Recall Dolores Lucero

Shasta Lake Bulletin April 11, 2012

2012-04-11T09:16:00.001-07:00

Click below to read the news about the recall from our local Shasta Lake Bulletin:

http://www.shastalake.ws/

R/S News Article April 10, 2012

2012-04-11T09:11:00.001-07:00

Click on the link below to read the full story and the unofficial results of yesterday's special election:

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/apr/10/councilwoman-lucero-ousted-in-recall-vote/

R/S News Article April 7, 2012

2012-04-09T09:50:00.000-07:00

Please click the link below to read the most current news article on the Recall of Ms Lucero:

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/apr/07/shasta-lake-candidates-lucero-prepare-for-recall/

R/S Editorial April 7, 2012

2012-04-07T17:48:00.001-07:00

Click on the link below to read the most recent editorial from the Record Searchlight. Detailing her undoing, by her own hand!

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/apr/07/editorial-lucero-continues-to-make-the-case-for/

R/S News Article April 5, 2012

2012-04-07T17:46:00.001-07:00

More defiance from our council member Ms Lucero. Please click on the link below to be directed to the news article:

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/apr/05/shasta-lake-councilwoman-stands-ground-luceros/

R/S News Article April 2, 2012

2012-04-07T17:44:00.001-07:00

Click on the link below to read more about the criminal charges facing Ms Lucero:

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/apr/02/lucero-calls-special-council-meeting-criminal-case/

R/S News Article March 30, 2012

2012-04-07T17:43:00.000-07:00

Click on the link below to read about our troubled council member:

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/mar/30/trouble-follows-some-elected-officials/

R/S News Article March 29, 2012

2012-04-07T17:40:00.005-07:00

Click on the link below to read the news article about Ms Lucero's petition seeking referendum fails!

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/mar/29/petition-seeking-referendum-fails/

R/S News Article March 29, 2012

2012-04-07T17:39:00.000-07:00

Ms Lucero turns herself in to the Shasta County Jail facing charges of 2 counts of felony and 1 count misdemeanor!

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/mar/29/shasta-lake-city-councilwoman-dolores-lucero-charg/

R/S News Article March 28, 2012

2012-04-07T17:36:00.000-07:00

Click on the link below to read the Record Searchlight article regarding the City of Shasta Lake delaying the increase in electric rates.

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/mar/28/shasta-lake-delays-increasing-electric-rates/

R/S Editorial March 24, 2012

2012-04-07T17:34:00.001-07:00

Record Searchlight editorial March 24, 2012 can be viewed by clicking on the link below:

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/mar/24/editorial-politics-aside-power-bills-must-be/

R/S News Article March 22, 2012

2012-04-07T17:32:00.000-07:00

Click on the link below to read the Record Searchlight article about Ms Lucero turning in her electric recall petitions.

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/mar/22/lucero-turns-in-signatures/

R/S News Article March 21, 2012

2012-04-07T17:29:00.000-07:00

More confusion over the electric recall petition. Please click on the below link.

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/mar/21/confusion-over-electric-recall-petitions/

R/S News Article March 20, 2012

2012-04-07T17:26:00.002-07:00

Ms Lucero presents her petition to the city clerk. Click on the link below to go to the article.

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/mar/20/lucero-decides-not-turn-rate-increase-signatures/

R/S Article March 20, 2012

2012-04-07T17:24:00.002-07:00

Click on the link below to be directed to the Record Searchlight article from March 20, 2012. This is the beginning of Ms Lucero's attempts to turn in her electricity petition.

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/mar/20/no-headline---dolores_brief/

R/S Editorial March 18, 2012

2012-03-19T09:10:00.000-07:00

Please note: To view the editorial in full please click the link

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/mar/18/editorial-time-for-voters-to-drop-curtain-on/

March 18, 2012 Editorial by Bruce Ross:

“Given the 100-year flood of signatures calling for the recall of Shasta Lake City Councilor Dolores Lucero, it seems all but certain the voters will turn her out of office.

More than twice as many voters lent their names to the recall drive late last year as voted for Lucero in the first place in 2009. Behind that lopsided arithmetic, many if not most of Lucero's former supporters have abandoned her. They've come to realize that — despite stray fine words about accountability and transparency in government, and the need to mind the citizens' interests — her actions do nothing to advance her stated goals.

She is combative beyond all reason. She is immune to persuasion when the facts or the law don't fit her preconceived opinions. She is quick to fling accusations of criminality with only the slightest if any evidence beyond paranoid hunches. She has become a force of distraction and destruction on the Shasta Lake City Council.

We trust she'll be recalled, but for the undecided or the unpersuaded, it's worth recapping just a bit of her history on the council.

In 2010, after a Shasta Lake city employee wrote a letter to the editor of this newspaper critical of Lucero, she responded in part by running her own shoddy background check and started calling him a felon around City Hall. Unfortunately, she had confused two men with the same name.

Later that year, Lucero voted against a city move to shift council elections to even years as part of a countywide drive to consolidate voting and cut election costs. There's not a thing wrong with her disagreement, but she didn't just vote no. She also accused her fellow councilors of criminal conflicts of interest and filed complaints with the Fair Political Practices Commission seeking censure — for what was a perfectly legal and by-the-book cost-saving measure that wasn't even anyone in Shasta Lake's idea in the first place. The FPPC, naturally, found no merit whatsoever to Lucero's complaint.

Last year, she publicly accused the city of Shasta Lake of failing to file financial documents with the state controllers' office — without realizing three of four red flags raised by the state applied not to the city of Shasta Lake but to the Shasta Community Services District. (And the city, in any case, had already filed its documents.)

This winter, she said in a KCNR 1460 radio interview that the controller's office was auditing the city's books and would release a report any time. This appears to be pure fantasy. The state controller's office says it has conducted no audit of the city and has no report pending.

And of course lately, moving from belligerent to bizarre, she sued the city and county in a futile attempt to stop the recall, to override democracy, and called for her fellow councilors to resign — as if they're the problem.

The city's voters can drop the curtain on this show by recalling Lucero April 10. They should not hesitate.”

R/S News Article March 12, 2012

2012-03-13T17:21:00.001-07:00

Click the following link to read the latest news regarding the Lucero Challenge:

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/mar/13/judge-strikes-down-lucero-recall-challenge/

R/S Editorial March 9, 2012

2012-03-09T10:22:00.002-08:00

Click on the following link for the editorial by Bruce Ross.

"Whom to believe? Well, Lucero has a long record of heatedly flinging dubious accusations. The smart money would be on Kobe."
http://www.redding.com/news/2012/mar/09/editorial-judge-makes-the-only-sound-call-on/?partner=yahoo_feeds

R/S News Article March 8, 2012

2012-03-08T13:53:00.000-08:00

Click on the following link for the latest information on the injunction hearing.

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/mar/08/ruling-lucero-recall-expected-within-week-councilw/

March 6, 2012 R/S News Article

2012-03-06T23:53:00.001-08:00

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/mar/06/shasta-lake-city-council-lucero-calls-on-pair-to/

Ms Lucero draws laughter from the audience at tonight's city council meeting. Read all about it by following this link.

R/S News Article Feb 23, 2012 Candidates Forum

2012-02-24T09:44:00.001-08:00

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/feb/23/shasta-lake-debate/

Lucero Lawsuit Feb 17, 2012

2012-02-22T11:47:00.001-08:00

Click the following link to see Ms Lucero's lawsuit in its entirety.
Filed February 17, 2012

http://media.redding.com/media/static/LUCERO_LAWSUIT.pdf

R/S Article Feb 21, 2012

2012-02-21T23:27:00.002-08:00

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/feb/21/shasta-lake-electric-rates-bills-set-to-rise-in/

R/S Article Feb 21, 2012

2012-02-21T23:25:00.001-08:00

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/feb/21/lucero-files-lawsuit-claims-fraud/

R/S Blog Feb 21, 2012

2012-02-21T22:44:00.001-08:00

http://blogs.redding.com/bross/archives/2012/02/will-state-cont.html

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