Born a 10th generation Oregonian, (5 generations on each side) I have an enthusiasm for learning and teaching new things. After a ten year mini career in the dental field I moved on to research and embraced the social web. Though the internet is far too large for any one person to claim to be an expert, I can hold my own with the latest trends.
I enjoy researching and writing blogs. As the "Internet Program Director" for myMotherLode.com since 2008, I update the website and have a wide variety of interests. There is always something entertaining, educational or inspirational to share.
To the Republicans who joined their Democrat friends in re-instituting the legislative/budget porkfest known as “earmarks” we remind them that the late Tom Coburn of Oklahoma called “earmarks” the “gateway drug” to big spending. And, we would add, that it will call for more and more taxes to support that habit.
Journalist and historian Herbert Sebastian Agar once noted that “The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.”
If Senate Democrats kill the filibuster as they are threatening to, here’s what we could get in short order: massive tax hikes; federalized election laws ignoring State’s rights and contravening the Constitution; mandatory unionization in 27 states with Right to Work Laws; two perennial Democrat-leaning new states with Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. which also disregards the Constitution; and the impractical and wildly expensive to the middle class “Green New Deal.” The Filibuster exists to protect the minority’s rights, which Republicans upheld when they held the majority.
So, what was the rush? The TUD boards sudden decision to terminate GM Ed Pattison without caused by 3-1-1 vote while in the middle of critical water rights negotiations with PG&E as well as capital improvement project smacks of the political activism that we have seen with other actions and statements made by these three board members Pattison is done much for the future of water in Tuolumne county something directors Ballen, Ringen, and Murphy claim that they are concerned about. We are even more concerned that this action clearly marked their intentions to limit grow, by limiting the availability of water.
