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This & That No 2: From a Cryebaby Supervisor, and Dogs’ Butts in Grocery Carts, to Mother’s Day Remembrances

To observe a classic case of someone who sure can dish it out but who certainly cannot take it, look no further than District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye’s recent meltdowns over legal, peaceful demonstrations outside his Ninja Coalition gym business.… Continue Reading

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Letter to the Editor: Peaceful Protest Isn’t Harassment, but Democracy

Recent protests in front of District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye’s Ninja Coalition business really came out of a sense of frustration. People kept asking us, “What can we even do?” They’ve watched public comment get cut short, seen community members and public servants mocked or denied appointments, even to volunteer boards. Continue Reading

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Part 2: Shasta County Supervisors Kevin Crye, Corkey Harmon and Chris Kelstrom Choose Florida Fabulist Clint Curtis for Next County ROV

The final candidate interviewed by the board last Wednesday, Ellie Leigh Sharp, a Subject Matter Expert II and top-down integration specialist for the Nevada Secretary of State Elections Division, has worked in elections offices since 2007—about the same length of time as Assistant ROV Joanna Francescut. She was clearly more qualified than Curtis, who has no direct elections experience. Continue Reading

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Part 1: Shasta County Supervisors Kevin Crye, Corkey Harmon and Chris Kelstrom Choose Florida Fabulist Clint Curtis for Next County ROV

Shasta County District 3 Supervisor Corkey Harmon can stop complaining about being the swing vote on the Shasta County Board of Supervisors. After joining District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye and District 5 Supervisor Chris Kelstrom in anointing underqualified Florida election… Continue Reading

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County Counsel Drops Election Denier Lawsuit, Crye Picks on SCOE, Board Votes to Demo Old Courthouse

Late Breaking News: County Counsel Joe Larmour has abandoned his legal effort to avoid writing a title and summary of a proposed election reform initiative the attorney announced at a special meeting of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors on… Continue Reading

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The Redemption of Eric Magrini Part 2: The Shasta County Board of Supervisors’ Hit List

When Shasta County Assistant CEO Eric Magrini arrived at work on March 22, 2023, he’d been on the hit list for about eight months. The former sheriff and a half-dozen other high-ranking county officials had been placed on the unofficial list the year before by a new majority Continue Reading

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Adios, Los Tres Pendejos: Emails Prove Supervisors Crye, Jones and Kelstrom Wrong About Elections Contract

Shasta County Supervisors Kevin Crye, Patrick Jones and Chris Kelstrom allege that in 2023 Elections Office administrators and County Counsel went behind the board’s back when they negotiated a $1.5 million grant with the Center for Tech and Civic Life.… Continue Reading

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Shasta County Hitting Fever Pitch as Election Approaches

The beauty of being an anonymous fake-journalist living among the fake “citizen journalists,” the self-appointed “experts,” the politicians, the public officials, and regular folk with interesting observations? People talk to me much more freely. Out of respect for the people… Continue Reading