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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA one-woman watchdog torments the far right in deep-red Northern California
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-one-woman-watchdog-torments-the-far-right-in-16037733.phpREDDING, Calif. Only halfway into the endless plague year, the most outspoken journalist in one of Californias most conservative counties had already tangled with the sheriff, the local megachurch, a rodeo operator and other characters she later pegged as the anti-maskers, religious zealots, science-deniers, strict Constitutionalists, conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers, militia members and State of Jefferson believers.
Shasta Countys Doni Chamberlain took each to task in the frank and folksy column she publishes on her website, A News Cafe.
Then, in July, Chamberlain posted the column that unleashed a special fury.
Titled Dear Governor Newsom: Weve Got Trouble, Right Here in River City, it invited Gavin Newsom to visit Shasta County to observe the many individuals and businesses thumbing their noses at his orders to close businesses, wear masks and maintain social distance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
NO THANK YOU!!!!!! Dont need no stinking communist liberals dictating to northern CA, came one response. Just look at the rest of CA, a den of criminals, druggies and homeless. Another slapped her with a sexist slur on Facebook. Yet another social media nemesis struck a more menacing chord: I think its time we remove her from our way of living.
Love her or loathe her, few here are agnostic about the sometime gardener, cooking columnist and grandmother who has become the leading antagonist against what she sees as creeping extremism in the region locals know as the North State.
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A one-woman watchdog torments the far right in deep-red Northern California (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Mar 2021
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maxsolomon
(33,286 posts)1. Keep going, Doni.
That "State of Jefferson" shit isn't funny any more.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)2. Makes me want to move to Redding and write about conservative nastiness and stupidity.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)3. Conservatives are inherently nasty.
DBoon
(22,354 posts)4. Here is their Website
https://anewscafe.com/
You can subscribe and support this fearless journalism at: https://anewscafe.com/subscribe/subscription-sign-up/
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