The Happiest Corruption: Sleaze, Lies, & Suicide in a California Beach Town

by Debbie Peterson

Overview

This is insider crime history -- my account of politicians, government officials, developers, contractors, and cannabis kings who operate a criminal machine that streams through my small county. It is bankrolled by public funds, campaign donations, and pallet loads of cash generated by the most valuable crop in the nation.

As the mayor of a friendly little beach town, my story should be a happy memoir. Instead, it evolved into a sinister citizens-turned-spy suspense epic of bribery, extortion, dark money, and death.

How could the beach and vineyard paradise that Oprah called the 'Happiest City in America' be riddled with corruption, and be legendary with the FBI? I heard whispered stories, sat at board room tables behind closed doors, and had access to people and facts that others do not.

In THE HAPPIEST CORRUPTION you will:

• Journey alongside determined citizens finding government misconduct and learning how you too can spot it and fix it.
• Be inspired by the courage and tenacity of ordinary people who saved their communities and established good government.
• Know a government con when you see one and know why you know it.
• Find out how to beat city hall at its worst and be city hall at its best.
• Most important of all, you will be equipped to make sure your town doesn't become the next Happiest Corruption in America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798986219523
Publisher:	South Third Street Publishing
Publication date:	06/03/2022
Series:	Integrity-101 , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	437
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

The first directly elected female mayor of Grover Beach, California, former council member, planning commissioner, and advocate for good government, Debbie Peterson hosts the new weekly podcast, The Corruption Chronicles. She is the author of: The Happiest Corruption - Sleaze, Lies & Suicide in a California Beach Town; Local Government 101; How to Beat City Hall; and 365 Ways of Good Govern-ers. The author's business experience taught her how to follow the money. Her public red flags analysis and recruitment of the nation's top forensic auditor led to the clean up of two public agencies and to criminal charges and convictions of public officials and their accomplices. As the DA, FBI, and the Fair Political Practices Commission continue to investigate the interface of crime, government, and planning applicants in her county her insistence on public engagement, transparency, and accountability continue to improve local government.Debbie Peterson studied journalism and radio-TV at California State University, Fresno, before completing an undergraduate degree in communications and public relations at the University of Idaho.