Posted on Sun, 05/11/2008 - 09:44 — by Renegade GOP
Lisa, Get your facts right about Guy Houston. Your cheap drive by comment about the Americans for Tax reform pledge shows a lack of journalistic research. I have known Guy Houston for years and he has always supported school bonds in the San Ramon Valley. When you ask Houston about this matter he always states "I think that if local people want to vote themselves tax increases for things that matter to them in their community I am for it." That seems like a sound approach to fiscal matters. I am disappointed in you lack of research. You should have been more balanced.
As for Houston running for supervisor, what is wrong with that? Nobody owns these elected positions and we are all entitled to run for them if we want to. Yes there is the drama of Houston running against Piepho but there are real policy issues between them and that gives people a choice in the election not just the status quo. I find it very funny that nobody makes much of the fact that Tom Torlakson is also running for a lower position this time to keep his political viability alive so he can run for State Sup. Of Schools. Or that he made a deal with Mark DeSaulnier to give up his to give up his State Assembly Seat to run for State Senate so the seat would be open to him. But then again the Times bias against Republicans or public officials that are not supporting the status quo is always the order of the day.
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In the Spring of 2007 a group of Brentwood Citizens met with Mary Piepho at a town meeting. We informed her of all the problems we as citizens had encountered individually with Section #8 problem renters in various neighborhoods. She listened intently..... She even promised to set up a meeting with any interested parties with the Newly hired Housing Director. We all left our home phone numbers and email addresses. Then no meeting was set up. Citizens expect their representitives to act as Laisons with problem departments and to fix festering problems. Mary Peipho failed the people of Brentwood, by turning her head the other way regarding the dumping of Section #8 recipients into new homes in Brentwood, and by not keeping her promise to set up a meeting with the new Housing Director when so many families in all four sectors of Brentwood were being effected.
After several months, the meeting was still not set up nor were any of the Brentwood citizens at Mrs. Piepho community meeting ever contacted again. Some career politicians talk the good talk but never get anything done regarding problems encountered in our County. Its very ironic that Mary Peipho even sits on the Housing Authority Board of Directors.....so it should have been a simple task to set up a meeting for the constituents encountering major problems with Section #8 problem tenants living in 3500sqr foot new homes, collecting welfare, foodstamps and WIC. Instead nothing was done....
Our votes will go to Guy Houston, the individual that can get the job done and fix the many messes that the current set of County Supervisors have created. THE CHICKENS HAVE COME HOME TO ROOST SUPERVISOR PIEPHO......... Many politicians let the power go to thier heads and become accountable to no one. You did not assist us in our time of need.... Guy Houston will be accountable to the people, and will get the job done, dealing with fiscal, socio-economic, Housing Authority problems and the current deficit spending that has plaqued Contra Costa County and added to it's current demise.
"Oh what a tangled web they weave, when they set out to deceive.
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BBrentwood.
Last time I checked a few of the examples you cited like welfare, food stamps and WIC were not county issues. But aside from that, where should these people live? I guess anywhere as long as it is not your backyard.
You live in a city. A growing city. Do you not expect these issues to come with that? Where was your city council? Your local government is your first line of communication for this and many other issues. Did you contact them? Did you contact Guy Houston? Or better yet, your Congressional reps? I wonder. From what I have read and heard this sounds more like Houston's lack of attention and the opposite of what many have experienced from Piepho. Houston likes to appear interested but seldom follows through. One of those politicians that looks over your shoulder instead of looking you in the eye.
If you really want to get Houston's attention just tell him cameras are rolling.
Piepho continues to follow through with her responsibilities where others have neglected them and has a solid record of doing so. Maybe you should read the Contra Costa Times or other papers! No one is fooled by your attempt to discredit her on this issue.
You wrote; "Guy Houston will be accountable to the people, and will get the job done, dealing with fiscal, socio-economic, Housing Authority problems and the current deficit spending that has plaqued Contra Costa County and added to it's current demise".
I hate to inform you, but the record between Piepho and Houston points factually to the exact opposite of your opinion offered here. So I must ask, what the heck are you basing such nonsense on?
Guy Houston, getting the job done? What job-we have not heard from him unless he is stumping for a new job. Obviously you don't know or follow his record or maybe you are a plant for his troubled campaign. You pick, ...I already have.
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Lisa, Your article about Ron Nehring's letter to John Chiang requesting an investigation of Al Franken highlights Republican corruption. John Chiang should investigate Jeff Denham, Guy Houston, and Tom McClintock, for using taxpayer money for their campaigns. As you pointed out, Guy Houston spent nearly one million dollars of taxpayers money on postage to send out campaign literature. Highlighting Guy Houston’s Republican campaign finance corruption was on point, but does not go far enough. Republican scandals are surfacing across the state. Republican candidates are collecting donations from one declared race and then in a bait and switch, move the money to a different campaign. County Republican central committees are funneling far more than the $5,000 limitation to their state legislative candidates, effectively laundering money and coordinating for in-kind donations. Probably the worst case is Placer County Republican party where in the congressional race they are trading John Dootlittle (of the Abramhof fundraising corruption scandal) for Tom McClintock of equally dubious principles. Like Julie Doolittle’s fundraising for her family’s expenses, Tom McClintock’s taking tax free per diem from his California Senate office may not be technically illegal, but it speaks volumes about the lack of character pervasive in the Republican party. As you pointed out, it may not be illegal for Guy Houston to spend a million dollars of taxpayer money to mail out campaign fliers from his Assembly office, however it puts him in the same category as John Doolittle, Jeff Denham, and Tom McClintock. By conspiring to covertly pass hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and in-kind donations through the Republican party, Guy Houston, Tom McClintock, and Jeff Denham step over the line into illegal territory where they seem quite comfortable with the rest of their California legislature cronies. The voters do not want corrupt Republican politicians like Guy Houston, Tom McClintock, and Jeff Denham in office. This is why we voted for term limits.