I’m posting this link to a fascinating Arcata Eye article without comment at the moment. Maybe I’ll find something intelligent to say about it tomorrow.
She did actually get over 30 percent of the vote!
Addendum: Okay, she didn’t really emphasize the Tea Party aspects of her belief system during the campaign. She was actually quite articulate and seemed reasonable at the debates. But now that the election’s over, she wants a Grand Jury investigation into whether Mark and Clif have, I guess, committed treason. From her letter to Virginia Bass:
“Supervisor Bass, I urge you to seek independent counsel and convene a Grand Jury investigation into why two supervisors would violate their oath of office and seek to encumber the people of Humboldt County to a smart growth document that is clearly not community-based and undermines our rights and civil liberties guaranteed by our Consitiution.”
The Mountain Democrat has bought into the theory as well. Fortunately, Humboldt County’s voters have taken the reins from the “globe-trotting, fois gras eating hypocrites.” Plan A, Obamacare, carbon credits – it’s all linked to a UN-based conspiracy!
Seriously. Most green types don’t eat fois gras, but nevermined.
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June 22, 2012 at 11:44 am
Anonymous
What’s up with the folded arm thing?
Just like Estelle Fennell.
June 22, 2012 at 11:50 am
Anonymous
“My question to Kay Backer would be, ‘What is wrong with a sustainable community?’”
“I’d like to go on record as supporting the radical assertion that the Earth is finite and that we should act accordingly.”
June 22, 2012 at 7:51 pm
tra
“I’d like to go on record as supporting the radical assertion that the Earth is finite and that we should act accordingly.”
Typical condescending remark from Lovelace, bravely daring a Straw Man to cross an imaginary line. But given Brooks’ climate change denialism and Agena 21 UN conspiracy wingnuttery, Lovelace still comes off as the more rational of the pair, by far.
Of course the reality is that even among the 30% or so who voted for Karen Brooks, I doubt you’ll find too many people who will disagree that “the Earth is finite.” The hard part is figuring deciding on exactly what “act accordingly” means when you get down to the nitty-gritty policy level.
Agreeing that “the Earth is finite” does not necessarily require endorsing Lovelace / Foster-Gill’s SmartSprawl prescriptions as examples of “acting accordingly.”
June 22, 2012 at 9:47 pm
Anonymous
How do you characterize yourself, “the reasonable anonymous”?
June 22, 2012 at 10:07 pm
Anonymous
What is most distressing is that this woman was in the same slate as Estelle. The same money backed both along with Rex. Does Estelle believe that Plan A is part of a UN conspiracy?
June 23, 2012 at 8:25 am
Anonymous
Remember that Estelle promised us Sixteen Million Dollars for our pot holes in Southern Humboldt.
June 23, 2012 at 8:27 am
Anonymous
I still think tra is Tom Grover.
June 23, 2012 at 5:40 pm
Anonymous
The John Birch Society is alive and well in Humboldt.
June 24, 2012 at 7:49 am
tra
Sorry to disappoint you, but I don’t even know who Tom Grover is. But now I’m curious…who is he?
June 24, 2012 at 8:20 am
Anonymous
That’s exactly what Tom Grover would say.
June 24, 2012 at 8:53 am
Anonymous
A man who says what you do.
June 24, 2012 at 9:29 am
tra
Nevermind. After Googling “Tom Grover Humboldt” I do recognize him as someone who has been involved in the GPU debate, among other things. His name just didn’t ring a bell at first. Maybe because the name “Grover” always makes me think Sesame Street.
Interestingly, a Humboldt Herald thread from 2009 accuses Grover of engaging in an “angry screed” at a Planning Commission meeting.
http://humboldtherald.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/clear-winner-alternative-a-feels-the-love/
Meanwhile, minutes from a Planning Commission meeting (not sure if it was the same one) have him speaking in favor of GPU Alternative A. The minutes said: “Tom Grover, Redway, supported Alternative A. He also thought county regulations should be open to cutting edge gray water and sewage disposal.”
http://co.humboldt.ca.us/planning/commission/getminutes.asp?dkey=611200943645PM
I also came across an article about Access Humboldt broadcasting a 2009 Planning Commission meeting in SoHum, in which Grover was identified him as a “community organizer” and he had some nice things to say about Access Humboldt.
http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_14036957
And, finally, I see that he was quoted in the NCJ article “Why Do People Hate Kirk Girard?” in which he is quoted as follows:
“I think he’s crazier than a loon for even taking this job,” Redway resident Tom Grover said in a phone interview last month. “If you try to do the impossible you’re gonna fail, and then they’re gonna blame it on you.” Grover has plenty of complaints about Girard’s department and its sprawling array of responsibilities. “We, Humboldt County, have created a monster by putting all this stuff on one department,” Grover said. He still resents the code enforcement program, and he feels Southern Humboldt gets ignored. But he doesn’t blame any of that on Girard, whom he called “very bright.” The position, he said, is simply impossible.
“Do you want that job?” Grover asked. And then he broke out laughing.
http://www.northcoastjournal.com/news/2011/11/03/why-do-people-hate-kirk-girard/2/
So anyway, I can understand why someone might have thought I was Tom Grover. It’s not a bad guess, as our views do seem to coincide on at least some matters. And he seems like a thoughtful guy, so I’m going to choose to take Anon 5:40′s guess as a compliment.
But no, I’m not him, and to the extent that anyone has been walking around thinking that tra is actually Tom Grover, posting pseudonymously, if any of those folks are holding it against him, well then I send him my apologies!
June 24, 2012 at 1:43 pm
Anonymous
Meanwhile, minutes from a Planning Commission meeting (not sure if it was the same one) have him speaking in favor of GPU Alternative A. The minutes said: “Tom Grover, Redway, supported Alternative A.
June 24, 2012 at 1:46 pm
Anonymous
Ed says:
October 16, 2009 at 8:37 am
After listening to the KMUD show, and hearing the results of the CPR
fear mongering, I was surprised by the low numbers of people with paranoid delusions at last night’s hearing. Maybe those thousands of CPR members were too busy panic pulling to attend.