I just got off the phone with Eureka Mayor Kim Bergel. Roy Gomez learned nothing from yesterday's fiasco and tagged Mayor Bergel on her personal Facebook page and continued to argue with her instead of admitting what he has done.
"At the time, in 2022, the comments in the video are absolutely correct," Mayor Bergel told me. "But two years later, we need more housing and my comments are taken out of context. I do not endorse or support Measure F."
Not content with the Luci Ramirez fiasco, Roy Gomez is now mistepresenting and using a comment from two years ago and insinuating that Mayor Bergel supports Measure F.
I dont have time right and I am not going link all the posts I have done on Roy Gomez. If you read any of those posts or just the one on his loss in the Brian Trout case and Commissioner Sarah Kaber's ruling in that case which resulted in a restraining order against Roy Gomez and he was ordered to pay Trout's attorney's fees. Read my post and a claim by his former attorney Ms. Cyndy Day-Wilson or my post on his Eureka business closing, or the post I did on his partner Jessica Gomez's Security National email address. Most of you read my posts yesterday about Humboldt Bay Coffee owner Luci Ramirez denying she supports Measure F or endorses it and her name and remarks being misused. I don't have the time to waste and keep up with Roy Gomez multiple lawsuits, including one still open in Humboldt Superior Court about his Arcata business. Roy Gomez also failed in his candidacy for Third District Supervisor.
Yes on F co chair Michelle Costantine and Measure F supporter Anthony Mantova failed to be elected to Eureka City Council. Are these people who even with the "right local connections" voters couldn't run a winning campaign, the ones voters are supposed to trust about the future "prosperity" of Eureka ? Many current voters don't care or dont know relics of the past like former Eureka mayors Frank Jager and Nancy Flemming and former Eureka Councilmember Marian Brady.
Yes on F has yet to respond about why they misled the public and used Ramirez's remarks out of context. While writing this post, I briefly heard back from Yes on F spokesperson Gail Rymer and there is no official response "right now."
Roy Gomez can spout whatever he wants on Facebook. He, Cornelius Loewenstein and James Harrison Graham seem to be obsessed with Mayor Bergel instead of focusing on their own lives and taking responsibility for failures.
I am more interested in a response from the Yes on F campaign and Security National who has poured more than a million to promote Measure F and the explaination why Luci Ramirez and Mayor Bergel's remarks have been taken out of context and misused by people who clearly the Yes on F campaign cannot control or do not care to reign in because they want to own the libs and pissed they do not control the City of Eureka.
Maybe the crowd behind Make Eureka Parking Lots Great Again should pick people who are politically savvy and know how to communicate effectively instead of the poor choices who represent their current cause and are the same tired voices who achieve nothing but animosity.
Jessica Gomez has not responded on her connection with Security National. It was August when I reported that she emails the City of Eureka with a Security National address and I was the only one to do so despite certain local media being so chummy with Eureka Manager Miles Slattery. Yes on F should state if Roy Gomez speaks for the Yes on F campaign or is affiliated with them in any way.
A kindergartner could run a better campaign than Yes on F and there are better local lawyers than out of county Bradley Johnson who has, so far, lost for Eureka Housing for All, Citizens for a Better Eureka and Roy Gomez. Even a professional like Gail Rymer cannot put "lipstick on the local pigs" who have squandered Security National's money. If I were Rob Arkley, I would be pissed right now. I wrote weeks back, if Yes on F fails, will Rob hold those locally accountable ? I was told Costantine is friends with Patty Sue, wife of Security National's Tim Callison.
Michelle, if you want to cozy up with Ingomar crowd, be the face of an Arkley and Security National funded campaign and hang out with your "big boy buddies" like Humboldt First District Supervisor Rex Bohn and his ilk; you need to deliver results. Not egg on their face two days before an election. Outside your bubble of the local political and economic cabal and with the exception of your biased hubby Shane Blackwell, several long term residents and new people who have moved to Eureka don't care and don't know who you are and what you and most of the people on these glossy mailers think. Inundation of Yes on F mailers, social media and radio ads are turning people off and poll responses can be misleading.
Privileged folks who have no clue about housing challenges and think parking is an issue for the numerous cars each member of their household own which hog up parking spaces and sidewalks in addition to their driveway need to get off their chariots and walk a couple of blocks. What makes you Make Eureka Great Again NIMBYs think you speak for the majority of Eureka?
Roy Gomez, Michelle Costantine and Patty Sue are constantly kvetching about Eureka City Council on Facebook. If they are so concerned about housing, maybe they could expedite an answer from Security National about the housing project near the Indianola cutoff. I am still waiting months later for a response for the post I did on that SN housing project. I did the original post in 2022.
https://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2024/04/almost-year-and-half-later-what-is.html?m=1
If I had a million dollars to invest in politics, I would not waste it like Security National has on Measure F and I would hire effective adults who can run a winning campaign for the power I seek.
There were people who felt strongly about Measure N. That Measure also supported by Security National passed in 2010 and was a win because the team of volunteers were mature, they were people trusted in the community and could deliver an effective message without insulting people. To my knowledge, other than anyone from Security National, no one from that team of volunteers on Measure N is associated with the boondoggle that is Measure F.
Screenshots posted below of some of the exchange from Roy Gomez' personal Facebook page with Patty Sue and Costantine arguing against Mayor Bergel. Three to one and Mayor Bergel was the only adult in the conversation.
