Grand Jury or Grand Inquisition?

Given testimony at the last Board of Supervisors meeting by a nurse that said refund or rebate was re-translated by the grand jury inquisitors into kickback, it appears that the underway Amador coup d’état strategy is becoming more apparent as it sinks to new lows. But you would never know this by reading Eric Winslow’s yellow journalism in last Friday’s Ledger.  He fancies himself a muckraker. While he certainly has the rake, the muck is his own invention. Perhaps he has missed his calling. His more appropriate role maybe at the supermarket checkout stand with stories like: “Alien disguised as bigfoot delivered my pizza” or “Hillary Clinton and her alien lover”.

Simultaneously, we have the witch hunt against Elizabeth Chapin-Pinotti. Given a planning commissioner and a school board member refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, this all seems like more than a coincidence. Minus the violence, this feels like living in Germany during the 1930’s. Is something happening behind the backs of Amadorians? Certainly many in our community will implicate the Foothill Conservancy. Their earlier leadership was almost sued, but they are now more subtle. But whatever their behind-the-scenes plotting, I can easily imagine their Soros related funding sources breathing down their necks.

Another local influence is undoubtedly the SEIU. Just put SEIU + thugs into your search engine and the United Farm Workers Dolores Huerta’s denouncement of their tactics and other similar videos appear. They have no compunction about exploiting the very people they claim to help. They are financing Frank Axe’s campaign as he goes door to door, telling potential voters that the present supervisors are a reincarnation of Tammany Hall. They also financed Lynn Morgan, who only won because several hundred complacent Republicans didn’t vote.

We cannot sit idle as the very soul of our county is endangered. When there is a victory against vexatious litigants and no growth nihilists, such as the Amador Water Agency’s development of hydroelectric power at Tanner Reservoir, the story is buried on the last page of the Ledger. Will this become typical of the “new” Ledger? Many people say the new Dollar General store is ugly. Saying that a venue that helps people of modest means save money seems like the real ugliness.

Copyright 2016, Mark L. Bennett