ok so the elections are coming and the debates are coming and the girls are coming...what's not to like about that??
you have a clear choice America, vote the religious wackos into office and have your bedrooms under surveillance..or get the moderates and independents into office and keep moving forward...
locally, it looks like the same old same old...Mike Stoker versus Hannah Beth Jackson....I'd run but I'm too wounded...I'm a wounded soul..
but I know Mike Stoker won't win because, well, Mike is Mike...he speaks with forked tongue most of the time and his stint as GREKA OIL spinman was a disaster...Mike represents a little clique of folks who inherited their wealth and who start shady nonprofits at the drop of a hat...these folks are so disingenuous (a political word) that even Satan himself looks more honest...
Mike is pals with Brooks Firestone, Cowboy Willie, Lanny Ebenstein, Joe Armendariz, and others...remember when Greka was spilling oil all over land leased to them by Brooks and Cowboy Willie, the county emergency crews were responding and cleaning up the messes...Greka was getting fined and Mike was hired to get then off the hook..this all happened while Brooks Firestone was a county supervisor and Brooks was trying to deny any spills were taking place and that the county was over-reacting!!
from USA Today: Brooks Firestone, whose family leases land to Greka, was one of two members of the county Board of Supervisors who blocked an emergency hearing on Greka in December. He said the staff needed more time to prepare, and warned board members not to become hysterical.
"To me, a huge event involving oil was the Kuwaiti oil fields that were fired by the Iraqi army in the first Gulf War, the 1969 oil spill in the channel, the Valdez tanker and the Normandy tanker," Firestone said at the time. "What is the meaning of this incident?"
Days later, on Jan. 5, Greka spilled more than 190,000 gallons of oil and contaminated water on the land it leases from the Firestone estate. Since that spill, Firestone has withdrawn from deciding matters related to Greka. Firestone, an heir to the tire fortune, said it would be too difficult to calculate how much income he receives from Greka
all the while, I watched Mike on KSBY try to tell me that the oil spills were from a "phantom saboteur" instead of incompetent operators and managers at the Greka Plant....I've never heard so many lame excuses!!
when I cornered Mike at his wine and cheese fundraiser on Santa Claus Lane last year...he started dancing!!!
Mike says he does lawyer work for Lanny's nonprofit California Center for Public Policy..this little nonprofit has all the usual suspects on it from Tom Watson to Joe Armendariz..they tried to end collective bargaining in the public sector and they failed....but they want the private sector to be allowed to do whatever it wants without any consequences when it screws up....they always cry goverment interference when they get caught!!!
these folks are scoundrels and don't deserve to be anywhere near a public office!!
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