Rogues Gallery

going rouge...

while I prepare for Carpinteria's big Saturday, that's right, Carpinteria..not Santa Barbara, maybe you folks in SB should reflect on why the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge chose Carp..

well, maybe we're all just a little tired of all your petty trials and tribulations..all your little bickerings and soap operas...and Carpinteria and Summerland are the only small towns left that can provide some real rural elegance and hospitality...yeah, you should just stay in SB today and drown your sorrows at Mel's....

now..here's today's rogue: Lanny Ebenstein of the News-Press

Quote of the Day

“I kind of feel sorry for what Mr. Ebenstein went through because he had no knowledge that (his tenants) were growing marijuana. I’ve never known a landlord who wanted people in their property growing marijuana.” – Eureka attorney Andrew Stunich displays his deep knowledge of the local landlording business.

The problem with defending landlords like Mr. Ebensten is (from the TS article) “According to court documents, one of the tenants of the property also admitted to officers that the “premises were ‘set up’ for growing marijuana” when he moved in in September 2009, and that a crop of marijuana plants was even ready for harvest at the time.” So it was an on-going marijuana operation with a series of tenants, not tenants growing mj? I think Mr. Ebensten is lucky he isn’t criminally prosecuted for conspiracy.

I feel sorry for Andy Stunich. He had no idea what he walked into with that slimeball. Ebenstein is in deep doo-doo beyond the small claims case ruled against him. His financial problems are huge. He has the property on Hillsdale for sale which he will take a massive loss on, another on Gibson that is in foreclosure and was scheduled for auction last monday, and has somehow managed to escape foreclosure on his property on E Street.

And with all this in mind, Alan aka Lanny Ebenstein is heading up a California ballot initative from his mansion in Santa Barabara that mirrors the same attempt in Wisconsin to strip public workers from their barganining rights. Google it, mofos. Alan/Lanny is a Cato adjunct scholar, economics professor @ UCSB, his father wrote many books which were the basis for modern conservative ideology– this guy is much more than a poor, ignorant landlord he depicts himself to be. He profited from a commercial grow operation.
Look it up: Lanny Ebenstein. Same dude, but very different look outside of Humboldt County.

Might be of interest that Dr. Ebenstein is an adjunct scholar with the CATO Institute, and best known for his biography of Austrian Economist/Philosopher Friendrich Hayek. Quoth Wikipedia: “Friedrich August von Hayek, was an Austrian-born economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought.” Hayek won a Nobel Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George H.W. Bush. “Hayek’s account of how changing prices communicate signals which enable individuals to coordinate their plans is widely regarded as an important achievement in economics.” Would that apply here?

OOH! and this on the CATO Institute: “The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane, who remains president and CEO, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the oil conglomerate Koch Industries, Inc., the second largest privately held company (after Cargill) by revenue in the United States.[1][2]”

Koch... as in Tea Party.....and that ain't English tea mofos!