Name: PREYINGHAWK REPORT #48: DISDAIN FOR BUTTE COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH HELPED FLIP A BOARD SEAT! FROM FAR LEFT SOCIALIST TO CONSERVATIVE CHICO POLICE SARGEANT!
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Description: THE 2022 ELECTIONS HERE IN CHICO AND BUTTE COUNTY ARE GOING TO BE EVEN MORE EXCITING THAN OUR NORMALLY REALLY CRAZY ELECTIONS TEND TO BE. THIS TOWN LOVES OUR GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGNING AND LOVES THE BATTL

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THE 2022 ELECTIONS HERE IN CHICO AND BUTTE COUNTY ARE GOING TO BE EVEN MORE EXCITING THAN OUR NORMALLY REALLY CRAZY ELECTIONS TEND TO BE. THIS TOWN LOVES OUR GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGNING AND LOVES THE BATTLES. ALL OF THE LITTLE BATTLES. AND OF COURSE THE WAR ON ELECTION DAY.

IN CHICO, THIS TOWN IS FASCINATING POLITICALLY. A CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN FACTION THAT HAS THE "REPUBLICAN IN NAME ONLY" (RINO) VOTERS, THE INDEPENDENT "POLICY NOT POLITICS" VOTER, AND THE PATRIOTS OF COURSE. I AM A MEMBER OF ALL THREE. I AM CHAIR, PATRIOTISM FOR THE TRADITIONAL BUTTE FEDERATED REPUBLICAN WOMEN, GO TO THE NEWEST CHICO EVENING REPUBLICAN WOMENT GROUP (MORE POLICY THAN POLITICS) AND THE FREEDOM COALITION (THE FULL FLEDGED PATRIOT). I AM A PATRIOT IN MY GUT BASED ON MY HERITAGE AS A CARD CARRYING MEMBER OF THE DAUGHTER'S OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (DAR). I AM ALL ABOUT POLICY AND I HAVE COME TO HATE THE POLITICS. IN CHICO, THE FACTIONS ARE SPLIT BASED ON SOME VERY STRONG "ALPHA FEMALES". ONE LEADS THE TRADITIONAL, LUNCH WITH TEA GROUP. ANOTHER RUNS THE NEW, YOUNG GROUP THAT MEETS AT THE TACKLE BOX. ONE LEADS A LOOSE FREEDOM COALITION. AND YET ANOTHER IS STARTING A CHICO LIBERTY FORUM. WHILE I ALWAYS THINK WE COULD GET SOOOO MUCH MORE DONE IF WE WERE ONE BIG GROUP. AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE ARE A VERY ACTIVE GROUP COLLECTIVELY AND WE TEND TO RALLY TOGETHER ON THE SAME LOCAL CANDIDATES. WE TEND TO SPLIT THE FARTHER YOU GO UP TO THE NATIONAL LEVEL CANDIDATES, OR WHERE ON THE CONSERVATIVE SPECTRUM THEY TEND TO LAND FOR PHILOSOPHICAL PURPOSES.

THE "LEFT" IN CHICO IS ALL OVER THE SPECTRUM. MODERATE DEMOCRATS FROM AGRICULTURE, THE OLD GUARD UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, THE TEACHERS AND BLUE COLLAR WORKERS. AS YOU PROCEED FURTHER LEFT, YOU RUN INTO LIBERALS, THEN PROGRESSIVES, THEN SOCIALISTS AND FULL ON MARXIST COMMUNISTS. CRAZY. ALL RIGHT HERE IN A SMALLISH TOWN OF 100,000 GIVE OR TAKE. CHICO STATE UNIVERSITY AND THE FAIRLY EXTREME LIBERAL AGENDA DRIVES THE POLITICAL DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA (DSA). YOU GOTTA GIVE THEM CREDIT. AT THE END OF THE DAY THEY HAVE ONE VOICE. ONE STRONG, CONSISTENT AND LOUD VOICE. ALWAYS ALIGNED.

THERE IS ONE COMMON DENOMINATOR IN CHICO WHICH IS REALLY FASCINATING WHEN YOU ARE OBSERVING FROM THE OUTSIDE. GENERATIONS OF FAMILIES WITH DECADES IN THIS TOWN, SOME ON THE CONSERVATIVE SIDE AND SOME ON THE LIBERAL (OR NON-TRUMP) SIDE. VOTERS ON BOTH SIDES WHO SEEM TO HAVE PERSONAL BATTLES BACK 30 YEARS. THE SAME ALPHA DOGS ON BOTH SIDES WHO HAVE THIS CRAZY FAMILY-LIKE LOVE/HATE RELATIONSHIP GOING BACK TO HIGH SCHOOL.

IN 2014 WHEN I MOVED HERE THE CITY COUNCIL WAS A STRONG LIBERAL MAJORITY WITH SOME OLD DOG DEMOCRATS TO BOOT. MAYBE ONE OR TWO CONSERVATIVES. DURING THE 2020 ELECTION SEASON THE CITY COUNCIL WAS A HOT MESS. CRIME AND FINANCIAL MISMAMAGEMET HAD PLAGUED THE CITY. WE HAD GONE THROUGH A BIG SURPRISE EVENT WHEN THE OROVILLE BROKE IN 2017 AND 200,000 RESIDENTS HAD TO FLEE OVERNIGHT AND MOST CAME NORTH TO CHICO. IT WAS INTENSE BUT IT WAS CERTAINLY NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, LIKE WHAT WOULD COME THE MORNING OF NOVEMBER 17, 2018 WHEN PARADISE LITERALLY EXPLODED. THAT WOULD FOREVER CHANGE THE LANDSCAPE OF SO MANY THINGS. 85 PEOPLE DIED. THE TOWN WAS LITERALLY BURNED TO THE GROUND INCLUDING SCHOOLS, EMPLOYERS, THE HOSPITAL. IT WAS A RETIREMENT COMMUNITY SO MOST IMPACTED WERE SENIORS. EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CHICO WAS IMPACTED. MANY PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN CHICO WORKED IN PARADISE SO THEY HAD A HOME BUT NO JOB. AND MANY MORE PARADISE RESIDENTS WORKED IN CHICO.AND NOW THEY HAVE A JOB BUT NO HOME. STUDENTS IN PARADISE WOULD NEED TO GO TO SCHOOL IN CHICO. MANY COLLEGE STUDENTS IN CHICO LIVED IN PARADISE. FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DID NOT LOSE THEIR HOME THEY LOST A GROCERY STORE, PHARMACY, ELKS LODGE, ETC. IT WAS INSANE. HARD TO DESCRIBE. THEY MADE MOVIES ABOUT IT. THERE ARE STILL OPEN EMERGENCY POWERS FROM IT AT THE COUNTY AND PEOPLE ARE STILL NOT FULLY REIMBURSED FROM PG&E. OR THERE IS A LOT OF FRAUD GOING ON.

FROM A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE IT WOULD FOREVER CHANGE THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE. WHEN THE CENSUS CAME OUT IN 2020 THE POPULATION HAD DROPPED 50% AND THE DISTRICTS MUST BALANCE. THIS WAS A HUGE SHIFT. MY NEIGHBORHOOD WAS NOW "RURAL/AG" AND I AM IN THE PARADISE DISTRICT (VS THE URBAN DISTRICT WITH CHICO). BECAUSE OF THE PRESSURE THAT THIS EMERGENCY PUT ON CITY LEADERS, THE MAYOR ESPECIALLY, WOULD SHAKE UP THE COUNCIL, FLIP IT UPSIDE DOWN, AND THEN YET AGAIN. RANDALL STONE WENT ROGUE AND TOOK HIS JOB BEYOND THE DESCRIPTION. THE OPPORTUNITY TO TURN THE "MAYOR" TITLE INTO A REAL MAYOR JOB (WHICH CHICO DIDN'T HAVE). HE WAS EITHER ABSENT OR ROGUE. EITHER WAY, HE WAS ALMOST RECALLED BUT DID LOSE THE MAYOR TITLE. THERE WERE SO MANY HOMELESS BUT NOT THE "NORMAL" HOMELESS. THE OLD SEARS BUILDING IN THE CHICO MALL BECAME FEMA HEADQUARTERS. THE FAIRGROUNDS WERE THE HEADQUARTERS FOR EVERY FIRE AND RESCUE AGENCY. THE PRESIDENT AT THE TIME, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, WOULD VISIT AND ONCE AGAIN, ONE LITTLE ACTION OR WORD AND HE WAS SLAUGHTERED IN THE MEDIA AND IT THREW A MONKEY WRENCH IN THE 2020 ELECTION. HE MENTIONED HOW FINLAND "SWEPT" THEIR PINE NEEDLES TO REDUCE RISK OF FOREST FIRES AND AFTER THAT THE LEFT HAD ALL SORTS OF LITTLE RAKES AND BROOMS THAT THEY DANCED AROUND WITH MOCKING THE MAN. I THINK HE EVEN BOTCHED THE NAME OF THE TOWN.... LIKE PRESENT OR SOMETHING... NOT PARADISE. BY THE TIME 2020 CAME AROUND THERE WAS SO MANY THINGS HAD CHANGED AND NOBODY WAS HAPPY WITH THE COUNCIL. AND TO ADD A BIT OF EXTRA FUN, THE CITY WAS FORCED TO DIVIDE THE CITY INTO DISTRICTS. WE WERE TOO BIG FOR "MEMBER AT LARGE" DESIGN SO LITTLE CHICO HAD TO BE CUT INTO 7 PIECES.

BUT WE LITERALLY FLIPPED A 2-5 MAJORITY SOCIALIST INTO a 4-3 CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. THE FIGHT AND BATTLE WAS ON FROM THAT FIRST MORNING THEY WOKE UP TO THAT BIG OF A LOSS. THE SOCIALIST, MARXISTS NEVER STOP POLITICKING. WITHIN A YEAR THEY HAD HARASSED ONE OF OUR NEW COUNCILMEMBERS INTO RETIREMEMT, AND WE RETURNED THE FAVOR BY OUTING ONEOF THE LIBERALS WHO WAS SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME IN WYOMING WHERE HE PLANNED TO RETIRE. SO WE MOVED HIM ALONG WHILE OE WOULD THIMK THAT WOULD BE A WASH, WE HAD THE MAJORITY AND THEY APPOINTED TWO REPLACEMENTS, VOTING DOWN THE "LET'S HAVE A MID-TERM ELECTION" OPTION. YA.... NO. WE WILL TAKE THE REPLACEMENT BY APPOINTMENT.

OF COURSE WHEN ONE OF THE APPOINTMENTS WAS THE FORMER CHICO POLICE CHIEF, I KNEW THINGS WOULD GET CRAZY REAL QUICK! THE COUNTY HAS THE SAME WAR. TWO PROGRESSIVES TO THREE CONSERVATIVES.

THE CHICO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT IS ALSO EXPERIENCING CHANGE. IT HAD BEEN A FAIRLY QUIET GROUP OF FIVE LIBERAL ACADEMICS AND SOME VERY BEAUTIFUL SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS. MY NIECES WENT THROUGH SCHOOLS HERE AND I KNOW MANY TEACHERS. ALL FANTASTIC AND SUPER DEDICATED. BUT THE CRACKS DEFINITELY STARTED TO SHOW FOR ME ALONG THE NORMAL "EQUITY" LIES.. LNES.. OR MAYBE LIES. THERE IS NO EQUITY ISSUE HEREIN CHICO. IT'S ALMOST COMICAL TO WATCH. THE POPULATION IS MIXED CAUCASION AND HISPANIC. VERY FEW ASIANS OR AFRICAN AMERICANS. BUT WITH A VERY LIBERAL UNIVERSITY IN THE CENTER OF TOWN THE CHICO SCHOOL DISRICT HAS GOTTEN MORE AND MORE AND MORE INFLUENCED AND IT IS LIKE SUPERINTENDENT STALEY WANTS TO BE ONE OF THE COOL KIDS. EXCEPT THE MATURE ADULTS DON'T WANT KIDS TEACHING THEIR KIDS. SO THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE FAMILY ORIENTED, HARD WORKING, LAW ABIDING PARENTS IS CLASHIG WITH A STRONG MARXIST IDEAOLOGY THAT IS NOW DEFINED IN THE CUSD LCAP PLANS FOR THE NEXT YEAR.

IN THE MEANTIME, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT HAD TO GO THROUGH THE SAME DISTICT PROCESS AS THE CITY DID. TAKE 5 MEMBERS AT LARGE SEATS AND CUT UP THE DISTRICT INTO FIVE EQUAL PARTS. THE UNIQUE FEATURE OF CUSD ISTHE BORDERS EXPAND FAR BEYONG CITY LIMITS. SO UP TO FOREST RANCH. THE BIGGEST BATTLE OF THE SCHOOL YEAR INVOLVED THE "GREEN" MAP WHICH WON THE BATTLE AND EFFFECTIVELY TOOK AT LEAST ONE OF THE INCUMBENTS OFF THE BOARD AS THERE IS ONLYONE DISTRICT SEAT AND KAISER AND LANDO LIVE IN THAT ONE DISTRICT. SO BOTH CAN'T WIN THE SEAT. DEPENDING ON HOW MATT TENNIS AND CAITLYN DALBY PLAN TO MANAGE THEIR BOARD SEATS, IT COULD BE THREE NEW MEMBERS!! IT IS GOING TO BE A GREAT DAY TO BE I CHICO AND BUTTE COUNTY THE REST OF 2022!
THE 2022 ELECTIONS HERE IN CHICO AND BUTTE COUNTY ARE GOING TO BE EVEN MORE EXCITING THAN OUR NORMALLY REALLY CRAZY ELECTIONS TEND TO BE. THIS TOWN LOVES OUR GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGNING AND LOVES THE BATTLES. ALL OF THE LITTLE BATTLES. AND OF COURSE THE WAR ON ELECTIOM DAY.

IN CHICO, THIS TOWN IS FASCINATING POLITICALLY. A CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN FACTIO THAT HAS HAS THE "REPUBLICAN IN NAME ONLY" (RINO) VOTERS, THE INDEPENDENT "POLICY NOT POLITICS" VOTER, AND THE PATRIOTS OF COURSE. I AM A MEMBER OF ALL THREE. I AM CHAIR, PATRIOTISM FOR THE TRADITIONAL BUTTE FEDERATED REPUBLICAN WOMEN, GO TO THE NEWEST CHICO EVENING REPUBLICAN WOMENT GROUP (MORE POLICY THAN POLITICS) AND THE FREEDOM COALITION (THE FULL FLEDGED PATRIOT). I AM A PATRIOT IN MY GUT BASED ON MY HERITAGE AS A CARD CARRYING MEMBER OF THE DAUGHTER'S OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (DAR). I AM ALL ABOUT POLICY AND I HAVE COME TO HATE THE POLITICS. IN CHICO, THE FACTIONS ARE SPLIT BASED ON SOME VERY STRONG "ALPHA FEMALES". COLLEEN WAUGH LEADS THE TRADITIONAL, LUNCH WITH TEA GROUP. SHERRY GILLIS RUNS THE NEW, YOUNG GROUP THAT MEETS AT THE TACKLE BOX. LORI HARRIS LEADS A LOOSE FREEDOM COALITION. PAT JONES IS STARTING A CHICO LIBERTY FORUM. WHILE I ALWAYS THINK WE COULD GET SOOOO MUCH MORE DONE IF WE WERE ONE BIG GROUP, AT THE END OF THE DAY WE ARE A VERY ACTIVE GROUP COLLECTIVELY AND WE TEND TO RALLY TOGETHER ON THE SAME LOCAL CANDIDATES. WE TEND TO SPLIT THE FARTHER YOU GO UP TO NATIONAL LEVEL CANDIDATES AND WHERE ON THE CONSERVATIVE SPECTRUM THEY TEND TO LAND FOR PHILOSOPHICAL PURPOSES.

THE "LEFT" IN CHICO IS ALL OVER THE SPECTRUM. MODERATE DEMOCRATS FROM AGRICULTURE, THE OLD GUARD UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, THE TEACHER AND BLUE COLLAR WORKER. AS YOU PROCEED FURTHER LEFT, YOU RUN INTO LIBERALS, THEN PROGRESSIVES, THEN SOCIALISTS AND FULL ON MARXIST COMMUNIST. CRAZY. ALL RIGHT HERE IN A SMALLISH TOWN OF 100,000 GIVE OR TAKE. CHICO STATE UNIVERSITY AND THE FAIRLY EXTREME LIBERAL AGENDA DRIVES THE POLITICAL DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA (DSA) AND THE AGENDA. THEIR AGENDA AND MARCHING ORDERS. AND SIMILAR TO THE NATIONAL REALITY YOU GOTTA GIVE THEM CREDIT. AT THE END OF THE DAY THEY HAVE ONE VOICE. ONE STRONG, CONSISTENT AND LOUD VOICE.

WHAT BOTH GROUPS HAVE IN COMMON IS THE FASCINATING DIFFERENTIATOR FOR CHICO VS OTHER TOWNS IN CALIFORNIA. IT'S GENERATIONS OFVOTERS ON BOTH SIDES WHO SEEM TO HAVE PERSONAL BATTLES BACK 30 YEARS. THE SAME ALPHA DOGS ON BOTH SIDES ARE CONSISTENT AND HAVE THIS CRAZY FAMILY-LIKE LOVE/HATE RELATIONSHIP.

IN 2014 WHEN I MOVED HERE TH CITY COUNCIL WAS A STRONG LIBERAL MAJORITY WITH SOME OLD DOG DEMOCRATS TO BOOT. MAYBE ONE OR TWO CONSERVATIVES. DURING THE 2020 ELECTION SEASON THE CITY COUNCIL WAS A HOT MESS. CRIME AND FINANCIAL MISMAMAGEMET HAD PLAGUED THE CITY. WE HAD GONE THROUGH IMPACT FROM THE OROVILLE DAM BREAK IN 2017 WHEN 200,000 RESIDENTS OF OROVILLE HAD TO FLEE OVERNIGHT AND MOST CAME NORTH TO CHICO. IT WAS INTENSE BUT WAS NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, LIKE WHAT WOULD COME IN NOVEMBER 2018 WHEN PARADISE LITERALLY EXPLODED THE MORNING OF NOVEMBER , 2018. THAT WOULD FOREVER CHANGE THE LANDSCAPE OF SO MANY THINGS. 88 PEOPLE DIED. THE TOWN WAS LITERALLY BURNED TO THE GROUP INCLUDING SCHOOLS, EMPLOYERS, TH HOSPITAL. IT WAS A RETIREMENT COMMUNITY SO MOST MPACTED WERE SENIORS. EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CHICO WAS IMPACTED. MANY PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN CHICO WORKED IN PARADISE SO THEY HAD A HOME BUT NO JOB. AND MANY MORE PARADISE RESIDENTS WORKED IN CHICO.AND NOW THEY HAVE A JOB BUT NO HOME. STUDENTS IN PARADISE WOULD NEED TO GO TO SCHOOL IN CHICO. MANY COLLEGE STUDENTS IN CHICO LIVED IN PARADISE. FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DID NOT LOSE THEIR HOME THEY LOST A GROCERY STORE, PHARMACY, ELKS LODGE, ETC. IT WAS INSANE. HARD TO DESCRIBE. THEY MADE MOVIES ABOUT IT. THRE AE STILL OPEN EMERGENCY POWERS FROM IT AT THE COUNTY AND PEOPLE ARE STILL NOT REIMBURSED FROM PG&E. OR THERE IS A LOT OF FRAUD GOING ON.

FROM A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE IT WOULD FOREVER CHANGE THE CITY COUNCIL OF CHICO BECAUSE OF THE PRESSURE THAT PUT ON CITY LEADERS. THE MAYOR, RANDALL STONE WS EITHER ABSENT OR ROGUE. EITHER WAY, HE WAS ALMOST RECALLED BUT DID LOSE THE MAYOR TITLE. THERE WERE SO MANY HOMELESS BUT NOT THE "NORMAL" HOMELESS. THE OLD SEARS BUILDING IN THE CHICO MALL BECAME FEMA HEADQUARTERS. THE FAIRGROUNDS WERE THE HEADQUARTERS FOR EVERY FIRE AND RESCUE AGENCY. THE PRESIDENT AT THE TIME, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, WOULD VISIT AND ONCE AGAIN, ONE LITTLE ACTION OR WORD AND HE WAS SLAUGHTERED IN THE MEDIA AND IT THREW A MONKEY WRENCH IN THE 2020 ELECTION. HE MENTIONED HOW FINLAND "SWEPT" THEIR PINE NEEDLES TO REDUCE RISK OF FOREST FIRES AND AFTER THAT THE LEFT HAD ALL SORTS OF LITTLE RAKES AND BROOMS THAT THEY DANCED AROUND WITH MOCKING THE MAN. I THINK HE EVEN BOTCHED THE NAME OF THE TOWN.... LIKE PRESENT OR SOMETHING... NOT PARADISE. BY THE TIME 2020 CAME AROUND THERE WAS SO MANY THINGS HAD CHANGED AND NOBODY WAS HAPPY WITH THE COUNCIL. AND TO ADD A BIT OF EXTRA FUN, THE CITY WAS FORCED TO DIVIDE THE CITY INTO DISTRICTS. WE WERE TOO BIG FOR "MEMBER AT LARGE" DESIGN SO LITTLE CHICO HAD TO BE CUT INTO 7 PIECES.

OF COURSE WHEN ONE OF THE APPOINTMENTS WAS THE FORMER CHICO POLICE CHIEF, I KNEW THINGS WOULD GET CRAZY REAL QUICK! THE COUNTY HAS THE SAME WAR. TWO PROGRESSIVES TO THREE CONSERVATIVES.

ASSUMING WE ALL LAST THE GOVERNMENT STATE SPONSORED GENOCIDE WE HAVE GOING ON....

AS OF TODAY, 7/23/22, THE TALLY FOR THE OPEN SEATS IS AS FOLLOWS:

BUTTE COUNTY BOS: PICKED UP 1
CHICO CITY COUNCIL: FOUR OPEN SEATS (3 GOP, 1 DEM)
CHICO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: 1 OPEN SEAT (MAYBE 2)
RE IN CHICO AND BUTTE COUNTY ARE GOING TO BE EVEN MORE EXCITING THAN OUR NORMALLY REALLY CRAZY ELECTIONS TEND TO BE. THIS TOWN LOVES OUR GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGNING AND LOVES THE BATTLES. ALL OF THE LITTLE BATTLES. AND OF COURSE THE WAR ON ELECTIOM DAY.

OF COURSE WHEN ONE OF THE APPOINTMENTS WAS THE FORMER CHICO POLICE CHIEF, I KNEW THINGS WOULD GET CRAZY REAL QUICK! THE COUNTY HAS THE SAME WAR. TWO PROGRESSIVES TO THREE CONSERVATIVES.