Some Final Water Board Notes from John Earl

By
Greg Diamond
– November 2, 2020Posted in: "The OC", Fresh Juice

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Soaky getting ready to fill up the Poseidon

Soaky getting ready to pickle Poseidon ratepayers and HB coast in brine.

Surf City Voice’s John Earl is posting like mad, so we’re just going to link to them here:

Carlsbad Project Shows Poseidon is a Loser

“A recent but little-noticed study of the “financialistion” of Poseidon Resources’ giant ocean desalination plant in Carlsbad, an identical twin to its proposed Huntington Beach desalination project, reveals the company’s scheme to make profits for itself and investors on the backs of Orange County ratepayers.”

Click HERE for the full article!

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Stacy Taylor Evaded When Told of Her Own Agency’s Poseidon Property Tax Proposal

[In 2015], a member of the audience questioned [Poseidon representative] Sulnick about a survey mailed by Mesa Water asking her opinion of a ballot initiative to increase property taxes by $89 in order to pay for the desal plant.

Mesa’s public relations officer, Stacy Taylor, who was facilitating, was caught by surprise and so was Sulnick.

“Robert, you wouldn’t know anything about that,” Taylor said.

“I don’t know anything about it, but I was going to make up an answer,” Sulnick joked in return.

Read the whole thing here!

The morals of these stories?

  1. Support Michael Elliott over Cathy Green for OC Water Board!
  2. Support Karl Seckel over Stacy Taylor for MWDOC!
  3. Support John Earl’s research with a donation on his site!

About Greg Diamond

Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that. Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too. He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.) His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)