Recall Targets Prosecutor Who Took On Lumber In Redwood Country

[villager]

More Republican "dollar democracy" in action...

Recall Targets Prosecutor Who Took On Lumber In Redwood Country

SAN FRANCISCO -
A new district attorney who has accused a huge lumber firm of fraud in California redwood country could see his political career felled by a threatened recall.

The Pacific Lumber Co., through its corporate parent Maxxam Inc. of Houston, has fueled the recall of Humboldt County District Attorney Paul Gallegos with $229,000 in contributions.

The company and Gallegos detractors say the district attorney is too lenient with criminals, too friendly with radical environmental activists who live in Humboldt County and too accommodating to marijuana smokers who say they use the drug for medicinal purposes.

The district attorney's supporters, though, say the Pacific Lumber-backed recall is retaliation for Gallegos's suit against the timber company for fraud in February 2003, a month after he took office.

"There is no way the Maxxam corporation in Houston can be this concerned with the rate of plea bargains in Humboldt County," said Gallegos campaign manager Richard Salzman.

Gallegos alleges the company provided false data on the possibility that its logging plans could create landslides.

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[AZCat]

1. Link?

I would like to read this article please.

[villager]

2. just fetched it!

n/t

[AZCat]

4. Ahhhh, thank you.

Now I can have my daily outrage with a cup of coffee! :)

[DK666]

3. Refreshing.... Some things never change.

EOM

[AZCat]

5. I was working for CalPIRG during the uproar over the Headwaters Settlement

We knew then that Maxxam was screwing the state/feds, charging too much and logging like crazy while they delayed the settlement. I wonder if there are any salmon left in that river at all.

Such a shame...

[villager]

8. Maxxam really is the poster child...

...for wretched, greedy, community-destroying corporate excess...

[joeunderdog]

6. Hope this looks even more transparent than the Gropenator's coup.

He was funded by Energy and Banking (see dropped $8B Energy lawsuit and Bond issue currently being pushed.)

When are people going to see these whores as whores? How f'en stupid can you be?

[Sequoia]

7. I hope he can keep his job

Seems to me he's a good DA and I've been keeping my eye on this one.