Author: Shawn

"The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only a weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls" Jean Paul Richter

13 Hours – What Really Happened in Benghazi

You may have seen the movie; and if you’re like me, it stirred emotion in you.

My daughter gave me the book for my birthday and I’ve finally had some focused time (where I don’t have a massive headache) to crack it open and digest the depth of the event.

60 pages into the 303 page account of September 11, 2012 had my soul stirred.

The book gives background – on the operatives and other staff, on the CIA compound and diplomatic annex, on the history of Libya and it’s very divided people. The movie shows some of this, but doesn’t give as sufficient detail as is needed to fully understand the people, the history, the community.

It also introduces you to Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was so much more than a small time figure head. His heart was focused on building bridges between our country and the people’s of wherever he was stationed – which were not the most glamorous of stations. Below are links to a few videos I dig up, which helped me understand (and respect) him even more.

I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in better understanding the events that took place in Benghazi on 9/11/12.

It isn’t a fiery rant against those who failed our citizens on the ground that day, it’s simply an account of how we got there and what took place. It provides the substance, but leaves the emotion to the reader.

As Americans, we should all be angry enough to want to ensure this never happens again. Truth be told, I had no clue how vulnerable we left our people in countries like that. I’m glad to know now, but not convinced our country would keep it from happening again.

The men who are hired to protect our officials, agents and assets in foreign countries deserve better. Their families deserve to know that if something goes sideways, we will move heaven and earth to back them up.

I’ll now be searching for stories as told by the Libyan friendlies who helped. I’m sure the stories are out there somewhere. They put themselves in harms way when the American state dept failed.

Letter to Tehama County Re: Moment of Truth Summit

To: ccarlson@co.tehama.ca.us, dgarton@co.tehama.ca.us, bwilliams@co.tehama.ca.us, jleach@co.tehama.ca.us, bmoule@co.tehama.ca.us, elections@co.tehama.ca.us, deyestone@cityofredbluff.org, deiters@cityofredbluff.org, cparker@cityofredbluff.org, jgonzales@cityofredbluff.org, jjones@cityofredbluff.org

I am writing to request that you take the time to watch the Aug 20-21 MOMENT OF TRUTH SUMMIT.  

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While I personally think our elections clerk is doing her job by the book, I have seen enough proof to believe there has been corruption in our elections by way of the machines.  I’m not alone – I am asked often how we can do an audit of our elections.  

Tina Peters, an election clerk in Colorado, believed elections in her county were corruption proof.  She knew she was doing a thorough job.  But after several constituents asked her to do a hand count and look at the computers, she began to dig into her election data (mostly to appease those who had concerns and prove them wrong).  As it turned out, she found that the data had indeed been changed in the machines.

She first spoke publicly about this at a Cyber Symposium last year.  You can watch the videos from that and learn more about Tina here: https://www.tinapetersforcolorado.com/video

The movie “[s]election.code” (during which Tina Peters shares more detail on what she’s found and how she has been treated since) will be shown during the Moment of Truth Summit this weekend.  

Whatever you THINK may be happening, as our elected officials, doesn’t it make sense to be able to PROVE that Tehama County elections are indeed safe and secure?  If we can’t, or won’t, do that – we have a problem.  

Please – watch the summit this weekend and let’s talk about how we as a community can ensure our elections are indeed secure.  

WE WILL HELP!  We will have your back.  We just want to know you have ours.  

Respectfully,

Shawn Greer

PATRIOTS – RUN FOR OFFICE!!!

THERE ARE LOTS OF POSITIONS UP FOR ELECTION! If you’ve ever thought about running, you still have time to file!

The deadline for candidates to file a declaration of candidacy for the Nov. 8 general election is Friday, Aug. 12.

Red Bluff

  • 3 City Council seats open
  • 2 Red Bluff Joint Union High School District seats
  • 3 Red Bluff Elementary School District seats
  • 3 Antelope School District seats
  • 3 Los Molinos Unified School District full term
  • 1 Los Molinos Unified School District short term seat

Corning

  • 2 full term City Council seats
  • 1 short term City Council seat
  • 3 Corning High School board
  • 3 Corning Elementary School board

If you are a patriot seeking to create change for our county, WE WILL BACK YOU! Contact Shawn at shawn@tehamafreedom.org.

Important Links

Candidate Statement of Qual Form
Candidate Checklist

Empower Tehama

The TV show Mom has a great episode addressing rape. Often women feel they were at fault because they were intoxicated or under dressed – it is NEVER your fault! And you always deserve help.

Empower Tehama has incredible resources for domestic violence and sexual assault.

If you need help, if you are being abused or have been assaulted, you can contact them directly – but if you’re scared about the process, you can also reach out to me and I will help get you in touch with them.

In addition to direct client help, they have a ton of educational resources for the community. You can help! Businesses can share brochures or place flyers in bathroom stalls. They’re also a 501c3 so you can make a tax deductible donation to help our county residents get direct help.

Individual Help

  • Sexual Assault Response Team
  • Advocacy & Counseling
  • Housing & Medical
  • Legal / Court Services
  • Teen Dating Violence Prevention
  • Stalking Victim Log

Community Education

  • Human Trafficking
  • Get Involved
  • How You Can Help
  • Brochures & Flyers

https://empowertehama.org/

1805 Walnut Street
Red Bluff, CA 96080
24-Hour Crisis Hotline: 530-528-0226
or Toll-Free at 1-800-324-6473

[s]election.code

Tina Peters is the Mesa County, Colorado Election clerk.

She believed the the election system, including the Dominion machines used in that county, was secure and invulnerable to attack.

But she had numerous complaints that said otherwise. Enough so that she hired a forensic auditor to dig into the machines.

What she found is shocking.

Selection Code is a documentary tracking her discoveries and showing the lengths corrupt people will go to cover up their acts. They upended her life.

All it takes for ever to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

This wasn’t just the 2020 general election. She also found corruption in a local city council election.

Folks – WE HAVE DOMINION MACHINES in Tehama County!!!!

Our election clerk and our Board of Supervisors believe they are safe. We know they’re not.

So what do we do? How do we convince them we/they need to dig into the elections data? How do we convince them to get rid of the machines? How do we get them to validate the recent elections? Why is asking to verify the validity of our elections such a bad thing?

https://selectioncode.com/

Learn more about election fraud: https://tehamafreedom.org/live-local/government/election-integrity/

Election Results

Voter Turnout

We have 37,815 registered voters.

In the 2018 primaries, 14,697 voted.

In the 2020 primaries, 18,285 voted.

In the 2022 primary, only 14,004 voted.

What can we do to increase voter turnout?

  • Booths at the farmers market and other events to get people to register or update their registration?
  • Coordinate rides for those who cannot make it?

What ideas do you have? Email me: shawn@tehamafreedom.org

LOCAL RESULTS – Updated June 13

Tehama Summary Report

How To Vote In Person

We voted at Ridgeway Park – the ladies there were very nice and patient with us.  

You MUST take your mail in ballot or your vote will not count today – they will do a provisional ballot to verify that you did not vote twice.

Here are the steps vote in person:

  1. Tell them you are voting in person
    • Write “surrendered” across both ballots (there is an A and B).
    • Put the ballots inside the envelope and seal it 
    • Give it to one of the workers – they will wrote surrendered on the envelope
  2. Tell them your name – you will sign a log and they will give you an in-person ballot
  3. Fill out your ballot behind one of the curtains
  4. Take your ballot to the machine and insert each form separately
    • If the ballot is accepted correctly, you will be able to scroll through and confirm your selections
    • Hit the green CAST butron

That’s it! Easy least – anyone can do it!

IF YOU EXPERIENCE SOMETHING STRANGE ON ELECTION DAY – COMPLETE A CITIZENS INCIDENT STATEMENT

Adopt a Ballot Box

If you have time to watch poll boxes today, document any strange activity

List of Voting Boxes

IMPORTANT NOTE: Electioneering (wearing campaign paraphernalia, handing out campaign literature, talking about politics, advising voters in any way) is NOT legal within 100 feet of a drop box.

  • Dress neutrally and just watch. You may be near the box as long as there is no appearance of interference with voters submitting their ballots.
  • Check with the elections office in your county to find out the schedule for emptying the boxes you have “adopted”. Try to be there at least once when boxes are being emptied.
  • Go at different times of the day and night.

Look for:

  • Is the area safe and secure?
  • Is the area accessible?
  • Is there surveillance?
  • Is the box staffed by credentialed elections office employees?
  • If so, are the ballots inspected for voter error and required signatures?
  • Is the box securely sealed?
  • Is anything other than ballots being inserted into the box?
  • How often and securely is the box emptied?
  • Is the box often over-stuffed?
  • Are the ballots carefully and respectfully treated?
  • Is there a 2-person chain of custody at all times?
  • Is the transporting container locked/sealed for security?
  • ON ELECTION NIGHT: is the box locked at EXACTLY 8:00 p.m.to prohibit further ballot drop-offs?

LETS GO VOTE!

VIP – Vote In Person

Mail-In Ballots, whether you mail them or drop them in a poll box, are susceptible to adjudication by the elections office.

Adjudication: a formal judgement on a disputed matter

When the poll workers run stacks of ballots through the tabulator (up to 50 at a time), the machine identifies any and all “problem ballots”. These may be damaged, mis-aligned, bleed thru, multiple choices for the same position, etc.

When that happens, they make a decision on how to correct the problem. That’s adjudication.

Adjudication essentially gives the worker the ability to make a change to your ballot. (These systems are set to make changes to one ballot or all 50.)

If the ballot is damaged, workers will recreate the ballot on a new one.

In the 2021 recall election, the majority of Tehama County Mail-in ballots did not align in the tabulators – ALL OF THOSE were recreated by a 4 person board. Action News Now Story on Ballot Errors

We are trusting people we don’t know with our vote. We are trusting they will do the right thing. I don’t doubt that our elections clerk is honest and wants to do the right thing – but she doesn’t know what she doesn’t know (and she clearly isn’t interested in learning what we know).

The Tehama Elections Clerk is up for re-election this year and has no opponent. We need someone new to run in 2026!

This is one of the reasons it is so incredibly important to have POLL WATCHERS from multiple parties. These volunteers ensure the workers making changes are doing the right thing.

In 2020, certain precincts denied access to Republican poll watchers. Do you remember seeing the workers board up the windows and set up barriers too far away to see the details of what they were doing?

In some cities, specifically in the swing states, the workers shut down on the night of Nov 3, sending the poll watchers home. But they continued counting after the watchers left.

One precinct claimed there was a water main break. It turned out that it was a minor leak in a restroom that was easily fixed. There is video showing workers pulling bags of ballots out from underneath skirted tables and scanning batches through the tabulators 2,3, even 4 times over – after the watchers left.

I want to encourage you to do 2 things in future elections:

  1. Vote In Person (you scan your ballot – it doesn’t get adjudicated and you know for certain what is recorded)
  2. Become a Poll Watcher – anyone can sign up at the elections office and they give you a badge to formally watch the polls. For training:

Learn more about the 2020 fraud issues here: https://tehamafreedom.org/live-local/government/election-integrity/

My Final Picks

US Senator – Cordie Williams

US Senator partial term – Mark Meuser

US Representative 1st District – Tim Geist

State Assembly 3rd District – James Gallagher

Governor – Anthony Trimini

Lt Governor – David Fennel

Secretary of State – Rachel Hamm

Controller – Lanhee Chen

Treasurer – Jack Guerrero

Attorney General – Eric Early

Insurance Commissioner – Robert Molnar

State Board of Equalization 1st District – Ted Gaines

Superintendent of Public Instruction – George Yang

Tehama County Sheriff – Chad Parker

Tehama County Auditor/Controller – Candy Carlson

Assessor – Kenneth Brown

Clerk/Recorder – Jennifer Vise

Disrict Attorney – Matt Rogers

Tax Collector – Parker Hunt

State Superintendent of Public Instruction

Jim Gibson

  • Accountability – for teachers and administrators
  • Basics – teach math, reading, science, history (not politics or sex ed)
  • Commitment to parents and taxpayers

George Yang

Lance Christensen

not 100% sure where he stands on some the issues but seems to have massive support from some mama bears!

Ones that concern me:

Tony Thurmond (current Sup) – endorses by Nancy Pelosi, Alex Padilla and the Democratic Party.

Marco Amaral will implement ethnic and gender studies.

Joseph Guy Campbell is calling for gun control.

US Representative 1st District

Doug LaMalfa has been in this role a long time. I’m ready for a change.

Tim Geist is the only other republican on the ballot. I like what he has to say but I’m not seeing enough information to feel confident in him. Check him out – watch his videos – let me know what you think!

My concern is that if we divide the vote too much, we could end up not having a conservative in the running at all.

Thought?

Governor

Oh good Lord – 26 candidates for Governor!

  • 13 republicans
  • 4 democrats
  • 2 green
  • 7 no party affiliation

Brian Dahle is apparently the only one financially supported by the Republican Party. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not. I’m not excited about his plans – they just feel questionable to me.

Anthony Trimino – I like him. I like what he stands for: freedom & liberty, faith, family, empowering parents, medical freedom, reducing state tax, economic opportunity, natural and holistic health & wellness. Right now I’m leaning strongly towards him.

Reinette Senum – I agree with a lot of what she wants to do, with the exception of cannabis. I believe medical marijuana can be helpful in the right situations (it can be harmful for some illnesses – like mine, so making it available without understanding the consequences is a concern for me). I also don’t agree with allowing it for recreational use. You may feel differently- that’s just my stand. For that reason, I won’t be voting for her. But her platform is strong otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A7Y-f0D0io

These are the only 2 I’m considering because quite frankly, we can’t afford to split the vote too much and I don’t think any of the others have much of a chance.

That said – I’d love to hear your thoughts! Am I missing something?

Email me at Shawn@tehamafreedom.org.

Other State Positions

I have separate posts for Governor, Lt Governor and Secretary of State.

I’ve lumped the remaining state positions here because there’s not a lot to talk about. Do your research, but here’s my thoughts:

Controller – Lanhee Chen

Treasurer – Jack M Guerrero

Attorney General – leaning towards Nathan but like that Eric isn’t a politician

Insurance Commissioner – I like Molnar

State Board of Equalization 1st District – Ted Gaines

State Assembly 3rd District – James Gallagher

Lieutenant Governor

There are 8 candidates for Lt Governor. I’ve narrowed my choice down to 3.

But what does the Lt Gov do?

The Role of Lieutenant Governor:

  • serves as Acting Governor when the Governor is absent from the state – automatically becomes Governor if a vacancy occurs in the Office of Governor
  • is President of the State Senate (recent Lieutenant Governors have delegated the responsibilities to the Senate Pro Term)
  • serves as a voting member of
    • the Board of Regents of the University of California
    • the Board of Trustees of the California State University system
    • the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges system
  • serves on, and rotates with, the State Controller, as chair of the three-member State Lands Commission, which oversees the control and leasing of millions of acres of state-owned land, including offshore oil resources, as well as use and permitting for all navigable waterways in California
  • serves as a member of agencies that directly impact Californians’ daily lives from addressing water storage for farmers to managing our forests to preventing forest fires:
    • California Ocean Protection Council
    • California Coastal Commission
    • California Emergency Council
    • other key agencies
  • chairs the California Commission for Economic Development (which writes the Economic Plan for the state of California and is in charge of working with all 58 counties and 482 municipalities which are suffering with jobs leaving the state)
  • chief economic ambassador of California, responsible for promoting the trade and investment for the State

David Hillberg – Aviation Mechanic / Actor

David Fennel – Entrepreneur

Clint W. Saunders – Mental Health Worker

I’m leaning toward David Fennel – unless something surprising turns up, he’s probably got my vote. But I wanted to share the others I’ve been considering too – for you to think about.

US Senator

There are 2 seats for California Senator – 1 full term and 1 partial (ends 1/3/23).

The partial term is easy – there is 1 republican (Mark Meuser) and 1 democrat (Alex Padilla).

I used to follow Mark Meuser (pre-FB ban) when he was very outspoken about the shutdowns and mandates. I liked him then. And he seems to be well liked by Republican groups. He’s also running for the full term position.

I’m voting for Cordie Williams – but there are several good options!