The appointment of an activist who thinks mosquitos can be turned into “flying syringes” may seem like a joke. But it shows how extreme local politics have become in this county.
In normal times, choosing a candidate to fill a voluntary mosquito control position on a local government board would not attract much attention. But these are not normal times in Shasta County, a rural northern California county whose Board of Supervisors is in the grip of a far-right majority determined to radically change local politics.
The appointment of Jon Knight, known for his involvement with local ultraconservative media and his attendance at the Jan. 6 insurrection, over Donell Ewert, a trained epidemiologist, grabbed national headlines, as did Knight’s conspiratorial comments. that “it’s sad our county is not being governed now by a majority that believe in mainstream science.”
Knight described the political situation in Shasta County as “very hot,” and said that although Ewert had put himself forward for the position, “A lot of people in the community did not want him.” , where she and a small team of journalists report on every board of supervisors meeting in detail, says she “affectionately” describes the ongoing political strife as the “Shasta County shitshow.”
against the country—he was sanctioned for building a Catholic chapel on his Shasta vineyard without permits., said the far-right supervisors are backed not only by Anselmo, but an alliance of groups that are “working together to build a kind of far-right identity politics.”
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