I live in Boulder Creek, and have been carefully following the 5th District supervisors campaign. Some time ago, my neighbors and I were shocked to learn that the Boulder Creek Recreation District led by board member Eric Hammer, who is running for 5th District supervisor, was trying to force a new recreation building into our residential neighborhood. Most offensive is the fact that he led the rec board into spending $30,000 to hire a consultant to get a state grant for the building without having any kind of dialogue with the neighbors beforehand. No state money is forthcoming or on the horizon, so $30,000 of taxpayer money was wasted on an ill-planned project.
We would love to come together as a unified community to build a new rec center in Boulder Creek. We just don't want a boondoggle, or to be deceived by those with a heavy-handed agenda. I hope Mr. Hammer has learned a lesson about leadership, integrity and real community participation
Tom Rollins, Boulder Creek
http://www.pattersonirrigator.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Another B-C- rec board resignation &id=2175193
It just had to be a nasty, syringe infested place where all the bums would hang out. it couldn't possibly have actually benefited the town...
We MUST save 60 year old homes that have been modified over and over. Maybe I should talk to Scopazzi and see if I can buy that property to tear it all down and built an apartment building there instead. Keeps the area residential and provides for all the people displaced...yeah, that's the ticket!
Tell us, what were the circumstances for the property to get sold to BCRPD (McPherson, are you listening?).
What happened with Prop 84 grant funding? Was the BCRPD denied? Tell us.
Did you also see Eric correct the questioner, indicating he possibly had knowledge of the question in advance?
This is why the Valey Womens Club should not have been in charge of a candidate event when they are backing a specific candidate and the mommy of one to boot.
Geez.
It was a joke.
It. Was. Fixed.
If the Chamber does the same thing I'm going to be very frustrated.
How about I address your comment below which reads as the following, "Let's address "historic" homes...yet another feeble attempt, for sure. NONE of those homes are listed as historic anywhere... if you consider those buildings historic, then the whole area needs to be deemed that as there are older and more important homes in the area"...
Seems to me everyone, here is a Hammer supporter trying to twist what has been said around. Wrongo, if you were at the candidates night and read the papers... Hammer said following: "I would like to see those houses that were built in the thirties and forties in this valley repaired and renovated." Looks like you, Wrongo, are wrong again... Hammer never said those "historic" homes... being only those homes listed as historic... did he?
I did not bring up the issue of historic homes, Jamejo did. I only addressed the comment Jamejo made where it was stated those homes were historic. Sorry to let y'all down but THEY'RE NOT. You really need to stop trying to put words into people's mouths, Funny you accuse me of doing so when that's EXACTLY what you are trying to do.
Looks like the Hammer supporters are at it again....once again trying to deceive the public. Making the whole truth and all the facts public is hard to take, isn't it?
Let's address "historic" homes...yet another feeble attempt, for sure. NONE of those homes are listed as historic anywhere... if you consider those buildings historic, then the whole area needs to be deemed that as there are older and more important homes in the area...
Monster of a rec center??? get real. The plans are for something our community NEEDS, especially so the fire department can utilize the present facility behind the fire house that is rented to the BCRPD for $1. Sure, it was large compared to the tiny homes currently on the property (and oh by the way ALL RENTALS...)
And let's get another FACT straight. That project was done by the BCRPD BOARD and not just Mr Hammer, so why don't you stick to the REAL issues of this campaign? Who is the best person for the job instead of personal attacks based upon one project that Tom had issues with. Tom obviously can't get past his hatred for Mr Hammer and actually address all of the things that Mr Hammer HAS had a hand in that shows he's qualified for the Supervisor's job, such as MCR?
McPherson does not represent the people of the 5th district, or even live within its historical boundaries. He does not represent the 99%. Instead he represents the 1% who profit from Republican policies, lives in a mansion in exclusive Pasatiempo Estates, and has a long history of strategic leadership AGAINST our Santa Cruz values under cover of a dangerously friendly "moderate Republican" smile...
As California Secretary of State,
* he certified the easily hacked Diebold voting machines, and
* he disqualified 40% of newly registered voters in Los Angeles (mostly Latino) as part of national pattern of Republican voter suppression.
As a state legislator,
* he refused to help his Felton constituents (FLOW) win back control of their water supply from German multinational company,
* he voted AGAINST state laws expanding domestic partner rights, outlawing bullying in schools, and other GLBT rights,
* he received a 50% rating from Planned Parenthood - identified as "leans anti-choice”, and
* he voted against state laws banning sweatshop conditions in state contractors’ workplaces.
As editor of the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Bruce McPherson campaigned...
* against preserving Wilder Ranch,
* in favor of developing Lighthouse Field, and
* in favor of building a nuclear power plant in Davenport
He's a Republican, in other words, for a reason. Do you think he’ll represent YOUR values and interests?
Because Democrats are less likely to vote in the primary election, the coming election offers Republican Bruce McPherson his best chance of winning a seat on the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors. That's why we're getting organized to remind our Democratic neighbors in the 5th district to VOTE!
We will be proud and happy to work with you on another meaningful, exciting campaign.
for democracy not corporatocracy-