We received a letter from a local Santa Rosa cyclist and have included it for you here.  We hope that this is evidence that Santa Rosans will not allow their clubs, groups, non-profits, or government to continue to indoctrinate them in UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development principles while using their own money to do it.  More and more clear-thinking Americans will join with this independent cyclist in refusing UN Agenda 21:

Landpaths will be speaking at the Santa Rosa Cycling club on Wednesday evening at the Round table Pizza on Occidental Road in Santa Rosa.

Below is my (the cyclist's) email to the board. Hope you or someone else informed can come to awaken some folks. Details below.

To many,

I for one will not attend tonight or supply any future dues to further this cause. Landpaths, although it sounds all wonderful and good is aligned with the Wildlands project and Sustainable Development which I DO NOT support. The implications go far beyond what your eyes seem to see.

I cannot support the club getting involved in politics

Maybe you folks just don't get it.

Here is a very brief, unbiased summary. Don't spend my dues on anything remotely political, please. I joined a bicycle club, not a COALITION.

from the Wildlands Project Revealed website
* The goal of the Wildlands Project is to set aside approximately fifty (50) percent of the North American continent (Turtle Island) as "wild land" for the preservation of biological diversity.
* The project seeks to do this by creating "reserve networks" across the continent. Reserves are made up of the following:
o Cores, created from public lands such as National Forest and Parks
o Buffers, often created from private land adjoining the cores to provide additional protection
o Corridors, a mix of public and private lands usually following along rivers and wildlife migration routes 
* The primary characteristics of core areas are that they are large (100,000 to 25 million acres), and allow for little, if any, human use.
* The primary characteristics of buffers are that they allow for limited human use so long as they are "managed with native biodiversity as a preeminent concern."
* Moral and ethical guidelines for the Wildlands Project are based on the philosophy of Deep Ecology.
* The eight point platform of Deep Ecology can be summarized as follows:
o All life (human and non-human) has equal value.
o Resource consumption above what is needed to supply "vital" human needs is immoral.
o Human population must be reduced
o Western civilization must radically change present economic, technological, and ideological structures.
o Believers have an obligation to try to implement the necessary changes. 
* The Wildlands Project itself is supported by hundreds of groups working towards its long-term implementation. Implementation may take 100 years or more.
* The Wildlands Project has received millions of dollars in support from wealthy private and corporate foundations such as the Turner Foundation, Patagonia, W. Alton Jones Foundation, Lyndhurst Foundation, etc. 

Conclusion:
The Wildlands Project exist within legal boundaries, however that should not prevent us from being concerned. At the very least, it advocates an extreme manifestation of environmental and public policy. Therefore, any claim the Wildlands Project makes toward public policy must be debated, and ultimately decided, in the public arena. Yet to date it has existed almost anonymously; beyond the knowledge of the wider public. It must be examined out from behind the cover of more general environmental concerns, held up for public scrutiny, and either accepted or rejected by a public fully aware of its implications. Failing to do so could have dire consequences, for as John Adams once wrote, "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge by the people."

July Club
Meeting
July 11 2012
The July club meeting is scheduled for 6:30 Wednesday evening at the Round Table Pizza on Occidental Rd, just west of Stony Point. There will be the usual round of business items and discussions of topics of importance to the club. 
This will be followed by a presentation by Craig Anderson, the Executive Director of LandPaths. LandPaths is one of the organizations that has been receiving support from SRCC's year-end donations. 

Hi Rosa:

Here in Great Falls, MT last night we defeated a proposal to adopt the "Complete Streets" idiocy package. I feel that your website was instrumental in giving us the ammunition that we needed to do the job. Thanks!!!

Mike Lewis

PS:
I graduated from Santa Rosa High so I know that town pretty good. 

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/

Take a look at the Climate Action Plan about to be passed by the Santa Rosa City Council on Tuesday, June 5.

We dare you.

One thing you'll find is that you'll be 'incentivized' to get rid of your gas appliances and 'switch' to electric.  Here's what Kay Tokerud had to say about it in the Santa Rosa PD blog:
I read through Santa Rosa’s Climate Action Plan that goes before the city council at their next meeting. What jumped out at me was a recommendation and/or mandate that all gas appliances be changed to electrical appliances. That would include cook stoves, furnaces, dryers and water heaters. This one piece of their plan could run households or businesses thousands of dollars to make this change including the necessary electrical service changes which would be required whenever anything electrical is added to an existing system. This could easily add up to over ten thousand dollars.
This plan has Electrical Unions written all over it. Electricians would get a lot of work. Only in Sonoma County/Santa Rosa would the government try to force people to do very expensive changes to switch to a much more costly fuel to power their homes. Michael Allen received the maximum amount allowable from every electrical union in California in his last race for Assembly. This requirement has Michael Allen written all over it.  He ought to make this a campaign disclosure now that he's running again... he should keep running over the state line.

And to top things off, this recommendation is coming at the same time that Sonoma County wants to set up their own green power company. Natural gas is very plentiful, cheap and clean burning. It’s unbelievable the amount of contempt that our elected officials appear to have for their constituents when they would try to make us switch to a much more expensive power source for our homes and businesses.

Michael Allen has been lobbying for mandates for a few years now, first it was mandatory inspections and retrofits for Santa Rosa  (our group successfully pushed back on this), then he was involved in another bill, SB730 when he worked for State Senator Pat Wiggins that failed that would have essentially forced every building owner to put in solar hot water, and now he’s very likely involved in this climate action plan in some way.

Michael Allen is a union rep and will represent his unions over the general public every time. Maybe it’s time to investigate his activities again. The last time he ended up paying a fine to the Fair Political Practices Commission for serious conflicts of interest. Why would anyone want to vote for him?  Will you?

VOICE YOUR CONCERNS ABOUT THE Climate Action Plan -- GO TO THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING.  TUESDAY JUNE 5.  4 PM.  BE THERE.  SPEAK OUT.

Chick-fil-A wanted to open a store in Santa Rosa across from the Junior College.  A drive-thru.   They're even planning to build a brand new building.  Where?  At the site of an old Burger King that has been vacant and pushing up weeds for a few years.  Owned by the bank since one of the town's big real estate guys went belly up.

So?  So, Jenny Bard, the Junior College Neighborhood Association president (again--she's like Vladimir Putin, she keeps coming back) objected to Chick-fil-A opening a drive-thru where there had been one before. 

Why?  Because she's a paid lobbyist for Smart Growth.  She's working for the Californina Lung Association as their 'advocate' for Smart Growth.  People in the neighborhood don't know that, however.  In fact they don't know much of anything because she only sends emails to people who agree with her, according to those who tell us they've been kicked off the neighborhood association email lists for not going along.

Anyway, Chick-fil-A has a business model that includes a drive-thru.  But Jenny, the Smart Growth advocate, thinks that drive-thrus are bad because they encourage people to use their cars.  Hmmm, maybe a bike thru?  She didn't think of that.  So objections were raised to the Planning Commission from 'the neighborhood' and Chick-fil-A didn't get their approvals.  They had to appeal to the City Council.

Wonder how much time and money that cost them?

Business-friendly Santa Rosa finally said ok.  They didn't lay an egg on that one.  Jenny has a car.  So does Susan Gorin.  So does Marsha Vas Dupre.  They both voted against Chick-fil-A (they're on the council).  Susan is grandstanding since she is running for county supervisor.  She's the 'Sierra Club's Choice."    

The Santa Rosa Press Democrat wrote a story on Chick-fil-A at Council and, even though Kay Tokerud, Steering Committee member of the Santa Rosa Neighborhood Coalition, attended the Council meeting and spoke in favor of Chick-fil-A's appeal, the newspaper misrepresented the proceedings and said that the neighborhood was against it.  We'll have the video of the meeting for you soon.  

What a town.  Full of feathers, signifying nothing.