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Osha Meserve, a lawyer who signed the letter on behalf of Contra Costa and Solano counties and other local agencies, said the board’s integrity is at stake, as well as public trust and confidence in the process.

Perhaps it’s because the public so readily gives a pass to Republicans that we have endured scandals like Iran/Contra and the invasion of Iraq, affairs in which dishonesty and illegality have been conjoined with epic incompetence.

In California, the 62 organizations and nonprofit groups that saw cuts include the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano, which lost a $155,000 grant for a project to provide food to communities in need in Vallejo, and the Community Water Center, a nonprofit focused on clean drinking water in the San Joaquin Valley, which lost a $20-million grant for an environmental justice program.

The San Pablo Police Department, in Contra Costa County, recently notified the community about a blue package labeled “You are being deported” with an image of the American flag in the shape of the United States.

Contra Thoreau, they all seem interested less in living life deliberately than deliberately avoiding life.