The revelations coming to the forefront regarding some of the funding for “USAID” is truly shocking and disturbing. Granted, the work by Musk and his posse of 20 year olds is just beginning and subject to verification and review but, if half is true, we really have an issue…talk about a constitutional crisis! The idea that the Biden administration was paying off media outlets like Politico, in return for favorable news coverage, shouldn’t surprise anyone and explains a lot, ie Biden good, orange man bad. Other allegations include, the CIA use of USAID as some kind of clandestine piggy bank in order to spread misinformation and propaganda about various countries and leaders around the world is not surprising and standard operating procedure for the intelligence agency. Also, disclosed was the CIA’s involvement with Trump’s impeachment proceedings by virtue of spreading false misinformation and apparently trying to frame our President is equally alarming.
Much of the reported spending by USAID involves outrageous activities involving drag shows, transgender promotion and LGBTQ interests in general, most of which was coordinated by the US State Department. Why is this? Why has our State Department lobbied so hard around the world for LGBTQ drag shows, comic books, rainbow flags over our embassies and experimental studies on trans mice? Seriously, you can’t make this up.
Marco Rubio, like Rex Tillerson found out the hard way, the US Department of State is out of control in spreading anti American propaganda and promotion of LGBTQ acceptance around the world. I wonder how this is working out in Africa and Islamic countries?
Also revealed, was the use of USAID in Soros funded efforts to give aid and support to violent criminals. So let me get this right, taxpayers funding Soros groups to undermine our own criminal justice system? Never mind the Chinese and Russians, the destruction of our country is coming from within. What a surprise. We now know who the enemy is and it is us, but more specifically, the liberal left.
This is a great new feature for the current! The letters to the editor segment of the News press used to be my favorite. I hope it continues and flourishes as it should. The regular people of this country often have the most original and heartfelt observations.
Brian, Celeste: Okay, we had always planned a "Letters" section but I believed that the "comments" sections fulfilled the purpose. But, you are right, letters need their own space, and Saturday is the perfect day. Thanks for the observations.
Give yourself a few days - it's three hours and Benz lays it all out. I suspected much of it, but the degree of chicanery is so atrocious I kept asking my husband if we weren't listening to a Ross Thomas novel. Thomas was one of our greatest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Thomas_(author) and he got it decades ago.
That doesn't surprise me in the least. He does not care about our community. He does not care about Santa Barbara. He does not care about you, or me, or anyone else in our community or anyone around our community. He cares singularly about himself and his own self-interests. Period!
"Letter to the Editor NSAID" and I quote from same>
"Let the Lies Begin"
"Amid the whirlwind of scrutiny surrounding the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and President Trump's administration, the focus has often been on bureaucratic overreach. However, a local story from Santa Barbara County, ..."
AND >>>>
"This is a major story: Elon Musk cuts the cord on USAID."
"Corruption is so endemic to USAID that one can only conclude lying, deceit, and corruption is the prima facia qualifications for its existence."
Ok SB Currentors.
DOGE, or someone just like DOGE, has already been to our Lovely Lil Ole Beach Town of Santa Barbara and there is a huge problem infecting everything. I quote from an EXPERT IN HIS FIELD>
"You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Sound Familiar ..... we are not headed this way .......... we are there.
How many Russians and Ukraines have died and badly injured BY US MONEY?
Over 1.0 Million and Counting ........ another human slaughter.
Howard Walther, Member of a Military Family
PS1- How much of that Money sent to Ukraine came from USAID>ALOT!!!
You wanna do good and promote your cause? If so, the first thing you gotta do is WIN! How? Any way possible! Promise the people what they want to hear . . . only _then_ can you get in and make / change the way things are done.
“At the 11th hour, Democrat Senator Harry Reid intentionally and falsely maligned the 2012 GOP President candidate Mitt Romney for not paying any income taxes.. When Reid got caught in his 11th hour lie, Reid infamously said, ..... “Well we won, didn't we?” Good for him - that’s _how_ you WIN!
I’m about 2 steps to the right of John Wayne when it comes to conservative American principles, but if I wanted to be able to promote my agenda here would be my election platform:
“Hello folks, most politicians are crooked and don’t care about you - they’re just out to steal your money. If you elect me the first thing I’ll do is make a bill giving everyone $1,000 cash and eliminate all taxes - ”
Who would choke on these stupid election promises? Thoughtful, intelligent, educated voters - about 10% of the electorate. Who would vote for a politician making these ridiculous claims? The other 90% of the morons who make up the rest of the voters!
In the midst of all the USAID scandals, I wanted to thank Chris Anderson for writing about the dangerous e-bike behavior on sidewalks. Years ago before e-bikes my mom was hit by a cyclist as she was crossing State Street. My mom was obeying the walk light, the cyclist was in the wrong. She had to go to the ER. No one needs this treatment. I'm pro cycling, but anti the ones who consider it their right to endanger pedestrians and drivers. But the cycling lobby often acts as though they are morally superior and doing us all a favor. Enough.
Someone here says chicanery is afoot, I say malarkey. If you deleted the words Democrats and far left from this article and the comments you wouldn’t know which side was being written about. Both sides are more or less alike. Although, the Republicans have an edge on corruption, lying, and just downright meaness and nastiness.
Why has trump given power and control to a foreigner? This man is creating chaos and destruction to our government, and even the Republican Congress doesn’t seem to care.
You make these remarks about the character of people. You never address what's actually going on. As I've dealt with your antagonism towards me here I've been overwhelmed by your ignorance. You know absolutely nothing. Go learn something about USAID - the Mike Benz/Joe Rogan interview will tell you a lot. And don't do your ridiculous thing of saying it's all interchangeable - that truly shows how stubbornly ignorant you are. You are among very nice, educated, informed people here. Stop carrying on. You contribute nothing.
You say, I make remarks about people’s character, my remarks are according to the character they’re showing. I try to keep it courteous. Truthfully I don’t know a lot about USAID, but I’m learning, except that by downsizing this department a lot of people around the world will suffer. As for Joe Rogan, all I know about him is that he was a TV game show host of The Fear Factor, where they had people doing a lot of crazy scary stuff.
I’m sorry but It’s not always about you Polly. You’re not the only person whose comments I respond to. I’m sorry if you think they’re antagonistic. Don’t you get tired of everybody always agreeing with you? You say you’re among very nice, educated, informed people, so why are the majority of these people calling me ignorant, and the like, all the time? There is a saying, something like, being educated does not cure ignorance.
Thank you Thomas Cole for exposing the very specific nature of the Democrat Mean Machine which chills anyone not chosen up front by the Democrat party apparatus to run for office, and then live to tell about it. We saw this with most the vivid grotesqueness in the last Lois Capps vs Chris Mitchum election.
And we continue to see this in subsequent local elections too - more recently h Democrat operatives attempt to keep Christie Lizzano from even appearing on the ballot for County Schools. Economic lawfare: drain any local grass roots campaign monies upfront to even appear on a ballot.
But I did not know how or who was operating and funding this level of the local Democrat mean machine. And I honestly do not think even Lois, who is personally a decent person in many ways, ...... "approved of these messages" ...... taken out to portray Chris Mitchum in the very worst possible light.
Not unlike the recent oddly-funded Adam Schiff attacks on Steve Garvey to intentionally skew the GOP primary election, since the Schiff forces assumed Garvey would be the easiest to beat in the general election. So they moved in pre-emptively to label him as the Trumpy Candidate - too conservative for California. But in fact, Schiff wanted Garvey to win the primary. And he had thee funding to run this manipulative two for one hit piece.
Can any Democrat honestly pretend they support "free and fair elections" when they get outside funding to run such malicious and manipulative campaigns upfront? Or when at the 11th hour, Democrat Senator Harry Reid intentionally and falsely maligned the 2012 GOP President candidate Mitt Romney for not paying any income taxes
When Reid got caught in his 11th hour lie, Reid infamously said, .....well we won, didn't we? Talk about ends justifying the means.
I agree except about Lois Capps. A decent person would have stood up and said “I want no part of this smear campaign.” The Capps are/were all worthless parasites.
What Jules? “Musk apparently supported apartheid”? Do you even know or understand how ignorant you sound or do you just like to hear yourself? Elon Musk left S. Africa when he was 17. Why? So he didn’t have to serve in the S. African military. If you knew the history of S.Africa you would know it replaced one racist apartheid regime with another. Under the ANC, S. Africa is now a cesspool of racism, corruption, incompetence and criminality. In fact, it’s so awful they can’t even keep the lights on or food on the table because they (blacks) target white farmers. Yes, Musk continues to be the wealthiest, smartest, most brilliant African American! Is that what triggers you?
A good friend had his son (4 years old) hit by an ev-bike. My God Son fortunately only had bruises and a sore knee.
The anti car crowd that includes every bike shop that sells ev-motorcycles, Move (aka bike boys), Strong Santa Barbara, and the CEC have championed them. They are dangerous on the Streets, are rode on sidewalks, and in bike paths intended for pedal bikes.
When doe it end? When do the cities promoting narrowed streets and congestion stop hiring hired guns with political agendas and puff up about how they are for the community...?
To whom it may concern, I am really hoping this is fake news. Apparently, the felon-in- chief is now looking to fire the board of the Kennedy Center and insert himself and his lackeys in place.
This one is a little more disturbing, but since the liar-in-chief is getting rid of all the brown and black immigrants, he’s going to replace them with White South Africans, who I’m sure also have money. He wants to “resettle” them here in the United States under the refugee act. I wonder if this wasn’t the plan all along? Supposedly they are being discriminated against in South Africa. Needless to say a good portion of the the immigrants being hunted and deported are actual refugees, who aren’t allowed to have a hearing to determine refugee status.
Musk was raised in South Africa during apartheid, which he apparently supported. Why is trump even involved in this? I wonder who put this bug in his ear? He’s trying to run and rule the world, but there hasn’t been much mention of controlling inflation since being elected. He said America first but he’s got his nose in everything except what Americans elected him for.
I had the opportunity to sit in on the Santa Barbara County Supervisors meeting on February 4h and listen to over an hour of high-level bureaucratic discussion by the 5G company that will be putting up cell towers throughout Santa Barbara County in the coming years.
The committee - chaired by Laura Capps, listened to company Director Mr. Tuttle discuss elements of changes in SB -9 codes, zoning ordinances, single and multiple family "dwellings", lot splits, ADUs, parcels, county review processes, etc.
Had I had the opportunity to get to the microphone, I would have taken a different tact than most of the opposers - I would have confronted Mr. Tuttle with the following questions: #1 - will your company declare eminent domain on any piece of land owned by a corporation or a private residence as you prepare to install your towers? #2 - the county of Santa Barbara (or any governmental agency) in your words, Mr. Tuttle - has the right to refuse a contract based on public health and safety issues. So, my second question is - has your company ever had any fire issues, sparking or energy pulses throughout any of your systems that are already installed which may fall into this safety category? #3 - has your company ever been involved in any previous litigation with any other municipality that you have contracted with to install your towers?
Mr. Tuttle did a masterful job of deflecting concerns based on previous codes, mandates, and contracts. What he did not do was discuss any element of concern for public health regarding RF emissions from 5G towers - which are known to impact biological health and may increase the risk of cancer over time. Of course, he just wanted the county supervisors to pass his proposal - which they did. One of the community members stated that if anything does go wrong, it would be over 30 years before any contractual changes could be made, based on previous agreements with communities such as Malibu.
One of the other community comments was on your liability. If anything does go south (and it probably will) lawsuits will certainly ensue. The resident stated correctly that while there may not be any direct liability to the county, each member bears a personal liability, and of course a savvy law firm would certainly exploit that. Just food for thought.
The revelations coming to the forefront regarding some of the funding for “USAID” is truly shocking and disturbing. Granted, the work by Musk and his posse of 20 year olds is just beginning and subject to verification and review but, if half is true, we really have an issue…talk about a constitutional crisis! The idea that the Biden administration was paying off media outlets like Politico, in return for favorable news coverage, shouldn’t surprise anyone and explains a lot, ie Biden good, orange man bad. Other allegations include, the CIA use of USAID as some kind of clandestine piggy bank in order to spread misinformation and propaganda about various countries and leaders around the world is not surprising and standard operating procedure for the intelligence agency. Also, disclosed was the CIA’s involvement with Trump’s impeachment proceedings by virtue of spreading false misinformation and apparently trying to frame our President is equally alarming.
Much of the reported spending by USAID involves outrageous activities involving drag shows, transgender promotion and LGBTQ interests in general, most of which was coordinated by the US State Department. Why is this? Why has our State Department lobbied so hard around the world for LGBTQ drag shows, comic books, rainbow flags over our embassies and experimental studies on trans mice? Seriously, you can’t make this up.
Marco Rubio, like Rex Tillerson found out the hard way, the US Department of State is out of control in spreading anti American propaganda and promotion of LGBTQ acceptance around the world. I wonder how this is working out in Africa and Islamic countries?
Also revealed, was the use of USAID in Soros funded efforts to give aid and support to violent criminals. So let me get this right, taxpayers funding Soros groups to undermine our own criminal justice system? Never mind the Chinese and Russians, the destruction of our country is coming from within. What a surprise. We now know who the enemy is and it is us, but more specifically, the liberal left.
LT you have been watching the REALNEWS and you stated same.
Another good BREAK-DOWN IN USAID Scam is from this Substack>
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzQZTClvkzMmdjxMGrJfnwFqRBbh
"USAID Tip of the Iceberg of Corruption"
How many SUBSTACKS are writing about USAID? It is all over X and other
X-Like Shoutout Media Sources.
Perfect letter.
We, Americans will not allow the Dem crime syndicate to rule over us any more. From local LIBERAL politicians to the lower scum bags Dems in DC
This is a great new feature for the current! The letters to the editor segment of the News press used to be my favorite. I hope it continues and flourishes as it should. The regular people of this country often have the most original and heartfelt observations.
Brian, Celeste: Okay, we had always planned a "Letters" section but I believed that the "comments" sections fulfilled the purpose. But, you are right, letters need their own space, and Saturday is the perfect day. Thanks for the observations.
Excellent letters. To all of you addressing the outrages of USAID, I highly suggest you listen to the Joe Rogan Mike Benz interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrJhQpvlkLA
Give yourself a few days - it's three hours and Benz lays it all out. I suspected much of it, but the degree of chicanery is so atrocious I kept asking my husband if we weren't listening to a Ross Thomas novel. Thomas was one of our greatest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Thomas_(author) and he got it decades ago.
Very good Polly Benz is drilling down on the Corruption.
Carbajal needs to be sued for election interference.
Yes!! I despise Carbajal!!
I have a list of SB Citizens that "Attempted" to see
Salud Carbajal to discuss serious problems they
encountered concerning the "Local SB Government"
Carbajal failed and refused to meet with them.
About says it all ................
That doesn't surprise me in the least. He does not care about our community. He does not care about Santa Barbara. He does not care about you, or me, or anyone else in our community or anyone around our community. He cares singularly about himself and his own self-interests. Period!
Oh, the list of people were all Democrats and/or progressive
SB folks.
I like this newest addition to SB Channel: Letters to the Editor. I hope it continues as a regular Saturday feature. Thanks!
I, too, think it's a nice change to see reader's various opinions in Letters to the Editor on various subjects.
SB Current
I read this article "BANG" by Jim Buckley
"Letter to the Editor NSAID" and I quote from same>
"Let the Lies Begin"
"Amid the whirlwind of scrutiny surrounding the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and President Trump's administration, the focus has often been on bureaucratic overreach. However, a local story from Santa Barbara County, ..."
AND >>>>
"This is a major story: Elon Musk cuts the cord on USAID."
"Corruption is so endemic to USAID that one can only conclude lying, deceit, and corruption is the prima facia qualifications for its existence."
Ok SB Currentors.
DOGE, or someone just like DOGE, has already been to our Lovely Lil Ole Beach Town of Santa Barbara and there is a huge problem infecting everything. I quote from an EXPERT IN HIS FIELD>
"You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Sound Familiar ..... we are not headed this way .......... we are there.
How many Russians and Ukraines have died and badly injured BY US MONEY?
Over 1.0 Million and Counting ........ another human slaughter.
Howard Walther, Member of a Military Family
PS1- How much of that Money sent to Ukraine came from USAID>ALOT!!!
You wanna do good and promote your cause? If so, the first thing you gotta do is WIN! How? Any way possible! Promise the people what they want to hear . . . only _then_ can you get in and make / change the way things are done.
“At the 11th hour, Democrat Senator Harry Reid intentionally and falsely maligned the 2012 GOP President candidate Mitt Romney for not paying any income taxes.. When Reid got caught in his 11th hour lie, Reid infamously said, ..... “Well we won, didn't we?” Good for him - that’s _how_ you WIN!
I’m about 2 steps to the right of John Wayne when it comes to conservative American principles, but if I wanted to be able to promote my agenda here would be my election platform:
“Hello folks, most politicians are crooked and don’t care about you - they’re just out to steal your money. If you elect me the first thing I’ll do is make a bill giving everyone $1,000 cash and eliminate all taxes - ”
Who would choke on these stupid election promises? Thoughtful, intelligent, educated voters - about 10% of the electorate. Who would vote for a politician making these ridiculous claims? The other 90% of the morons who make up the rest of the voters!
Bravo, Earl!
In the midst of all the USAID scandals, I wanted to thank Chris Anderson for writing about the dangerous e-bike behavior on sidewalks. Years ago before e-bikes my mom was hit by a cyclist as she was crossing State Street. My mom was obeying the walk light, the cyclist was in the wrong. She had to go to the ER. No one needs this treatment. I'm pro cycling, but anti the ones who consider it their right to endanger pedestrians and drivers. But the cycling lobby often acts as though they are morally superior and doing us all a favor. Enough.
Someone here says chicanery is afoot, I say malarkey. If you deleted the words Democrats and far left from this article and the comments you wouldn’t know which side was being written about. Both sides are more or less alike. Although, the Republicans have an edge on corruption, lying, and just downright meaness and nastiness.
Why has trump given power and control to a foreigner? This man is creating chaos and destruction to our government, and even the Republican Congress doesn’t seem to care.
You make these remarks about the character of people. You never address what's actually going on. As I've dealt with your antagonism towards me here I've been overwhelmed by your ignorance. You know absolutely nothing. Go learn something about USAID - the Mike Benz/Joe Rogan interview will tell you a lot. And don't do your ridiculous thing of saying it's all interchangeable - that truly shows how stubbornly ignorant you are. You are among very nice, educated, informed people here. Stop carrying on. You contribute nothing.
Right on Polly!
Thank you, Mr. Brown!
Polly,
You say, I make remarks about people’s character, my remarks are according to the character they’re showing. I try to keep it courteous. Truthfully I don’t know a lot about USAID, but I’m learning, except that by downsizing this department a lot of people around the world will suffer. As for Joe Rogan, all I know about him is that he was a TV game show host of The Fear Factor, where they had people doing a lot of crazy scary stuff.
I’m sorry but It’s not always about you Polly. You’re not the only person whose comments I respond to. I’m sorry if you think they’re antagonistic. Don’t you get tired of everybody always agreeing with you? You say you’re among very nice, educated, informed people, so why are the majority of these people calling me ignorant, and the like, all the time? There is a saying, something like, being educated does not cure ignorance.
Totally agree Chris. No license, no helmets and truely zooming by.
Thank you Thomas Cole for exposing the very specific nature of the Democrat Mean Machine which chills anyone not chosen up front by the Democrat party apparatus to run for office, and then live to tell about it. We saw this with most the vivid grotesqueness in the last Lois Capps vs Chris Mitchum election.
And we continue to see this in subsequent local elections too - more recently h Democrat operatives attempt to keep Christie Lizzano from even appearing on the ballot for County Schools. Economic lawfare: drain any local grass roots campaign monies upfront to even appear on a ballot.
But I did not know how or who was operating and funding this level of the local Democrat mean machine. And I honestly do not think even Lois, who is personally a decent person in many ways, ...... "approved of these messages" ...... taken out to portray Chris Mitchum in the very worst possible light.
Not unlike the recent oddly-funded Adam Schiff attacks on Steve Garvey to intentionally skew the GOP primary election, since the Schiff forces assumed Garvey would be the easiest to beat in the general election. So they moved in pre-emptively to label him as the Trumpy Candidate - too conservative for California. But in fact, Schiff wanted Garvey to win the primary. And he had thee funding to run this manipulative two for one hit piece.
Can any Democrat honestly pretend they support "free and fair elections" when they get outside funding to run such malicious and manipulative campaigns upfront? Or when at the 11th hour, Democrat Senator Harry Reid intentionally and falsely maligned the 2012 GOP President candidate Mitt Romney for not paying any income taxes
When Reid got caught in his 11th hour lie, Reid infamously said, .....well we won, didn't we? Talk about ends justifying the means.
I agree except about Lois Capps. A decent person would have stood up and said “I want no part of this smear campaign.” The Capps are/were all worthless parasites.
What Jules? “Musk apparently supported apartheid”? Do you even know or understand how ignorant you sound or do you just like to hear yourself? Elon Musk left S. Africa when he was 17. Why? So he didn’t have to serve in the S. African military. If you knew the history of S.Africa you would know it replaced one racist apartheid regime with another. Under the ANC, S. Africa is now a cesspool of racism, corruption, incompetence and criminality. In fact, it’s so awful they can’t even keep the lights on or food on the table because they (blacks) target white farmers. Yes, Musk continues to be the wealthiest, smartest, most brilliant African American! Is that what triggers you?
You sound bitter!
A good friend had his son (4 years old) hit by an ev-bike. My God Son fortunately only had bruises and a sore knee.
The anti car crowd that includes every bike shop that sells ev-motorcycles, Move (aka bike boys), Strong Santa Barbara, and the CEC have championed them. They are dangerous on the Streets, are rode on sidewalks, and in bike paths intended for pedal bikes.
When doe it end? When do the cities promoting narrowed streets and congestion stop hiring hired guns with political agendas and puff up about how they are for the community...?
The e-bike riders who crash are also clogging up our ERs. There are too many who won't wear helmets. They are also often drunk.
To whom it may concern, I am really hoping this is fake news. Apparently, the felon-in- chief is now looking to fire the board of the Kennedy Center and insert himself and his lackeys in place.
This one is a little more disturbing, but since the liar-in-chief is getting rid of all the brown and black immigrants, he’s going to replace them with White South Africans, who I’m sure also have money. He wants to “resettle” them here in the United States under the refugee act. I wonder if this wasn’t the plan all along? Supposedly they are being discriminated against in South Africa. Needless to say a good portion of the the immigrants being hunted and deported are actual refugees, who aren’t allowed to have a hearing to determine refugee status.
Musk was raised in South Africa during apartheid, which he apparently supported. Why is trump even involved in this? I wonder who put this bug in his ear? He’s trying to run and rule the world, but there hasn’t been much mention of controlling inflation since being elected. He said America first but he’s got his nose in everything except what Americans elected him for.
I had the opportunity to sit in on the Santa Barbara County Supervisors meeting on February 4h and listen to over an hour of high-level bureaucratic discussion by the 5G company that will be putting up cell towers throughout Santa Barbara County in the coming years.
The committee - chaired by Laura Capps, listened to company Director Mr. Tuttle discuss elements of changes in SB -9 codes, zoning ordinances, single and multiple family "dwellings", lot splits, ADUs, parcels, county review processes, etc.
Had I had the opportunity to get to the microphone, I would have taken a different tact than most of the opposers - I would have confronted Mr. Tuttle with the following questions: #1 - will your company declare eminent domain on any piece of land owned by a corporation or a private residence as you prepare to install your towers? #2 - the county of Santa Barbara (or any governmental agency) in your words, Mr. Tuttle - has the right to refuse a contract based on public health and safety issues. So, my second question is - has your company ever had any fire issues, sparking or energy pulses throughout any of your systems that are already installed which may fall into this safety category? #3 - has your company ever been involved in any previous litigation with any other municipality that you have contracted with to install your towers?
Mr. Tuttle did a masterful job of deflecting concerns based on previous codes, mandates, and contracts. What he did not do was discuss any element of concern for public health regarding RF emissions from 5G towers - which are known to impact biological health and may increase the risk of cancer over time. Of course, he just wanted the county supervisors to pass his proposal - which they did. One of the community members stated that if anything does go wrong, it would be over 30 years before any contractual changes could be made, based on previous agreements with communities such as Malibu.
One of the other community comments was on your liability. If anything does go south (and it probably will) lawsuits will certainly ensue. The resident stated correctly that while there may not be any direct liability to the county, each member bears a personal liability, and of course a savvy law firm would certainly exploit that. Just food for thought.
Eric Durak
Santa Barbara resident
Mr. Buckley, great addition to the SB Current.
Looking forward to reading submissions.