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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year

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A man with no experience running elections and who believes the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, the 9/11 attack was faked, and QAnon is real has been chosen by a county in Iowa to oversee its elections, including the critical 2024 presidential election.

David Whipple was appointed last week by the Warren County Board of Supervisors to serve as Interim Warren County Auditor, a position responsible for overseeing elections in the county. The appointment was made in a special meeting after former Warren County Auditor Traci Vanderlinden announced her retirement last month.

One of the board supervisors, Crystal McIntyre, acknowledged in the meeting that it “looks weird” to be appointing Whipple—who she admitted knowing personally—but they voted for him anyway.

Whipple’s belief in baseless conspiracy theories was not secret or hidden. Days after the 2020 election, Whipple was sharing baseless allegations of voter fraud, according to screenshots of the posts published by the Iowa Starting Line website. On the same day, Whipple wrote a post calling President Joe Biden a “crooked pedophile child sniffer” where he referenced QAnon conspiracies about the President.

Whipple continued to post disinformation about the election and Biden in the following weeks and months, as well as anti-vaxx disinformation about the COVID-19 vaccination. On Jan. 2, 2021 he shared a link to a video entitled Q: The Plan To Save The World, a 2018 video that has become one of the foundational texts of the QAnon conspiracy movement.

On January 6, 2021, as the insurrection was taking place, Whipple shared a link to a video about the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. The video, entitled Nina Eleven, falsely claims the images broadcast on television of the planes slamming into the towers were computer generated.

All of these posts were freely accessible at the time of the Warren County board meeting on June 6, but have since been scrubbed.

Screenshots of the posts have been shared widely online, however, and have been used by the Warren County Iowa Democrats as part of their drive to obtain the 2,500 signatures necessary to call a special election to vote for a new auditor.

“If you don’t believe in elections how can you be in charge of elections?” Warren County Democratic Party Chair Jim Culbert said on local radio station KNIA-KRLS. “If you don’t think that they were fair and honest, how is that going to inform how you do the job? We just don’t know this guy, he came out of nowhere.”

The Warren County Board of Supervisors and Whipple did not immediately respond to VICE News’ request for comment on Whipple’s conspiratorial beliefs.

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petervintonjr · 1 year

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“I was born and raised in the North, and I knew that there was discrimination… but I had never seen that type of hatred on the face of anyone before. It forced me to work harder, to come back and work harder. It forced me to take a good look at people that I knew and what was going on in my own community.”

Today we study the achievements of social justice giant Constance Mitchell, someone who truly understood the intrinsic connection between poverty and racial inequality, and infused that into her every action.

Born in 1928 New Rochelle, New York, little is known of the childhood or coming-of-age years of Constance (“Connie”) Mae Jenkins, but in 1950 she married Louisianan John Mitchell (part of the Great Migration) and moved to Rochester, New York –-the city for which she would forever be associated, despite her initial impression of a place where “people here didn't know how to smile and they weren't friendly at all.” Her first foray into Rochester community activism was as a volunteer with the Delta Ressics, a group of Baden Street Black activists who pushed for better housing and living conditions for migrant farm workers living in shacks near Sodus. She also fought against deplorable living conditions at the Hanover Houses, Rochester’s first low-income apartment complex.

In 1959 at the urging of a fellow Delta Rassick, Walter Cooper, Mitchell ran for --and lost-- a race for a seat on what is now the Monroe County legislature (Ward 3, then known as the Monroe County Board of Supervisors). However she made another run in 1961 and was this time successful, and was then re-elected in 1964: the first woman and the first African-American to be elected to that body --though not without enduring resentment, routine insults and slurs, and even threats from her fellow legislators. From this position she and her husband came into regular contact with such figures as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, among many other civil rights leaders of the time --even entertaining visits from Malcolm and then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. In the wake of the violent 1964 racial unrest in Rochester, Connie expressed in an interview for Life magazine, “I'm not telling you, I told you so. I'm saying please listen to us." These two terms were the full extent of Connie’s political career but her commitment to civil rights was just getting started: in 1965, she walked alongside Dr. King from Selma to Montgomery, but while this heroic act itself disillusioned her, at the same time it reinvigorated her determination to improves lives and conditions in her own community.

Perhaps one of Mitchell's enduring achievements was the founding of Action for a Better Community, a Rochester-based nonprofit devoted to helping people in low-income areas become more self-sufficient and lift themselves out of poverty. She also worked closely with the United Way and the Urban League of Rochester, and created the Urban League Black Scholars program. In later years (1978 to 1989), she became the Program Director for an initiative called PRISM (Program for Rochester to Interest Students in Science and Mathematics). In 1993 Rochester Mayor Bill Johnson, the first elected Black mayor of that city, credited Connie with inspiring him to get into politics; and in 2013 mayor Lovely Warren, the first Black woman to be elected to that position, similarly credited Connie as a role model.

In February 2017, Mitchell was awarded the Frederick Douglass Medal for outstanding civic engagement by the University of Rochester. She died the following year (2018); today the Monroe Country Office Building bears her name at the Constance Mitchell Concourse.

Read a truly absorbing transcript of a lengthy 2008 interview with Constance and John Mitchell at: https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/rbfs-CMitchell

#blacklivesmatter #blm #rochester #conniemitchell #constancemitchell #teachtruth #dothework #black lives matter #constance mitchell

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millingroundireland · 9 months

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Bibliographic essay for the last five posts

This was originally part of the the third chapter in my family history on the Mills family, and published on WordPress, but has been broken up into various parts for this blog.

For the information on the Mills family, I used Find a Grave memorials of the following people:

John N. Mills (#8761820), Virginia Ellen Whitworth (#27406663), Rev John Thomas “Tom” Mills (#140243544), Bertha Ann Lane (#140246323), Cecil Virginia Mills (#140243354), Otis O’Neal Jackson (#126140098), Bonnie Gail Jackson (#142300585), George Newton Mills (#58071180), Ernest Everett Mills (#181497900), Mary Opal Brownfield (#181498075), John Simon Mills (#22708610), Sandra K. “Sandy” Bogdanich (#78076180), Lucille Virginia “Nan” Mills (#45100040), John Maurice Harding (#139577346), Glenda Juanita Mills (#50664713), Aaron Burr Mills, Jr (#94997079), Millie Lucille Freeman (#94997208), Naomi Lorraine Mills (#19591030), Virgil V. Porter (#19590904), and Cozette Mills (#152732975).

I looked at the original census documents for the 1880, 1900, 1920, 1930, and 1940 censuses, focusing on Dora A. Mills (1880), John Newton Mills (1900), Edward E. Mills (1900), and Margaret E. Mills (then Cosgrove) (1900), Margaret E. Mills (then Cosgrove) (1910), Robert B. Mills (1910), Edward E. Mills (1910), John N. Mills (1920), Robert B. Mills (1930), and John N. Mills (1940). I also looked at, on Family Search, the death record for Dora A. Mills in 1895 within Massachusetts Death Records; Hattie B. Mills (then Beals) death certificate in 1912 within “Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915” record collection; death certificate of John N Mills in 1945.

I also used certain records with the National Archives of Ireland’s Diocesan and Prerogative Wills, 1595-1898 database, specifically one for a person with surname of Mills or Wallis, and first name of Elizabeth, in the Cashel and Emly diocese, Waterford District, and living in Crossogue, County Tipperary when the probate was served in 1760. I also used the search engine for this National Archives’s database, listing 147 people with the surname of Mills.

For information on Joseph B. Mills, I used pages from Smith’s history of Warren County in 1895, page 492 of the Laws of the State of New York: Passed at the One Hundred and Ninth Session of the Legislature published in 1886 and digitized on Google Books, page 51 of Norton’s Ithaca City Directory 1890-1891 digitized by the Tompkins County Public Library, page 286 of the 1894 book titled History and biography of Washington county and the town of Queensbury, New York digitized by the Internet Archive and on genealogytrails.com, a page on the site of Warren County, NY government titled “Chairmen of the Board of Supervisors,” a page titled a “Historical Listing of Supervisors by Town 1888-2016” hosted by the Warren County government with a specific focus on page 3 of the PDF which focuses on the town of Chester, page 4 of the Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Warren in 1901 digitized on Google Book.

I also used newspaper clippings from fultonhistory.com including: “Pottersville,” The Daily Times (Glens Falls), 1881; “Personals,” The Daily Times (Glens Falls), 1881; “Chester,” The Daily Times (Glens Falls), 1886; “Legislative Yeoman,” The Daily Times (Glens Falls), 1886; “A Judgment Reversed,” The Daily Times (Glens Falls), 1890; Article about case by Samuel T. Guilford, The Morning Star (Glens Falls), 1890; “Sheriff’s Sale,” Lake George News (Warrenburg), 1890; “Farewell Testimonial,” The Daily Times (Glens Falls), 1891; “The Board of Health,” Paterson Morning Call, Jul 13, 1892; “Pottersville,” The Daily Times (Glens Falls), Jul 2, 1893; Joseph B. Mills, “Warren County Laws,” The Daily Times (Glens Falls), 1895; “Standard Bearers Chosen,” The Morning Star (Glens Falls), Sept 1, 1894; “Chester Town Audit,” The Morning Star (Glens Falls), 1894; “Official Canvas,” Lake George News (Warrenburg), autumn 1894; “Republicans at the Burg,” The Morning Star (Glens Falls), 1895; “Personals,” The Daily Times (Glens Falls), Apr 15, 1895; “Town Tickets Nominated,” The Morning Star (Glens Falls), 1896; “Personals,” The Morning Star (Glens Falls), 1897; “Republican nominations,” The Daily Times (Glens Falls), 1897; “List of Nominations,” The Morning Star (Glens Falls), 1897; “Chestertown,” The Morning Star (Glens Falls), 1897; “Personals,” Lake George News (Warrenburg), 1897; “Personals,” The Daily Times (Glens Falls), 1897; “State Capitol Employees to J.B. Mills,” The Morning Star (Glens Falls), 1897; “Pottersville,” The Morning Star (Glens Falls), 1897; “Personals” (different article), The Daily Times (Glens Falls), 1897; “Statement,” The Morning Star (Glens Falls), 1898; “Recovered value of his hay,” The Morning Star (Glens Falls), 1899; Varying articles about Mary A. Hammond suit, The Morning Star (Glens Falls), 1899; “Necrology,” Daily Times (Troy, NY), 1900; “In Memoriam,” The Morning Star (Glens Falls), 1900; “Obituary,” Daily Times (Troy, NY), 1900; “Deaths,” Washington County Post (North White Creek, NY), May 11, 1900; “Personals,” The Morning Star (Glens Falls), 1900; “Warren County” (obituary), Daily Times (Troy, NY), May 7, 1900; “County Audits,” The Morning Star (Glens Falls), Dec 1900; “One Hundred Years Since Organization of Warren County,” The Daily Times (Glens Falls), 1911.

Also see a 2010 article titled “Sheriff seeks historic photos for display” in the Sun Community News & Printing for the detail about Joseph’s missing photograph. For the information on Joseph’s will, I used the will which is within Ancestry.com’s New York, Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999 collection which derives from Wills, Vol G-I, 1897-1909, New York County, District and Probate Courts, pp 466-467. A harder to read copy of this will is within the same Ancestry.com collection which derives from Estate Records, No. 1-13, 353, Book of Wills, New York. Surrogate's Court (Warren County), Warren, New York, Wills, Vol G-H, pp 466-67. The latter record has a page, 468, that notes the minors of Joseph B. Mills. For the letter of testamentary and administration see the Letters of Administration and Testamentary, 1830-1919, New York. Surrogate's Court (Warren County), Warren, New York, Letters of Test, Vol H-K, 1894-1918, Ancestry.com.

#census #newspaper clippings #newspaper #sources #archives #probate #estate #genealogy #family #family history #ancestry #articles #wordpress

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pscottm · 1 year

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Warren County residents want a special election to vote for a new county auditor after it came to light that newly appointed auditor David Whipple has a history of promoting conspiracy theories about 9/11 and the 2020 election.

In Iowa, county auditors oversee elections.

Whipple, who has no experience in government, was appointed to serve as auditor by the three-member Warren County Board of Supervisors during a special meeting on June 6. His term expires Dec. 31, 2024.

Besides Whipple’s lack of experience, Warren County residents and the county’s Democratic Party became more concerned with his appointment after they became aware of Whipple’s since-deleted social media posts where he shared various conspiracy theories about the election, QAnon, and even the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.

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lboogie1906 · 2 years

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George Washington Gayles (June 29, 1844 - March 5, 1924) was a Baptist minister and state legislator in Mississippi. He was in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1872 until 1875 and in the Mississippi Senate from 1878 until 1886. He was a candidate for the House of Representatives in 1892 but received only 6% of the vote. He was known as the "Father of the Convention" of African American Baptists in Mississippi. He had a successful political career, as an appointed civil servant, and from 1872 until 1887 as an elected official. On September 17, 1869, he was appointed member of the Board of Police for District Number Three, Bolivar County by George A. Ames, and on August 2, 1870, he was appointed Justice of the Peace for the Fifth District, Bolivar Count by Governor James L. Alcorn. On August 29, 1870, he was appointed supervisor of the Fifth District. He was elected to numerous Republican State Conventions starting in 1869 and was a delegate to the 1880 Republican National Convention. In 1880, Republicans were split between several candidates, and Mississippi Republicans were split. He was a member of the "three hundred and six" which supported Grant on all ballots, the nominee, and then the president was James A. Garfield. He was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1872, serving until 1873, and then reelected in 1874 serving until 1875. He was then elected to the Mississippi Senate in 1878, and again in 1880 serving until 1882, and then again in 1884 and 1886. In the House, he represented the 28th district, which included Bolivar, Coahoma, and Quitman County. In the Senate, he represented the ninth district, including Bolivar, Calhoun, and Sunflower counties. He was chairman of the Third district Republican Convention in 1886 in Mississippi consisting of Bolivar, Coahoma, Issaquena, Leflore, Sunflower, Sharkey, Tunica, Quitman, Washington, and Warren counties. He was the only African American state senator in Mississippi during his terms and was the last African American state senator in Mississippi until the 1960s. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CfYwrMXL4KcyTV--3Or7WW5Gc_rsWKI0uWhRFc0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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thinktank909 · 2 years

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The Elections Code is not the Elections Suggestions

As someone involved in the San Bernardino and Los Angeles County Republican Parties by virtue of being the party’s nominee in three previous elections (2002, 2014 and 2018) I have a major complaint about county political parties such as the Los Angeles County Republican Party not taking the state elections code seriously and merely treating it as President Biden initially dealing with Vladimir Putin.

The elections code has no legal teeth when it comes to county party political organizations. County parties can systematically discard ex-officio nominees and its leaders can endorse non-Republicans in contested elections with Republicans running in them when we are supposed to be the Republican Party not the Lincoln Club (a group of Republican leaning business owners and allies). There needs to be an enforcement provision where if the county chairman endorses a Democratic Party member for county supervisor instead of a Republican or being neutral, the offender would have to donate 100 dollars to one of the California State Tax Contribution Funds. If a county party illegally denies membership to their party, then the county party would be liable for each offense with a cost of 100 dollars to start and add up another 100 until it hits 1000 dollars, and the county party would have to also pay money to charity as a punishment.

First offense is section 7404, Los Angeles County Republican Party decided to discard this part of the elections code and put Democratic Party of Los Angeles County language only limiting ex-officio membership to Los Angeles County nominees, throwing out both myself and Kathleen Hazelton illegally. They were fed up with people asking critical questions about party operations and wanted the meetings to be more like a pep rally. Traditionally if Tom Lackey is the nominee, he gets a seat in Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties, and it should also be the same for Kathleen Hazelton as well.

Elections code 7413 is also a big problem as well, even though county supervisor races are not partisan races, these races are just as partisan as state legislative and congressional races. We have had former San Bernardino County chairman Curt Hagman endorse James Ramos, a registered Democrat for County Supervisor in 2012 and 2016 when we had Republicans running. In Los Angeles County Richard Sherman the current chairman decided to endorse Bob Hertzberg over two qualified Republicans running for Board of Supervisors in the third district. I thought we are there to elect Republicans. However, county leadership rarely takes offense when general members violate 7413. We had Republicans such as Mayor Warren in Fontana endorse Cheryl Brown over a Republican running in the primary. If county parties fail to remove a member off a committee for a severe lapse of judgement, there should be ways that party members could get some recompense so the elections code would have teeth and not merely suggestions in how to operate a county party.

There also needs to be a provision for transparency of operations when it comes to member discipline. If people are booted off a committee there should be a certified letter mailed to the member being booted. There should be due process as usual when it comes to running membership of an organization to make sure people are not being railroaded out.

When we as Republicans treat our members fairly and work to elect Republicans instead of the least toxic Democratic Party politicians, perhaps the small donors of our party will come back to the party and work towards our shared goals together.

#politics #capolitics #republicans

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debajitadhikary · 3 years

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Board to revisit proposed Sheetz in Linden | Nvdaily

The Warren County Board of Supervisors plans to let the public comment again on a developer’s proposal to put a Sheetz in Linden. Supervisors voted 4-1 at their regular meeting on Tuesday to hold another public hearing on a rezoning request filed by Dudding Commercial Development LLC last year. The rezoning would allow the developer to build a Sheetz gas station and a school bus loop on 6.45…

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#local-news #news #nvdaily #warren

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go-redgirl · 4 years

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PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP TWEETED @ REALDONALD JOHN TRUMP Thank you to Senate President Karen Fann and House Speaker Russell Bowers – and all, for what you are doing in Arizona. A fast check of signatures will easily give us the state. Votes against have been reduced to a very small number!

Members of the Arizona state legislature formally called for an audit of Maricopa County’s election equipment and software on Friday.

Senate President Karen Fann, as well as Speaker of the House Rusty Bowers, formally made the call on Friday for “an independent audit of the Dominion software and equipment used by Maricopa County in the 2020 General Election.”

“The two leaders, along with incoming Senate Government Chair Michelle Ugenti-Rita and House Majority Leader Warren Petersen, had numerous phone calls with members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors,” the press release stated.

“As a longtime advocate for improving and modernizing our election system, I am pleased to learn that the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is supportive of conducting an independent audit of their voting software and equipment,” Sen. Ugenti-Rita said in a statement, adding that it is “important we maintain all of the voting public’s confidence in our elections and this is a positive first step in the right direction.”

Peterson added that a “significant number of voters believe that fraud occurred and with the number of irregularities it is easy to understand why.”

“Especially concerning are the allegations made surrounding the vendor Dominion. It is imperative that the County immediately do a forensic audit on the Dominion software and equipment to make sure the results were accurate,” he added.

President Trump expressed gratitude for their request in a Friday evening tweet.

“Thank you to Senate President Karen Fann and House Speaker Russell Bowers – and all, for what you are doing in Arizona. A fast check of signatures will easily give us the state. Votes against have been reduced to a very small number!” he exclaimed.

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OPINION: President Donald John Trump always stays on top of everything because he knows that the Democrats are a bunch of ‘thieves and crooks and will do anything unethical to try to say in power in this country. So, our President never, ever put anything pass the ‘crooked Democrats’.

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someguyscaliforniavoterguide · 4 years

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Select L.A. County/California Races, March 3, 2020

Hi friends, it’s me again. I am here to offer my opinions on how you should vote. As before I am up front about my biases: I am a Warren supporter, I live in L.A. and I am actively pro-density (Yay SB50, you deserved better) and pro-transit. I live in the east Valley, so I tend to focus more closely on the issues that directly impact my side of town, though I try to keep an ear out on things countywide.

Last time I did this a couple of folks reached out to give me gifts to say thanks for doing this guide. This year, I would encourage anybody who wants to say thanks to donate $5 to Fair Fight, a group founded by Stacey Abrams to fight voter suppression in the 2020 election. We’re gonna need all the help we can get in November to defeat the GOP, and Abrams is doing it in a smart way.

Other voting guides

This is my voting guide and reflects my general opinion on things. However, I am indebeted to many other guides, including the Knock L.A. Voter Guide and the L.A. Podcast Voter Guide for their takes. I don’t always agree with them, but both of these are invaluable resources for the progressive voter in Los Angeles.

L.A. City Council

This year the even numbered seats are up for re-election. Half of them are effectively uncontested, a couple are very much contested, and two are free for all because of term limits.

CD2: Ayinde Jones

Look none of these candidates set my heart afire. I work with Councilmember Krekorian’s office a lot (remember, I live in the east Valley) and he’s a competent politician with a ton of endorsements and community ties, I have no illusion he’s going to win his full term comfortably on March 3. However, I believe it’s good to encourage competition, and Ayinde Jones did a good (not great) job at the candidate forum I attended hitting on themes of how the parts of CD2 north of Victory are being left behind as the area evolves. I wish he were better on S50, but then again all three candidates were opposed, so that’s kind of a wash. I look forward to hearing more from Jones in the future.

CD4: Sarah Kate Levy

From a paucity of options to a surplus of options next door. CD4 is currently represented by David Ryu, a politician who came out of the Neighborhood Council system and went on to become...a city hall politician. Both his opponents are great. Nithya Raman is the founder of SELAH, a group that does amazing work helping the unhoused in Los Angeles, and recently led Times Up! Hollywood for a year. I’d vote for her in a heartbeat, but I am encouraging people to vote for Sarah Kate Levy for two reasons: first, Levy is unabashedly supportive of SB50 and we need this kind of leadership, and second I am hoping these two excellent women will get so many votes that they overwhelm Ryu and leave him in third place. Fingers crossed.

CD6: Bill Haller

This is another shoo-in. Nury Martinez is the City Council president and has the backing of the County party and all the local clubs. I am endorsing Bill Haller because he supports an agenda that includes more public funding for affordable housing, more and better transit, and climate justice.

CD8: Marqueece Harris-Dawson

There are no other candidates in this race, so congratulations on your re-election Councilmember Harris-Dawson.

CD10: Aura Vasquez

This is an open seat, and the smart money has Mark Ridley-Thomas as the frontrunner. Ridley-Thomas is a current member of the L.A. County Board of Supervisors (more on them later) who is termed out of that position. I’m endorsing Aura Vasquez, a progressive activist with ties to Mid-City who has served as a commissioner for LADWP and led fights for renewable energy, banning single use plastics, and housing affordability in her community.

CD12: Loraine Lundquist

Dr. Lundquist rules. She takes public transit to debates, she is an honest to goodness scientist, and she nearly beat a Republican in what is the most conservative district in L.A. during a special election. I have donated money to this lady because we need to win this one. Her opponent, John Lee, wasted no time in trying to block housing for the homeless in his district and in attacking a successful safer streets project on Reseda Blvd. The city has a chance - a really great chance thanks to the realigned municipal elections - to toss out the worst possible councilmember in favor of the most progressive voice, don’t mess it up.

CD14: Cyndi Otteson

This race is Kevin de Léon’s to lose, but he won’t commit to serving a full term since he really wants to be mayor. I say let him have his spare time to run for mayor and select Ms. Otteson, a grassroots activist who has the support of the UTLA and who is the only voice in favor of the Colorado Blvd alignment of the NoHo to Pasadena BRT project. Transit equity matters, and Ms. Otteson deserves your vote this March.

LAUSD School Board

Deferring to the teachers’ endorsements on this one.

Board Seat 1: George McKenna

Board Seat 3: Scott Schmerlson

Board Seat 5: Jackie Goldberg

Board Seat 7: Patricia Castellanos

Glendale City Council: Dan Brotman

An environmental activist with progresive views, Brotman will be a useful voice in Glendale’s city hall.

District Attorney: Rachel Rossi

George Gascón and Rachel Rossi will both be light years better than the current county D.A., Jackie Lacey. Both have promised to make substantial reforms in the office. I am really torn on this one, since I think Gascón’s experience as a Deputy DA in San Francisco is a big deal, and since he has the backing of the County Party. I am endorsing Rossi in a tilt-at-windmills hope that somehow she and Gascón make it to the final ballot in November and give us a thoughtful debate between a career prosecutor bent on reform and a public defender whose goal is reform about methods and ideas. Anyway, don’t vote for Jackie Lacey is all I am saying here.

Superior Court

Voting for judges is stupid. We shouldn’t be doing this, but since we have to, I’ll make some suggestions. My math is based on other progressive endorsements, Party endorsements, and reverse-engineering some well known conservative voting guides to, if nothing else, make sure I am not voting for their endorsement.

Office 17: Shannon Kathleen Cooley (the race is uncontested)

Office 42: Linda Sun

Office 72: Myanna Dellinger

Office 76: Emily Cole (Cole is a prosecutor, but her opponent is a man who literally changed his name to “Judge” after serving as a judge in Stanislaus County)

Office 80: Klint James McKay

Currently an administrative law judge, he impressed Public Defender Union representatives with his thoughtful and articulate answers to their questioning.

Office 97: Sherry L. Powell (Powell’s opponent ran as a conservative Republican for state assembly in 2018, this is a defensive vote)

Office 129: Kenneth Fuller

Office 131: Michelle Kelley (the race is uncontested)

Office 141: Lana Kim (the race is uncontested)

Office 145: Troy Slaten (Slaten’s opponent has a troubling history of misconduct and should not be elected to a judgeship)

Office 150: Tom Parsekian

Office 162: David D. Diamond

L.A. County Board of Supervisors

The Supervisors oversee policy for the County, including all unincorporated areas, the LASD, County Health services, etc. For a county of TEN MILLION PEOPLE, there are only five supervisors, so they have a hugely outsized influence.

Seat 2: Jorge Nuno

A lot of progressives are endorsing Holly Mitchell in this seat. Me, I just can’t go there when she’s speaking at events for Livable California and when she gave a floor speech opposing SB50. Though he’s the front runner, Herb Wesson doesn’t deserve your vote - he was City Council president when the homelessness crisis exploded and he’s done little to address it. Nuno is a progressive and has an ambitious platform.

Seat 4: Janice Hahn

She’s solid, and nobody’s pushing her from the left.

Seat 5: John Harabedian

Kathryn Barger, the incumbent, is a Republican who supports Trump’s immigration policies. John Harabedian is a solidly Center Left Democrat who has the backing of the county party and who could, in this presidential election year, win an upset in what is traditionally a Republican stronghold of L.A. County. Vote for him.

County Ballot Measures

Measure R: YES YES YES

This will provide crucial tools to the already existing civilian oversight committee for the LASD, including subpoena powers. It also requires the commission to study ways to divert offenders from jail. You need to vote yes on this.

State Ballot Measures

Prop 13: Yes

$15B in bonds to invest in public schools and “local control” to allow local school districts to issue larger bonds. The only real opposition is from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, a revanchist organization that is singlehandedly responsible for much of our state and local problems in the past few decades. Don’t listen to them.

Congressional Elections

Despite some misgivings, I am generally supporting the progressive challengers here to hopefully lead to a Progressive/Center Left election in the fall.

CD 25: Christy Smith

She has a good track record in the state assembly and a strong local support network. She’s not a carpetbagger with a YouTube show, and she’s not a Republican.

CD 28: Adam Schiff

He’s not the most progressive guy in Congress but he’s been critical to holding Trump accountable. He’s earned this vote.

CD 29: Angelica Duenas

Tony Cardenas is a bit of a non-entity on the national stage but he does good local work and he was an early vote in favor of impeachment. The rape allegations against him which troubled me last time were dismissed with prejudice in 2019. Cardenas has a progressive challenger, Angelica Marie Duenas, who has run in the past as a Green Party candidate. I don’t trust her decision to abandon that label and come into the Democrats after getting drubbed in 2018, but overall I like her ideas and I’d be happy to see her and Cardenas in a runoff this year.

CD 30: CJ Berina

Brad Sherman is an okay Congressmember. CJ Berina is a young, progressive challenger who’s attracted the attention of the Sunrise Movement. I’d vote for him to try to push the GOP out of the runoff and make this a race between the Center Left and the Progressive Left.

CD 34: Frances Yasmeen Motiwalla

Jimmy Gomez is solid; let’s push the GOP out of the runoff though by supporting this progressive.

State House

District 39: Luz Rivas

District 41: Chris Holden

District 43: Laura Friedman

District 44: Jacqui Irwin

District 45: Jesse Gabriel

District 46: Adrin Nazarian

District 48: Blanca Rubio

District 49: Edwin Chau

District 50: Richard Bloom

District 51: Wendy Carillo

District 53: Godfrey Plata

District 54: Tracey Jones

District 55: Andrew Rodriguez

District 58: Margaret Villa

District 59: Reggie Jones-Sawyer

District 62: Autumn Burke

District 63: Anthony Rendon

District 64: Fatima Iqbal-Zubair

District 66: Al Muratsuchi

District 70: Patrick O’Donnell

State Senate

SD 21: Kipp Mueller

SD 23: Abigail Medina

SD 25: No Endorsement - I rarely do this but honestly Anthony Portantino does not deserve your vote. Write in Mickey Mouse.

SD 27: Henry Stern

SD 29: Josh Newman

SD 31: Richard Roth

SD 33: Lena Gonzalez

SD 35: Steven Bradford

County Committees

Look this is getting waaaaaaaaaaaaaay into the weeds. What I am going to say is this: I know that a lot of “progressive” slates are out there and I encourage you to try your best to vet them. In my district, one of the candidates is somebody I know personally - she actively campaigned for Jill Stein, she circulated the decades-old “Clinton Death List” to voters, and she pushed Pizzagate theories. I am not voting for this person, but she is endorsed by “Progressive California” so...just be careful.

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The story of Joseph B. Mills

This was originally part of the the third chapter in my family history on the Mills family, and published on WordPress, but has been broken up into various parts for this blog.

Born in Warren County in 1844, Joseph B. Mills had worked as a farm laborer, carpenter, miller, and mechanic, from his youth until 1880. He later would also work as a wheelright and become the sheriff for Pottersville, NY in the 1890s and be part of a famous trial where a man named Samuel T. Guilford sued him. Thanks to photocopies from the Warren County Records Center and newspaper articles which are digitized online, the rest of his story becomes even clearer.

By 1885, Joseph was a supervisor in Chester, with a man named James Mills an inspector for the same same town. In 1886, some of his acts were made legal by the New York State Senate in May 1886, including selling and conveying the cemetery lot in Chester as part of a public auction. After that, he became the sheriff in Warren County, living in Lake George, staying in that position until 1891. If that wasn’t enough, he served as the chairman of the Warren County Board of Supervisors in 1888 and from 1894 to 1896, as a supervisor in the town of Chester in 1888 and 1893–1897, and Glens Falls supervisor in 1881 as a Republican and re-elected in 1886. Clearly, he had an important role in the local government of the county without a doubt. For instance, he oversaw a sheriff’s sale in 1890, audits in the town of Chester in 1894, an official canvas in 1894, and wrote a letter to the citizenry in a local paper in 1895 which outlined a new county law, to name a few duties. He later worked to become the sheriff in 1897, of Chestertown, after he was nominated by the GOP. After his victory, he was congratulated by state capitol employees who said he is endeared to everyone in the building because of his kindness and courtesy with “the capitol work” he had done. By 1898 when he was listed with his amount of compensation, he was listed a supervisor in Warren County. He was even sued in 1899 by George E. Morehouse to recover the value of an unknown amount of hay, and in a different suit by Mary A. Hammond, possibly related to his sister Hattie Mills who married Hannibal Hammond.

Joseph was a dedicated Republican as newspapers attest. In 1894 he was a “second teller” at the Republican County Convention held in Warrenburg’s Hocksday Hall and was a representative at a convention the following year for Chester. In 1896, the state chapter of the GOP nominated him for supervisor in Chester. So the party seemed to respect him as well.

On November 29, 1899, Joseph wrote his last will and testament. Living in Caldwell, he first ordered his executors to pay his funeral expenses and “just debts.” He secondly gave all of his property to his brother John C. Mills, while saying that daughters of this brother, Bessie and Lenita, would be granted the portions of his estate which he had bequeathed to John C. He finally appointed his brother John C., his friend Frank S. Packard, and his friend Jesse S. Smith as executors of his estate. This was different from the time many year earlier Joseph named a horse he owned “Edward Mills” hilariously enough. After all, he was apparently a “gentleman well known throughout the county.” This John C. Mills was likely the same mentioned in 1895 article as a steward at the Grand Hotel in Binghamton.

On May 5, 1900, Joseph died at age 56 and was buried in the Pottersville New Cemetery in Warren County. Only three years prior it was reported in the paper that he was sick at Lake George “for some time” and had recovered while an obituary that year in the Washington County Post in North White Creek, NY reported he had been confined in his room in his official residence in Caldwell after being in ill health for months and suffering from pulmonary trouble. He had spent the previous winter in Virginia in hopes of improving his condition, which had been horrible for years, but this did not happen. Joseph was so prominent that his funeral was “largely attended” and held at the courthouse in Caldwell. Not everyone has a funeral at a town courthouse!

After his death, the Daily Times of Troy, NY announced the death of Joseph in Caldwell, calling him a sheriff of Warren County. The same year, the Glens Falls Morning Star printed a notice honoring Joseph by members of a Masonic lodge, noting that “it has pleased God...to permit death to enter our chapter once more and remove from our midst or worthy brother, Joseph B. Mills.” By July 1900, Joseph’s last will and testament was executed. At that time, Frank S. Packard prayed for the probate of the will (perhaps because Joseph’s estate was over $2,000) listed in a letter of administration and testamentary, and the next of kin were listed as “Bessie Mills, Lenita Mills, Robert Packard, Charles Packard, Marian Packard, Mable Packard, John Packard & Margaret Packard,” with a man named W.L. Kiley appointed “special guardian” to “take care of their interests in this proceeding.” These individuals, apart from Bessie and Lenita Mills, were the children of Dora and Cyrus. This record also seems to say that, at least legally, RBM II’s last name was still Packard at the time, unless the person writing it down got it wrong.

The obituaries of Joseph told a bit about him and the Mills family. The one printed in Troy New York’s Daily Times, on May 7, 1900, was short, but included interesting tidbits:

Sheriff Joseph B. Mills...had always been an active Republican...for a number of years he held a position under the Superintendent of Public Buildings in Albany. He was born in Bolton, but had lived in Pottersville from his early youth. He was a millwright by trade. Sheriff Mills was a man of unquestioned integrity and a most aggressive political opponent. He was unmarried and is survived by six brothers and sisters, John [C.] Mills of Caldwell, Robert B. Mills of Cincinnati, Edward [E.] Mills of Colorado, Thomas Mills of California, Mrs. Thomas Cosgrove [Margaret E. Mills] of Providence, R.I.[,] and Mrs. Packard [Dora Mills?] of Massachusetts. He was a member of the Glen Dale Lodge...of Pottersville and a life member of the Glens Falls Chapter, R.A.M., of Glens Falls.

The Morning Star of Glens Falls printed an obituary on the same day titled “Death of Sheriff Mills.” It was significantly longer. While naming the same siblings, it said he was survived by “four brothers and two sisters.” It was also noted that he was born in Bolton, moved to Pottersville when “quite young” to a place considered the family home ever since, that he learned the millwright trade and was a farmer when he didn’t hold public office. Beyond this, he was described as a man of “the strictest integrity” and one of “most aggressive of foes” engaging in fair methods as he had a “positive character. The Warrenburg News had a similar obituary published on May 10, titled “Obituary.” It did say however that Joseph was a “man of strict integrity and possessed many admirable traits of character.”

In May 1901, at the meeting of the Warren County Board of Supervisors, Robert Laurie Esq. addressed the board “relative to a claim of estate of Joseph B. Mills” which was partially rejected by the board.

While the photographs of Joseph B. Mills are missing from the office of the Warren County Sheriff, as of 2010, he will continue to be remembered in this family history and elsewhere as he was in a 1911 article in the Daily Times of Glens Falls celebrating Warren County’s 100th year anniversary.

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Arizona Senate Issues Fresh Subpoena for 2020 Election Audit

Arizona senators on Monday issued a new subpoena to the state’s largest county for materials related to the 2020 election.Arizona Senate President Karen Fann and Arizona Senate Judiciary Chairman Warren Petersen ordered Maricopa County’s Board of Supervisors to hand over ballot envelopes or ballot envelope images, voter records, and routers or router images.The Republican-controlled board was…

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You Can’t Make This Crap Up!!

Seriously

Are These QAnon Conspiracists Trying

To See How Stupid Their Supporters Are?

The Latest ..

OAnon Conspiracists Have Theorized That

“Corrupt Election Officials” Shred Thousands

Of Donald Trump Ballots, Then Fed Them To

Chickens And Then Burned Down The Place

Where The Chickens Were At, So There Would

Be No Evidence!

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The Republican-controlled Maricopa County Board of Supervisors slammed the 'sham' recount of the 2020 presidential results, calling it 'political theater' backed by 'grifters and con-artists.'

The members of the board didn't hold back when it came to expressing their disgust for the audit, which is examining 2.1 million ballots in Arizona's most populous county during the election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

It has become subject to numerous conspiracy theories including one that state elections officials shredded ballots, fed them to chickens, and then had the chickens incinerated to cover up the evidence.

Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, a GOP official who is in charge of maintaining files on the country's 2.6 million registered voters, blasted that claim.

'I mean, that chickens one is probably pretty top of the charts,' he told CNN.

The audit was ordered by the Republican-controlled state Senate in Arizona and is being paid for with a combination of tax payer money and private donations.

In a public meeting on Monday night and in a letter to state Senate President Karen Fann, who ordered the recount, the Maricopa county board criticized the audit as a 'spectacle' that is causing Arizona to be a 'laughing stock' and encouraging people to distrust elections.

In their letter to Fann, the county board of supervisors called out 'the big lie,' referring to the false claim the election was stolen from Trump. There has been no evidence of wide spread voter fraud in the presidential contest and multiple recount have confirmed Biden's victory.

'It is time to make a choice to defend the Constitution and the Republic,' they wrote in the letter obtained by The Washington Post. 'We stand united together to defend the Constitution and the Republic in our opposition to the Big Lie. We ask everyone to join us in standing for the truth.'

'You have rented out the once good name of the Arizona State Senate to grifters and con-artists,' they claimed.

In a show of unity Richer also signed on to the letter, as did the county's Democratic sheriff.

'We express our united view that your 'audit', no matter what your intentions were in the beginning, has become a spectacle that is harming all of us. Our state has become a laughingstock. Worse, this 'audit' is encouraging our citizens to distrust elections, which weakens our democratic republic,' they wrote.

Richer told CNN the officials sent the letter to Fann because they're exhausted.

'It is exhausting having to respond to every insinuation when we're trying to do the normal work of the county. I have no idea how long this will go on for. It will possibly go into 2022,' he said.

'Just stop indulging this. Stop giving space for lies,' he noted.

Trump has touted the audit repeatedly and his allies are pouring money into the state but the Justice Department warned it could be in violation of federal voting and civil rights laws.

Multiple Republicans in the state have criticized the audit, saying the election was fairly conducted and the results - Biden beat Trump by 10,457 votes, or 0.3 percent of the nearly 3.4 million ballots cast - are accurate.

Two previous recounts of the ballots in Maricopa County, where Biden won by more than two points, found the results had been accurate.

The audit is being conducted by Cyber Ninjas, a Florida-based private contractor whose chief executive has promoted baseless claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent.

It no formal authority and will not change the election results in Arizona.

The board of supervisors, made up of four Republicans and one Democrat, declined to meet with Fann about issues she claimed the Cyber Ninjas found with the ballots.

'I will not be responding to any more requests from this sham process. Finish your audit and be ready to defend what you're finding in a court of law,' Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers, a Republican, said at Monday's public meeting.

'This board is done explaining anything,' he noted. 'People's ballots and money are not make-believe. It's time to be done with this craziness, and get on with this county's critical business.'

And Supervisor Bill Gates, also a Republican, said no Maricopa county official would attend Fann's meeting on Tuesday.

'This board was going to be part of a political theater broadcast on live stream by OAN,' he said, referring to the pro-Trump news outlet One America News, whose hosts have been covering the audit. 'We're not going to be a part of that.'

State Senator Warren Petersen, the Republican chairman of the state Senate Judiciary Committee, tweeted in response he was disappointed no county officials would attend the gathering and said the letter was filled with 'unnecessary insults.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9591657/amp/GOP-official-slams-claim-Arizona-ballots-eaten-chickens-killed-cover-up.html

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Four more nursing home residents succumb to COVID A resident at Washington Center in Argyle died of coronavirus Monday, one of four nursing home residents in Washington and Warren counties to die in one day. Provided photo Four more nursing home residents died of coronavirus Monday; two in Warren County and two in Washington County. In Warren County, one died at a nursing home, and one at a local hospital. One was in their 60s and one was in their 80s. In Washington County, one resident died at Slate Valley Center and one died at Washington Center. The vaccine has been found to protect nursing home residents, and Rachel Seeber, chairwoman of the Warren County Board of Supervisors, said the deaths “underscore” the need to get more vaccine into senior citizens’ arms. The county must “get vaccine programs moving as quickly as possible,” she said. In January, 18 Warren County residents died of the virus, and 10 were nursing home residents. Vaccine update Pharmacies have received vaccine shipments for small clinics this week, just in time for a winter storm. Kinney Drugs said it would hold previously scheduled vaccine clinics despite the weather. “We realize that the snowy weather forecast has folks nervous. While Kinney’s plan is to continue to vaccinate people according to our current appointment schedule, if someone cannot make their vaccination appointment due to inclement weather conditions, we will make every effort to reschedule them as soon as possible, as vaccine allocations allow. It’s important that everyone stay safe,” said spokeswoman Judith Repass Cowden. Source link Orbem News #AndrewCuomo #coronavirus #Covid #essexcounty #glensfallscenter #glensfallshospital #home #hospital #immunology #kinneydrugs #Medicine #nursing #nursinghome #Patient #resident #residents #saratogacounty #saratogahospital #slatevalleycenter #succumb #vaccineclinic #warrencenter #warrencounty #warrencountyboard #washingtoncenter #washingtoncounty

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Report Detailing PG&E’s Failures Raises New Hurdles for Utility

A damning report about the cause of the deadliest wildfire in California history poses a huge setback to Pacific Gas & Electric as it tries to resolve a complex bankruptcy and prove to its customers and elected officials that it takes safety seriously.PG&E repeatedly failed to properly maintain a power line built nearly a century ago even though it cuts through a heavily wooded and mountainous area that experiences strong winds, a 700-page report by the California Public Utilities Commission concluded. A live wire broke from the line, called the Caribou-Palermo, in November 2018 and ignited the Camp Fire, which killed 85 people and destroyed the town of Paradise.The report, which the commission posted on its website over the Thanksgiving holiday with no announcement, could jeopardize PG&E’s future as an independent business. The company was already on probation after being convicted of six federal criminal charges for causing another disaster — a gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people in San Bruno, south of San Francisco, in 2010. Critics of the company, including a group of California mayors and Gov. Gavin Newsom, have proposed selling PG&E to Warren E. Buffett’s holding company, breaking it up, having the state take it over or turning it into a cooperative owned by its customers.“The new information that is most telling is that it was based on the neglect and improper inspections and overall failure of PG&E to manage their transmission line,” said State Senator Jerry Hill, a Bay Area Democrat. “That is exactly what we learned 10 years ago with the San Bruno gas pipeline explosion.”The report has also raised fresh questions about why the utilities commission did not identify PG&E’s safety lapses in previous investigations and audits of the company. The report did not address that issue but implied that the problems could have been discovered years earlier. It said that “long-duration exposure to higher winds, age and historical inspection methodologies likely all contributed” to the equipment failures that caused the fire.A commission spokeswoman, Terrie Prosper, said the agency would now determine fines and penalties and “ensure that it incorporates any broader lessons learned into future work, especially as we work to implement wildfire legislation.” Michael Aguirre, a former assistant United States attorney who has sued the governor and various state officials, claiming they have improperly committed ratepayers to helping utilities like PG&E, said that the utility “has failed to obey basic safety rules because there’s been a breakdown in enforcement in California for at least the last decade.” “Unless something fundamental is done,” he added, “the utility will cause more death and home destructions in 2020.”The commission’s findings could jeopardize the probation the company was placed on after the 2010 gas pipeline explosion.Judge William H. Alsup of Federal District Court ruled this year that PG&E had violated the probation, contending that the company had not adequately informed federal supervisors of a fire-related investigation by a state district attorney. Judge Alsup threatened to force PG&E to carry out a far-reaching and costly overhaul of its power lines, but ultimately scaled back his demands.The judge could now revisit that decision in light of the new report. PG&E has acknowledged that it could be in violation of its probation if “reckless operation or maintenance” of its power lines was responsible for a wildfire and if the company was found to have violated federal, state or local laws.A spokesman for PG&E said the company accepted the commission’s conclusion that its equipment had caused the Camp Fire. The utility said it had since stepped up safety efforts by, among other things, inspecting almost 730,000 transmission, distribution and substation structures and over 25 million electrical components. “We remain deeply sorry about the role our equipment had in this tragedy, and we apologize to all those impacted by the devastating Camp Fire,” said Paul Doherty, the PG&E spokesman.PG&E has been under increasing scrutiny since 2017, when its equipment was implicated in several devastating wildfires in Northern California.The utility filed for bankruptcy protection in January after amassing tens of billions of dollars in liability for the damage caused by fires its equipment started in 2017 and 2018. This year, the utility angered customers after moving to cut off power to millions of Californians to prevent more wildfires.Some customers lost power without notice. At one point, the utility’s computer systems repeatedly crashed as government officials and customers sought information about the blackouts, called public safety power shut-offs.The commission report provides yet more evidence to the company’s many critics who have long complained about its safety record.Investigators identified Caribou-Palermo line transmission tower 27/222 as the primary culprit in the Camp Fire. The tower was 25 years past its “useful life” by PG&E’s own standards.The investigators cited PG&E for a dozen violations of a more than 100-year-old mandate that California’s utilities inspect, repair and maintain their equipment.On Nov. 8, 2018, winds blew through the area around the Palermo substation near the Oroville Dam north of Sacramento. Winds topped 30 miles per hour, and equipment, known as a C-hook, that helps holds power lines on the transmission tower broke. Had PG&E inspectors climbed tower 27/222, they might have seen and replaced the worn C-hook and “could have prevented ignition of the Camp Fire,” the report said. Inspectors had climbed other structures on the line in the months before the fire. But workers hadn’t climbed 27/222 since at least 2001, according to the commission’s review of PG&E’s records.That lapse was particularly remarkable given that five other aging towers on the same stretch of the Caribou-Palermo line had collapsed in a December 2012 storm. The next summer, Brian Cherry, PG&E’s vice president for regulatory affairs at the time, notified state regulators that the company would replace the five fallen towers and one more, but not 27/222.“PG&E failed to inspect the tower and the C-hook thoroughly to identify deterioration,” the commission’s report said.Utility experts found it baffling that PG&E had not maintained its equipment sufficiently, because utilities can recoup the cost of repairs from customers through higher electricity rates.“PG&E’s behavior was unforgivable and totally unnecessary,” said Robert McCullough, an energy consultant in Portland, Ore. “Moreover, following on the very similar San Bruno incident, management was willfully blind to risks to customers. And, strangely enough, also blind to the risk to stockholders.”The report said that in addition to violating state regulations, PG&E had flouted its own procedures. The Camp Fire investigation has also been referred to the Butte County prosecutor for possible criminal charges.After the Camp Fire, PG&E discovered numerous problems when it took a more rigorous approach. The new inspections found 5,000 hazardous conditions on transmission lines, “none of which had been identified previously by PG&E’s routine patrol and detailed inspections,” the report said.Lawyers for the commission’s safety and enforcement division stated in a filing with the report that PG&E must address violations cited in the report before regulators give their approval to a reorganization plan in its bankruptcy case. The company must emerge from bankruptcy next year in order to tap a state wildfire fund that the California Legislature created this year to help shield large utilities from the costs of wildfires.This year, California passed a sweeping law aimed at overhauling its response to the wildfire threat. But it is not clear whether the legislation will do enough to pressure large utilities to improve their safety cultures. The law, for example, requires PG&E and other utilities to obtain a safety certification from the utilities commission in order to draw money from the state wildfire fund. This in theory set up a way for the state to force the companies to adopt tougher safety standards and practices. But the state’s three largest power utilities have already obtained the certification with little trouble. Among other things, they had to submit a plan aimed at preventing wildfires and establish a safety committee on their boards. Source link Read the full article

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Posted: 05 Nov 2019 11:43 PM PST

Joe Biden accuses Democratic 2020 rival Elizabeth Warren of being ‘condescending’

Posted: 05 Nov 2019 11:43 PM PST

The comments, made at a fundraiser in Pittsburgh and in a Medium post published simultaneously online, marked a stark escalation of the brewing confrontation between Biden and Warren.