Not the way I want to start my Saturday but in Humboldt, there are too many "Daniels" who will always waste time

 

Daniel, here is your 15 seconds of fame which you obviously are desperate for.

Anyone who does not follow proper procedure and messages me on messenger is blocked or ignored; that is if I even see the message. Daniel Smith who does not even have a phone number on his campaign website thinks yelling at Eureka City Council members, having a Facebook site and disparaging me is the way to get what?

If you were professional and had a team, who you have not disclosed, you would have sent a press release out to all media before your joke of a Facebook page and theatrics at a Eureka City Council meeting.

Daniel I reported from your website, election paperwork and I don't need you to lecture me on journalism or politics. Unlike you, I have worked on winning campaigns in Humboldt, outside Humboldt, reported in Humboldt and outside Humboldt and I get results. I am not obligated to reach out to any Tom, Dick, Harry, Jane or some idiot who thinks a Facebook page entitles you to contact; let alone free press.

It was only after my post exposing you and the couple of people endorsing you on Facebook which include a failed Eureka Council candidate who is MAGA and extremely far right in his views that you now claim to be "center right." I know that individual personally. Your political affiliation isn't a disqualification for me but your attitude and manipulating the public instead of answering specifics you have yet to provide. Are you going to attack any local media who isn't favorable to you?

You have nothing to offer Eureka. You have not proved you can get endorsements or money. If there is anyone backing you or Jason McCutcheon, neither of you are transparent.

Unlike you Daniel, I am busy, I work 24/7. I have volunteered, used my own money to benefit the community. And this includes many in Humboldt who are ungrateful, abusive, grumpy because they are used to being bullies, getting their way, doing shoddy work.

From the courts to politics to business, the cliquey incompetence exposed are haters who should have been called out and exposed by the decades old media who were in Humboldt before I moved to this hell. Those who gossip behind my back and glare at me at the Courthouse reveal themselves for who they are.

If you had proved to be a serious challenger, I would have reached out to you. The Eureka City Council elections are in November 2026.

You and many in Eureka do not understand business. After years of negative loss and lack of investment from people who expect a lot and for free; I spend my time focusing on those who invest and appreciate.

I have to do an impossible, thankless job without adequate compensation, constant hate and abuse from toxic Humboldt and distractions from entitled dime a dozen locals like you. Humboldt in a global and national news environment with many options isn't profitable. It is a choice to do local news. 

You can crawl back in the hole you came from and get your publicity elsewhere. For the last several elections, the community and those who have power and money know who the people trust and read. Even my critics.

The choices right now for Ward 5 are incumbent Renee Contreras-DeLoach and you. And you are not an option. However to win, Renee has to put in the work and not take voters for granted.

Humboldt and Eureka will remain stagnant and depressing because there are too many people like you Daniel who think a Facebook account means your 1 cent opinion matters. No one gives a damn about those sitting on Facebook or online commenting 24/7 when you have done nothing and contributed nothing.

For change, people have to get out and be involved, take on the failed leadership and power which has kept Humboldt and Eureka from prospering. There are those who do and contribute; and there are those leeches like you who attack.

As I have said before; if I was not effective; people would not attack. So Daniel, ignoring me would have been smart.  But, you and many in Humboldt have already proved opinions are like...