The Lost Coast Outpost has the story and press release. By all accounts, the relationship remains amicable. They are sorry to see her go. She cites as her intention to explore new opportunities to serve her community.
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September 10, 2011 at 4:55 am
Anonymous
Estelle’s work with “SOHUM Awareness” alone makes me want to vote for her if she runs for supervisor. I went over to the Lost Coast Outpost and this is what was on there.
We have an email in, but in the meanwhile: Any guesses as to what her future plans might involve?
(UPDATE, 12:10 a.m.: Fennell sends us the following: “Still doing some fine tuning but you can expect more information in the near future.”)
Humboldt Coalition for Property Rights press release follows:
The Humboldt Coalition for Property Rights and Redway resident Estelle Fennell are announcing that she is leaving her post as Executive Director of the Humboldt Coalition for Property Rights (HumCPR).
Appointed Executive Director in January 2009, Estelle has led HumCPR through a significant expansion in membership and educated the public about the many issues affecting Humboldt County’s landowners and rural residents.
Under Estelle’s leadership, the Coalition has grown to well over 4,000 members from across the political spectrum, from our urban centers to our most remote rural communities. HumCPR has also increased its’ public profile substantially through widely circulated and informative newsletters, a dynamic website, informational radio and newspaper ads, written opinion pieces, radio talk shows and land use forums.
The coalition has also increased its’ role as a voice for the community in the increasingly complex world of land use policies and property rights and Estelle has given public testimony at numerous Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors’ hearings. Estelle also spearheaded an extremely successful campaign to notify tens of thousands of Humboldt County’s landowners about potential, sometimes negative, changes to their property rights under the proposed General Plan Update (GPU).
Estelle said she had really enjoyed working with such a diverse and dynamic group of community-minded people and representing such a broad based coalition. “I wish HumCPR further success in their mission to stand up for those who believe we are entitled to a broad range of choices in how and where we live. I thank them for the opportunity to serve Humboldt County’s landowners in such a meaningful way.” She said she is leaving this position to explore new opportunities to help her community.
HumCPR Board Chair, Lee Ulansey said that the Coalition would now begin the process of finding Fennell’s replacement. “It will obviously take some time to find the right person for the job. It will be very difficult to fill Estelle’s shoes”, he said.
HumCPR Board member Tina Christensen added, “Estelle’s knowledge of Humboldt County issues is well founded. Her experience and understanding of Humboldt County issues is broad based and I hope that she will continue to be engaged in some type of public service to the County residents”.
The Humboldt Coalition for Property Rights is dedicated to preserving the rural lifestyle that has been the historic tradition of Humboldt County.
September 10, 2011 at 8:17 am
humboldturtle
I wonder if her views on land use regulations have changed any since her last campaign (cough-cough)?
September 10, 2011 at 9:26 am
tra
In my opinion, during the last campaign Estelle played a very coy game on the issue of the General Plan Update and land use regulations in general.
As you may recall, Estelle was seen by a lot of people as the more left/progressive alternative to Clif, who was was positioned as the more moderate/mainstream candidate, and Johanna Rodoni, who was positioned as the more libertarian/conservative candidate.
At the time of the last election, a lot of rural SoHummers suspected that Estelle would align herself with the GPU “Option A” crowd — those who have supported the creation of a costly, time-consuming new “discretionary permit” requirement for TPZ owners (which is widely perceived as an attempt to establish a de-facto-moratorium-through-overregulation that would effectively allow only the wealthy to be able to build a house on a TPX parcel ).
Estelle repeatedly declined to say which of the General Plan Options was closest to her own preferences, and instead only spoke of land-use issues in vague generalities (even Clif’s statement that he was somewhere in the area of “B+/A-” was a more specific than Estelle was willing to be).
At the time, I heard a lot of speculation that her vagueness was probably intended to allow her to win some “homesteader” votes but that after the election she’d likely show her “true colors” by coming out for something like Option A. But it looks like these folks had it exactly backward.
When Estelle became Executive Director of Humboldt Coalition for Property Rights and advocating for the rights of rural residents and property owners, some of her Option-A-leaning supporters must have been shocked and diappointed. At the same time, some rural residents who had been suspicious of her vagueness on land-use issues during the last campaign (and ended up voting for Clendenen or Rodoni) were pleasantly surprised.
The point is, if she runs again it won’t be just a re-run of the race from last time around. Aside from the fact that it is exceedingly unlikely that there will be a high-profile write-in third candidate in the fall runoff election (assuming there is a runoff), the dynamics of the race and the perception of how the candidates are positioned and who is backing them will have shifted dramatically. Who that will benefit most is not yet clear. But a Fennel vs. Clendenen match-up would certainly make for a lively and interesting interesting campaign.
September 10, 2011 at 9:28 am
tra
And given that (in my opinion, at least) both Clif and Estelle care deeply about the well-being of Humboldt County, neither are corrupt, both are competent, and both have a reputation for being level-headed and able to work well with others, well it seems to me that an Estelle vs. Clif race would be a pretty good situation for 2nd District voters. The only question would be whether the winner is the good, competent, non-corrupt candidate, or the even better competent, non-corrupt candidate.
September 10, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Joe Blow
Eric, this quote is dedicated to you:
“There are certainly people with genuine power who understand exactly how this process works and are conscious of the propaganda it entails, and there are many ordinary citizens, paying only casual attention to political matters, who blindly ingest it. But it is the high-ranking Inner Party members — the D.C. cadre of think tank “scholars,” government and academic functionaries, and journalists and pundits who fancy themselves sophisticated political junkies and insiders — who are the True Believers. They cling to institutions of political power and officialdom, plant their careers, self-esteem, self-importance and social circles in its belly, and are thus the most incentivized to believe in its Rightness and Goodness and the least able to critically assess it. Intoxicated with supreme loyalty to the organs of political power and societal institutions which support it, they become its most ardent, faithful evangelizers. The more they gather together in their insular royal court realm, the more they reinforce each other’s trite convictions.”
“These pseudo-sophisticated, pseudo-intellectual nationalists may “know that this or that item of war news is untruthful” or may even know that the entire ”war is being waged for purposes quite other than the declared ones.” But no matter: they are Washington’s most loyal denizens and thus “never waver for an instant in their mystical belief that the war is real” or in the propaganda that sustains it. At the heart of this propaganda — and of their worldview — is the unquestioning conviction about the unmitigated evil of the State’s designated Enemies, and of their own Good. Observe how WikiLekas is now discussed, and especially observe the waves of self-praising moralizing over this next several days, to see this dynamic in all its glory.”
September 10, 2011 at 7:39 pm
Ben Schill
Holy cow…! For once, I agree with Joe Blow… or,at least, his quote.
September 10, 2011 at 8:53 pm
Eric Kirk
What, that Washington DC is insular and self-involved? Gee. Stop the presses.
September 11, 2011 at 10:45 am
Erasmus
The quote is so content-free that it’s vacuous, and whatever relevance it has to its dedicatee, Mr. Kirk, is not apparent.
September 11, 2011 at 11:23 am
Jane
Estelle always plays a coy game in my personal experience. Would never under any circumstance vote for this woman.