What’s the local parlance for "carpetbagger?"

Joel Mielke, “a close confidant of the mysterious blogger known as “The Carson Park Ranger,” is sitting in on the Town Dandy column while Hank Simms is on paternity leave. This week he writes about carpetbagging and local pronunciations.

Who was the tongue-wagger who called Larry Glass a carpetbagger? Glass was moving all the way from the yonder end of Myrtle Avenue, to Old Town, where he’s run a small business since before anyone can recall, in order to qualify as a City Council candidate. His history disqualified him from carpetbaggerdom, since he was seeking office in a place where he obviously had a deep and abiding interest. He was viewed as a progressive firebrand by some of my Eureka Profunda conservative friends, but the quotidian exigencies of city business are doing more to bury prejudices than any number of meet-and-greet mixers could ever achieve.

Well, I was one of the tongue-waggers, and Hank was actually another. But I don’t object to political carpetbagging anyway, and Glass was only carpetbagging in the most hyper-technical sense given his history and “deep and abiding interest.” Hillary C. running in NY, and even Alan Keyes running in Illinois (but for his hypocrisy) were fine with me, as were Michaela Allioto and Carol Ruth Silver coming up here from SF to run against Riggs a decade ago (I voted for Silver in the primary and Allioto in the general, despite some dissatisfaction with her family’s political performances in the City).

Joel goes on to write about local pronunciations and briefly references the politics of the “Del Nort” pronunciation. Shortly after I first moved here I used the Spanish (Del Nortay) pronunciation in front of one of the practice’s secretaries who was raised in Crescent City, and she was offended, telling me in no uncertain terms that “people who are from there say ‘del nort!'”

I was raised in and around San Francisco. We didn’t have a vernacular. We talked normal, just like they do on TV.

Carpetbagger graphic source.

Gallegos "use of force" policy

There are some updates. I don’t have time to comment right now.

The County Administrator had put the assault weapons order on hold pending clarification of safety policies. Apparently the D.A. has released a document they previously regarded as confidential, but I don’t know anything about it other than this Times Standard editorial.

The man who shot at Judge Neville is convicted of attempted murder

The Times Standard has the story.

Apparently there is a special law against shooting at a judge, but in order for that law to kick in there has to be evidence of an intent based on retaliation for something done while the judge was acting in that capacity.