The Ollar-Burris lawsuit is a bunch of B.S. Placer County looked at and approved all those splits and they did not see a problem... they approved them! The original Sac Bee story on 5/27/08 quotes the current planning director:

"Placer County's current planning director, Michael Johnson, said Ollar-Burris' activities have raised no red flags for him since he took the job in October 2005. "We checked all the parcel maps that come in for compliance with the Subdivision Map Act," Johnson said. The department checks to make sure the same person is not subdividing a parcel more than once, he said, and looks for patterns involving the same people."

That same Sac Bee article states Ollar-Burris used multiple names... well ya, the story also reports she was married, divorced and remarried- that combined with a trust and you get multiple names.... duh.

The Bee also reports that Fred Yeager, before retiring 2005, gave the Placer DA all the information. This is 2008 and the DA has done nothing. Another anonymous group gave the Placer Grand Jury and the Placer DA information about this in 2006 and again this is 2008 and the DA and/or the Grand Jury has done nothing. Violation of the Subdivision Map Act is serious stuff carrying serious penalties of up to a year in jail and a $10,000 in fines.

The County spent at least $30,000 to hire a special lawyer, Richard Crabtree, to investigate. Crabtree spent 6 months (May to November 2007) to investigate Ollar-Burris and he filed a report. The report was posted on the web and having read it I can tell you it can cure insomnia. So Placer County Counsel Tony LaBouff told the Sierra Sun, "The report has been shared with the Placer County District Attorney but criminal charges are not expected to be filed against Ollar-Burris." I wonder if, after spending all that taxpayer's money and taking all that time, if they can't find anything... i.e. they are not filing charges... could that mean she is innocent??

So they file civil charges to recoup any costs of criminal activity, but there is not any criminal activity. It is now estimated that these dimwitted county lawyers have spent about $250,000 of taxpayer's hard-earned money. According to the Sac Bee article Fred Yeager gave all these charges to the Placer DA before he retired in August 2005... there seems to be indication he gave it to the DA in 2004... so how much more time and taxpayer's hard-earned money is needed???? I am willing to bet that if Bruce Kranz is not re-elected; this whole thing goes away after November 4th. If Bruce is re-elected this will go on for another 4 years and another $250,000 of taxpayer's hard-earned money down the drain.

It is amazing that for 4 years Ollar-Burris is found guilty in the court of public opinion, but in legal courts there has been no evidence of wrong doing. This is a modern-day tragedy, and when this is all said and done, I hope some heads roll with the county... and though Bruce Kranz can't do anything, it is too bad the other four supervisors don't have the balls to tell the county attorneys you have had enough time and spent enough taxpayer's money, either dump or get off the pot. Enough is enough!

Any one of us can be a Ollar-Burris... the county can spend years and tons of taxpayer's money to investigate us... and come up with nothing--- and ruin our lives.

Here is a blurb from McClintock’s bio:

From 1992-1994, McClintock served as Director of the Center for the California Taxpayer, a project of the National Tax Limitation Foundation. In 1995, he was named Director of Economic and Regulatory Affairs for the Claremont Institute’s Golden State Center for Policy Studies, a position he held until his return to the Assembly in 1996. In that capacity, he wrote and lectured extensively on state fiscal policy, privatization, bureaucratic reform and governmental streamlining.

Again, he has wrote and lectured on…”privatization”…These are attributes of someone who takes an academic interest, rather than an actual real life “where the rubber hit the road” interest in “privatization”

The proposed Auburn Dam has real life opportunities to break out of the so-called “socialistic” paradigm.

Here is a real chance for McClintock, the iconoclast to show his mettle in smashing socialism icons. Here is a chance to actually step out of his ivory tower and “do something”.

Russo commentary posted on July 20, 2006

Ben Stein, who is fundraising for Tom McClintock tomorrow at a $5600 per person event, in his own words, is disgusted with policies that lower taxes for the very rich, while saddling taxpayers with frozen pensions, lay-offs, and debt that will 'enslave our progeny' to foreigners
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Does Ben Stein know the real Tom McClintock?
Tom McClintock is considered an extreme ideologue whose 'agenda consists of privatizing everything from prisons to street-lighting and a voucher system for education." (California Journal, 10-1-91)
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2006/07/does_ben_stein.html

Privatizing everything? Well not exactly. .The deafening silence from McClintock’s surrogates re privatizing the propose Auburn Dam Project speaks volumes.

The most recent price tag on the proposed Auburn Dam is 6 to 10 billion dollars. It seems that McClintock has signaled to his surrogates that privatization is not what he had in mind. So it seems that McClintock wants to go to Costco and run this really big box item on Uncle Sam’s credit card. This credit card is issued by a consortium of lenders which includes the Bank of the People’s Republic of China.( a metaphor for “China”)

Just how much does China hold? China holds over $1 trillion in dollar denominated assets (of which $330 billion are U.S. Treasury notes). In comparison, $1.4 trillion represents M1 or the "tight money supply" of U.S. Dollars which suggests that the value of the U.S. Dollar could change dramatically should China ever choose to divest itself of a large portion of those reserves.

Lt. Col (ret.) Charlie Brown does not think that credit card debt held by nations that do not have our nations best interests at heart is peachy keen.

He believes this is a very significant National Security issue. This is what he said a year ago.

“With most U.S. debt now owned by OPEC nations and military rivals like China, every wastefully spent dollar by our Congress represents a national security risk,” Brown added. “Ultimately, that’s not a Democrat or Republican problem—it’s an American problem.”
https://www.charliebrownforcongress.org/files/pdfs/2007/06/Earmarks62507.pdf

McClintock raised the Auburn Dam issue. Was this simply empty political rhetoric issued by a career pol who wanted to show that he was getting up to speed on matters of interest to his newly adopted CA-04? Empty rhetoric will not cut it. McClintock needs to flesh out how he expects to pay for the Auburn Dam. Uncle Sam credit card debt or privatization?

Inquiring minds want to know…

Why did Michelle Ollar-Burris and her friends take the Fifth? Based on Ken's post the civil suit should be a cake walk for them.

More inquiring minds want to know...

WDKS?

What Did Ken Say about the Ken Starr investigations in the 1990s after saying what he said [see below and above] about the O-B civil suit?

"it is too bad the other four supervisors don't have the balls to tell the county attorneys you have had enough time and spent enough taxpayer's money, either dump or get off the pot. Enough is enough!"