8 Candidates File To Replace Recalled Blackwater Supporters (CA)

[struggle4progress]

December Ballot Will Put 5 More Recalls To Vote
POSTED: 7:53 pm PDT September 28, 2007
UPDATED: 8:41 pm PDT September 28, 2007

SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Eight candidates filed papers to replace five Potrero planning group members recalled from office following their support of Blackwater, the county supervisor's office said Friday. The Dec. 11 ballot will also ask voters whether or not to recall five group members, including the chairman. The group unanimously voted in favor of the Blackwater military training camp last year, officials said ... http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/14232489/detail.html



... July 2007 - Residents opposing Blackwater's plans for a facility east of San Diego petition for a recall of five members of the Potrero (Calif.) Community Planning Group ...
Timeline of significant events for Blackwater
The Virginian-Pilot
© September 18, 2007
http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=132691&ran=55342


... September 25 - As US Congress and Iraqi government officials probe recent killings of civilians by the notorious private contractors in Baghdad, local opponents to the expansion of Blackwater USA will stage a major rally and encampment at the gates of the proposed "Blackwater West" site in Potrero, a tiny town in east San Diego county on Saturday, October 6th - Sunday, October, 7th. The event will happen the same week Blackwater chairman Erik Prince is invited to testify before the US House Oversight Committe on October 2, 2007 ...
As Blackwater Comes Under Fire in Iraq, Locals Turn Up Heat to Stop Blackwater West
Residents Organize Largest Protest to Date at the Gates of Planned Blackwater West Site Near Tiny Border Town
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0925-07.htm


... The company has chosen a site three miles north of Potrero for an 824-acre training facility. The training ground would have 15 shooting ranges, an ammunition storage armory, a helicopter pad, a vehicle track and other military appurtenances. County government is working with Blackwater, which has hired a well-connected local lobbyist. But opposition has surfaced from more than half of Portero's registered voters ...
San Diegans Debate Blackwater Welcome
Apr 10, 2007
http://www.kpbs.org/news/local?id=7952

[lonestarnot]

1. BW blows. Private armies blow!

[loudsue]

2. True that!

Their headquarters is in North Carolina, where I live. They are a cancer on our Democracy, and I wish they'd be put out of business by LASTING WORLD PEACE, and a U.S. government that had good enough sense to get rid of them.