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Random thoughts And those people are allowed to vote ...
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My little dog Sadie took me on a very
long walk through our little part of the world last Sunday and we marveled at how many "Open House" signs we saw. I wondered if there were more houses for sale than usual in Sanger. But Sadie suggested there are prob- ably just more aggressive realtors than usual.
That may be true because we recently received a couple of cards, cookies and a box of candy from realtors who seemed to be commemorating the anniversary of the day we bought our house a couple of decades ago.
In the interest of full disclosure, we don't intend selling the house any time soon and if we did we would have to use a realtor who is related to us.
I'll bet Sadie and I don't get any more cards, cookies or candy. Darn.
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What happened at the May 15 planning
commission meeting was another sorry example of people not allowing themselves to be confused by facts after they've made up their minds about something.
In spite of what they have convinced them- selvesis true,thecityisnotinthebusiness of building houses, hospitals or restaurants -
It was a wonderful evening ...
On behalf of the 1950 Valley Champion Apache baseball team inducted into the Sanger High School Athletic Hall of Fame on
In my OPINION
'O, what a tangled web we weave when
first we practise to deceive.' - Sir Walter Scott
SANGER HERALD 3A THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2019 EDITORIAL & OPINION
By Dick Sheppard
My most sincere condo- lences to the family and ma- ny friends of Terry Herrera who died at only 54 years old, way too soon.
A funeral mass for Terry is being celebrated at 10:30 a.m. today, May 23, at St. Mary's New Catholic Church.
Dick Sheppard
and the city is not waiting until final approval of the controversial state ordered rezoning plan to bang together a prefabricated Section 8 housing complex or two in their back yards.
The city's senior planner David Brletic and frustrated members of the planning commis- sion have repeatedly told NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) protesters that they are no more happy than the protestors about the state's demand that 63 acres within the city limits be rezoned to accommodate affordable housing.
If anyone ever gets around to trying to build affordable housing - or anything else
- on any of the rezoned parcels there will be more planning commission hearings, more opportunities to protest and a bunch of envi- ronmental concerns to be addressed before the first shovel of earth can be turned.
If Sanger doesn't do what the state bullies want the city could face a state imposed building moratorium, have its gas tax funds and any grant money that flows through the state cut off.
When a woman, during the public hearing portion of the commission meeting said, re- ferring to the City of Sanger, "Why don't you build us a hospital instead of all those Section 8 projects," I hit my forehead so hard I still have a headache, maybe a concussion.
And those people are allowed to vote. •••
I hope you'll attend the 11 a.m. Memorial Day ceremony next Monday at Sanger Cem- etery.
It's a very special day and members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7168 who are in charge of the event this year have put to- gether a special ceremony to honor all those military men and women who sacrificed their
May 4, congratulations to all nine individuals who were also inducted.
Also, loads of appreciation to the Hall
of Fame committee, the administrators, teachers, students, volunteers and sponsors who participated in a superb event!
Special thanks to Sanger High athletic director Brian Penner, president of the Sanger Historical Society Ken Marcantonio, master of ceremonies George Takata, Herald editor Dick Sheppard and philanthropist Tom Flores for a wonderful evening!
Harry Yasumoto 1950 baseball team member
lives for our great nation.
See the story on the front page of today's
Herald.
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It was mentioned at the May 16 city coun-
cil meeting that a member of the Measure S Citizens Oversight Committee, Michael Montelongo, doesn't believe nonprofit or- ganizations with gang and drug prevention/ intervention programs - like SAM Academy - are entitled to any of the $2 million or so public safety tax dollars collected each year because "... that money was only intended to go to the police and fire departments."
That was true when the measure was first okayed by voters in 2007. But in 2012 the city council approved a resolution allowing non- profits with appropriate anti gang and drug programs to apply for grant money from Measure S funds.
The current flap over allowing nonprofits access to Measure S money is about whether or not that resolution was carried forward when Measure S was renewed by voters in 2016.
The confusion is caused by city manager
Tim Chapa's unwillingness to allow the Mea- sure S language to be clarified before it went to voters.
City attorney Hilda Cantu Montoy didn't seem to be at all confused. She said at the May 16 meeting that nonprofits are entitled to Measure S money and she would put that in writing.
Will that memo put an end to the apparent incremental dismantling of the grant pro- gram?
Not likely. It's just a momentary distrac- tion. Chapa needs that Measure S money
to help create the impression of a balanced general fund budget as much as Montelongo needed money from the DBCP fund for the same purpose when he was mayor.
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Please remember that Memorial Day is
about more than family outings and barbe- cues and beer. It's about remembering those military men and women who died in the service of their great country - our country.
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taxes, his family and probably even his school years. In the meantime all the nation's problems are effectively being ignored by this bunch of Sherlock Holmes wannabes.
Obviously they continue the witch hunt as long as they the support of sycophantic allies in the media, especially The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and MSNBC. These are willing members of the media who eagerly spread the trash in the Steele dossier and breathlessly reported it as truth.
It's indeed a black eye for America that many of the top tier bureaucrats working
for various agencies became “weaponized” during the tenure of Barack Obama. Early on in that administration, it became readily apparent that the appointment of Eric Holder as Attorney General was the genesis of
such a movement. One of his earliest acts was the dropping of charges against three Philadelphia men for racketeering actions during an election. He quickly followed that with a really dumb “fast and furious” action which had ultimately aimed at establishing greater control of guns.
Not far behind that, we discovered that Lois Lerner of the Internal Revenue Service had targeted Conservative non-profits for further investigation. The applications were slow walked which directly impacted monies which might have been available for the promotion of conservative Republican candidates during an election. Ms. Lerner was allowed to retire with no repercussions and apparently is now enjoying the largesse earned from her government employment.
It appears that William Barr is a trained, seasoned prosecutor and has busied himself cleaning up a corrupt Department of Justice. For the first time in a very long time the average citizen can hold out hope of at least part of the swamp that is Washington will be drained.
One has to ask themselves, if you
were busy lying and leaking confidential information for the past three years, would you not be worried. It is our hope and belief that over the coming months these folks will find no place to hide and Barr and his team of trained investigators will have the wolves turning on their own. After all, that is the very nature of the beast.
But, as always, that's only one man's opinion.
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"Commit a crime and
the world is made of glass.
Commit a crime and it
seems a coat of snow fell on
the ground, such as reveals
in the woods the track of
every partridge and fox and squirrelandmole. You
cannot recall (take back)
the spoken word. You cannot wipe out a foot track. Youcannotdrawuptheladderso astoleavenoinletorclue. Somedamning circumstance always transpires."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today we dedicate that bit of poetic prescience to Messrs. James Comey, James Clapper, John Brennan, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Christopher Steele, Bruce Ohr, andJamesBaker. Inanefforttonegatethe appearance of being sexist and in an attempt to be all inclusive, we must also include Lisa Paige, Nellie Ohr, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Sally Yates, Fusion GPS, Loretta Lynch, most members of the “main stream” media and any other ancillary associates of this gang.
Turns out that bearing false witness
may indeed carry the possibility of legal repercussions and all of these characters are scurrying about pointing their fingers ateachother. Talkaboutacircularfiring squad! Whatappearstohavebeenareally ugly game these players have been playing for about three years in an effort to overturn a legitimate election suddenly has the possibility of sunshine being shined upon it!
Who would have ever imagined that this country would ever witness a bloodless coup bythe“deepstate? Obviouslythosewho practice professional politics—probably begun during the Clinton era—felt they could get away with it.
Attorney General William Barr has begun an examination of the questionable methods and sources which were used to figuratively begin an anal exam of a man who was new to the ways of Washington and the political machinations which are practiced there.
A Democratic controlled house continues to rehash the Mueller investigation,
which after all this time with a staff of attorneys which seem to have been selected for anti-Trump, was able to find nothing of consequence in their mission.
After all this time of being promised that evidence was plain to see by people like California's Adam Schiff there is nothing, period. Yet,Democratswanttolookathis
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