Sweet: Community service fees are “derivative of tax dollars”
As tedious as many public meetings are to sit through one can almost always mine little nuggets of...
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Tag: Al Pettit
South Coast Community Foundation adds Pettit, Combs and Tymchuk
The board of the SCCF and no doubt every other facet of the CEP is being populated with one...
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Pettit is a salesman, not an analyst
Al Pettit is running a write-in campaign for Coos Bay City Council and The World has given him a...
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Pettit also demands substantiation of charter savings
Yet another member of the now defunct structure advisory committee so keen on hiring a county...
Read MoreAl conflates risk with hazard
Coos County’s most bombastic motorcycle salesman has followed fellow LNG pitchman, “the walrus”, and written
Read MoreBarton finds MGx amusing
Jon Barton, who along with Lance Benton attempted to manipulate election data to represent a higher percentage of voters wanted a governance change than is factually correct is firing back in another letter to the editor today.
Read MoreCoos County Sciolist Society
Sciolism is a form of deceit which automatically engenders a level of paranoia and I suspect sciolists are natively insecure and therefore especially defensive/offensive lest they be found out
Read MoreCCAP activist PAC spending big to take control of county
CCAP wants to insert an administrator not to increase efficiencies or modernize the county, the administrator model is over a hundred years old in this country, they just want to be able to pitch schemes and poll the commission outside of public view. Their own version of the Manchurian Candidate.
Read MoreCharter vs ordinance debates next week
talk radio host Cam Parry who will arrive cunningly disguised as an interim county commissioner to argue in favor of the ordinance. The LOWV event begins at 7PM with Arnie Roblan vs Scott Roberts. Herne and Bell will represent the charter beginning at approximately 8PM.
Read MoreCCAP PAC pitches faith based governance
The CCAP belief system is nothing more than dogmatic superstition or what amounts to faith based governance. They would have us believe in an administrative savior, a new messiah, a mythological superhero who, (dressed in khakis, loafers and probably a Bandon Dunes polo shirt), will heal the sick and raise the poor crumbled remnants of Coos County staff, unifying them into one giant happy face with a wave of his magic scepter.
Read MoreKudos to The World coverage of campaign finances
The article even enables Jon Barton to make himself to look like an idiot.
Read MoreMoney, power and local poltiics
Lessig points out PACs like CCAP separate the “funders” from the people and creates a “them or us” perception that cannot simply be reconciled with a belief that whatever is good for business is good for all. That dog doesn’t bark anymore, or it shouldn’t.
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