The Ugly Truth
22 April 2011
Why Napa Sucks! Part Five: The Bums Who Sell You Out
A community's leadership reflects the nature of the place, and Napa demonstrates a rare knack for attracting losers, frauds, bullies and criminals. Whether employed by City, County or State, the local bureaucrats and politicians are uniquely ham-handed, meatheaded and petty to the bone. These are the people who run your life, destroy your business and put you in jail.
When you can't fight city hall, it's time to burn the place down, along with the vermin within. Figuratively speaking, of course.
Let's have a look at some of the rats, and see what they do with your cheese.
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The Napa City Manager receives $237,000 per annum, in addition to the $200,000 one-time housing allowance awarded him when he took the job. According to the Napa Register, this made him the sixteenth most well-paid city manager in California,
though the Napa Sentinel said he left his last job under a cloud. Napa, by the way, hovers around number one-hundred in terms of city size in California.
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The man who ran/runs the State Veterans Home in Yountville developed a reputation for evicting veterans in a summary manner that broke the rules. Because they complained about his management. Old vets had to sue to get reinstated. Meanwhile, the facility meant to serve homeless vets transformed into a high-priced rest home where the management sues for the estates of the residents as soon as they die. The Vets Home did just that to a Congressional Medal of Honor Winner just a year or two ago. Standard operating procedure.
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Consider the man responsible for vineyard worker housing, who in 2008 or thereabouts was found to have squandered his own budget and then embezzled a million dollars or so from the City budget. And no one noticed. The man in question, of course, was not prosecuted--because he meant well.
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How about the woman who ran the jail around the same time who left under mysterious circumstances before or after releasing prisoners for fun?
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Or the woman who ran/runs the Emergency Medical Technician program at Napa College, who was accused in the newspaper of inappropriately close relationships with students, coupled with a harshly militaristic attitude that pervaded her domain?
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Then there was the erstwhile Dean of Something Or Other out there who, involved in the new construction a few years ago, tried to make a wing or a lab disappear in order to punish the faculty member who would use it because the woman had defied her.
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The long-time Napa Police insider who really runs the department whose familiars started the first heroin epidemic in Napa yet never seemed to get busted. Meanwhile, regular kids were being sent to prison for smoking cannabis, and Napa cops were running a crime ring in which they sold the drugs and stolen merchandise they acquired with the help of their underworld confederates. Then they murdered Teddy Dominguez. And a top cop who sets policies here with badges and guns either knows the whole story or is too stupid to keep his job.
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The planning nanny who is determined that the Napa Pipe facility be turned into home for 10,000 new people in a North Vallejo, while she drives poor people from their long-time homes. All this she does in the name of Slow, Planned Growth, quality, low-income housing, and a larger tax base to feed the hungry public servants. She will pass it off as a great success, whatever happens, when she moves to a new community to destroy.
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During his almost two-decade tenure, the District Atttorney has probably exonerated more cops for killing citizens than he's prosecuted criminals for killing citizens. When the latter happens, you have to wonder if a murder was really committed or whether they got the right guy. But that presumes they actually investigated anything and got anyone at all. And then there's that national extortion ring he's running with other California DAs, the bunch of them threatening businesses across the United States with punishing law suits and prosecutions on trumped up charges.
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The election czar who abolished polling places in the Valley, and is dismantling the electoral structure this country has known for 220 years. No longer do citizens control the ballots and their counting, but the bureaucrats do. From now on, they get to tally the votes determining whether we pay higher taxes or suffer new rules. Or if they get more pay.
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The New Technology Highschool honchos who maintained an association with the educator who allegedly gave a hand job to a student on a field trip to Disneyland. Magic Kingdom indeed! The humiliated victim and his family didn't want to press charges and suffer public embarrassment, so the sexual predator got away with it and continues work at New Tech.
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The Napa City Councilman who, after voters resoundingly rejected homosexual marriage in the 2008 election, decided to sponsor a measure repudiating the vote and condemning the ban, which his colleagues rejected. After which Napa incurred the ire of the deviant lobby, that suggested a boycott of the town while local activists proclaimed they were keeping lists of the unenlightened heteros, who would be punished accordingly. His intention, I believe, was to bring us all together in harmony.
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And my all time favorite for now, the former head of the Napa State Hospital for the Criminally Insane who was recently sentenced to an eternity in prison for sodomizing the numerous foster sons who passed though his hands. So to speak. A mere nurse with a Master's Degree in public administration, one wonders how he got the job to begin with, as if there aren't enough pompous psychiatrists around who have had some kind of real education. Meanwhile, for decades no one thought it odd that the funny bachelor with a profound interest in little boys had so many. Remember, he comes from the social services community, rife with all those concerned people ready to seize your children and turn them over to Child Protective Services, who never thought to, you know, look into this little anomaly. He was finally busted when one of his victims came forward as an adult. What a fitting metaphor representing everything they do to us in this Valley.
Savagely buggering the citizens, in plain sight, for their own good.
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