Donald Rubenstein – A Walking Conflict of Interest

Yesterday, Donald Rubenstein, Jackson County Hearings Officer ruled against Mountain View Paving, denying them a land-use permit for their Talent asphalt plant, shutting down the business under threat of hefty fines.

Rubenstein's ruling was based on supposed increased site activity and risk of fire. He also ruled that the business was not grandfathered-in, due to a non-conforming use differing from the business run previously at the site - a concrete plant. The campaign against the business was spear-headed by Steve Rouse, President of Rogue Advocates, a local 'advocacy' group.  Also, residents of a near by trailer park complained of the increased traffic and noise during summer months.  Job creation is just a nuisance to some, apparently.

Question - who puts an old folks trailer park on a highway next to an industrial plant which has been in operation for many years? The previous business was grandfathered-in, obviously pre-dating the zoning regulation. 

Once again, this is a case, just like the Fielder Dam Removal scandal, where Donald Rubenstein's personal life and ideologies are getting in the way of justice for citizens and businesses of our region. Another glaring conflict of interest involving Mr. Rubenstein has reared it's ubiquitous head.

Pepper Trail, a local radical enviro is a board member of Rogue Advocates. He is deeply involved with Rubenstein's pet project that nets millions of dollars each year, the Southern Oregon Land Conservancy. Trail is a member of SOLC, a donor to SOLC, and a speaker/presenter at SOLC events. This is clearly another conflict of interest, something Rubenstein excels at.   (Below are just a few instances as an example.)

 

 

Pepper Trail, Rogue Advocates Board Member
http://www.RogueAdvocates.org/home/staff_board
 

 

Pepper Trail, speaker at SOLC event.
SOLC Newsletter, Fall, 2009
http://bit.ly/1Vnlbv4

 

Pepper Trail, Contributor to SOLC

SOLC 2008 Annual Report

http://bit.ly/1MGJAo2

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pepper Trail, Member of SOLC

SOLC 2008 Annual Report

http://bit.ly/1iLLxoN

 

When is Donald Rubenstein going to be removed from his unelected office? When is this man going to be brought to task for his conflicts of interest? When is Jackson County going to cease allowing the Southern Oregon extremist environmental contingent to run the county, destroy our businesses and jobs, and usurp our private property rights?

Donald Rubenstein's roots in the radical environmental movement all along the west coast run deep and wide. He is a life-long enviro. He is a founder of several environmental groups. He is steeped in agenda. His decisions are not impartial. He is not forthcoming with adequate disclosures regarding his relationships with the people who are attempting to destroy our jobs and our private property rights.

Jackson County has become a joke. An unfunny, offensive joke. The level of Boss Hog corruption is legendary, and frankly, incredibly sad.

Rubenstein must go. He is not fit to sit in judgment over us and does not possess an impartial eye. This abuse of office to further his radical enviro agenda must end.

SOURCES -

Permit for Talent Paving Plant Denied by Tony Boom (Mail Tribune, 29^th September, 2015)

http://www.MailTribune.com/article/20150928/NEWS/150929621

Rogue Advocates Website – Board Members

http://www.RogueAdvocates.org/home/staff_board

SOLC 2008 Annual Report

http://bit.ly/1iLLxoN

SOLC 2014 Annual Report

http://bit.ly/1MGJAo2

SOLC Fall 2009 Newsletter

http://bit.ly/1Vnlbv4

Hey, Enviros, How You Doing?

Hey, Enviros, how you doing?

Oh, wait – I guess you can't answer that, can you?

I mean, there's no way you can be reading this, since you don't own a computer or a smartphone, because they are made with rare earth minerals and you're rabidly anti-mining, right?
 

And I guess you don't actually have a house you could put that computer in either, since you're so radically anti-logging and most houses are built with timber, right?

And I'm sure you would never sully your green little organic cotton-clad derriere by sitting it in something as crass as a motor vehicle, because they're made from the spoils of the M word, just like most other things that are not grown, right?

And I know there's no way you could be reading this, since, in actual fact, you are a real, true, EnvironMENTAList running around completely naked in the woods, foraging for roots and berries, right?

You're not?

Really?

You're sitting in your SUV checking your email on your smartphone to see if the organization founded by a LUMBER MAGNATE approved your application for a $100,000 grant, so you can degrade more property rights and terrorize more innocent old ladies, pollute some more rivers, and sue the piss out of the federal government some more?

Well, you're just a great big phony-ass, money-grabbing, land-stealing, anti-humanist, Agenda 21-pushing, hypocrite then, aren't you?

Yeah, that's what I thought.
 

 

 

Image Credits :
Hypocrisy Definition Graphic -
https://jentrifiedcitizen.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/hypocrite2.jpg

 

Certificate of Hypocrisy -
http://mihirgovilkar.blogspot.com/2011/04/hypocrisy-is-tribute-vice-give-to.html

Fish, Not Gold? I'd Rather Have Gold, Not Fish or Felons!

Washington State Rep. Gael Tarleton must have an incredibly firmly entrenched radical environmental agenda. So much so, she doesn't even care that the inspiration behind her anti-mining bill is a convicted felon, a thief, and a fraudster.

Former Attorney Kim McDonald Arrested – 7 Counts of Bank Fraud, 4 Counts Mail Fraud

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930901&slug=1718827

HB 2579, the Give Fish a Chance Act (no, really,) is an anti-mining bill that would restrict a federally-protected and congressionally-granted right, supposedly in order to protect endangered species of fish.

Tarleton pimped out Dr. Fraudster's blog post about her scary encounter with – GASP! - a miner! Eeeekkk! You can read the excruciating blog post if you despise your eyes enough –

http://wildsteelheadcoalition.org/2014/02/fish-not-gold/

And see Tarleton drooling over it, if you need to purge –

http://housedemocrats.wa.gov/ememos/dream-act-early-learning-and-suction-dredging/

 

Kim McDonald is a disbarred attorney, convicted felon (mail fraud / bank fraud) and is the founder of Fish, Not Gold (She is NOT to be confused with Washington attorney Kimberly A McDonald.) McDonald raided the accounts of clients whose Trust Funds she administrated. Her client list included basketball legend Chuck Randall.

As a hate-monger toward miners, McDonald regurgitates the same tired old manipulated study that falsely shows digging a hole in the stream bed kills fish, when in actual fact, dredging removes tons of fishing weights made from lead, naturally-occurring mercury, and other junk and pollutants harmful to the fish. And Enviros suck up millions of dollars each year in order to 'restore' salmon habitat – by digging a hole in the stream bed. Same thing miners do – for free! They're pretty smart those soy-eating, sandal-wearing, yogurt knitters, aren't they?

Is this how far down our politicians need to sink to find justification for their ideologies and policies – using a dirty lawyer who stole her clients money, then copped a psyche to try and get out of it, Girl, Interrupted style? Really? What an absolute disgrace to her office and her party Gael Tarleton is. For shame, Mrs. Tarleton. For shame.

Unfortunately, the powers that be are fully on board with the Phony Green Agenda, and are taking our rights, our property and our freedom from all of us, one Endangered Species scam at a time.

Oh, and Kimmy – I know you're notorious for threatening people who try to expose you, with law suits and all sorts of legal shenanigans, but, sweetie, you can't sue somebody for libel or defamation WHEN THEY'RE TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT YOU! But go ahead, and make a bigger disgrace of yourself than you already are. Go ahead and discredit yourself even further. If you live in a glass house, you should stay away from stones. We have no problem repeating all this in court.

SOURCES – (Some interesting reading on the criminal - well worth a look to learn about the case and the extent of what she did, and other related links for your perusal.)

Ex-Attorney Sentenced for Thefts

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19980314&slug=2739564

Shelterwood Consulting – Dr. Fraud's 'Consulting' Business

In case you're in the market for a convicted felon, thief, and disbarred attorney to do some Eco-Pirate advocacy for you, here's the jail-bird's 'consulting' website.
http://www.shelterwoodconsulting.com/Home.html

Former Attorney Kimberlee Ann McDonald Arrested (September 1^st, 1993)

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930901&slug=1718827
“She was charged with defrauding Rainier National Bank, Security Pacific Bank, Seafirst Bank, Washington Mutual Savings Bank and Metropolitan Federal Savings and Loan.”

“McDonald, 38, is accused of manipulating accounts at the banks by writing worthless checks totaling $170,000, drawn against various trust accounts she maintained. She would then deposit the checks to other accounts or use the money for partial payment of a loan, according to prosecutors. She also is accused of inappropriately using $220,000 entrusted to her by her clients.”

Ex-Attorney Sentenced for Thefts (March 15^th, 1998)

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19980314&slug=2739564
“But the judge cited mitigating circumstances – testimony during the trial that McDonald suffered from a mental impairment – as one reason for not imposing an exceptional sentence.”

State v. McDonald (May 15^th 2000)

http://www.leagle.com/decision/200011771P3d1176_11165.xml/STATE%20v.%20McDONALD
“At the conclusion of a bench trial, the court found her guilty, as charged, and imposed a sentence of 14 months in prison for two of the counts and 22 months for the remaining four counts. The sentences are to be served concurrently.”

Puzzling Justice (October 9^th, 2006)

http://www.seattleweekly.com/2001-04-11/news/puzzling-justice/
Does Kimberlee McDonald's case reveal prosecutors bent on revenge or a con artist working the system?

“She brought this on herself,” Peterson says of McDonald, and he stresses that there were real victims who suffered real financial hardships as a result of her actions. Moreover, he reveals what McDonald does not: While she paid restitution to the defrauded bank as a result of the federal case, most of her victimized clients received nothing.”

“So who is McDonald really—a reformed sinner or a scam artist?”

My Impossible Dream : The Story of Chuck Randall (January 28^th, 2008)

http://bit.ly/1FgV9gd
“She was sentenced to jail. Now, every three months or so, I get a check for about fifteen dollars. Whoopee!”

Rep. Gael Tarleton's Washington House Democrats Blog

http://housedemocrats.wa.gov/ememos/dream-act-early-learning-and-suction-dredging/

Gael Tarleton's HB 2579 – The Give Fish a Chance Act

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=2579&year=2013#documents