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March 18, 2008 The Sabatino Report Good Morning Can Kamilos and Lynch continue to deny DeMartini smear? Here's some "Truth" for you. Shortly after midnight (12:17am) on March 17th the political hit website www.truthaboutpatterson.org posted the following article. By 8:00 am Gerry Kamilos had it posted to his www.jobsforstanislaus.com website in the "news" category. Strangely, Kamilos didn't bother posting the Bee's editorial that was posted in the wee hours of the night, nor did he post the"feel good" article written & posted on the Turlock Journal's website last night. Perhaps he had no idea that the Bee & the Journal were writing about West Park...well, how then did he know about the so called "truth" article unless perhaps he DOES know more about that site then he has been willing to admit. Time for Mike Lynch & Gerry Kamilos to hitch up their britches and not show their backsides for all to see. Either that or confess to what it is they have been up to since that site went live in June 2007. By the way, the article is made to look like it was written by someone that lives in Patterson. Note the inaccurate reference to the Pizza debacle. The incident happened in Modesto on Crows landing Road. The writer mistakenly suggests that it happened in the tiny community of Crows Landing, that in fact has NO pizza parlor. Sort of like "Activist for Hire" Donna Worley's claim to have been followed by a cab driver, Patterson has No cabs. Not the brightest folks working the West Side over for a buck. March 17, 2008 Who posted this article to the Gerry Kamilos web site? Who wrote the article? The Truth Doesn't Hate To Say We Told You So ... You know how people always say, “I hate to tell you so …”? Why do they say that? When I get to tell that to my husband, I kind of like it. I told him we should wait until spring to plant our yard flowers. He rushed right along. Then the bad weather wiped it out and we have to start again. I told him so! But that’s not a big deal. The big deal is that the West Park Crows Landing idea has cleared a major hurdle. Here is how the Modesto Bee put it: The plan to bring short-haul freight trains to Crows Landing got another boost this week with a recommendation for millions of dollars in funding from the California Transportation Commission staff. The controversial short-haul rail proposal between the Port of Oakland and Crows Landing should get $25 million from the state's $3 billion Trade Corridor Improvement Fund, according to the recommendation. I guess we can overlook the Journalism 101 cheap shot by the Bee writer who terms the plan “controversial.” Maybe if it wasn’t “controversial” it would have gotten $25 billion? Anyway, this seems like very good news. Do we need to do a Google search to see if there’s been a lot of other news about Patterson being on the receiving end of $25 million in Trade Corridor Improvement Fund dollars? I don’t think so, because it ain’t been happening. A good story in the Irrigator also. Here is a note about this money. My understanding is that this is how the state apportions the dollars from bonds and other projects for transportation. Now California is a big state and our transportation needs are endless. And there is a huge competition for this money. I think Northern California always loses. We’re smaller and more rural that Southern California, and if you line up our representatives in Sacramento against the representatives from down south, we lose most every time. This is why Becky Campo gets my dander up. I know she’s against it. Everyone knows it. And one of the reasons she is opposed is because she used to say that the project would never qualify for the money. No money, no project. And from that perspective, I have always thought let’s wait and see. If Crows Landing cannot get the money, I say then it looks like it will not happen. But it now looks like it will get the money! Isn’t that good news? Isn’t that supposed to be a reason to celebrate? Not to Becky. She is as unhappy as ever. Here is a quote that made me the Truth want to scream. "I still don't think it's a good project," Patterson Mayor Becky Campo said. "We felt we would be able to convince the CTC staff. I'm just disappointed, that's all." Our esteemed City Attorney did not do much better: “I’m disappointed and surprised,” City Attorney George Logan said shortly after reviewing the recommendations. Back to Becky. She admits that she lobbied the state NOT to send money to a Patterson project. That’s just swell. She is saying let’s not reform Crows Landing. Let’s just leave it the way it is. Let’s leave it as an eyesore and an embarrassment and covered in graffiti and full of crime. People are being robbed and even killed there. What is she doing about it? This story of the delivery man robbed of pizza and soda is a topic of conversation in our house. If my son wanted to get a job as a deliveryman at that pizza place, I would tell him no way in this world. And I wonder how many parents would say anything different. I know a lot of jobs like this can be dangerous, and when I waited tables somebody robbed a register where I worked. But Crows Landing is an especially dangerous place. Have we already forgotten the brawling and our town’s first murder since 2004? I’m getting pretty steamed. I think this is serious. People can choose to live in a lot of different places these days. We should be worried that more and more people will not live around here. I’m going to end here with a last thought. I do not know if the West Park plan is going to be an amazing thing that makes us all ecstatic and one day brings the Super Bowl to Patterson. We need to hold everyone to their promises. Kamilos says he will get the money, build the project and create new jobs, help air pollution and take cars off the roads. Those are pretty big words. Let’s hold him to his promises, and see if he can deliver. But trying to sabotage the idea is not fair.
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