Yes, you could call me a Hillbilly, an Oregon Hillbilly, and I won’t take offense. Some of my best friends are also Hillbillies. That does not make us stupid, just country folk that like to live very rural, far away from the big cities. That’s been a way of life here along the Oregon coast for generations. That’s all about to change if Governor Kitzhaber and his chief of staff get what they want.
Here’s their plan, Appoint a group of like minded business leaders to the Port of Coos Bay, park your chief of staff there with a tax paid salary of $7,500.00 a month, give him no duties to perform, no results of his work are expected or required while he is working for the government to lobby the government. He needs help so lets hire the former Senator Messerle to assist him with no performance required, and pay him $2,500.00 a month. While we’re at it lets get the Senator’s brother appointed to a Coos County Commissioners position, (not elected). Might as well give that guys wife the top position on a local development council (SCDC), who’s only job is to sell the proposed Jordan Cove Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal, to the local populace. The SCDC collects dues from its members and gets tax dollars as a non-profit. Lets put our people at every local position we can think of. The North Bend Airport is right across the bay from the proposed LNG terminal, so lets get our people elected there, to make sure no objections come from the Airport. The top airport board member (Jon Barton), was an appointed commissioner of the port of Coos bay, and is the only other paid employee of the tax collecting SCDC.but now he is more useful as the top airport board member, His buddy and former Coos Bay mayor is the other airport board member. Now absolutely no objections will be coming from the airport for safety reasons. Two elected county commissioners died, so now we get to have two appointed county commissioners, lets change the rules of this county and privatize as much of the county government as we can get away with, lets make a bunch of committees and staff them with our chamber of commerce and SCDC buddies, then we will hire a county administrator, and rule by committee. We need to buy the broken down railroad to ship the tanks of by-product gas that we can’t release in the air ( propane,butane, ect.) to Eugene where it can get shipped elsewhere. Lets buy the railroad, and get the tax payers to pay for it, ( Congressman Defazio’s job at the federal level ) and to fix it, Lets get their state representative ( Arnie Roblan) to work tirelessly at acquiring millions of state tax dollars to fix the railroad.Lets tell the public its to ship logs, lumber, and wood chips to market. Lets keep it a class 1 railroad, that will only be approved for 10 miles an hour, that way the federal government won’t look at us or require any up-grades, and no passengers will be allowed or want to ride it. We will pass legislation that gives the port of Coos Bay complete control of our railroad and give them the power to make their own rules, and increase their tax base along the entire 133 mile track to Eugene. Its OK that the top port commissioner (Jeffery Bishop) is allowed to give no-bid contracts for any repairs he feels are necessary, just tell people you have a customer that’s needs it right away, then when it is exposed that there is no order for Roseburg Lumber’s chips, we say we thought there was. Lets get senator Joanne Verger to procure 60 million dollars to dredge the bay so the deep draft LNG ships can get into the too small Coos Bay, lets tell the people its for a container terminal that Oregon doesn’t need. lets make sure the local democratic party only backs incumbents, that way we don’t have to bring in any new players. We need a new land use law that will allow anyone to get a dredge and fill permit to cross private land owners property without their knowledge or permission. We will sell it as a jobs bill, everyone will want it. Lets see 16.5 million to buy the railroad (tax dollars), 6 million and counting to make repairs,(reports of 1/4″ steel that looks like Swiss cheese on the bridges over three lakes), tracks that were slated for demo by the previous owner, tunnels that need more repairs. Total these millions and you will find we have the most expensive logs and wood chips in the world. Astoria just got done with their fight against LNG, and won. It has been said that the plan was to put forward 3 LNG terminals and one would surely get built, the one in Coos Bay. Don’t forget we need to use eminent domain land seizure laws to build a 200 plus mile pipeline across the state of Oregon to send the gas to California, with no tap for Oregon. California won’t let LNG come ashore for safety reasons. It only has to stay an import terminal to use the eminent domain laws, then we can change it to an export terminal and sell America’s 100 year gas supply overseas. Lets give the developers a tax free status, we don’t want to tax our Canadian friends.
Am I convinced that fraud and corruption are rampant in Coos County, absolutely. Is the governor and his staff involved, absolutely. Will the rest of the state pay for their plans, absolutely.
what they should be doing is scrap the old rails, and get on board with the Obama plan to build high speed rail from northern Washington state to Eugene, and make a connecting spur to Coos Bay, people and freight could get here, our economy would boom, we could transform our economy and energy needs to renewable, and not spend the next 100 years in a gas fueled economy, which is their plan. Even in the city, you will be paying for this plan of theirs right along side us. if we get the two 40 million gallon LNG tanks and the 39 full time jobs they promise, I doubt any of you would want to come here as a tourist, twice.
Not one elected official of ours has stood up and said no to LNG.
Now you know their plan. We didn’t have to worry about the Republicans, These elected Reps are all democrats.
Gene Jennings
Coos Bay, Oregon
Sorry you’re quitting, Gene. It’s been fun. Best of luck to you.
Well Mark/Ruserious, here’s where we met and debated, and here’s where it ends.
I have been asked to quit, and I must respect that request. I know when I’ve been beat, and it wasn’t by you.
We made a circle with these postings, and I have no more to say here. My message took six months to tell, with your help, we did it.
Thanks, Mary, Jody, Candace, Fred, Ron, Randy(you got my vote), and all the other patriots unnamed. Sometimes we don’t burn out, but those around us do.
http://mgx.com/blogs/2011/06/22/worlds-most-expensive-logs-and-wood-chips-and-corruption-to-boot/
http://mgx.com/blogs/2011/12/05/a-few-points-on-the-world-reporting-of-oregon-challenge-to-lng-terminal/
http://mgx.com/blogs/2011/11/25/occupy-everywhere-whats-next-for-the-movement/
Governor, am I the only one that sees the clock ticking down? You can still be the hero, and not one of the villains, but you must hurry. Your dismissal of the port will re-install the confidence the people need. Be a Doctor and do the right thing. Then people will calm down and give the system a chance. If you let this situation continue, then the unrest that comes will be your fault, because you could have stopped it.
Ask it my way, or a soft setup to knock everyone who is against your group and her candidacy?
How does this local democratic party fare with Obama, is he onboard for your plans with our port? Your answer may break one of you, out of the party. Does he even know about your plans to poison us?
Perhaps you never receive honest answers because you ask such ridiculously loaded questions, but I will ask Caddy about you concerns regarding LNG and coal.
Who is Thomas George and why should we care what he said FIVE YEARS AGO?
Democrats tried to end subsidies for the oil & gas industry. Republicans stopped them.
Democrats are ending the war in Afghanistan. Republicans want to stay longer.
Democrats the passed the Disclose Act. Republicans stopped them.
Democrats support the Fair Elections Now Act. Republicans want no part of it.
Pres Obama has allocated more money to alternative energy than all previous administrations combined.
The path to change is clear. Democrats need help. Occupy the Congress. Occupy the Democratic Party.
Caddy, why would you as a mother condone the slow poisoning of children, by supporting this LNG/coal business? Is it because you and Jeff have interest’s on the spit, and any of the fossil fuel developments now being considered by the port, will bring your property into play?
Do you, Arnie, and Joanne, now openly support these plans, when myself and others were told that “they” could not make up their mind, whether to support LNG or not?
Are you going to openly campaign on bringing LNG and coal here to help poison the world?
You ask them for me, they have never responded to me with an honest answer.
My question stands:
Why would the Governor be involved in Coos Bay Port corruption? It makes ZERO sense on every level. What’s the upside for him?
Further, if you have questions for Commissioner McKeown that I failed to ask send them her way at caddy4rep@gmail.com.
Democrat corruption
over the last three months
Commentary from the Editor
http://www.boycottliberalism.com/Commentary/Corruption.htm
Please don’t destroy the democratic party, your group is pushing it off a cliff.
“Some democrats” have the best chance of stopping the civil unrest that’s upon us, while others do business as usual with the fossil fuel industry. They can’t see that business as usual is causing the unrest. My son, a 13 yr veteran was only home for 3 months before he got orders to return to Afghanistan, You have no idea what their doing and going through, yet your party is willing to keep them in harms way, rather than change your ways, and break the oil/gas influence monopoly on our political system. I stand by every word I say, and you are as transparent as your show.
Governor, am I the only one that sees the clock ticking down? You can still be the hero, and not one of the villains, but you must hurry. Your dismissal of the port will re-install the confidence the people need. Be a Doctor and do the right thing. Then people will calm down and give the system a chance. If you let this situation continue, then the unrest that comes will be your fault, because you could have stopped it.
Quoted from Common Cause Oregon:
Yet another fundraising record is being set in the 2010 gubernatorial contest. John Kitzhaber won the Democratic primary while Chris Dudley won the primary on the Republican side. During the primary season Kitzhaber raised $1.5 million while contributions to Dudley came to $1.8 million.
The pace of fundraising has picked up with total contributions to Dudley in transactions reported through mid-day on October 24th coming to $9,014,263 with Kitzhaber raising $5,461,163.
http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=6297325
Go to the website to see the comprehensive list. You’ll see Democrats, teachers, nurses, unions, doctors, hospitals, a vineyard, some tribes, and a publisher. It’s all there.
Where’s the nefarious LNG/Port contribution?
What on that list is worth the risk of impeachment and/or prison?
By the way, thanks for listening.
That radio show hawks space for Ed Shultz, an attempt to gain supporters by proxy. Do you think Ed would approve of whats going on here with the democrats?
He is trying to save their party while others are making a savings off their party.
They will use his face and popularity, while they conspire plans to poison our children. Governor I hope your staff gets this to you, time is running out.
http://mgx.com/blogs/2011/11/25/occupy-everywhere-whats-next-for-the-movement/
I heard a radio show, with a port commissioner and a radio host. I did not hear one question about the controversies at the port. That Democrat wants our vote. That radio show wants it given to her, with no hard questions being asked. Do you think that host is any good at his job?
A question was asked. How could a politician make money off cutting deals.
lets count the ways.
1. campaign contributions.
2. not necessary to list any more. But others may choose to do so.
A) We both know that number is bogus.
B) Even by the reckoning of your sensationalist propaganda the Governor got NONE of that money.
$300,000,000.00 in ten years high enough for ya?
Yes, because this whole conspiracy story makes no sense.
What’s the risk/reward? The risk is the Governor’s impeachment and possibly prison. What reward is worth that to a governor, particularly this one? The same thing can be said for each of the elected officials in this fantastical tale.
What’s the reward?
It would have to be pretty darn high. Pretty darn high.
MarkM
December 10, 2011 – 12:45 pm
“And why on earth would “they” (the Governor and who?) do that?”
The Regressive Progressive Voice of Coos County has to ask?????????
Its not my script, I am just ONE of many messengers. There are a lot of real patriots out there, to those that educated me and you, Thank you.
And why on earth would “they” (the Governor and who?) do that?
I hope young Daniel reads this entire thread. Thank you Gene. As you can see, it’s almost as if they followed YOUR script isn’t it?
Clowns to the left of me………………..
Why is this the headline, the press won’t say
sit down first.
State of Oregon experiments with Social Engineering
As Newt told you would happen, has been let out of the bag.
A tried and failed form of government , developed in the cold war, practiced in Iraq. Is being imposed of the relatively small Oregon County along the pristine Pacific Ocean.
Why you won’t see that headline? panic among the populace, same as yelling fire in a theater. fire.
I was asked today about where I got my disdain for the Coos County Government.
I started telling the story of my first trip to a local, official, public meeting. It was to determine the voting rights of the county, do we or don’t we deserve a vote on LNG coming to our area. The meeting hall was so full of people, that the meeting was moved to a larger building, we waited for the commissioners to enter the room, you could tell what lots of people had on their minds, some answers will be forthcoming now. In walks the commissioners, late, but they were there at last. They sat down called the hall to order, then adjourned and walked out. Stunned, not just me, the person i just told this to said it was a good thing, I wasn’t there, I would have been arrested. I was there, punched in the face and did nothing.
The net is all abuzz with oil/gas/corruption stories today, more than usual. Some are even getting it that our wars are and always have been about Americas Oil and Gas Industry INTEREST’S. While the press(fox and msnbc) tell their bases the other guy is the bad guy, and the people keep painting the fence, looking right and left for answers, (being misdirected) The pipe has been getting laid from Russia, through Afghanistan, Our kids have had enough, bring-em home now.
I don’t give a hoot about who any of you are, makes absolutely no difference to me. What I care about is information . Information the local ‘news’paper should be providing, but absolutely will not do. What a damn shame citizens have to do their job, but I don’t care. We The People need to put a stop to this complete destruction of this County, while the millions and millions flow into the funnel that is The Port of Coos Bay, SCDC, and now the Chamber of Consorts. That is one hell of a lot of money folks, and they will fight to keep those warm, moist, pink public teats all for themselves, they’ve already shoved the working class out, and are working on starving out the rest. Tax breaks for any foreign corporation who wants to scrape the bones of this county, and sheet in the waters if they have to. These clowns don’t care, they are in it for the lucrative tax dollars they suck up.
These Welfare Queens drink fine wine while the homeless increase on every street corner. Shame on every one of them and the horses they ride in on.
If they find a moist, warm teat that is green in color, their arses will be all over it, oh I forgot, Sandy Messerle just did that didn’t she? Were any of the local activists invited to her training sessions with the architects who literally shouted to open the county up to ALL citizens? Nope, Sandy smelled lots of green milk to suckle. Then and only then does SCDC and the Chamber become interested?
And now SCDC, Chamber of Consorts, et.al. have those very lucrative green teats in their mouths, lock stock and barrel At least their all inclusive with Other Peoples’ Money. Just sit back and watch all that moist green milk run down their chins.
we won, the war is over, they just don’t know it yet. Now comes the next hard part. Reconstruction.
Now, Gene, you know that SCDC doesn’t defend its positions with facts or data… they just call naysayers names like NIMBY or CAVE, cause that’s all they’ve got.
‘Enron moment’: Insiders sound alarm amid a natural gas rush
‘The word in the world of independents is that the shale plays are just giant Ponzi schemes and the economics just do not work,’ analyst writes
Shale companies are also adjusting their strategies to make money by focusing on shale wells that produce lucrative liquids, like propane and butane, in addition to natural gas.
Ok SCDC start defending this morning.
Ok, Locals. Here’s who we we’re getting our news (marching orders) from. http://www.lee.net.
LEADING SOURCE OF LOCAL NEWS, INFORMATION & ADVERTISING IN 53 MARKETS
How local is that, yea some of them are coos county tax payers.
Ok , RUSerios. Now I know why you were quiet for 24hrs, you and your friends are about to do what was predicted you would do. as expected. I wonder how far the phone calls went yesterday.
pcomyhrt
June 25, 2011 – 11:50 am
There’s been logging going on in Coos County forever – sure there’s a little give and take, but it’s kept the economy booming – until spotted owl came along.
your getting lost, I’m not arguing for or against logging, with this story. I am most definitely for logging, fishing, and construction for the area, just in case you go there next.
There’s been logging going on in Coos County forever – sure there’s a little give and take, but it’s kept the economy booming – until spotted owl came along.
Lots of people know me as only Gene Jennings, I see I’m dealing with the birther crowd as well as the SCDC.
RUSerious? I have searched the Voter Rolls for your name, and find none. I tried the R’s, the U’s, the yous’, the yos’, Sirius, et.al. and find nothing.
Perhaps because it is none of my business?
RUserious, why the heck are you searching voting records of Gene J. or anyone else for that matter? That’s a weapon Steve Pickering uses over at the World, and I think it’s reprehensible to do so. I vote in every election, sometimes missing the primary, and I’m constantly accused of not voting by that bafoon. I resent the hell out of it there, and I don’t like it here either. Just my opinion, but I think that sucks. Yeah, I know, it’s public information. But I think it still sucks to spend time hovering over voting records to use against another poster.
Dear Mr. Jennings, I read your stuff – here and elsewhere – some several times. Re your posting of the 24th at 1716, where you assure all readers that you are in fact “Gene Jennings”. Your postings leave no dounbt that you claim to be a Coos County resident. Your postings leave no doubt that you would like to affect change within the county and elsewhere. Why woulfd the Coos County Clerks elections officer state that you are not a registered Coos County voter as “Gene”, “Eugene” or any any other Jenings using the middle name of “Gene”? Certaimly voting is a means to change.
Save for the fact that I don’t allow pointless ad hominem attacks on here. Many comments do not pass moderation. Disagreeing is okay, but just being an ass isn’t
I stand corrected.That should give them courage.
Hi Gene, no need to apologize, however, I only know whatever email address the poster chooses to use as a login. Consequently, they can be anonymous to a degree.
I’m sorry Mary if that last comment made it appear that you might expose an Identity of a poster to the readers without their permission. I know that would never happen.(here) Thats why I’m saying who I am, I’m not embarrassed by my position on local issues or any other for that matter. I believe the ( I’m for LNG crowd ) love the feeling of punching you in the head without you being able to see who they are. My point being, they might not be as nasty here with their non-facts, as they are at the world who is on their side. Mary would know who they are, as she should, being the moderator of this site. Just as the world knows its posters.
I expect the messenger to be attacked, thats why I won’t post at theworld, as they are a working member of the SCDC. They get your name when you register to post a comment, but their hatchet-men can work on you with their secret identities. You swing at me here and at least I have a fighting chance, since you have to tell Mary who you are.
Gene, you have really hit the nail right on the head. How incredibly right you are. Just try to expose some of this and be prepared for the shock at the people who will start attacking the messenger instead of the appalling corruption the messenger is trying to expose. Perhaps the KKK club never really died off around here. The name may have changed and the focus but the method of operating still appears to be the same….
One hundred years of oil/gas from Huck Finn. What’s the connection you ask? I’m going to tell you with what I will call my Sarah Palin memory. That’s being able to tell a story from start to finish, that may have some minor errors along the way, and then people will stop and focus on that error without being able to see it was only a memory fart in a bigger story. Like Paul Revere warning the British by blowing his horn, or whatever. I understood she was using that event and everything else she remembers as a bullet in her gun of freedom, her one and only talking point. See I just did it and you got it. So lets move on.
Huck Finn found life was very easy if you get others to do your work. Conning kids to paint a fence so you can go fishing. When its a child doing the scam it may seem harmless and laughable to most people, but not to the kids painting the fence.
I just had someone look over my shoulder and tell me it was Tom Sawyer, not Huck Finn, that tricked the kids, again making my point about not tripping yourself on a raised edge of sidewalk on the path of this story.
There are some grownup Huck Finns out there that are running the scam of the century on all of us, some have seen that Huck is filling his pockets with the wealth of our country, by controlling our government he/they, can go fishing as long as it lasts. I/us want you to put down the brush. Why am I putting a slash mark between he and they, and I and us, and gas and oil. That’s because each represents a side in the story.
Oil/gas have linked themselves together recently in most of their TV commercials about America’s energy future, They will have a slick looking spokesperson walk across a stage and tell you they are Americas OIL and GAS Industry and they are working on providing us with one hundred more years of their product, clean burning American gas. The same spokesperson was doing the same walk/talk for BP oil, until the last large oil spill in the gulf of Mexico. She/they went away for awhile, we were just to touchy at that time to hear from them selling their product, but time has passed and some forget.That’s the paint.
Now if I were to sell red paint for a living, I would want to control all the other colors of paint as well. I will tell you that the ingredients for the other colors are not processed yet, but we’re working on it. An old story about a farmer asking the paint seller why he should paint his barn red, the salesman say’s, its the cheapest paint we have, why’s that asks the farmer? Because we sell more of it says the salesman. get the point?
Watch the players on stage, and see if they don’t go green, now, after everyone else knows its our only viable option. So they will need to get a chokehold on all the new stuff they have been told is coming,(green energy sources). Make committees, staff them with SCDC members, while it looks like their moving forward and are now knowledgeable about all this new stuff, you will get told that this is great stuff, but it just takes time, and more time, and more. Well while we’re waiting for this time to pass, LNG will be sold to the whole country, because we need to use those gas turbines that GE is building. Enough already, stop their plan, its not needed for the generations that will follow us. Its just needed for the Hucks Finns.
Great ! I am waiting for RUserious’ answer to the questions about fraud and corruption. I await any rebuttal from anyone who can explain what goes on in Coos County in any other terms but the above.
Perhaps there’s another reason the Messerles’ and Bartons of this county keep their teats close and refuse to share the millions and millions and millions pumped into this county every year, as the county fails and falls deeper into recession. All this taxpayer money goes where exactly? Rusty railroads to nowhere? Multiple airport terminals rusting already, with basically no decent service. Pipelines with promised 2,900 jobs? Tell me more about these folks who have run this county for decades.
Wow! Many things may be rampant in Coos County but fraud and corruption? I don’t think so. I have no friends in local elected or appointed positions; however, I question much of what you stated. Later today, time permitting, for my friends and I, some questions will be asked. I would sincerely appreciate concise fact based answers for all.