By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – September 15, 2021 While most of the County remains locked in Recall fever, and sundry other life altering events, Sunday, September 12th, marked the effort by our former Sheriff Dean Wilson to resurrect the County's version of a local Tea Party. With a roused up fifty plus of Del Norte's finest, and one local agitator, the idea was to see just how much interest there was within the County to restore some semblance of order in local government and community back on the path of "love of Country" and return to governance by the US Constitution. For those in attendance this was greeted with an abundance of approval. What followed was a series of speakers centered around failure of local education to educate, miss handling of the Covid Pandemic by local officials, and a general agreement that local government had removed themselves from engaging with the public. Most notably pointing to "Zoom Meetings" as a way for local representatives to ignore any and all public input, censor input, and selectively fail to provide access for those deemed unacceptable. Attending the meeting was Crescent City's Mayor, Jason Greenough, who stated that if they had a problem with input to local officials, "they needed to get involved". This clearly was not well received by the group. The general response was that they were involved, local government boards and commissions were not listening. Mayor Greenough clearly was not happy with the message and clearly did not understand that his contribution to the meeting was a clear example of "government speaking, but not listening". There were two other hot topics discussed, one being failure at the school district to address issues in the classroom, failure to deliver education in lieu of political indoctrination, and once again failure by the district's administration to deal with Covid policies in a meaningful way that allowed students to actually receive an education. Also discussed with in the educational frustrations, was opening up pathways to alternative forms of educational delivery and abandoning public schools in favor of less political and social indoctrination. The remaining topic discussed was how Covid has been handled locally, lack of confidence in our local hospital, and the effect public health's decisions have had on business, the local economy, and life in general. One key issue is the vaccine, and how local people are being made to feel like they have no choice whether to be vaccinated or not. The general opinions being expressed were that the local medical establishment, hospital, and public health had done little to explore alternatives to vaccination and the therapeutics currently in use at the hospital, which were viewed as clearly not working very well. The idea that individuals should have the right to assess and be involved in their personal health without government mandates was a key issue. While none of the issues that were discussed were in any way new to this group, clearly, they felt that government at all levels had turned away from them and pursued goals that did not solve any of their issues. A laundry list of issues both in the City and County have been placed before boards for years without any attention. Recent events, the pandemic and response to it by those same local officials have revealed a stark separation between what should be important for the group and what isn't. The general opinion being expressed, was that separation was responsible for much of the poor decision making that has occurred for years. Representatives lecturing citizens as to what their agendas were rather than LISTENING to those who are supposedly in CHARGE and discovering what agenda they should be following.