The citizens in Crescent City were told the new Pelican Bay prison was to be a minimum security prison. They were told it would bring prosperity and construction jobs to the county. The contractor that built the prison imported most all of the construction people from outside the county. When it was completed they left the county with their money in hand. The locals got no jobs. Alone the way, and a complete surprise to the locals, a minimum security prison turned into a super maxim prison. To the additional horror of the citizens of Crescent City, the families of the inmates started to move into the county. They wanted to be close to their family members locked up inside. They were on welfare anyway so it didn’t matter where they lived. I lived 60 miles away at the time this was going on in Eureka and know what happened firsthand.

Judging from the daily news it seems that the government lies all the time. They say what they want to get elected, and then they mismanage our tax money and complain they need more. They do what they want, when they want, never successfully it seems. This prison in California is a perfect example of what the Northampton County supervisors can easily bring to the citizens of the Shore if left in office and not stopped from implementing their mad agenda. The supervisors, excepting one, lack worldly or practical experience it seems judging by their actions and the high cost of county operations.

There are much better ways to bring jobs to the Shore, jobs that are productive and positive. Prisons are bad energy. A sign of a sick society. Look outside the box of old out dated thinking patterns and resolve these county issues in positive intelligent fashion.

Please read this article if you want more details: A Brief History of Pelican Bay

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— Talk of “strip malls” is a tactic to scare people.

— Farming is in decline; it employs 1% of the workforce and it’s 2% of GDP.

— We have the lowest paid teachers in the nation; as a result, good teachers go somewhere else, and students continue to get low grades.

— With no hospital for emergencies, seniors will die before their time.

— Fishing, according to U.S. Government labor statistics, is the lowest paying job, whereas technology jobs are at the top of the scale.

— A black Northampton student with an accounting degree works for Perdue cutting chicken necks for $10 an hour. Another black student with a degree in computer programming works for McDonald’s for $8 an hour. Are those the jobs you want for your children? Northampton is a dead-end county for good paying jobs.

— I worked in the last census, and can tell you about the rotten conditions that the no-growth people force others in extreme poverty to endure, both white and black — and you worry about a bulldozer?

— I could make a film showing that this “pristine” county looks like a village in India.

Put it on the ballot for all the people to vote and let’s see what they say.