Maxxam Behind Recall Campaign For Prosecutor Who Enforced Logging Laws

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"It seems that a newly elected county district attorney, Paul Gallegos, is irritating the lumber giant for bringing a suit charging Pacific Lumber with filing a false timber harvest plan in order to obtain a global logging permit for their property. The company, he charges, had information about the environmental impact of their logging proposal that they were legally obliged to give to the Californian authorities but did not.

Richard Wilson of the California Department of Forestry publically declared that if he knew about this withholding of material information at the time he signed off on the permit, he would have rejected the permit application.

The owners of Pacific Lumber decided to rid themselves of this prosecution for fraud by starting a recall of the elected Paul Gallegos. So they backed a commercial signature gathering firm which is charging $8 a signature to place this recall on the ballot. It is remarkable what this artificial legal entity, called a corporation, can get away with. Imagine a real person charged with fraud trying to recall the prosecutor.

Well, Pacific Lumber, using fear tactics of mass layoffs, may not get away with this camouflaged campaign charging the D.A. with being soft on crime, when he is prosecuting corporate crime. Mr. Gallegos says the polls show he is ahead by 60 to 40. Why so close? The signature gatherers and the propaganda campaign are deceiving people that the petition is about anti-rape legislation or to repeal vehicle license faxes. Over 90% of the money for this recall campaign comes from Pacific Lumber."

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http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0216-03.htm

[Webster Green]

1. Maxxam sucks!

They took contol of Pacific Lumber, a company that was doing fairly responsible, sustainable logging and turned it into a clear-cutting monster. Employee pension funds were sqauandered into junk bonds. The last time I was in Humboldt County, I heard Maxxam ads on the radio station in Eureka, accusing tree sitters of being "terrorists".