DeLeon cares for CLO
Regarding Clearlake Oaks and the gentleman complaining about Scott DeLeon and his department indicating that Scott Deleon was not interested in Clear Lake and all of its problems, this is very very untrue.
Mr. DeLeon is not getting the credit that he deserves, he does care about Clearlake Oaks and I wrote a letter to the editor myself about a year ago indicating how to eliminate the problems in Clearlake Keys and the stagnant smelly water. To solve the problem we need to pump from one side to the other so the water is not sitting stagnant.
Because Scott DeLeon does care about Clearlake Oaks as his in-laws Mr. and Mrs. Max Throburn, who built the fancy restaurant and gas station in Clearlake Oaks, and Mr. DeLeon does not get the credit he deserves as he runs a very very good department with many years of knowledge and interest in Clear Lake and Lake County.
It’s unfair to badmouth people that are doing the right thing for the whole community not just one place. So if you want to eliminate the smell put up the money to get a pump, circulate the water to eliminate the smell and this was proposed over a year ago but people cry about things that are not his fault and do not want to take the blame themselves.
Ron Rose, Lakeport
Gone to the dogs
I have shopped at Wal-Mart for 16 years now (I know I said I wouldn’t, but it’s cheap), but every year it seems like the number of dogs in shopping carts in the frozen food section is going up.
Last week shoppers were carrying/petting pit bull pups then fondling the milk jugs. Employees were present.
I called the store. They said “we call animal control.” I explained that that wasn’t the problem, the problem is that the dogs are in the store in the first place, with employees ignoring the dogs.
Grocery Outlet stops dogs at the door, but Wal-Mart can’t? Hell, Grocery Outlet, goodbye Wal-Mart.
Roon Searcy, Lower Lake
What was Rose saying?
If you were confused by the last letter from Ron Rose don’t feel bad, because I was downright bewildered.
Mr. Rose claims that supervisor Farrington “did do his job” on the South Main street issue, but if that were the case then that road would be wider and have new pavement, there would be bike lanes and all those ugly power lines would be underground and out of sight. Instead, Mr. Farrington gave up on the issue when he should have tried to find another way to resolve it, and the results speak for themselves. There have been zero improvements.
Granted it’s not entirely Mr. Farrington’s fault and many others share the blame as well, as someone either on the city council or BOS should have made a serious attempt sooner to settle the matter, the over a decade long delay is completely inexcusable. Mr. Rose owns property on South main and wants the county to run a water line from Finley to serve him and his neighbors, it will cost the taxpayers over a million dollars but might save Mr. Rose a little on his water bill.
I think he forgot to mention that in his letter.
I am completely open-minded as to how we get the improvements done and Mr. Rose is not-this the difference between us on the issue?
Mr. Rose also takes me to task because “Murphy stated that Mr. Rose had never mentioned electricity”, which seems odd since I have never used Mr. Rose’s name and “electricity” or anything like it in the same sentence until now — I’m certain of that. Mr. Rose claims he had the idea of getting lower cost power from Calpine using the Sonoma county power agency as the middleman, that’s fine but he again misses the point: my concerns were that A: PG&E would get a rate increase on the transmission/distribution part of our bills from the state Public Utilities Commission, which would wipe-out the savings (which they did last December), and B: that the vast majority of the savings would go to the county general fund instead of the ratepayers — that was not acceptable!
I tried to give the BOS a heads-up on getting a lobbying effort underway last May to prevent the rate increase, but they didn’t listen to me and now the plan to buy cheaper power is dead, and the new county CAO has wisely recommended pulling the plug on the effort after $10,000 was spent on legal advice.
There is one more thing Mr. Rose should know: none of the fires last year began on state or federal land and without CalFire’s aircraft and ground crews Lake County would be one large cinder today. We can agree there should be more controlled burns on public lands, but to blame the state for the fires is not just wrong, but is also an insult to those brave firefighters who saved many people’s homes and lives.
Phil Murphy, Lakeport
Just like us
For many years man, to maintain a species of rule over his fellowmen, raised (or lowered) God to the position of legislator, sanctioning God’s mandates through the authorization of some preacher who claimed to have received them from God personally while he was saying a prayer.
When that ruse began to wane sequent to the rise of science, an even greater subterfuge was established in what was called “democracy,” whereby we were all to be guided by all of us. We millions were to be guided by ourselves, in which guise we still parade, each voter voting for his own advantage, principally because that’s the only thing he knows anything about.
To be a member of this government, one doesn’t even have to have a college degree in how to govern a nation. And this is OK, for out TVs, radios and newspapers tout us as having the best form of government of all time and place. Plus every dictatorship, socialism, communism and republic claims to have a democracy just like ours.
And just like every other nation, our bossman and all his helpers go right ahead taking care of all our business for us.
Dean Sparks, Lucerne
