Gary Vinson Collins - The Danville Building Inspector who was murdered

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Arson Index - The real truth about Contra Costa County - clearing court calendars by Arson


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To Contra Costa Times Readers - Tanabe's Political Connections


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Removal Instructions: and Rsponse to Restraining Orders - what to expect


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Due or Process or Process Intimidation at Safeway Nordstrom's, Neiman Marcus, Metro Phone Store


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COLLINS, vinson A. Member of the Ku Klux Klan


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Dickinson, Lisa Missing since Sept. 05, 1976


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Open Letter to PG&E, PUC, BART and NTSB


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The FBI letter to Foray Technologies


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Tanabe is getting off easy


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Tanabe heads to Trial Read the CNET Lawsuit


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The Danville Council has known about CNET since 2004


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Bennett v. Collins


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Obit: Gary vinson Collins Danville Building Inspector


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Watch This: This almost happened to me on 680


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You took my sons and the results are in


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Danville Town Council - The Secret Story


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Murder ► Pamela Vitale - an Alternate Suspect


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MMTB ► The Big Yellow House


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Danville Building Inspector Gary vinson Collins (summary)


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Danville Building Inspector Gary vinson Collins


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Is This Same Former San Francisco Police Officer Walking From a Fatal Fire that I've alleged ran me off the road in 2011

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted:02/14/2014

Reposted to Protect My Sons ~ no one is protecting me so no one is protecting them


Walnut Creek CA: In 2012 there was a fatal fire in Pleasant Hill - but another worker from Walnut Creek was killed, then another, then another but they tried and missed me in September 2013 and I complained to the Walnut Creek City Council with Walnut Creek Police present. 

 It's the same old story - While they watch and wait, Bennett, Bennett's family and his music friends to be picked off one by one and killed.  They struck again on February 6th 2014 and took another life.  

Excerpts From: A Trail of Bodies Mr. Highly Unstable says what?

There was another accident on Ygnacio Valley Road Walnut Creek last week.  


CNET Victim #6
Works at Tiki Toms connected to 

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Over the summer he was El Fornio sitting in his usual taunting way inside where he could be seen but where he could the musicians connected to the musicians being killed - that also includes where the woman fell to her death from Nordstroms

He's a problem no question as in Sept 2010 he was in my offices in Pleasant Hill standing next to a PG&E High Performance Engineer for the Gas Transmission Group - his job is basically to calculate the Gas Transmission System pressures.  Across from El Fornio is Safeway where my PG&E data filled laptop was taken and returned by the Walnut Creek Bomb Squad in Summer 2013 a few after my ex-wifes Mormon son was murdered on WB-24 up the street from where five men were burned alive in 2004 - down the street from where I was nearly mowed down in Sept 2013 - I called investigators in Sacramento instead of Walnut Creek Police as five weeks after Chief Bryden received documents from me this CNET Witness fell to his death. 

 

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Dead Witnesses: Druggist used pain patches to end his life / Walnut Creek pharmacist punished for tainted doses

This person is technically a witness to a potential criminal case.   

Druggist used pain patches to end his life / Walnut Creek pharmacist punished for tainted doses

Erin Hallissy, Jim Herron Zamora, Chronicle Staff Writers

Published 4:00 am, Friday, March 29, 2002

Despondent that he was facing punishment for a fatal meningitis (please read Meningitis as Murder Weapon) outbreak last year that was linked to his pharmacy, a young pharmacist committed suicide by overdosing himself with powerful painkiller patches, coroner's reports say.

Jamey Phillip Sheets, 32, who owned just under half of Doc's Pharmacy until it was sold last year, was discovered dead on Tuesday night by his wife, Michelle, when she returned to their Pleasant Hill home from a trip to Southern California that Sheets had refused to go on.
"Everyone is shocked by this," Sheets' attorney, John Francis Martin, said yesterday. "I really can't comprehend how desperate he must have been."
Michelle Sheets told authorities that her husband had been depressed over having his license suspended for 90 days beginning on Sunday, and over financial problems related to losing his co-ownership of Doc's, said Pleasant Hill Police Lt. Gary Ezell
According to state records, Sheets believed he was being unfairly blamed for the contaminated medication that killed three people.
Sheets had not made any suicide threats, and his wife was not worried that he'd harm himself while she traveled with their two young children to visit her mother in Oceanside, Ezell said.
"She felt that she'd allow him some space in the hopes that he'd be improved" when she returned, he said.
Instead, she found him dead in bed, with six high-dosage fentanyl patches on his neck and chest and an open can of beer nearby.
No suicide note was found. A woman at the Sheets' home yesterday said Michelle Sheets would not speak to reporters.
Fentanyl is a morphine derivative mainly used by patients with terminal cancer. The 100-milligram patch is the strongest made, and is designed to release the drug over 72 hours, said Ryan de Guzman, a pharmacist in Stockton who teaches at the University of the Pacific pharmacy school.
"I would imagine that it would be a peaceful way to knock yourself out, with no pain at all," de Guzman. "This is probably why he chose the route he did."
Although Sheets owned 49 percent of Doc's Pharmacy in Walnut Creek, most of the legal and administrative blame for the meningitis outbreak has been placed on his longtime co-owner, Robert Horwitz, a major proponent of compounding, or specially mixing medications.
Last May and June, three people died and 13 others were hospitalized after receiving spinal shots of a steroid called betamethasone mixed by Doc's Pharmacy technicians. The medicine, used to treat back pain, was not properly sterilized and was contaminated by a common bacterium.
Horwitz will lose his license for one year beginning Sunday. Sheets would have gotten his license back, with some restrictions, and then been on probation for five years. He also was ordered to pay $37,159 in investigation and prosecution costs.
Sheets had worked in the pharmacy of a Walnut Creek Safeway since August. Safeway had agreed to let him continue working in a non-pharmacy role during his suspension, Ezell said.
Sheets "wasn't happy with the result, but I didn't think he was despondent over it," his attorney said. "He had everything to live for and nothing to die for. He had a beautiful wife and two beautiful kids. He was a great young man. This was not something that would keep him back for long."
Sheets was an up-and-coming pharmacist when Horwitz, 62, recruited him with the promise that the younger man would eventually take over the business.
But Sheets, who had specialized in clinical work, had no experience in compounding medications or in retail pharmacy.
"I foolishly was led to believe that Doc's Pharmacy, being such a well- respected pharmacy and Dr. Horwitz being so well-revered by his colleagues, was following all practices to the letter of the law," he wrote the Board of Pharmacy after the meningitis tragedy.
Sheets had no direct involvement in compounding the tainted medicine, the reports say. He insisted to state officials that he could not be blamed because he had not been at the pharmacy when the drugs were compounded.
State officials found that Horwitz was ultimately responsible because he was the pharmacist in charge and established most of the pharmacy's practices.
"Mostly out of deference to and respect for Horwitz, he never thought to challenge established compounding procedures or to push hard for improved quality controls," officials found

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Dumpster Diving For Survival in Walnut Creek while avoiding being run over and killed

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 01/05/2014

Reposted to Protect My Sons

Dumpster Diving to Survive 

Walnut Creek CA: Sometimes the brutal truth needs to stated.  In Sept 2014 as I was about to enter the crosswalk a driver raced up towards me well over 75 mph.  In most cities this would be attempted murder and investigated with great dispatch.  Given that I was nearly killed in Walnut Creek CA near Safeway at 500 South Broadway most officers especially the town council (Walnut Creek City Council) could a give a shit whether I live or die.  

Help! Hear me speak at the Walnut Creek City Planning Commission meeting where Councilman Simmons called the police in an attempt to Quelch my public voice and a dash of free speech or better they'd rather see me dead?  In July I wrote a follow-up letter to my June City Council Appearance - in that letter I stated coming forward will likely get me killed - That letter was deliberately sent to FBI, US Attorney, CEO Mace Rich, Nordstroms GM, and Nieman-Marcus.  

Mormons
I used to attend church at Alamo 1st Alamo CA on Stone Valley (Mormon) where just about every member knew my F-250 exploded on NB 680 between El Cerro on-ramp and Stone Valley Road.  My former Mormon friends have gone AWOL ever since Nate Greenan turned up dead.  

The Mormons are generally giving people but with me they're not interested and yes I've emailed them.  The Bishops are well aware that I've spent nights in the freezing weather but after my Lafayette Event they've been nowhere to be found and most run when they see me - is it possible that one of the members rigged my truck for arson - actually based on series of personal investigations I figured out that Gregs Muffler (Mormon) had a lot to do with that fire.  

Most have never knew or have forgotten that Jason Watts was once a Nordstrom's employee killed by Walnut Creek Police.  My ex-wife worked at the Walnut Creek Nordstrom's and they've got a suicide from their Cafe?  I've documented endless cases near me and you can't find a single police investigation ever completed in what I'm saying are near serial murders and attempted murders.    

Our children have been targeted with high speed accidents, arson, and beatings but no one gives a shit in Walnut Creek to be frank as one can be.  I'm the guy being attacked over and over whose litigation history includes at least four murders with defendants or plaintiff's during his 30 years of court drama.  

Food Stamps v. Mace Rich Corporate Ethics
When I appeared at the Walnut Creek City Council meeting I clearly stated people near me are being murdered and that other homeless were going down.  I do my best to keep track of who is vanishing.  The Walnut Creek Police routinely violate civil rights of persons deemed not-desirable - it's an offshoot of "The Final Solution" where they cleanse the streets which is an offshoot of the Ultimate Final Solution we've read and fought over in WWII.  

Letters to Mace-Rich, Neiman-Marcus, Nordstroms and soon every corporate entity that operates the "The Feel Good Look Good Trinket Pushers" or basically they look the other way while people are being killed around their happy town.  

See you soon at City Council Meeting where they will try to arrest me for meetings that haven't started and soon I'm planning to talk about the Mormon from Alamo 1st that is fully aware along with the Bishops, Elders and members that my truck exploded with me in in 2004. 

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By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 12/18/2013

Reposted to Protect My Sons

Another deceased Witness? 

Druggist used pain patches to end his life / Walnut Creek pharmacist punished for tainted doses

Erin Hallissy, Jim Herron Zamora, Chronicle Staff Writers

Published 4:00 am, Friday, March 29, 2002

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Despondent that he was facing punishment for a fatal meningitis outbreak last year that was linked to his pharmacy, a young pharmacist committed suicide by overdosing himself with powerful painkiller patches, coroner's reports say.

Jamey Phillip Sheets, 32, who owned just under half of Doc's Pharmacy until it was sold last year, was discovered dead on Tuesday night by his wife, Michelle, when she returned to their Pleasant Hill home from a trip to Southern California that Sheets had refused to go on.

"Everyone is shocked by this," Sheets' attorney, John Francis Martin, said yesterday. "I really can't comprehend how desperate he must have been."

Michelle Sheets told authorities that her husband had been depressed over having his license suspended for 90 days beginning on Sunday, and over financial problems related to losing his co-ownership of Doc's, said Pleasant Hill Police Lt. Gary Ezell.

According to state records, Sheets believed he was being unfairly blamed for the contaminated medication that killed three people.

Sheets had not made any suicide threats, and his wife was not worried that he'd harm himself while she traveled with their two young children to visit her mother in Oceanside, Ezell said.

"She felt that she'd allow him some space in the hopes that he'd be improved" when she returned, he said.

Instead, she found him dead in bed, with six high-dosage fentanyl patches on his neck and chest and an open can of beer nearby.

No suicide note was found. A woman at the Sheets' home yesterday said Michelle Sheets would not speak to reporters.

Fentanyl is a morphine derivative mainly used by patients with terminal cancer. The 100-milligram patch is the strongest made, and is designed to release the drug over 72 hours, said Ryan de Guzman, a pharmacist in Stockton who teaches at the University of the Pacific pharmacy school.

"I would imagine that it would be a peaceful way to knock yourself out, with no pain at all," de Guzman. "This is probably why he chose the route he did."

Although Sheets owned 49 percent of Doc's Pharmacy in Walnut Creek, most of the legal and administrative blame for the meningitis outbreak has been placed on his longtime co-owner, Robert Horwitz, a major proponent of compounding, or specially mixing medications.

Last May and June, three people died and 13 others were hospitalized after receiving spinal shots of a steroid called betamethasone mixed by Doc's Pharmacy technicians. The medicine, used to treat back pain, was not properly sterilized and was contaminated by a common bacterium.

Horwitz will lose his license for one year beginning Sunday. Sheets would have gotten his license back, with some restrictions, and then been on probation for five years. He also was ordered to pay $37,159 in investigation and prosecution costs.

Sheets had worked in the pharmacy of a Walnut Creek Safeway since August. Safeway had agreed to let him continue working in a non-pharmacy role during his suspension, Ezell said.

Sheets "wasn't happy with the result, but I didn't think he was despondent over it," his attorney said. "He had everything to live for and nothing to die for. He had a beautiful wife and two beautiful kids. He was a great young man. This was not something that would keep him back for long."

Sheets was an up-and-coming pharmacist when Horwitz, 62, recruited him with the promise that the younger man would eventually take over the business.

But Sheets, who had specialized in clinical work, had no experience in compounding medications or in retail pharmacy.

"I foolishly was led to believe that Doc's Pharmacy, being such a well- respected pharmacy and Dr. Horwitz being so well-revered by his colleagues, was following all practices to the letter of the law," he wrote the Board of Pharmacy after the meningitis tragedy.

Sheets had no direct involvement in compounding the tainted medicine, the reports say. He insisted to state officials that he could not be blamed because he had not been at the pharmacy when the drugs were compounded.

State officials found that Horwitz was ultimately responsible because he was the pharmacist in charge and established most of the pharmacy's practices.

"Mostly out of deference to and respect for Horwitz, he never thought to challenge established compounding procedures or to push hard for improved quality controls," officials found.

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Removal Instructions: and Response to Restraining Orders - what to expect

Removal Instructions:  

If you want your information removed please put in writing what is incorrect. The goal of the blog is to prevent more deaths, arson cases, deaths by suspicious accidents and murder suicides.  I've reached the conclusion that some pipelines require regular patrols until a comprehensive safety plan is developed.  The pipelines are too close to the schools planned over 40 years ago long before Domestic Terrorism was a household word.  

Please send request or call

Pete Bennett Office: 510-460-5641 Walnut Creek CA 94596
www.petebennett.net/myresearch

pete@petebennett.net 

Restraining Orders: 

In response I intend to raise many complex issues as follows:

1. Prior representation and events  
1. Civil Attorney: Donald Gene Moats - Offices burned down during case in 2001 - Arson.  
2. Attorney Intimidation:  Attorneys Wife: Tamara Moats - murdered in Walnut Creek 1989 
3. Dax Craven who is the son in-law of James Greenan former leadership role at Contra Costa Bar Association who has blocked access to over 1,600 attorneys.  The attorneys not connected to the Bar get targeted.  
4. Murder or Accident:  The relationship between Nate Greenan who was killed on April 18th 2012 a week after the Pipe Bomb found on the trail and Seeno who obviously knows Greenan
5. Attorney Intimidation: Sage Sehapi - beaten in Walnut Creek 2005 - case that would exposed CNET defeated
6. Safeway Petitioner beaten to defeat public referendum 
7. 1987 Litigation: Dr. Fang - murdered in 2000
8. 2004 TRO Gary Collins Murder or Accident 
9. 2006 Bennett v. Collins Murder or Accident 
10. Bennett v. Collins attorney retained to sue Contra Costa County, Danville and LP2a (firm)
11. Contra Costa Bar Association:  What effect have they played on Contra Costa Litigation and Cases
2. Adjacent Cases 
1. Michael McNulty - Nephew of Sherriff/Senator/Former FBI Agent - Suicide or cover-up
2. Catherine Perata - does business with Seeno  - open case 
3. Dino Ghilotto - does business with Seeno  - open case 
4. Roma Bhatia - 12/12/11 Murder by Accident - Real Estate Agent
5. Loretta Hale - 12/11/11 Murder by Accident labeled a suicide - Real Estate Agent
6. Gary Vinson Collins - CNET Witness falls and then dies.  12/19/11
3. Domestic Terrorism 
1. PG&E Fire - the Benny Chetcuti Jr. connection 
1. What happened to my PG&E laptop loaded with critical pipeline data end up in the hands of the Walnut Creek Bombs Squad
2. How come WCPD Captain Schultz, Sgt. Mike Chan, and a detective end up cornering me in front of the Walnut Creek Library with hands placed on guns?  Fuck you Tim as you wanted to shoot me dead - I know that clearly.  
3. Does anyone in this department know Wielsch, Butler, Tanabe, or Marina Evans the divorcee mugging victim that was beaten just as bad as the 49r fan was.  She lost her house, opposing counsel shared offices with my attorney Don Moats. 
2. Kinder Morgan Pipeline Fire 2004 
1. How did the first person witness Ellen Sabaduquia, 54, of Walnut Creek die?
1. Fire: Nov 09/2004 - DOD: 12/25/2005
2. Did she even testify or was she deposed?
3. Witness: How did a person connected to a Federal Investigator who a fire witness who was never interviewed nearly get T-boned in a deliberate hit and run? 
4. How did another witness end up in jail? 
3. Doc's Pharmacy 2001 
1. Are the facts accurate? 
2. Witness: How and why did the witness in the Doc's Pharmacy Jamies Sheet's commit suicide the following year.  
4. My 2004 Arson fire known to Attorney's Craven, Golub (former judge), Greenan, Contra Costa Times Editor Steve Proctor, Loretta Hale (deceased), Patricia Noel (deceased), Kristie Ferraro (deceased), 
5. The Hillgrade Ave Pipe Bomb Event that could have killed hundreds but with Terrorist Event extrapolations could have been students at more than 10 schools.  The event timing was during school on a windy day.  The same agencies that can't find my 2004 Fire investigated that. 
1. That places nearly ten years of investigation in tainted bucket.  
6. Raise whether the Plaintiff's attorneys are deliberately creating accidents to generate revenue on public and private entities for fee generation. 
1. Specifically: 
1. San Bruno Gas Explosion 2010
2. TWA Flight 800 1996
3. Kinder Morgan 2004 fire 2004
4. Caldecott Tunnel Fire 1985
5. BART Tunnel Fire 
6. Asiana Crash 2013
7. Chevron Refinery Fire 
8. School Bus Incident on Lilac Drive Dec 2004 - connected to the plaintiffs attorneys
9. The 1979 Arson/ Arson/Murder and Murder next to my property - another cold but conveniently forgotten case.  But the property was sold just like the Geary Road Property that I used to live in from 78-79.  
7. Then last but not least I'd love to ask about Michael McNulty, Chuck Silverman, David Schafer, Jamie Sheets, Catherine Perata, Dino Ghilloti, Michael Taugher, or perhaps if you any of you know SVP Special Investigator that knows CNET or perhaps three people over ten years with 
8. 
   
4. DOD Believe it or not there are several persons connected to my story that have DOD clearances.  I once had Low Level DOD and DOE (GE Nuclear). 
1. TOP SECRET CLEARANCE that are operatives working for CNET, or we can chat about the Spinal Meningitis Deaths of three public officials.  

Someone once called the restraining order the All Mighty Motion anything goes motion.   I've used this in my responses several times recently. That's how I got my charges dismissed and change the course of one criminal case to dismissed.  

For those of considering legal action an additional element anyone faces in Qui Tam - government fraud, welfare fraud, crimes against the state and federal government.  By defrauding me and my family the net result is you put them and me on welfare.  

Contra Costa Attorney Go Round - 

The rest of us call attorneys tell them our story, we file claims, we go to the courtrooms, but attorneys with connections they just get paid - really, really easily - no fuss, no muss.  It's clear they slice and dice the deals but tell others that we're sorry you don't have a case - 

Example Todd Cambra run over by Trader Joes Walnut Creek and nearly killed (February 2012), he was baited with an attorney, he was expertly handled by persons connected to my hit and run, for 10 months he was told 

  that's why this number leading to the Contra Costa Sherriff's department is not a murder tip line.

Dead letter box for murder investigations.  I should know I developed the application that is connected to this story but was fired over nothing even though I completed it in three weeks. 

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Anti-Neiman-Marcus and MaceRich ► If you can't beat the referendum beat their petitioners

Walnut Creek CA: In 2009 there was a referendum against Broadway Plaza's expansion related to Nieman-Marcus.  That referendum was defeated in part by brute force.  There are few witnesses and no investigation as that's what happens when the powerful have their way with your community - they put up pretty domes to convert public assets into private property.  Pretty we build and they take what need for themselves. 

On Dec 10th 2013 I arrived at City Hall for the MaceRich hearing.  Upon arrival I spoke with and had a minor but productive and cordial conversation.  When I was speaking across the room to Mr. Wedel, Mr. Simmons walked in then walked out.  I'm sitting quietly in the back when several officers arrive with allegations I was disturbing the meeting.  

It's apparent that Mr. Simmons was the caller but luckily for me I knew Officer Martinez and the Sargeant so things went smoothly but then I was told I couldn't speak at the hearing that there was no public comment. Fortunately the officers checked with the City Attorney who said that indeed Mr. Bennett can speak as it's the American Way and we stand united in letter the public process move forward.  I spoke against Macerich and apparently my complaints in the third attempt to raise issues went unheeded. 

A few days later I attempted to get public records on MaceRich and this time again the police were called - they raced over from less than 100 feet as their offices are ... on the same floor.  

IN 2010 I was told I couldn't get records and it required a police officer, in 2011 the same and in 2012 i was ticketed over 500, my truck was towed from layers of tickets from Broadway Pointe who are connected to Benny Chetcuti Jr. who is Mr. Forgery 

as I met the man who was attacked at the Safeway just I've been attacked at Safeway, just like my friends have been attacked.  This is not a complaint about Safeway at 500 South Broadway this is a complaint about attacking a referendum.  

In the Anti-Neiman-Marcus as per ballotpedia so these poor little petitioners are often down on their luck.  

Unfair Competition

Any fraudulent, deceptive, or dishonest trade practice that is prohibited by statute, regulation, or the Common Law.

How more dishonest can you get - beating up suspects (me), beating up residents (Marina Evans left in coma), beating up petitioners (Anti-Nieman-marcus) and then of course were going to venture into the Broadway Plaza Crime Wave.  

I've been through this and seen the Fake Crime Wave many times including my own in Walnut Creek.   

$10 signatures

According to Joe Mathews of Blockbuster Democracy, petition signature collectors in Walnut Creek "say they are being paid $4 for each signature they collect outside retail establishments -- and $10 (yes, you read that right) a signature for door-to-door work. Those are among the highest payments for work on a local petition that I've ever seen in California."^[8]

Walnut Creek Referendum on Neiman Marcus (2009)

Broadway Plaza

Contents

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• 1 Two anti-Neiman referenda
• 2 Neiman Marcus supporters
• 3 Measure I
• 4 "Right to vote" initiative
  • 4.1 Provisions
  • 4.2 Opposition
• 5 Campaign donations
  • 5.1 Against Neiman-Marcus
  • 5.2 For Neiman-Marcus
• 6 How initiatives get on the ballot
• 7 $10 signatures
• 8 External links
• 9 References

The Walnut Creek Referendum on Neiman Marcus is an attempt by Taubman Centers, the owner of Sunvalley Mall in Concord, California, to use the veto referendum process to overturn a May 19 decision of the Walnut Creek City Council that would allow a Neiman Marcus store in Walnut Creek to add 48,000 additional square feet in the open-air Broadway Plaza development.^[1]

Opponents of the Neiman Marcus development collected signatures, for the second time in a year, to oppose the Walnut Creek City Council's approval of the expansion plans of Neiman Marcus. They are organized in a group called RAMPART, which stands for "Residents and Advocates for More Parking and Reduced Traffic."^[2]

However, the Walnut Creek City Council declined to put the referendum measure on the ballot, instead putting Walnut Creek Measure I on the November 3, 2009 ballot. On September 1, a Superior Court judge rebuked the city council, and ordered them to put the referendum measure on the ballot. However, the deadline for certifying a measure for the November 3 ballot has passed. The city council will therefore have to put the measure on a special election ballot after November 3. The city council is also considering an appeal of the judge's decision.^[3]

Walnut Creek, located in Contra Costa County, has a population of about 65,300. Neiman Marcus would like to build an expanded retail presence in the currently vacant former David M. Brian store. they've proposed a two-story, 35-foot-high building and a parking garage with 175 free spaces.^[4]

Two anti-Neiman referenda

RAMPART, the Taubman-backed group opposing a Neiman Marcus expansion at Broadway Center, circulated two veto referendum petitions challenging decisions of the Walnut Creek City Council:

• One petition asked voters to put a measure on the ballot that seeks to overturn the city council's approval of the Neiman Marcus project.
• A second petition asked voters to put a measure on the ballot that seeks to overturn the city council's approval of a development agreement between the city and Macerich, which owns Broadway Plaza.

Signatures on both referenda were turned into election officials and were validated as sufficient. However, the city declined to place the measures on the ballot.^[2]

Neiman Marcus supporters

Logo of "Say Yes for Walnut Creek"

A group called "Yes for Walnut Creek" is in favor of the Neiman Marcus expansion. This group unsuccessfully attempted to dissuade residents of Walnut Creek from signing the referendum petition through a petition blocking campaign. Among other activities, the group sponsored a robocall from former Mayor Gwen Regalia asking people not to sign the anti-Neiman Marcus petitions.

Chuck Davis is the vice-president of development for Macerich, the company that owns Broadway Plaza. He said, "We hoped the outpouring of community support for the new plan would be enough to convince Taubman to stop interfering in the decisions that should be left up to Walnut Creek's residents and leaders. We expect, however, that this time it will be much more difficult for Taubman....But if it happens, we are prepared to fight for the future of Walnut Creek and Broadway Plaza. It's just too important to let a rival developer set the course of this community for generations to come."^[1]

Measure I

See also: City of Walnut Creek Broadway Plaza, Measure I (November 2009)

Store owners in Broadway Plaza and other supporters of expanded retail opportunities in Walnut Creek filed ballot language and collected signatures on a ballot initiative that competes with the anti-Neiman Marcus ballot measures. Measure I will authorize a 92,000-square-foot "anchor retail building" to be built at Mt. Diablo Boulevard and South Main Street, the site of Broadway Plaza. If that is approved, Neiman Marcus intends to take up that slot.^[5]

Former arts commissioner Carole Wynstra, former Mayor Gwen Regalia and Rossmoor resident David Smith filed the wording for the proposed initiative. Wynstra said, "A key purpose of this initiative is to preserve the retail vitality of Walnut Creek ... and make sure decisions about Walnut Creek's future are made by Walnut Creek residents."^[5]

"Right to vote" initiative

Walnut Creek residents organized in the group RAMPART ("Residents and Advocates for More Parking and Reduced Traffic"), the same group that circulated two veto referendum petitions opposing the city council's approval of the Broadway Plaza developed, have also now filed a 21-page initiative in that will, if approved, give the city's voters a direct say on any proposed developments in the city over a certain size. Such developments would have to go on a city-wide ballot for voter approval, according to this initiative.^[6]

According to Selma King, an organizer of this initiative, "What we are hoping is it will wake people up, especially the City Council ... and make them realize people are unhappy. You can send messages out and say 'fix this.'

Provisions

Some of this details of this initiative include:

• Any proposed retail project at or over 40,000-square feet in the "retail gateway area" would have to go on the ballot for a vote of the people.
• Height limits in the retail area can't change without a vote of the people.
• Physical parking spaces must be built for development at or over 40,000 square feet. Valet or mechanical parking lifts could not be used or considered as new parking.

Opposition

Opponents believe that this "right-to-vote-on-development" initiative is aimed at Broadway Plaza but would have negative ramifications for all development in Walnut Creek. Walnut Creek developer Brian Hirahara says that if this initiative gets on the ballot and passes, it will shut down development in the city.^[6]

Hirahara also believes that this proposed initiative:

• Encourages strip mall development
• Will "destroy the quaintness and character of our downtown and force retailers and jobs into neighboring retail districts such as San Ramon."^[6]

Campaign donations

Against Neiman-Marcus

Rival developer Taubman Centers has spent $224,337 in 2009 on its efforts to qualify two referenda intended to block the Neiman-Marcus development from going ahead. Taubman funds RAMPART ("Residents and Advocates for More Parking and Reduced Traffic"). As of August 5, 2009, it had given the group $169,000 and had $54,000 in unpaid bills. Taubman is the only donor to this group, as of early August. Taubman also spent $95,000 in 2008 on a different effort. Of the funds spent by Taubman in 2009, $154,000 went to paid circulators.^[7]

For Neiman-Marcus

Macerich spent $217,803 to qualify an initiative for the ballot. A different group, "Yes for Walnut Creek", that supports the Neiman-Marcus idea, spent about $33,000.^[7]

How initiatives get on the ballot

Once the language has been filed, Walnut Creek's city attorney must review it. Once the attorney has said that the language is suitable, circulators have 180 days to collect the signatures of 15% of Walnut Creek voters.

$10 signatures

According to Joe Mathews of Blockbuster Democracy, petition signature collectors in Walnut Creek "say they are being paid $4 for each signature they collect outside retail establishments -- and $10 (yes, you read that right) a signature for door-to-door work. Those are among the highest payments for work on a local petition that I've ever seen in California."^[8]

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