Bonehead Behavior !
Failure, failure, and more failure.
Newberry CSD's board member Jack Unger has never impressed
me as someone who has his life in order. I would never trust anything
of value with anyone who has a history of repeated failures.
If Jack Unger had fulfilled his promise that he and the
other CSD board members had made to the community to litigate the Daggett
Solar Project, he wouldn't have a reason to write about the dust problem.
Reporting dust violations to the Mojave Desert AQMD is fine
but it is a ridicious cat-and-mouse game. What the CSD settled for
in their litigation's surrender is worthless. By the time the MDAQMD
gets boots-on-the-ground, the wind has dissipated.
It has fascinated me that Newberry's voters would trust
someone like Unger to advance their community. But then, he was
heavily promoted to the CSD board by the endorsement of CSD board member
Paula Deel, who herself is in the same category as Unger.
Deel has retired from her feed and plumbing business.
Normally, when someone retires after years of operating a brick-and-mortar
business, the business is profitably sold for its inventory value, goodwill,
and profit line. If the business is worthless, the business is closed
and the inventory liquidated. Liquidation is what happened with Deel's
Plumbing. People's behavior repeats what they do.
(Paula Deel's running litany of failures.)
The Newberry CSD board is made up of stagnated people
who are mediocre in their performance. They are slowly driving
Newberry to liquidation. Despite having good intentions, they just
don't know any better. They are not visionary performers nor
competent in community development.
Yep! The Deel's much trotted
Coppi-Mumford Memorial,
which the Deel's NSEDA (N.S. Economic Development Association)
acquired in late 2016, is for sale !
The land, donated as a memorial, was
promoted to be used as a co-operative for the "discovery,
development, teaching and enabling of appropriate scale agriculture,
viticulture (grape growing), horticulture, permaculture, aquaculture,
architecture, and other pursuits suitable to the arid desert environment
of Newberry Springs, with the overarching goal of developing an
economically sustainable rural community."
Despite all of that stupid verbal bullshit, in 2016,
I strongly forecasted that the Deels' project would be another waste of
money and a failure. After later drilling an expensive well and
placing underground water lines, here we are. The sell-off of the
memorial site due to mismanagement and unrealistic expectations.
Back to Jack Unger.
I don't like people who are liars. During Jack
Unger's campaign for CSD office, Unger promised to be fully transparent.
Even promising to produce a monthly publication covering the CSD's activities.
Not only is
Jack the Weasel's word worthless,
but he has also been deceptive and has failed, failed, failed on the CSD board.
Failed to be transparent, failed in his
solar presentation
on the Daggett Solar Power Project before the Board of Supervisors, lied to the
community about
litigating
the solar project, failed in his
civic center
project that has been
mismanaged.
Jack Unger has failed to accomplish anything meaningful for Newberry.
With the other CSD turncoats, Jack Unger
capitulated and allowed the billion-dollar-plus Daggett solar project
to start construction by accepting an idiotic $200K token payoff when
the CSD could have acquired millions in damage compensation.
Then Unger failed to raise the funding for his proposed
new civic center project. Talk about losers ! But then,
it is your community that is losing due to Unger, Deel, and the other
board members' fumbling.
The board handles the basic CSD operations O.K.
They also do good with social events. But while they provide and
pacify residents with entertainment in the park, we are literally losing
our community.
Unger's ego is constantly trying to place himself upfront.
His apparent astonishment (in his above Facebook post) should have residents
crying out, What did he expect ?
In uprooting 5.5 square miles of topsoil, is Unger so
feeble-minded as to believe that the developer wasn't going to create a
toxic dust hazard in Newberry ?
Was Unger so foolish as not to understand that unstoppable
dust from 5.5 square miles of mowed soil would engulf Newberry and injure
humans and animals? He was repeatedly warned of it ! Or
was he believing Director Vickie Paulsen's delusional claim that a fence
could hold back the dust? Or that the developer would prevent the
dust?
What fantasy world are these people living in?
Jack Unger placed himself as the CSD board's answer man
regarding the Daggett solar project when the solar project issue first came
before the board. He craved the attention. More than anyone
on the board that capitulated, Jack Unger is responsible for the solar
project and all of the foreseeable community misery that is now beginning.
Unger is currently trying to spotlight himself as a good
guy stepping forward to address the damages that he is responsible for.
No, Jack, you are not a good guy. We won't forget the irreparable
damage that you, Paula Deel, Vickie Paulsen, Robert Springer, and Larry Clark
intentionally caused to people's health, their children, and home investments.
Anyone who feels that the solar projects in the Silver
Valley are (or will be) physically impacting their pulmonary function
is encouraged to join our activist victims' group. With sufficient
numbers, we may be able to address this outrageous public harm.
newberrystrong@mail.com
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