TEAM SUTTER JUST BLOWIN' SMOKE

Behind the bravado displayed Tuesday night by three Sutter County
supervisors is the kind of loopy logic you've come to expect from the
rural backwater in California.

So if 56 counties follow a state law, Sutter County must be right in
ignoring that same state law.

Sounds logical, no?

Remember, Sutter County was one of the last agricultural counties in
the state to go along with the Williamson Act to preserve ag land.
Why? Just because they could ignore it for 30 or 40 years.

Of course, Yuba County still doesn't have the Williamson Act, but it
does have medical pot cards. Oh well. You can't have it all, at least
around here.

Thanks to the M&M Boys and W, Sutter County residents won't have to
worry about a right almost every other California resident enjoys,
except for Colusa County, which may be worse off in a lot of ways
than Sutter.

As one of the M Boys proudly proclaimed, Sutter County is "the most
conservative county in California."

Huzzah.

And the unemployment rate is one of the highest. Is there a
correlation?

Would you rather live in the libertine Bay Area with all those nutty
leftists, where the unemployment rate is far lower and wages are much
higher, or remain in right-thinking Sutter County, where jobs are few
and far between?

Supervisor W admitted that marijuana "has some medical uses," but as
a teacher "I see firsthand how substance abuse wrecks children's
lives, their dream, their futures."

Somehow, W conflated the narrow use of marijuana for medical uses
with almost every legal and illegal drug on the planet. Quite a
conflation, indeed.

Supervisor James Gallagher, who actually spent some of his formative
years in the aforementioned libertine Bay Area at the University of
California, Berkeley (Piedmont annex), voted for the medical
marijuana card program.

He's seen the outside world. It apparently hasn't affected most of
his political views, but this time logic trumped his more
conservative tendencies.

And poor Stan Cleveland must feel he's in the "Twilight Zone." Up is
down. Black is white. Wrong is right. Sutter County is right.
Everybody else is wrong.

If a legal challenge eventually comes, you can be sure Team Sutter
will voice the same certitude it always has when it comes to big
legal battles.

Team Sutter said it was right when it denied a use permit for the
Sikh temple. A federal judge told them otherwise.

Team Sutter said its South Sutter Specific Plan met all legal
requirements.

"America was built on guts, and I think that's what we have to do,"
one of the M Boys said back in 2002. "I think we have to have the
guts to go forward."

Well, guts and glory didn't help Team Sutter back then. A judge
tossed out that specific plan in 2003.

Will it be any different this time?