Easy to see why Shasta Supervisor's My Pillow Guy Trip Aroused Suspicion
Shasta Supervisor, Kevin Crye, took a "county sponsored" trip costing tax-payers $1400 to see My Pillow Guy CEO Mike Lindell.
“It’s easy for members of the public to perceive or presume that there was some sort of connection between Crye’s actions and Lindell’s offer to help underwrite the cost,” said John Pelissero, senior scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.
Meanwhile, the increased costs to get rid of Dominion machines and hand count all ballots in Shasta County is expected to approach $4 million in fiscal year 2024-25.
Government ethics expert Pelissero said the decision to drop Dominion doesn’t appear to have been made with voters’ interests in mind.
“In this case, they have made a decision based on discredited allegations ... and from the perspective of virtue ethics, they are not relying upon honesty and truth, and they are not being very transparent probably with the public,” he said.
John Pelissero, senior scholar, government ethics, quoted by Record Searchlight (paywall).