After weeks of rumors that Reverge Anselmo was riding to the rescue of Shasta County’s flailing rightwing political movement, the Connecticut multimillionaire has donated $100,000 to the newly formed Water Users Committee, just in time for the Nov. 8 midterm… Continue Reading
It may have taken an investigation by the Fair Political Practices Commission, but Connecticut son-of-a-billionaire Reverge Anselmo has finally filed as a major campaign donor in Shasta County after giving nearly $1 million to local rightwing causes during the past… Continue Reading
Editor’s note: New information has been added re Baron Browning, below. Transparency. The word has been on almost every candidate’s lips this midterm campaign season; a valorous but vague pledge to get to the bottom of things and root out… Continue Reading
Last week, Reverge Anselmo donated $200,000 to the Shasta General Purpose Committee, the political action committee that supported the successful recall of Shasta County District 2 Supervisor Leonard Moty in early February. In late February, Anselmo, the Connecticut-based son-of-a-billionaire, donated… Continue Reading
Picture a bucolic far-northern California county held hostage by a band of militia-backed right-wing populists who’ve taken control of the county board of supervisors. With their three-vote majority on the five-member board, their hidden agenda, according to some observers,… Continue Reading
Calling all Shasta County District 2 voters! From Happy Valley to the Win River Resort & Casino! From Platina to Ono to Igo to Centerville! From Bechelli to Ridgeview! From French Gulch to Shasta to Keswick! All 21,000 of you,… Continue Reading
Tuesday morning Recall Shasta members got the circus they desired for their extra-special Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting. It just wasn’t held exactly where they expected it. Because of a series of events following the supervisors’ Jan. 4 meeting,… Continue Reading
Three months ago, I wrote that Reverge Anselmo is seeking revenge against Shasta County after he donated $50,000 to the Shasta County General Purpose Committee/Recall Shasta, the two now-merged organizations behind the effort to recall three Shasta County Supervisors for… Continue Reading
Reverge Anselmo is out for revenge. The Connecticut-based son-of-a-billionaire believes he was jilted by Shasta County a decade ago, after his efforts to establish a restaurant, ranch and winery near Shingletown ran afoul of local zoning ordinance provisions enforced by… Continue Reading
District 4 Shasta County Supervisor Patrick Henry Jones is an inveterate liar. As more than one victim of Jones’s prevarications has commented to me, he just makes stuff up. Case in point: About halfway through Episode 5 of Red, White… Continue Reading
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