Shasta County calls special weekend board meeting
The board’s agenda includes only one closed session item related to anticipated litigation.
In a rare move, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors has called a weekend special meeting.
The closed session meeting will be held at 5:00 p.m. on June 6.
The meeting comes at a critical moment in the county’s political process, as Shasta’s novice Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis races to count ballots in an election which includes Curtis’ own candidacy, the candidacies of two sitting supervisors, and a controversial election measure championed by one of Curtis’ staffers.
It’s not clear if the meeting is related to elections. The board is scheduled to discuss only a single item. The description of that item is summarized simply as “anticipated litigation.” The discussion will occur in closed session, but public comment will be allowed prior to the closed session item.
California’s Brown Act allows the board to call a special meeting with 24-hour notice. Closed session items are discussed privately and information related to them is usually kept confidential other than any “reportable action” that is shared by the county’s attorney after the session.
The board can vote to make information shared during closed sessions public. And during some recent board meetings, supervisors have voted to move a closed session item into open session, allowing the public to witness its’ deliberations.
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Shasta county loves the good ol’ conspiracy theory, so I have one to share:
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1. I would bet on odds 100 to 1 that this involves Clint Curtis.
2. For people who are actually aware of what’s happening in Shasta county, Mr Curtis wanted to send the regular and experienced election workers and poll workers home this weekend, and have the ballot processing done by “his” people.
3. Mr Curtis has added so many new procedures (that don’t make sense), that it actually makes it MORE likely fraud will happen if followed.
4. We have too many outsiders who are WAY more interested in our local elections than anyone should be. Clint curtis, Laura hobbs, Brent Turner, Mike Lindell, Reverge Anselmo, Alexander Haberbush from the Lexrex nonprofit… I’m sure I’m missing a couple people too.
5. Speaking about outsiders, I think Tina Peters’ lawyer was trying to lessen her sentence and have her come…here? Pretty sure I have that right, but I’m willing to be corrected if I’m wrong.
6. There are plenty of other people that are aware that we have some secessionist and separatist groups in California such as Jefferson State and New California. The civil war was actually caused by states trying to leave the union.
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Too much unrest in our locality would be a great reason for the feds to have an excuse to send in people to seize control…
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Just the first part of my conspiracy theory.
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But dang, ain’t it a good one? 😁
Anyone can check for themselves to see that everything I say is factual. (With the exception that I might possibly be wrong on number five, but I really don’t think I am.)
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It seems likely that some people are hoping that they can start some type of movement here that they can claim is a grass roots movement, and then…
Shasta Scout, I hope you entertain the idea of actually publishing my comment.
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But if you don’t I understand why too.
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Good night all, and good luck.
Love it. #5 would surprise me, if Curtis was still around. Tee hee
Might involve something one of Clint’s hires did on Election Day eve.
Interesting…. Was something nasty said to an “uncircumcised” person?
Oh I am sure it will be about Clint Curtis and his miserable performance in his job. No other time in my life and I have lived in Shasta County all of my life! Have we had to have the State come in to mo it or our elections due to this current shit show that Clint Curtis and Brent Taylor have led! And don’t forget who put Clint Curtis in that position!
Kevin Crye
Chris Kelstrom
Corky Harmon!
Their lack of intelligence and leadership is what has gotten us here!
Well, don’t forget the rest of the shit show and their money bags instigator:
Anselmo, phgwmfjones, baugh and their supporters, I don’t know all of their names but they would include local tea baggers, Jefferson staters, is it Carl bott and his hate radio? The fat people who dress in flags, the owner of the marijuana growers supply store off of old 44, the water users, patty plum, bullhorn girl, twitchy garado , and so many more, these people who are MAGAs are technically traitors.
Well Said
How many private meetings and BOS closed sessions have there been about CC and anything or anyone to do with him.
Good guess, conspiracy theory, which problem, the investigation, the election and the fraud that will have occurred to make him look like he lost. Meet and discuss all at once.
$5 says it’s Measure B. $10 says it’s Curtis.
Since he said on camera that he would sue (yuck yuck) I’ll put my VFW bar token on Curtis.
Come on let’s go for with the twofer. 1 meeting 2 problems. Of course with just saying the word Curtis so many other possibilities come to mind. Of course there is Joanna’s suit about discrimination. How many things has the BOS done in the last 4 years or so and who is doing the off books tallying for it. Do we need a tabulator.
It could be almost anything. It could have something to do with the State Attorney General’s team being down here and observing the clown show and incompetence. It could be measure B? Who knows. That’s what is so nice. They are so open hearted and transparent.
And where’s the Assistant ROV? Did Pantera Negra high tail it back to Frisco? I think they thought Shasta was going to be a soft target and threw all their eggs into the ideology first/conspiracy basket. Thankfully, there appears to be enough sane Republicans to join with the other parties and no party affiliates to reject the Crye -Jones gang’s hostile take over of our County. Nevertheless, I’ll be much happier when we have final numbers. It looks like they’re planning to work through the weekend using the labour of the people who hate and who have sued our County. At least that’s most of whom they were able to draft this week. All the anti government election deniers were in attendance this week. Let’s hope the power stays on and the cameras keep rolling during the day… And, especially, during non business hours.
Well Curtis has promised that any fraud will be easily detected by his systems and it is all on camera. Any idea how many observers are down there this weekend.
What’s the difference between the terms “anticipated” and “initiated” litigation when used this way on an agenda item? R1 CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL – ANTICIPATED LITIGATION
(Government Code Section 54954.9(d)(4)):
Initiation of Litigation: One potential case
Hi Janice: Anticipated could mean the discussion of a threat of litigation from a party or a possible litigation move by the board. Something that’s initiated is already in-process.
I smell something.
MJF – “teen spirit”? JK.
I agree that something feels off about a weekend closed-session, emergency meeting. Maybe we’re smelling “desperation”.
and it is going to be expensive to the Shasta County taxpayers…