Michelle Edges Out Estelle to Win Supervisor for District 2

Michelle Bushnell

Michelle Bushnell

Close votes marked both the race for Second District Supervisor and the Southern Humboldt Unified School District School Board race in the south county. Michelle Bushnell, Southern Humboldt Unified School Board member and Southern Humboldt Chamber president, edged out incumbent Estelle Fennell to become Supervisor elect for the Second District by just barely over 400 votes.

Cinnamon Paula and Jessica Willis*, well-known local women, took the two open seats on the schoolboard. While Paula had a strong lead, Willis* nipped in barely ahead of her nearest competitor, Christine Doyka,–just under 70 votes apart.

In other parts of the County, former Ferndale mayor Don Hindley, after a 2-year break, has been re-elected.

The positions on the Fortuna Union High School District board went to Jeana Mcclendon and Kendra Guimaraes.

FINAL CUMULATIVE REPORT-12-1-2020 10-11-53 AM

*Please note that Jessica Willis and this reporter used to work together.

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Fortuna farmer
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Fortuna farmer
3 years ago

Yeh!!!

Recall Estelle
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Recall Estelle
3 years ago
Reply to  Fortuna farmer

It looks like I’m retiring too.

Mike
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Mike
3 years ago

Oh really? You mean the abatement program didn’t help Estelle? Go figure. “Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and for the same reason”, said some guy, probably. Good luck Michelle.

Screwed Sideways
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Screwed Sideways
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Amazing that it took a month to count coup on this!

To Michelle:

It’s important to bring the things often missing in SoHum – Standards, for one, and Circumspection, for another!

Remember, it’s a business of relationships, it requires equanimity, and you will need to listen to your constituency!

Estelle excelled at enriching herself and her donor base, and her special interest group, heck, it was special! These folks will continue to expect service, and, being the new kid, they will make it hard on you in that certain manner known to SoHum itself…

You are no novice to the streets of SoHum, however, so thicken that skin and learn your organizational skills from your predecessor, since Estelle was not the ultimate leader, but she was and is organized! Spend a year learning the job, and choose your company well.

You were not my best choice, but here we are! Congratulations and excelsior!

turut
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turut
3 years ago

The election results in Humboldt is Fake.
The election locally was also stolen, there is no way that many people voted for Biden.
The reality is that Humboldt Flipped RED in this latest election and these results are FAKE.

Truth
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Truth
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

i know alot of democrats who voted for Trump because of Bidens crooked ways…and the fact that he has dimensia amongst many other health issues. OOO and hes 78.

Angela Robinson
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Angela Robinson
3 years ago
Reply to  Truth

If you are going to diagnose someone, know what you are diagnosing.

Dementia.

Truth
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Truth
3 years ago

I didnt diagnose him. A Dr. did. excuse my spelling. i think you understood the point however.

Yeah,sure
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Yeah,sure
3 years ago
Reply to  Truth

Oh yeah, which Dr. is that?
Seriously, find a better word to describe your made up diagnosis of Biden because he does not have Dementia. Just like the dumb Sleepy descriptor that Trump gave him because schoolyard names are his specialty. Biden may have some foibles but if you want a back and forth of who displays more symptoms of mental decline between Biden and Trump; guaranteed Trump loses by a long shot.

Pepperwood
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Pepperwood
3 years ago
Reply to  Truth

You know, Truth, saying someone voted for a crook because the other candidate is a crook is really strange.

ED Denson
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ED Denson
3 years ago
Reply to  Truth

Did you just say Trump has dementia?

stuber
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stuber
3 years ago
Reply to  ED Denson

Well I like Michelle. I saw her at the Kettenpom fire station during the August complex fire, and she was helping support the fire fighters. Hopefully she noted the deplorable road conditions that the fire crews had to drive on, both in Humboldt and Trinity county. Hopefully she goes into the office of both the director of public works and the road superintendent and gets them to fill the pot holes they have let become so big and dangerous. It is the road from the Alderpoint road to the Trinity county line on the Kettenpom side that is so horrible. You two people hurt us everyday by forcing us to drive on such dangerous and destructive roads. Maybe what we should do is fix them ourselves, document it, and send you a bill. Or file a lawsuit. We have enough equipment and people to do it. We could order a load of premix, and use a loader and fill the holes. Many are beyond a shovel fix. You two fix this situation now, or the day Michelle is sworn in, we may just get a load of mix and do it ourselves, and sue your ass right out of a job. And Ed, #not my president Biden is not stupid, he has dementia. The people who voted for him are stupid.

Psychiatrists said so
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Psychiatrists said so
3 years ago
Reply to  stuber

Not as stupid as psycho Trump. He is defined in the DSM-5 a bunch of times.

stuber
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stuber
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

You’re right. We could have done better. WE could have said people who voted for Biden made a stupid choice. Sorry. Trump has helped Blacks, Black universities, created economic opportunity zones, and created 9 million jobs. Tell me the accomplishments of Joe in the 8 years he was VP. The Middle east is better off, is mostly peaceful, Arabs and Jews talking and trading with each other. Joe? 8 years, any peace there? Trump stopped the Jihadi wars, Biden? Trump withdrew from the awful and very costly Paris accord, and now we in the US pollute less than we were being told to by the accord. Our air is cleaner, water cleaner, than most countries, especially China and India, South America. Biden? No. Trump brought back thousands of manufacturing jobs, the ones Joe’s boss told us we had to wave a magic wand to do so. How many jobs did Joe help send over seas? Hundreds of thousands. Trump Stopped all flights from China at the beginning of this China virus, Biden called him a racist, as did Nancy, in front of her $25,000 fridge. Trump funded the Warp speed vaccine development, and it is being sent out now, which will save millions. Biden kept saying he had a virus plan, why didn’t he share it? Because he did not have one. Trump has made us energy independent, not relying on any other country for our energy. Why couldn’t Biden do this? He had 8 years. Because he was bought and paid for by China and the Arabs. If Biden get to be president, it’s not over yet, it will be the biggest mistake for this country in a long time. It will hurt us all.

Guest
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3 years ago
Reply to  Truth

I know people who never voted that came out and I know Republicans who voted for Biden because….well you know.

Jeffersonian
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Jeffersonian
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Because of pot growers, humboldt state and govt. employees.

maxwell
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maxwell
3 years ago
Reply to  turut

i guess all those liberal communists at Fox News, the National Review, and Trump’s own Dept. of Justice are all in on it, yeah?

William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
3 years ago

Best news since trump the chump lost the election..🙂👍

Truth
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Truth
3 years ago

Chump. well isnt that the pot calling the kettle black.

cu2morrow
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cu2morrow
3 years ago

who are you and what have you done with the real William Shakespeare ?

Puest
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Puest
3 years ago

Bye Estelle, write if you get work!!!

Blocksburg
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Blocksburg
3 years ago

Best news I’ve heard in a long time. Michelle will do great things for our district. You will all see just what a terrible supervisor Estelle really was. Michelle will defiantly be accessible to us common folks like she’s always been. Good luck! And congratulations district 2.

Jeffersonian
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Jeffersonian
3 years ago
Reply to  Blocksburg

There hasn’t been a good supervisor since Jimmy smith and before that there were none.

cu2morrow
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cu2morrow
3 years ago
Reply to  Jeffersonian

Harry Pritchard, Pat Walsh , Pat Dorsey… all good

Winning
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Winning
3 years ago

Well somehow a rich white entitled Republican woman won the district hopefully Humboldt has better options to chose from in the future.

I like stars
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I like stars
3 years ago

Happy to see these two women join the school board.

good riddance
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good riddance
3 years ago

Thank God!
Now let estelle know she can Gtfo of here

Guest
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3 years ago

Abatement Program and Code enforcement need a slap down, back to the rules and position before. I guy and workable solutions, not 6 bankruptcy dealers rubber stamped by John Ford. They are coming for you next if your house is t permitted.

Fun with facts!
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Fun with facts!
3 years ago

Let’s see if this chick is just another predictably pandering sellout like the last one. No more freeway construction through Richardson’s Grove! Not recognizing that what’s left is priceless, IS the crisis. Leave the big trees alone in Humboldt County, it’s how we can deal with the ‘climate crisis’ directly.

Our supervisor’s are getting $10,000 of our money every month. They need to step up.

Old lady
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Old lady
3 years ago

I hope Michelle listens to folks like Ed Denson.
The idea that code enforcement could come along and force people like me out of our homes becsuse they do not meet current codes (my home was built in 1952) is abhorent and frankly terrifiying. I am comfortable in my old house. I do not want to live in fear. I felt safe until I heard about this idea. I voted for Michelle because I was disappointed by Estelle, not because democrat or republican. Because NOT Estelle.

Steve Adams
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Steve Adams
3 years ago
Reply to  Old lady

A national energy fee and monthly dividend program would likely help you a lot. The guy with the yacht and $5k fuel fillup, not so much. Look it up on the Citizens Climate Lobby.

Even if you do not agree with the Greenhouse effect ongoing, saving scarce resources and building intergenerational wealth is a good thing.

My house was built out of cinder block in 1950 (atomic bomb scares made many build with it) and it was minimally insulated in the ceiling. It’s taken a few years to get exterior insulation on the walls and add R46 to the ceiling and redo windows but now, with the Mother Earth News vertical solar collector on my south wall I get lovely solar heat that does not come from fracked natural gas. Comfy and quieter too!

Concerned citizen
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Concerned citizen
3 years ago

Michelle either just received her cultivation license or is about to receive a license. Either way this is a egregious conflict of interest. She cannot possibly vote on matters pertaining to cultivation licenses without tipping the scale in favor of her farm

Guest
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3 years ago

What about Rex and his son?? And all his son’s friends. Hello!

Trifecta
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3 years ago

Great News…Now we’ll get some long deferred maintenance done on repairing our Veterans Hall…

avenueridera
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3 years ago

Estelle Fennel sold out the people she lived with here and grew with for so many years with in southern Humboldt when this legalization thing started. Adios Estelle!!!

Js
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Js
3 years ago
Reply to  avenueridera

Here here

Public predators
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Public predators
3 years ago

Libations to go around!!!! Couldn’t have come a day too soon. Maybe you can get a minimum wage job trimming at one of your farms you pushed through corruptly Estelle!!!!!! Lol
Let’s see after taxes that’s 10 dollars an hr !!! Lol.

cutomorrow
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cutomorrow
3 years ago

where’s Alf, he should have something to say about this

yesmeagain
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yesmeagain
3 years ago

It sure takes a thick skin to run for public office. In a few months at best, the same people who are trashing Estelle, who trashed Clif before her, and Roger before him, and even dear old Roy, and dear old Harry, and…. (my memory doesn’t go back farther than that) … will be trashing Michelle, too. Make a difference, trolls. Run for office yourself. Try your volunteer fire department, school board, or a non-profit. Put your energy, skills, and extraordinary knowledge where your mouth is.

JFC
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JFC
3 years ago
Reply to  yesmeagain

First priority of business should be to remove John Ford . .IRS 8300 rules not being followed by his office is reason enough for firing him.

Third World County
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Third World County
3 years ago
Reply to  JFC

Are you referring to the million’s in cash they brought into their department as a result of the illegal $10,000 dollar a day fines they are being sued for and didn’t properly report anything over $10,000 that was accepted in their office?

notheone
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notheone
3 years ago

Congratulations Michelle! Please try to make a difference?

KH
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KH
3 years ago

Yay Michelle!! Congratulations!!

Cece Reece
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Cece Reece
3 years ago

Good riddance to Estelle who couldn’t be bothered to listen to hundreds of seniors living in mobile home parks to take action to prevent corporations from exploiting them. Now Michelle, you need to work with the other supervisors to fix the county’s pandemic small business grant program– it will only give money to business owners that HAVE money to spend to get reimbursed for! What about us small business owners who don’t have money because, well, our businesses have been closed starting with the Governor’s shut-down? It just doesn’t make sense. Make grants to small business owners who need to pay back rent so they can re-open. Make grants to small business owners who need money to buy air purifiers and fans to circulate air to better prevent the spread of Covid. There is an exhaustive list of what small business owners need to re-open or stay open and the county supervisors MUST make considerations for small business owners who have pretty much lost everything due to Covid. GO MICHELLE! You could be a real hero here!

Mark swizee
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3 years ago

Congratulations michelle