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Today’s top 10 list (apologies to David Letterman.)
Top 10 reasons to fire the fire chief:
10. His salary could go towards paying Renee Mayne’s salary. She
wasn’t very forthcoming with the truth to county employees when she
was selling SEIU to them.
“Today’s top 10 list (apologies to David Letterman.)
Top 10 reasons to fire the fire chief:
10. His salary could go towards paying Renee Mayne’s salary. She wasn’t very forthcoming with the truth to county employees when she was selling SEIU to them.
9. Now Scattini will have even more storage space in the old fire station.
8. We could bring back that old morale booster, Chief Moreno!
7. Watching the hot air from the City Council fanning the flames around town.
6. Openings in the volunteer fire department when the full time firemen go to work for cities who know how to run a fire department.
5. Did I mention Renee (9,000 dollars tops!) Mayne. Yeah right.
4. Smoke smells good on a cold winter night, and we are sure to have lots of it. And those downtown blockburners sure can warm you up on a cold winter night.
3. Jeez, I can’t believe they were thinking of Renee Mayne, can you?
2. Higher fire insurance rates caused by mismanagement of the City Council firing the fire chief and not opening Station No. 2 will leave less money in your purse or wallet and leaving room for pictures of your former residence which burned down because of mismanagement by the Hollister City Council.
1. And number one: Watching the Council humping hose at a fire. Might as well call Letterman – this Council could provide entertainment for years!”
“If a Criminal Grand Jury (CGJ) is truly needed to make the decisions that we elected John Sarsfield to make, I have a suggestion. Get rid of Sarsfield and the DA position, seat the CGJ and put the DA’s salary toward the permanent Criminal Grand Jury.
I’m tired of Sarsfield’s shenanigans. If he doesn’t want to go to court and doesn’t want to do his elected job, let’s get rid of him.”
“I am a San Benito County native, born and raised. But for my time in the military, combat veteran/Vietnam, I have lived and worked in Hollister my entire life. All my children and most of my grandchildren were born and are being raised here. I am not a member of ‘San Benito Royalty’; in fact, like many folks my mom and dad came here during WWII and settled here after the war. For those of you who don’t know, the local airport was a Naval Base during the war. We, as a family, were on the lower rungs of the economic ladder, but we made ends meet and we survived.
As a kid in the mid ’50s, I saw Foster’s Freeze come to town at 4th and Line streets. In the early ’60s, A&W showed up right where it is today, at the corner of South and East streets. Hollister was growing.
KFC arrived during the ’70s and Hollister was just small town USA. The growth spurt in the ’80s changed everything. McDonald’s came to town and Hollister would never be the same. I’m not blaming Mickey D’s – it was just timing.
During that period, I had a number of options and job offers out of the area, but I chose to stay in MY hometown. I started a small family business in the early ’90s and have done well. The growth of the ’80s helped my business and my family – nice home, three cars, kids through college, lots of toys and golf on Friday. We’re not on the top rung of the ladder, but we have a good view that we worked very hard for.
No doubt I’ll be called a coward for not signing my name to this letter. But you see something else happened to MY hometown in the ’90s; it became politically vicious. Take a stand now and you lose clients, you’re called names and your business gets vandalized. That type of thing would have never happened in MY hometown.
I now regret not speaking up and taking a stand in the ’80s to slow the growth that was sure to come in the ’90s. It’s too late to save MY hometown but it’s not too late for you to save YOURS.
VOTE YES ON G.”
