From the Allison Jackson HQ:
Allison Jackson will announce her candidacy for District Attorney tomorrow, Saturday –March 6 at 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. at the Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center. The Aquatic Center is located downtown Eureka at 921 Waterfront Drive next to the Adorni Center.
Jackson will reportedly be introduced by Humboldt County Supervisor Jill Duffy former County Administrator Loretta Nickolaus.
Gallegos supporter Richard Salzman called into KMUD this morning to talk about Gallegos’ campaign announcement, which happened this afternoon. He had a few choice words for Jackson:
It’s in the Friday morning archives, about 10 minutes into Thank Jah it’s Friday.
So it begins.
Which race is going to be uglier, Gallegos/Jackson or Bass/Neely? It could be a close tie.
What is Jackson’s position on marijuana? Aging hippies want to know.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
Allison Jackson is just a friendly pussycat. Richard Salzman should spend some time at the Humbloat Mirror. That’s where the angry wolverines frolic with the rabid badgers.
Uncomfortable hugs!
That Salzman would refer to anyone as a mean animal is just plain funny.
Gallegos/Jackson, hands down.
No matter how much money is pumped into the Bass/Neely contest, the winner is still only one vote out of five.
The winner of the DA contest can put your butt in jail and in Allison, Paul faces the first real threat to his continuing in office seing Worth never stood a chance.
She once accused attorney Ed Denson of fudging evidence for a client in a marijuana case. She’s from the Terry Farmer era of hyper prosecution for pot and environmental activism.
Thank God….Allison!
The Choad predicts… Gallegos, FTW.
Didn’t she once say that all unpermitted buildings or structures need to be dealt with by Code Enforcement?Humboldt Politico,do realize that she’s taken some pretty unpopular stances which will likely bring SoHum voters out of the woodworks to ensure that she doesn’t get anywhere near that D.A.’s office.In a close race,that matters big time.
Her exact quote:
“I absolutely applaud Commissioners Gearhardt and Smith’s comments with respect to increasing the penalties for people building unpermitted because that is a problem that is not just on TPZ it’s on every single parcel in this county and really needs to be addressed. I don’t think doing that just on TPZ is going to do anything for enforcement.” — Allison Jackson, Nov. 15, 2007
Gallegos and Jackson will survive the primary for the runoff. The majority of the Hagen votes in the June will go to Gallegos in November.
“The majority of the Hagen votes in the June will go to Gallegos in November”?
Unlikely.
And, by the way, I’m just curious; why people think they can call elections so far in advance?
What is your call, Joel?
I couldn’t hazard a guess that would be worth anything.
Jill, Rose, and Allison…..”Arkley’s Angels”.
Curious why enviros are lining up behind hagen. Wasn’t he fired from his contract ADA job with Humboldt/Mendo for environmental enforcement? Is a lawyer whose highest goal for the DA’s seat is to be a good office manager not going to get chewed up in the position? I don;’t see him coming in and taking on a Maxxam-type case.
not to mention about 2% of DA’s biz involves environmental cases…….should be interesting to watch. Seems to me Gallego’s has built a good team over there.
Here is my prediction for June, at least at this point.
Gallegos – 42%
Jackson – 38%
Hagen – 17%
Bryson – 3%
Joel – Handicapping political races is a fun way to pass the winter in Humboldt. Please don’t take that away from us.
“I don;’t see him coming in and taking on a Maxxam-type case.”
Unlike everyone else in the race Hagen has actually won cases against Pacific Lumber and SPI.
Maybe, but Hagen has never tried a felony case. Not one, nada, zero, zilch. Not exactly the qualification you want in a DA.
And I see Gallegos has been endorsed by every DA Hagen has ever worked for or with, save for one, that being Norm Vroman (who fired Hagen when he worked in Mendo), but that’s only because Norm is no longer alive.
For a good story on A. Jackson, look up:
Yohan Lopez, felony Battery against a police officer, and what he did after Jackson let him off in a plea bargain.
Because the First First Amendment sayz we can?
:-/
“Unlike everyone else in the race Hagen has actually won cases against Pacific Lumber and SPI.”
….yeah, look at the record, basically did Terry Farmer’s bidding and came in late in the game to water-down what could have actually been strong cases. Also, see he’s got the support of all the counties DA’s he represented as the “environmental ADA”. Look a little more closely at his “record”. but, maybe he’ll protect us against Walmart if he doesn’t miss any filing deadlines!
You know, the vast majority of cases are pled out. Probably over 99 percent of them. If we didn’t have plea bargains we’d need courtrooms to fill half of Eureka.
And incidentally, Norm Vroman did not fire Paul Hagen. Not even once.
Without plea bargains, how often — or mre likely, for hoe long — do you think we’d be called for jury service? I’m already called once every year. But fortunately, it’s over after one trial. But that’s not true in every county. It gets old.
Rats, I can’t type: mre should be more, and hoe should be how.
competition is a good thing
She is sort of a hard ass. I had to provide a 215 to her and she wouldn’t accept it because it was a photo-copy. Then she wouldn’t take it because it had no expiration date.I had to get the Dr. to write a letter explaining that, then had to get another script to satisfy her. I believe she will be in conflict with the new direction the state is headed in terms of decriminalization.
To link her with Teri Farmer (yes,I sex changed his name)and Worthless Dikeman, basically says to me that she is probably an ass backwards racist like those evil men are. You know she’s getting a vote or two from those cavemen still breathing. Let’s evolve.
…she is probably an ass backwards racist like those evil men are.
Wow. Now that’s something that should sway the masses towards your view.
Too funny to see someone decrying stereotypes typecasting someone themselves.
the heralda crowd is duplicitous always — fair and balanced seldom — and always full human warmth and introspection,,,,, NOT !
Right back atcha, Anonymous.
Allison is a very warm, intelligent & capable woman. She’s also tough. I respect her & think she would be a great District Attorney. She also writes very well—this I know from experience–which is more than I can say for the present D.A.
But what about Mary Juana, where does she stand in this race?
If she is not prepared to deal with full legalization of cannabis she is living in the past.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
Just like the current rash of challengers to Gallegos. Where will they be without backlash?
And why again did the Humboldt County Democratic Central Committee support Jill Geist/Duffy when she first ran for Supervisor?
I don’t get what all these candidates think they got on Gallegos.
He had some plead out cases. Oooh, bfd. Like that dumbass dude who was drunk and crashed his car or whatever has gotta be all up in prison to set an example for other drunk dumbasses to pay attention to.
As if Palco case shouldn’t have been brought forward. Like Maxxam really cared about Humboldt. What kinna logic is that, don’t bite the hand that rapes you?
And yea, Terry Farmer. Y’all got amnesia thinking everything was all good during that shit.
Gallegos let the long time tree sitters off with a $5 fine after costing the timber companies & law enforcement agencies many tens of thousands of dollars of costs.
Gallegos hired that nutcase Tim Stoen & embarked on a hopeless crusade against PALCO. A case that cost the county hundreds of thousands of dollars before it was thrown out of court, just to give payback to his supporters.
As a juror, I have seen him up close prosecuting a criminal trial. He is incompetant. All the jurors later were commenting on how badly he ran the trial.
Like anyone with half a brain would give your opinion of how Gallegos handled a case any merit, HiFi. As to the PALCO suit, they should have lost it despite the double dealing games that went on between them and CDF. PALCO committed fraud numerous times in their THP’s and did massive damage to others property, rivers and streams. The idea that a company is protected from prosecution of fraud in their official filings is absurd. PALCO is out of business because of their over cutting and shady deals and Humboldt County is better off without them.
Gallegos showed us that one more reason to be a corporation instead of a mere person is that corporations get to lie to the government. It’s ‘lobbying,’ even if they don’t give bags of money! This is good to know.
If Martha Stewart knew it, her corporation could have covered for her being a good mom, and no one would have gone to jail.
HiFi, Paul’s attempt to enforce laws was one of our most informative political science lessons of the last decade. What failed was, first, our cowardly county leadership, as usual, and second, our craven judicial and political systems that don’t even know how to pretend to believe in democracy anymore–just like certain critics of same, I’ll concede.
And that was before the merits of the case even came up.
I guarantee you that the commenter knows nothing about Gallegos. Jackson and Hagen are easily better than Gallegos in every possible way. Bryson has no business being in the race.
Did they Jane? Massive damage? Well So did my grandparents, and yours, and everyone else who has roots here. This county was clear-cut and burned in the 50-60s. PALCO did not pioneer the practices of the past. Also this constant inference that CDF conspired with PL is ridiculous, and I still have yet to see anything compelling that backs that up.
Im not trying to be the judge/jury on MAXXAM, or if it is “ok” to own land and deplete its resources. But this perceived ‘damage’ that PL gets blamed with is overstated(with a few exceptions), and generally refers to the historical impacts – that all landowners up here have inherited from our ancestors. Impacts that of course larger land owners such as PL have been fixing and improving for decades. Get on a bike. Ride on some logging roads, then go off onto some private roads all through Humboldt and see who is taking better care of our roads streams and ecosystems….
I dont see how PG’s suite vrs PL helped anything around here.
Boo hoo, HiFi, the tree sitters got off with $5 dollar fines. That’s all you’ve got. What’s Allison’s stand on meth manufacture and distribution? Is she hard on Marijuana and soft on crank? Let’s hear it HiFi, speak up.
Last time Hagen was into beating Gallegos he showed up at the Democrats’ meeting with Ken Bareilles and lied about endorsement rules in a desperate attempt to help then-candidate Worth Dikeman. The more people learn about Hagen and his connections the more they will like Gallegos.
So we’ll learn to settle for Gallegos because we find faults with Hagen? What sort of bird-brained logic is that?
Isn’t Allison Jackson an advocate for children as well? That’s my impression.
Excusing PALCO’s illegal logging practices and fraudulent THP filings with logging activities of the past which were ignorant but not illegal is pretty desperate, Bolitho.
Many of the tree sitters Gallegos prosecuted went to jail, and most paid fines far exceeding $5.
Gallegos pushed inflated felony assault charges against one tree sitter and ignored evidence that would have brought the case back to the real world. The judge threw out the felony charge after reviewing the evidence.
Law enforcement could have saved money by refusing to act as Maxxam’s personal security firm.
Hagen missed the filing deadline for a suit against enlarging the WalMart in Crescent City by ONE DAY? That might be excusable if he had a giant load of clients but the word is that that was HIS ONLY ONE. Sounds like incompetance to me. If I was part of that suit, I’d be PISSED!
PL was overcutting to beat the band just to try to pay for all the junk bonds it floated to buy the company. After selling off the tool business and gutting everything else it could find, Maxxam was left with looting the land. They did a job that would have made your clear-cutting ancestors proud. Because the suit was lost due to ‘technicalities’ doesn’t mean there was no wrongdoing. Remains to be proven. And anyone who believes a long expensive trial with an uncertain outcome is better than a plea bargain has never sat through one. Don’t fault Paul for that one. A DA who didn’t do that would clog up our court system for years to come!
“PALCO’s illegal logging practices”
What practices are you referring too?
No excuses, when a forester drops the ball they do…or if a logger screws up, the do. Humans, go figure. Just wondering what massive environmental damage has occurred since HCPs and T&I watershed rules?
Yeah, we know, Bolito. Underfund agencies and force them to rely on company foresters and then blame them when the company foresters submit fraudulent logging plans. Blame CDF for the old photos PALCO submitted which didn’t show current conditions. Blame CDF that PALCO caused landslides and silting up of creeks and rivers. Blame CDF that the people of Elk River have to drink bottled water and are blocked in or out of their homes multiple times every year due to flooding of their silted up river. PALCO was just doing what predatory corporations do so they bear no blame, right?
plain jane- well said and agreed! PL screwed the community of humboldt by practicing unsustainable harvesting, no one except the share holders benefited. Environment lost, community lost and PL employees lost their jobs in the end.
Anonymous is right on about the scrutiny Gallegos has gotten for plea bargins. Not that every move has been perfect, but the public is always going to be unhappy with plea bargains. We can’t possibly afford to try every case to the death, not possible. Plea bargains are a part of the system.
Paul’s got my vote.
6:03, it’s a good thing Gallegos did not lie to the Democratic committee, and it’s a bad thing that Hagens did. Get it now?
Does anyone know how the turnout was for the announcement? Were any of the people there not Republicans?
Wrong. MAXXAM was. As far as your talking points, are you reading the back of a econews? You make it sound so simple. Go on a pre-harvest inspection some day and watch the “underfunded” agencies at work.
I don’t need econews talking points, just the facts. Pre-harvest inspections are meaningless when the company doesn’t follow the harvest plan approved and if they were even adequate the old photos and data PALCO submitted would have been caught.
First, the biggest culprit of over logging was state government. The tax structure force land owners to clear cut the forests. That’s why restructured tax concepts like TPZ, Williamson Act, has been such a success. Modern timber harvest plans are also a double edged sword. Forcing most small and medium land owners to cut much more timber that they want to be able to pay the big bucks for all manner of requirements.
Perhaps we should replace the statue of Mckinely with one of Hurwitz in the Arcata square for his legacy of good deeds in Humboldt County, Bolithio.
Jackson’s kick off had over 100 present and the mix of Dems and Repubs was equal. Several HCDCC members there that are supporting Jackson. The energy was very positive. One long time member of the county DA system got of her sick bed to make sure her support was known. The message was positive ,direct, and uplifting even without quotations from Ghandi.
Yay! As Kathy Philp commented on Facebook, “She [Allison] can do this.” That’s a remark from someone who should know.
Hurwitz was a Johnnie come lately to forest destruction. He was not a good man and did greater harm to our economy that our forest practices. Using him as an example against anything going on today just shows how weak and stupid your positions are and how narrow your vision is. Timber growth ,harvesting,marketing and value added local manufacturing are critical to the counties economic stability and to the long term viability of timber lands. To try to further restrict,tax or rezone our land owners will only cause more harm.
So, the Times Standard reports dozens in attendance and Anon 9:19 says over 100. In newspaper speak, dozens = 30 +/-. So who is right?
If there really was over 100, then Gallegos is in trouble as this is then a ground game as well as a media one since the money raised should be fairly even.
In the end, no matter how badly Paul has run the office for the last seven years, and no matter how some try to frame it about convictions and plea bargains, it will be, once again, their positions on pot which determine Humboldt County voter turnout in an off year election.
As has been asked before – What is her official position on pot?
“Several HCDCC members there that are supporting Jackson.”
Richard Marks and…?
Our politics on pot seem to be going Mendo (which is where the future sifts up to us through). When the DA, Sheriff and a Supe or two down there campaigned, they all said the same stuff people always say. From Humboldt, I detected no hostility to state law from any of the candidates–yet Lintott for DA, Allman for Sheriff and McGowen for Supervisor all collected strong backlash votes against dumbass neighborhood grow scenes.
How did everyone know these three were the backlash candidates? I suspect the same way Hagen hopes to harvest the backlash up here, by making off-the-record commitments to crack down (beginning on grow houses in Arcata) despite inconvenient laws. Hagen’s been ‘good’ at this in the past. This is partly why so many people loathe him despite his being Not Paul.
With this in mind, I don’t expect Allison to say anything meaningful for attribution, and assume she’d represent the haters and resenters to the best of her ability. That wouldn’t be pretty, given that the current hate-targets are likely to go out of business soon after she’d get into office. Would she have to return to pumping up spectral evidence of child abuse?
The timber wars are over people, the hippies won. Now you need to save the forest from the hippies.
And as an ignorant bumpkin in political matters I would say this election is going to be a referendum on Gallegos and his seven years in office. The public will vote according to how they perceive his time was spent.
The number of attendees was in the dozens by 12 noon as so many showed up early. During Allison’s speech, there were maybe 90 or so people (and people continued to arrive up until 1 p.m.). This variation was over the course of 90 minutes.
Perhaps the Times Standard people showed up early for their photo and Q & A, and left before Allison finished speaking.
Heraldo,
I know a person who was represented by Ed Denson some years ago for having a large quatity fo processed weed (over 40lbs.) He lives in Shelter Cove, is a diesel generator machanic, and a pilot. He commented about where else but Humboldt County can you get caught with that much dope and only spend 4 hours in jail. He knows who he is. He was going back to court after his conviction to try and get back some of his “bud” under 215, but admitted to me outside court that wasn’t the reason. Ed was adviseing him on this. I told him quite frankly not to “lie”. He chose not to lie.
HF-you obviously dont understand what all those tree sitters did for Maxxam. They raised prices by 3 times with people thinking Redwood was coming to an end. Sometimes I think he was paying the tree sitters to tree sit. It was good for the bottomline. Remember how we got ripped off on the Headwaters deal. I personally know a forester who falsafied EIRs. He got fired and re-hired through the back door.Remember the Murphy family, they had the mill set up to run a sustainable yeild operation for ever. Where is Palco right now. Oh yeah they dont really exist and we are paying for with no jobs and all that money is no longer in the local system. Just like all the locals said they would do. The people that are supposed to be watching out for us obviously are not.
“As has been asked before – What is her official position on pot?”
In her own words, she will “prosecute criminals to the full extent of the law”
“I personally know a forester who falsified EIRs.”
Falsified how??
“prosecute criminals…”
And you expect a DA candidate to say something different?
The law is 215. The adopted status is 99 plants. The custom is to ignore medical marijuana patient grows.
These are the questions she needs to answer and not be allowed to skate on.
Most of the rabid anti-Gallegos crowd have no idea how Jackson running was the best thing that could have happened to the Gallegos campaign.
Erased info off the EIR about owl habitat..He told me with his own mouth..
Bryson is the only one actually practicing criminal law in our courts (and I include Paul GAGS in that). As for “having no business being in the race”… well she is the only one that knows how to run a business.
Just because she hasnt been here for the last two decades doesnt mean she dont know her stuff.
“knows how to run a business” oooooooohhh
I was not the only HCDCC member there. Here we go painting this whatever way you want.
My family may even be split over this issue. I may have a post on my blog in the near future over these candidates.
Bryson would be even worse than Gallegos.
Jackson and Hagen will get votes from everyone who pays attention. Let’s hope that a majority are paying attention.
Anon @ 5:38
Are you saying that medical marijuana patients are criminals? Is that what you are implying? Does Allison Jackson share that view?
have a peaceful day,
Bill
It seems to me that Mr. hagen is the perfect DA candidate sitting neatly between the rabid factions of “Gallegos is God” and “Gallegos is Satan”.
While I am eternally grateful to Mr. Gallegos for freeing us from the clutches of DA Farmer & Co., it seems that his skill as a campaigner is not matched as a leader after the election. There are many issues of his inconsisteancy and frankly questionable judgement (e.g.- the bicyclist death on 299).
On the other hand, Ms Jackson seems like one of the disciples of Rose. Egads!! That is not any kind of recommendation for stability or equilibrium except bad. if the newcomer is not just another “I hate Paul” drone, she will have to prove it unequivocably to even be considered a serious candidate.
Bryson I don’t know much about, but her campaign announcement and statement of her positions has been as clear as mud.
Hagen on the other hand carries none of the baggage of the other two. He is articulate, has an excellent record, and has clearly stated, well reasoned positions on the issues so far as I have heard. (It is a little early fto be spending much time on research so I cannot speak to every aspect of the race.
I’m just saying that maybe it’s time for some cool & calm instead of all this emotional heat nad maybe mr. hagen could deliver that peace.
No more hysteria– PLEASE!!
Hagen is in the hip pocket of the Arcata Mafia and the Loco Solutions PAC controlled by Democracy Unlimited. I’d take any of the other three over that nightmare.
Dubious anon., dubious. Especially considering that THPs don’t have EIRs…
Highboldtage@8:00pm Funny!
Most of the rabid anti-Gallegos crowd have no idea how Jackson running was the best thing that could have happened to the Gallegos campaign.
Not implausible. But I have no idea how this race will shape out. Too many unpredictable factors.
“As has been asked before – What is her official position on pot?”
In her own words, she will “prosecute criminals to the full extent of the law”
Yeah, that’s not going to cut it. It’s evasive – precisely that type of evasiveness that cost Dikeman last time.
Heraldo,
I know a person who was represented by Ed Denson some years ago for having a large quatity fo processed weed (over 40lbs.) He lives in Shelter Cove, is a diesel generator machanic, and a pilot. He commented about where else but Humboldt County can you get caught with that much dope and only spend 4 hours in jail. He knows who he is. He was going back to court after his conviction to try and get back some of his “bud” under 215, but admitted to me outside court that wasn’t the reason. Ed was adviseing him on this. I told him quite frankly not to “lie”. He chose not to lie.
Yeah, and I know this guy who…. Oh wait a minute. I’m putting my name to this post. I might actually be held accountable for what I say.
Paul’s got my vote.
Which one?
As a juror, I have seen him up close prosecuting a criminal trial. He is incompetant. All the jurors later were commenting on how badly he ran the trial.
Did he lose the case?
Jackson is a solid democrat,community member and attorney. She tells the truth and works hard. Gags is none of these things.
“solid”?
Highboldtage @ 8pm, are you implying that everyone -w- a marijuana prescription has a legitimate medical need?
It is not just Allison Jackson’s views on marijuana that we need to know. All of the candidates need to tell us their views on marijuana.
Prohibition is last century. This century is about liberty and freedom.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
8:41, do you think that everyone with a prescription for anything has a legitimate medical need?
PJ, there are lots of reasons to use cannabis, use as medicine is only one of them. There is also spiritual use and recreational use.
Prohibition is prohibition, and freedom is freedom.
have a peaceful day,
Bill
anon@8:55pm,
I thought DA Gallegos was in the hip pocket of your imaginary conspirators?
Do you have proof of your charge? What is your definition of “in the pocket”?
I suppose this form of talking smack can be an effective political smear job technique for an audience lacking critical thinking skills, but the statement is microns thin and only serves to make the commenter seem either disingenuous (as if they have an agenda), or that there is very little intellect behind the obviously simple-minded statement.
I would have to guess that the poster is from the “I hate Paul” cult.
My post wasn’t directed at you, Highboldtage. I was merely turning the tables on Anonymous at 8:48 who seems to be implying if that if some people are abusing the prescription for MJ that it is invalid for everyone. I personally don’t care why or if people use it, just support their right to use a mild intoxicant with fewer negatives than even unregulated substances like corn syrup or slightly regulated ones like tobacco and alcohol.
Are you not concerned, Extremis, about Hagen missing the deadline for filing on the Crescent City Walmart expansion? That seems like serious incompetence to me, to say the least.
@extremis objectus
Hagen serves on the Arcata Planning Commission, has an Arcata City Councilman running his campaign, is representing Kevin Hoover for free so he can continue to conduct illegal investigations and snooping missions for the Arcata Police, and will inevitably be the recipient of favorable coverage in the Arcata Eye.
Does that spell it out?
Gallegos has a kickoff rally where dozens show up.
Jackson has a kcikoff rally where maybe 100 show up.
Hagen and Bryson send out press releases.
Who should we take seriously as camdidates?
Spell what? Just say it, whatever it is.
I am sure that Jackson would have been very compassionate to my grandchildren having to see their mother with her hair pulled out and teeth marks on her fingers . She would also have done something about the so called female victim who harrased their mother so often prior to the Pre Trial hearing that it became necessary to have private citizens keep an eye on their mthter as she left her aprtment to get into her car and as she exited the car to enter her apartment . The so called victim lived in the apartment next door and I find it very interesting that she never harrassed when she saw someone looking . In one incident where my wife was at the apartment she just missed seeing my daughter-in-law being spat upon. How insulting in court to have to hear at the end of each day of the Pre Trial for her to stay away from the victims. I also had to listen to that from a Deputy DA on the day that a plea bargain was entered . If the truth would have been conveyed regarding the harassment , no such statement would have been made . So much for justice . I am not saying that Jackson does not have some faults to consider . Perhaps , I will be able to meet her and discuss this with her in greater detail . This in not mudslinging . I personally think that Gallegos is a vey fine and well mannered person but I feel that I need to take a stand . If he wins the election , I will accept the reality that the voters made their decision they believed was best . I do not claim to understand everything about prosecuting cases and the perplexity associated with some of them . Perhaps Gallegos might consider doing a review of my daughter-in-laws case and see the errors associated with it . I am not anyone prominent in the community but there are many voters who are apalled with the way the case was handled . It seems to me that someone wanting to win a race wold make sure that they are doing their best while in office .
Hagen like Cleary should go carpetbag somewhere else (maybe Utah since getting direct flights to SLC seems to be such a priority for their misuse of the Headwaters Fund). Utah would also suit their intolerance of medical marijuana, which that lame brain Arcata ordinance attempts to misuse the land use code and the city hall bureaucracy to do an end run around our California Supreme Court throwing out virtually all the other attempts to impose draconian laws against people being free to live unmolested in their own homes.
Would that they actually lived in their homes instead of leaving fire traps unattended to endanger the neighborhoods.
Get off your ‘high’ horse. Both Cleary and Hagen favor legalization of marijuana. But this post is about Jackson, who has not publicly stated her position on the matter.
@737 is there anything on Cleary’s and Hagen’s websites that confirm your claim that they favor legalization?
Someone once said “trust but verify.”
have a peaceful day,
Bill
Let’s be clear that Paul Hagen’s support in Arcata is primarily based on his quite promise that “he can shut down the grow houses”. Alex Stillman and the rest of the Arcata Council-member who do support Hagen, are obsessed about the grow house problem, and it is a problem.
The irony is that Gallegos is prosecuting anyone who is outside of the guidelines, if the cops bring him evidence and it’s the Arcata Police Dept. that’s dropping the ball, not Gallegos.
But no secret how Kevin Hoover feels about the issue, or of his support for Hagen.
Hagen was a big supporter of Dikeman, he even lied to Central Committee (or just didn’t know better, I”m not sure which would be worse) to try and get them to NOT endorse Gallegos in ’06. He seemed to think that Dikeman’s position on MJ was OK with him so we should expect the same.
Why do we need Jackson? All of the Anyone but Gallegos voters should just vote for Hagen. It’s simple. Why can’t Hagen do for us whatever it is that Jackson offers? Jackson should have just stayed out of the race.
Jackson is a functioning alcoholic with a definite problem. She has a nasty side which apparently only a few people have seen and its covered up very well unless you’ve had to deal with her after cocktail time. It would be a shame to see her disgrace herself or the office by running unless she can get a handle on her drinking. This is why she was unemployable in the Bay Area and went to Humboldt in the first place! Out of law school and no job for 4 years (please)? She may be a great attorney but do you really want the face of someone with some obvious problems to be in this position of power? I think not. There are better choices and believe me, this issue WILL come up. Anyone of the opponents could do a little background check and come up with some very interesting affiliations prior to Humboldt.Try the local bar in Pescadero, CA and then one near the courthouse in Eureka. And someone should…Why did Gallegos FIRE Jackson? Credibility issues. Needs to be brought up.
Highboltage- listen to the kmud interviews for their positions on pot.
Wow, 315, you are sinking to levels I’m not sure even Rose would stoop to (ok, yes she would).
Unless you have a bit of proof, I would love to see Heraldo delete the post at 315.
Paul Gallegos is going to defeat Jackson based on his merits (much to the chagrin of my employers).
Go back and read the paper when Jackson “got the ax” and it will make you wonder what really happened. And yes, it did mention “credibility”. Regarding my previous comments, I can back each one and will do at some point in the future, if necessary. I don’t know if Heraldo would print my sources but I can assure you that there is a problem and it would be awful to see her career ruined because of it. If 9:06 believes that exposing the truth is “sinking to levels”, then they are quite naive to think that alcohol abuse would not be a serious enough issue to discuss prior to electing an official in a power position like DA.I am not the only one to bring this issue up. If you look at the posts on Topix, you will see that others are aware of this issue as well. Public needs to be aware.
The differences between someone like you and Rose 10:01 are twofold. First, however wrong she is, at least she has put her name to her accusations (and yes, I understand that I myself am posting anon, but I am not attacking someone with unsubstantated rumours).
Secondly, Rose does source her accusations. I find her sourcing to be curious at best in most cases, making tenuous leaps of logic, but at least she isn’t just making accusations of alcoholism.
Again, I am a supporter of Paul. I know him personally and like him very much. I just think he will win on his own merits and does’nt like sleazy inneundo like yours to win.
BTW, 10:01,
I just went and visited the TS Topix forums as you just suggested, and the thread pertaining to Allison Jackson has been removed, quite possibly because someone was making the same unsourced, unsubstantiated personal attacks that you are making.
First off, the Topix page has not been removed as you suggest above and I highly recommend that readers go to it to see that it is not just me making what you call unsubstantiated accusations. The threads are STILL there. Further, I do have info. You can source some of it. Jackson was involved in a drunk driving incident in 1980 in San Mateo Co. Matter of record. There are two attorneys in San Mateo County that may or may not verify her problem with alcohol. I believe their names are Brancart & Brancart. This is not sleaze. These are FACTS!
Yes it has. Please link it.
I come up with a few substantiated comments, source them, disclose that your previous claim was incorrect and now, you want me to link to another fact. Well, just to show that I am sincere and hope that you don’t remove it…here you go: http://www.topix.com/county/humboldt-ca/2010/03/former-prosecutor-allison-jackson-throws-hat-into-humboldt-county
Hmmm. Could this be AJ?
Thanks for the link. It’s been removed from the TS though.
Allison is a alky, Paul G. is a pot head, Paul H. is incompetant, and Kathleen defends drug dealers.
Anyone who thinks the Supervisor races are going to be dirty…look out. And we got three months to go!
OK, I went through the topix forum that you linked (which, again have been removed from the TS website), and there is nothing there other than the same type of slimey accusations you make here.
Linking to a de-listed topix forum is not sourcing. Neither are accusations that something happened in 1980; source it.
I am far from a supporter of hers. Again, I support Paul Gallegos, who I know socially, though not professionally. I find him to be a good man who would be horrified at the slime you are hurling.
If you only knew how very wrong you are…When someone is almost killed in a drunk driving incident, it doesn’t matter what year it happens. What do you want from me affadavits? What sources do you want regarding the details…County, Hospital, Family, Friends, Former friends???? I gave you the name of the two attorneys. Facts are facts. ITs a matter of record. As I said before, running for public office means that these types of comments and issues can be addressed…
Once again. Went to this link and I was able to copy it. Here it is.http://www.topix.com/county/humboldt-ca/2010/03/former-prosecutor-allison-jackson-throws-hat-into-humboldt-county#comments
Copied directly from Topix. Sorry about the formatting but at least 3 other people comment on this subject
Jackson 4 DA
Arcata, CA
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|Report Abuse |Judge it! |#2 Sunday Mar 7
There were more than “dozens” at the campaign kickoff. There were easily 100 people or more who packed into the Aquatic Center for the event.
Long Time Res
Eureka, CA
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|Report Abuse |Judge it! |#3 Sunday Mar 7
I tend to agree, about that with most elected officals, but sometimes the DA gets called at night to go out to a crime scene and it she’s drunk every night it could be a problem.
Also, I would want to hear from more folks who worked at or around the courthouse on just how early in the day she typically starts drinking.
Had Enough
Eureka, CA
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|Report Abuse |Judge it! |#4 Sunday Mar 7
“sometimes the DA gets called at night to go out to a crime scene”
You’re joking right? How would Gallegos make himself useful at a crime scene, day or night?
Stubbs
Cornelius, OR
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|Report Abuse |Judge it! |#5 Sunday
Had Enough wrote:
“sometimes the DA gets called at night to go out to a crime scene”
You’re joking right? How would Gallegos make himself useful at a crime scene, day or night?
He’d bring some weed to plant at the crime scene and some rolling papers to twist a doobie.
notice how her
Eureka, CA
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|Report Abuse |Judge it! |#6 Sunday
eyes were bloodshot and her speech was slurred? She was already three sheets to the wind!
Kickback G
San Francisco, CA
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|Report Abuse |Judge it! |#7 Sunday
What? I thought by this time we’d have someone from the Yurok tribe meth’d out trying to run also.
Red
Oakland, CA
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|Report Abuse |Judge it! |#8 Monday
Really? That’s the trope? Alison Jackson is a drunk? That’s the best you can do? Alison Jackson dead drunk (assuming she ever achieves that state) is still a better attorney and better prosecutor then Paul Gallegos stone cold sober (assuming that he ever achieves that state).
Long Time Res
Eureka, CA
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|Report Abuse |Judge it! |#9 Monday
There are a lot of folks who are functioning alcoholics. This does NOT disqualify from the job, but it is a concern. Make light if it if you wish, but this not exactly a secret around the courthouse.
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Oakland, CA
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|Report Abuse |Judge it! |#10 Monday
It’s a god-damn lie is what it is, pal. I notice that you are too gutless to give a real name.
It Is What I Do
Seattle, WA
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|Report Abuse |Judge it! |#11 Monday
As a college educated avid follower of Humboldt County politics (still registered in HC) I plan on voting for Allison Jackson.
I actually graduated last May with a major in U.S. Gov and Politics with an emphasis on Judicial Politics and Public Communication.
Currently, I have a job serving inner-city homeless and at risk populations.
I say all of this about myself, not to toot my own horn because I realize that I still have a long way to go in life, but as an attempt to show others that a well informed citizen is throwing his support behind Allison Jackson.
Get help. You need it.
So will Humboldt County if Jackson is elected…if that is the only pitiful comment you can make in response to my post when I have rebutted each thing you have said, politely and factually. I guess we’re at an impasse. Freedom of speech, gotta love it!
Welcome to the post-real world.
I’ve been reading this thread with interest, and you have not rebutted a single thing. Posting a thread from another forum is not rebutting anything.
You also have been less than polite in attacking a woman with scurrilous rumor and innuendo.
Child predators are the ones who will need help if and when Jackson is elected.
Posting a thread from another forum that may contain postings you yourself put there is not proof of anything.
You can source some of it. Jackson was involved in a drunk driving incident in 1980 in San Mateo Co. Matter of record. There are two attorneys in San Mateo County that may or may not verify her problem with alcohol. I believe their names are Brancart & Brancart. This is not sleaze. These are FACTS!
Even if this is true, which I doubt, it happened 30 years ago when she was about 20 years old. I’m not going to tell you all the things I did at 20.
I will confess that at 11 or 12 years old I shoplifted a package of Pop Rocks from the Short Stop convenience store in Montara. In mitigation, it was on a double dare!
You may doubt it..but it is true and it certainly does matter…I know because I was there. To equate drunk driving with shoplifting is a little far fetched. And there are other individuals who are willing to comment regarding drunk driving and other incidents prior to her move to Humboldt that aren’t 29 years ago.
Further, the posts on topix weren’t mine. You can post to that board and I’m sure you will get replies and verifications. If any of you want to take this off the board, I will give you dates, names and facts. Bring it on.
You keep telling us you will give us names dates and facts. Well, we are waiting. Bring it on. Why are you so hesitent to post the “dates, names and facts” here?
If they are true, as you keep insisting, then you have nothing to fear by posting. Perhaps you fear a lawsuit for slander or libel, or whatever it is when untrue stuff is in writing?
Bring it on.
A car with an Allison Jackson for DA sticker was parked right in front of Security National’s front doors on Fifth & E streets just a few moments ago. It was a light green Dodge Charger. The sticker was in the back window.
For the record, I have not posted any comments here, but I see someone pretending to be me must have (apparetnly at 10:01). And once again, heraldo, I thank you for taking it down.
I think we all know who is posting this crap. He has already gotten two comments threads at the Times Standard shut down, and now is replicating his efforts here. You notice he does not do it on the Journal threads where he will get called on it.
Gallegos needs to stand up on his own two feet and run on his own record.
Eric Kirk,
Just checked with a DDA who was in Mendo at the time Hagen worked there and you are right, Norm Vroman did not “fire” Hagen, he simply asked that he be “reassigned” to a different county and once he was, he asked that he never come back and work in Mendo. After Hagen was assigned to work out of Humboldt, still employed by the CDAA, his services were made available to five counties, two of which declined (thanks, but no thanks), one of those was Mendo the other was Shasta.
The DA from the other 3 counties have all since endorsed Gallegos for re-election.
My last post…I don’t fear slander or libel. And as I mentioned earlier, any of you who want to take this off the board, please do. IN fact, I may send all this to heraldo anyway. What do you think Heraldo? You or the Times Standard?
Just checked the records no match for
drunk driving incident in 1980 in San Mateo Co.
there is this one:
Case CIV350323 – GAIL NOLAND VS ALLISON JACKSON (defendant),
but have not yet found what the case was.
Yes Rose, we all agree, Gallegos should stand on his own two feet.
Being ABLE to stand up is of course the question some of us have about Jackson, will she be sober enough to stand up after 5:pm …6:pm …7:pm?
What exactly is her cut off time, after which one would not want her out in public?
What the big deal about having a DA who drives drunk? Maybe she’ll shut down those damn traps the cops are always setting up. Aren’t those a violation of our constitutional rights anyway?
You’ve been threatening to post specific facts but have only produced innuendo for two days now.
Your post at 3:45 proves what? Nothing.
To use your words once again, Bring it on.
I don’t care what anyone says. Spelling is important. How can you convince others that someone is incompetent if you spell the word “incompetant?”
Oh it has just began, anonymous attacks….oh how believable.
What the hell does any of this have to do with issues?
What do you think Heraldo? You or the Times Standard?
Send it to all of us. Eric. Me. Greg and Carol. Hank. The Times Standard. The Arcata Eye. The Beacon. The Ferndale Enterprise. The McKinleyville Press.
Better yet, come out in person and do it. Come out of the shadows.
And any of you who want to take this off the board, please do.
No comments impersonating you have been left in this thread, nor have I deleted any.
Eats shoots and leaves, maybe -
The differences between someone like you and Rose 10:01 are twofold
Thought it meant that was Rose at 10:01. Not Rose, 10:01. (comma)
Yeah, Hagen’s proven subservience to the Arcata Mafia concerns me a lot more than questions over Jackson drinking too much booze or Gallegos smoking too much cannabis.
Well, here’s my two bits’ worth . . . I would be THRILLED if EITHER Allison or Paul Hagen wins the election for D.A. THRILLED. Humboldt County would be better off with EITHER ONE OF THEM. And–I will bet you $5K that the Times-Standard is not going to endorse Gallegos this time.
Alison Jackson is a dynamic attorney whose track record in court deserves kudos, to be sure. That which she chooses to champion also calls for a halo. That’s great. However,she treated her own family with such irrational Hitlerian cruelty that she lost their probate debacle to her non-lawyer, unpaid-caretaker sister after years of vicious legal torment. I have witnessed drunken Alison in action, and was so shocked at her non-sequitur sadism that I thought she was kidding. Further, you can depend on Jackson to be blacked-out blotto every day by Happy Hour. Maybe that shouldn’t besmirch Alison’s professional reputation, but what if we needed a D.A. to be rational, functional, and capable of remembering her words and deeds some evening? We could not count on Ms. Jackson to live up to that requirement.
Scratch the surface. No one expects lawyers to be Girl Scouts, and we’d all rather be defended by a pitbull than a cream puff, but abject sadism and dependable inebriation should play into your decision at the polls.
Is this the right place to keep up on what is going on in the DA race? As a new resident of Humboldt County I am intensly interested in keeping up an which way the wind is blowing in the medicinal cannibis arena.
The DA’s race will be a focus of this blog until it’s over, whether in the primary election in June or the general election in November.
YOUALLPLAY GAMES.INNUENDOS ARE SHOW STOPPERS BUT NOT NECCESSARILY WHAT WE VOTERS NEED–JUST THE FACTS, PLEASE
What was that, a telegram from Granny?
To Raging Granny–jean: The facts are that our citizens deserve a D.A. who can be counted on to stand up for us — without staggering. We can depend on Alison Jackson, all right. We can depend on her to be out-of-her-mind intoxicated all too regularly. That is a fact. Another fact: all other issues are eclipsed by that one truth.
We simply cannot be subjected to a D.A. whose daily behavior is a source of humiliation.
you have to be scared.
I AM scared…and you should be.
Hey, Whodat -
Try Googling “ad hominem”. It’s the type of argument you make when you don’t have a good argument … or if you’re a little kid.
Hi, ArcataMan,
Now,why should I look that up? I don’t suppose you have the latin term for “no argument at all”, do you? Because a sloppy drunken D.A just doesn’t fill the bill. What if we needed her after Happy Hour? If you’re not taking this seriously, you don’t know her. In fact, in this particular context, “ad hominem” is a bit non sequitur, don’t you think?
Yeah.. but who’s pro pot and who’s not.
Kathleen Bryson showed up at the Redway meeting the other night, it looks like she is at least willing to talk about marijuana. Can someone who was there give us some sense of Bryson’s stance on pot? Was she the only DA candidate that was there?
have a peaceful day,
Bill