So the real question is: "Who's yer daddy?"

I figured I'd take some guff on this one.

I watched about half the video but got turned off by the simpering attitude of the little wanker spin doctor narrating. What I did see was Bush "won"...

I'll grant you Ralph Nader has done a lot of good as a tireless advocate for consumer safety and ordinary people. He also has a big ego that totally backfired when he ran for President in 2000 and...

Obviously since it could not be either Bret's or John's sole fault they both must hire attorneys and sue one another, the hose manufacturer, the faucet manufacturer, the plumber who installed the...

Sorry to be coarse, but how do you feel about an opinion that Trump is intellectually unqualified to be President, is ignorant, is a pathological liar, a racist, and a traitor? Hard to argue with a...

What about the old standby - the tinfoil hat? It's cheap, it can be really creative, and is as effective as anything else. Plus it shows how aware one is of the dangers.

LOL. Proof that the dumbing down of America, at least, is alive and well.

I'll respond to the two previous posts here. I disagree that moving the market to the Community Center parking lot will be a success. It's at one end of town away from the hub of vitality in...

Well, i guess that's the way things go....A few people, worried about their turf, bitch loudly about a good thing, The market gets overly offended and closes in a huff. Now it will be "resurrected",...

While this post makes very little sense to me I am curious as to the reasons behind the cancellation of the Occidental Farmers Market. I thought it was a fun, well attended Friday evening event and...

Let the private market determine how many drinking establishments are needed. If these places are legitimate businesses they will stay in business and if they fail then there are too many. Let the...

Oh, gee, so what if Peet's hangs up a shingle next to CVS. Everybody gets soooo easily offended about damn near every little thing. Don't like it, don't shop there. Simple. Now go out and live your...

When I lived in Berkeley in the late 70s and early 80s rent control was voted in. Within a few years there were no single family houses for rent as owners didn't want to get stuck under the law. Soon...

It's the birth rate that actually causes all these issues.

Well, "Peacetown", this is sure a mean spirited response. You're a much better apologist for failure than you are an "investigative journalist".

The hospital has not been mismanaged? But it can't...

Now that Palm Drive has been absolutely and convincingly shown to be a management and financial failure for the umteenth time (fraud, lawsuits, unpaid employees, me too, huge deficits every month,...

I doubt this bond will do anything to prevent any of the things you mention. What is needed is to pay people who work for a living a living wage, increase taxes on the rich, and support Planned...

Actually, Marcy, Essick is the "more of the same" candidate. He implores citizens to call about tweeker dealer houses and then when folks respond by saying we do call, over and over but nothing ever...

Make sure you have a working carbon monoxide detector. CO can cause headaches and way worse, like death. If the furnace heat exchanger has failed CO can enter the house. It's odorless. Central heat...

On another forum Essick the candidate implored the public to call in to the sheriff if something needs to be taken care of. "If you don't call we won't know". OK, fair enough. Then people brought up...

The River Corridor has already exited though we will be on the hook for past obligations. Unless a big local hospital comes in and makes Palm Drive a local outpost I think the best use of the...

Check out Speed Queen

If you are going to call out Guerneville as a NIMBY place you may as well have some more facts to consider. The lower River area has something like 250 plus homeless. Per capita that is 3 to 4 times...

Nicknamed "Sleeping Sam" for his favorite activity when he became a US senator.....His big claim to fame was beating up protesters at SF State.

So you want our Sonoma County tax dollars to be spent on research? That is really quite funny, or maybe you are just unclear on the concept?

Nader? Really? Why should I listen to the pious platitudes of the dude who gave us Bush and Cheney (vote for Bush, you get Dick!), and by extension the Iraq War, the Great Recession, and probably...

Barry, don't you mean they are "neutral" (wink,wink):wink1:

Very good point. As a general contractor I know I never had to have a business license to operate in the County. It took me years after moving away from Berkeley to get the city to quit harassing me...

If there is one thing I have learned in 30 plus years as a general contractor it is that building departments really want your money. The fees to make simple improvements have become so onerous many...

Tenants in rent controlled housing don't move because if they stay long enough they will become part of the subsidized group of tenants benefiting from the lower rents, assuming the market increases...

Well now, it is nice to hear you only care about the union and really don't care about the environment, that your attacks on Lynda Hopkins were nothing more than pious platitudes.

When our new...

Thank you, Kitty. As head of the SEIU, Lisa Maldonaldo is responsible for at least $82,000 worth if BS hit pieces against Lynda, often using bogus and misleading claims and often having little or...

Yes, it is quite plain that Noreen has no plan, no goals, nothing specific to solve the issues and problems facing the 5th district. She comes up with some vague generalities like pot for potholes...

Please ask Noreen if the support pledge she signed with SEIU is binding or non binding.

And ask if her plan to use TOT tax to pay down the pension obligation is still in force?

And ask if her...

Jonathan, what exactly is your plan to keep the hospital open? Can you answer that one simple question? Is the solution for Dan Smith to continue to throw good money after bad until he too is...

Perhaps you were not aware of the Evans' campaign strategy of negativity from the very start. Hopkins tried to take the high road and discuss issues but finally had enough of Noreen's BS. Since...

What more could I expect to hear from you, Marty? Except what you really mean to say is "If Lynda Hopkins wins the sky will surely fall." or "She will rape the land as quickly as she can, she has no...

Yes, that is exactly what scamperwillow said until she had to admit she worked for the campaign. I applaud her (eventual) honesty. As my neighbor Bob Hunter and a certain moderator wrote: "Please...

I am going to call out "Mouse" as a troll or a shill for Noreen. Mouse has not given his or her real name, joined recently at the start of this election and all of her posts save one have been a bit...

You're the one paid to spin publlic opinion, not me.

And where exactly on the coast was the Dutra asphalt factory? Tell me why you have to resort to such "bullshit" and unwarranted speculation, eh?

And,for those of you who have not been reading this thread from the start, "Scampewillow" is a PAID STAFF MEMBER OF THE NOREEN EVANS CAMPAIGN. So please take her commentary with a grain or two of...

And how is giving the citizenry a larger role in self determination in unincorporated areas, and keeping the tax revenue derived in the district working for that district an "abuse of representative...

Actually, had you read my post you would have seen two fresh ideas that Hopkins put forth. Perhaps a larger world view is in order for you, a possum or rabbit view perhaps, forget the mouse...

Lynda Hopkins from the start tried to run a positive, issues oriented campaign. She is bright, young, thinks outside the box, and has some really great ideas like community service districts and...

Crappy tone, Beshiva? Re-read your posts, you are consistently the Wacco leader in that category.

Yeah, I gotta say I am not enamored with the negativity expressed by these new Hopkins mailers. Though in all fairness the Hopkins campaign tried, at least up til now, to take the high road in the...

I care not about Lisa's font, Barry.

I would like her to be forthright and answer some quite reasonable and thoughtful questions put forth by some of the posters here. She is consistently the...

This just in!!

Vesta Copestakes, editor of the "Sonoma County Gazette" has endorsed Lynda Hopkins for 5th district Supervisor. :thumbsup:

Uh, it's gonna be "elected" Lisa. Don't be so quick to jump to conclusions that fit your (twisted) point of view.