Sept. 4, 2018
Liz writes Life
Finicum
Jeanette Finicum will be back in Siskiyou County on Sept. 11,
2018. She is speaking at the Siskiyou Co. Republican Women’s luncheon about the
wrongful death lawsuit of her husband, LaVoy Finicum. The meeting starts at 11
a.m. at the Miner’s Inn Convention Center in Yreka. Dave and Kathy Tyler are
cooking Cornish game hens, wild rice, veggies, fruit and zucchini bread
muffins. Jackie Twilliger will create more of her beautiful desserts. Cost is
$12. To reserve your seat, call Annie Ohlund at 530-351-8693 or Marellen Baird
at 530-842-7260.
Jeanette spoke to over 200 supporters in May 2017 at the
Miner’s Inn Convention Center. It was a packed-house as we listened to Jeanette
tell us why LaVoy joined the Bundys at the April 2014 stand-off and the Malheur
Refuge occupation in January 2016. Video released by FBI, shows a road block by
FBI and Oregon State Police in Eastern Oregon on July 26, 2016. LaVoy exits the
vehicle, which had shots fired into it, and was shot three times by OSP officers
and died.
I am looking forward to this update. Since, Jeanette was last
here, the Bundys were exonerated in both their trials. Also, Dwight and Steven
Hammond were pardoned from their second prison terms (after serving two and a
half years) by President Donald Trump. Two months ago, Jeanette sat through an
FBI agent’s trial for lying and not providing correct information about several
of his shots. The jury did not find him guilty, but more information came to
light. So, a lot of information has been revealed through the trials and the
bias by the federal prosecutors and agencies has been exposed. Hopefully, it
will help Jeanette.
Flixx Fest
Correction
Ok, ok, I got it wrong last week. One article I looked at -- before
writing my column -- claimed that Canada was about to make a trade agreement
with the U.S., which it still is! But it was Mexico that actually made the
agreement with the U.S. over trade last week. I was referring to the February
1888 Demorest’s Magazine article regarding commercial trade with Canada and,
apparently, the pros and cons are still a problem 130 years later.
Garden
I am getting more ripe tomatoes and have friends that are
canning theirs. Other friends have canned home-grown peaches, plums and are now
doing pears from Oregon. Yep, it is harvest time. Oh, about the aphids on the
lemon cucumber plant. I think the coffee grounds really did help ward-off the
little black buggers. There are fewer leaves that are under attack even though
around six to 10 leaves are still curling-up from the aphids. So, I don’t know
if it was the aphids or the ants that don’t like the coffee grounds. I do know
earwigs don’t like coffee grounds. Hum, I’ll need to remember this off-the-cuff
remedy.
Jefferson
Mark Baird, spokesman for the State of Jefferson movement,
explained the status of the Citizens For Fair Representation lawsuit at the
Scott Valley Protect Our Water meeting last Thursday. It has been working its
way through the court system, which is extremely slow. But, something really
interesting has happened. CFFR has reached a point that by filing for a writ of
mandamus, the U.S. Supreme Court will be discussing the brief. This is a
discussion not a decision on it. The result should be to move forward and
actually make a decision or not or remand it back to a lower court. (I think I
have this correct.)
Because this is quite confusing to me, Mark gave me his notes
citing the two specific discussions the CFFR is presenting to the Supreme Court
of the U.S.
Here they are:
1. In a case
challenging the constitutionality of the apportionment of leg. Districts, may a
district judge, sitting alone, decide a motion to dismiss for lack of standing,
or rather does this court’s unanimous opinion in Shapiro v Mc 1365 CT 450
(2015) require that that motion be decided by a three judge court pursuant to
28USC 2284(a)?
2. May the
chief circuit judge interfere with a district judge’s exercise of
responsibility pursuant to 28USC 228(6)(1) by instructing the district judge to
withdraw the notice issued pursuant to that section and decide motion to
dismiss as a single judge district court?
The CFFR has been working to be heard in a three judge court
and hopes the discussion by SCOTUS on these two specific questions will get
them there.
Fires
Erin Ryan, staff for Congressman Doug LaMalfa, gave us more
info from the congressman’s meeting with Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke and
Secretary of Ag. Sonny Perdue during the tragic early days of the Carr Fire.
Both secretaries were shocked at the severity of the fires.
It was brought to Sec. Zinke’s attention that PG&E was
not able to replace the many power poles that had burned. Apparently, more poles
and infrastructure burned in the Carr fire than in last fall’s Santa Rosa
fires. The National Park Service was trying to make PG&E dig the giant pole
holes by hand, because archeology studies and other environmental studies first
needed to be accomplished. Yep, that is outrageous. But, not to be out-done,
the USF&W demanded spotted owl studies prior to hole-digging. Yep, it would
be nice to know how many owls burned up in the fires!
PG&E complained to LaMalfa’s staff that the National Park
Service and USF&W wouldn’t let them replace poles. Meanwhile, tens of thousands
of people were without electricity. LaMalfa related the frustration to Zinke
who looked at the two lead federal agency officials (they were at the outdoor
Carr Fire meeting) and insinuated the poles needed to be replaced -- immediately.
There are legit Emergency Exemptions regarding environmental and other policies
during drastic circumstances such as the Carr Fire. The really sad part is that
the agency officials knew about the Emergency Exemptions and decided to delay
and add red tape. This is ridiculous, just over-the-top obstructionist
attitudes. So, good for LaMalfa and super good for Zinke!
There will be more next week from the Protect Our Water
meeting.
Liz Bowen began writing ranch and
farm news, published in newspapers, in 1976. She is a native of Siskiyou County
and lives near Callahan. Call her at 530-467-3515. Check out her blog at:
LizWritesLife.blogspot.com
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