SLO County Needs to Face Their Fears and Facts on Dayspring
There is a lot to unpack with this story.
Last week, I wrote about the Dept. of Justice revealing in a press release and court filings that local marijuana mogul Helios Dayspring pled guilty in federal court to bribery and failing to report millions in income to the IRS.
Since these developments emerged, the SLO County Democratic Party has been awfully silent. Why is that?
Late District 3 Supervisor Adam Hill was a Democrat. They supported him for every one of his election and re-election bids for understandable reasons. The Democratic Party agreed with him on many issues and he had a rather consistent voting record to back his platform. But he certainly had issues whether it was behavioral or displaying the appearance of impropriety.
According to three sources involved with the San Luis Obispo chapter of National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Hill told SLO NORML members in a 2016 meeting that he would support cannabis cultivators with votes on the board if they gave him at least $1,000 for his re-election campaign. Of course, that’s ethically problematic since you don’t often have a sitting county supervisor soliciting donations that way. Ideally, people and organizations donate in support of the candidate and their platform, not part of a quid pro…
