Pubdate: Sun, 11 Apr 2010
Source: Appeal-Democrat (Marysville, CA)
Section: Off Beat
Copyright: 2010 Appeal-Democrat
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1343
Author: Harold Kruger

TEAM SUTTER JUST BLOWIN' SMOKE

Behind the bravado displayed Tuesday night by three  Sutter County
supervisors is the kind of loopy logic  you've come to expect from the
rural backwater in  California.

So if 56 counties follow a state law, Sutter County  must be right in
ignoring that same state law.

Sounds logical, no?

Remember, Sutter County was one of the last  agricultural counties in
the state to go along with the  Williamson Act to preserve ag land.
Why? Just because  they could ignore it for 30 or 40 years.

Of course, Yuba County still doesn't have the  Williamson Act, but it
does have medical pot cards. Oh  well. You can't have it all, at least
around here.

Thanks to the M&M Boys and W, Sutter County residents  won't have to
worry about a right almost every other  California resident enjoys,
except for Colusa County,  which may be worse off in a lot of ways
than Sutter.

As one of the M Boys proudly proclaimed, Sutter County  is "the most
conservative county in California."

Huzzah.

And the unemployment rate is one of the highest. Is  there a
correlation?

Would you rather live in the libertine Bay Area with  all those nutty
leftists, where the unemployment rate  is far lower and wages are much
higher, or remain in  right-thinking Sutter County, where jobs are few
and  far between?

Supervisor W admitted that marijuana "has some medical  uses," but as
a teacher "I see firsthand how substance  abuse wrecks children's
lives, their dream, their  futures."

Somehow, W conflated the narrow use of marijuana for  medical uses
with almost every legal and illegal drug  on the planet. Quite a
conflation, indeed.

Supervisor James Gallagher, who actually spent some of  his formative
years in the aforementioned libertine Bay  Area at the University of
California, Berkeley  (Piedmont annex), voted for the medical
marijuana card  program.

He's seen the outside world. It apparently hasn't  affected most of
his political views, but this time  logic trumped his more
conservative tendencies.

And poor Stan Cleveland must feel he's in the "Twilight  Zone." Up is
down. Black is white. Wrong is right.  Sutter County is right.
Everybody else is wrong.

If a legal challenge eventually comes, you can be sure  Team Sutter
will voice the same certitude it always has  when it comes to big
legal battles.

Team Sutter said it was right when it denied a use  permit for the
Sikh temple. A federal judge told them  otherwise.

Team Sutter said its South Sutter Specific Plan met all  legal
requirements.

"America was built on guts, and I think that's what we  have to do,"
one of the M Boys said back in 2002. "I  think we have to have the
guts to go forward."

Well, guts and glory didn't help Team Sutter back then.  A judge
tossed out that specific plan in 2003.

Will it be any different this time? 
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