Instead of having George Shieman out trying to answer this stuff, let’s have Paul Gallegos himself answer for his false claims.

Let’s have Gallegos run on his real record, not skewed statistics, where he takes claim for a year that he wasn’t even in office, not false claims to have created programs that predate even the County’s QUESTYS service. When a man has to make up claims… what can you say in his defense?

Gallegos has written in his candidate statement that he CREATED certain programs. He knows he did not. Yet he has tried to cement his claim, first by using an employee’s “My Word” in the Times-Standard to repeat his ballot statement claim. Then, this very week, he tried to tuck that same paragraph into a Board of Supervisor’s proclamation honoring the workers in the Domestic Violence Vertical Prosecution Unit. Unbeknownst to him and his handlers, the paragraph was removed prior to the proclamation being passed BECAUSE EVERYONE IN THE ROOM KNEW THAT THE CLAIM WAS FALSE, including Bonnie Neely, who put forth the proclamation. Perhaps she did not know it was in there, but once it was called to her attention, she removed it. Not knowing this, the Gallegos camp executed the next phase of this deception, issuing a Press Release stating that HE had been recognized by the Board of Supervisors for creating this program. FALSE.

PAUL GALLEGOS’ BALLOT STATEMENT READS:
“…I established the Criminal Investigations Bureau, the Consumer and Environment Protection Unit, the Child Abuse and Adult Sex Crimes Unit, the Worker’s Compensation Fraud Unit, the Domestic Violence Unit and Bad Check Program….” and in his responses to candidate questionnaires he claims: “… I taught the United States Constitution when I was a professor at Humboldt State University,…”

Here is the paragraph from his employee Joyce Moser’s My Word:

“…The District Attorney Domestic Violence Vertical Prosecution Team was created under the leadership of District Attorney Paul Gallegos to reduce the amount of trauma that victims/survivors experience when navigating through the criminal justice system…”

And here is the paragraph he tried to have slipped through in the Board proclamation, which he sent Moser in to accept:
“WHEREAS., the Humboldt County District Attorney Domestic Violence Vertical Prosecution Team was created under the leadership of District Attorney Paul Gallegos to reduce the amount of trauma victims/survivors experience when navigating through the Criminal Justice System; and WHEREAS…”

AND, LAST POINT – HERE’S HIS PRESS RELEASE:

Gallegos praised for leadership on domestic violence

District Attorney Paul Gallegos was officially commended today for his leadership in the fight against the epidemic of domestic violence. The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution expressing their appreciation, noting that the District Attorney Domestic Violence Vertical Prosecution Team was created under Gallegos’ leadership.

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ONLY HE WASN’T COMMENDED. BECAUSE HE DIDN’T CREATE THE UNIT.
Almost flawlessly executed. Orwell would be proud. And people are already lining up to excuse him.

Don’t think about it. But I thought he was supposed to run on HIS record. I thought he was all about not going back to the past. But he’s not. He’s all about taking credit for someone else’s work.

If he was applying for a job with you – and you knew that he did this on his resume, would YOU hire him?

Gallegos initially said he was not specifically aware of the article Felix had written, but later said that he believed he had read it, adding that he had read a lot of articles about the “The Ox-Bow Incident.”…

◼ A second Gallegos column raises questions about attribution
When informed of the second known occurrence of Gallegos’ apparent quotation without attribution, Lee Bowker, Ph.D., emeritus dean of Humboldt State University’s College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, said, “I don’t know if I could trust someone who was caught doing that twice. That’s not just as a professor, but as a citizen in this society. Because if you found him doing it twice, how many times did he do it and no one found out?”

But on July 19, less than six weeks after Gallegos was re-elected, the DA’s Office gathered nine felonies and a handful of misdemeanors pending against Derek, and dismissed or suspended sentence on all of them in a single day.
That was last time Gallegos ran, George, care to explain?

Here is another way to look at some of the issues/criticisms mentioned in comments:
A previous writer mentioned that in his opinion “some” in law enforcement feel that they make arrests and then, supposedly, “nothing??” happens
Here is what a well-known, popular District Attorney running for re-election in another jurisdiction wrote about the same criticism:
{And in fact, every District Attorney that I have ever known will tell you the same thing}:

“”Prosecutors, on the other hand, don’t get a case until after the action has died down, Burke noted. That gives them latitude to step back and consider the complex set of factors that govern whether prosecution is just. They also have to look at whether they can prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt at trial, a tougher standard than police probable cause, he said.”"

“One of the toughest parts of a prosecutor’s job, Segrest said, is having to tell a police officer who is invested in a case that it won’t proceed.

I’ve had to tell a lot of people I really like no, he said. You don’t get any thanks, don’t get any appreciation if you don’t win or you don’t prosecute. Then you’re the biggest idiot in the world.
Segrest added, however, that he is willing to listen to officers who disagree with case decisions. For years, he has encouraged those who have a beef to call him or the prosecutor who handled the case, he said.

Quite honestly, nobody takes me up on it, Segrest said. It’s easier to say it’s the old, lazy prosecutor who won’t do his job.

“”The officers who tend to get the most upset are the patrol officers, the chief said. Unlike detectives, they are not usually privy to what happens with a case after the initial call. So where a detective might be aware of a problem that necessitates a case being tossed, it comes as a surprise to the patrol officer.”"
They’re just kind of more out of the loop, Stroman said.

(Note:) Nationwide, a handful of studies on particular jurisdictions have shown that nonfederal prosecutors discard roughly 25 percent to 50 percent of cases without filing formal charges. The total number of cases not pursued in those jurisdictions would be even higher once dismissals were added in.
George Shieman gshieman@aol.com