Witness reports of man kicking dog leads to arrest

Eric Jaramishian Staff writer

Placerville Police Department officers arrested and booked 50-year-old Brian Garwood Seligo into El Dorado County Jail on suspicion of animal cruelty.

Officers responded to a report that Seligo kicked his one-year-old female German shepherd Tuesday, April 18, around 11 p.m. at the Arco Gas Station on Forni Road. Several witnesses called police, according to Cmdr. Dan Maciel.

Seligo was contacted by officers nearby the gas station and subsequently arrested.

El Dorado County Animal Services staff impounded the German shepherd, which was taken to the county animal shelter, according to Animal Services Chief Henry Brzezinski. Seligo is being held $120,000 bail. His booking sheet shows he has a South Lake Tahoe address, according to Maciel.

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For those who think that Prop. 19 only hurts those who inherit property, guess again. It’s been very bad news for tenants as well. The death tax is contributing to upward pressure on rents because the passing of mom-and-pop landlords triggers the reassessment of buildings to current market value. That means that the big increase in property taxes — as much as 400% — will have to be passed along to tenants, whether the owner’s children decide to keep the property or are forced to sell. If the housing units are under rent control, the building could be sold and demolished and the property converted to another use.

Since it became law, the damage inflicted by Prop. 19 is only getting worse and taxpayers are

Raffety

Continued from A4 the radar school included Jordanians and Israelis. I still took my top-secret clearance seriously.

I don’t have a lot of faith in the current Defense Department to be as sophisticated as the 21-yearold or even as sophisticated as the Navy was in the 1960s when I served or as sophisticated as EID. When I was on the EID Board or Directors, we were required to change our email passwords every six months. EID stays on top of its IT responsibilities and is on constant alert for hack attacks, phishing attacks and other issues. If EID were running the Defense Department there would calling for change. For that reason, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is supporting Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 4 by Sen. Kelly Seyarto, R-Murrieta. This proposal would restore the taxpayer protections that would allow for the intergenerational transfer of properties without triggering massive tax bills. be no unauthorized releases.

Taxpayers, voters, property owners and tenants who wish to restore the original protection for inherited properties need to contact their legislators as soon as possible. Look up the names and contact information of your representatives at findyourrep. legislature.ca.gov.

Jon Coupal is president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.

Finally, the Defense Department personnel and payment system is still run by punch cards. Punch cards were invented by Herman Hollerith in about 1880 to speed up compiling the 1890 census.

A Defense Department still relying on punch cards for part of its operation is an out-of-touch outfit that couldn’t find its way out of a paper bag let alone find a breach of protocol immediately instead of months later.

Michael Raffety is a retired editor of the Mountain Democrat and a resident of the Placerville area.

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Many elected officials seem to spend a lot of time on birth control and abortion when they are not concerning themselves with people who have gender differences. Are they just salacious? Could they sublimate an unfortunate tendency and go after the molesters of children instead of leaving it up to the victims?

ELIZABETH CAFFREY Placerville

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