Petetit out as PB Companies’ CEO

Unfortunately, no. The total of CCN readers and KVEC/KPRL listeners pales in comparison to those receiving slick campaign literature and being bombarded with television, Tribune (not to mentioned the guaranteed Tribune endorsement), and popular and profitable morning zoo-then-music stations. The political pros are here, this is no longer a rural county controlled by locals. We have never had politicians like Hill and Gibson with suspect motivations as supervisors. It’s always been an R/D battle for the majority but be it liberals like Kupper, Kresja and Bianci or conservatives like Mankins, Ryan, Bracket and Texeira they were decent and honorable advocates for what they felt was best for the people of the county. The diversion of county spending into non-profit corporations leads to further corruption as they compete for these funds. As corporations their books and day-to-day functions are immune from scrutiny. You can call your councilman and ask why the City truck was at the doughnut shop for 40 minutes or why so many workers were needed for a task. The waste, mismanagement and corruption at the non-profits is insane and no, you cannot review their line item budget or operations. It was like pulling teeth just to get a list of top salaries. All of CAPSLO’s budget comes from the government and public utilities required to fund them. Everything they do could be put out to competitive bid and done by for-profit companies (a very small profit compared to a very large waste) at a fraction of the cost. The money they get from utilities is also right out of your pocket. The utilities don’t care what the cost is. It comes from additional rates approved by the PUC, also complicit in the corruption, not their profits. You would not believe how much of your utility bill is diverted. And now the developers are making direct payoffs for support of their projects. When were the supposed likes of Hill, Gibson and Marx advocates for developers? Build in the airport safety zone? Sure, we’ll just override that for you. And I’ll bet the developer got that land cheap because the person who owned it before was told “you can’t build here, it’s in the airport safety zone”. You pay for their water, you pay for their roads. Who do you think will pay for Hwy 227 improvements? Whose paying for Prado Road? Who paid for 80% of the Nacimiento pipeline? You. And the argument is that it makes housing “more affordable”. “It’s housing so your kids can stay here”. Do you believe that? Aside from required affordable housing the houses are no cheaper but the profits are bigger thanks to subsidies from tax and ratepayers. Basically you can sum it up with locals like Ernie Dalidio replaced by people like Gary Grossman. I’d wager that the Hill/Grossman/Tribune ticket gets reelected. The more the opposition more they’ll have to spend but that’s about it.