I make no claims to perfection. I consider acknowledgement, accountability and remorse to be the high marks of virtue, including for imperfect me.

9-1-22: C U later. The Santa Cruz Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is a joke. The Santa Cruz Democratic Party Central Committee is a joke. They are complicit in the normalization of political corruption, complete with elaborate cover-ups like it never happened. Ad hominem attacks bore me. Evasions always were one-liners to giggle at. Shame may never subdue fear of outcome. All local analogies do not trivialize.

In local application of values abuse of power activism I witnessed, time and time again, fear and denial. There were lots of “They’re all like that” usually followed by a fear-laugh, and memorable political opportunist and hack loyalist avoidances such as “No jurisdiction”, “My plate is full”, “I don’t know enough about it”, and in glorious classic last-word finale style, “HE’S DEAD” and “DON’T YOU THINK I READ THE FUCKING THING?”

A chance encounter with former County Clerk Richard Bedal in 2016 and longtime local politician Fred Keeley in 2019 renewed and rejolted my interest. What we learn from history is how to revise history. Content and documentation will remain archived here indefinitely.

Bob Lamonica comes on at 5:53 in. LIsten for then-Supervisor Greg Caput’s comments immediately after, shouting about, “No proof.”