OH SNAP: Difficult questions for hack politicians

Some questions to ask two of the more transparently developer-friendly Merced City Council candidates during this election cycle:

TO BOB ACHESON

Mr. Acheson, you received a $1,500 donation from the Riverside Motorsports Park (RMP) group, making them your campaign’s biggest funders. You’re also good friends with RMP Vice President Mark Melville.

• Do you agree with RMP Chief Executive John Condren that “people in Merced are so stupid”?

You are a proponent of the Raceway and proposed Wal-Mart distribution center. RMP CEO John Condren was excommunicated from the Mormon Church for his shady business practices. Wal-Mart was recently ordered to pay $141 million for not paying their Pennsylvania workers for breaks, on top of $172 million for not paying their California workers for breaks. There are another 70 pending labor-related lawsuits.

• As a City Councilor, are there any companies owned by rich, corrupt Anglos you wouldn’t do business with?

FOR RICK OSORIO

Thirty years ago, you were convicted of driving under the influence, which you describe as a “very valuable lesson.”

• How many second chances should current Mayor Ellie Wooten and the Board of A Woman’s Place give their embattled executive director Diana Almanza?

Mr. Osorio, the business hired by one of your volunteers to print your campaign signs added a fake union bug. This prompted you to apologize to “all the union guys.” The last time you ran for Mayor, one of your volunteers ran an ad in the Merced Sun-Star which listed people you claimed had endorsed your campaign but in fact had not. Your campaign apologized.

• If elected Mayor, how will you improve quality control so City staff don’t violate ethical or statutory laws or centuries-old traditions?

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