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Time for a criminal investigation -- From The Californian

The County gets blamed for a decision of the incumbent Temecula City Council

A Letter to the Editor of The Californian 

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Barbara Wilder's Community Forum of Sept. 3, "Whatever happened to justice?" was excellent, but slightly off target. The question is, where is the call for the Department of Justice? Why hasn't the Temecula City Council asked for a county grand jury investigation? There was talk of it on July 13, 2010, when they gave up the city's existing sphere of influence, but no follow-through. The City Council said they could not sue the county Local Agency Formation Commission, despite precedence disproving that claim.

I wrote a July 4, 2010, column in The Californian on how the city was "Giving up without a fight," predicting that the City Council that gave LAFCO everything Granite Construction wanted would escape culpability. County Supervisors John Benoit and John Tavaglione merely pulled the trigger of the loaded gun the council placed in their hands.

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Let's have that grand jury investigation Councilman Ron Roberts called for on July 13, 2010. County supervisors gave Granite Construction decisions that were never openly requested by the company. Doesn't that seem suspicious?

I suppose no more suspicious than three members of the City Council with ties to the Rancon land development company advising against fighting LAFCO.

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