{"id":3002,"date":"2022-09-23T14:44:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2022-09-24T23:27:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T06:27:54","slug":"fair-political-practices-commission-drops-complaint-against-supervisor-wendy-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/09\/23\/fair-political-practices-commission-drops-complaint-against-supervisor-wendy-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Political Practices Commission Drops Complaint Against Supervisor Wendy Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By Eric Jaramishian, Mountain Democrat<\/pre>\n<p>(PLACERVILLE, CALIFORNIA) Sept 23, 2022 \u2014 The Fair Political Practices Commission has dropped a conflict of interest inquiry of District 3 Supervisor Wendy Thomas and will not pursue the case further.<\/p>\n<p>The Fair Political Practices Commission brought the anonymous complaint to Thomas\u2019 attention July 27, a day before the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors was to vote on an agenda item that would further plans to construct a navigation center\/homeless shelter on Perks Court just outside of Placerville city limits off Highway 50.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint cited Thomas\u2019 \u201cownership interest\u201d in commercial buildings on Broadway, stating the supervisor would benefit financially by voting on a facility that would help move homeless individuals from upper Broadway, where there is a homeless encampment.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint halted the board\u2019s decision July 28 while Thomas recused herself from the agenda item requiring a 4-1 vote.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas proceeded to hire an attorney and the complaint was rejected Sept. 7 after following up with the FPPC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis baseless and anonymous [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtdemocrat.com\/news\/complaint-against-thomas-rejected\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.mtdemocrat.com\/news\/complaint-against-thomas-rejected\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Thomas &#8230; called those tactics against the navigation center &#8216;a new level of ugly politics&#8217; in the community. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3006,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions\/3006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}