California

They failed to mention the person who won the auction didn't want the money back and told them they could keep the goat.

It is solely the ag and agriculture department going after a child for a goat that wasn't worth a thousand dollars and didn't belong to either the fair or the ag department.

Fuck Robert Bonta, and I hope the cops involved, Bonta, and their families die in a fucking car fire so someone can later urinate on their surreptitiously exhumed corpses.

After bringing myself up to speed on this saga, everyone involved is terrible.

Rob Bonta is a real piece of shit, he doesn't give a fuck who gets hurt as long as it fits his agenda. He's a perfect example that some are more equal than others.

The poor goat 😞

This title gave me a stroke

Paywall sorry. Can’t read it.

I'm not sure what the point of counter-suing is. Just to get a tiny amount of money back? I guarantee they've wasted more resources on things far more frivolous.

And I feel like I'm the only one siding with the Fair. Family entered into a contract to auction the goat. You can't just back out of the contract after the goat was auctioned off.

Someone else here said the winning bidder said they could keep the goat. If true, I'm not really sure why anyone went to court. The guy who won it should be able to do what he wants with it. Including letting the family keep it.

But I'm not privy to the terms of the contract and articles like this are usually biased one way or the other.

So here’s a thought:

Crowd funded opposition research. I know candidates and campaigns do it all the time, and private donors do as well. But downticket candidates in deeply partisan areas will not have that kind of funding and the parties and their donors will prefer to spend their money on targeted races.

I’m thinking of a fund that could be used to fund oppo on people like this - either people who will simply be reelected because that’s the dynamic for the political machine that runs their district/state so they don’t face either a primary or a real opponent, or persons who have appointed positions.

Oppo research runs the gamut from extensive internet deep dives to interviews with previous associates to sending a PI to verify what has been found. From my limited investigation it looks surprisingly affordable - thousands of dollars more often than tens of thousands.

Any information found could then be given to the press or to the opposing party/candidate.

This might work better than simple donations because they’re extremely focused and tightly targeted. It’s also non-partisan to the extent that, while we might not be able to get a liberal Democrat in place for a position we can still work to hold people accountable for their actions by working to ensure their loss in a primary or removal/resignation.

I know it’s tempting to say that in the age of Trump nothing matters, and it’s true that republicans have lowered the bar of acceptable behaviors, but there are still things that are beyond the pale and or that could be used to push out someone who doesn’t have a lot of allies to begin with.