Does anyone here have any decent connections to PETA?

[truedelphi]

A local politician here in Lake County Calif. has killed the dog of one of his former tenants.

This man is usually above the law, including the fact that several years back, some 300 pot plants were found on his property. Unlike almost any other citizen in this county, he was able to say that he "knew nothing at all about this illegal grow" and go on about his business without any sort of indictment or even any questioning by the police. His not being even questioned about the pot grow might be tolerated, if this same person was not the harshest critic in the world in terms of legit medical marijuana users.

I have yet to meet a single individual who believes this story that he knew "nothing" about the grow. Most people who talk about it give the re-telling of the story that "Wink Wink Uh Huh" and "Yeah ain't it sad there is one set of laws for the Political Class and another set for us commoners."

Anyway there is plenty of weird stuff that has gone on. the statute of limitation has not run out on the dog killing incident, but anyone local who tries to do anything would probably be in trouble with the police or worse. Now again, if a common citizen had done what this politician did, they would be looking at a significant fine, and perhaps up to one year in jail.

PETA might, however, have the resources to make this individual's life unbearable.

[LeftyMom]

1. You'd have better luck with a group located in the Baeria, IMO.

Or seeing if you could get a local-ish journalist interested in the story. The Bee especially loves a good corruption story, and has been doing some ongoing work on corruption in other rural NorCal counties- I bet if you shopped the story to the reporter who has been working on that they'd be interested.

[Mr.Bill]

3. Most of the local journalism, both online and print are in the tank for this corrupt supervisor

and his cronies. There is one online magazine and a pretty whacko blog that are against him, and neither carry much weight or have much readership.

[LeftyMom]

4. That's why I'm saying to try the Bee or the Chron or another regional outlet.

Lake County officials can't really lean on somebody who lives two hours away.

The Bee especially loves stuff like this. I mean, they did a series on Del Norte County. And nobody lives in Del Norte County.

A big national AR organization with no presence in NorCal is just going to kick any issue that gets their attention back to the local organizations, and the closest local organizations of any size and significance are in the Bay Area.

[truedelphi]

6. Which Bee do you mean?

The local Bee is very tied into the Good ol' Boys?

Do you mean the Bee out of Sacramento?

[Mr.Bill]

7. There was a reporter from KGO 7

in SF that did a few stories that helped oust our corrupt Sheriff, but it is difficult to get outside press to travel here and take an interest. We are geographically remote and have a small population. Even state politicians show no interest in us. The state Attorney General (neither Brown or Harris) has given us no help with our corruption problems. I always joke that the only time our Congressman (Democrat Mike Thompson) shows up here is if he is accepting an award or something is being named after him.

[truedelphi]

8. Hmm, I will keep your comments in mind

Should I get a dog, maybe I will name it Mike Thompson, and that way if any one connected with the police hurts him, the dog will be guaranteed the Congressman's attention!

[Mr.Bill]

2. I also live in Lake County, and I am familiar with this story.

We also have a candidate running for Sheriff who shot his neighbor's dog with a pellet gun, with no legal repercussions, not even a citation.

And the county supervisor in the op's story had more like 5,000 pot plants growing on his property. We voted the Sheriff who took no action on this out of office in 2010. The law enforcement in this county was completely corrupt and ran the drug trade. It's not much better now.

[truedelphi]

5. Good to make your acquaintance, Mr Bill.

The whole way people mistreat their animals, and get away with it in this county, should they have any sort of connection to the police, is most disgusting.

I agree that we did manage to get rid of the old bad sheriff, but now we have a new bad sheriff.

I am getting to the point that in this county anyway, auditing through the use of a citizens' audit committee every single thing these SOB's do would be the way to go. Spending time getting rid of one bad apple only to have a new one take its place is way too time consuming.

[Mr.Bill]

9. Like many states,

California's constitution gives immense power to local Sheriffs. The only one with any power over them is the state AG, and as I said, they have ignored our pleas for help.