggery. We walked back to city hall together and I told him, it’s bad and I told him I had
@B1968Big@TajhaLanier@stevemcshane@kimbleycraig@reym12 gone to the FBI in 2021 after a host of people who were credible in the past, came to me to ask for help in laying out some details. One of them being award winning journalist Royal Calkins.
Jim just said “oh man, I’m a short timer” - meaning he is retiring in a few years. He
@B1968Big@TajhaLanier@stevemcshane@kimbleycraig@reym12 doesn’t want to hear that level of bad news because he is so close to being done. Gunter was corrupt. There is no 1/4 corrupt or 1/2 corrupt. Gunter was provably corrupt. And I liked Joe. We always got along but in his last two years he grew more secretive - then dies on me.
It’s shocking the lack of ethics that exists within @SalinasPD.
When I say this I’m talking about leadership and that begins and ends with a Chief.
Kim Craig, @CityofSalinas’ right wing Mayor is outted by her neighbor (quite innocently) as residing in “her” home with
Bobby Richardson, who fits the textbook definition of common law partner under California and federal law on Willow Street in South Salinas.
Craig was so alarmed that this truth was revealed she sent me a threatening letter on City letterhead to no longer speak about her South
Salinas residence. The panic of Craig was inspired by the fact that Craig had just run for Supervisor against Glenn Church and Regina Gage and lost spectacularly BUT Craig used her North Salinas condo to qualify as her domicile for legal purposes even though she was living on