oink-oink/stinky awards

Stinky and Greedy live well in Lassen County

JOSEPH DUPONT & the Lassen County Times wins the "Bigot and Homophobic  of the Hour" Award for the May 22, 2012 racists and homophobic Letter to the Editor published in the Lassen County Times. This crossed so many lines in so many ways.

Eugene Chittock

Eugene "Chip" Chittock criticized the corruption at LMUD for years and then took the LMUD General Counsel job after Frank Cady and Jaimee Jones were fired. He is now Langston's and Nagels "boy". He will continue, for a price, to keep them out of jail.  Chittock may be worse than Cady and Jones because right out of the shoot covered up illegal and unethical actions by the Board. LMUD cannot under any circumstances have an attorney with ethics.  

 Piggy   Judge Stephen Bradbury

Judge Bradbury attempted to hide his ownership of 60 S. Lassen, Susanville during the sale of this property but six months later received money from Craig Kellison and Frank Cady for his share in the property.

 Piggy Wayne Langston

LMUD Director Wayne Langston charged LMUD ratepayers $100 for a phone call to LMUD General Manager about "outages" on his April/2008 Board Statement of Meetings Report.  While this is technically a legitimate "event", Langston has charged for phony e-mails and questionable phone calls, at $100 a pop, in the past. This so called "phone call" is subject to further scrutiny......................

   Piggy Jay Dow and Piggy Matt Lavacot

Ranchers and newly appointed LMUD Directors, Jay Dow and Matt Lavacot didn't waste any time helping themselves to the public trough on March 25, 2008.

They proposed a "Kick Back" for themselves and the other ranchers in Lassen County. Proposal: If the ranchers pay for the electric transmission lines to their property upfront then LMUD will credit that cost after a 3 year period.

Piggy Wayne Langston

In 2000, Wayne Langston lived on his wife's grandmothers (Barbara Nagel) property when he was appointed to the LMUD Board (after Micheal Deal resigned from the LMUD Board). This property is "not within the LMUD Boundaries of Ward 3". Langston lived there through the recall election, of the LMUD Board, and the next LMUD election. Langston's mother-in-law was the Lassen County Election Officer.

The law states that you must live and vote within the LMUD boundaries to be eligible to sit on the LMUD Board. The law states that Langston should have been placed on the "next election" ballot in order to keep his appointment.

Wayne Langston never qualified to be a candidate for the LMUD Board until November of 2003 and yet he continued to sit on the LMUD Board.

Theresa Nagel refused to take the recall petitions on Langston because he was appointed and then refused to place him on the "next LMUD election" which was the Recall of all of the LMUD Board Members.

Langston didn't live within the LMUD service boundaries until the Nagels transferred their Janesville property to him in 2003. He then lived within the LMUD service boundaries. Wayne Langston has never been on a LMUD ballot. He has never received a single vote of the ratepayers.

Langston hid the majority of his Board expenses in Frank Cady's legal invoices and the General Manager's expense reports. These expenses included luxury vacation meetings that the public never was told about.

Langston was a huge participant in the Arrowrock Scam, which cost the ratepayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. He supported numerous bogus energy projects such as the Project 500.

Langston continues to support and cover up the activity of Frank Cady while he was General Counsel and General Manager.