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Jun 8

@MontereyHerald

🧵 I was always nice to this kid and worked with him equitably at the @MontereyHerald. Like 80% of the @mcweekly staff and owners he now blocked me here for telling the truth about 2014.

Steve Bernal's campaign blackmailed @PhillipMolnar for some shit he did while at NYU.

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The Steve Bernal campaign dug into every aspect of his life and found something that made Molnar (now at @sdut) feel vulnerable. Molnar backed off the campaign and turned a lot over to @anaceballos_ who was also a cub at the Herald - an aggressive one.

After the Herald laid

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these two cub reporters along with @Calkins_Royal (@JoeLivernois was laid off in 2012 and went to later work for a non-profit in #Salinas the. later helped start @VoicesofBay) were laid off in late 2014. @mcweekly's Mary Duan offered both Molnar and Ceballos a job, Molnar

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Jun 8

@TinaForSheriff

🧵A November strategy is @TinaForSheriff allowing Justin Patterson supporters to approach campaign for Sheriff. Getting Fred Garcia to support Scott Miller helped seal Mike Kanalakis' fate. The supporters of Patterson have repeatedly called out Bernal/Moses corruption so

@LAPDHQ

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supporting Chief Nieto, an, outsider with a terrific record with @LAPDHQ, with all those positive relationships with good cops, would be a huge plus to curing the insular and corrupt world of MoCo politics. We need a serious effort to root out corruption the way LA handles it

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and there is no love between Los Angeles politicos and the #CityFamily in San Francisco.

Los Angeles takes public corruption far more seriously than the US Attoney's office in SF because it's stacked with oddball insiders like Annemarie Conroy.

Monterey Co has never had

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Jun 7

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Two races are going to go to November in #MontereyCounty. The Sheriff's race and the D2 County Supervisor Race.

A number of people are making money and enabling to corrupt/sleazy candidates - Joe Moses and Kimbley Craig. They are functionaries of the Panetta machine. I gave

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Leon Panetta a lot of wiggle room over the years as he slowly revealed that he isn't into Monterey County politics for the greater good. Leon is into MoCo for the benefit of a select few and those interests reach DC and, unfortunately, beyond.

Moses and Craig are

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obviously benefactors of the Panetta net. Look at their donors - it's the same people every time. The same people who backed Steve Bernal - a 12 year deputy with an apple pie look. He even plays guitar on the weekends. Dennis Donohue, in his sordid run to unseat Jane Parker.

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Jun 2

@ksbw

.@ksbw reports just now that @AsmRobertRivas staffer called their office and (insert my editorializing) screamed and yelled and KSBW (end editorializing) that Rivas WILL BE THE NEXT SPEAKER.

My take away? Rivas weakened himself. While he works to shore up support our paid

@CASenCaballero

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journalists should take a deep dive into Rivas and his longer term relationship with a corrupt @CASenCaballero, who while Mayor of #Salinas committed various crimes that I can document - and wrote about to US Attorney Kevin Ryan at the time. (Nothing happened).

@CityofSalinas

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Caballero, often with the "brothers Rivas" by her side, abused her role as Mayor and was deeply involved in many criminal corruption acts.

The largest of those was the @CityofSalinas deferred compensation PONZI. No official was investigated or prosecuted for this scam.

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Jun 1

@DemetrioStark

.@DemetrioStark - I'll go into my archived files and pull Kehoe's financials. They were completely fake. The @CityofSalinas got into bed with Kehoe, willingly. That was a direct result of @CASenCaballero's politics and a sleazy city manager named Dave Mora. They did it at our exp

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There was a utility tax repeal on the ballot and #Salinas wanted good press for that and other more dark consideration. The story was never fully explored by our paid press and part of what Livernois referred to in his 2006 email to me was me pushing to get coverage on

@GavinNewsom

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the Caballero angle including a criminal complaint I wrote and submitted to the US Attorney in San Francisco at the time - Kevin Ryan a #CityFamily insider and @GavinNewsom lackey. I was told the complaint died because of shifting priorities, Iraq, terror focus. Clearly

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