Comments on: DESERT DISPATCH: Cash Greases the Sleazy Circle-jerk of Small City Politics

By: Lee Dorgan

Lee Dorgan — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:57:57 +0000

oops, has not occurred. The ideal would be to repeal the city charter with a petition of 10 er cent voters and restore it to a general law city.
The city already is overusing water and will have to replace the water being drawn from the aquifer at great expense to the residents, and great disadvantage to other communities. There is a finite amount of water that is allowed to be used in the whole Mojave Water Agency Territory. Thank goodness water intensive Stirling/Tessera solar contracts have been cancelled.

By: Lee Dorgan

Lee Dorgan — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:52:49 +0000

I was wrong about Valles. She’s the real deal. She’s trying to get a grip on the slippery Charter city Victorville made itself into and not allow the city to make any more ridiculous missteps. I’m not sure that VVWRA needed all that top heavy admin. With the sewer rates going through the roof and the power plant interests separate from the city trying to dump or at least dilute replacement water obligations on the constituency to their financial advantage, she’s got her work cut out for her. The quality of life development has occurred at the expense of the residents.

By: Ann I. Foraneye

Ann I. Foraneye — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:50:13 +0000

oh yeah – Ms. Vales will take down VVWRA just like she did when she was warden at the Adelanto Prison! She not only fired all of the accountants, she got rid a some other long time dedicated employees — last month she laid off the Construction manager, the construction planer and the environmental compliance supervisor all in one day! she said it was due to the economy – but yet the budget was approved with all of those job titles included for fiscal year 2010 – 2011. Within the last year she has her title from director of hr, to director of administrative services to director of finance. she has given raises and promotons after the so called lay offs. so why don’t the citizens go the the vvwra board meeting on aug 19 and ask ms. vales to explain the budget – all by herself with no help. then ask her if the economy is so bad then why is she having a dirt road at the plant tiled (by Abadie tile in apple valley) because she broke her high heal! since she has worked vvwra, which is a company of about 40 employees, 20+ employees have ben either fired, left because of her, forced into retirement, or threaten by this tyranical woman on a rampage. those emplouyees are scared to death one of them will be next…
the gm is afraid of her, and so are her peers, so how did she get all of this power – when she can’t even spell “wastewater”.

By: Lee Dorgan

Lee Dorgan — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:03:10 +0000

The VV2 power plant was only permitted onth contigency of 3500 acre feet of recycled water per year, now there is a shell game pulling recycled water from the hdpp and purchase of paper water to cool it. There may not be enough water if we meet our water conservation goals and they may have to hijack Adelanto’s wastewater, bypass Department of Fish and Game and put them in the trick bag. They have classically recharged their recycled water. And yes, I agree she is a plant. She is doing the books at VVWRA and the accountants have been let go.

By: Necronomic.JustIce

Necronomic.JustIce — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:59:41 +0000

http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/victorville-17764-candidate-fundraising.html

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:05:18 +0000

Alternatively, you could volunteer for one of the sleazebags (if you’re not too well known) and get the inside scoop, although I imagine that Victorville evil is quite banal…

By: Johan

Johan — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:42:02 +0000

UK mainstream media article on California: Will California become America’s first failed state?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/04/california-failing-state-debt

And yeah, run. Could you accept overseas donations?

By: jonny.m

jonny.m — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:58:07 +0000

Yasha if you ran, I’d donate. Like the other guy said, use it as a platform to point out how shady all these fucks really are.

You likely wouldn’t win but maybe you’d enlighten some people — and you’d have the satisfaction of knowing at least you stood up to them. (Plus your misadventures in sleazy small-time California politics might make for a good book.)

Just make sure you set up a *really good* alarm system & always have a bag packed, so you can leave town in a hurry when it’s over.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:41:09 +0000

Didn’t HST have a drug bust at his Aspen cabin not too long after his failed bid for office? I’m pretty sure I remember him writing about the subsequent trial, and some woman testifying against him struggling to describe whatever little horn like device he had been using to funnel cocaine into his body, and he realized he had it in his pocket, took it out to show her and ask if that was what she meant, dropped it, and was scrambling around under the desk, disrupting the trial and getting dirty looks from the judge and his own attorney as her testimony went on.

By: Justin Orser

Justin Orser — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:38:53 +0000

Yeah fuck it run! It’d be like HST’s sheriff campaign in Aspen!

By: adolphhitler

adolphhitler — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:39:12 +0000

yasha, #8 is right, it would be a fabulous read. you’re not doing anything else anyway.
write the next great political novel about mainstreet. it will do for you what IN COLD BLOOD did for capote

By: Expat in BY

Expat in BY — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:32:15 +0000

Okay, I’m trying to see the visual appeal to Angela Valles, and I just can’t. Maybe I could if the only other people in the room were Good Ole Boys (and that was all that was put before my eyes for weeks), but, well, maybe I’m just spoiled by what you can see just walking down the street here in Belarus. Granted, eventually they turn into babushkas, but Valles looks much farther along that road than most of the women you can see in this neck of the woods.

By: adolphhitler

adolphhitler — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:46:20 +0000

you gotta do it dude…i would actually help

By: Dr. Luny

Dr. Luny — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:33:11 +0000

Go ahead and run! Your campaign slogan should be:

“I may be a depraved commie journalist, but at least I’m not a whore!”

By: scott

scott — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:27:32 +0000

If anything, it would be a fascinating read

By: techno

techno — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:29:45 +0000

The genius of Thorstein Veblen was probably best exemplified when he wrote in 1904, “The laws of the land are written in the interests of the petty real estate speculator.”

Because, c’mon, this is what we do. This country was organized by land speculators–still is. You just happen to be able to see the workings up close.

By: Allen

Allen — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:52:07 +0000

If too many of the good folks at Victorville get wind of what you have been writing about their fine all American town and its bestest government money can buy, they might just have to run you out on a rail!

Also, I prefer “plutocracy” … “capitalocracy” vaguely makes it seem like useful stuff is going on … the Capitalists are on the march felling feudalism with the power of industry or something … rather than just being at the stage where they spend most of their time calculating who needs to be bribed and how much.

By: wengler

wengler — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:29:19 +0000

Go for it. Use it as a platform to trash her corrupt donors and promote this site.

By: az

az — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:26:58 +0000

Let’s just hope that there is no political assassination tradition in the High Desert then, eh.

By: buzz kimball

buzz kimball — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:03:24 +0000

yeah! yasha and what’s the first thing you’ll do when you get elected ? maybe, vote yourself a raise and put your girlfriend on the public payroll…..?