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Instead, Anderson comes out with a poorly written letter that shows his bias against the sheriff. The letter also shows Anderson's lack of education and ability to keep his eye on the ball.
Anderson states that, “I never have, and will not make personal attacks on the sheriff.” And then he proceeds to accuse the sheriff of slander!
I believe Anderson is wasting taxpayers' time and money instead of doing his job. Public faith in his office and the job he is doing is sinking rapidly.
And what have we gotten so far? To fill the void, a small group of uneducated anonymous troll monkeys are jumping up and down and screeching in the Lake County News forums.
What are Internet trolls? According to Tom Postmes, a professor of social and organizational psychology at the universities of Exeter and Groningen, Netherlands, and the author of “Individuality and the Group,” who has been researching the problem for 20 years: “... Trolls aspire to violence, to the level of trouble they can cause in an environment. They want it to kick off. They want to promote antipathetic emotions of disgust and outrage, which morbidly gives them a sense of pleasure.”
The public is getting tired of people making Lake County look bad in their attempt to smear the sheriff. Trust and faith in justice are going down the tubes, and the trolls are cheerleading all the way to the gutter.
When they run out of nasty things to say about the sheriff, they turn their hatred toward anyone speaking out for fairness and justice.
I'd say these trolls have no sense of shame, but in reality they do, because they are afraid to say their antisocial sick opinions and make their false allegations in public.
One would think that even if half their allegations were true, their threatened recall would already be on the ballot, and they would stand up straight like men instead of cowering like rabid rats in the shadows waiting for the biased district attorney to throw them a little moldy cheese.
I'm sure Anderson will do everything in his power to make the sheriff look bad in his reports. Unfortunately, it is a “lose lose” situation brought on by himself.
Unless he outright indicts the sheriff for lawbreaking, there will be more backlash against the district attorney than against the sheriff, for wasting so much time and money, and diminishing the integrity of his office.
And once again our county will look bad in the eyes of Californians throughout the state.
Dwain Goforth lives in Kelseyville, Calif.
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No matter how pretty the pictures in the “Official Lake County Visitor Guide,” produced by the Lake County Chamber of Commerce, and with virtues described as warm sunny days with the beauty of the lake’s ancient treasures, it’s still a bit difficult to overcome the experience of tourists who want their money back from smelling and seeing Clear Lake’s renowned ancient treasure, the famous algae scum.
And let’s not leave out the disgust of residents, particularly the rim landers, who may pack up for the duration of the smell, leaving the rest to enjoy the lack of enjoyable swimming, fishing and boating as the special effects of this ancient scummy treasure, year after year.
While Carolyn Ruttan, invasive species program coordinator for the Lake County Water Resources Department, has publicly stated she receives “10 calls a day” concerning the noxious algae from outraged citizens, the calls have been ringing off the hook for at least 40 years, made to a county government that seems incapable of acting responsibility regarding the problem.
At times, through the years, algae scums have covered the lake by tens of acres one meter thick, so thick that small boats could not navigate through.
Again, how many smelly years does it take to have a responsible government that can act effectively upon this problem?
The waste of our money in the feeble attempt to use an air boat to break up algae scum does not, has not and cannot do the job. It only makes the lake more turbid, releasing even more toxic material into the water.
While obviously the problem requires a much more comprehensive approach, the costly air boat solution represents the kind failed government mentality that continues.
One solution would be to establish a seasonal task force that suction-skims the algae from the lake’s contaminated surface around relevant tourist areas, removing it from the lake.
But should a Clear Lake citizenry continue to accept a quality of government that manages to ignore such known, long-standing economic and material damage?
While the Lake County Chamber of Commerce extols the beauty of Clear Lake, its government, in a paradoxical and perverse denial of the algae (cyanobacteria) problem, maintains an ineffective and antiquated water management; a condition that has and is costing millions of lost revenue per year.
This cost in damage to Lake County by government denial is far in excess of the cost of remedial action that could simply remove the surface algae out of the lake on a seasonal basis (but which of course is not meant to be a the long-term solution).
Maurice Taylor lives in Clearlake, Calif.
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