CA: Congressman says Sen. Aanestad ignorant of the North Coast and its economy

Enterprise-Record ^ | 07/13/2005 | Larry Mitchell

[Grampa Dave]

The rats have gerrymandered his district into one he will never lose.

He has Arcata and Humboldt U in the NW and it is anchored Davis and UC Davis on the SW part of his district.

Eureka is moving slowly into becoming a Blue City and most of Napa County is now one.

[editor-surveyor]

Napa County was turned 'blue' when all those houses near the garbage dump in American Canyon ("Oceanview") were built and sold to blusers from Vallejo.. I'm ashamed to say that it was one of my projects.

[Grampa Dave]

Actually the new developments in AC and the city council are pretty conservative.

Napa county (non incorporated areas) is loaded with super rich liberals from the NY Area, Follywood area, Gay Frisco to Stanford area and of course from the east bay.

I can't believe how liberal cities like Calistoga, St Helena and Napa have become in the last 3 decades. A doctor friend and his wife moved into Calistoga about 12 years ago, and he said that he feels like he is living in a hell hole of Oakland/Berkley/Marin/San Francisco misfits. Fortunately, he had so many patients, he had to close his practice to new patients about 6 years ago. He will never reopen it to new patients.

[tubebender]

When I came to Eureka in 1954 there were over 260 saw mills. Then the big timber companies started buying the timber land even the cut over but there was lots of timber in the national forest so most of the little mills survived. Now the anarchist that Thompson represents have stopped all logging in those forest. I doubt there are 10 mills left and those are the big guns. Eel River saw mills just closed this week. They have 6000 acres of timber but can't get permits to log thanks to Arnold's Water Quality Control Board getting into logging permits...

I believe most of the land in Thompson's bill is in timber producing areas of the National Forest...

[SierraWasp]

"Aanestad is no dummy."

AGREED!!! (based on what I've seen and heard of him, so far...)

[SierraWasp]

Well, when I came to St. Helena in 1964, the town had a big segment of Seventh Day Adventists on the east side, all the way up the hill to Angwin and Pope Valley. They were fairly conservative if political at all. But even they've liberalled up a lot of their religious practices, kinda like the Catholics, who they used to really kinda be hard on.

Now St. Helena didn't have any sawmills that I know of, but they still have a huge historic Bale Mill, for milling flour, about half way between St. Helena and Calistoga. Huell Howser did a thing on it not too long ago and said: "Oh my gosh... Lookit that, will ya?!? Will ya just lookit that!!! (done in his whiney, patronizing Tennessee accent)

[B Knotts]

Indeed. They have killed off an entire way of life. I have an old book called "Lies, Logs and Loggers," which captures the logging culture of the old-timers.

In a lot of ways, the corporate types and the environuts are one in the same.

[editor-surveyor]

Calistoga has been wierd city for a long time. I have refused to work up there because they tamper with stakes, and equipment.

I've done a considerable amount of work in the Napa-Yountville area, including three subdivisions along Dry Creek, and the golf course at Yountville. Mostly it is a pleasant place to work, and the people seem decent.

[IVCorpRiverRat]

Agenda 21.....YOU HIT IT! Hopefully others will read about this insidiious United Nations anti-American program and challenge their candidates on this issue.
Thanks Sarge...