September 27, 2003
Quote Of The Moment #0019
Mendocino county badly needs a taxpayers' organization. County taxpayers are getting ripped off almost everywhere one looks, this Freedman deal being the tip of a very large iceberg. If I had the money -- and I don't, partly because I have a second lawsuit going against the county which, if I lose, my wife promises to kill me in my sleep because we're in deeep hock to pay for it -- I'd sue not only the County of Mendocino for this outrageous gift to a crazy person they shouldn't have hired in the first place, I'd sue Dennis Huey and Tim Knudsen for signing the checks, then sue the supervisors individually for their major betrayal of the public trust. County Counsel Peter Klein ought to be forced to reimburse the country every penny his vindictive, lame-brained advice costs us, and the incompetents occupying the Country Administrator's sarcophagus ought to be stripped naked and whipped out onto Low Gap Road, then north over the Humboldt County line at least as far as Fortuna. These people are seriously out of control. -- Bruce Anderson, editor/publisher, the Anderson Valley Advertiser.
The online contents of the AVA are relatively sparse, so you'll have to subscribe to receive the full-on AVA experience. But damned if the money could possibly be better-spent! Before revamping it a few years ago, the masthead carried Pulitzer's maxim that, "Newspapers should have no friends." Selections such as this (in point of fact, relatively tame) one give some indication that Anderson has taken this advice to heart.
I mean, could you imagine the Washington Post going into debt to bring suits against the Federal Government? Or advocating (even if tongue-in-cheek) tarring and feathering the members of the Bush Administration, and running them out of town?
Ah, for a truly free press in this country!
Posted by Eddie Tews at September 27, 2003 07:39 PM
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