A few years ago i was working as a SF charter and tour bus driver for a very very very wealthy family, who decided not to have a proper bus toilet dump station at their new yard in SSF, moving from SF, but to just let all the feces and t.p. run across the employee parking lot into the SF Bay storm drain, for months.
Shocking, yes i know, especially since the two wealthiest cities in the entire SF Bay Area are Atherton and Hillsborough and both are in San Mateo County, where Mr. Jerry Hill worked. So i complained to the mayor of SSF and his office could not care less. Remember the business was owned by a super wealthy local American citizens family.
Then i complained to the Governor and Cal-OSHA, who were not interested. So i complained to the San Mateo County Public Health-Environmental Health offices and was told the buses were washed and dumped after 5pm so they could not get overtime permission to come out and inspect !! Outrageous, i know. All this raw sewage flowing for months into OUR SF Bay !! I got a very bad respiratory infection and almost died of it and pneumonia. The very rich company owner could not seem to care less.
So i complained to every one of the San Mateo County Supervisors, including Mr. Jerry Hill's office, who politely took my call,,,but could not be bothered. I even talked to the San Mateo County Managers office and got no interest in doing anything about this blatant pollution. It was a super ,very uber rich family owned company, enough said.
Have you even phoned an elected representative and asked for their position on an issue, only to be told that the elected representative has no position 'at this time' on that subject ? Frustrating isn't it. Maybe Mr. Jerry Hill is a good DNC political machine soldier, like Mr. Mullin, who did not care about another employer not paying legally required overtime or payroll taxes like Social Security. Let's get rid of the Sac. Capital political machine that gave us such recent loser Governors like Grey Davis and the fiscal-failure of Mr. Arnold S.,,,and the big lie of 'energy deregulation will bring down the cost of electricity and natural gas' ,,,(watch the Enron dvd). California is in terrible horrible financial straights with the worst/bottom5 roads,public schools and bond rating in the USA. The Sacramento Machine has done a huge disservice to all Californians and Americans.