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Polly Frost's avatar

Thank you, Mike and everyone else who has written on this scam. There's something else shocking to me about how this misuse of funds has gone on as long as it has: where have our local newspapers been during this? Why didn't The Independent do an investigation into this? Did the News-Press?

At one time, Santa Barbara had Tom Stork. I have my own quibbles with Stork's legacy, but he was a newsman. He did investigations. We've only really had a rah rah paper for the Left here for far too long.

The recent overturn with the owners of WaPo, USA Today and the LA Times refusing to endorse Kamala Harris is a victory that I personally have been celebrating. It's as huge a take back of American values as Trump's victory would/will be. And Trump is a major part of this media awakening, in fact without Trump and without the TDS that those newspapers became guilty of enflaming, it wouldn't have happened, the public wouldn't have become suspicious of the media.

We need this on the local as well as national level. How great it would be if Marianne Partridge suddenly did a Jeff Bezos and wrote in her paper as he did in WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/

So thank you to Jim Buckley and James Fenkner and the columnists for Santa Barbara Current. I hope you all already see a victory, whatever the outcome on November 5th is. And that's you helping to make American journalism great again. It's always had its flaws, but what it became during the last eight years is simply garbage and propaganda.

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Thomas John's avatar

Thank you Mr. Stoker for laying out some of the relevant history on this Measure.

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