Supervisor James Gore

Letters Needed! —Board of Forestry Poised to Gut SRA Fire Safe Regulations

Note: Supervisor James Gore is Sonoma County’s liaison with this group.  “Sonoma County, through its membership in the Rural County Representatives of California, has been lobbying the Board of Forestry for weakened regulations to promote unrestricted development.”   Letters Needed! —Board of Forestry Poised to Gut SRA Fire Safe Regulations Please email the BOF (PublicComments@bof.ca.gov) to …

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Conflict of Interest for Supervisors: Letter sent to county attorneys

“Supervisors Gore and Hopkins should recuse themselves from further participation in any cannabis committee, and should neither participate in any discussions of cannabis issues nor vote on revisions to the cannabis ordnance or to general plan that concern cannabis.” The conflict-of-interest complaint filed with Pittman is available on request and is also on the Save …

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Wine Country Conflicts of interest for Supervisor Gore

PD Letter to the Editor: WE ARE WATCHING Dear County Counsel Robert Pittman: It has come to my attention that the sister-in-law of Supervisor James Gore, Erin Gore, is an active lobbyist on behalf of the cannabis industry.  My Public Records Act requests have shown that she has been frequently in contact with county officials …

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Wine Country Conflicts of interest for Supervisor Gore

WE ARE WATCHING Dear County Counsel Robert Pittman: It has come to my attention that the sister-in-law of Supervisor James Gore, Erin Gore, is an active lobbyist on behalf of the cannabis industry.  My Public Records Act requests have shown that she has been frequently in contact with county officials who decide cannabis policy, and …

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COMPLAINT RECENTLY FILED WITH THE SONOMA COUNTY GRAND JURY

COMPLAINT RECENTLY FILED WITH THE SONOMA COUNTY GRAND JURY Local group: After reading it and noting the striking similarities between the rollout of the cannabis program in SB and here in Sonoma, a formal complaint was recently lodged with the Sonoma County Grand Jury against the Cannabis Ad Hoc (Gore and Hopkins) and the Cannabis …

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Opinion: wine industry permits

Dear Editor: County residents increasingly recognize that a moratorium on new wine industry permits is needed until long-promised tourism event regulations are in place and enforced.  (“Moratorium on wineries sought,” August 7)  Tennis Wick, the head of Permit Sonoma, states that “What we have to deal with now is taxing us at maximum capacity.”  This …

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