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God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it * 1834 Daniel Webster

JOHN ZENITH IS NOT AN ATTORNEY

Kurt Bonham is not an auditor

Frank Decker Cady wants to be a Judge in Lassen County Superior Court  = =

Lassen Municipal Utility District fired him & his partner

ANYONE KNOW WHY CADY HASN'T LEFT TOWN YET  or why he isn't in jail ?

LMUD EMPLOYEES HAVE HAD ENOUGH

Sexual harassment must end at LMUD. It should have ended with Twitchell, but Cady just paid her $100,000 to leave and keep quiet. 

Will Fred and Theresa Nagel fund Cady's campaign?

You can let the Governor know your opinion about appointing Frank Cady as a Judge:

Gov. Schwarzenegger

State Capitol Bldg.

Sacramento, CA 95814H

916-445-2841

Fax: 916-558-3160

The Commission on Judicial Performance will review nominees. You also can write to this panel about  your feelings and opinions in regards to appointing Cady as a Judge.

455 Golden Gate Avenue, Ste. 14400

San Francisco, CA 94102

The Nagel family still owns

 the Susanville Golf Course

 Public records indicate that on April 28, 1968 the Nagels created a corporation, Lost Meadows Golf and Recreation Club, Inc.  for the property now referred to as Susanville's public golf course's BACK NINE.( This corporation was only needed temporarily and no longer exits. The Nagels created a trust to handle future deals)

On September 3, 1968, the City of Susanville passed Resolution 68-1023 that essentially was an agreement to purchase land from this corporation.   

On September 4, 1968, it was made to appear that  Fred Nagels parents gave the City of Susanville the property now known as the Susanville City public golf course, simply not true.  

In the fine print, if Susanville wanted to use the property for anything other than a golf course, the property reverted back to the Nagels. Every time any property was sold off for residential reasons, the City would have to buy it from the Nagels.

Not a bad deal for the Nagels. The City is exempt from any taxation. The Nagels don't pay any taxes on the property while it is in the City's name. These "land deals" have been going on since 1968.

It gets better......May 30, 2006, Frank Cady (LMUD's General Manager) [Keep in mind that Fred Nagel is on the LMUD Board] files for change of ownership in the corporation managing the golf course, Sickles Golf Associates, Inc. (SGA was formed May, 24, 1999) . Presently, Frank Cady's SGA is a post office box at the UPS store in Susanville.

Cady then takes out a loan of $1.4 million dollars for improvements to the golf course. Plumas Bank and the City of Susanville both  approve Cady's use of the golf course as collateral for his loan.  

April 2007, one year later, Frank Cady suddenly defaults on his "million dollar" loan. NO ONE in the City of Susanville or Plumas Bank wants to know what Cady did with the money. NO ONE goes after Frank Cady's assets to pay back his loan. WHY?  

The Susanville City Council works out a deal  with Plumas Bank to settle Frank Cady's loan for approximately $300,000 (public money).  A trickle down scandal that left the City without a City Manager (Luanne Rainey) and City Attorney (Kathleen Lazard).

The Golf course now has its "Back Nine".  Surprise: the value, of this new "Back Nine",  is significantly increased and if the City wanted to create any new parcels to sell, the process starts all over again......they have to buy it from the Nagels first.

It gets better and better............

On March 3, 2010 the City approves Resolution 10-4614

A "deal" has been made with the Nagels

Kurt Bonham abstains from voting on this resolution but  "signs off" on this Deal

go figure?

Bonham continues to fulfill his usefulness to the Nagels and the Cady's

The public will never know how much went into "whose" pockets

Bonham may have been promised the County "Auditor" position for his role in this....whadaya think?

Kurt Bonham is not an auditor

What business is he really in?

Bonham "copyrighted" these photos on his website, why?

LMUD was served with the Federal

 Job discrimination lawsuit for Sexual Discrimination

 (2:10-cv-0286-MCE-DAD) on 2/3/10

Connie Devlyne, Krsto Knezevich and Paul Glau's attorney, Joseph Maloney,  filed their Federal lawsuit on February 3, 2010. Federal court records indicate that LMUD was served on 2/4/1010.

The LMUD Board and LMUD's attorney Eugene Chittock were well aware of this lawsuit before they had their February 23, 2010 Board meeting.

The LMUD Board identified this existing lawsuit on their 2/23/10 closed session agenda as "Significant exposure to litigation"

WHAT GAME IS LMUD PLAYING?

When will the problem children (Langston & Nagel) be removed from this board?

The LMUD Board's history continues to show gross mis-handling of the public's business

Evelyn Twitchell was paid $100,000 for her silence of Cady's actions

Steve Trevino was paid $622,000 . (LMUD's support of Cady's actions)

The LMUD Board has spent over $100,000 to collect $7,500 from Cal Sierra Title Company for the KWH v LMUD award.

LMUD has spent over $1,000,000 in the last eight years to cover up their huge management mistakes

That's just what we know about...............

We don't know how much they spent on the falsification of Federal Forms for illegally transporting hazardous waste

DOES ATTORNEY  CHITTOCK REALLY HAVE THE GUTS TO BE A "CADY" for the LMUD Board?

Langston & Nagel could do ANYTHING they wanted with the LMUD money, because they had Frank Cady to pull strings with the Courts and the District Attorney

The public really believes that LMUD's need for an attorney is to protect the public utility.

All Frank Cady (LMUD's attorney from 1985-2007  ) did was manage to keep the crooked board members out-of-jail. It took $200,000-$300,000 a year to do this.

IS THAT WHY CHITTOCK TOOK THIS JOB..........FOR THE SLEAZY PAYCHECK?

?????? Chittock used to be LMUD's biggest critic.

Now.....................?

LMUD Employees File Lawsuit for

Harassment

Paul Glau and two other LMUD employees recently filed a Harassment lawsuit against LMUD Board members Langston and Nagel & LMUD GM Ray Luhring.

Conflict of interest must be discussed in open session....oops....a Brown Act violation

Lassen County Times, 3/2/10

The LMUD Board's history continues to show gross mis-handling of the public's business

Evelyn Twitchell was paid $100,000 for her silence of Cady's actions

Steve Trevino was paid $622,000 . (LMUD's support of Cady's actions)

The LMUD Board has spent over $100,000 to collect $7,500 from Cal Sierra Title Company for the KWH v LMUD award.

LMUD announces phony UAMPS study for bogus natural gas project

LMUD pays for these studies but never releases them because they don't exist.

What does this money really pay for?

Quiz: Can you name the elected official that has been arrested three times for a DUI

and still holds the office?

e-mail the answer to: kanwehelp.exec.committee@frontiernet.net

LMUD WHINES THAT THEIR "CUSTOMERS" CAN'T PAY THEIR BILLS

SOLUTION: lower the "f_ _ _ ing" rates

LMUD has been and still is the worst managed public utility in the State of California.

The only time these so-called protectors (LMUD Board) will react is when they hear from 100, 200, 300 ratepayers.

9,000 homes are paying TOO MUCH FOR ELECTRICITY IN LASSEN  COUNTY

Lassen County ranches and businesses are paying TOO MUCH for electricity

You want your rates lowered, pick up your phone and call 257-4174

Call these Board members at home, write letters demanding the rates be lowered.

        Let's help poor LMUD with their problem......................

DYER MTN. OWNER, MR. CHOO & his cousin

FINANCIALLY OVER EXTENDED??

This man owes money to TOO MANY PEOPLE (millions and millions and millions)

Tax Liens up the kazoo?

Is this man just a player? Michael Choo and his cousin David buy property to use as leverage on money owed on other property to leverage money owed on "other" property....and our laws allow him to do this.

Dyer Mountain Resort...........highly unlikely now or in the future

LMUD General Manager continues to pay for food, lodging and travel expenses for Rocky Deal

Rocky Deal is not a LMUD Board member nor  is he an employee

Kinda looks really bad..............................kinda looks like a gift of public funds......kinda sorta...............

LMUD misleads public about involvement with UAMPS, a political organization in Utah

First, UAMPS does not sell power.

LMUD is disguising membership payments ($1,000-$4,000 monthly) as power purchases. LMUD's Controller, Bill Stewart, hid payments to NCPA the same way until KWH exposed his creative accounting.

 NCPA and UAMPS are similar energy projects, they don't exist.

LMUD Board members traveled extensively under the premise of these phony energy projects. Country Clubs and ski resorts were the destinations of these vacation/meetings. Often, the entire LMUD Board would go, LMUD Management and their attorney and friends. (Frank Cady paid for all of LMUD management and the Board to go to Colorado right before he was fired: Invenergy) This is fully documented by public records.

Second, why would any public entity financially support a Joint Powers Agreement unless there was  a potential of financial gain or plans of participating in the program.? ANSWER: they wouldn't.

This Utah company cannot raise money in Utah, why? Like the Boise Project Board of Controls in Idaho (Arrowrock scam), they have taken their show on the road in hopes of finding gullible idiots like the  maniacal Ego driven LMUD Board. Invenergy, Arrowrock, Resource 500.........there are so many to mention.

LMUD fully intends to obligate LMUD ratepayers in this bogus project

General Manager, Ray Luhring is on the UAMPS Board and Jay Dow was put on the Joint Powers Agreement

Lassen Municipal Utility District Wastes thousands of dollars on "NEW" website

The management at Lassen Municipal Utility District has changed/upgraded their website three times in the last ten years and it  still is dysfunctional. Take a look at the way it looks today It has never been maintained and don't look for this new version to be maintained either. Try and find current minutes or current agendas.....ain't there and don't expect anything to change with the "NEW LOOK"

Lassen County Auditor Karen Fouch is not retiring

Fouch has done a more than an excellent job as Lassen County Auditor and in 2010 will run again for her office.

*****

Susanville Councilperson Kurt Bonham announced last week that he will be running for Fouch's job. Considering he was elected for one term on the Susanville City Council and was only elected because of the support from Jim Chapman and the fact that he did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for the City of Susanville it is rather arrogant for Bonham to presume he is qualified for this high position. Maybe even absurd.............

Bonham has supported Frank Cady and the Nagels. This does not qualify him to run for anything.

Kan We Help will post Mr. Bonham's "political" history for the last ten years and it is not pretty. This history will include details of his involvement with Susanville's golf course, the creation of parcels for private profiteering and so much more.

Lassen County Supervisors settle

rape case of 5 year old for $865,000

Federal Credit Card Reforms

Kick In February 22, 2010

Also, Credit Card companies cannot charge a fee for phone payments or on-line payments

Credit Card Companies raised their interest rates in anticipation of new federal regulations. Customers with very good credit also received these increases. Obviously there needs to be more regulations to protect the consumer from these obscene policies.

    2010   WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD AWARD

South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer stated on January 25, 2010:

"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that." 

Hear Mr. Bauer: Link

Lt. Governor Andre Bauer

State House, First Floor

P.O. Box 142

Columbia, South Carolina 29202

803-734-2080

South Carolina also owns Governor Sanford and Representative Joe Wilson

Lassen County Courts  HAVE ALWAYS BEEN  just a political tool

for the ambitious rich

Years of "only politics"

in Bradbury's courts

Years of "bias and prejudice

 in Lazard's court     

Stephen Bradbury's last day, January 31, 2010 

Feather River Publishing owner, Mike Taborski issues

20/20/20 Challenge:  Spend $20.00 at local merchants, for the next 20 weeks and ask 20 of your friends to do the same.

Kan We Help would like to take this a step further. The BIG Bailed out Banks (Citibank and Wells Fargo are the worst of the worst) are not lending to local businesses and communities. Take your money out of these Big Bank Bullies and move all of your money to the *local banks and credit unions.

*U.S Bank,  Plumas Bank,  Tri County Bank,  Golden 1 Credit Union,  Lassen County Federal Credit Union

Lowering LMUD electric rates may require an I.Q. Test

 Billy Bob Ray and Billy Bob Bill can't figure out how to lower

Lassen Municipal Utility Districts electric rates ?

NOTE: LMUD has socked away millions of dollars AND could have reduced rates by $ .025 a year ago as power costs continued to drop.

PSREC customer Fred Nagel did not attend this meeting.....he has voted five times to increase LMUD rates and

continues to enjoy lower rates at PSREC

What is the difference between "Chip" Chittock

& Frank Cady?

Answer: Chittock is taller

"Carl Moyer" Grant attorney, Chittock, gives thousands of Dollars

to LMUD Director Jay Dow

In Lassen County, that's not even remotely a CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Chittock employs LMUD Controller's ( The guy that writes the BIG checks to Chittock) wife

In Lassen County, that's not even remotely a CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Chittock can access "sealed confidential court documents". He KNOWS the judge

Chittock can get a judge to meddle in his cases

LMUD attorney EXTORTS MONEY FROM CAL SIERRA TITLE WITH THE HELP OF JUDGE BRADBURY

 TO SETTLE "Kan We Help" JUDGMENT

 Lassen Municipal Utility District to name new Chittock Law Firm attorney to General Counsel ..........again (ooops....Chittock has Conflict)

LMUD needs a $20,000 a month attorney.....WHY?

To keep the Board out of JAIL

United States Senate passes their version of  Health Care reform,

 SB 3590

60-39

Both Houses of Congress now will combine the two Health Care bills

Patient-protection Affordable Care Act , SB 3590

Pre-existing conditions GONE

United States Senate ends open debate on their version of  Health Care reform,

 SB 3590

Final vote on Senates Health Care bill scheduled for Christmas Eve

Patient-protection Affordable Care Act , SB 3590

uamps just as phony as arrowrock

LMUD Directors fragile Ego's still run the utility district

The LMUD Directors signed an agreement with a Utah "political organization" that is not in the best interest of residents that receive power from the Lassen Municipal Utility District and raises issues that expose LMUD  to unnecessary risks.

Cady era Wayne Langston, Bill Stewart and Fred Nagel all supported the phony Idaho hydroelectric project and all of the phony NCPA projects. They approved money to be spent on these "Non-existent" projects and told the public lies and distortions to justify the expenditures.

UAMPS is not going to produce anything for LMUD residents.

Arrowrock produced nothing for LMUD residents.

NCPA phony projects produced nothing for LMUD residents.

 PSREC produced nothing for LMUD residents.

What these projects all have in common is the extensive travel to vacation/meetings  and  the only actual benefit was to UAMPS, BPBC (Arrowrock), NCPA (Resource 500, etc) and PSREC .   Every dollar given to these entities went down the toilet. LMUD residents received NOTHING but the bill $$$$$$$$$$$ .

HOW STUPID ARE LANGSTON, NAGEL, DOW AND BOWDEN............................................?

FACT:

THE JOINT POWERS AGREEMENT WITH UAMPS DOES NOT REQUIRE THE LMUD BOARD TO CREATE THREE BOARD POSITIONS.

LMUD APPOINTED JAY DOW TO SIT ON THIS BOGUS BOARD. This may not even be a LEGAL MEETING and certainly violates the BROWN Act. Special meetings can only discuss the agenda item and cannot open the meeting up to "any and all" topics.......but Jay Dow knows that.....................

december 9, 2009 agenda violates brown act section 54956

Why are they having this SPECIAL MEETING: LANGSTON, BOWDEN AND NAGEL ALSO WANT THEIR FAIR SHARE OF THE VACATION TRIPS TO UTAH...........THUS......THE 12/9/09 MEETING AT 11:30 AM.

NOTE: PSREC joined UAMPS in September/2009. Fred Nagel, a PSREC customer, attended the UAMPS meeting in August/2009 without reporting this trip.

Does Fred Nagel represent PSREC or LMUD?

NO bus stop for veterans

Dan Douglas, Lassen County Transportation Czar, decided that he would not create a bus stop at the new Veterans Medical building. This facility will open in April of 2010 and Mr. Douglas has refused to include this building in the Lassen Rural Bus route.

DAN DOUGLAS DISREGARDS PETITION TO PLACE COVERED KIOSK at Wal Mart location

Dan Douglas threw out a petition signed by 63 people to put a covered waiting area and lights at the new Wal-Mart bus stop. After the Wal-Mart remodel, Douglas refused to put the bus stop back at Wal-Mart and placed it on Riverside Drive. This location has no lighting, no seats and is exposed to the elements. Douglas has disregarded not only the decent needs of the veterans, elderly and disabled but every Lassen Rural Bus rider.

Lassen Rural Buses used to pick up and drop off passengers at Wal-Mart where there was a covered kiosk.  Dan Douglas moved  the bus stop to the street (Riverside Drive) (See second photo below)

LMUD'S MOST OBVIOUS Farce SINCE ARROWROCK

LMUD BOARD HOLDS "SPECIAL MEETING", ON DECEMBER 9, @ 11:30 AM

Traditionally, LMUD'S  "Slip things through" meetings (that are less than LEGITIMATE )are held at times that restrict the publics attendance

A MEETING TO ESTABLISH A REASON to CONTINUE TO TAKE THEIR LMUD VACATION/MEETINGS TO UTAH

ooooops........

UAMPS is just the "political" division

of the State of Utah, yet.....

........LMUD posts their development cost payments to this project as power purchases??

A Public Records Request for the UAMPS project payments revealed that LMUD hides these payments as power purchases

As of today......LMUD continues to pay (On 10/1/09, Check #25191: $977.33. On 10/29/09, Check #25374: $1921.56) into this failed project.

This is exactly what LMUD did when Kan We Help exposed the phony NCPA projects. LMUD continued to pay NCPA thousands of dollars each month for absolutely nothing. These payments were made for "project costs" which did not exist.

UAMPS was repaid in June of 2009 and has yet to repay LMUD a dime. Why? 

LMUD continues to pay UAMPS $2,000-$3,000 a month.

MORE DECEPTION..............

DECEMBER 9, 2009 LMUD AGENDA

After the Board approves this farse, three members (most likely Langston , Nagel and Bowden) can continue making their useless but enjoyable  vacation trips to the UAMPS  ? monthly meetings?

This JPA is another, of a string of many, phony business deals that the LMUD Board continues to support

Hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last 9 years that have gone straight into the toilet

LMUD Directors lied about recovering the $80,000 given to UAMPS for a failed project. UAMPS was paid in June of 2009 and LMUD has received NOTHING

 LMUD continues to pay $3,000 - $4,000 each month for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

lmud board's december 9, 2009 agenda violates brown act section 54956

The Lassen Municipal Utility District board members have produced NOTHING that would benefit the ratepayers in NINE YEARS
 

Susanville Mountain..... NOT COOL

Irresponsible Company, Sierra Pacific

California Department of Forestry does not want to talk about Who approved the "Timber Harvest Plan" for this mess on a Susanville mountainside owned by Sierra Pacific. THP's can be disallowed if they have an adverse impact.

THIS IS MOST DEFINITELY AN ADVERSE IMPACT!!!

jOHN kNIGHT, CDF Forester/REDDING, DID NOT WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS CLEAR CUTTING. This mess was approved out of the Redding CDF office and is filed, once approved,  with the Susanville CDF office.

Beautiful to Butchered

U.S. Senate Approves Amendment to Health Care Bill

61-39

Prohibits Insurance companies from charging co-pays or deductibles for women's preventable services: PAP smears, Mammograms, Cervix exams for Cancer, etc. 

The female "Republican" Senator from Alaska  immediately introduced an amendment to reverse this. It failed.

"Deal" or no "Deal"

LMUD General Manager, Ray Luhring entertains a great DEAL. 

Buying County Supervisor Jack Hanson (8/28/09 & 9/11/09 ), County Supervisor Lloyd Keefer (10/1/09) and County Supervisor Jim Chapman (10/9/09) lunch to discuss "renewable energy" is understandable. But why is Ray Luhring and the LMUD ratepayers paying to wine and dine Rocky Deal OR George Sargent (10/9/09) or Bud Bowden (10/9/09) for that matter?   You won't see any of these expenses listed on his "EXPENSE REPORT". Luhring has a LMUD credit card which hides a lot of airfares, hotel and food bills for people other than LMUD employees.

These are "Cady" habits that should have been curtailed when they fired Cady.

With Bill Stewart approving this "irregular" spending the Board might as well hire Cady back as GM/GC

LMUD GENERAL MANAGER AND LMUD CONTROLLER HELP HIDE LMUD BOARD PRESIDENTS  "vacation meeting" TRIP TO UTAH

A bigger problem....there is no project with UAMPs....at least not a legitimate one

CLICK HERE :  UAMPS PROJECT THE NEXT "ARROWROCK" CANCELED

A FAMILY TRIP: Langston went on this trip also, but  he reported the trip

LMUD AUDIT SLIGHTLY SKEWED AGAIN

LMUD Auditors are "GIVEN" prepared sections from the LMUD Controller, Bill Stewart,  to audit.

Ever since Steve Pezzullo, LMUD's long time Auditor, and Frank Cady had a falling out over their personal businesses, LMUD has selected the accounts they let the new auditor review.

Pezzullo gave LMUD a "Qualified" Audit in their 2003/2004 Audit. Steve Pezzullo exposed LMUD's accounting indiscretions and Frank didn't like it.

LMUD 2008/2009AUDIT FINE..............................?

LMUD's gross income increased by 4.4% ($2.7 million) while power cost dropped by $902,785

LMUD Board refuses to reduce rates