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| Tuesday, March 02 | | · | Recall targets California prosecutor who took on lumber in Redwood Country [AP] |
| · | The Secret Policemen's Ball [Arcata Eye Editorial] |
| Sunday, February 29 | | · | Something's Cooking [Arcata Eye Editorial Cartoon] |
| · | Firm Sued by D.A. Funds Bid to Recall Him |
| · | Humboldt D.A. fights to keep job [San Francisco Chronicle] |
| Friday, February 27 | | · | Not for Sale - NO on F [North Coast Journal Editorial] |
| · | A House Divided [North Coast Journal Editorial] |
| Thursday, February 26 | | · | A legal and academic view of the DA recall [Times-Standard] |
| · | No on the recall, but DA needs to mend fences [Times-Standard Editorial] |
| Wednesday, February 25 | | · | THE DA recall's rotten roots are mired in money [Arcata Eye] |
| · | Brace Yourself [Arcata Eye Editorial] |
| · | Maxxam-Palco give another $75K to recall [Times-Standard] |
| · | Good Ol' Girls, Boys Oppose DA Change [Eureka Reporter Editorial] |
| Sunday, February 22 | | · | Palco pours another $85K into recall effort [Times-Standard] |
| Wednesday, February 18 | | · | The Pacific Lumber County [Arcata Eye Editorial] |
| · | DA’s Office Says PALCO’s Attorneys 'Are Petrified' [Eureka Reporte |
| Monday, February 16 | | · | Don't Miss BEYOND RECALL |
| · | Humboldt DA: Lumber firm's out to get me [Sacramento Bee] |
| Sunday, February 15 | | · | Pacific Lumber Co.’s Actions Are Shameful [Eureka Reporter Editorial] |
| · | PL Behind Recall, Make No Mistake [Eureka Reporter Editorial] |
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February 23, 2004
Maxxam Corporation's Charles Hurwitz is pulling out all the stops in the final days of his effort to eliminate the public official who has complicated his business plan. Best line of the week: "Forget the middle man - Hurwitz for District Attorney."
The Texas financier, exposed as the single major funding force behind the recall, has abandoned all pretense of decency in acting to avoid prosecution and protect his profit margins.
Word is that Hurwitz will "go low" this week in a last-ditch gambit to remove the district attorney from office. Look for hideous distortions and character assassinations on a TV screen or mailbox near you - based on "sound science," of course - telephone polling is at a fever pitch. For weeks, anonymous callers have been interrupting local residents' dinners with nosy questions about PL and the recall, the information apparently used to focus the anti-Gallegos juggernaut.
The candidates willing to go along with this grotesque attempt to buy off justice are Worth Dikeman and Gloria Albin Sheets. No matter what they may say, these two forfeited their credibility and any pretension to independence when they tacitly signed on with Charles Hurwitz. He once said that those with the gold may make the rules, and now, Dikeman and Sheets have freely chosen to play by Hurwitz's rules.
The pinstriped Texan is trying to scare Humboldt voters with fear bombs aimed straight into their hearts - a fantastic specter of criminals and crazies taking over the county at Gallegos' behest.
The real message behind the disinformation campaign? The fraud lawsuit has merit, and Hurwitz is scared. A few hundred thousand spent now might save him $250 million in fines later.
The recall election is shaping up as a referendum on Pacific Lumber, its absentee owner and his beastly tactics. But in an even larger sense, it's a referendum on critical thinking.
A vote for the recall is a vote to surrender public process not just to Hurwitz, but to any other big-money interest that wants to have its way here.
Are Humboldt's voters sophisticated enough to reject baseless fearmongering? Can a distant industrialist manipulate citizen fears with cynical exploitation of crime victims? Will slick ads send citizens into the waiting arms of the Texas industrialist whose only real love is for their labor and natural resources?
One thing is certain: It won't work in Arcata.
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