Gallegos sidesteps questions about possible conflict of interest in Bowman charges
A large contribution to the successful 2006 re-election campaign of Humboldt County District Attorney Paul Gallegos has raised questions the DA has so far declined to answer, after it was learned that the son of the man chiefly responsible for the contribution subsequently escaped punishment on numerous criminal charges, including one alleging the statutory rape of a 14-year-old girl.
According to Fair Political Practices Commission filings, the donation, in the amount of $10,000, was the single largest monetary contribution received by the campaign of the incumbent DA from any contributor whose last name was not Gallegos.
FPPC documents indicate that the contribution was recorded April 29, and attributed to the Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria, which is chaired by Leonard Bowman, father of Derek Bowman, 25, both of Loleta.
The younger Bowman’s association with law enforcement spans two states and 11 years, and includes as many as 40 criminal charges ranging from assault with a deadly weapon as a juvenile to three charges alleging violence against one adult and two juvenile females in 2006.
But on July 19, less than six weeks after Gallegos was re-elected, the DA’s Office gathered nine felonies and a handful of misdemeanors pending against Derek, and dismissed or suspended sentence on all of them in a single day.
According to publicly available court documents, recent charges against Derek included felony statutory rape, five counts of felony check fraud against local businesses, felony burglary, felony threats, felony battery, misdemeanor battery and misdemeanor resisting arrest.
Restitution orders for the check fraud cases were part of the July 19 deals, but the documents show that no jail time for any of the alleged offenses was requested by the DA’s Office.
For violation of probation on a previous charge, Derek was sentenced in July to 180 days, less time served, in the Humboldt County jail.
FOLLOWING THE MONEY
In a declaration in support of an arrest warrant on one of the charges against Derek, Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputy Troy Garey wrote on June 26 that Cheree Bowie, the mother of Derek’s 17-year-old wife, told him that Derek had “been bragging that even if he was arrested, his dad would get him out of jail.”
In his report, Garey stated that he asked Bowie how she knew this.
“Bowie said the suspect’s father, Leonard Bowman, is the tribal chairperson on the Bear River reservation,” Garey wrote, “and he and the tribe and the Bear River Casino gave District Attorney Paul Gallegos $10,000 in his recent re-election campaign for DA. Bowie then hung up the phone.”
When The Eureka Reporter attempted to contact Bowman at the tribal office, a woman who answered the phone said that Bowman had no comment when he was told the call was regarding campaign contributions.
In all, the Bowmans, the tribe and an attorney employed by the casino contributed $11,100 to Gallegos’ campaign coffers, just under 10 percent of the total of all funds raised by the incumbent during the campaign, according to FPPC filings.
In addition to the $10,000 contribution in the name of the Rancheria, Leonard and his wife personally contributed $100, the FPPC documents show.
The same documents indicate Bear River attorney Michael Acosta contributed $1,000.
Contained in the court records is a letter to the Humboldt County Probation Department, dated Aug. 7 and written on Bear River Gaming Agency letterhead, in which Acosta requested that Derek be granted probation in lieu of the 180-day sentence.
Acosta stated in the letter that he would recommend reinstatement of Derek’s employment in the casino’s surveillance department should probation be granted.
Court documents state that Derek has been charged with violating the terms of his probation seven times in the past nine years.
FOLLOWING THE RULES
While there is no direct evidence that indicates Derek was treated differently because of the contributions, neither did Gallegos exercise any of the options available to him to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.
The simple explanation may be that he was not legally required to do so.
According to Del Norte County District Attorney Mike Riese, there is no rule requiring the removal or “recusal” of a DA from cases in which a possible conflict of interest is perceived.
Riese, who has no involvement in the Bowman cases and spoke only in general terms about recusal, said, “District attorneys have unfettered discretion under the government code. If we choose, we can recuse ourselves, we can ask the attorney general to come in or we can appoint a special prosecutor.”
But Riese reiterated that no district attorney in California would be under any legal obligation to choose any of those alternatives.
It is not known if Gallegos attempted to recuse himself from Derek’s criminal cases, but none of the 232 pages of court documents contained in the court files makes reference to a recusal.
Neither does Gallegos appear to have referred Derek’s cases for prosecution by the California State Attorney General’s Office, which retains concurrent jurisdiction in all cases prosecuted by California district attorneys and their deputies.
FOLLOWING COURT PRECEDENT
There is no evidence in any of the files that Gallegos was personally involved in Derek’s prosecution. However, according to numerous legal precedents, in cases in which there exists a possible conflict of interest, an entire DA’s Office is commonly recused.
In a recent example that presented a possible conflict for the Los Angeles County District Attorney, Deputy DA Matthew Monforton wrote a memorandum to county officials demanding recusal of all L.A. County prosecutors and referral of the case to the attorney general.
When a district attorney suffers from a conflict of interest, Monforton wrote, “appellate courts have imputed the conflict to all deputy district attorneys in the same county.”
Monforton cited People v. Lepe, a 1985 Imperial County case in which a conflict was perceived between District Attorney Thomas Storey and a defendant he had once represented as a defense attorney. The California Court of Appeals disqualified Storey, but didn’t stop there.
“As the deputies are hired by Storey, promoted by Storey and fired by Storey,” the court concluded, “we cannot say the office can be sanitized such to assume the deputy who prosecutes the case will not be influenced by the considerations that bar Storey himself from participation in the case.”
Again, in People v. Choi, Monforton wrote, San Francisco County District Attorney Terrence Hallinan recused himself to avoid a potential conflict, but the California Court of Appeals went further, stating that Hallinan’s entire office should have been recused because prosecutors are “hired, evaluated and promoted by the district attorney.”
The court documents indicate that Derek was at various times defended by what is called “conflict counsel,” meaning an alternative defense attorney was assigned to a particular case after the original public defender disclosed a possible conflict in handling the case.
But the same documents show that similar steps were not taken by prosecutors. Derek’s charges were handled by several prosecutors in the DA’s Office, including Assistant District Attorney Wes Keat, Deputy District Attorneys Maggie Fleming and Max Cardoza and former Deputy District Attorneys Nicole Hansen and Heather Gimle.
Gallegos declined to return repeated phone calls requesting comment for this report, and also declined to answer questions about the matter by e-mail.
In response to several specific inquiries regarding the $10,000 campaign contribution and the subsequent handling of Derek’s criminal cases, Gallegos stated in an e-mail only the following: “This office operates without fear or favor.”
FOLLOWING UP
During the 2006 DA campaign, former Deputy District Attorney Worth Dikeman, Gallegos’ opponent, called on the incumbent to recuse the DA’s Office in the Cheri Moore homicide and refer the case to the attorney general, accusing Gallegos of “making political hay” of the investigation.
“(Gallegos) has a history of rewarding his allies and punishing those who oppose him,” Dikeman said at a May 25 press conference.
“His history of questionable practices, his failure to expeditiously resolve this matter and his strained relationship with the rest of the law enforcement community, including the Eureka Police Officers Association, make this an appropriate case for the attorney general to exercise his discretion under the government code and take full charge of the investigation,” Dikeman said.
Dikeman has acknowledged that one possible factor in his most recent defeat by Gallegos was the extended protest in front of the Courthouse staged by Ellie Bowman, who is Derek’s mother and Leonard’s wife.
“It certainly isn’t helping,” Dikeman said in June.
Ellie was protesting comments Dikeman had made about prospective Native American jurors in the now infamous 1992 murder case against former Fortuna resident Richard Kesser.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found Sept. 11 in a six-to-five vote that some of Dikeman’s statements contained racial bias, and Kesser’s conviction could be headed for retrial as a result.
But Dikeman said at the time that Ellie had another reason to protest his candidacy. The deputy DA successfully prosecuted Ellie’s other son, Jeffrey Bowman, for the 1999 murder of Trinidad Rancheria member Julius Aubrey.
Jeffrey is currently serving a prison term of 25 years to life.
Jail officials said Friday that Derek was no longer in custody. Technically still booked, he was released Sept. 11 to serve the balance of his 180-day sentence in the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Work Alternative Program.
(Diane M. Batley, Rebecca S. Bender and Megan McCulloch contributed to this report.)
By Heather Muller, The Eureka Reporter
Published: Sep 26 2006, 12:19 AM · Updated: Sep 26 2006, 9:38 AM
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3.27.2008
NCJ - Best enemies
October 5, 2006
Best enemies
by HANK SIMS
You may think it out of character,but we praise our brethren at rival media outlets sparingly, and in only cases of genuine merit. Develop a reputation as a glad-hander, a back-slapper or a scarlet-faced guffawer, and your colleagues in the trade will rightly shun you. They will think you a dolt, and they'll probably be correct. But when a piece comes along that absolutely astounds -- think of the McKinleyville Press story, a few months back, on the sisters that gave birth simultaneously in adjacent hospital rooms -- there's nothing for it but to send along an e-mail thanking the author for making us stop and marvel, for dissolving the confines of the cruel quotidian. We are readers, first and foremost, and also autonomous citizens of a democracy.
As it happens, we had occasion to send two notes of applause across the bay last week -- one to Heather Muller of the Eureka Reporter and one to Kimberly Wear of the Times-Standard, who we hope shared it with her deskmate Chris Durant. In these cases, the awe was not inspired by the subject matter of the stories -- each of them "hard news" pieces -- but from the reporters' immense enterprise in ferreting out some obscure data and presenting it well, in service of the county. Their stories centered on political donations to District Attorney Paul Gallegos, and how they affected or didn't affect a criminal case prosecuted by his office.
On Tuesday, the Reporter published the outcome of several criminal cases, including nine felony counts, against Derek Bowman, son of Leonard and Ellie Bowman of Loleta. The younger Bowman had been charged with check fraud, burglary, domestic battery, drug possession and unlawful intercourse with a 14-year-old girl, among other things. All of the charges were either dropped, or Bowman plead guilty to them in exchange for a suspended sentence. Then he was given 180 days in prison for violation of probation. The Reporter wondered whether the seemingly lenient sentence might have anything to do with the fact that the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria, which Leonard Bowman chairs, had donated $10,000 to Gallegos' last political campaign, or the fact that Ellie Bowman had protested outside the courthouse against the candidacy of Deputy DA Worth Dikeman, who had challenged Gallegos. (Earlier, Dikeman had successfully prosecuted another Bowman son for murder.) Gallegos did not respond to the paper's questions about the case, despite apparently having been given ample opportunity to do so.
The next day, the Times-Standard came out with a story in response. In it, Deputy DA Max Cardoza, who had tried the Bowman case and a 25-year veteran of the office, strongly denied that political considerations had played any role in the case's outcome. It quoted from an internal memo written by Gallegos that requested that both he and Dikeman be "screened" from the case. (Strangely, the memo was written after the case had already been settled).
The appearance of the Times-Standard story set off a great hue and cry, with letters from Gallegos' campaign manager, Alison Sterling Nichols, demanding that the Reporter retract its "factually incorrect" story. She didn't point out any actual incorrect facts, because there weren't any. There were holes in the story, but they should be lain squarely at the feat of Gallegos, who chose to respond to the paper's many questions with a non-responsive, fatuous one-liner. ("This office operates without fear or favor.") The Reporter ran the story it had, and if we lived in a real city rather than a small town, few people would have had any serious objection. But Sterling Nichols and others chose to use the occasion to demonstrate, once again, that they simply have a hard time wrapping their heads around the fact that Gallegos is part of the government. You want the media to ask hard questions of the government, right?
If this turns out to be a growing trend, this business of public officials turning up their nose at one or another of the daily papers, we're going to need both of them to report any story. If you haven't already sold your soul to one of the various political factions in town, you might want to step back a bit and take the long view. Though it looks like competition on the surface, and while their publishers no doubt wouldn't mind stealing a great big helping of advertising cash off each others' plates, the two newspapers function in cooperation, not competition. They're both getting to the bottom of things, together. Good cop, bad cop. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
Hey, you're a confirmed paranoid, right? You're certain that The Man is messing with your head, aren't you? If you're reading this in Humboldt County, chances are you fit one or both of these descriptions. So try this out for size -- a candidate in the upcoming election has planted an operative inside the Humboldt County Elections Office. It has possibilities, doesn't it? You can work with it, can't you?
We're sure you can. So, check it: Kelly Sanders is an administrative analyst who has worked with the office for about a year, according to Elections chief Lindsey McWilliams. She's the former director of the Redwood Coast Dixieland Jazz Festival. She also happens to be the sister of Bonnie Neely, the 4th District supervisor who is currently seeking reelection.
It's not like she just answers phones, either. (Though if she did answer a phone, what would she say?) In fact, this time around she's going to be in charge of the county's super-scary new voting booths aimed at helping disabled citizens cast their ballot. What's so scary about that, you ask? Not the technology itself -- though it is freaking terrifying -- but the fact that the county's existing electronic vote-counting apparatuses can't process its votes. That means that elections staffers will have to hand-copy every vote cast at the disabled-access machines to one of the county's AccuVote ballots. This leaves the inescapable conclusion that Sanders, and possibly other of her colleagues, have the means, the will and the secret Illuminati brainwash training to throw the election!
Please, please, please take a deep breath, Lindsey McWilliams begs. In fact, the re-voting system will have checks, counter-checks and built-in redundancies that will make any vote-rigging virtually impossible. There'll be two sets of eyes on it at all times, and there'll be a paper trail of the original votes cast at the disabled-access machines (which aren't manufactured by Diebold, if that's what you're worried about).
That's leaving aside the fact that Sanders is a human being, one who probably has at least as much honor as you or me. "Rumors to the contrary, Kelly Sanders is not an android and has no moving electronic parts that I know of," the ever-quotable McWilliams confirmed. (Likely story!) And she's sensible, too -- so sensible that she declined to speak with us when we asked.
In fact, we don't expect any great outburst of elections freak-out over this one. Because why? Because the demographics are such that most of the elections critics around here are Neely voters anyway. No harm, no foul. But just imagine what you'd get if there were a Flemming or a Bass in the office.
We finally got a chance to talk with Dennis Cunningham last week. Cunningham's a San Francisco attorney who has developed a reputation as something of a superlawyer in claims cases against government agencies, usually on the behalf of activists and others. He's had a couple of Humboldt County-related cases in the past, and they were both big ones: the Pepper Spray lawsuit against two Humboldt County police agencies, which resulted in a win for the activists whose eyeballs police had swabbed with the noxious substance, and the similarly victorious Judi Bari-Darryl Cherney civil rights lawsuit against the Oakland Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The word we had was that Cunningham was considering filing a wrongful death suit against the Eureka Police Department over the Cheri Lyn Moore incident (see "Cause of Death," Sept. 21).
Is he going to sue? The answer appears to be maybe. The six-month anniversary of the incident is next Saturday, and that's the deadline to file a wrongful death claim. Cunningham said that his partner, Gordon Kaupp, has been looking into the case, but that as far as he knew, no one in his office has been able to contact Moore's son -- the only relative with standing to file a claim. Cunningham said that he was unaware that the deadline was approaching so soon -- he thought that the shooting had happened in July. "We'll have to make our move," he said.
If a suit is filed, it will further buttress local doctor Ken Miller's second career -- third career? -- as a midwife of politically charged litigation. Miller was the one who brought the now-dormant Headwaters lawsuit to the office of District Attorney Paul Gallegos. Cunningham said that Miller had been working with Kaupp on the potential Moore lawsuit.
Best enemies
by HANK SIMS
You may think it out of character,but we praise our brethren at rival media outlets sparingly, and in only cases of genuine merit. Develop a reputation as a glad-hander, a back-slapper or a scarlet-faced guffawer, and your colleagues in the trade will rightly shun you. They will think you a dolt, and they'll probably be correct. But when a piece comes along that absolutely astounds -- think of the McKinleyville Press story, a few months back, on the sisters that gave birth simultaneously in adjacent hospital rooms -- there's nothing for it but to send along an e-mail thanking the author for making us stop and marvel, for dissolving the confines of the cruel quotidian. We are readers, first and foremost, and also autonomous citizens of a democracy.
As it happens, we had occasion to send two notes of applause across the bay last week -- one to Heather Muller of the Eureka Reporter and one to Kimberly Wear of the Times-Standard, who we hope shared it with her deskmate Chris Durant. In these cases, the awe was not inspired by the subject matter of the stories -- each of them "hard news" pieces -- but from the reporters' immense enterprise in ferreting out some obscure data and presenting it well, in service of the county. Their stories centered on political donations to District Attorney Paul Gallegos, and how they affected or didn't affect a criminal case prosecuted by his office.
On Tuesday, the Reporter published the outcome of several criminal cases, including nine felony counts, against Derek Bowman, son of Leonard and Ellie Bowman of Loleta. The younger Bowman had been charged with check fraud, burglary, domestic battery, drug possession and unlawful intercourse with a 14-year-old girl, among other things. All of the charges were either dropped, or Bowman plead guilty to them in exchange for a suspended sentence. Then he was given 180 days in prison for violation of probation. The Reporter wondered whether the seemingly lenient sentence might have anything to do with the fact that the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria, which Leonard Bowman chairs, had donated $10,000 to Gallegos' last political campaign, or the fact that Ellie Bowman had protested outside the courthouse against the candidacy of Deputy DA Worth Dikeman, who had challenged Gallegos. (Earlier, Dikeman had successfully prosecuted another Bowman son for murder.) Gallegos did not respond to the paper's questions about the case, despite apparently having been given ample opportunity to do so.
The next day, the Times-Standard came out with a story in response. In it, Deputy DA Max Cardoza, who had tried the Bowman case and a 25-year veteran of the office, strongly denied that political considerations had played any role in the case's outcome. It quoted from an internal memo written by Gallegos that requested that both he and Dikeman be "screened" from the case. (Strangely, the memo was written after the case had already been settled).
The appearance of the Times-Standard story set off a great hue and cry, with letters from Gallegos' campaign manager, Alison Sterling Nichols, demanding that the Reporter retract its "factually incorrect" story. She didn't point out any actual incorrect facts, because there weren't any. There were holes in the story, but they should be lain squarely at the feat of Gallegos, who chose to respond to the paper's many questions with a non-responsive, fatuous one-liner. ("This office operates without fear or favor.") The Reporter ran the story it had, and if we lived in a real city rather than a small town, few people would have had any serious objection. But Sterling Nichols and others chose to use the occasion to demonstrate, once again, that they simply have a hard time wrapping their heads around the fact that Gallegos is part of the government. You want the media to ask hard questions of the government, right?
If this turns out to be a growing trend, this business of public officials turning up their nose at one or another of the daily papers, we're going to need both of them to report any story. If you haven't already sold your soul to one of the various political factions in town, you might want to step back a bit and take the long view. Though it looks like competition on the surface, and while their publishers no doubt wouldn't mind stealing a great big helping of advertising cash off each others' plates, the two newspapers function in cooperation, not competition. They're both getting to the bottom of things, together. Good cop, bad cop. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
Hey, you're a confirmed paranoid, right? You're certain that The Man is messing with your head, aren't you? If you're reading this in Humboldt County, chances are you fit one or both of these descriptions. So try this out for size -- a candidate in the upcoming election has planted an operative inside the Humboldt County Elections Office. It has possibilities, doesn't it? You can work with it, can't you?
We're sure you can. So, check it: Kelly Sanders is an administrative analyst who has worked with the office for about a year, according to Elections chief Lindsey McWilliams. She's the former director of the Redwood Coast Dixieland Jazz Festival. She also happens to be the sister of Bonnie Neely, the 4th District supervisor who is currently seeking reelection.
It's not like she just answers phones, either. (Though if she did answer a phone, what would she say?) In fact, this time around she's going to be in charge of the county's super-scary new voting booths aimed at helping disabled citizens cast their ballot. What's so scary about that, you ask? Not the technology itself -- though it is freaking terrifying -- but the fact that the county's existing electronic vote-counting apparatuses can't process its votes. That means that elections staffers will have to hand-copy every vote cast at the disabled-access machines to one of the county's AccuVote ballots. This leaves the inescapable conclusion that Sanders, and possibly other of her colleagues, have the means, the will and the secret Illuminati brainwash training to throw the election!
Please, please, please take a deep breath, Lindsey McWilliams begs. In fact, the re-voting system will have checks, counter-checks and built-in redundancies that will make any vote-rigging virtually impossible. There'll be two sets of eyes on it at all times, and there'll be a paper trail of the original votes cast at the disabled-access machines (which aren't manufactured by Diebold, if that's what you're worried about).
That's leaving aside the fact that Sanders is a human being, one who probably has at least as much honor as you or me. "Rumors to the contrary, Kelly Sanders is not an android and has no moving electronic parts that I know of," the ever-quotable McWilliams confirmed. (Likely story!) And she's sensible, too -- so sensible that she declined to speak with us when we asked.
In fact, we don't expect any great outburst of elections freak-out over this one. Because why? Because the demographics are such that most of the elections critics around here are Neely voters anyway. No harm, no foul. But just imagine what you'd get if there were a Flemming or a Bass in the office.
We finally got a chance to talk with Dennis Cunningham last week. Cunningham's a San Francisco attorney who has developed a reputation as something of a superlawyer in claims cases against government agencies, usually on the behalf of activists and others. He's had a couple of Humboldt County-related cases in the past, and they were both big ones: the Pepper Spray lawsuit against two Humboldt County police agencies, which resulted in a win for the activists whose eyeballs police had swabbed with the noxious substance, and the similarly victorious Judi Bari-Darryl Cherney civil rights lawsuit against the Oakland Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The word we had was that Cunningham was considering filing a wrongful death suit against the Eureka Police Department over the Cheri Lyn Moore incident (see "Cause of Death," Sept. 21).
Is he going to sue? The answer appears to be maybe. The six-month anniversary of the incident is next Saturday, and that's the deadline to file a wrongful death claim. Cunningham said that his partner, Gordon Kaupp, has been looking into the case, but that as far as he knew, no one in his office has been able to contact Moore's son -- the only relative with standing to file a claim. Cunningham said that he was unaware that the deadline was approaching so soon -- he thought that the shooting had happened in July. "We'll have to make our move," he said.
If a suit is filed, it will further buttress local doctor Ken Miller's second career -- third career? -- as a midwife of politically charged litigation. Miller was the one who brought the now-dormant Headwaters lawsuit to the office of District Attorney Paul Gallegos. Cunningham said that Miller had been working with Kaupp on the potential Moore lawsuit.
8.15.2007
TS - Inmate who escaped from Sempervirens caught
Inmate who escaped from Sempervirens caught
Chris Durant/The Times-Standard
Article Launched: 08/15/2007 04:15:46 AM PDT
A man who escaped from Sempervirens Hospital while he was an inmate at the Humboldt County Jail was arrested in Manila Tuesday by Humboldt County Sheriff's detectives .
Derek Wendell Bowman, 26, answered the door of a Manila home and was arrested just before 3:30 p.m.
He escaped from the mental hospital on Aug. 5.
The Sheriff's Department said Detective Troy Garey received information that Bowman was hiding at the house on the 100 block of Phillips Court.
Garey, other detectives and a U.S. marshal arrived at the home and Bowman was arrested without any problems.
He was booked into the jail on suspicion of escape and for a series of charges pending while he was in custody the first time, which include forgery and resisting arrest.
In August 2006, Bowman was sentenced to 180 days in jail for forgery, second-degree burglary, interfering with a police officer and possession of drug paraphernalia convictions.
He is not eligible for bail.
Chris Durant/The Times-Standard
Article Launched: 08/15/2007 04:15:46 AM PDT
A man who escaped from Sempervirens Hospital while he was an inmate at the Humboldt County Jail was arrested in Manila Tuesday by Humboldt County Sheriff's detectives .
Derek Wendell Bowman, 26, answered the door of a Manila home and was arrested just before 3:30 p.m.
He escaped from the mental hospital on Aug. 5.
The Sheriff's Department said Detective Troy Garey received information that Bowman was hiding at the house on the 100 block of Phillips Court.
Garey, other detectives and a U.S. marshal arrived at the home and Bowman was arrested without any problems.
He was booked into the jail on suspicion of escape and for a series of charges pending while he was in custody the first time, which include forgery and resisting arrest.
In August 2006, Bowman was sentenced to 180 days in jail for forgery, second-degree burglary, interfering with a police officer and possession of drug paraphernalia convictions.
He is not eligible for bail.
7.30.2007
ER Op-Ed - Tribe's contribution to DA's campaign was made by the Tribal Council, not Bowman
Tribe's contribution to DA's campaign was made by the Tribal Council, not Bowman
by Illene Callahan, 9/30/2006
This letter is in regard to a very misleading, biased article written by Heather Muller.
A contribution was made to Mr. Gallegos’ campaign; however, it was made by the tribe and not by Leonard Bowman. We have five Tribal Council members; they are the representatives of the tribe. Leonard Bowman merely presented the check to campaign headquarters.
Many contributions have been made to various programs in Fortuna and Loleta, as mandated by National Indian Gaming. Why is there no mention of these? The Loleta Fire Department accepted a contribution. Does this mean they cannot put out any other fires, only ours?
This whole article does not speak will for the mentality of this reporter.
As for Derek Bowman’s transgressions and brushes with the law, they are neither Mr. or Mrs. Bowman’s transgressions.
In case none of you noticed, all young people of today think they know everything and we parents are old fogies who try to give them unwanted advice that they totally disregard.
They stand in front of you and lie and tell you they will abide by your rules, and then they go out the door and do just exactly as they please or as their companions want them to do.
The only reason some of them have clean records is because they haven’t yet been caught.
The contribution was made long before Derek was arrested and the election of the district attorney had long been decided. Our tribal members did not stuff the ballot boxes to ensure a win for Mr. Gallegos so he could protect any one of us.
However, we all tend to pull together to try to help our tribal members in all ways, again and again if necessary. It is our heritage, taught to us by our ancestors.
I am definitely tired of reading about Ellie Bowman’s one-person protest about Worth Dikeman. There were three other tribal members there every day, of which I was one. None of us were protesting about Jeff Bowman’s conviction; rather, we were protesting the words that came out of Mr. Dikeman’s mouth.
I could not believe that a person in his position would be so racially biased. I guess I should have remembered that this is Humboldt County.
My own personal opinion is that the investigators did not do a thorough investigation in Jeff’s case or he wouldn’t have been convicted for that crime.
In response to Try Gary’s report based on Cheree Bowie’s telephone conversation, did he call her or did she call him? Mr. Gary, as a deputy sheriff, receives numerous calls from citizens in this area. It is strange that none of these other telephone conversations have been placed in The Eureka Reporter by Heather Muller.
It is also strange that Mr. Gary would believe the insinuations made by Ms. Bowie.
I believe there is a section in your U.S. Constitution that there is still free speech in this country. Mr. Acosta, as a citizen, can contribute to any cause that he deems fit.
He is also free to write letters regarding any person or cause. Nothing in his letter requested that Derek Bowman be set free. It only asked for consideration of a probationary period and it did not mention any contribution that was made by the tribe.
My estimation of Ms. Muller as a reporter or investigator is very negative at this point. If she is a Dikeman supporter, she should come out and say so, not fill the newspaper with innuendos, insinuations and half-truths. That type of reporting belongs in the National Enquirer or some other scandal sheet.
It is also a shame that she had to resort to using three other women to help her. Perhaps they could have written some articles to help people, instead of trying to demean them.
Perhaps Ms. Muller’s attacks on Mr. Gallegos are purely personal. Most women who go on a vendetta against a male public person are either jealous or envious of their wives, girlfriends, etc. Everyone is aware of the old adage, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”
Maybe I should investigate her family, relatives and friends for mud to sling at her under the guise of journalism.
I invite Ms. Muller to interview me on any subject concerning this article. She is to bring a picture ID, and my words, when printed, had better be mine.
(Editor’s note: Illene Callahan is the aunt of Tribal Chairman Leonard Bowman.)
Copyright (C) 2005, The Eureka Reporter. All rights reserved.
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ER - Questions remain in DA's handling of Bowman charges
ER - Bear River official discusses financial contributions from tribe
ER - Tribe's contribution to DA's campaign was made by the Tribal Council, not Bowman
ER - Gallegos is 'public servant,' not Legal Spiegel
ER - It's telling that Gallegos witch hunt didn't start until firing of Dikeman
ER - Writer appreciates editor's note that identifies writers
ER - Residents deserve answers to questions asked of DA's Office
ER - Bitter? You bet!
TS - Donations not improper, says Bear River Band
TS - DA's office: State OK'd handling of plea deal
by Illene Callahan, 9/30/2006
This letter is in regard to a very misleading, biased article written by Heather Muller.
A contribution was made to Mr. Gallegos’ campaign; however, it was made by the tribe and not by Leonard Bowman. We have five Tribal Council members; they are the representatives of the tribe. Leonard Bowman merely presented the check to campaign headquarters.
Many contributions have been made to various programs in Fortuna and Loleta, as mandated by National Indian Gaming. Why is there no mention of these? The Loleta Fire Department accepted a contribution. Does this mean they cannot put out any other fires, only ours?
This whole article does not speak will for the mentality of this reporter.
As for Derek Bowman’s transgressions and brushes with the law, they are neither Mr. or Mrs. Bowman’s transgressions.
In case none of you noticed, all young people of today think they know everything and we parents are old fogies who try to give them unwanted advice that they totally disregard.
They stand in front of you and lie and tell you they will abide by your rules, and then they go out the door and do just exactly as they please or as their companions want them to do.
The only reason some of them have clean records is because they haven’t yet been caught.
The contribution was made long before Derek was arrested and the election of the district attorney had long been decided. Our tribal members did not stuff the ballot boxes to ensure a win for Mr. Gallegos so he could protect any one of us.
However, we all tend to pull together to try to help our tribal members in all ways, again and again if necessary. It is our heritage, taught to us by our ancestors.
I am definitely tired of reading about Ellie Bowman’s one-person protest about Worth Dikeman. There were three other tribal members there every day, of which I was one. None of us were protesting about Jeff Bowman’s conviction; rather, we were protesting the words that came out of Mr. Dikeman’s mouth.
I could not believe that a person in his position would be so racially biased. I guess I should have remembered that this is Humboldt County.
My own personal opinion is that the investigators did not do a thorough investigation in Jeff’s case or he wouldn’t have been convicted for that crime.
In response to Try Gary’s report based on Cheree Bowie’s telephone conversation, did he call her or did she call him? Mr. Gary, as a deputy sheriff, receives numerous calls from citizens in this area. It is strange that none of these other telephone conversations have been placed in The Eureka Reporter by Heather Muller.
It is also strange that Mr. Gary would believe the insinuations made by Ms. Bowie.
I believe there is a section in your U.S. Constitution that there is still free speech in this country. Mr. Acosta, as a citizen, can contribute to any cause that he deems fit.
He is also free to write letters regarding any person or cause. Nothing in his letter requested that Derek Bowman be set free. It only asked for consideration of a probationary period and it did not mention any contribution that was made by the tribe.
My estimation of Ms. Muller as a reporter or investigator is very negative at this point. If she is a Dikeman supporter, she should come out and say so, not fill the newspaper with innuendos, insinuations and half-truths. That type of reporting belongs in the National Enquirer or some other scandal sheet.
It is also a shame that she had to resort to using three other women to help her. Perhaps they could have written some articles to help people, instead of trying to demean them.
Perhaps Ms. Muller’s attacks on Mr. Gallegos are purely personal. Most women who go on a vendetta against a male public person are either jealous or envious of their wives, girlfriends, etc. Everyone is aware of the old adage, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”
Maybe I should investigate her family, relatives and friends for mud to sling at her under the guise of journalism.
I invite Ms. Muller to interview me on any subject concerning this article. She is to bring a picture ID, and my words, when printed, had better be mine.
(Editor’s note: Illene Callahan is the aunt of Tribal Chairman Leonard Bowman.)
Copyright (C) 2005, The Eureka Reporter. All rights reserved.
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7.10.2007
About politicizing a case
Elections should focus on the good record of candidate
5/27/2006
Dear Editor,
I realize that in writing this letter it is not helping my cause in trying to keep my family’s name and the circumstance regarding my son’s 14-year-old trial out of public scrutiny. That is not possible now, as Ellie Bowman and Madison Ayala have taken it upon themselves to pass out fliers in front of the Courthouse regarding this case.
They have not taken into consideration, nor have they contacted me as to how this would affect my feelings or the feelings of my grandson, whom I have been raising since this tragedy.
They state that this is not politically motivated. Why then, after this length of time, have they taken it upon themselves to bring anything about this case up now? Yes, Mr. Worth Dikeman was the prosecuting attorney in the case and yes, he obtained a conviction and yes, it is something I have to live with every day, but he was doing the job he was appointed to do and I will never fault him for that, not as it seems Ellie Bowman is doing because of the conviction of her son.
During the trial and for all the years that have gone by, Mr. Dikeman has shown me and my family the greatest respect and compassion. He has shown interest in how my grandson was doing in school, how I was doing and always had a great concern for our family. I doubt if there are many attorneys on either side who do that. I deeply resent the fact that to win an election people have to use tactics that can hurt other people instead of running on their supposedly good record.
Joanne Kesser
Fortuna
5/27/2006
Dear Editor,
I realize that in writing this letter it is not helping my cause in trying to keep my family’s name and the circumstance regarding my son’s 14-year-old trial out of public scrutiny. That is not possible now, as Ellie Bowman and Madison Ayala have taken it upon themselves to pass out fliers in front of the Courthouse regarding this case.
They have not taken into consideration, nor have they contacted me as to how this would affect my feelings or the feelings of my grandson, whom I have been raising since this tragedy.
They state that this is not politically motivated. Why then, after this length of time, have they taken it upon themselves to bring anything about this case up now? Yes, Mr. Worth Dikeman was the prosecuting attorney in the case and yes, he obtained a conviction and yes, it is something I have to live with every day, but he was doing the job he was appointed to do and I will never fault him for that, not as it seems Ellie Bowman is doing because of the conviction of her son.
During the trial and for all the years that have gone by, Mr. Dikeman has shown me and my family the greatest respect and compassion. He has shown interest in how my grandson was doing in school, how I was doing and always had a great concern for our family. I doubt if there are many attorneys on either side who do that. I deeply resent the fact that to win an election people have to use tactics that can hurt other people instead of running on their supposedly good record.
Joanne Kesser
Fortuna
3.28.2007
who signed on to the AEBs agenda?
note: This is not the ORIGINAL AEB website page, it has been modified many times. Fancy prose hides the true purpose of the so called "Alliance for Ethical Business" - whose fearless leader was caught in an elaborate scheme of sending letters to the editor under phony names, the District Attorney gets cuaght submitting plagiarized "My Word's (Op-Eds) to the local papers, the lawsuit against PL that was the real reason for the "formation" of the AEB was tossed out without even meeting legal muster, and was revealed to have been concocted by one of the main activists leading the charge against the company - yeah, real ethical alright. But a good many of the people listed below were fooled. Many of them, however, are regular players in this game, the orks and true-believers:
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We the undersigned are uniting to defend our laws, not only to protect our resources, but to protect the rights of those who play by the rules, exhibiting integrity, ethical behavior and a respect for community values. The duty of our District Attorney is to investigate and prosecute all violations of the law, including those of fraudulent or unfair business practices. We support the District Attorney's request to employ whatever means necessary to carry out his obligation to the citizens of Humboldt County.
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Kenneth A. Aab, Arcata
Jacqueline Aboulafia, Arcata
Michael Acosta, Cutten
Mike Adams, Arcata
Sean Adams, Arcata
Noel Adamson, Eureka
Alisha Adelmain, Arcata
Marianne Ahokas, Arcata
Mitsuko Akinaga, McKinleyville
Kenji Akinaga, McKinleyville
Lia Alcantara, Arcata
Monica Alcorn, Eureka
Ron Alexander, Arcata
Susan Alexander, Redway
Ryan Allard, Trinidad
Paula D. Allen, Eureka
Stephen Allen, Eureka
Thomas & Beth Allen, Grberville
Jenni Allen-San Giovanni, Eka
Laurynda Allison, Arcata
Patricia S. Alsup, PhD, Arcata
Royal E. Alsup, PhD, Arcata
Ann Alter, Kneeland
Marion Nina Amber, Eureka
Brian Amberson, Arcata
Greg & Becci Ames, Sny Brae
Carol Andersen, Bayside
Janice A. Andersen, Eureka
Ann Anderson, Trinidad
Eric Anderson, Eureka
John Angus, Redway
Sandy Antonson, Petrolia
Ryan Arellanes, Arcata
Celestine Armenta, Bayside
Michael W. Armstrong, Arcata
Karen Aronson, Arcata
Peter Aronson, Eureka
Eli Asarian, Arcata
L. Beth Askew, Eureka
James D. Athing, Arcata
Amanda L. Auston, Freshwater
Jennifer M. Ayo, McKinleyville
Hal Bahr, Redway
Tim Bailey, Arcata
Mikal Baker, Arcata
Polly Bambauer, Eureka
Beth Banner, Eureka
David Baraconi, Eureka
Michael Baraconi, Sierra Vista, CA
Phyllis Barba, Eureka
Vanessa Barienbock, Arcata
Bruce Barkley, Garberville
Laura S. Barney, Arcata
Linda Barney, Arcata
David Barrett, Arcata
Elizabeth Barrett, Scotia
Clinton Barricklow, Arcata
Dave Barry, Eureka
Samantha Bartlett, Eureka
Paul Bassis, Redway
Marilyn Bauer, Arcata
Wayne P. Bauers, Willow Creek
Emily Baum, Miranda
Sonia Baur, Garberville
Phillip M. Bawnsgard, Arcata
Gina Bealtie, Eureka
Sandra K. Bean, Eureka
Carole Beaton, Eureka
Monique Beaupre, Eureka
Diane F. Beck, Kneeland
Michael Beck, Bayside
Bella Becker, Arcata
Joan Becker, Redway
Deanna Beeler, Arcata
Craig Bell, Gualala
Jessica Bell, Blue Lake
Rebecca S. Bender, Arcata
Laura Benedict, Eureka
Carlos Benemann, Ferndale
Marilyn Benemann, Ferndale
Jeri Bennedetto, McKinleyville
Stephanie Bennett, Elk River
Rico Bennett, Elk River
Jerry Benton, Sacramento
Noelle Benzekri, Arcata
Chris & Richard Beresford, Arc
Jonas Berg, Bayside
Tigris Bergman, Arcata
George Bernard, Kneeland
Patricia S. Bernstein, Miranda
Emelia Berol, Arcata
Nadina Best, Eureka
Arthur Bettini, Arcata
Lisa Bianchi, Fieldbrook
Mark Bidaurreta, Eureka
Catharine M. Billey, McKville
Carl G. Birks, Eureka
N.M. Blacker, Arcata
Sarah Blair, Eureka
Barry Blake, Arcata
Peter Blakemore, Eureka
Nina Blasenheim, Petrolia
Greg Blomstrom, Westhaven
Karin Blumthal, Arcata
Tempra Board, Eureka
Frances Boettcher, King Salmn
Tim Bolton, Arcata
Heather Bonser-Bishop, Wsthvn
Earl R. Bootier, Arcata
Anna Mae Botley, McKinleyville
Robert Botley, McKinleyville
Greg Bourget, Arcata
Jere Bob Bowden, Ferndale
Bradley E. Bowman, Eureka
Bette M. Boyd, McKinleyville
Beverlee Bradshaw, Eureka
David Bradshaw, Eureka
Delores Brady, Eureka
Joan Brandon, McKinleyville
Andrea Brands, Arcata
Steve Brands, Arcata
Chris Brannan, Garberville
Susan Brater, Bayside
Timothy Brater, Bayside
Robert W. & Nancy Breslin, Trin
Zack Brewer, Arcata
Cassie Brilbeck, Eureka
Garrett Brinton, Bayside
Cara W. Brockhoff, McKville
Matt Brogdon, McKinleyville
Robert Brothers, Arcata
Jessica Brown, Arcata
Midge Brown, Arcata
Mijanou Brown, Bayside
Pamela Brown, Arcata
Joy Brownice, Arcata
Waylen Brucker, Arcata
Steve Brudney, Arcata
Thomas Bruner, Westhaven
Rayla Brunet, Arcata
Carol Bruno, Redway
Ellen Bryant, Eureka
Kristina Bryce, Eureka
Jeannie Bucher, McKinleyville
Anne Buffington, Eureka
Michael Bullock, Eureka
Debra Bullwinkle, Arcata
Mindy Bumgarner, Eureka
Kathie Bunnell, Arcata
Marty Burdette, Arcata
Petra Burgess, Eureka
A. Burka, Redway
James Burkholder, Redway
Rosanna Butka, Arcata
Donald F. Butler, Eureka
Edith F. Butler, Eureka
Shanna Butler, Arcata
Chris Butner, Arcata
Lisa Butterfield, Eureka
Michael Cahill, Arcata
Sally Call, Eureka
Patrick Callahan, Eureka
David Callow, Arcata
Heidi L. Calton, Eureka
Jeff Camp, Arcata
Dot Campbell, Eureka
Eric Campbell, McKinleyville
Jaclyn Campbell, Eureka
Jeremy P. Campbell, Arcata
Pascha Campbell, Hydesville
Richard Campos, McKinleyville
Glenn L. Cannon, Eureka
Neala Cantleberry, Eureka
Lisa Carbinelli, Arcata
Jeny Card, Freshwater
Earl John Carlson, Rio Dell
Erin Carlton, Eureka
Jane Carlton, Trinidad
Elizabeth Carlyle, Freshwater
Lorraine Carolan, Garberville
Ken W. Carpenter, Honeydew
Lisa Carpinelli, Blue Lake
David Carrington, Arcata
Lina Carro, Eureka
Charlene Carter, Arcata
David Carter, Eureka
Ethan Casaday, Arcata
Curt Caspin, Westhaven
Mary Susan Caston, Eureka
Ben Catching, Kneeland
Midge Catching, Kneeland
Phil Jams Catling, Trinidad
Patricia Catomer, Arcata
Jasmine Cerise, Arcata
Megan Cerri, Arcata
Kim Chamberlain, Fortuna
Emily Chambers,
Chris Chapin, Freshwater
Jocelyn Chapman, Trinidad
Joe Chapman, Arcata
Valerie Chapman, Samoa
Jennifer Chierici, Arcata
Bailey Christenson, Arcata
Andrew Christian, Arcata
Paul Cienfuegos, Arcata
Amanda Claire, Arcata
Amy Clark, Eureka
Frances Clark, Eureka
George Clark, Eureka
Jesse R. Clark, Fieldbrook
Laura Clark, Fortuna
Terry L. Clark, Arcata
Janelle Classen, Bella Vista
George Claus, Arcata
Earl R. Cleave, Petrolia
Janice Cleave, Petrolia
Colleen Clifford, Manila
Wesley Clingman, Fieldbrook
Kevin Clougherty, McKinleyville
Andrew J. Cochrane, M.D., Arc
Adrianne Coffman, Arcata
Robert S. Cogen, Eureka
Richard Cogswell, Petrolia
Joseph Cohee, Eureka
Rebecca Coker, Garberville
Jennifer Cole, Eureka
Wendy Cole, Eureka
Marian Coleman, Freshwater
Kevin D. Coles, Miranda
Halimah Collingwood, Arcata
John Collins, Canyon Country
Ken Collins, Kneeland
Pat Collum-Salafia, Trinidad
DHPL Collver, Fortuna
Brian Colman, Eureka
Liz and Kent Colwell, Grbrville
Denise O. Comiskey, Mckville
James P. Comiskey, Mckville
Christen Condry, McKinleyville
Li Conley
Elizabeth Conner, Arcata
Florence N. Consolati, Freshwtr
Jill Contreras, Arcata
Sarah Conversa, Eureka
Amy Conway, Redway
Chompers Cook, Petrolia
Greg Cook, Arcata
Alec Cooley
Gail Coonen, Freshwater
Curt Cooper, Westhaven
Jason Allen Copp, Trinidad
K. Corbett, Eureka
Jim Cord, Blue Lake
L. A. Cordero, Arcata
Andrew Cornell, Eureka
Rebecca Corrigan, Arcata
Diane Coughtry, Trinidad
Claire Courtney , Eureka
Brian Covert, Arcata
Colum & Monica Coyne, Rdway
Jeffrey R. Cozad, Loleta
Elaine Crandall, Eureka
Jessie Cretser, Arcata
Timothy Crlenjak, Eureka
Jeff Cronin, Arcata
Mike Crook, McKinleyville
Hillie Crowfoot, Petrolia
F.R. Culbertson, Kneeland
Dennis Cunningham, Trinidad
Paul Cunningham, Arcata
Linda Curran, Eureka
Michael Curran, Redway
Charley Custer, Redway
Lisa M. Cyrek, Garberville
Geneva D ?Adami, Arcata
Pat Dadigan, Trinidad
Susan & John Daniel, McKville
Patricia Daniels, McKinleyville
Patrick Daniels, McKinleyville
Marsha Davenport, Bayside
Liz Davidson, Redway
Tina Davies, Bayside
Andrea Davis, Myrtletown
Mike Davis, Arcata
Scott J. Davis, McKinleyville
Gabriel Day, Bayside
Sylvia De Rooy, Westhaven
Jennifer Deckard, McKinleyville
Beth Deibert, Eureka
Joy Dellas, Arcata
Marial Delo, Trinidad
Eugene C. Denson, Alderpoint
Jan Derksen, Miranda
Linda Derksen, Miranda
Sylvia DeRooy, Westhaven
Larry DeSantis, Eureka
W.B. Devall, Trinidad
Martha Devine, Eureka
Lisa M. DeWitt, Eureka
Alex Deye, Arcata
David P. Dibble, Eureka
May Dickmeyer, Arcata
Duke Diehl, Eureka
Kathleen Dillon, Redway
Ann C. Diver-Stamnes, Arcata
Soyka Dobush, Bayside
Steven Dodson, Kneeland
Susan Dodson, Kneeland
Phil Doerr, Arcata
Collie Doley, Arcata
Jason Domann, Arcata
Sidney Dominitz, Trinidad
Susanne Donahue, Trinidad
John H. Donahue, Trinidad
Mark & Jill Dondero, Orleans
Denny Dorsett, Arcata
Joe and Pat Dougherty, Fldbrk
Pam Dougherty, Redway
J. Dimitri Doumakis, Blue Lake
Alex Doye, Arcata
Joanne Dozelencic, McKville
Wendy Dresser, Arcata
Rocky Drill, Arcata
Arbold Dubrow, Arcata
Mark Dubrow, Arcata
David Dugan, Eureka
Nathan Dupre, Arcata
Pat DuRant, Eureka
Lezlee Dutton, Yreka
Libby Earthman, Myrtletown
Bill & Gail Eastwood, Redway
Jim Edman, Eureka
Daniel Edrich, Manila
Anna Eggleston, Eureka
Patrick Eggleston, Eureka
Adam Einhorn, Arcata
Larry Eitzen, Eureka
Jim Elferdink, McKinleyville
Ryan Emenaker, Arcata
Richard Engel, Arcata
Chris Enright, Arcata
Lynn Erickson, Trinidad
Marie M. Escher, Arcata
Robert Escher, Redway
Jo Escobar, Arcata
Dan Estetter, Eureka
Laura Estetter, Arcata
Bonnie Ety, Trinidad
Barry Evans, Eureka
Michael Evans, Garberville
Sterling Evans, Blue Lake
Robert B. Facer, Arcata
Vanessa Fadjo, Bayside
Rachel Farber, Arcata
Seth Farhi, Kneeland
Paul Farnham, Fortuna
Seth Farni, Kneeland
Jake Farrell, Arcata
Eileen Faulkner-Wolf, Arcata
Patricia Feeney, Arcata
Alicia Feigen, Horse Mountain
Kathleen Felley, Eureka
Michael Fennell, Manila
Janice Fetzer, Eureka
Oshy Fielder, Arcata
Michael Fields, West End Road
Dylan Fiero, Arcata
Jennifer Fischer, McKinleyville
Janet Fitzgerald, Garberville
Scott Fitzgerald, Arcata
Cole Fivenson, Arcata
Michael Fleming, Eureka
Tracy Fleming, Redway
Eric Fletcher, Arcata
Jamie Flower, Arcata
Angela Flynn, Arcata Bottoms
Jerry & Chantal Fontes, Eureka
Susie & Jimmy Foot, McKville
Joanne & Bob Fornes, McKville
Adam Forskie, Eureka
Marcy Foster, Eureka
Susan Fox, Trinidad
Sharon Fracker, Eureka
Amanda Brooke Freeman, Bsde
Andrew Freeman, McKinleyville
Brad Freeman, Arcata
Jack Freeman, Kneeland
Tracy Jordan French, McKville
Gil Friedman, Arcata
Joshua Frisbee, Arcata
Gabor Funk, Bayside
Lisa Furr, Eureka
Bob Fyre, Trinidad
Jason Gabriel, Bayside
Helen Renee Gale, McKville
Sarah Ganas, Arcata
Mike Gann, Arcata Bottoms
David S. Gans, M.D., Arcata
D. Lee Garrison, Eureka
Tina Garsen, Eureka
Bob & Mary Gearheart, Arcata
Yvonne Geiger, Eureka
Rhonda Geldin, McKinleyville
Phyllis J. Geller, Arcata
Rob Gellman, New Harris
Steve Gellman, Kneeland
Jana Genelly, Arcata
Carrie Gergits, Eureka
James Gergits, Eureka
Steve Gershenberg, Arcata
Mary Giardino, Redway
Alysia Gibbs, Cutten
Janne C. Gibbs, Eureka
Aila Gilbride-Read, Arcata
Anita Gilbride-Read, Fldbrook
Tim Gilbride-Read, Fldbrook
James F. Gily, Arcata
Barbara Glass, Fortuna
Lin Glen, Blue Lake
Kristi Gochoel, Briceland
Aaron R. Gold, Eureka
Carilyn Goldammer, Arcata
Larry Goldberg, Trinidad
Nora Golub, McKinleyville
Raymond Gomes, Arcata
Nelson Gonzalez, McKinleyville
Rodney Goodbrod, Kneeland
Cyndy Goodson, Ferndale
Joanne Grace, Trinidad
B. R. Graham, Redway
Heather Gramp, DowÕs Prairie
Trish & Ray Grantham, Eureka
Stacy Graves, Trinidad
Virginia Graziani, Redway
Kate & Simon Green, Trinidad
Mary Greene, Fortuna
Steven Greer, Eureka
Gilbert Gregori, Ettersburg
Dian Griffith, Redway
John Griffith, Fields Landing
Ben Grimes, Eureka
Gary L. Grinstaff, Eureka
Jim Groeling, Petrolia
Ray Gross, Eureka
Elaine Grosso, Eureka
Bart Gruzalski, PhD, Briceland
Cyril Gueguen, Arcata
Jane Gund, Redway
Suzanne Gurm, Eureka
Lisa Gust, Bayside
Micah Gustafson, McKinleyville
Morgan Gustafson, McKinleyville
Micah T. Gustafson, McKinleyville
Colinda Gutierrez, Kneeland
Attila Gyenis, Eureka
Teresa Haeg, Eureka
Beverly Hale, Arcata
Natalie Hall, Trinidad
Sommer Halligan, Arcata
Sara Hamill, Arcata
Anna Hamilton, Shelter Cove
Patricia Hamilton, Redway
Beverly Hanly, Westhaven
Tyler Hansen, Eureka
Mullaney Hardesty, Arcata
Joy Hardin, McKinleyville
Steve Harkey, Willow Creek
Vic Harmon, Freshwater
Vicki Harmon, Freshwater
Pamela J. Harper, Eureka
Ina K. Harris, Eureka
John E. Harris, Eureka
Mark P. Harris, Arcata
Debbie Harrison, Westhaven
Destere C. Harrison, Eureka
Beth Harrman, Arcata
Maureen Hart, Arcata
Chuck Harvey, Fieldbrook
Forrest Hassler, Arcata
Ginni Hassrick, Bayside
Chelsea Hastings, Arcata
Rachel Hatchimanji, Arcata
Becky Hatman, Bayside
Lloyd & Anne Hauskins, Redway
Debbra Haven, Arcata
Ellen Hawkins, Trinidad
Mary E. Haydon, Eureka
Jennifer Hayes, Arcata
Matt Hayes, Eureka
Aaron Hazard, Eureka
Nancy & Richard Head, Fortuna
Leslie Heald, Eureka
Cyndie Heart, Kneeland
Eric W. Hedlund, Eureka
Kristy Hellum, Arcata
Evaonne F. Hendricks, Arcata
Stan and Barbara Henerson, Arc
Terry W. Henkel, Arcata
Laura Hennings, Eureka
Roger Herick, Dow ?s Prairie
Arnold Heron, Eureka
Melissa M. Hessney, Eureka
Sally J. Hewitt, Arcata
Molly Hickey-Sinoway, Salmon Ck
Ron Hickey-Sinoway, Salmon Ck
Craig L. Hiler, Arcata
Susan Hiler, Arcata
Jesse James Hill, Arcata
Corby Hines, Arcata
Tom Hinz, Blue Lake
Martha Hirsch, McKinleyville
David F. Hitchcock, Arcata
Johny Hobson, Eureka
Somchai Hoffman, Arcata
Victoria Hoffman, McKinleyville
Ray Hofstetter, Fortuna
Erin Hogan, Eureka
Nancy Hogan, Trinidad
Robert A. Hoggard, Arcata
Frank Holladay, Arcata
Jessica Holloway, Arcata
Georje Holper, Seely Creek
Larry Holsen, Cutten
Cynthia Hooper, Eureka
Harold & Paula Horne, McKville
David Horwitz, Bayside
Freeman House, Petrolia
Alisa Howe, Blue Lake
JoAnn Howell, Cutten
Robert Hoyle, Mattole Valley
Dennis and Ellie Huber, Redway
Kent Huber, Eureka
Vonda Huffman, Eureka
John Hulburd, Redway
Mary Huskins, Redway
Shey Hyatt, Bayside
Joyce Icing, McKinleyville
Ben Irwin, Arcata
Nichole Irwin, Eureka
Cletus H. Isbell, Freshwater
Eileen S. Isbell, Freshwater
Nels Israelson, Arcata
Rita Jacinto, Willow Creek
Bill Jackson, Redway
Raechel Jackson, Eureka
Levi Jacobs, Arcata
Matt Jacobs, Arcata
Curtice Jacoby, Arcata
Mikal Jakubal, Briceland
Emily Janzen, Arcata
Dana M. Jensen, Ferndale
Marya A. Jensen, Arcata
Shanti Jensen, McKinleyville
Jinny Jernigan , Eureka
Fred C. Jewett Jr., Eureka
Aimee Johnson, Fortuna
Charlynn D. Johnson, Eureka
Chris Johnson, Arcata
Erika Johnson, Eureka
Kathryn C. Johnson, McKinleyville
Leif Johnson, Arcata
Luke I. Johnson, Arcata
Rikkie Johnson, Arcata
Sheri Johnson, Freshwater
Julie Jones, Arcata
Lenna Jones, Eureka
Roger Jones, Eureka
Laura & Brian Julian, Blue Lake
Jeanette Jungers, Eureka
Laura Kadlecik, Arcata
Stephen Kamelgarn, Kneeland
Robert Kammerer, McKinleyville
Brian Kaneko, Arcata
Elaine Kaple, Arcata
Marvin Karno, M.D., Fieldbrook
Nelson Kass, McKinleyville
Tracy Katelman , RDF, Eureka
Debra Kaufman, Bayside
Dawn K. Kauhi, Eureka
Scott Kearney, Eureka
Maureen Kearns, McKinleyville
Michael Keefe, Arcata
Kelly Keen, Arcata
Amy Keenan, Arcata
Marie Kelleher-Roy, Trinidad
Roz Keller, Eureka
Jherine Kellerman, Arcata
James Kelly, Westhaven
Kathie Kelly, Arcata
Nate Kempe, Garberville
Dorrie Kennedy, Whitethorn
Maureen Kerns, McKinleyville
Luke Kibbee, Arcata
Francis Kilkenny, Arcata
Siddiq & Matina Kilkenny, Arcata
Joshua Kinch, Freshwater
Aurora King, Eureka
Elisa King, Arcata
Joyce King, McKinleyville
L. Sydney King, Redway
Anne Kinne, Arcata
Eric V. Kirk, Redway
Jana Kirk-Levi, Redway
George Kirkpatrick, Freshwater
Chris Kirsch, Eureka
Elmone & Rich Kissling, Eureka
Kjersti Kjeisbu, Arcata
Kara Lynn Klarner, Cutten
Rick Klein, Redway
Siena Klein, Miranda
Seth Klempner, Arcata
Larry Kline, Arcata
Gina R. Klump, Eureka
James A. Klump, Petrolia
Jim Klump, Petrolia
Ann Knight, Loleta
Jennifer Knight, West Haven
Ron Kokish, Trinidad
Michele Konnersman, McKville
Wendy Kopilik, Eureka
Ginger Kossow, Kneeland
Steven D. Kossow, Arcata
Phaedra Kossow-Quinn, Arcata
Ralph & Nona Krause, Eureka
Kathleen & Rus Krauss, Arcata
Bridgett Kroemer, Eureka
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Kristina Kruse, M.F.A., Willow Crk
Heather Kueppemak, Arcata
Linda M. Kuhn, Orick
Michael Kunz, Arcata
Van Kupilik, Eureka
Richard La Forge, Eureka
Cherry K. LaForge, Kneeland
Todd Lake, Arcata
Jim Lamport, Blocksburg
Danika Landgraf, Bayside
Amy and Philippe Lapot, Kneeland
Jane Lappiner, Petrolia
Valerie A. Larson, Trinidad
Thomas Lasbury, Phillipsville
Pandora Lathrop, Eureka
Nicole Lawrence, Arcata
Duane B. Leal, Eureka
Mike Leeman, Arcata
Jessi Leimer, Arcata
Jim Lennon, Arcata
Edwin S. Lettnecker, Eureka
Eva Lettnecker, Eureka
Rebecca Leuning, Arcata
Laurie Levey, Willow Creek
Lauren Levy, Willow Creek
Michael Levy, Arcata
Tryphena Lewis, Arcata
Eric Liberatore, Arcata
Edmund J. Light, Eureka
Donna & Chi-Wei Lin, Trinidad
Nicole Lindley, Eureka
Anne Lindquist, Trinidad
Kathy Lindstrom, Salmon Creek
Peter Lindstrom, Salmon Creek
Sebastian Link, Arcata
Lewis Litzky, Arcata
Antonio Llanos, Bayside
Shannon Lockwood, Eureka
Candice Lodlow, Arcata
Paul Lohse, Eureka
Nate Lomba, Eureka
Jasmine Loucks, Arcata
Mark Lovelace, Sunny Brae
Lowder-Cole Family, McKinleyville
Leon Lowrey, Eureka
Abby Lubowe, Arcata
Dream Lucas, Arcata
Candice Ludlow, Arcata
Jennifer Lumbert, Westhaven
Jan Lundberg, Arcata
Helen Lutz, McKinleyville
Yvonne Lyell, Arcata
Karin Lynch, Arcata
Suzanne Lyon, Blue Lake
Mary Ann Lyons, Arcata
Bradley Mack, Arcata
Amber Mackenzie, Arcata
Debra MacQueen, Kneeland
Joseph Macturk, Eureka
Don Maddox, Arcata
Carl Magruder, Arcata
Jack & Lee Maguire, Garberville
John Mahan, Eureka
Kiva Mahoney, Arcata
Linda Mahoney, Arcata
Shea Mahoney, Arcata
Erica B. Makino, McKinleyville
Marie Maloney, McKinleyville
Xandra Manns, Eureka
Kathryn Lobato Manspeaker,
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Jan Maricia, Redway
Patricia Marien, Arcata
Kathy Marshall, Arcata
Jerry Martien, Manila
Molly Martin, Westhaven
Grace Marton, Arcata
Jan Mathews, Eureka
Janna Matteoli, Arcata
Brian Mau, Dow ?s Prairie
Barbara Mayhn, Eureka
Amanda M. Maynard, Redway
Libby Maynard, Eureka
John & Darsty McAlinn, Arcata
Melinda McComb, Trinidad
Bob McCombs, Bayside
Jean McCord, Eureka
Praline McCormack, McKinleyville
Maureen McCready-Glassman, Arc
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Carol McFarland, Arcata
Tamara McFarland, Eureka
Eileen McGee, Eureka
Peter McIntosh, Arcata
Tim McKay, Westhaven
Robert C. McKee, McKinleyville
Ronald K. McKee, Eureka
Maya McKenzie, Eureka
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Jolleen McLeod, Arcata
Susan & Bob McPherson, Bayside
Jean McTimmins, Eureka
Sarah L. Meece, Eureka
Gregory T. Mellon, McKinleyville
Linda F. Mellon, McKinleyville
Marcia M. Mendels, Miranda
Alexa Mercado, Arcata
Jed A. Mercado, Arcata
Jesse Mestemacher, Arcata
Keytra Meyer, Arcata
Naomi Meyer, McKinleyville
Carl K. Meyers, McKinleyville
J. Michael, Arcata
Ann Michelini, Miranda
Dustin Michelletti, Arcata
Nancy Michik, McKinleyville
Jody Mielke, Eureka
Robert Mikeshin, Eureka
Samuel Miles, Fortuna
Chad M. Miller, Arcata
Marion Miller, Kneeland
Mary M. Miller, Freshwater
Ron & Jill Miller, Bayside
Charles Minton, Bayside
Leeza Mironova, Arcata
Jane I. Mishica, Arcata
Brent S. Mitchell, Eureka
Shelley Mitchell, Arcata
Paul Mollard, Eureka
Jay Moller, Garberville
Adam Molofsky, Arcata
Carol Mone, Trinidad
George Monroe, Salmon Creek
Jack Monschke, Miranda
Joel Monschke, Miranda
Jonell Friedkin Monschke, Mranda
Dr. Elizabeth Montague, Grberville
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Barb & Damien Mooney, Kneeland
Chris Moore, Arcata
F. Suzanne Moore, Eureka
Mary Moore, Eureka
Pat Morales, Trinidad
Patrick Moran, Arcata
Robert Moran, Eureka
Tom & Tam Moreland, Miranda
Kathy Morris, Arcata
Susan Morrison, McKinleyville
S. Moses, Trinidad
Leyna Mott, Arcata
Stan Mott, Blue Lake
Marsha Moyer, Arcata
Christy Mueller, Eureka
Jean & Jack Munsee, McKville
Diana Munzer, Eureka
Nicole Murano, Arcata
Sky Murphy, Arcata
Margo Musser, Eureka
Jesse Myers, Fieldbrook
Melinda Myers, Bayside
Conrad Nagahiro, Arcata
Chris Nance, Arcata
David Narum, Arcata
Wanda & David Naylor, Eureka
Lindsay M. Neal, Manila
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Earl B. Nere, Arcata
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Felicia Oldfather, McKinleyville
Jennifer Oliver, Eureka
Patrick M. Oliver, Blue Lake
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Carrie Olson, Bayside
Julia Olson, Arcata
Danielle Opalach, McKinleyville
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Janet Ostridge, Fortuna
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Michael Pahl, Eureka
Marilyn Paik-Nicely, McKinleyville
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Juli Palmer, Arcata
Jane Parick, Arcata
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Melvin B. Pearlston, Trinidad
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Cassandra Pensa, Arcata
Sarah A. Pepito, McKinleyville
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Kristina Perry, Arcata
Brenda Peterson, Manila
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Kim Phelps, New Harris
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Stephen Plant, Arcata
Sam Polly, McKinleyville
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Michael S. Redd, Eureka
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Michael Sisco, Fortuna
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Bruce Slightom, Eureka
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ER - Two from Leonard Bowman's Aunt
Tribe's contribution to DA's campaign was made by the Tribal Council, not Bowman
by Illene Callahan, 9/30/2006
This letter is in regard to a very misleading, biased article written by Heather Muller.
A contribution was made to Mr. Gallegos’ campaign; however, it was made by the tribe and not by Leonard Bowman. We have five Tribal Council members; they are the representatives of the tribe. Leonard Bowman merely presented the check to campaign headquarters.
Many contributions have been made to various programs in Fortuna and Loleta, as mandated by National Indian Gaming. Why is there no mention of these? The Loleta Fire Department accepted a contribution. Does this mean they cannot put out any other fires, only ours?
This whole article does not speak will for the mentality of this reporter.
As for Derek Bowman’s transgressions and brushes with the law, they are neither Mr. or Mrs. Bowman’s transgressions.
In case none of you noticed, all young people of today think they know everything and we parents are old fogies who try to give them unwanted advice that they totally disregard.
They stand in front of you and lie and tell you they will abide by your rules, and then they go out the door and do just exactly as they please or as their companions want them to do.
The only reason some of them have clean records is because they haven’t yet been caught.
The contribution was made long before Derek was arrested and the election of the district attorney had long been decided. Our tribal members did not stuff the ballot boxes to ensure a win for Mr. Gallegos so he could protect any one of us.
However, we all tend to pull together to try to help our tribal members in all ways, again and again if necessary. It is our heritage, taught to us by our ancestors.
I am definitely tired of reading about Ellie Bowman’s one-person protest about Worth Dikeman. There were three other tribal members there every day, of which I was one. None of us were protesting about Jeff Bowman’s conviction; rather, we were protesting the words that came out of Mr. Dikeman’s mouth.
I could not believe that a person in his position would be so racially biased. I guess I should have remembered that this is Humboldt County.
My own personal opinion is that the investigators did not do a thorough investigation in Jeff’s case or he wouldn’t have been convicted for that crime.
In response to Try Gary’s report based on Cheree Bowie’s telephone conversation, did he call her or did she call him? Mr. Gary, as a deputy sheriff, receives numerous calls from citizens in this area. It is strange that none of these other telephone conversations have been placed in The Eureka Reporter by Heather Muller.
It is also strange that Mr. Gary would believe the insinuations made by Ms. Bowie.
I believe there is a section in your U.S. Constitution that there is still free speech in this country. Mr. Acosta, as a citizen, can contribute to any cause that he deems fit.
He is also free to write letters regarding any person or cause. Nothing in his letter requested that Derek Bowman be set free. It only asked for consideration of a probationary period and it did not mention any contribution that was made by the tribe.
My estimation of Ms. Muller as a reporter or investigator is very negative at this point. If she is a Dikeman supporter, she should come out and say so, not fill the newspaper with innuendos, insinuations and half-truths. That type of reporting belongs in the National Enquirer or some other scandal sheet.
It is also a shame that she had to resort to using three other women to help her. Perhaps they could have written some articles to help people, instead of trying to demean them.
Perhaps Ms. Muller’s attacks on Mr. Gallegos are purely personal. Most women who go on a vendetta against a male public person are either jealous or envious of their wives, girlfriends, etc. Everyone is aware of the old adage, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”
Maybe I should investigate her family, relatives and friends for mud to sling at her under the guise of journalism.
I invite Ms. Muller to interview me on any subject concerning this article. She is to bring a picture ID, and my words, when printed, had better be mine.
(Editor’s note: Illene Callahan is the aunt of Tribal Chairman Leonard Bowman.)
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Writer questions why Bowman's arrest was singled out in paper
12/29/2006
Dear Editor,
The police-beat arrest list for Dec. 9 was published in the Times-Standard newspaper on Dec. 12. The names of 20 people were on that list. Why then was Derek Bowman’s arrest the only one that was published in The Eureka Reporter? The names of the other 19 people were not published, and neither was their race nor their father’s name. Is this racial discrimination or what?
All of the reservations that have casinos have made substantial contributions to this county for various projects and causes — and probably more to the city of Eureka than any other town, yet we are still being harassed and demeaned by any and all means that The Eureka Reporter can find.
By the way, just for your information, the members of the Bear River Band are also descendants of the Wiyot Tribe. Maybe a trip to the library would help you to get your facts straight. The members of the Table Bluff Reservation are not the only Wiyots in this area, as both newspapers imply in the articles that they publish.
Ilene J. Callahan
Eureka
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by Illene Callahan, 9/30/2006
This letter is in regard to a very misleading, biased article written by Heather Muller.
A contribution was made to Mr. Gallegos’ campaign; however, it was made by the tribe and not by Leonard Bowman. We have five Tribal Council members; they are the representatives of the tribe. Leonard Bowman merely presented the check to campaign headquarters.
Many contributions have been made to various programs in Fortuna and Loleta, as mandated by National Indian Gaming. Why is there no mention of these? The Loleta Fire Department accepted a contribution. Does this mean they cannot put out any other fires, only ours?
This whole article does not speak will for the mentality of this reporter.
As for Derek Bowman’s transgressions and brushes with the law, they are neither Mr. or Mrs. Bowman’s transgressions.
In case none of you noticed, all young people of today think they know everything and we parents are old fogies who try to give them unwanted advice that they totally disregard.
They stand in front of you and lie and tell you they will abide by your rules, and then they go out the door and do just exactly as they please or as their companions want them to do.
The only reason some of them have clean records is because they haven’t yet been caught.
The contribution was made long before Derek was arrested and the election of the district attorney had long been decided. Our tribal members did not stuff the ballot boxes to ensure a win for Mr. Gallegos so he could protect any one of us.
However, we all tend to pull together to try to help our tribal members in all ways, again and again if necessary. It is our heritage, taught to us by our ancestors.
I am definitely tired of reading about Ellie Bowman’s one-person protest about Worth Dikeman. There were three other tribal members there every day, of which I was one. None of us were protesting about Jeff Bowman’s conviction; rather, we were protesting the words that came out of Mr. Dikeman’s mouth.
I could not believe that a person in his position would be so racially biased. I guess I should have remembered that this is Humboldt County.
My own personal opinion is that the investigators did not do a thorough investigation in Jeff’s case or he wouldn’t have been convicted for that crime.
In response to Try Gary’s report based on Cheree Bowie’s telephone conversation, did he call her or did she call him? Mr. Gary, as a deputy sheriff, receives numerous calls from citizens in this area. It is strange that none of these other telephone conversations have been placed in The Eureka Reporter by Heather Muller.
It is also strange that Mr. Gary would believe the insinuations made by Ms. Bowie.
I believe there is a section in your U.S. Constitution that there is still free speech in this country. Mr. Acosta, as a citizen, can contribute to any cause that he deems fit.
He is also free to write letters regarding any person or cause. Nothing in his letter requested that Derek Bowman be set free. It only asked for consideration of a probationary period and it did not mention any contribution that was made by the tribe.
My estimation of Ms. Muller as a reporter or investigator is very negative at this point. If she is a Dikeman supporter, she should come out and say so, not fill the newspaper with innuendos, insinuations and half-truths. That type of reporting belongs in the National Enquirer or some other scandal sheet.
It is also a shame that she had to resort to using three other women to help her. Perhaps they could have written some articles to help people, instead of trying to demean them.
Perhaps Ms. Muller’s attacks on Mr. Gallegos are purely personal. Most women who go on a vendetta against a male public person are either jealous or envious of their wives, girlfriends, etc. Everyone is aware of the old adage, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”
Maybe I should investigate her family, relatives and friends for mud to sling at her under the guise of journalism.
I invite Ms. Muller to interview me on any subject concerning this article. She is to bring a picture ID, and my words, when printed, had better be mine.
(Editor’s note: Illene Callahan is the aunt of Tribal Chairman Leonard Bowman.)
Copyright (C) 2005, The Eureka Reporter. All rights reserved.
Writer questions why Bowman's arrest was singled out in paper
12/29/2006
Dear Editor,
The police-beat arrest list for Dec. 9 was published in the Times-Standard newspaper on Dec. 12. The names of 20 people were on that list. Why then was Derek Bowman’s arrest the only one that was published in The Eureka Reporter? The names of the other 19 people were not published, and neither was their race nor their father’s name. Is this racial discrimination or what?
All of the reservations that have casinos have made substantial contributions to this county for various projects and causes — and probably more to the city of Eureka than any other town, yet we are still being harassed and demeaned by any and all means that The Eureka Reporter can find.
By the way, just for your information, the members of the Bear River Band are also descendants of the Wiyot Tribe. Maybe a trip to the library would help you to get your facts straight. The members of the Table Bluff Reservation are not the only Wiyots in this area, as both newspapers imply in the articles that they publish.
Ilene J. Callahan
Eureka
Copyright (C) 2005, The Eureka Reporter. All rights reserved.
12.13.2006
Derek Bowman arrested on warrants
Derek Bowman arrested on warrants
http://www.eurekareporter.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=18405
12/12/2006
Derek Bowman was arrested late last week on two warrants and remained in custody Tuesday.
On Friday, Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Bowman, 25, of Loleta, on no bail warrants for second degree burglary and forgery.
Bowman is the son of Leonard Bowman, the chairperson of the Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria.
In July, Bowman was sentenced to 180 days, less time served, in the Humboldt County jail for a probation violation. However, according to jail personnel, he was released Sept. 11 to serve the rest of his time in the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Work Alternative Program.
His most recent arrest violates the terms of his SWAP.
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ER - Gallegos sidesteps questions about possible conflict of interest in Bowman charges
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TS - DA's office: State OK'd handling of plea deal
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http://www.eurekareporter.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=18405
12/12/2006
Derek Bowman was arrested late last week on two warrants and remained in custody Tuesday.
On Friday, Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Bowman, 25, of Loleta, on no bail warrants for second degree burglary and forgery.
Bowman is the son of Leonard Bowman, the chairperson of the Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria.
In July, Bowman was sentenced to 180 days, less time served, in the Humboldt County jail for a probation violation. However, according to jail personnel, he was released Sept. 11 to serve the rest of his time in the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Work Alternative Program.
His most recent arrest violates the terms of his SWAP.
Copyright (C) 2005, The Eureka Reporter. All rights reserved.
Related stories:
ER - Bear River members seek chairperson's recall
ER - Gallegos sidesteps questions about possible conflict of interest in Bowman charges
ER - Questions without answers hinder our newsgathering
ER - Bowman story not accurate
ER - Contribution made because Gallegos was the better of the two
ER - Questions remain in DA's handling of Bowman charges
ER - Bear River official discusses financial contributions from tribe
ER - Tribe's contribution to DA's campaign was made by the Tribal Council, not Bowman
ER - Gallegos is 'public servant,' not Legal Spiegel
Ethical quagmire created by Gallegos' acceptance of casino's contribution
ER - It's telling that Gallegos witch hunt didn't start until firing of Dikeman
ER - Writer appreciates editor's note that identifies writers
ER - Residents deserve answers to questions asked of DA's Office
ER - Bitter? You bet!
TS - Donations not improper, says Bear River Band
TS - DA's office: State OK'd handling of plea deal
NCJ - Best enemies
12.11.2006
ER - Questions remain in DA's handling of Bowman charges
Questions remain in DA's handling of Bowman charges
by Heather Muller , 9/29/2006
Humboldt County District Attorney Paul Gallegos declined again Thursday to answer specific questions raised by The Eureka Reporter regarding a possible conflict of interest in the DA’s Office, while statements by two Gallegos subordinates answered some questions and raised others.
The controversy centers around a $10,000 contribution made to Gallegos’ re-election campaign by the Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria, chaired by Leonard Bowman.
On July 19, less than six weeks after the election, Leonard’s son, Derek Bowman, received a plea deal from the DA’s Office involving nine felony and two misdemeanor charges, in which seven of the charges were dropped and sentences on the remaining charges were suspended.
Derek received jail time only for a 12th charge, a violation of the terms of his probation. Judge Timothy Cissna sentenced him to 180 days, less time served, in the Humboldt County jail. According to jail personnel, he was released Sept. 11 to serve the rest of his time in the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Work Alternative Program.
In a heated letter Tuesday to The Eureka Reporter, Deputy District Attorney Max Cardoza denied that there was any connection between the Bear River campaign contribution and the handling of Derek’s cases by the DA’s Office.
Cardoza, one of five attorneys in the DA’s Office named in court documents as having handled Derek’s charges, stated that Gallegos had taken appropriate measures to remove himself from the July 19 plea deal.
“Included with the files was a copy of a memo from Mr. Gallegos to Assistant District Attorney Wes Keat suggesting that neither he (Mr. Gallegos) nor former Deputy District Attorney Worth Dikeman should have anything to do with the matters because of the potential conflict or appearance of conflict involved therein.”
But a few hours later, Cardoza sent a second e-mail to The Eureka Reporter stating that he had written the above “without reviewing the files in their entirety.”
In fact, Cardoza wrote, he did not see the recusal memo when he originally had stated, because it was not written by Gallegos until July 24, five days after the plea deal was presented in court.
“So, the bottom line is, I was wrong about when I originally saw Paul’s memo,” Cardoza wrote. But, he added, the error didn’t change what he called “the basic fact: Paul never spoke to me about the cases before I entered into the plea agreement and he authored the memo without knowing that pleas had been entered.”
Assistant District Attorney Wes Keat said in a Wednesday phone call that additional measures were taken to ensure Derek was treated the same as any other defendant.
Keat said he called the California Attorney General’s Office in July and “ran the scenario by” a man whose name he didn’t remember on a date he didn’t recall.
When asked if attorneys typically keep records of phone calls like these, Keat said he had no record of the call but knew that he had made it to the AG’s San Francisco office.
“The other paper was incorrect in the information they printed. I didn’t call Sacramento, I called San Francisco. … Usually, I talk to a lady called Joyce Blair, a supervising deputy attorney general. But she was not in the office, and a gentleman was.”
Keat said the call had been made in mid-July. When asked if he could be more specific about the date, he replied, “I think it was on the 19th,” which is the same day the plea deal was presented in court.
Keat said he did not know if the call had been made before or after the deal was presented.
“When we looked at the files, we reached the conclusion that it was all happening simultaneously,” he said. “The gist, though, is that Cardoza did it all independently.”
Also on Wednesday, Blair at the AG’s San Francisco office confirmed by phone that she had not received a call from Keat, and added that she had not heard from other deputy attorneys general in the office that such a call had been received. She told The Eureka Reporter that she would “ask around” to see if anyone remembered Keat’s call.
On Thursday, Blair called back and said she had no information about who might have taken the call. “This is a big office,” she said.
Cardoza’s Tuesday letter additionally criticized The Eureka Reporter for declining to speak with him directly, as one of the attorneys in the DA’s Office who handled Derek’s charges.
“I find it rather telling,” Cardoza wrote, “that, to my knowledge, no one from your newspaper attempted to contact me regarding the facts of this matter prior to the publication of the article.”
A request for comment Thursday was declined by Cardoza.
In an e-mail exchange with The Eureka Reporter, Cardoza explained that he had a busy court calendar, and added, “As far as my responsibility to the media is concerned, I invite your attention to the California Public Records Act, the California Rules of Professional Conduct, the American Bar Association Model Code of Professional Responsibility and the National Prosecution Standards. I will continue to fulfill my responsibilities as set forth therein to all media outlets, including yours. If you feel I am in violation of any or all of those directives, I suggest you file a formal complaint with the California State Bar.”
When asked by e-mail if his refusal to comment contradicted the point raised in his criticism of the original story, and if professional standards would have precluded his response, Cardoza replied, “No, and I would thank you not to bother me with any further clumsy attempts to put words in my mouth.”
Cardoza referred to what he called the “sloppiness” of the original story and suggested that this newspaper might not have contacted him prior to its publication because information contradicting “preconceived notions” might have been received.
“I referred you to the various sources of professional standards for prosecutors so that, if possible, you could educate yourself on a prosecutor’s professional and ethical responsibilities when it comes to dealing with the media,” Cardoza wrote. “If you do so, perhaps you will refrain from making any future ham-handed attempts to strong-arm me into giving you what you want when you want it.”
Numerous requests for comment on the original story were made to Gallegos, whose campaign received the contribution. Messages were left at his direct office phone line, at the general phone line at the DA’s Office, at his cell phone number and at his e-mail address. Instead of answering specific questions forwarded to him by e-mail after he declined to speak directly, Gallegos sent an e-mail message that stated only the following: “This office operates without fear or favor.”
Early Thursday afternoon, The Eureka Reporter again requested responses to specific questions from Gallegos and Keat. A short time later, Gallegos responded in brief (see below).
Court documents state that among charges against Derek dismissed as part of the plea agreement were felony threat of death or great bodily injury to a 17-year-old girl, felony domestic battery against a different 17-year-old girl and misdemeanor battery against Bowman’s mother-in-law, Cheree Bowie.
The first of those charges, California Penal Code 422, is a “strike” felony under the California Three Strikes Law. Court files show that in the third charge, Derek was accused of hitting Bowie in the face three times as she was held down by her daughter and a second female.
(Rebecca S. Bender contributed to this report.)
District Attorney Gallegos responds in e-mail exchange
To Paul Gallegos and Wes Keat, from Heather Muller
If either of you has time to speak today regarding a follow-up on our Sept. 26 story, please contact me at your convenience.
From Wes, we’re hoping to learn if he has any additional details about the phone call he reported making to the Attorney General’s San Francisco office. We have not been able to confirm with that office that the call occurred.
From Paul or Wes, we’d like to know if the plea deal reached in the Derek Bowman case was typical of the kinds of deals reached by the DA’s Office — nine felonies, two misdemeanors, an extensive criminal history and no time requested except on a separate probation violation. An explanation is warranted.
We would also like to clarify a statement made by Max Cardoza, who evidently is declining to speak to us. He said that Bowman was now a convicted felon, which I think is technically, although not entirely, accurate. Is it not true that because of the way his sentence was suspended, those charges would be reduced to misdemeanors at the conclusion of his probation?
We are also waiting for the district attorney to address specific questions previously raised by this newspaper and sent to him by e-mail Sept. 22. If those questions need to be resubmitted, please advise.
To Heather Muller, from Paul Gallegos
As I said before, my office operates without fear or favor. Max Cardoza is (a) highly qualified, experienced, aggressive prosecutor whose judgment I respect and trust.
To Paul Gallegos, from Glenn Franco Simmons
We are not doubting anyone’s professionalism. We only want some answers to our questions. As the leader of your organization, we contacted you. If you are directing us to contact Mr. Cardoza, then perhaps I should send you the e-mails he sent me basically stating that he won’t speak to us. Why won’t anyone answer our questions?
To Glenn Franco Simmons, from Paul Gallegos
Both I and my attorneys have always made ourselves extremely available to your reporters and you. This e-mail further confirms that.
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by Heather Muller , 9/29/2006
Humboldt County District Attorney Paul Gallegos declined again Thursday to answer specific questions raised by The Eureka Reporter regarding a possible conflict of interest in the DA’s Office, while statements by two Gallegos subordinates answered some questions and raised others.
The controversy centers around a $10,000 contribution made to Gallegos’ re-election campaign by the Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria, chaired by Leonard Bowman.
On July 19, less than six weeks after the election, Leonard’s son, Derek Bowman, received a plea deal from the DA’s Office involving nine felony and two misdemeanor charges, in which seven of the charges were dropped and sentences on the remaining charges were suspended.
Derek received jail time only for a 12th charge, a violation of the terms of his probation. Judge Timothy Cissna sentenced him to 180 days, less time served, in the Humboldt County jail. According to jail personnel, he was released Sept. 11 to serve the rest of his time in the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Work Alternative Program.
In a heated letter Tuesday to The Eureka Reporter, Deputy District Attorney Max Cardoza denied that there was any connection between the Bear River campaign contribution and the handling of Derek’s cases by the DA’s Office.
Cardoza, one of five attorneys in the DA’s Office named in court documents as having handled Derek’s charges, stated that Gallegos had taken appropriate measures to remove himself from the July 19 plea deal.
“Included with the files was a copy of a memo from Mr. Gallegos to Assistant District Attorney Wes Keat suggesting that neither he (Mr. Gallegos) nor former Deputy District Attorney Worth Dikeman should have anything to do with the matters because of the potential conflict or appearance of conflict involved therein.”
But a few hours later, Cardoza sent a second e-mail to The Eureka Reporter stating that he had written the above “without reviewing the files in their entirety.”
In fact, Cardoza wrote, he did not see the recusal memo when he originally had stated, because it was not written by Gallegos until July 24, five days after the plea deal was presented in court.
“So, the bottom line is, I was wrong about when I originally saw Paul’s memo,” Cardoza wrote. But, he added, the error didn’t change what he called “the basic fact: Paul never spoke to me about the cases before I entered into the plea agreement and he authored the memo without knowing that pleas had been entered.”
Assistant District Attorney Wes Keat said in a Wednesday phone call that additional measures were taken to ensure Derek was treated the same as any other defendant.
Keat said he called the California Attorney General’s Office in July and “ran the scenario by” a man whose name he didn’t remember on a date he didn’t recall.
When asked if attorneys typically keep records of phone calls like these, Keat said he had no record of the call but knew that he had made it to the AG’s San Francisco office.
“The other paper was incorrect in the information they printed. I didn’t call Sacramento, I called San Francisco. … Usually, I talk to a lady called Joyce Blair, a supervising deputy attorney general. But she was not in the office, and a gentleman was.”
Keat said the call had been made in mid-July. When asked if he could be more specific about the date, he replied, “I think it was on the 19th,” which is the same day the plea deal was presented in court.
Keat said he did not know if the call had been made before or after the deal was presented.
“When we looked at the files, we reached the conclusion that it was all happening simultaneously,” he said. “The gist, though, is that Cardoza did it all independently.”
Also on Wednesday, Blair at the AG’s San Francisco office confirmed by phone that she had not received a call from Keat, and added that she had not heard from other deputy attorneys general in the office that such a call had been received. She told The Eureka Reporter that she would “ask around” to see if anyone remembered Keat’s call.
On Thursday, Blair called back and said she had no information about who might have taken the call. “This is a big office,” she said.
Cardoza’s Tuesday letter additionally criticized The Eureka Reporter for declining to speak with him directly, as one of the attorneys in the DA’s Office who handled Derek’s charges.
“I find it rather telling,” Cardoza wrote, “that, to my knowledge, no one from your newspaper attempted to contact me regarding the facts of this matter prior to the publication of the article.”
A request for comment Thursday was declined by Cardoza.
In an e-mail exchange with The Eureka Reporter, Cardoza explained that he had a busy court calendar, and added, “As far as my responsibility to the media is concerned, I invite your attention to the California Public Records Act, the California Rules of Professional Conduct, the American Bar Association Model Code of Professional Responsibility and the National Prosecution Standards. I will continue to fulfill my responsibilities as set forth therein to all media outlets, including yours. If you feel I am in violation of any or all of those directives, I suggest you file a formal complaint with the California State Bar.”
When asked by e-mail if his refusal to comment contradicted the point raised in his criticism of the original story, and if professional standards would have precluded his response, Cardoza replied, “No, and I would thank you not to bother me with any further clumsy attempts to put words in my mouth.”
Cardoza referred to what he called the “sloppiness” of the original story and suggested that this newspaper might not have contacted him prior to its publication because information contradicting “preconceived notions” might have been received.
“I referred you to the various sources of professional standards for prosecutors so that, if possible, you could educate yourself on a prosecutor’s professional and ethical responsibilities when it comes to dealing with the media,” Cardoza wrote. “If you do so, perhaps you will refrain from making any future ham-handed attempts to strong-arm me into giving you what you want when you want it.”
Numerous requests for comment on the original story were made to Gallegos, whose campaign received the contribution. Messages were left at his direct office phone line, at the general phone line at the DA’s Office, at his cell phone number and at his e-mail address. Instead of answering specific questions forwarded to him by e-mail after he declined to speak directly, Gallegos sent an e-mail message that stated only the following: “This office operates without fear or favor.”
Early Thursday afternoon, The Eureka Reporter again requested responses to specific questions from Gallegos and Keat. A short time later, Gallegos responded in brief (see below).
Court documents state that among charges against Derek dismissed as part of the plea agreement were felony threat of death or great bodily injury to a 17-year-old girl, felony domestic battery against a different 17-year-old girl and misdemeanor battery against Bowman’s mother-in-law, Cheree Bowie.
The first of those charges, California Penal Code 422, is a “strike” felony under the California Three Strikes Law. Court files show that in the third charge, Derek was accused of hitting Bowie in the face three times as she was held down by her daughter and a second female.
(Rebecca S. Bender contributed to this report.)
District Attorney Gallegos responds in e-mail exchange
To Paul Gallegos and Wes Keat, from Heather Muller
If either of you has time to speak today regarding a follow-up on our Sept. 26 story, please contact me at your convenience.
From Wes, we’re hoping to learn if he has any additional details about the phone call he reported making to the Attorney General’s San Francisco office. We have not been able to confirm with that office that the call occurred.
From Paul or Wes, we’d like to know if the plea deal reached in the Derek Bowman case was typical of the kinds of deals reached by the DA’s Office — nine felonies, two misdemeanors, an extensive criminal history and no time requested except on a separate probation violation. An explanation is warranted.
We would also like to clarify a statement made by Max Cardoza, who evidently is declining to speak to us. He said that Bowman was now a convicted felon, which I think is technically, although not entirely, accurate. Is it not true that because of the way his sentence was suspended, those charges would be reduced to misdemeanors at the conclusion of his probation?
We are also waiting for the district attorney to address specific questions previously raised by this newspaper and sent to him by e-mail Sept. 22. If those questions need to be resubmitted, please advise.
To Heather Muller, from Paul Gallegos
As I said before, my office operates without fear or favor. Max Cardoza is (a) highly qualified, experienced, aggressive prosecutor whose judgment I respect and trust.
To Paul Gallegos, from Glenn Franco Simmons
We are not doubting anyone’s professionalism. We only want some answers to our questions. As the leader of your organization, we contacted you. If you are directing us to contact Mr. Cardoza, then perhaps I should send you the e-mails he sent me basically stating that he won’t speak to us. Why won’t anyone answer our questions?
To Glenn Franco Simmons, from Paul Gallegos
Both I and my attorneys have always made ourselves extremely available to your reporters and you. This e-mail further confirms that.
Copyright (C) 2005, The Eureka Reporter. All rights reserved.
12.03.2006
ER - Two protestors call Dikeman a "racist"; he disagrees
Two protestors call Dikeman a "racist"; he disagrees
News Articles | from the Eureka Reporter |
by Christine Bensen-Messinger | May 20, 2006
Two county residents stood outside of the Humboldt County Courthouse Friday morning with signs encouraging people not to vote for Humboldt County District Attorney candidate Worth Dikeman because they say he is “racist.”
“Mr. Dikeman is very prejudice against Native Americans,” said Ellie Bowman, who lives on the Rohnerville Rancheria in Loleta.
Dikeman said he respected the women’s right to freedom of speech, but saw it as a personal attack launched by the people running his opponent Paul Gallegos’ campaign.
“I think this is a (Richard) Salzman, (Alison) Sterling-Nichols trick,” he said. “It is a personal attack and it is the sleaziest of tactics.”
But the women said they were not involved in Gallegos’ campaign and Gallegos’ campaign manager Nichols agreed.
“They’re not representing the campaign, but I have seen the quote that they found offensive and I can understand why they are upset and, of course, support anyone’s first amendment right to speak out,” she said.
Bowman and Madison Ayala, who lives on the Table Bluff reservation, handed out fliers to passersby titled, “Why I am here protesting at the courthouse today.”
The fliers included quotes the women said came from statements Dikeman made after excusing Native American jurors from the jury of a Fortuna man, Richard Craig Kesser, and his codefendants, Jennifer Gayle Leahy and Stephen Chiara. Kesser and his fiancée, Leahy, were convicted in 1992 of hiring Chiara to murder Kesser’s ex-wife.
“My experience is that Native Americans who are employed by the tribe are a little more prone to associate themselves with the culture and beliefs of the tribe … and that they are sometimes resistive of the criminal justice system,” a quote allegedly from Dikeman states.
But Dikeman said his quotes were taken out of context and he does not exclude jurors based on race, religion or sexual preference.
“Bad jurors come in all shapes, sizes, nationalities and colors,” he said. “It’s wrong to systematically exclude a group and I don’t do it because it’s wrong.”
The motion for a new trial based on the allegations that Dikeman excluded Native Americans based on their race was denied by the Humboldt County Superior Court Judge who heard it, the 1st District Court of Appeals, the Federal District Court and the 9th District Circuit Court of Appeals, he said.
Last year, a fifth motion to grant Kesser a retrial was heard by a group of 9th Circuit Court of Appeals judges in a petition debunk, which means more than the normal three judges hear the motion. A decision has not yet been released, he said.
While she was leaning toward voting for DA incumbent Paul Gallegos already, Bowman said now there is no question in her mind for whom she will vote, and she is planning to encourage others to vote for Gallegos as well.
“I’ll be out here everyday, rain or shine, until the election,” she said.
Ayala said she used to be uninterested in the DA’s race, but now she is planning to encourage others to vote for Gallegos.
“It more hit home for me because he said, ‘All Native American’s are unfit (to serve on a jury),’” she said, adding that she is Native American and goes to school and works. “He’s outing one race and that’s not fair. I don’t want a District Attorney who’s racist.”
But Dikeman said he does not exclude jurors based on their race and never would.
“It is wrong to systematically exclude groups from the jury pool. I don’t do it,” he said. “I haven’t done it and I will never do it.”
News Articles | from the Eureka Reporter |
by Christine Bensen-Messinger | May 20, 2006
Two county residents stood outside of the Humboldt County Courthouse Friday morning with signs encouraging people not to vote for Humboldt County District Attorney candidate Worth Dikeman because they say he is “racist.”
“Mr. Dikeman is very prejudice against Native Americans,” said Ellie Bowman, who lives on the Rohnerville Rancheria in Loleta.
Dikeman said he respected the women’s right to freedom of speech, but saw it as a personal attack launched by the people running his opponent Paul Gallegos’ campaign.
“I think this is a (Richard) Salzman, (Alison) Sterling-Nichols trick,” he said. “It is a personal attack and it is the sleaziest of tactics.”
But the women said they were not involved in Gallegos’ campaign and Gallegos’ campaign manager Nichols agreed.
“They’re not representing the campaign, but I have seen the quote that they found offensive and I can understand why they are upset and, of course, support anyone’s first amendment right to speak out,” she said.
Bowman and Madison Ayala, who lives on the Table Bluff reservation, handed out fliers to passersby titled, “Why I am here protesting at the courthouse today.”
The fliers included quotes the women said came from statements Dikeman made after excusing Native American jurors from the jury of a Fortuna man, Richard Craig Kesser, and his codefendants, Jennifer Gayle Leahy and Stephen Chiara. Kesser and his fiancée, Leahy, were convicted in 1992 of hiring Chiara to murder Kesser’s ex-wife.
“My experience is that Native Americans who are employed by the tribe are a little more prone to associate themselves with the culture and beliefs of the tribe … and that they are sometimes resistive of the criminal justice system,” a quote allegedly from Dikeman states.
But Dikeman said his quotes were taken out of context and he does not exclude jurors based on race, religion or sexual preference.
“Bad jurors come in all shapes, sizes, nationalities and colors,” he said. “It’s wrong to systematically exclude a group and I don’t do it because it’s wrong.”
The motion for a new trial based on the allegations that Dikeman excluded Native Americans based on their race was denied by the Humboldt County Superior Court Judge who heard it, the 1st District Court of Appeals, the Federal District Court and the 9th District Circuit Court of Appeals, he said.
Last year, a fifth motion to grant Kesser a retrial was heard by a group of 9th Circuit Court of Appeals judges in a petition debunk, which means more than the normal three judges hear the motion. A decision has not yet been released, he said.
While she was leaning toward voting for DA incumbent Paul Gallegos already, Bowman said now there is no question in her mind for whom she will vote, and she is planning to encourage others to vote for Gallegos as well.
“I’ll be out here everyday, rain or shine, until the election,” she said.
Ayala said she used to be uninterested in the DA’s race, but now she is planning to encourage others to vote for Gallegos.
“It more hit home for me because he said, ‘All Native American’s are unfit (to serve on a jury),’” she said, adding that she is Native American and goes to school and works. “He’s outing one race and that’s not fair. I don’t want a District Attorney who’s racist.”
But Dikeman said he does not exclude jurors based on their race and never would.
“It is wrong to systematically exclude groups from the jury pool. I don’t do it,” he said. “I haven’t done it and I will never do it.”
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Second news release countering racism allegations issued
from the Eureka Reporter | by Heather Muller | May 22, 2006
The dispute stemming from two protesters’ allegations of racism against district attorney candidate Worth Dikeman continued through the weekend, with Dikeman’s campaign issuing a second news release countering the allegations and questioning the protest’s timing.
As previously reported in The Eureka Reporter, Ellie Bowman and Madison Ayala have been picketing in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse in Eureka since Friday, holding signs and passing out fliers stating Dikeman is a “racist.”
The women claim Dikeman discriminated against Native Americans during jury selection in the trial of Richard Kesser, a Native American man from Fortuna.
The fliers contained statements Dikeman allegedly made questioning the fitness of Native Americans employed by the tribe to serve on Kesser’s jury. Kesser was convicted of hiring another man to murder Kesser’s ex-wife, but the case has been appealed numerous times based on assertions by the defense that Dikeman excluded jurors on the basis of race.
At the center of the issue is what is known as a “Wheeler Motion,” which is a motion brought during jury selection when one side claims the other has violated the Constitution by challenging jurors because of their race, gender, religion or other constitutionally protected characteristic.
In Petition for Rehearing papers filed by Kesser’s defense and obtained by The Eureka Reporter, Dikeman was accused of striking three Native American and one other non-white juror from Kesser’s jury. The papers stated that these were the only four minority jurors in the jury pool.
In explaining his challenges, Dikeman is quoted in the papers referring to one of the Native American jurors as “darker skinned,” and describing Native Americans employed by the tribe as “resistive of the criminal justice system generally and somewhat suspicious of the system.”
In a Friday news release, the Dikeman campaign stated, “Four courts have found that Dikeman acted properly and without racial animus,” including the Humboldt County Superior Court, the California Supreme Court of Appeal for the First District, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
But it was a different trial that Dikeman’s campaign referred to in a second release Saturday.
“You may wish to know a little more about Ellie Bowman,” the release stated, referring to one of the protesters accusing Dikeman of discrimination.
“Worth Dikeman successfully prosecuted her son, Jeff Bowman, for murder. Bowman went to prison for 25 years to life for the murder of a Trinidad Rancheria tribe member named Julius Aubrey,” the release stated.
Newspaper reports from 2001 indicate that Jeffrey Bowman and two co-defendants were convicted of first-degree murder, burglary and attempted robbery in the stabbing death of Aubrey.
In a Friday news release, the Dikeman campaign called the women’s allegations “a sleazy Gallegos/Salzman/Sterling-Nichols campaign tactic,” referring to Gallegos’ former and current campaign managers Richard Salzman and Alison Sterling Nichols, respectively, “and only demonstrates how desperate they’ve become.”
Nichols called the statement “ridiculous.”
“The Gallegos campaign doesn’t need to tell Native Americans when they should be offended,” she said.
But the debate didn’t end there. Dikeman’s release went on to state, “In fact, only one attorney in the history of Humboldt County has ever had a Wheeler Motion granted against him.”
That attorney, according to the release, was District Attorney Paul Gallegos.
In the case of People v. Mika Myers, the release stated, Judge John Feeney found Gallegos guilty of using peremptory challenges to dismiss prospective jurors based on their race.
Gallegos was quick to note that this was a case that he, as a defense attorney, had tried against Dikeman.
“I was representing a Native American,” Gallegos said, “and Worth was trying to make sure there were no Native Americans on the jury.”
Gallegos said he used some of his peremptory challenges against white jurors — 11 of whom had already been selected for the 12-member panel — because his client wanted to have at least one Native American on the jury.
“I was trying to have a more racially diverse jury,” Gallegos said.
Dikeman insisted that he has never excluded jurors on the basis of race.
“I don’t do it, I haven’t done it and I will never do it,” he said.
A fifth motion to grant Kesser a new trial is pending.
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from the Eureka Reporter | by Heather Muller | May 22, 2006
The dispute stemming from two protesters’ allegations of racism against district attorney candidate Worth Dikeman continued through the weekend, with Dikeman’s campaign issuing a second news release countering the allegations and questioning the protest’s timing.
As previously reported in The Eureka Reporter, Ellie Bowman and Madison Ayala have been picketing in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse in Eureka since Friday, holding signs and passing out fliers stating Dikeman is a “racist.”
The women claim Dikeman discriminated against Native Americans during jury selection in the trial of Richard Kesser, a Native American man from Fortuna.
The fliers contained statements Dikeman allegedly made questioning the fitness of Native Americans employed by the tribe to serve on Kesser’s jury. Kesser was convicted of hiring another man to murder Kesser’s ex-wife, but the case has been appealed numerous times based on assertions by the defense that Dikeman excluded jurors on the basis of race.
At the center of the issue is what is known as a “Wheeler Motion,” which is a motion brought during jury selection when one side claims the other has violated the Constitution by challenging jurors because of their race, gender, religion or other constitutionally protected characteristic.
In Petition for Rehearing papers filed by Kesser’s defense and obtained by The Eureka Reporter, Dikeman was accused of striking three Native American and one other non-white juror from Kesser’s jury. The papers stated that these were the only four minority jurors in the jury pool.
In explaining his challenges, Dikeman is quoted in the papers referring to one of the Native American jurors as “darker skinned,” and describing Native Americans employed by the tribe as “resistive of the criminal justice system generally and somewhat suspicious of the system.”
In a Friday news release, the Dikeman campaign stated, “Four courts have found that Dikeman acted properly and without racial animus,” including the Humboldt County Superior Court, the California Supreme Court of Appeal for the First District, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
But it was a different trial that Dikeman’s campaign referred to in a second release Saturday.
“You may wish to know a little more about Ellie Bowman,” the release stated, referring to one of the protesters accusing Dikeman of discrimination.
“Worth Dikeman successfully prosecuted her son, Jeff Bowman, for murder. Bowman went to prison for 25 years to life for the murder of a Trinidad Rancheria tribe member named Julius Aubrey,” the release stated.
Newspaper reports from 2001 indicate that Jeffrey Bowman and two co-defendants were convicted of first-degree murder, burglary and attempted robbery in the stabbing death of Aubrey.
In a Friday news release, the Dikeman campaign called the women’s allegations “a sleazy Gallegos/Salzman/Sterling-Nichols campaign tactic,” referring to Gallegos’ former and current campaign managers Richard Salzman and Alison Sterling Nichols, respectively, “and only demonstrates how desperate they’ve become.”
Nichols called the statement “ridiculous.”
“The Gallegos campaign doesn’t need to tell Native Americans when they should be offended,” she said.
But the debate didn’t end there. Dikeman’s release went on to state, “In fact, only one attorney in the history of Humboldt County has ever had a Wheeler Motion granted against him.”
That attorney, according to the release, was District Attorney Paul Gallegos.
In the case of People v. Mika Myers, the release stated, Judge John Feeney found Gallegos guilty of using peremptory challenges to dismiss prospective jurors based on their race.
Gallegos was quick to note that this was a case that he, as a defense attorney, had tried against Dikeman.
“I was representing a Native American,” Gallegos said, “and Worth was trying to make sure there were no Native Americans on the jury.”
Gallegos said he used some of his peremptory challenges against white jurors — 11 of whom had already been selected for the 12-member panel — because his client wanted to have at least one Native American on the jury.
“I was trying to have a more racially diverse jury,” Gallegos said.
Dikeman insisted that he has never excluded jurors on the basis of race.
“I don’t do it, I haven’t done it and I will never do it,” he said.
A fifth motion to grant Kesser a new trial is pending.
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