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The deadlines are fast approaching for candidates to file papers to run for city council in Santa Rosa an elsewhere.
So far, 11 people in Santa Rosa have begun the process of qualifying for four seats on the seven-member council that will be on the November ballot this year.
The seats of Mayor Ernesto Olivares, Councilman Gary Wysocky, Councilman John Sawyer and Councilwoman Marsha Vas Dupre are on the ballot.
The regular nomination period ends Friday, but will almost certainly be extended. That’s because incumbent Vas Dupre has said she will not seek another term and Sawyer is running for county supervisor.
If neither files to defend their seats by 5 p.m. Friday, the period will be extended until 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The extension period applies only to non-incumbents. It gives potential candidates time to file once they are sure whether or not incumbents will seek re-election.
The rules are set by state law and are the same for cities throughout Sonoma County. The deadlines for Cloverdale are expected to be Friday because all incumbents are planning to run again, while the deadlines for Windsor and Healdsburg are expected to be extended.
The nomination period opened July 16. To date, only one candidate has qualified for the ballot in Santa Rosa, landscape architect Mike Cook, a former member of the city’s Design Review Board.
In addition to Olivares and Wysocky, there are eight other potential candidates who have picked up their paperwork from the city clerk’s office but not yet filed it: Caroline Bañuelos, Erin Carlstrom, Julie Combs, Hans Dippel, Chuck Sims, Don Taylor, Shaan Vandenburg and Justin Yock-Davis.
Friday also is the deadline for measures to qualify for the November ballot.
You can reach Staff Writer Kevin McCallum at 521-5207 or kevin.mccallum@pressdemocrat.com.
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One other important governmental news item.
Thanks to the State of California continuing in its greed to increase taxes, the Hollywood movie studios are “fleeing the state” according to this mornings news.
Of 24 new productions coming this season, only 2 are shot within California.
The other 22 film productions are being shot in other states that have offered lower taxes upon the movie companies.
Who said the local and state governments of California are not responsible for ruining our economic health?
Jim:
Thanks for the details on “Agenda 21.”
My suggestion to further your cause would be to add “United Nations” to “Agenda 21″ as that would help readers delve into the matter more through online research.
Something similar occurred in the formation of the European Union, the EU, that you might be aware of.
To create the EU, a vote of the general public in every country was required. Whooops. The bureaucrats who stood to gain so much were un-successful in that approach.
What to do?
CREATE the EU via international treaty.. which did not require a public vote.
The voters, the taxpayers, were roped into a bureaucracy which was gold to the government workers who stood to gain lifetime employment with juicy public employee benefits.. all with the taxpayers being held to pay for it all.
If you or any other reader thinks that the bureaucrats involved in the EU did not gain financially, just look at the current meetings of all the EU brass. They arrive in limos, with drivers, and the entire trappings of royalty are on full display… even as they make excuses for bankrupting their countries
through interference in the private sector free market via governmental regs and rules.
Google the details.
Why would speaking the truth about the most pervasive political force effecting our lives cause someone to get all ‘Snarky’ on you?
You’re right Snarky, it was hard to get in one paragraph. Especially after a couple beers:
Conceived and initiated largely through the United Nations; Agenda 21 Sustainable Development is a globalist Plan that formally culminated at the ’92 Rio De Janeiro Earth Summit as a treaty, not requiring formal Congressional approval by then President George H.W. Bush who signed us onto it amid much anticipation and fanfare. The comprehensive Agenda is outlined in a book of the same name. 30 chapters, 400 pages. Under the guise of extreme environmentalism, it is basically a complete plan for complete control of us, the world’s resources, it’s land and a fascist monopolization of it’s commerce and trade. Ultimately reducing human activity and consumption to a kind of commodity to be granted by and reconciled through the state (Carbon Credits, Vehicle Miles Traveled, much more). The United Nation’s Agenda for the 21st Century provides for the abolishment of private property, the Free Market and many other postulates that are fundamentally opposed to our Constitution and founding documents.
The Agenda benefits from owing it’s conception and funding to the wealthiest of banks and corporate interest’s. The Plan’s inicideous permeation of our Government now appropriates enormous funding through an alphabet of agencies both governmental and NGO’s (like ICLEI and ABAG) who’s purpose involves local municipalities in the implementation of Agenda 21 largely through incentivizing it’s Charters with grant money and various coercion to impose the hardscape (Smart Growth/rail), regulation and ideology consistent with it’s totalitarian goals. Ultimately being to impose a One World Government orchestrated by and benefitting New World Order Globalists. Although few citizen’s of the 179 Nation’s that signed on that summer knew the significance of this history making betrayal then, people everywhere are waking up to it’s detriment to their well being. Almost 10 states have current or pending legislation condemning participation in UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Develoment/ICLEI et all. In addition approximately 60 municipalities have drafted resolutions rejecting it’s acceptance based on it’s catastrophic effects on property rights, liberty, economy, their sovereignty and it’s contridictions to our Constitution. The entire Republican National Committee unanimously passed a resolution to that effect early this year.
Seriously, who would you trust more to make you a HEALTHY breakfast?
Don Taylor’s super fine omelet & hash browns….
Or….
Mayor O’s doughnuts and instant coffee?
What a person eats mirrors how they think.
Snarky: Agenda 21 is a UN-sponsored resolution, introduced in 1992, to transform current and future living patterns. Its chief goals are greenhouse gas reduction, more equitable wealth distribution, and sustainable use of resources. It was likely well-intentioned, but its tactics could cause great social disruption. They include centralizing populations in high-density transit villages linked by rail, discouraging private automobiles, promoting walkability and bikeability, and minimizing private property ownership. Just Google UN Agenda 21, go to the UN website, and draw your own conclusions.
I’ll vote for anyone who knows how to run his own business.
Ever notice that the types who run our local government always list themselves in some cryptic way such as:
” Consultant ” which usually means UN-employed.
Agenda 21 again? Give it a rest until you can define it in one paragraph.
If you cannot define it in one paragraph, you don’t understand it yourself.
If Don Taylor makes the pledge to fight ICLEI and Agenda 21, I’ll do what it takes to get him on the council.
If they’re not on the ICLEI Smart Train it’ll be tough.
They’ll pull out all the tricks.
Like what they did with Don Taylor last time and George Barich from Cotati after he was in office.
I also believe that the ballot count can be more than suspect.
It’s tough when the machine also has the local press on the program.
I seriously considered running myself.
Ultimately deciding that I didn’t need that much adversarial conflict in my life. Being a an activist from the outside is enough work for me right now with two business’.
However I will be visiting with Don Taylor about the ICLEI subject, with the right response I will be supporting his campaign with more help than he ever expected.
Watch what happens in Cotati as a non-adherent candidate attempts to permeate the ICLEI culture/ideology again after the hatchet job they lodged on him for not going along to get along.
Message to public officials on the fence: Look out for US, we’ll look out for you.
It’s the right thing to do.
Personally, I would love nothing more than to be proud of a local leader.
Here’s hoping that time is right for Don Taylor to WIN this time. He almost won the last time he ran. I believe if he campaigns on something like the parking issue at Santa Rosa Mall (and get rid of having to pay) he might be able to win this one.
@Brian Brazoot
Actually he did that in 2008 also. He lost.
Finally…Don Taylor has decided to run for council!