A CALLER ASKED, “So, what happened to your beef with Supervisor Smith?” It wasn’t my beef with Smith, it was everyone’s beef with her and former supervisor Colfax. I took it as far as I could take it by going to Small Claims Court where, of course, the judge was waiting for me with a meticulously prepared series of legal reasons why Joe Blow can’t sue his locally elected crooks. (What we’ve needed forever in Mendocino County is a taxpayer’s organization which could take abuses of the Smith-Colfax type on systematically. Lone wolves are easy to pick off, as I’ve discovered numerous times over the years.) As of this week, however, I remain confident that freshly-elected DA David Eyster will pursue Smith and Colfax on behalf of us, “the people,” as we are called when elected reps need us to get their high-paying jobs and their rides in the big black limos. The Smith-Colfax crime is ongoing because, by cheating on their travel reimbursements, which count as pay, they will draw retirement benefits set artificially high, meaning that not only did they falsely claim travel reimbursements estimated at as much as $20,000 each, they will draw retirement money partly pegged to those falsely claimed amounts, meaning they will be stealing thousands more tax dollars before their communities drive those final silver stakes through their black hearts.
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