OK - you know you've seen Salzman and Co. positioning against Prop. 13....

Maybe now we know why...
◼ ACORN Document Dump: California Voters, Prepare to Be ACORNed
Dumping 20k sensitive documents in a public dumpster isn’t anyone’s idea of smart. Even though the Attorney’s General office was about to visit the ACORN San Diego office, ACORN employees should have taken some steps to protect the information they were dumping. There are extensive federal and state laws in play here, with very serious civil and criminal penalties.
But, one shouldn’t take this to mean that ACORN is always and everywhere incompetent. You don’t build an international organization with offices in hundreds of US cities through incompetence. Part of ACORN’s secret is that it is really shrewd politically. ... is a plan for a 2-year ACORN campaign to repeal California’s Prop 13. That initiative, passed in 1979, restricts government’s power to increase taxes. One of its toughest provisions requires a 2/3rds vote of the legislature to raise taxes. ACORN, naturally, wants to scrap that....

ACORN wants you to believe that the documents they dumped last month are old fliers, leaflets and other out-dated garbage. They aren’t. The documents ...are current working documents. And, ACORN made a point of dumping them.
Stay tuned…
◼ ACORN Dumped Sensitive Documents as Probe Began, Private Investigator Says stopacorn.org
◼ Remember the ACORN OKLAHOMA Document Dump: The Oklahoma Power Plan which is SO reminiscent of the verbage we get in local "progressive" campaigns, as well as Ken Miller's happy plans for Humboldt County and Bonnie Neely following the Recall...

Just curious...

Recaps

◼ (Donny Ray) Best held to answer to murder charge

The man accused of killing William John Lundy in a Trinidad trailer earlier this year was held to answer to a charge of murder after a brief preliminary hearing Monday.

”I find that there's sufficient evidence to hold the defendant to count one, murder,” said Superior Court Judge Timothy Cissna at the end of Monday's hearing.

Two Humboldt County sheriff's detectives who worked the case, and a California Department of Justice criminologist, were the only witnesses called to the stand Monday.

Best's attorney, Humboldt County Public Defender Kevin Robinson...The case is being prosecuted by Humboldt County Deputy District Attorney Ben McLaughlin.... Cissna set Best's arraignment date for Dec. 2.

◼ Jury selection begins in trial of Whitmill, Flores

Jury selection is scheduled to begin today in the trial of Jason Whitmill and Anthony Flores more than one year after they are accused of participating in a street race down State Route 299 that allegedly caused a collision that killed a 9-year-old girl, according to the Humboldt County District Attorney's Office.

That special brand of cruelty set jury selection for this time of year, ensuring no peace for the family over the holidays.

'nuther shoe

◼ Another EPD employee files suit against city
Former Eureka Police Department public information officer Suzanne Owsley filed a lawsuit against the city last week, alleging employment discrimination, harassment, wrongful demotion and the intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The suit -- which seeks unspecified damages in excess of $25,000 and was filed in Humboldt County Superior Court on Nov. 19 -- names the city of Eureka, EPD, Chief Garr Nielsen and EPD Records Manager Erin McBride as defendants, and is the second lawsuit filed in as many weeks against the city by current and former EPD employees.
Owsley, who spent 17 years working for the department before leaving in November 2008, alleges in the suit that Nielsen and McBride carried out a campaign of harassment against her that spanned months and included demoting her, doctoring her performance evaluation, barring her from setting foot on EPD property without a police escort and assigning her demeaning duties, including cleaning a women's locker room.
As a result of the alleged harassment, Owsley suffered a loss of employment, humiliation, mental anguish, emotional and physical distress and has been injured mentally and emotionally, according to the suit. At least some of the allegations contained in the suit were previously investigated by the city of Eureka, which found no evidence of wrongdoing, according to the suit....

In the suit, Owsley alleges that an errant text message, sent by Nielsen and received by her, and a complaint filed by her with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission spawned the months of harassment. Owsley alleges in the suit that she received a text message from Nielsen on Dec. 14, 2007 -- the day after the city's Christmas party -- reading: “Sorry I was not much fun last night.” Owsley alleges that when she asked Nielsen about the message after receiving it, he denied having sent the message.
Owsley alleges later in the suit that she learned that EPD Communications Supervisor Tawnie Hansen was the intended recipient of Nielsen's text message, and that city employees believed Hansen was having an “inappropriate relationship” with Nielsen. Hansen filed suit against the city Nov. 10 alleging that she was being harassed due to this belief -- which she insists to be false -- and that the city failed to adequately investigate the alleged harassment she was suffering and bring it to a halt....
◼ Another lawsuit hits City of Eureka "heraldo"(a)

Separate but related:
◼ Down and Dirty
◼ Tyson, City Sued on Harassment Charges
◼ City of Eureka: Claims will be thrown out
◼ MASSIVE LAWSUIT TARGETS EUREKA, CITY MANAGER Fri, Nov 13th, 2009 4:07
◼ Tyson, City Sued on Harassment Charges Nov. 13, 4:38 p.m.
◼ TS EPD employee files civil suit against city 11/14/2009 1:30 AM
◼ ABOVE THE LAW (Most all posts have been removed)
◼ Turmoil at EPD Sat, Apr 5th, 2008 12:53 pm
◼ Police anger at chief surfaces
◼ Garr Nielsen named new EPD Chief Thu, Mar 15th, 2007 9:55 pm
◼ KSLG to interview disgruntled cop blogger Fri, Apr 18th, 2008 11:57 pm
◼ Nielsen cleared Sat, May 10th, 2008 9:11 am
◼ TS Complaint against chief found to be unsubstantiated
◼ Nasty cops prompt ER (Eureka Reporter) crack down Thu, June 5th, 2008 8:15 am
◼ Eureka Police blog spawns lawsuit Mon, June 29th, 2009 5:00 am
◼ INNOCENT: Grand Jury concludes police chief investigation Thu, July 2nd, 2009 5:59 pm
◼ Police Chief critic quits EPD Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 12:01 am
◼ Police blog lawsuit settled Fri, Aug 7th, 2009 12:30 am
◼ GRAND JURY REPORT
◼ JN Broken Blue Line July 2, 2009
◼ MASSIVE LAWSUIT TARGETS EUREKA, CITY MANAGER Fri, Nov 13th, 2009 4:07
◼ Tyson, City Sued on Harassment Charges Nov. 13, 4:38 p.m.
◼ TS EPD employee files civil suit against city 11/14/2009 01:30:14 AM PST
◼ ‘Global investigation’ expensive Mon, Nov 16th, 2009 5:00 am
◼ City of Eureka: Claims will be thrown out 11/18/2009

Whatever happened to Vilica LLC?

NO wonder he 'recused' himself

◼ Appeals filed against Marina Center coastal development permit

One to watch: Excellent piece on Kevin Hoover and the grow house saga

◼ The Journal Eye Blackened
There's no love lost between the Arcata marijuana grow house scene and Kevin Hoover, editor/publisher of the Arcata Eye.

As neighborhood backlash against grows increases, as police takedowns become ever more common, and as national media take unwelcome notice of the quirky little town with 1,000 indoor pot farms, growers have pinned their frustrations on Hoover, who reports on the industry just about every week in his newspaper. He's been attacked in his own pages and on the Web. His motives have been impugned in flyers that were hung around town. Weed-related businesses have pulled their ads.

Now, though, one defendant in a criminal grow house bust has taken matters a step further -- by attempting to rope Hoover into his case. Daniel Carbonneau, who was arrested on June 25 after a raid at an Old Arcata Road home uncovered 275 pot plants and four pounds of marijuana, has subpoenaed a long list of internal Arcata Eye documents and correspondence, apparently in an effort to prove that Hoover had been working with the police.

"This is a common tactic -- to make the reporter part of the story so they can't report on it," Hoover said outside a Humboldt County courtroom Tuesday. A hearing on the matter had been scheduled for that morning, but was postponed to January 12.

Since Hoover intends to battle the subpoena, the case could turn out to be a test of California's shield law, which generally protects reporters from being compelled by a court to turn over unpublished information relating to their work. Shield laws in California and other states are founded on the idea that reporters must be able to operate independently of law enforcement, and must be able to protect confidential sources and other privileged material if the press is to function.

But Carbonneau attorney Steve Schectman, who has worked extensively in California medical marijuana law, alleged Tuesday that Hoover already does work with the law enforcement in documenting and taking out grow houses. Schectman said that he had plenty of "anecdotal" evidence to suggest that Hoover operated as a police informant in his client's case, and therefore is not entitled to immunity under the shield law....

Vilca/Recall-shill Steve Schectman resurfaces, and there's never anything good when he enters the picture. He's becoming the poster child for a muscular new kind of criminal arrogance that breaks laws and then demands everyone not only overlook that and not hold them accountable, but give them a whole new slew of rights and accommodations.

Re: Daniel Carbonneau: (and remember to click the Schectman link in the left sidebar labels)
◼ TS APD serves pot warrant, one arrested 06/26/2009
The Arcata Police Department seized 275 growing marijuana plants, along with about four pounds of processed marijuana, and arrested one man on suspicion of illegal cultivation Thursday.
According to an Arcata Police Department press release, Daniel Carbonneau, 38, of Arcata, was arrested without incident and booked into the Humboldt County jail on suspicion of illegal marijuana cultivation.

Keep up the good work, Kevin. Many, many people in the community support you.

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Really? Only Two Possibilities?

Everyone is fucking everyone else or thinking about everybody fucking everybody else? Those are the only two possibilities here?

◼ Down and Dirty
...It seems to me that these two cases merely present the informed public with a range of questions that, though unanswerable, help us to understand how city government works. Is everyone in Eureka City Hall doing it up, down and sideways 24 hours a day, in every conceivable combination, as if it were the last days of the Roman Empire? Or does everyone just imagine that everyone except them is getting loads of action, resulting in a funky yellow stew of rage inside Fifth and K? Or are both things true, to one degree or another?

One of the above scenarios must be the case....

Better shut down City Hall then.

There are a number of other possibilities here, CHIEF among them is someone is looking for a nice chunk of go-away change.

◼ Tyson, City Sued on Harassment Charges