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T-S gives Gallegos too much credit
The Sunday Times-Standard accuses District Attorney Paul Gallegos of “woefully dividing the community with very little if anything to show.”
If the paper wants to knock Gallegos for his failures, fine. But we wonder what unified paradise the editors were living in prior to 2003. It obviously wasn’t Humboldt County.
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Yep, the county was divided before Gallegos. It would just help if he would win one of his landmark court cases that have so far merely served to reheat existing divisions in the community.
I’m looking forward to Gallegos commenting on that observance. I’ve been wondering about Gallegos myself, he kinda reminds me of a con-artist but I’m sure those types of folks don’t hold such high seats in county government, right? So there must be a good explanation. But there might be a policy that discourages officials from answering such claims because by doing so one might give the appearance of guilt, so he’ll probably just keep quiet and get his PR person to start putting the word out that he’s really a good guy.
You prefer your divisions simmering on the back-burner, where only one side feels the heat?
You don’t always have to win the “fight” to have a significant impact on the outcome. Perhaps just bringing these issues into the public arena were enough to have a positive effect in the long run. Keeping score, as it were, is probably not a good or even true measure of the impact Paul Gallegos has had on this community as its District Attorney.
For the “score keepers” I did not vote for Mr. Gallegos and I am hoping for some “new blood” to run next time.
It’s not the job of the prosecutor to file charges just to bring something up for discussion – where does that crock of shit defense come from?
But, yeah, I guess toddler wandering is a serious problem and filing that case was designed to teach parents not to let their kids turn out like chris Burgess… is that it?
We will never know if PL or the EPD leadership would have been found guilty by a jury, as judges dismissed the cases before they could be heard.
In the Moore shooting case, the mere fact that he was willing to file charges did make the difference. You can bet the person in charge will think twice before using deadly force next time around, when the danger is not imminent.
Also, the TS does not bother to mention all of the conviction Gallegos has had in his other trials, including several murder cases.
I’m not sure about a “unified paradaise,” but I do seem to recall a small window of time, circa late 70s, pre-AIDS, pre-timber wars, pre-Reagan, when things were generally a bit more genial across the now vast divide between cultural camps… Sort of like the depiction on the cover of the New Settler, with hippie and rancher amiably talking to one another from their respective pick-up trucks.
I’ll probably get my head handed to me for pining for the “good ol’ days” of the Carter Administration / daring to slur the Gipper, but it seems to me that there was a brief pause between the divisions wrought be Viet Nam and Watergate, and the clampdown that came rolling in with the 80s when we hit that Rodney King swing of “all get(ting) along.”
There are always divisions, but they have been amplified beyond imagination since Richard Salzman and crew came into the picture – campaigns are vastly more bitter and more expensive than they were before their entry into the Humboldt scene – dirty tricks are the norm.
But the real cost is the stupendous loss to the community – the overall loss of competence in the DA’s office, the persecution of innocent people like Sean Marsh really says it all.
Thanks for your comment. Terry Farmer’s DA office was a joke and served only the old boys club. Humboldt County was a divided, changing place and Gallegos is merely a symptom of that, if a lightning rod of one. Note: he’s been elected three times by a majority. Get over it, shitbags!
Your stunning evidence-based argument won me over.
Plannax, I agree. There was a time when life was mellower and there was hope in the air, government was somewhat in touch with the common person in America and extremism wasn’t as noticable. Currently we can have no confidence in government because it is shut up tight to inspection from we the people. I want more transparency from elected officials, security has it’s place but when there is no responsibility taken for mistakes made how are citizens supposed to trust the example set? We are held accountable with fines and punishment for violations, but government is not? That stinks and cannot be winked at and ignored.
oh great, now a professional, who peoples lives depend on will have to worry about some dip DA along with all the other points in making a choice. An of course as an ( anon ) you think this is a great idea.
Gosh dismissed does mean without merit. What a jury would say has no standing. Big, what if?
Rising levels of economic inequality empower the political right, who in recent years dominate the executive and judiciary branches of government. As a result, regulatory and resource management institutions generally oversee a continuation of status-quo deterioration of the environment and the social safety net. Thanks to science, the Internet, and the media, the resulting damages are more apparent now than they used to be. One example: Republican budget ideology harming children, the elderly, the disabled who are dependent on Medical payments that have been held up since June. Better to let the retarded and the demented elderly die than raise taxes, right? Better dead than alive in a “socialist” dystopia, eh? And this goes on year after year after year. Of course those of us who still pay attention and care become increasingly upset, demanding change. Meanwhile the right preaches economically and socially conservative ideology as the highest good.
If we ignore the stupid cult-of-personality and horse-race mentality that so dominates political coverage by our news media, it is instructive to compare the positions of Obama and Palin on the issues — abortion, environmental quality, natural resources management, tax policy, war policy, social programs, and so forth. What an amazingly wide cultural chasm separates the advocates of one versus the other.
And yet … time and again the issues that so clearly separate the candidates get pushed into the background. Its all about hype, charisma, the horse race, sexiness. The republic descends into soap opera.
I also remember the ’70’s as a time with less of a chasm between left and right. But I think that was because it was post Vietnam and post Watergate, both of which temporarily chastened the right. Moreover we had OPEC and the Iranian revolution to distract us from attacking each other. Its funny how, looking back at Nixon and the other old bugaboos from that era, how quaint they seem in comparison to the current crop of conservatives.
Gallegos does not have a PR person! In case that is not painfully obvious…
who cares?
I do.
Farmer’s office did nothing? Really? Well, I guess all those molesters and murderers didn’t really go to jail? And by the way, it was forest practice misdemeanor cases won by the Farmer office
that at one point got PL’s license suspended.
Still, if you think PVG’s office is winning more cases and putting more dangerous criminals away than Farmers, perhaps you’d
be good enough to run some numbers by us. If you can get PVG to release them, start with the CAST docs.
Man you sure as hell shut them up with that one 10:54. I agree whole heartedly!
Farmer said at one time that there was no gang problem in Eureka when it was very apparent that there was. He did institute the policy of a person who was battered by a spouse or co-habitant not having to experience filing charges against an obvious perpetrator, the DA does that instead.
It would be nice to hear from Gallegos himself about the questions asked about his tenure in office, how about it Paul? Please start with why you let Cheri Moore’s killers go free.