Comments on: Digging deeper into Jerry McNerney’s residency

By: Gill Gone Negative: Questions McNerney’s Residency | East County Today

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:22:14 +0000

[...] least Josh Richman of the Contra Costa Times stated: The Democrat is seeking a fourth term in the newly drawn 9th Congressional District, which [...]

By: Mr. 209

Mr. 209 — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:42:38 +0000

@Moderate Voter (misnomer alert)

I seem to remember McNerney breaking ground on an essential element of the peripheral canal in 2010:

http://blogs.esanjoaquin.com/san-joaquin-river-delta/2010/10/15/welcome-to-the-groundbreaking-watch-for-snakes-and-squirrels/

“One water exporter suggested that Thursday’s groundbreaking could be a ‘dress rehearsal for much bigger things to come’ – such as, perhaps, a peripheral canal or tunnel.”

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101015/A_NEWS/10150330/-1/rss02

Is that a shovel in McNerney’s hand? It is??

By: JohnW

JohnW — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:46:45 +0000

Re: #5

Good point, JonH. I confess to being a bit confused. According to Wikipedia (not always factually correct but often so), McClintock’s opponent in the 2008 congressional race ran TV spots criticizing McClintock for receiving $300k in per diem, even though he and his family lived most of the year in Elk Grove near Sacramento. But McClintock said the payments were justified because his legal residence was in Thousand Oaks in Ventura County. Also, McClintock couldn’t vote for himself in either the primary or general, because his legal residence was in Thousand Oaks, not in the congressional district. So, I guess you are right. He didn’t live in the Senate district he represented but got paid lots of per diem on the theory that he did.

By: JonH

JonH — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:48:06 +0000

JohnW needs to get out more. McClintock hasn’t lived in Ventura County for years.

By: JohnW

JohnW — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 05:40:24 +0000

Re #3

Gill has tried to distance himself from the GREAT H20 HEIST OF 2012 by saying his own family’s Northern CA farming interests are at stake if too much liquid gold moves South, while still acknowledging that he has support from some of the interests you mentioned. In other words, he’s saying, just because they give him money doesn’t mean he’ll do their bidding. That may even be true, but I wouldn’t bet my tap water on it.

Jerry Brown is holding the levee repairs hostage to the “Peripheral Tunnel” project. If one of them bursts in an earthquake, his legacy may not be the one he’s aiming for.

As for who’s stomping whom on election day, whether it’s the White House or key House and Senate races, I’m not placing bets. Just keeping my fingers crossed.

By: moderate voter

moderate voter — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 04:11:49 +0000

Ricky Gill had to come up with something, poll numbers show he is trailing. Also, recently we learned some of the people behind the new peripheral canal – which I understand now is some sort of tunnel – are backing Gill for Congress.
This stealth like alliance by Gill with So-Cal water special interest groups – the same ones that have been trying to steal our water for 40 years – spells doom for the Gill campaign. This new goofball tunnel idea would be a disaster for the Delta, so would the election of Gill to this Congressional seat. Gill will be errand boy for SoCal water special interest groups, for Wall Street, for health care company CEO’s, for hedge fund managers, and so forth. These guys are funding his campaign. If you want to watch the middle class continue to shrink, and watch the Delta shrivel up into a trickle, vote for Ricky Gill. He’s never met a fat cat special interest group he doesn’t like.
In this race I got my money on McNerny, he fights for the regular working stiff, for jobs, for health care, for the Delta. I got McNerny stomping Ricky Gill on election day.

By: JohnW

JohnW — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:27:19 +0000

Politically speaking, Jerry’s going to have to do the usual tap dance on this.

Ethically speaking, his old district included both his Pleasanton home and significant parts of the new district. So, this is not exactly a classic carpetbagging situation.

Legally, and speaking of carpetbaggers, he could live in Tom McClintock’s home in Ventura and still qualify.

Candor-wise, Jerry would get an attaboy from me if he just said, “who the hell wants to live in Stockton?

By: Chariot LLC

Chariot LLC — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:07:39 +0000

In considering McNerney’s credibility here, it is worth comparing his statements to the original report.

McNerney’s Statement on his Stockton home:
“I’m sleeping there – it’s absolutely my legal address.”

Stockton Record report:
“The [McNerney's] car, a silver Toyota Camry, has remained parked at the Pleasanton home.”

“No cars were parked outside the Stockton home during the two-week period. The home was locked and shuttered. No one answered knocks at the door. On garbage day, the bins were not put out.”

So McNerney says is sleeping in the Stockton home, but his car wasn’t there for two weeks, no trash and the doors were shuttered?

It appears that someone is not telling the truth.

McNerney’s history has not earned him the benefit of the doubt.

“He [McNerney] declared redistricting out of his hands in interviews with me last summer, but we learned in ProPublica’s story that he had hired a mapping consultant who set up a Facebook page called “OneSanJoaquin” and solicited favorable testimony for his preferred district. – L.Vorderbrueggen, CC Times, December 30, 2011