The Del Norte newspaper The Daily Triplicate actively promotes political candidates supporting the expansion of government power and control over ordinary people.
On Tuesday May 16 the front page demonstrated their bias.
The first lesson news journalist students are taught is that only about 10 percent of all readers will read the part of a front page story that is not on the front page.
So in the story on Supervisor candidates Hemmingson and Samples they focus on Samples on the front page.
They also place Hemmingson's photo below Samples. To be fair photos should be published side by side.
In the story itself Samples is described with active verbs, and sentences about her are not passive. Hemmingson is described as a long time businessman. The description alone nearly puts a reader to sleep.
Del Norte News predicts the upcoming story on Sullivan, Dunham, and Moore will show these same journalistic tricks heavily weighted to favor the candidate who supports government over people, Clark Moore.
The failures of the agencies he oversees will be ignored in favor of a rosy future scenario. Sullivan and Dunham will be dammed with faint praise.
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Del Norte Politics As Usual & Common Sense
Recently a small clutch of documents has come across my desk; the contents of which, when considered in the light of this local campaign season, cannot go un-addressed. If facts presented in these documents are taken into serious consideration by the voting public of this county they will pose some very serious questions on the ethics, competence and reliability of one candidate for the office of County Clerk - Recorder.
On August fourth of 2004 a present candidate for local office wrote to Mr. Rick Holley, then personnel director of the Del Norte County Unified School District, and later on August ninth to Ms. Donna Walsh, an employee of the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors, requesting "a copy of all records including job applications, transfer applications, sick leave records, disability and retirement applications, performance evaluations and disciplinary determinations and any other confidential documents pertaining to the employment of …."
The above incident was not the only time this person attempted such. More recently in a similar action, she sought to obtain highly personal and private documentation on an employee at Pelican Bay State Prison. A person known to be active in local politics. Again, to no avail. This second action is as equally well documented.
In both cases and to their credit Mr. Holley, Ms. Walsh and the prison officials declined to provide this information to the requestor. To do so would have obviously crossed the line on personal protections and have been a serious violation of personal privacy rights. However, the consideration of the legality or illegality of these actions is not my concern here. These issues can best be served, through future deliberations, by those better grounded in the law than I.
The issue to be considered at this point by you and I is the fitness of this candidate to hold a public office of trust in our community.
To this consideration the facts noted above raise three serious questions on this candidate's aspirations for the office of County Clerk - Recorder:
1. Why? Why would she need the personal and private records of a particular public servant and a particular employee at a penal institution? If not to, with biased malice and partisan forethought, realize an unethical intent to assassinate the character and harm the standing of two citizens in our community.
2. How could someone, aspiring to a public office in our community be so colossally ignorant of fundamental public law?
3. Can any of us truthfully vote someone to County Clerk - Recorder who has demonstrated questionable ethics, colossal incompetence and an unabashed disregard for the honesty, un-biasness and nonpartisanship required of this position?
I believe this answer to be self evident, yet yours to make at the polls.
ALT
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