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Public Comment from the Publisher of Roadrunner395.com begins at 1:15:30 during the IWVGA Report and Discussion

Communication and Engagement Plan, $60,000 for Active Social Media Presence “consensus was it’s viable”, but negatives too. (see PR – Dialog control, Facebook censorship, Ridgecrest PD Surveillance tool)

Video of Meeting 6/15/2022 (ended)

June 15, 2022

Ridgecrest, California

Let’s ask some questions to Mayor Eric Bruen, the President and CEO of Desert Valley’s Federal Credit Union and RV center, former Mayor Peggy Breeden, town gadfly and owner of the Swap Sheet, and chiropractor Dr. Scott Hayman, a favorite stooge for Ridgecrest’s elites who acts as though he doesn’t understand what’s going on around him, as demonstrated when the GA “staff” hurls f-bombs at the Indian Wells Valley Water District’s representative on the board of the GA.

1. How many workers at Searles Valley Minerals have families that live or shop in Ridgecrest?
2. How many people live in Trona and Inyokern, and where do they and their families shop?
3. Which “community” does the Ridgecrest City Council express it’s endless “love” for?

“This is a travesty, it’s disgusting, it’s by far the worst thing I’ve seen in the valley in 40 years. Period.”

Mike Neel, Public Comment June 6, 2021

Our country is being pushed to the brink of despair.

Mr. Hayman and the [Groundwater Authority] care nothing for individual lives and the effect of those decisions on peoples lives. My son’s life had great value, just like the people in Trona.

Why would anyone who says they care about their constitutents or their neighbors even slightly entertain a vote that would decimate this valley, as this decision will do if upheld.

The burden of solutions must be borne equally by all who live in the valley, not by a few lives that seem expendable to those in power.

Marilyn Neel, June 16, 2021 Public Comment

If you have a heart and your eyes don’t well up listening to what Mike and Marilyn Neel were going through preceeding and during their protests at Scott Hayman’s offices on a hot day last June, then you don’t care about their community or yours.

Eric, Peggy and Scott are perfect examples of politicians who think they know what’s best for the Indian Wells Valley and that they don’t need to listen to you. They’re also the result of the groupthink that exists in Kevin McCarthy’s Bakersfield-style politics we call “Assholeism”. See former Congressman Bill Thomas of Bakersfield for more details.

Regina is a resident of Trona, and shops in Ridgecrest as well as being an active Stakeholder on behalf of the residents of Trona.

You’re costing residents of this community millions of dollars. Mr Hayman, you should be ashamed of your vote.

The lack of caring coming from this City council is atrocious.

Regina Trogland, Public Comment June 6, 2021

Mark is a civic-minded Trona resident and he read a letter on behalf of 700 Searles Valley Minerals employees.

It is appalling to me, a citizen of the United States, to witness such atrocities implemented here against it’s own people, it’s own citizens.

Mark Margianis, Searles Valley Minerals employee, Public Comment June 6, 2021

Over the next few weeks and months of the 2022 mid-term election season, we’ll show you what an embarrasingly sad clown show the Ridgecrest City Council has become. The trio of Mayor Eric Bruen, Councilman Scott Hayman, and the formerly-retired gadfly that won’t go away, Peggy Breeden, are a caricature of small-town politicians that love to schmooze with elites.

The City itself is ruled by a strong-man and bureaucrat extraordinaire, a City Manager who knows how to get things done and move money around the bowels of the City, the former Police Chief Mr. Ron Strand. He has about 40 years in public service under his belt and appears to be angling for numero uno on the Calpers high earners list.

The City also has a serious public safety issue which we’ll write about very soon: The Ridgecrest Police Department is falling apart, but they have 16 brand spanking new cruisers and a Bearcat on order. Unfortunately, Ridgecrest is unable to pay officers overtime for a flag parade or any festivities on July 4th, so Ridgecrest will be closed and everyone is going to Bishop or Kernville in order to celebrate Independence Day in America.

You won’t read about any of this in the local newspapers, because they’re also an integral part of the self-serving “clubs” of volunteers and advisors in Ridgecrest and the politicians from Bakersfield, including Kevin McCarthy and Kern County Supervisor Phillip Peters, a politically-wet noodle and former staffer to former District 1 Supervisor Mick Gleason.

Watching the five council members patting everyone on the back while putting on an award-filled love-fest for the “community” is a hot, steaming load of bullshit. They don’t give a damn about anything except collecting more sales taxes and Groundwater Authority fees and catering to federal employees and contractors while stroking their enormous egos and kissing Kevin McCarthy’s ass.

Anonymous Roadrunner.

If you’re not paying attention it’s not because you don’t care about the City of Ridgecrest. But why should you need to become civic-minded? Maybe you came here to work at NAWS, raise a family and plan to leave when you retire. We all want clean streets and crime free neighborhoods. As long as it’s not your life and family they’re destroying, then by all means vote for them. But look around you before you do. Not the 4 new coffee and fast food drive thrus, look behind the curtain. These people don’t give a shit about any one of you.

For the few council watchers among us that do care about the Indian Wells Valley, the idea that the people that work at NAWS would vote for these people should concern everyone in the valley, but then the public meetings and the newspapers are configured to keep all of you uninformed-by-omission while enabling political image-building and behind-the-scenes trickery.

You should care, they’re destroying the “community” and any potential for true economic development or even re-development, and they are the reason the Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Authority has turned into a “California-special” late-term abortion. They’re also the reason that the City of Ridgecrest has a serious public safety issue, with both the Ridgecrest Police Department and the Kern County Sheriff understaffed by almost 50%. Ask Mayor Eric “vax-mandate” Bruen what he thinks?

Vax mandates have wrecked California’s public schools and police departments, together with any sense of “community”, and now the Groundwater Authority is completing the job.

Below are videos from last June’s IWVGA meeting and the City Council meeting that followed on June 16th which presently has 682 views on YouTube.

The Groundwater Authority meeting was over FIVE hours long, and yet Councilman Hayman, then Chair of the GA, gave NO report at the following council meeting. The Council gave no comments. We’d call that a LIE by omission. The comments by civic-minded and well-informed members of the community are hard to watch and listen to.

That’s all for now. You might want to watch some of the 5 hour long meeting at the IWVGA that the City Council wouldn’t talk about last June. It’s not misinformation. See below for more information.

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