Bonnie, I've said this privately, but our readers should know that your columns – particularly this one – are consistently and deliciously subversive. We need more of you. Got a clone?
Bonnie, I’d like to see an article on Salud Carbajal. Note his voting record against women such as voting against the Laken Riley bill, supporting men participating in women’s sports, his lack of recognition (sitting) for those who have lost one’s at Trumps last congressional speech. The man only follows in lockstep and not man enough to stand up for moral and ethical values. He is a disgrace to his district. We need a free thinker, not a token voter who votes as he is told how to vote. Love your articles and the Current.
Ms. Donovan, thank you for your detailed article. I approve of this kind of questioning of the people in charge of our taxes. Please post any results you receive from your questioning
Compensation of our public employees is offensive to taxpayers. Through my career I have worked for UCLA, USC and NASA/JPL. While I consider the universities "government adjacent" NASA/JPL is directly government funded and all share a culture of leisure, entitlement and corruption. Most employees rarely show up to work and when they can be found are usually in the cafeteria licking grease from their fingers and reading Obama's fifth autobiography. Another characteristic is that 99% are unapologetic Democrats. It must be in the DNA that explains how a person can be satisfied getting payed so much for doing so little. I only lasted three months at JPL. My boss explicitly told me that it was not necessary to show up for the hours I was paid for. I quit shortly thereafter not willing to accept pay derived from taxation for doing nothing. If we could only isolate and delete the gene responsible we could eliminate waste, fraud, abuse and the Democrat party.
Jeff, I never would have thought working at JPL would be so corrupt. Wasn't that way at Raytheon. Whether Republican or Democrat, we all were productive to design and manufacture large defense systems. Building large systems requires a lot of organization because all the pieces have to come together to make the whole. I did have to put management "in check" for one component on a system and I became a whistleblower. Not much fun when both the company and the government combined ignore a whistleblower's complaint. The company and the government make deals, such as the government getting a freebee product(s) when a company is caught being on the sly. The employee is completely left out of the loop which was no surprise to me. Neither the company nor the government want underlings knowing how the operate. I'm assuming JPL has a lot of "fat" when it comes to employees, more than they really need.
Probably all defense contractors play the same game of underbidding and then getting well on the cost of changes which inevitably come. Plus the culture of spending every cent three fourths of the way through the project knowing that you will get :"plussed up" even when the project can be completed under budget. These flaws were invisible to me until I moved from a government adjacent work environment to a true private enterprise. The work ethic and the accomplishments and the work satisfaction is night and day. Profitability is dependent only on your product in private enterprise. At Raytheon and surely all government contractors success is a twisted web of lies, false promises inside connections vu-graphs with Wile Coyote physics and maybe 10% how well the product performs for the amount it cost to build it. This is why Musk has surpassed NASA in 10 years with a fraction of the budget.
Well my experience at Raytheon was perhaps slightly better than at JPL but very low work ethic in my opinion. I lasted for about 3 months at Raytheon former Santa Barbara Research Center as principal scientist which is about as high as you can get on the technical ladder. I quit and started my own business. I felt that I was actually discouraged from being productive. Lazy group if you ask me, very inefficient and biased by a not invented here attitude. No focused responsibility, a lot of meetings and discussions over stupid shit with obvious solutions. A real clown show. There were some good people there in the 1980's R Thom and B Parrish come to mind but not when I did my 3 months stint in 2000. I can only imagine it is worse today. I think today they have a lot of foreigners. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
I was at Raytheon ESD from '83 to '96 when designs were created in-house. I understand Raytheon now outsources more hardware after I left the company. By '96, the original core Chicago engineers starting the company back in the 1950's had all retired. During the period I worked at Raytheon, it was one of the more "professional" places to work and provided a lot of design challenges for me. I never worked at SBRC (former Hughes).
Ya, Hughes was always pushing the envelope in everything they did. I did some consulting work at Hughes in Culver City and when working on highspeed digital computing hardware. Taking digital ICs and operating them to their limits.
Thank you for taking the time to research this. The Gov. spent 1 billion dollars on defective Covid masks from China and no accountability. Carl DeMaio is trying to stand up to the fraud, waste and corruption in Ca and could be a good source of information regarding other individuals. I hope they can be charged and found guilty.
Thanks, Ron. There are only two people who haven't returned my call: Joe Holland and the past director of DRI. Before we bought the defective Covid mask from China, DRI sent China their supply of mask....
Hello Bonnie, what I find really peculiar about the greed, theft, corruption, deceit from the politicians is that some are Christian. I don't personally think they would go to hell for this but you would think they might wonder if GOD would judge them.
I don't know if you are Christian and GOD is not about repent or go to hell as too many claim and I don't judge people as too many Christians ignore judge not or you will be judged.
I've heard many bad church stories including three different people saying a pastor and priest told them a loved one would go to hell.
GOD doesn't believe all the Bible. HE said their worship is a farce, they teach man-made ideas as commands from GOD Mark 7:7.
We wonder about GOD because of all the evil. A verse says satan is the god of this world.
Richard met GOD (YouTube) and cried talking about GOD'S unconditional love. It happened at Cottage several years ago.
Ken Johnson (YouTube) heard GOD say I LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOU WILL EVER KNOW.
I'm not Catholic but I've had more signs from GOD than the Pope (we all get signs).
A couple of years ago I had a dream of being handed flowers. It was several months later I found the exact picture and it became the cover for a book.
I didn't promote the book like I should have but the cover is the dream and a beautiful picture. So GOD knew about this picture and who would even think to take a picture like that.
Seek Me and you will find ME: I did and I DID: Ziegler, Ron: 9798640058413: Amazon.com: Books.
Good luck on your efforts to bring down the corruption from politicians.
Thank you. It wasn't written to make money but help others. If you get something out of it and want to tell friends I will get some author copies.
One of the best reviews was from a non Christian. "I suppose from a non-Christian perspective, it is easy to dismiss this book as religious claptrap. However, it is hard to believe that any reader wouldn't be affected by Ziegler's honest and powerful telling of his story. I'm sure Christians will find the power within these pages, and those curious about faith will also discover a truth they may not have realized existed before."
Sure. My daughter and granddaughter are coming Monday but anytime after April 20. Sometime when you are going to be near the Elks Lodge on Kellogg in Goleta I could meet you there. My time is pretty flexible and I am only 5 mins away. Right now my phone is out and my other daughter was going to add me to their plan but they are out of the country until the 24th.
Bonnie, I'm writing these comments to your column, so others here won't have to:
From Fancy Kneejerker: Ok, Ms. Donovan, go ahead and excuse your felon-in-command and his second-in-infamy. How about all the money they've made, huh? Like from Teslas? Hotels and golf courses?
From Harvey Wallbanger: F@sk you, Nazi sympathizer! Go back to Ireland!
From Botweiler2: DOGE must be stopped before the homelessness increases by 200% in this county from economic persecution! Meet at Crushcakes and join the Ganache Resistance!
As always, thank you for the both disturbing and informative article. I imagine there are a good number of county and city employees that are honest and hard working people and would benefit from removing the fraudsters from the system. I would like yo think that some (hopefully many) would come forward if they know firsthand of any fraud going on around their departments.
MB- nice thought “come forward” … to where exactly? Those aware of abuse, fraud, etc have no consumer or taxpayer protection funded organization to turn to. The civil Grand Jury is pointless. Any findings turned over to D.A. Office hit a brick wall. There’s collusion and major corruption at every turn in CA, including Santa Barbara. Look at how school bond funding isn’t spent as presented on ballots.
We’re under single party control, with no where to go.
I guess it was a naive comment on my part but hopefully if the word gets out more and more to the residents (taxpayers) of the county of the gross amount of fraud and corruption there will , at some point, have to be some sort of accountability.
When was the last time a biz was allowed to open and continue operating without approved permits? Never! Of course you could have a permit and still get shut down ie the case of the Cookie Plug in the theatre.
E-bikes is the current green darling of the enviros and those who want to see cars take a hike. So they get a pass
They should be charged rent immediately or shut down u til the have approved permits.
I’m so sick of how the city and county are being run into the ground by those in power not serving the best interests of all citizens .
Keep writing
Ps where do I apply for city/county job that will be pay me a full salary and benefits for not working? I’m all in.
Taxpayers need a ROI for monies we’ve paid for sidewalks and streets used by ALL electric vehicles, and street vendors. Aren’t others tired of subsidizing the businesses and choices of others? A pet peeve:
2x Heavier electric vehicles contribute to potholed damaged roads. Why not charge triple annual registration fees on electric vehicles who don’t pay gas taxes to accelerate street maintenance to every 5 years versus 15-20 year cycle?
My new tire warranty of 45,000 miles/ 3 year warranty was NOT honored by dealer at 16,000 miles.
Read fine print: if local road conditions determined a contributing causation, dealer can prorate some or all cost to replace damaged tire.
Thank you for your insight and information on our "Election Official". It's emblematic of the larger problem...a diseased, corrupted and fraudulent culture in California governance and politics. Mr. Holland could be the government fat cat in an Ayn Rand novel. He has long surpassed his effectiveness for the people of Santa Barbara County. He has become a cog in the bureaucratic machinery collecting a hefty paycheck, benefitting from weighty "benefits" and "other pay" from unknown entities (in a position where it is typically scrutinized and frowned upon...and often illegal) while becoming a scarce figure in the hallways at the elections office and in the public realm. It's long past time he be replaced and investigated for his actions over the past several years. The integrity of our elections are vital to maintaining the public trust and the citizen's of the county deserve better.
Ayn Rand? Bleh. She's a disgrace and the perfect embodiment of the immoral nature of libertarianism. (But she hated libertarians!) Well she's still disgusting like one, and an egoist like them.
Thanks for the information, Bonnie ... funny to think the State is going to investigate the cities. To me, it's like the fox guarding the henhouse. They are all crooked. If working for the city for ten years, you'll have a nice retirement income as the mysterious Joe Holland has shown. It's all very sickening the level of corruption that exists.
Totals for Joe Holland’s entire pay package from2011 to 2023 are:
Was the recent ‘HANDS OFF’ gathering a call to stop auditing the country’s bureaucrats? As the AI audits expose grossly excessive corruption, Is a ‘HANDS ON’ revolution sure to follow?
I read this article titled "It’s All Our Money, Ask for it Back!
by Bonnie Donovan". I have another more disturbing supporting title
"Santa Barbara Embezzlement of Citizens Money" I quote from Ms. Donovan article
"If state and local officials cannot provide proper oversight and accountability, we will do it for them," said U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli. "If we discover any federal laws were violated, we will make arrests." AND “If state and local officials cannot provide proper oversight and accountability, we will do it for them. If we discover any federal laws were violated, we will make arrests.” RIGTH!!
As I have repeatedly stated here to SB Currentor's there have been Millions of Dollars embezzled
right here in our Lil Ole Beach Town of Santa Barbara where alleged violation of "Federal Crimes"
and "Civil Rights" have been committed against SB Community and it's Citizens.
Ms. Donovan also stated "Yep, Santa Barbara is on the List:"
The FBI has been here, IN FORCE, since 2015 SO WHERE ARE THE ARRESTS?
Has the Director of the FBI been to SB?
Has the Deputy Director been to SB?
Do We Need to Have Kash Patel Come to SB?
I think the answer will have to be YES TO ALL THREE.
THREE STRIKES AND YOU ARE OUT Santa Barbara. GAME OVER!
Ms. Dovovan's Article is DEAD ON ADDRESSING THE CORRUPTION HERE IN SB!
Howard Walther, Member of a Military Family
PS1 - There was a recent SB Court Hearing where the Attorney requested to take "Judicial Notice" on TRANSPARENT CALIFORNIA published PUBLIC RECORDs and the SB Judge Refused
to Follow CA Evidence Code 450 & 460 & CRC 3.106 (c). It is apparent that SB County
even the SB Courts DO NOT WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE these PUBLIC RECORDS!!!!!!!!!!
The FBI partners with the city of SB, especially with the Dem city/state governments of recent. I can confirm that from my own experience. And the FBI harassment has carried over to Dalton, GA without missing a beat. Both the FBI and the city are as tight as a knot.
When someone says to someone they are "dead wrong," why go any further? I think there's a hint of bias and someone that's incapable of thinking out of the box. You've made your opinion very clear before, so I'm not going over this again.
Yes, why go further Bill, it is a fact the FBI addresses Police Misconduct,
I use that word broadly. I would suggest you read former FBI Executive
Tom Parker's article in the Independent on February 22, 2020 titled "Perceptions of Political Corruption Too Often the Harbingers of Stark Reality" Was SOMETHING going on in Santa Barbara significant during this timeframe in 2020 that would involve local law enforcement and as Mr. Parker states " This is especially true when it comes to questioning the ethics or illicit acts of local government officials. While spending nearly 25 years in the FBI and convicting a number of local, state, and federal officials on corruption charges, it did not take long for my colleagues and I to learn how to spot those who had crossed the bright line into unethical, and sometimes corrupt, behavior." Memorize these statements because this is EXACTLY what was going down in Santa Barbara Bill and it is a FACT.
"Or are the ones involved not talking because they have been told, you’re next in line for his job? Or, of course, everyone at the higher levels countywide is in on the game, so no one speaks up."
I believe you hit the nail on the head! During my younger days doing business with LA County, I observed how the top position in different departments was a revolving chair, saved for the person closest to retirement so they could retire with the highest pay level that affects their retirement pay. Probably still going on....!
Over time 1/4th of country’s homeless have chosen CA for its abundance of legal rights or other benefits, and exceptional weather. Finding where the money went might end jobs for many paid by our 900+ local NGOs and NPOs, otherwise known as welfare for the “degreed class”.
Will President Trump consider an Exec Order making every county, parish or township throughout the country fiscally responsible for their own homeless and mentally ill as per birth certificate?
What happened, and what’s my and your financial obligation to homeless: veterans, mentally ill, as compared to vagrants (hobos, gypsies of decades past)? Ignorant Voters continue to approve bonds!
Historically, we were told government had no financial obligation for the mentally ill after closure of State Mental Hospitals. CA’s history is unique.
After 1972, during the Governor Reagan years, counties failed to provide alternative hospitals and community care facilities to replace CA State Hospitals that were closed after 1972. Reagan was Governor until 1974.
“As detailed in an internal memo to Governor Reagan from Spencer Williams, Reagan’s health and human services secretary, a side deal with Lanterman made clear that the state “assumed there is no legal or moral obligation to fund, regardless of the total cost, the services proposed by local government”.”
Alan Short underscored that point in a letter urging Reagan to sign the legislation: “The bill makes badly needed procedural reforms but does not enact new financing or administrative changes on the state or county level.”
California would empty state hospitals, and shift the responsibility to care for people with mental illness and brain damage to local authorities. The state abdicated itself of legal obligation to pay for that care and did not require that counties deliver care.
By the time Reagan left office in 1974 only a few thousand patients remained. (Enter First Lady Rosalyn Carter focused on Mental Health.)
“The bill’s implicit hope was that once out, families would care for patients. It was at best naïve. What of people who had no family or whose family could not or would not.
Stockton State Hospital was the epicenter of the fallout 1974 going forward. (I was there 1977 to 1980 learning much via Director of San Joaquin County Mental Health; then learned from Director of Santa Barbara Mental Health 1980-).
Our bureaucracy doesn’t work. Money disappears while front line work isn’t just a job but a demanding lifestyle.
My build tiny 100sf homes & shelters in every county and municipal district plus licensed community psychiatric care facilities. Otherwise, reconsider State Hospitals that served a purpose.
Bonnie, I've said this privately, but our readers should know that your columns – particularly this one – are consistently and deliciously subversive. We need more of you. Got a clone?
Bonnie should take an apprentice.
Amen!
Bonnie, I’d like to see an article on Salud Carbajal. Note his voting record against women such as voting against the Laken Riley bill, supporting men participating in women’s sports, his lack of recognition (sitting) for those who have lost one’s at Trumps last congressional speech. The man only follows in lockstep and not man enough to stand up for moral and ethical values. He is a disgrace to his district. We need a free thinker, not a token voter who votes as he is told how to vote. Love your articles and the Current.
You are 100% correct. Salud, Limon, Hart, etc bow to the Democrat endorsement and campaign money, sad.
I will add this to my list.
Ms. Donovan, thank you for your detailed article. I approve of this kind of questioning of the people in charge of our taxes. Please post any results you receive from your questioning
Nancy, thanks!!
I will share anything I receive when I receive it.
Compensation of our public employees is offensive to taxpayers. Through my career I have worked for UCLA, USC and NASA/JPL. While I consider the universities "government adjacent" NASA/JPL is directly government funded and all share a culture of leisure, entitlement and corruption. Most employees rarely show up to work and when they can be found are usually in the cafeteria licking grease from their fingers and reading Obama's fifth autobiography. Another characteristic is that 99% are unapologetic Democrats. It must be in the DNA that explains how a person can be satisfied getting payed so much for doing so little. I only lasted three months at JPL. My boss explicitly told me that it was not necessary to show up for the hours I was paid for. I quit shortly thereafter not willing to accept pay derived from taxation for doing nothing. If we could only isolate and delete the gene responsible we could eliminate waste, fraud, abuse and the Democrat party.
Jeff, I have another story just like yours!
Jeff, I never would have thought working at JPL would be so corrupt. Wasn't that way at Raytheon. Whether Republican or Democrat, we all were productive to design and manufacture large defense systems. Building large systems requires a lot of organization because all the pieces have to come together to make the whole. I did have to put management "in check" for one component on a system and I became a whistleblower. Not much fun when both the company and the government combined ignore a whistleblower's complaint. The company and the government make deals, such as the government getting a freebee product(s) when a company is caught being on the sly. The employee is completely left out of the loop which was no surprise to me. Neither the company nor the government want underlings knowing how the operate. I'm assuming JPL has a lot of "fat" when it comes to employees, more than they really need.
Probably all defense contractors play the same game of underbidding and then getting well on the cost of changes which inevitably come. Plus the culture of spending every cent three fourths of the way through the project knowing that you will get :"plussed up" even when the project can be completed under budget. These flaws were invisible to me until I moved from a government adjacent work environment to a true private enterprise. The work ethic and the accomplishments and the work satisfaction is night and day. Profitability is dependent only on your product in private enterprise. At Raytheon and surely all government contractors success is a twisted web of lies, false promises inside connections vu-graphs with Wile Coyote physics and maybe 10% how well the product performs for the amount it cost to build it. This is why Musk has surpassed NASA in 10 years with a fraction of the budget.
Well my experience at Raytheon was perhaps slightly better than at JPL but very low work ethic in my opinion. I lasted for about 3 months at Raytheon former Santa Barbara Research Center as principal scientist which is about as high as you can get on the technical ladder. I quit and started my own business. I felt that I was actually discouraged from being productive. Lazy group if you ask me, very inefficient and biased by a not invented here attitude. No focused responsibility, a lot of meetings and discussions over stupid shit with obvious solutions. A real clown show. There were some good people there in the 1980's R Thom and B Parrish come to mind but not when I did my 3 months stint in 2000. I can only imagine it is worse today. I think today they have a lot of foreigners. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
I was at Raytheon ESD from '83 to '96 when designs were created in-house. I understand Raytheon now outsources more hardware after I left the company. By '96, the original core Chicago engineers starting the company back in the 1950's had all retired. During the period I worked at Raytheon, it was one of the more "professional" places to work and provided a lot of design challenges for me. I never worked at SBRC (former Hughes).
In my experience if you were in the engineering career track, Hughes was the best place to work.
Ya, Hughes was always pushing the envelope in everything they did. I did some consulting work at Hughes in Culver City and when working on highspeed digital computing hardware. Taking digital ICs and operating them to their limits.
Thank you for taking the time to research this. The Gov. spent 1 billion dollars on defective Covid masks from China and no accountability. Carl DeMaio is trying to stand up to the fraud, waste and corruption in Ca and could be a good source of information regarding other individuals. I hope they can be charged and found guilty.
Carl DeMaio
Chairman – Reform California
Candidate, State Assembly
Proponent, CA Voter ID Initiative
Thanks, Ron. There are only two people who haven't returned my call: Joe Holland and the past director of DRI. Before we bought the defective Covid mask from China, DRI sent China their supply of mask....
Hello Bonnie, what I find really peculiar about the greed, theft, corruption, deceit from the politicians is that some are Christian. I don't personally think they would go to hell for this but you would think they might wonder if GOD would judge them.
I don't know if you are Christian and GOD is not about repent or go to hell as too many claim and I don't judge people as too many Christians ignore judge not or you will be judged.
I've heard many bad church stories including three different people saying a pastor and priest told them a loved one would go to hell.
GOD doesn't believe all the Bible. HE said their worship is a farce, they teach man-made ideas as commands from GOD Mark 7:7.
We wonder about GOD because of all the evil. A verse says satan is the god of this world.
Richard met GOD (YouTube) and cried talking about GOD'S unconditional love. It happened at Cottage several years ago.
Ken Johnson (YouTube) heard GOD say I LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOU WILL EVER KNOW.
I'm not Catholic but I've had more signs from GOD than the Pope (we all get signs).
A couple of years ago I had a dream of being handed flowers. It was several months later I found the exact picture and it became the cover for a book.
I didn't promote the book like I should have but the cover is the dream and a beautiful picture. So GOD knew about this picture and who would even think to take a picture like that.
Seek Me and you will find ME: I did and I DID: Ziegler, Ron: 9798640058413: Amazon.com: Books.
Good luck on your efforts to bring down the corruption from politicians.
Just ordered your book on Amazon, thanks
Hello Bonnie, I just replied to you email about meeting but couldn't tell if it went through so let me know if you did not get it, thank you
No, it didn't.
Thank you. It wasn't written to make money but help others. If you get something out of it and want to tell friends I will get some author copies.
One of the best reviews was from a non Christian. "I suppose from a non-Christian perspective, it is easy to dismiss this book as religious claptrap. However, it is hard to believe that any reader wouldn't be affected by Ziegler's honest and powerful telling of his story. I'm sure Christians will find the power within these pages, and those curious about faith will also discover a truth they may not have realized existed before."
I was going to ask if you would sign my book after it arrived. We will have to get together :)
Sure. My daughter and granddaughter are coming Monday but anytime after April 20. Sometime when you are going to be near the Elks Lodge on Kellogg in Goleta I could meet you there. My time is pretty flexible and I am only 5 mins away. Right now my phone is out and my other daughter was going to add me to their plan but they are out of the country until the 24th.
use rzieglersb@gmail.com when you know when.
Thank you,
Ron
Bonnie, I'm writing these comments to your column, so others here won't have to:
From Fancy Kneejerker: Ok, Ms. Donovan, go ahead and excuse your felon-in-command and his second-in-infamy. How about all the money they've made, huh? Like from Teslas? Hotels and golf courses?
From Harvey Wallbanger: F@sk you, Nazi sympathizer! Go back to Ireland!
From Botweiler2: DOGE must be stopped before the homelessness increases by 200% in this county from economic persecution! Meet at Crushcakes and join the Ganache Resistance!
Delightfully Frosty. My Democrat neighbor gave me a thank-you gift for having some tree trimming done on our lot line. Crushcakes!
Did you get a Crushcake with a penis?
Well it was graced with a phallus, but identified as female with she/her pronouns.
Written by a Communist who was never taught the difference between hard work/entrepreneurship and leaching off of tax payers money. Bless your heart.
As always, thank you for the both disturbing and informative article. I imagine there are a good number of county and city employees that are honest and hard working people and would benefit from removing the fraudsters from the system. I would like yo think that some (hopefully many) would come forward if they know firsthand of any fraud going on around their departments.
MB- nice thought “come forward” … to where exactly? Those aware of abuse, fraud, etc have no consumer or taxpayer protection funded organization to turn to. The civil Grand Jury is pointless. Any findings turned over to D.A. Office hit a brick wall. There’s collusion and major corruption at every turn in CA, including Santa Barbara. Look at how school bond funding isn’t spent as presented on ballots.
We’re under single party control, with no where to go.
I guess it was a naive comment on my part but hopefully if the word gets out more and more to the residents (taxpayers) of the county of the gross amount of fraud and corruption there will , at some point, have to be some sort of accountability.
Re: e. Bike stations
When was the last time a biz was allowed to open and continue operating without approved permits? Never! Of course you could have a permit and still get shut down ie the case of the Cookie Plug in the theatre.
E-bikes is the current green darling of the enviros and those who want to see cars take a hike. So they get a pass
They should be charged rent immediately or shut down u til the have approved permits.
I’m so sick of how the city and county are being run into the ground by those in power not serving the best interests of all citizens .
Keep writing
Ps where do I apply for city/county job that will be pay me a full salary and benefits for not working? I’m all in.
I agree with you regarding BCycle! They need to start paying rent immediately!
Something on the next ballot?Council doesn’t really care about us peons
Taxpayers need a ROI for monies we’ve paid for sidewalks and streets used by ALL electric vehicles, and street vendors. Aren’t others tired of subsidizing the businesses and choices of others? A pet peeve:
2x Heavier electric vehicles contribute to potholed damaged roads. Why not charge triple annual registration fees on electric vehicles who don’t pay gas taxes to accelerate street maintenance to every 5 years versus 15-20 year cycle?
My new tire warranty of 45,000 miles/ 3 year warranty was NOT honored by dealer at 16,000 miles.
Read fine print: if local road conditions determined a contributing causation, dealer can prorate some or all cost to replace damaged tire.
Thank you for your insight and information on our "Election Official". It's emblematic of the larger problem...a diseased, corrupted and fraudulent culture in California governance and politics. Mr. Holland could be the government fat cat in an Ayn Rand novel. He has long surpassed his effectiveness for the people of Santa Barbara County. He has become a cog in the bureaucratic machinery collecting a hefty paycheck, benefitting from weighty "benefits" and "other pay" from unknown entities (in a position where it is typically scrutinized and frowned upon...and often illegal) while becoming a scarce figure in the hallways at the elections office and in the public realm. It's long past time he be replaced and investigated for his actions over the past several years. The integrity of our elections are vital to maintaining the public trust and the citizen's of the county deserve better.
Ayn Rand? Bleh. She's a disgrace and the perfect embodiment of the immoral nature of libertarianism. (But she hated libertarians!) Well she's still disgusting like one, and an egoist like them.
Thanks for the information, Bonnie ... funny to think the State is going to investigate the cities. To me, it's like the fox guarding the henhouse. They are all crooked. If working for the city for ten years, you'll have a nice retirement income as the mysterious Joe Holland has shown. It's all very sickening the level of corruption that exists.
Totals for Joe Holland’s entire pay package from2011 to 2023 are:
Regular pay$2,610,693.00
Overtime pay$0
Other pay$205,708.35
Benefits$1,107,179.97
Excellent article. So much corruption, where do we start? Joe Holland is an excellent place. The heart of election fraud
You’ve got to have a fake elections employee to run fake elections.
Was the recent ‘HANDS OFF’ gathering a call to stop auditing the country’s bureaucrats? As the AI audits expose grossly excessive corruption, Is a ‘HANDS ON’ revolution sure to follow?
I read this article titled "It’s All Our Money, Ask for it Back!
by Bonnie Donovan". I have another more disturbing supporting title
"Santa Barbara Embezzlement of Citizens Money" I quote from Ms. Donovan article
"If state and local officials cannot provide proper oversight and accountability, we will do it for them," said U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli. "If we discover any federal laws were violated, we will make arrests." AND “If state and local officials cannot provide proper oversight and accountability, we will do it for them. If we discover any federal laws were violated, we will make arrests.” RIGTH!!
As I have repeatedly stated here to SB Currentor's there have been Millions of Dollars embezzled
right here in our Lil Ole Beach Town of Santa Barbara where alleged violation of "Federal Crimes"
and "Civil Rights" have been committed against SB Community and it's Citizens.
Ms. Donovan also stated "Yep, Santa Barbara is on the List:"
The FBI has been here, IN FORCE, since 2015 SO WHERE ARE THE ARRESTS?
Has the Director of the FBI been to SB?
Has the Deputy Director been to SB?
Do We Need to Have Kash Patel Come to SB?
I think the answer will have to be YES TO ALL THREE.
THREE STRIKES AND YOU ARE OUT Santa Barbara. GAME OVER!
Ms. Dovovan's Article is DEAD ON ADDRESSING THE CORRUPTION HERE IN SB!
Howard Walther, Member of a Military Family
PS1 - There was a recent SB Court Hearing where the Attorney requested to take "Judicial Notice" on TRANSPARENT CALIFORNIA published PUBLIC RECORDs and the SB Judge Refused
to Follow CA Evidence Code 450 & 460 & CRC 3.106 (c). It is apparent that SB County
even the SB Courts DO NOT WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE these PUBLIC RECORDS!!!!!!!!!!
https://transparentcalifornia.com/ AND https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/all/
PS2 - As Ms. Donovan stated "Has someone known all about this and hasn’t reported it?"
Oh you can bet you last penny in your SB Piggy Bank that "Somone has Reported It"
The FBI partners with the city of SB, especially with the Dem city/state governments of recent. I can confirm that from my own experience. And the FBI harassment has carried over to Dalton, GA without missing a beat. Both the FBI and the city are as tight as a knot.
Bill, you are DEAD WRONG about " Both the FBI and the city are as tight as a knot"
but I need to get down to what has happened to you. You know at least some of this.
When someone says to someone they are "dead wrong," why go any further? I think there's a hint of bias and someone that's incapable of thinking out of the box. You've made your opinion very clear before, so I'm not going over this again.
Yes, why go further Bill, it is a fact the FBI addresses Police Misconduct,
I use that word broadly. I would suggest you read former FBI Executive
Tom Parker's article in the Independent on February 22, 2020 titled "Perceptions of Political Corruption Too Often the Harbingers of Stark Reality" Was SOMETHING going on in Santa Barbara significant during this timeframe in 2020 that would involve local law enforcement and as Mr. Parker states " This is especially true when it comes to questioning the ethics or illicit acts of local government officials. While spending nearly 25 years in the FBI and convicting a number of local, state, and federal officials on corruption charges, it did not take long for my colleagues and I to learn how to spot those who had crossed the bright line into unethical, and sometimes corrupt, behavior." Memorize these statements because this is EXACTLY what was going down in Santa Barbara Bill and it is a FACT.
There is NO PLACE FOR DIRTY COPS IN THE US>>
https://www.justice.gov/crt/conduct-law-enforcement-agencies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkgaymYnunw&ab_channel=FDCrime
"Or are the ones involved not talking because they have been told, you’re next in line for his job? Or, of course, everyone at the higher levels countywide is in on the game, so no one speaks up."
I believe you hit the nail on the head! During my younger days doing business with LA County, I observed how the top position in different departments was a revolving chair, saved for the person closest to retirement so they could retire with the highest pay level that affects their retirement pay. Probably still going on....!
Over time 1/4th of country’s homeless have chosen CA for its abundance of legal rights or other benefits, and exceptional weather. Finding where the money went might end jobs for many paid by our 900+ local NGOs and NPOs, otherwise known as welfare for the “degreed class”.
Will President Trump consider an Exec Order making every county, parish or township throughout the country fiscally responsible for their own homeless and mentally ill as per birth certificate?
What happened, and what’s my and your financial obligation to homeless: veterans, mentally ill, as compared to vagrants (hobos, gypsies of decades past)? Ignorant Voters continue to approve bonds!
Historically, we were told government had no financial obligation for the mentally ill after closure of State Mental Hospitals. CA’s history is unique.
After 1972, during the Governor Reagan years, counties failed to provide alternative hospitals and community care facilities to replace CA State Hospitals that were closed after 1972. Reagan was Governor until 1974.
“As detailed in an internal memo to Governor Reagan from Spencer Williams, Reagan’s health and human services secretary, a side deal with Lanterman made clear that the state “assumed there is no legal or moral obligation to fund, regardless of the total cost, the services proposed by local government”.”
Complications resulting from Lanterman-Petris-Short Act -https://capitolweekly.net/the-complicated-birth-of-the-lanterman-petris-short-
Alan Short underscored that point in a letter urging Reagan to sign the legislation: “The bill makes badly needed procedural reforms but does not enact new financing or administrative changes on the state or county level.”
California would empty state hospitals, and shift the responsibility to care for people with mental illness and brain damage to local authorities. The state abdicated itself of legal obligation to pay for that care and did not require that counties deliver care.
By the time Reagan left office in 1974 only a few thousand patients remained. (Enter First Lady Rosalyn Carter focused on Mental Health.)
“The bill’s implicit hope was that once out, families would care for patients. It was at best naïve. What of people who had no family or whose family could not or would not.
Stockton State Hospital was the epicenter of the fallout 1974 going forward. (I was there 1977 to 1980 learning much via Director of San Joaquin County Mental Health; then learned from Director of Santa Barbara Mental Health 1980-).
Our bureaucracy doesn’t work. Money disappears while front line work isn’t just a job but a demanding lifestyle.
My build tiny 100sf homes & shelters in every county and municipal district plus licensed community psychiatric care facilities. Otherwise, reconsider State Hospitals that served a purpose.
Keep digging Bonnie. It might be best if you start checking over your shoulder more often as well.😜