Keep The Old Boys Out
Published In The Eureka Reporter, June 4, 2006, which gave it the headline, "Gallegos dealt with resentment from day one in office":
Dear Editor,
One very important fact has received minimal attention during the District Attorney’s race: Paul Gallegos took over an office filled with people whose loyalty was to his predecessor, and who resented their new boss from day one.
Mr. Gallegos deserves great credit for his tolerance of all the snakes in the grass that have been slithering about the DA's office since he was elected in 2002. Were Gallegos the political animal his detractors try to make him out to be, he would have cleaned house several years ago, and Mr. Dikeman would in that event now be in private practice or, better yet, another County.
The honorable thing would have been for Dikeman to resign following the failed insurrection, er, "Recall" attempt, of 2003/2004. Obviously, "honor" is an antiquated concept in some quarters.
Much has been made of the fact that some have done the principled thing and departed the DA’s office, finding the office’s elected head—a leader not selected by the old boy system—holding a different philosophy as to whose interests the DA’s office serves.
One has to wonder: If all of the Gallegos detractors who have been feeding at the public trough for the past four years had expended all that energy in support of the DA’s office, rather than continually working to undermine its elected head, would they now have anything to complain about?
The crowning example of the bloodlust of the old boy network to regain their power and privilege came with Allison Jackson’s hysterical phone call during Thursday night’s KHUM debate, a call so extreme that the debate moderator had to pull the plug.
Let the plug on Humboldt County’s just-us-old-boys system remain pulled. Reelect Paul Gallegos!
Sincerely,
Terry Lee Clark
Dear Editor,
One very important fact has received minimal attention during the District Attorney’s race: Paul Gallegos took over an office filled with people whose loyalty was to his predecessor, and who resented their new boss from day one.
Mr. Gallegos deserves great credit for his tolerance of all the snakes in the grass that have been slithering about the DA's office since he was elected in 2002. Were Gallegos the political animal his detractors try to make him out to be, he would have cleaned house several years ago, and Mr. Dikeman would in that event now be in private practice or, better yet, another County.
The honorable thing would have been for Dikeman to resign following the failed insurrection, er, "Recall" attempt, of 2003/2004. Obviously, "honor" is an antiquated concept in some quarters.
Much has been made of the fact that some have done the principled thing and departed the DA’s office, finding the office’s elected head—a leader not selected by the old boy system—holding a different philosophy as to whose interests the DA’s office serves.
One has to wonder: If all of the Gallegos detractors who have been feeding at the public trough for the past four years had expended all that energy in support of the DA’s office, rather than continually working to undermine its elected head, would they now have anything to complain about?
The crowning example of the bloodlust of the old boy network to regain their power and privilege came with Allison Jackson’s hysterical phone call during Thursday night’s KHUM debate, a call so extreme that the debate moderator had to pull the plug.
Let the plug on Humboldt County’s just-us-old-boys system remain pulled. Reelect Paul Gallegos!
Sincerely,
Terry Lee Clark
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