Pubdate: Wed, 07 Oct 2015
Source: Ukiah Daily Journal, The (CA)
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Author: David Anderson

WHAT'S A NATION?

To the Editor:

Three cheers for Sheriff Tom Allman for getting rid of the 
Pinoleville Pomo Nation's bogus medical pot grow and honey oil 
manufacturing lab.

I got a chuckle out of a comment made by someone named Nori Baldridge 
who is supposedly the tribe's economic Development Director who said 
"I think what they're (the Sheriffs) doing is not right. This is 
sovereign land and this is a sovereign nation." Well now, I've talked 
to several people who know about such things and they have told me 
that the Pinoleville Pomo Nation is made up of mainly Chairwoman 
Leona Williams' family and that their membership is actually about 25 
people, give or take a few.

So, in my opinion, how can 25 people give or take a few, constitute a 
Nation, sovereign or otherwise?

- - David Anderson, Ukiah
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