Game on!
Addendum: Just checked my email and found the press release.
For Immediate Release
Contact Info: Campaign – (707) 923-1013 – contact@estellefennell.org
Campaign Manager Jim Ferguson – jferguson@estellefennell.org
Estelle Fennell, Redway resident and former HumCPR Executive Director, will formally announce her campaign for Second District Supervisor on Thursday September 22nd.
Estelle, who has received numerous awards in recognition of her decades-long service to her community, has a proven track record of doing the hard work and making the tough choices required of a good leader. Her strong desire to help has benefited residents throughout the district and beyond during times of emergency and natural disaster and has helped it through the numerous challenges that can face a rural county like Humboldt. She has been a tireless, strong leader fighting for our rights at the county level.
Estelle decided to run because she cares deeply about the 2nd District and is concerned that our current Supervisor has not effectively addressed the many larger issues facing the 2nd District much less the day-to-day issues/concerns brought forward by his constituents.
“Again and again, from Fortuna to Garberville and everywhere in between, countless Second District residents have told me that they do not feel well served at the County level. They are genuinely concerned that the current Supervisor is not a strong enough representative for these challenging times,” she said. “The Second District deserves better, Humboldt County deserves better.”
Longtime local rancher Joe Russ also thinks it?s time for a change; “We need a Supervisor who is willing to take a stand for our community. I am very confident that Estelle is up to the task.”
Karyn Lee-Thomas, owner of Redway based Signature Coffee Company who has known Estelle for years, remarked, “I can not think of anyone that would be more fair, open-minded and dedicated. I can only envision a positive change for the entire county with Estelle as our Supervisor.”
During her announcement Estelle will lay out her priorities as Supervisor and how important it is to have a strong and effective leader given the critical issues facing the 2nd District and Humboldt County as a whole.
Estelle will kick off her campaign at 11:45 AM this Thursday, September 22nd at the Veterans Memorial Hall in Fortuna. Later on Thursday residents of the Garberville Redway area will have a chance to meet the candidate at her Southern Kick-off event in the Garberville Town Square beginning at 5:00 p.m.
[Estelle currently serves on several Board of Directors including: the Briceland Volunteer Fire Department, the Healy Senior Center, the Cape Mendocino Lighthouse Preservation Society and the Mainstream Media Project. She is also a Southern Humboldt representative on the KEET Community Advisory Board and is a founding member and Co-Administrator of SoHum Awareness (a web-based community safety service) as well as former News Director of KMUD (1990 - 2007)]
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September 20, 2011 at 8:50 pm
Skunk
Can somebody please tell us what Clendenon has done for us? Honest question and I want to read the answers.
September 20, 2011 at 10:16 pm
ED Denson
Is he running again?
And, Skunk, what could Clendenon have done that he did not do?
September 20, 2011 at 10:19 pm
tra
I wonder if Estelle’s entry into the race will prompt Clif to finally reveal his secret plan on rural land use policy — the one that Eric has hinted at, saying that rural residents may be “pleasantly surprised” by it.
If he really does decide to come out in favor of a sensible approach to rural land use policy — and particularly if he comes out in favor of maintaining the current “ministerial” permit process for TPZ owner-occupancy — perhaps that may help to shore up his support among some of the rural residents who voted for him last time but have been unimpressed with his non-leadership on this issue ever since (on the other hand, it may be that by delaying so long, he has already squandered the opportunity…I guess time will tell).
Of course if Clif does announce support for maintaining the ministerial permit process for homes on TPZ parcels — rejecting the idea of instituting an expensive time-consuming and unreliable “discretionary” permit process — then he may lose some of the support he has among the Healthy Humboldt / GPU Option A True Believers.
In any event, it will be interesting to see how all this plays out. One thing is for sure — with Estelle in the race it’s going to be tough for Clif to continue to duck the issue much longer.
September 20, 2011 at 10:32 pm
Anonymous
Skunk,
That is a loaded question, there is no answer.
He calls in and is a regular on KMUD’s Monday Morning Magazine.
He is very active in the Community Park.
I am sure CC would like to have us know, he has saved all rivers and streams in Humboldt County, along with all the Coho, Chinook and Steelhead.
And his pleage to be in his Garberville office every Thursday or was that every other Thursday or once a month for 2 hours on any given Thursday?
He does attend Board of Supervisor meetings. And we have never caught
Him going asleep.
He grows and makes the best apple cider this side of the Eel River.
Maybe someone could come up with a top ten list?
September 20, 2011 at 11:43 pm
Jane
Obviously Cliff is a bit too honest for Southern Humboldt folks. He can’t be bought or swayed by special interests.
So someone else is needed.
September 21, 2011 at 12:23 am
Skunk
A supervisor makes motions, votes on motions and attempts to act based on the needs of the District he represents, with the whole county’s interest at heart, in theory. Of course s/he attends events and speaks to people as part of that mission. So, again: what motions has Cliff made or voted on that have made a difference for us.
Jane, this is not about honesty. Did anyone here bring up Cliff’s honesty? No. This is about action. I haven’t followed the supes in the last 3 years. I also haven’t heard of Cliff doing much, so I’m asking the question. Have there been road improvements? Any new services provided or old services taken away based on his motions or votes?
Ed–there is plenty a supervisor can do, unless you think that just sitting at the dais is the entire job. Cliff could take a pro-active position on code enforcement, making a motion to grandfather in old structures. Cliff could make a motion to decriminalize pot in this county. Cliff could make a motion to ban indoor growing which ruins houses and pollutes the air. Cliff could get rid of those stupid 2 hour parking signs in downtown Garberville. Cliff could take opposite positions on those things I’ve mentioned, but I don’t know what his positions are. It doesn’t always matter if you win a vote. But it matters if you try to do something based on your convictions. The question is: is he doing anything for the money we pay him?
Ed and Jane: what do you think Cliff has done? It is a legitimate question. Just provide a single motion he has made and carried that has made a difference for us. Or provide a single deciding vote he’s made that made a difference.
I was very back and forth in the last election. I liked and even supported all three candidates really, including Joanna Rodoni. But now that some time has passed the question is: what has Cliff done since he took office?
Is this really something to be defensive about? Does it sound like a “loaded” question–to ask for an accounting of accomplishments from our elected representatives? I hope not.
September 21, 2011 at 3:33 am
Anonymous
what is Estelle’s claim to fame? working at KMUD? or is there more?
September 21, 2011 at 5:53 am
Eric Kirk
Cliff could get rid of those stupid 2 hour parking signs in downtown Garberville.
I would vehemently oppose that.
September 21, 2011 at 6:03 am
Anonymous
That’s because you live in Redway Eric. Skunk has every right to ask his or her question, maybe just not on YOUR pro Clendenen Blog.
September 21, 2011 at 6:28 am
Eric Kirk
No, actually it’s because I work in Garberville. I’m all for residential passes.
Has anybody actually been ticketed?
As for the right to ask “the question,” whatever it is, did I say otherwise?
September 21, 2011 at 7:53 am
gpf
“He (Clif) grows and makes the best apple cider this side of the Eel River.”
Not quite true…Clif imports most of his apples for cider from Russian River wine country through the connections of his vineyard management brother.
September 21, 2011 at 7:59 am
dawn i
I don’t have anything against Clif and his actions or inactions for So Humb residents. I don’t feel he has done as great a job @ maintaining the Thursday Garberville office as Rodoni did and he seems a bit of a wet rag – a little limp on initiation. I was on the fence last election but I am a definite Estelle vote now as it can’t hurt and I want to see what she can accomplish. Even if all she does is shake up the status quo on the BOS and at the meetings, GO Estelle.
Humboldt County politics is starting to look mired in its inability to take a solid stand on anything! I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised at that given the many factions and different points of view we are comprised of neighborhood by neighborhood.
September 21, 2011 at 8:02 am
Eric Kirk
Not quite true…Clif imports most of his apples for cider from Russian River wine country through the connections of his vineyard management brother.
Where do people get this crap? Is this part of the Clendenen family conspiracy to divert all the Eel River water to Sonoma as was implied in the last campaign? Good to see we’re off to such a great start this time around.
September 21, 2011 at 8:15 am
Jane
Claim to Fame for Estelle. She was also the Head of Parking or crew leader or whatever you called it at the old Reggae on the River for years.
September 21, 2011 at 8:24 am
Jane
Skunk since you asked. I think Cliff does not collect his friends and backers and deploy them on blogs to sit and trash his opponents or spin public opinion in a community which thrives on getting its information person to person tabloid style. For one, I like that. For two I don’t think Cliff has used his public position or job to manipulate public opinion to his personal tastes I like that too. Neither do I think I can go to Cliff with a bag of cash in a paper bag and get him to make policy in my special interest.
Sometimes it isn’t just about what people do it is about what they don’t do.
But if you want to go back to the rather pedantic judgment of policy making, etc., I called Cliff’s office several times and received timely helpful advice and honest and open exchange with him, personally. I saw him interact with people and listen and put forth his opinion and points when and where they were needed. He tried to keep all needs in mind in a district with some wide cultural nuances. Influencing policy, building a consensus, and understanding that grandstanding and making a “name” for yourself on the public’s dime are all worthy measures of performance.
Just my thoughts of course.
September 21, 2011 at 8:26 am
Jane
And by the way, I didn’t come here because it is Eric’s blog to express my opinion. I came here because when I read the announcement in the TS I knew Eric would post it. I will actively be out there campaigning against Estelle’s election whether I back Cliff or not.
September 21, 2011 at 8:56 am
Anonymous
“THE BATTLE OF THE HEADLINERS”
September 21, 2011 at 9:09 am
ED Denson
Skunk put together a good starter list. I have only casually followed the BOS in the last few years, and have to agree that I can think of no action associated with Clif, and I do not know his positions on anything. I was a Roger Rodoni fan, and his posistions on many issues were clearly and often stated. But we can’t ask every candidate to be a Roger Rodoni. We can ask them to honestly articulate their positions on the issues Skunk has set out, and others. Pot and land use are always major issues in this district and now intertwined in the proposed ordinances. Lets hope we demand and receive the information we need to vote with some reasonable hope of getting what we vote for.
September 21, 2011 at 9:11 am
Eric Kirk
Claim to Fame for Estelle. She was also the Head of Parking or crew leader or whatever you called it at the old Reggae on the River for years.
Estelle is also active on numerous nonprofit boards, and I’m certain more of then would love to have her. She is very much involved in a number of community issues which have not necessarily been on the HumCPR agenda, so it simply added to the burden of her workload. She is an exceptional woman who is tirelessly committed to the community. Although I am in disagreement with about 70 to 80 percent of what HumCPR stands for, I believe that Estelle has the depth to understand the differences between her prior role as advocate and her intended role as consensus builder.
My differences with her are strictly policy based, and I simply believe that Clif is better for the Second District as a whole. But we could do much worse than Estelle.
Outside of the blogs and the papers’ letters pages (and some unfortunate verbal confrontations between various supporters in person) the last campaign was very positive. None of the candidates attacked each other, at least not publicly, and I have every reason to believe this campaign will be conducted accordingly. Granted, we don’t yet know if anyone else intends to run who could change the dynamic. I’m certain Johanna would take the high road, but I believe she will have to move if she wants to run in the Second District.
September 21, 2011 at 9:36 am
Eric Kirk
Okay, I’ve just blocked a post with personal attacks involving not only candidates, but private individuals (in fact, it pretty much slammed everybody, and then accused certain people of being “divisive”). Anyway, not acceptable on this blog, especially not from anonymous bloggers.
September 21, 2011 at 10:50 am
gpf
Exasperated Eric says “Where do people get this crap? Is this part of the Clendenen family conspiracy to divert all the Eel River water to Sonoma as was implied in the last campaign? Good to see we’re off to such a great start this time around.”
Eric, I am a person. I am not people. I google for information.
I google “clendenen vineyard cider” and it gives me http://www.hawleywine.com/HawleyWineryGrowers.htm
From this website:
___________________________________________
Karl Oehlman, Oehlman Vineyard
Karl farms Pinot Noir on his Ranch overlooking the Russian River Valley. Our Pinot comes from the steepest part of his hillside block where the crop yields are the lowest. Karl also farms apples which go up to Fortuna California to Clendenen Cider Works (coincidentally John Clendenen’s family’s cider operation).
Our Growers
John Clendenen, Clendenen Vineyard Management
Our vineyard manager and his crew handle the picking, pruning and other support for Hawley Vineyards. John Clendenen is a long time friend of the Hawley’s and when he started Clendenen Vineyard Management, we were his first client. Today, Hawley is by far the smallest vineyard he farms, but it does not stop him from walking the vineyard with the us and discussing things like pruning schedules, composting or the new Zinfandel block.
Karl Oehlman, Oehlman Vineyard
Karl farms Pinot Noir on his Ranch overlooking the Russian River Valley. Our Pinot comes from the steepest part of his hillside block where the crop yields are the lowest. Karl also farms apples which go up to Fortuna California to Clendenen Cider Works (coincidentally John Clendenen’s family’s cider operation).
__________________________________________
Eric, why is truth so frightening to you that you fabricate conspiracy theories? In what way are we off to a “bad start” because I provided this information?
September 21, 2011 at 11:11 am
Eric Kirk
gpf, this was your post. You responded to “He (Clif) grows and makes the best apple cider this side of the Eel River.”
with
Not quite true…Clif imports most of his apples for cider from Russian River wine country through the connections of his vineyard management brother.
I guess I just don’t know where you get “most,” nor do I understand what the “not quite true” responds to.
September 21, 2011 at 11:14 am
Dave Kirby
One area that I think will be moot in this race is the land use issue. CPR’s position on land use is a bit of fantasy. With the collapse of the outdoor Marijuana industry the demand for pot growing parcels will decline. I think it likely that there will be outflow of the current rural population. Diesel dope never made much sense and as the quasi legalization of the product goes forward it will make even less. I don’t see a lot of folks struggling to build anything in some of the watersheds so whether the requirements change re; building on TPZ the new regs will have little effect on the ground.
Likewise the future of large scale development in the urban and suburban areas is currently dead in the water and will likely remain so as any real economic recovery will be long and slow. With the inventory of existing homes for sale high and the lending institutions setting tougher benchmarks for qualification residential development is not an issue. The one exception may be multifamily units. As fewer people are able to qualify for home loans they stimulate the need for options other than the single family residence.
September 21, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Jane
Eric, we will agree to disagree on Estelle. I am coming from my personal experiences working with her. While she may serve the private sector well I am very concerned, as a private citizen, at Estelle holding public office and the potential for abuse of that public power. Enough that I will watch the race closely and comment as appropriate.
Equally, that is why I post here, because you try to keep the topic sane and understand the distinction between public and private figures. I don’t feel any pressure to carry the same viewpoint and welcome the debate. Thank you for that service and extending it even though this is your personal forum.
September 21, 2011 at 4:49 pm
ED Denson
Interesting analysis Kirby. Are you sure outdoor marijuana has collapsed? If so, then that would solve some of the land use problems. But in the meanwhile the current attempts to strangle medical marijuana by land use regulation suddenly make me consider reevaluating Republican claims that small business is being hampered by regulation – that’s got to be true of medical marijuana growing and dispensing. There is also considerable uncertainty as to what the regulations will finally be – is that holding back investment in medical marijuana? Probably is. If this is true for medical marijuana, is it true for other businesses? If so, where are the republicans opposing regulation of medical marijuana? If not, why not?
September 21, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Dave Kirby
Ed…..It took longer than I imagined. But we finally grew more pot than anyone could smoke.
September 21, 2011 at 6:11 pm
anon says
I am sooo happy that Estelle Fennell is running for our Supervisor. She sounded great on the news the other night. I really respect her for jumping in because it’s really tough running for office.
Estelle has a lot more support in Fortuna this time around as the people there are not enamered by Cliff at all, he’s seen as weak.
September 21, 2011 at 10:16 pm
ED Denson
Kirby, we could have done it years ago were it not for CAMP. Indeed if they would back off now we could probably get the price down to $100 a pound. Well, this is getting off-topic. I’m looking forward to hearing Estelle tomorrow to see what she’s got to say about zoning and land use policy.
September 22, 2011 at 8:57 am
Anonymous
Estelle does not have even come close to Clif when it comes to character and morals. He is so far above her.
Estelle joined all the non profit boards she is on in the last few years, only to fill her resume.
Don’t be fooled.
Estelle is not a consensus builder.
It is only about Estelle.
(paragraph deleted as very inappropriate – EVK)
HumCPR looks like an off shoot of something Lyndon LaRouche would start.
September 22, 2011 at 12:34 pm
tra
(deleting the cited portion – EVK)
As far as I can tell, nothing about her personal life has been “hidden” at all, it’s just that she hasn’t chosen to make some kind of public issue of it, because it’s completely irrelevant to how she would perform her role as County Supervisor — irrelevant, except to bigots, of course.
Clif didn’t try to make an issue of it in the last campaign, and I’m 100% confident that he won’t try to make an issue of it in this campaign either, thanks to the very “character and morals” that you laud him for.
Unfortunately I suppose that it is almost inevitable that a few of his supporters, like you, will lack the decency and the “character and morals” to refrain from trying to play on people’s worst prejudices that way. And that’s too bad, because (unfair though this is) those kinds of mean-spritied, bigotry-based attacks against Estelle will tend to reflect poorly on the her opponents. So for both Estelle’s sake, and perhaps even more so for Clif’s, I hope these sorts of attacks will remain, at most, very rare.
You’re certainly not doing Clif any favors with that kind of crap. But you don’t have to take my word for it — call him up and ask him what he thinks about that line of attack — I’m 100% sure he will express strong disapproval of your comments.
September 22, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Eric Kirk
Damn it! I didn’t see that. Sorry. Skimmed over it too quickly.
TRA, I hope you don’t mind, but I’m just going to take out that portion of your post as well as the anonymous one. It has no place in the discussion.
September 22, 2011 at 1:10 pm
tra
That’s fine, Eric, feel free to edit my post as you see fit — now that the inappropriate portion of 12:34′s comment has been deleted, I don’t want to be inadvertently lending any credence to or giving any exposure to those attacks in my response to them. And of course I’m just glad (and not at all surprised) that you agree with how inappropriate that part of 12:34 comment was. I figured it had just slipped by, or that you hadn’t noticed it yet, but in the meantime I didn’t want it to go unanswered.
Hopefully that comment was not a sign of things to come. Sadly, there may be a few people who will think that this is a clever way to try to drive a wedge between Estelle and some of the more conservative voters in the district. As I recall there was a little bit of this kind of thing during the last campaign, though not AT ALL approved of by either Johanna or Clif.
But given that people may assume that Estelle’s tenure with HumCPR might lead to the potential for her to gain some additional support from among some of the more conservative voters in the district, there may be some temptation by a few of her opponents’ supporters (though again, NOT the opposing candidates themselves) to try to make some kind of issue of it, probably mostly in a “whispering campaign” kind of way. And unfortunately, anonymous comments on blogs are one of the ways that whispering campaigns are carried out these days.
At any rate, I appreciate your commitment to preventing the comments thread on your blog from being used for blatantly inappropriate personal attacks against ANY of the candidates.
September 22, 2011 at 1:57 pm
Bolithio
Regardless of the policy that our BOS agree on, to me, the biggest issue is transparency and consistency. I have a limited involvement with county and it it is all centered around timberland. Wither it be a claiming one of your existing patents, a lot split, conversion, sub division or re-zone – there is only one thing that is consistent under the current “management”: Inconsistency. The ship and crew at the planning department are, in my experience, notorious for keeping information from you during projects, dragging things out with limited or no explanation, changing their minds about stuff sometimes years into your project, and using their discretionary powers with great, if not extreme, prejudice.
Putting what ever policy choices I support or dont aside, until their is a clear, concise methodology over these projects the attitude of general distrust and resentment will continue and fester. I bet this is true over all the facets of county business
Look at our national political theater. We are doing the same thing here. Hopefully any shake up in the BOS will result in positive changes in planning (which is the biggest stumbling block currently for the GPU, imho)
September 22, 2011 at 4:01 pm
tra
there is only one thing that is consistent under the current “management”: Inconsistency. The ship and crew at the planning department are, in my experience, notorious for keeping information from you during projects, dragging things out with limited or no explanation, changing their minds about stuff sometimes years into your project, and using their discretionary powers with great, if not extreme, prejudice.
Which is exactly why there is so much resistance to the idea of instituting a “discretionary permit” process for TPZ homes. Given the widespread perception (and I don’t think it’s an inaccurate one) that Planning Department staff often don’t do a very good job of handling the powers they already have, people are very reluctant to grant them even more discretionary powers.
And given the recent history of the TPZ issue, with the leadership of the Planning Department trying to get the Board of Supervisors to extend the “emergency” TPZ moratorium into a permanent moratorium, then when that failed, trying to “creatively re-inerpret” the existing TPZ rules to accomplish more or less the real thing, I think there are ample grounds for skepticism of whether Plannind Department staff can be trusted to use their discretion fairly and wisely, as opposed to using it to try to accomplish, through over-regulation, what they weren’t able to accomplish through other means.
September 22, 2011 at 7:53 pm
Jim Ferguson
We had a very good turn out for Estelle’s kickoff rallys and I consider her campaign well and successfully launched. And since this is a SoHum blog, I want you to know 60 some people turned out at the Garberville Town Square to cheer her on and donate money to the cause.
As you said above, Game On!
September 23, 2011 at 6:25 am
anon
I went to Estelle’s announcement and she sure gave a rousing speech. There was a very diverse crowd there from our community which was impressive. I have to say she is a great speaker and was very passionate about some of her main issues. one of the things that I really loved hearing was she was tired of polititians giving lip service to helping the Eel/salmon and she committed to working to increase the flows to our Eel River during the peak Salmon runs in late summer early fall. She has my vote!
September 23, 2011 at 8:50 am
Bolithio
I think the county should pay more attention to the FRC, if not specifically have them develop the guidelines for timberland issues. After all, who is better qualified to answer and address these questions than a multi-disciplinary team of licensed foresters? How can planning insist that timberland productivity may be impaired due to say a JTMP, even after several RPFs deemed otherwise (at the pleasure of our BOS)? Isnt that practicing forestry, a violation of the PRF (Professional Foresters Law)?
Is Board aware that their appointed foresters are often simply disregarded by planning? Are they aware of how underground regulation is occurring through various stages of permitting? I find it hard to believe that planning is “going rouge”. So ultimately the responsibility falls of the BoS. If they intent on changing policy, get it passed! Until then, stop obstructing the current policy. That is much more of of a hindrance to business than new or changing regulation. This should not be game of craps.
September 23, 2011 at 9:35 am
tra
I’m not all that well-versed in how they apply the forestry-related parts of the rules, but with regard to what is allowed regarding residences, I know that there is a lot of inconsistency in what various Planning Department staff tell landowners, and frankly a lot of inaccuracy. The demands made by these Planning staff sometimes change significantly from one visit to the next, and then change even more when the person inquiring is an attorney rather than just a landowner.
For example, I have a friend who was told that a “mother-in-law” unit can’t be allowed on his 180 + acre property, and that he would therefore have to rip out all the plumbing and so on in the little cabin he has, turning it into a “shed,” because according to the Planner he talked to, the main residence on the property is the only residence that can be allowed under the current rules. But then talking to a lawyer, and to other people in similar situations, it turns out that this apparently that just isn’t true,and that the cabin should be allowable as a mother-in-law unit. To insist that somebody rip out all their plumbing and turn their perfectly good cabin into a “shed,’ when that is not really necessary, is quite an expensive and disruptive thing to the landowner, as well as obviously a disservice to the community in terms of the “affordable housing” situation in the county.
There have also been quite a few cases in which Planning Department allegedly tell landowners that “new rules” require this or that, or prohibit this or that, with the implication that these “new rules” are either already in effect, or that they are basically a done deal and will be in effect for the project in question, whereas the reality is that some of these “new rules” are actually just proposals. My feeling is that the rules that will apply to any project ought to be those rules that are in effect at the time that you apply for the permit. Changing the rules on someone when they are half-way through a project seems both fundamentally unfair, and a bureacratic nightmare all the way ’round.
Basically, my take on it is that unfortunately you can’t safely assume that the info you get from Planning Department staff is accurate and complete unless you get that information checked by an attorney or someone else who is well-versed in the existing laws and regulations. I can’t say for sure how much of this inaccuracy / inconsistency on the part of Planning Department staff is purposeful disinformation, and how much of it is due to incompetence on their part. But if Planning Department staf are not able to keep all this stuff straight, it’s hard to see how landowners can be expected to keep it all straight. And it’s not unreeasonable to fear that all this confusion, inaccuracy and/or disinformation would probably get even worse with a new, more complicated “discretionary” permit process that gives Planning Department staff even more power.
September 23, 2011 at 7:46 pm
Jane
I thought Estelle’s relationship was a plus point myself.
September 24, 2011 at 7:35 am
Anonymous
So does Clif.
September 24, 2011 at 7:38 am
anonymous
I just listened to kmud news and they had Estelle’s townsquare announcement/rally on the news. my family supports Kmud and I am glad they were there to cover this story however, someone needs to train kmud news people in sound quality as well as what content to include in their broadcasts. I attended Fennell’s announcement and heard what her main points were re: her campaign but most of her points were not included in kmuds broadcast that I believe were most important. Especially her passionate words re: our Eel river, and how she intends to work to increase the flows back into our River. She talked about the state of HC economy;supporting our Community Park as well as supporting IHSS workers ….all the things that are important to our community but they were not included in the broadcast. The other stories in the broadcast were not local stories so kmud could have easily put a little more energy in their editing and included more of Fennell’s main points in the story.