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Chris Caselli May 19, 2013 at 10:27 am
Real Sonoma people don't like him and his kind. They ate like tall trees with no roots. God will cut…Read More them down.
sal nero May 19, 2013 at 09:50 am
He laid in wait for 10 long years since COWS NOT CASINOS to spring these plans on Sonoma. He spread…Read More the sugar around by buying the Town 4th of July fireworks joining the Jazz+ board (he's associated with its mother Aspen Jazz fest too, I believe) sponsoring events at Ramekins which he bought from Suzanne Brangham, a former critic of his CASINO plan. I guess the memories fade when transactions accrue to one's benefit. RIGHT LYNCH (another former critic and now partner) ? Right Page (Thunder Valley 2010 Sonoma Raceway sponsorship contract?) Now on Hotel Index-Tribune Editorial Board.
"MONEY...its a gas, grab that cash with both hands and make a stash !..." ---PINK FLOYD
Chris Caselli May 19, 2013 at 09:08 am
I wish this guy would go back where he came from. My family moved to Sonoma in the late 1800's. This…Read More Darius guy is clueless to the cares and desires of the people who live in Sonoma. And he needs to keep his gilthy hands off SDC as well. Go away you parasite. I pray God will stop you in your evil, greedy, selgish tracks! Piss off Darius punk!
Carlos Villatoro (Editor) May 15, 2013 at 03:40 pm
Sal, we are working very hard to get out all the bugs. Please standby
Towhid, Ice Cream Maker May 8, 2013 at 07:23 am
Actually !! This award received only one person, but no single person earns it.
Its create country…Read More in Sonoma.
Ralph Hutchinson April 20, 2013 at 09:05 pm
Jackie, oh you mean Susan Reber's place were you there when it was beside the Masonic Lodge or when…Read More it moved south and across the street on Broadway?
I will have to give Susan a call and ask her about you and your testimony.
The comments we see here speak for themselves. I believe the majority of Sonoma Valley and elsewhere reading Patch will judge Karen for her content and testimony here in these matters at hand. Your attacks only make you and your circles look desperate.
Personally, I think Darius Anderson is on the way to an 0-2 record in Sonoma Valley first a huge defeat on Cows Not Casinos and again now on Preserving Sonoma ballott initiative.
The people won't get drunk on TOT, it didn't work for Rosewood Hillside in 1999 with Yes on Measure A and it won't work here. Measure C eminent domain didn't work when Steve Page and Ken Brown tried to run it over the people either.
We haven't forgotten. The City Council won't have the chance to work for their cronies, the People are about to strip their power to vote from them. In my humble opinion of course.
Jackie April 20, 2013 at 08:27 pm
Karen, I was in the office at Mission Hills Mortgage the day you were arrested by the Sonoma Police…Read More Department. This was before your conviction on Bankruptcy Fraud, so I think the matters are unrelated.
A call to Mission Hill Mortgage will confirm this and several reports filed with the Sonoma Police Department.
Your arrest at Mission Hills Mortgage must have been for loan fraud, because you were one of our agents. A contact at SVP informed me Karen Van Kayne is using the name Karen Kay on the Patch. Karen, why are you hiding behind another name and fighting Darius. Your track record will only give momentum to his development. My fear is the hotel project will be approved for the TOT tax. The city council at the wheel while Healdsburg kicked our behinds.
You need to step out of this Karen van Kayne, you will destroy any positive momentum to save Sonoma, your credibility his heavily tainted. Many are fighting Anderson on this you make all opposition look like cons.
Ralph Hutchinson April 8, 2013 at 08:56 pm
Darius starts a non profit to shield his personal vacations and parties. He also hosts VIP's friends…Read More or Politicians that he wants something from. Then applies for a Government permit and potentially misleads them and the IRS as to the activities and purpose?
What benefits or deliverables aside from personal artwork and a few boxes of cigars has he to show?
Is there a 800Watchdog number to call OFAC to challenge his license or the non-profit status to IRS?
Ralph Hutchinson April 8, 2013 at 08:19 pm
Darius doesn't worry about licenses to sell securites in New York or New Mexico resulting in a…Read More corruption kickback case where he paid $500k to settle. The New Mexico was ongoing as of a few months ago same MO.
Why would Darius need a permit to travel to a Communist Country on the "No Travel" under US Government sanctions?
I think its fair to say ifhe just got the permit, in 2011-2012 and Willie Brown's article was written years prior, that Darius Anderson did in fact make dozens of trips to "forbidden" Cuba illegally.
In my opinion he should be fined and his privaleges revoked to return.
Active Thinker April 3, 2013 at 11:04 pm
The large sports might bring in more people to watch but they spend way more...only a handful of…Read More team make any money at all...and most of those sports don't graduate athletes at all...it's ajoke.
Leland Vandiver April 2, 2013 at 02:41 am
Jeffrey,
Actually, we (the federal government) pay for particle accelerators...with some left over.…Read More Universities NEVER get the short end of the funding stick when it deals with DARPA, NIH, etc. In fact, sometimes universities become piggish (e.g., Stanford in the mid-1990's). I agree, if you do not search for the truth...you are a pawn of some factor or person. We need fewer pawns...
Jeffrey Bottaro April 1, 2013 at 08:09 pm
Green Flash: All of your statements make sense to me, and I fundamentally agree. Unfortunately,…Read More the incursion of ANY industry into the University marketplace has a way of corrupting it in proportion to the financial size of the outside presence. This is not to renounce such things; it is merely a plea to scrutinize them in proportion to their influence. Athletes are not asked to finance the particle accelerator; why should physicists be made to finance the gridiron?
The University was born of communities of cloistered priests and monks. Its interface with the world will always be a thing with contradictions and complexities that defy simple solutions. BUT, anyone who succumbs to the pressure NOT to look behind the wizard's curtain is not only denying himself the indulgence of a universal human impulse; he is also BETRAYING HIS OWN INTEGRITY.
Ralph Hutchinson March 27, 2013 at 11:30 am
For the survey in the article, I commuted an hour fifteen minutes into the financial district of San…Read More Francisco for a decade. As a consultant I go somewhere different all the time.
Ralph Hutchinson March 27, 2013 at 11:26 am
But the Preserving Sonoma measure is limited only to Sonoma City Limits, not Santa Rosa? Earlier…Read More articles use 25 rooms as the cutoff for "large" yet you referred to 150+ rooms above? I don't follow why you referenced 150+ above as large and now why you say Santa Rosa?
Is not your proposal defining large as 25+ rooms?
Where does 150 fit in and where does Santa Rosa fit in?
Perhaps the People of Sonoma may wish to debate your initiative before its hard coded into a ballot item? Wouldn't that give all a chance to be heard both Darius supporters, other hoteliers, merchants, tourism supporters, supporters of a more complex initiative, and traditional simpler Preserving Sonoma supporters?
I'd hate to go through all this to have the People defeat the measure because it was too "simple" and didn't address a majority of Sonoman's concerns.
Ballot measures get shot down all the time if not worded well appealing to a majority.
Larry Barnett March 27, 2013 at 11:11 am
Well, in the context of Sonoma "large" is a relative term. What's large for Sonoma is…Read More small for Santa Rosa, and vice-versa. As it is, our process and analysis was aimed at creating a simple ratio-based growth formula and a size threshold devoid of too much complexity. If, at some point in the future, a compelling case can be made for further refinements, the voters can modify the plan.
Ralph Hutchinson March 24, 2013 at 10:21 pm
Hotel developments in Sonoma and Grassroots uprisings seemed to be the big news this week. More to…Read More come as next week we expect Darius Anderson to unveil more of his revised plans for Chateau Sonoma. We got a glimpse Friday of the new Jack London theme front but he also is signaling a reduction in size. Restaurants were mentioned as the first to get cut. Its unclear about the number of rooms.
Stay tuned.
Ralph Hutchinson March 21, 2013 at 03:18 pm
Valerie Pistole is a party to the "Shenanigans" of Sonoma Valley Bank having served as a…Read More Director there for some years leading up to the failure. Seems to me her association with projects like this detracts from the mission at hand?
She is currently named in the shareholders lawsuit for her role in contributing (negligence and breach of fiduciary duty) to the failure of our best known local community bank.
Pistole was listed in the SEC 10-K and 10-Q documents as being a "graduate" of a battery of Director training on compliance, internal controls, and board oversight and given her background as a local attorney certainly should have ben aware of ethics and conflicts of interest.
Brian Melland the loan officer to Bijian Madjlessi the bank's largest borrower, was banned from banking for life in a Prohibition Order for "personally benefitting" in his investments (kickbacks) with Madjlessi's affiliates in the "Fuerza" Magnussen Innovations which the Board was aware of and said to have determined was "NOT A CONFLICT OF INTEREST" despite the fact the Bank Holding Policy on Ethics clearly prevented such actions as does Regulation "O" and Bank Secrecy Act for referral of "suspicious activity."
How could an attorney like Pistole not have been deeply troubled by these actions of Melland?
Read another SVB blog from a couple weeks ago:
Link ---> http://sonomavalley.patch.com/blog_posts/sonoma-valley-bank-loan-shenanigans-exposed
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