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Related: About this forumOne far-right leader ousted. Another barely hangs on. Is Shasta rejecting MAGA politics?
Shasta County voters have booted from office a key figure in the county's hard-right shift, even as the fate of a second far-right crusader on the powerful Board of Supervisors still hangs in the balance.
Patrick Jones, a former chair of the five-member board, was soundly defeated in the Super Tuesday election, according to results released by the county registrar Friday afternoon. With 98% of the vote counted, Jones' opponent, Matt Plummer, a nonprofit adviser, was winning outright with nearly 60% of the vote.
It marked a stunning turn for Jones, a gun store manager who in his one term in office has emerged as a leading voice in an ultraconservative insurgence that transformed this largely rural Northern California county into a national poster child for hard-right governance and election denialism.
In recent months, Jones led the conspiracy-laden charge to dump Dominion voting machines and return the county to hand-counting its ballots. He helped push through a county resolution pledging fealty to the 2nd Amendment and a measure to allow concealed weapons in local government buildings, in defiance of state law.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-far-leader-ousted-another-100007171.html
Drum
(9,769 posts)The Unmitigated Gall
(4,522 posts)calikid
(625 posts)I travel through there often, and am a couple of counties away, It's been tense on the freeway every trip!
PufPuf23
(9,233 posts)serious battles just to make Shasta County sane again. The sane folks gather at anewscafe.com and are good example of activists for us all.
Besides the militia gun nuts, there is the Bethel Church that is all 7 Mountains and involved in the politics and economy. Sean Feucht who was allegedly with Brobert is part of that mess. Don't think he was with Brobert in fact.
Here are two recent articles and discussion in comments of Jones. Crye who may be recalled but close is just as big a dirtbag and one can find more about the evil man than wants to know at the news cafe link. Also include an older link about Feucht so no need to search. The news cafe is loaded and the battle is far from over,
KQMS Releases Statement Re Tainted Election Ad, Confirms Ad Invoice Sent to Supervisor Patrick Jones
Posted on March 11, 2024 by Doni Chamberlain
https://anewscafe.com/2024/03/11/redding/kqms-new-releases-statement-re-pulled-election-ad-confirms-ad-invoice-sent-to-supervisor-patrick-jones/
Tearful Supervisors Wife Says Detectives Are Investigating Husband Patrick Jones Radio Ad Connections
Posted on March 9, 2024 by Doni Chamberlain
https://anewscafe.com/2024/03/09/redding/tearful-supervisors-wife-says-detectives-are-investigating-husband-patrick-jones-radio-ad-connections/
The Sean Feucht Update: Evangelical Bethel Church Devotee Speaks at Neo-fascist Event, Rents $1.5 Million So Cal Home, Rakes in the Bucks
Posted on December 31, 2021 by Shawn Schwaller
https://anewscafe.com/2021/12/31/redding/the-continuing-story-of-sean-feucht-evangelical-with-ties-to-bethel-church-speaks-at-turning-point-usa-americafest-moves-to-orange-county-continues-raking-in-the-bucks/
AllaN01Bear
(23,042 posts)however when mr obama had his 2 runnups there were huge streaks of blue and also the same in mr bidens first run. so, there is hope .
calikid
(625 posts)I'm in Colusa County, on the Dem Central Comm.. We're trying hard to fight the redness here, wish we had blue streaks like you. But, we do have hope and perseverance.