Here it is.....the letter > Rexroad.com

Matt Rexroad, Supervisor, District 3
Yolo county Board of Supervisors
625 Court Street, Room 204
Woodland, CA 95695
9 May 2008

Dear Supervisor Rexroad,

We are writing to express our deep concern about how Brenda Cedarblade and Ted Wilson have been treated since they acted on their right under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to challenge the Yolo County Board of Supervisors’ decision to certify the Negative Declaration on Clark-Pacific’s proposal to build and operate a pre-cast cement factory on land that is zoned agricultural. It has come to our attention that the County is preparing to inspect the Historic Nelson Ranch and to possibly revoke conditional use permits related to the operation of Brenda and Ted’s horse boarding business on the site. This action, if true, appears to be retaliation for Brenda and Ted’s CEQA challenge. Retaliation by the government sets a precedent that could seriously threaten the use of CEQA as a tool to protect the environment by Californians.

We are concerned about the personal attacks and harassment being directed toward Brenda and Ted. Charles Shaw has been using a blog to attack Brenda’s character, calling her a “Horse’s Ass,” and making numerous outrageous, slanderous allegations about her and Ted. The link to this blog is the following: http://www.historicnelsonranchscandal.blogspot.com/.

However, you already have the link to this blog, and it is posted on your personal web site, right at the top. Your comments that accompany the link support Shaw’s tactics, and mock Brenda and Ted, who are your constituents. Your explanation for your conduct in this matter is unsatisfactory. This sort of behavior is beneath the standards of conduct we expect of elected public officials.

We hope you will change course on this issue. Disavowing Shaw’s blog would be a fruitful start. We also ask that you and your colleagues investigate who is behind the harassment directed toward Ted and Brenda. Is it Clark-Pacific? Is it the labor union that was noted in Shaw’s blog? Have any County Departments or County staff colluded in this harassment? We request that you intervene on plans by County staff to use CUP revocation as a means to retaliate against Ted and Brenda for their CEQA action. We ask that you do what you can to protect our ability to use CEQA as it was intended, and that you provide adequate protection of the civil liberties of the residents of Yolo County.

Thank you,

Shawn Smallwood
Pam Nieberg
Catherine Portman
Susan Pelican
Carolyn Hinshaw
Rodney Robinson
Howard Beeman
Sally Parker
Holly Bishop
Alan Pryor
Fraser Shilling
Cole Hawkins
Nancy Price

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