[Scothia]

Empathetic "awwwwwwws" from the next county over. Salinas, home of the highest crime rate in this entire half of the state due to the illegal influx and gang violence, deems it necessary to deputize a Flower Patrol to make sure you're not growing unauthorized plants on your own property. Our church on Pajaro St. was almost ticketed for having the wrong flowers out front, and the voulnteer gardener told she had to take those plants out and replace them from the "permissible" list.

Meanwhile, we are absolutely groaning at the seams from the unbearable stress of thousands of illegals pouring in. Way to go, Mayor. </sneer>

[kitkat]

***on your own property. Our church on Pajaro St. was almost ticketed for having the wrong flowers out front***

HUH? What kind of flowers did she have planted?

A few years ago, I was at the garden shop buying purple loosestrife plants which were sterile. They were approved by the liberals at Cornell as not being harmful to the environment.

Another customer got very upset. It didn't matter if the plants were sterile. She insisted that I was about to commit a crime against Mother Earth. She just would NOT shut up. No proof in the world would satisfy her. The environmentalists are so brain washed they're beyond accepting reason.

I bought the plants anyway.

[Jonez712]

That's insane. We always hear about all these people getting shot up in Salinas, and while that's going on they're worried about the kind of flower you plant! That's a good liberal idea!!

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Meanwhile, we are absolutely groaning at the seams from the unbearable stress of thousands of illegals pouring in. Way to go, Mayor.

Anna Caballero. Left wing nut case.

In many ways our county is WORSE than Santa Crud. They have more money to hide things and to buy people off. You will find it difficult to get jobs or contracts with the county or regional districts as a local business if you don't pay off some county employee(s) first. The courts are kangaroo courts that cater to the usual suspects in both civil and criminal matters.

With all the murders we have had, when was the last death penalty sentence? How many unconstitutional land-use decisions in favor of the Left wing nut cases have been adjudicated? How many financial scandals involving school districts go unpunished? And routine violations of the Brown Act?

Our newspapers are all Leftist rags who portray Caballero as a crime fighter, even though she is a criminal defense attorney.

Here's more... Fred Keeley: the Santa Cruz Metro bus scandal, the Aubra Bennett scandal with the Monterey Bay Regional Air Pollution Control District payoff, and there's another juicy issue about a twelve year old girl...

Santa Cruz and Monterey are joined at the hip in some of these things.