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10/27/06
Second Hand Dust
PM10 caused pulmonary lung distress

A slight departure from our normal format. This is a message not from "we" but from me. It is a personal note. I just returned from my doctor's office where I was told I have pulmonary distress - something is making it hard for my lungs to breath.

I was ready to blame it on second hand smoke but my doctor tells me that as much as I don't like the smell of my wife's cigarette smoke,  she smokes outside on the front porch and not enough smoke is getting to my lungs for that to be a the cause. Keep in mind that I work out strenuously for 30 minutes a day. And recently I spent 10 days above the tree line on a backpacking trip that included hikes over two 12,000 foot passes in one day. Doc says I am otherwise in great health.

So I asked my doctor what else it could be and he said that if I live in a dusty area, especially if I am downwind of construction site, that likely is the cause. He said it is a big problem in the Valley.

He said if there is something I can do to control my exposure to the dust that I should do that. 

To that I had to laugh. Doc I said, I have been trying to control the dust in the town where I live for over a year.

Dust blowing from Skyborne development causing near white out conditions this spring. Unaltered photo at intersection of Pierson Blvd. and Indian Avenue.

Regular readers of this website know the efforts we have been making. Those efforts have largely been to bring relief to neighbors and other residents throughout the city that have severe dust problems. It is now very personally distressing to find that even in a residential neighborhood that has not be nearly as bad as some of the others I have been working to help, I am still feeling the effect.

DHS PM10 caused pulmonary (lung) distress heading for failure. My actual recent blood work results showing the beginning of  my pulmonary (Lung) failure I have never smoked and avoid smokers and smoke.  Will the developer purchased political favors (of looking the other way regarding lack of meaningful dust control) by the current Weyuker council majority end up killing us? If Hank Hohenstein's quote is true that;  " Our city is is current PM10 compliance"  Then how will he explain the above results to my children? Answer: "Developer campaign donations"

I repeat this website's call. Hank Hohenstein, Mary Stephens, Yvonne Parks and now Dot Reed, do you care about the health and well being of the citizens of this town? I say you do not. I say you only care about your developer buddies. Prove me wrong!

Sincerely,
Gabriel King

 

10/17/06
The question: 
How Did Alex Bias Manage To Win? 
Was it Mary or Murphy?

We want to return for a moment to a letter to the editor that appeared in the Desert Sun that said, "It was only through a series of "Murphy's Law" disasters that he (Alex Bias) was elected."

Someone is fooling themselves - or trying to fool you - if that is their explanation for why they could not win. 

• They had every reason going for them. 

• They had a hand picked vice mayor. 

• They had control of the city council. 

• They had tens of thousands of dollars of insider campaign contributions.

• They even had the city helping them by instructing city staff to remove opposition campaign signs and then ordered them to leave the signs alone once their signs were put in the same place.

• They had their minions destroy, trample, tear up and remove other's campaign signs.

• They even had the city spend extra money to change stationary so their chosen candidate could change her title from Mayor Pro Tem to Vice Mayor - Vice Mayor sounded so much more Mayor!

They had all that and they still could not win. It had nothing to do with Murphy’s law. Anybody from the outside looking at the last election without understanding the personalities would have concluded that Mary should have won by a landslide.

What happened was very simple. Mary was out-voted 2 to 1 against all other candidates for Mayor. She was out-voted 2 to 1 against all the people that signed the recall to remove her from office.

She lost by a landslide is what happened! That's not Murphy’s Law. That's Mary’s Law. 

10/25/06 
Story Updated
The Desert Sun Newspaper front page on line
has posted the tape of the meeting and the mayor's explanation.
It pretty much confirms our comments in the story we posted below
Listen to the end of the meeting (MP3)
Hear the mayor's final comments (MP3)
Read the mayor's explanation (43 KB PDF)
Desert Sun Story about meeting.

11/16/06
What Are The Ingredients For DHS's Highest Burglary Rate in California?
(5 times the national average)

According to this local CBS Channel 2 reporter, it is a combination of meth-amphetamine addiction and lack of funds for adequate policing.  

The good ole boy and girls club (from under Weyuker to Stephens leadership) has purposely chased away new business's in DHS with their very high business related business fees, sign fees, impossible regulations and arrogant road blocking city department managers. The good ole boys and girls club have done this to protect their special interest business friends from outsider competition. 

Our local retail business's are forced to take their signs down to save thousands in punitive city sign fees.  How does this make any sense?  Why doesn't the local Chamber support the mayors effort to reduce these sign fees?  

Not only have these anti-business policies kept our city stuck in the nineteenth century, but these policies have kept our city starving for retail sales tax dollars that could be used for the police services needed to clean up these major crime problems.

Ultimately DHS's answer to these crime problems is "RETAIL, RETAIL RETAIL" not "ROOF TOPS, ROOF TOPS".  We already spend 65% of our retail dollars at down valley cities where they use our sales tax fees to reduce their crime, not ours.  

CBS Channel 2 story here.

09/22/06 
Chamber of Commerce Sides With Council 
Dumps Mayor For Breakfast

Dan Gibbons - Chamber President

They used to call it the Mayor's Breakfast. "They" is the Chamber of Commerce. It was their breakfast they were hosting. But when the council removed Mayor Alex Bias from all council committee appointments and said it also wanted Mayor Bias removed from the Mayor's Breakfast, the Chamber of Commerce said "OK."

Let's be clear about this. It was never the council's decision to make that the Mayor would no longer host the traditional breakfast meeting of the town. But the Chamber decided to take sides and has now made it official. Mayor Bias will not be speaking at the Chamber of Commerce Mayor's Breakfast. 

Most sad is that the Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors has no qualms about taking the Chamber into the thick of Desert Hot Springs politics. This is not its proper role and the action shows misguided leadership of this organization.

With No Mayor, What's For Breakfast?

Without the Mayor, how can they call it the Mayor's Breakfast? Well, they can't. So they have changed the name. A short article appearing in the Desert Sun reveals it is now called a "Leadership Breakfast." 

And with that we are sure you have the same question we do...

Without leadership, how can they call it a Leadership Breakfast? Seems the Chamber is in the same fix as when the Mayor was no longer a part of the Mayor's Breakfast. How can you call a breakfast meeting what it isn't?

Folks, we are not making this stuff up. The power-click in town is far too full of themselves. What's next? Will they order all reference to Alex Bias to be stricken from every tablet, never to be spoken again. 

Finally, for those in love with breakfast meetings - whatever those breakfast meetings are called - it will no longer be a "Leadership" Breakfast. The event will be moved to Lunch.

10/03/06
Ethics 101
Is DHS in violation of the California Attorney General and the Fair Political Practices Commission Legal Guidelines? 

Ethics Orientation for State Officials
(as attended by our very own city officials)
Presented by The Attorney General's Office
and the Fair Political Practices Commission

10.3.2 Stanson v. Mott
The Supreme Court wrote in Stanson: A fundamental precept of this nation's democratic electoral process is that the government may not 'take sides' in election contests or bestow an unfair advantage on one of several competing factions. A principal danger feared by our country's founders lay in the possibility that the holders of governmental authority would use official power improperly to perpetuate themselves, or their allies, in office...; the selective use of public funds in election campaigns, of course, raises the specter of just such an improper distortion of the democratic electoral process.

City of Desert Hot Springs is funding an organization, Chamber of Commerce that has 'taken sides' in election contests or bestow an unfair advantage on one of several competing factions. by removing the Mayor's Breakfast in perfect concert/harmony with council majority punitive actions (stated "sanctioning of Mayor for disagreement) to remove the current elected mayor from the Mayor's breakfast and other commissions. 

10.1 Public Funds May Not Be Used For Personal Purposes
The starting point for any analysis concerning the misuse of public funds begins with the principle that public funds must be expended for an authorized public purpose. An expenditure is made for a public purpose when its purpose is to benefit the public interest rather than private individuals or private purposes.

The Current City manager admitted in a recent e-mail to us that she can not determine if city funds where used or not used in the recently canceled "mayor's breakfast" or the newly created  "leadership (cough) luncheon".  Therefore city funds are being used without being authorized in violation of section 10.1 above and Supreme Court case law regarding Stanson.

10/03/06
Reader's Letter of the Day says it all!

Dear Sir's 
I would like to sign the petition for the recall of Yvonne Parks. I agree ...we need a total change. And I don't agree with the rotating Mayor. The Mayor should be elected by the people and Mayor Bias was!! I think that the city council has been unfair to Mayor Bias because he wants to make things right in DHS and those people "serving the public" on the city council have only been serving themselves!!
Citizen Voter of DHS   

10/07/07
Political Punching Bag - Not Without Consequences

Not every email we get is a nice one. From our recent efforts to bring the Chamber of Commerce into line and out of politics we have gotten a couple of emails that asked why FODHS was attacking the Chamber.

First, no one at FODHS is attacking the Chamber. We are responding to the Chamber's actions. The Chamber members and Chamber leadership need to know - should know at this point in their adult lives - that actions have consequences.

The Chamber clearly acted to support the majority on the city council when the council expressed its desire to sanction Mayor Alex Bias by removing him from a Chamber Mayor's breakfast function. The consequence of the Chamber taking political sides has been our response.

If the Chamber did not want to be put in a political spotlight, it should not have acted politically. No reasonable person can deny that over the issue of the Mayor's Breakfast, the Chamber did exactly that. It acted politically. We are surprised the Chamber does not comprehend this.

Something else that surprises us is that people seemingly do not realize that there are now two political parties in Desert Hot Springs. Not Republicans and Democrats but rather a party that is in control and a party trying to gain some measure of control over the errant ways of the city council.

Put us in the later category. And then hear this. If you think we are going to sit around like a punching bag taking blow after blow after blow without punching back, you are very much mistaken.

As much as some people in town would like it to be so, politics is not a one way street. Not with us.

That said, you have our promise, when we punch back, it will be with facts, documentation where appropriate and with as well reasoned an argument as we can muster. Some people will not like that because it goes against their interests. And they will continue to send us nasty emails because of it.  But not for any good reason.

12/03/06
Another City Council Blunder!
Architectural Fans Pay $40 to tour
Mid Century Modern Homes
Many Homes Designed by FODHS Founder
Unfortunately All Homes Are Located South Of DHS City Limits

In The B Bar H located South East of Dillion & Bubbling Wells Drive represents a Lost Opportunity (Blunder) by a Short Sighted Past & Current Council.

It was under former Mayor Matt Weyuker and Current Council member Mary Stephens and then Planning Commission member Yvonne Parks that Mid-Century Modern Architecture Homes got pushed out of the city. 

Those homes that were rejected in Desert Hot Springs city limits are now on tour just outside our city.

  
"The Manhattan" (left) & "Brandy Alexander" ( right)
 designed and drawn by Gabriel King. These homes were originally designed to be located near the existing Mid-Century Modern Architecture Spa Hotel.
Link to Modern Living Spaces Web Site

These highly successful and sought after homes were originally planned to be built in Desert Hot Springs on San Diego Drive  but where rejected by short sighted past and current city council members.  They fired the Planning Commissioners (including FODHS founder, Gabriel King) to prevent these spectacular  Mid-century Modern homes from being built in Desert Hot Springs. 

They where originally planned for the north side of San Diego Drive near the world famous Desert Hot Springs Spa Hotel.  Not only would they have matched the surrounding spa architecture perfectly but people would have paid a hefty $40 tour fee just to see them!  See a portion of today's Desert Sun Story Below.

Kakie Urch
The Desert Sun
December 3, 2006
The Dwell on Design architecture conference that has brought some of the country's biggest modern architects, architecture scholars and architecture fans to Palm Springs this weekend is offering tours and maps of special homes in Desert Hot Springs and in Palm Springs today, its final day.  A Modern Sunday Explorer pass is included in all conference tickets or is available for $40.  The following activities are included in the Modern Sunday Explorer pass:

10:00 am – 3:00 pm: Desert Hot Springs Modernism Shuttle
Departing from and returning to the Hotel Zoso, this self-guided shuttle bus tour includes interior viewing of the remarkable Desert House by Marmol Radziner Prefab in addition to three new properties in the Modern Living Spaces development in Desert Hot Springs (County area). Note: Desert House is open from 11am to 3pm.

Link to The Desert Sun Story Here

Under Current Planning Codes, the DHS Spa Hotel Is Illegal
 Architecture!!  It is MCM Architecture because it contains
"Exposed Flat Roofs" that are not allowed in DHS!
Link to old FODHS MCM Page

No one came to tour the stucco and tile roofs favored by the builders that pay the way of current council campaigns. 

10/24/06
An Open Letter To The
Desert Hot Springs City Council.

Dear Mayor Alex Bias, Mayor Pro Tem Mary Stephens, Councilpersons Hank Hohenstein, Yvonne Parks and Dot Reed,

This is to encourage you to publish the names of every law firm you are considering hiring, to publish how much they will be paid on an annual basis and to provide the general terms under which they will serve.

There is no reason to keep this information secret. There is every reason to make it available to the public.

You have already blundered once in this process by selecting a law firm with a very significant conflict of interest. Had you revealed the name of this firm when its name first came up as under consideration, we - and you- would have learned of the problem with them and not ultimately selected them.

Let's not make the same mistake again.

We call on the Dan Gibbons of the Chamber of Commerce who recently has been critical of efforts such as ours to take a stand on this issue. You have already jumped into the political game. You might as well let everyone know where the Chamber stands on this issue.

The question: Should the selection of an attorney be handled in secret? We say no.

11/17/06

A Clue Has Come In!
UGLY LOT UPDATE!

A reader has just emailed us with a clue to help us track down the owner of the ugly lot we are working to clean up. We don't have a winner for the free lunch (wait there's more!) but your help is getting us closer.

What's More? We said there was more!

Another reader wrote to us yesterday to ask exactly where the lot was We told him on  Acoma between Palm and Cactus, that he could not miss it. He drove by. This morning he wrote back to say he was completely disgusted and he wants to up the reward!.

Now instead of one BBQ Rib & Chicken Combo Dinner at Paradise Grill or a Burger, Fries and Shake at Sidewinder, it's dinner for two!! 

Sorry, to the tomato people out there, it is still on bushel of slightly rotted tomatoes. The person that chipped in to up the reward said the nay Sayers in town are not worth one more rotten tomato.

09/02/06
An (Un)Reasonable? Proposal 
Working against City Hall

A proposal was forwarded at last Tuesday's council meeting that leads us to ask a couple of questions of Council members Hank Hohenstein, Yvonne Parks and Mary Stephens.

The proposal (put in the form of a question): Should items of significant importance to the public at large be placed early on the agenda to invite increased public participation? 

The answer of the council was "No." A motion so made at the last city council meeting failed to gain a second by either councilmember Hohenstein, Parks or Stephens.

We can think of only two reasons why the council members would have failed to second this motion. First, they do not agree with it. They think important agenda items should be placed anywhere on the agenda, even late into the evening without consideration for public interest or input.

Or two, they were so transfixed on getting at Mayor Alex Bias that there was no way any of them were going to second any motion Mayor Alex Bias made (the motion was proposed by Bias).

Our question to council members Hohenstein, Parks and Stephens: Will you place this item on the agenda of the next meeting and if not, will you at least let us know your views on this subject?

We think you can guess our position; We think we can guess our reader's position and that of most city residents. We second the motion.

While offering only a few words (as is normal under the constraints of a television newscast) we still find this script from a KESQ News story on the council action against Mayor Alex Bias to be telling of exactly what took place on Tuesday night when Bias was stripped of most of his Mayoral duties.

The sentence in the above story that for us jumps off the page is this one: The council believes that Bias has spent his last nine months in office working against the rest of the council members.

Was Alex Bias elected to work with the rest of the council members? Unless we are to forget what the last election was about, the answer is a resounding "No." The last election was precisely to put someone on the council that would bring a different direction at City Hall.

To believe otherwise is to believe that Mary Stephens was overwhelmingly elected in her bid for Mayor and that Will Piper was successful in his re-election bid. That of course was not the case.

City Finds $1.3 Million Under Pierson Blvd.

An interesting find has turned-up under Pierson Road. The city funded part of the $3.7 million project with $1.3 million coming from a city development impact fees fund. It should have come from the redevelopment agency funds.

Development impact fees are what is collected from developers. They are used to put in sidewalks and road improvements. Those fees are collected from projects all over the city. But a big chunk of that fund ($1.3 MILLION) was used on Pierson (a road that happens to head to a certain council member's property. Hmmmmm!).

Meanwhile, sidewalks and city streets in the downtown area are neglected, even though money was collected from new housing starts in the downtown areas.

Well, not so fast. Ann Marie looked into this and determined that so much of the development impact fees should not have been used for Pierson and that instead the money should have come from the city's redevelopment agency fund. 

With an accounting adjustment she put $1.3 million back into the development impact fee fund, making money available for other areas. We are not sure if she found it first or if because of a story she read in the Desert Local News but either way she knew what to do once it was discovered.

09/20/06
The Backroom Shenanigans
PERSONAL & CONFIDENTIAL
(but we got a copy)

FODHS obtains letter between Councilman Hank Hohenstein
and Member of Former City Legal Firm. 
(click letter to view scanned letter)

From the letter: "Your note was appreciated. Jeff and I are anxious to sit down with you in the near future for diner and talk. I do think we would be a great fit and I think Jeff and I could rally the 'legal team' left in place after Corky's departure....The Mayor will be called upon to play a very significant policy making role. You are up to the task now."

Our City Council is in the process of deciding which legal firm to go with. Toni Eggebraaten who has been filling in on an interim basis as the city attorney is likely opting to go back to her full time position as an attorney for CVAG.

So why the hold-up on selecting a new firm? It can't be Alex Bias getting in the way. Alex Bias has refused to attend any more secret closed session (unrecorded) meetings. Could it be that Hank Hohenstein is pushing for "his" legal team (and Mayoral Supporter) and Mary Stephens is not happy with that choice?  Is Mary Stephens saying NO to the firm that says Hank (and not her) "is up to the task" as Mayor per above letter?  Or do Hank Mary and Yvonne Parks all agree on a selection but City manager, Ann Marie Galant is putting the brakes on the deal over possible conflict of interest (again, see the letter above).

As we said, this all needs to be out in the open. Say what you want about Mayor Bias but on this issue, he is correct. These selections needed to be out in open public session and the secret closed session council sessions need to recorded.  Stop these back room deals (you support me for Mayor and I will support you as city attorney). Get this process in out into the open, now!

08/10/06

Saving The City
Writing in the Desert Local News, local commentator Bill Effinger has tossed out a suggestion for fixing Desert Hot Springs: Disband it.
Link to Effinger column - Desert Local News

07/28/06 Appointment Shortlist City Council readies to fill seat of the Late Gary Bosworth The Desert Hot Springs City Council is getting ready to appoint a candidate to fill the seat of the late Gary Bosworth, an event that is expected to take place Tuesday, September 5 at the regularly scheduled city council meeting. Here on no authority but our own is the short list of candidates being considered. Candidate Odds Mary Stephens Council Member She once tried to extend her term of office by a vote of the council. That effort was defeated by a public uproar. Here is her chance to get those extra couple of years she sought the last time. Hank Hohenstein Council Member Knee-deep in every city scandal of the last several years and with no chance of being re-elected, this is Hank's chance to give the voters a couple more years to forget the day he says he "woke up stupid."  Adam Sanchez Pictured Everywhere There is a case to be made for appointing the next highest vote getter in the most recent election. But what would Adam do with all that campaign money he collected from developers? Will Piper Past Council Member One of the lowest vote-getters in the last election. If the council is looking for yet another political black eye, they will appoint Will. Will is a great guy but a bad, bad choice for appointment. Al Schmidt Developer Al is a local developer and member of the planning commission. Perfect! He can join the procession with Mary, Hank and Yvonne as they excuse themselves from voting over conflicts of interest. Jan Pye Past Council Member We hate to include Jan Pye in the company this list is keeping so far. Jan is one class act and her appointment would be one smart political move. That's why we give it little hope. Gabriel King Architect Draftsman We understand Mary Stephens is frantically trying to reach Mr. King to see if he is interested in the position. Alas, Mr. King is on vacation and unreachable.  Dot Reed Good Samaritan Chances of Dot being appointed are slim to none. Dot is great. But the council will never give up the one person that steps-up to the podium every council meeting to praise them. Walt Luce Developer We understand he may be looking for another job. An ideal situation. Once on council, he could hire himself as an accountant working for his company.   06/07/06 More BIA Signs Found with Graffiti! BIA Directional Signs Still Not Maintained! The privilege to place signs in City right of way carries responsibility to maintain those signs. This sign is on the new Pierson Boulevard and we have a report from a reader of another one with graffiti on it on Palm Drive near Revivals.

It should not take a citizen report or FODHS to bring the condition of these signs to the attention of the city or the BIA. The BIA needs a regular and proactive sign maintenance program to keep its signs graffiti free. No more than 24 hours should pass before graffiti on these signs is covered over. It should not take days and even months as documented by FODHS.  We quote one of our readers. "If they can not maintain the signs they should not be allowed to have them on our streets." FODHS could not agree more. This city council needs to answer why it allows the BIA to put up these signs but does not require them to maintain them. It really is this simple: Mr. Fred Bell of the BIA, if we see graffiti on one of your signs for more than 24 hours, that sign will be taken down by the city and your organization will not be allowed to be put that sign back up. Maintain your signs or lose them. And while we are at it... we might as well point out a sign for our city graffiti task force, this one is just down a half a block from City Hall on the new Pierson Boulevard. We don't know hzow long it has been there but the picture below was taken on Monday.

Mayor Alex Bias, City Manager Ann Marie Gallant and Gallant’s negotiation team met Monday with members of the Coachella Valley Association of Governments and planned to ask for a 14-day extension of CVAG’s June 1 deadline for voting on the plan. Portion of our precious disappearing Bill Of Rights shown below.  Once these rights are legislated away, we will cease to be a free nation of "liberty and justice for all".  How we are so eager to give up our rights for  the false sense of "security" Those of us who do this deserve neither.  Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof (DHS Sign Ordinance?); or abridging the freedom of speech (DHS Sign ordinance?), or of the press (fire [COP] volunteers who are whistleblowers); or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Amendment II A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. (CCW's rarely given out in DHS) Amendment IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, (the MSHCP pretty much violates this underlined clause with impunity) and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

05/31/06 DHS Police Ticket Speeders On Palm Drive 2 at a time!

Tickets Two-Fer DHS Get Serious On Palm Drive. DHS finest seen pulling over speeders two at a time. This picture taken over the past weekend. If you are speeding, slow down or face the consequences. Ticket time. It's about time!

We Divert Just A Bit The censored scenes from ABC's 9/11 Docudrama This is a bit off our normal path but we happened upon several video clips that were cut from the ABC docudrama on the events leading up to 9/11.  Cut Scenes Here Our viewing of these clips makes it clear to us why members of the Clinton administration wanted these sections edited out - "Using missiles for assassination (of Bin Laden) is destined for failure.." We make no commentary on the scenes themselves except to say that in this day of the internet, censorship is nearly impossible. These scenes were obtained from uncut airings in other parts of the world. It is the airing in the U.S. that was censored. 08/31/06 Some Recent Aftermath From The Recall Of The Mayor By Council Clan We Found These Two Letters On The "Desert Sun Talk Of The Day" and we also are getting letters expressing similar sentiments. Below is a sample letter to us and below that are the letters posted to the Desert Sun Talk Of The Day. Sent To FODHS Citizens of Desert Hot Springs: WHAT KIND OF A CITY GOVERNMENT DO YOU HAVE IN DESERT HOT SPRINGS----A "DICTATORSHIP"? WHO GAVE 3 PEOPLE THE RIGHT TO OUST YOUR ELECTED MAYOR? HOW CAN THEY KEEP HIM FROM ATTENDING THE MAYORS LUNCHEON? I think the people of DHS should take him in a limo and attend the meeting and LET YOURSELVES BE HEARD. Is this America or is DHS a city that has no say over your city and the people you elect? It is time that the DIRTY LINEN and things in the CLOSET are investigated and those guilty of DISEHONEST, ILLEGAL ACTIONS are brought to JUSTICE. The Mayor was not in office when the people were swindled and put in bankruptcy. I AM OUTRAGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH SUCH AN INJUSTICE (Name Withheld by Editor) Posted On The Desert Sun BB DHS Mayor ,peoples choice. August 31, 09:01 a.m. The city council of DHS do not want their private back room Deals (study sessions, closed meetings) known to the people of the city they are supposed to represent, because their agenda is to replace the current population, who they fell are beneath them, with more affluent residents. They forget however that these peoples taxes in the past paid for what is there today. The businesses there were built up by their patronage. If the truth were known, everyone would be calling on the authorities to have the whole lot arrested for their involvement in looting the cities coffers. Their little secret government will soon come crashing down, and it will be little orange jump suits for them all. The justice Dept. does not usually make arrests until they have everyone in their net, and have traced the money for recovery. It will a lesson to all other little communities, that this type of criminal activity will not be tolerated in this country. Laughing @ them in DHS DHS mayor blamed August 31, 08:09 a.m. " RECALL THEM ALL!! "Just another smoke screen for what's really going on. They get rid of anyone that they deem a "threat" to their cause. (control) Has any one noticed? Not only are they stupid, but dangerous also? Is anyone asking why business people are moving out and the city is imploding? Where is all the money from the new homes? The city is broke again?! Why isn't city counsel concentrating on bring in and promoting old and new businesses and fixing the problem. Now they look to try to annex more land on Palm Drive, while they can't run what they have? Why did Hank settle a major chunk of change in a back room deal, when the city has insurance for these things? And all we have is stupid comments by Mary and Hank and now Parks, but they want to silence the mayor? Painting in pink does not constitute a crime but counsel members not being able to answer where the money went is. WHAT IN YOUR WALLET HANK? "RECALL 'EM ALL"!! Outcast Studios dhs

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