The Del Zoppo Chronicles

[XLFD]

A Stable Person

In Pere Marquette Township, they appear to be getting onto the cutting edge of zoning and development. A domicile for human habitation in the form of a grain silo is going up on the Buttersville Peninsula, getting the OK from the township's planning commission without any internal controversy.  Yet well before that, another interesting building went up that combined the qualities of a barn and a home. This was related in a 2016 MCP article Life in Circles- Carpe Diem where it provides a look into the mind of one of our outspoken local public officials, Deb Del Zoppo which notes:

She and her three horses live peaceably together under one big steel roof.

We should not necessarily pass judgment for her choice of living companions, many of us have three or more orthodox pets ourselves living under our roof. But yesterday she was published on the opinion page of the City of Ludington Daily News (COLDNews) with an article passing some judgment on others expressing their own innate rights:

Control or Out of Control?

Her first point deals with London's crime rate surpassing New York's for the first quarter in 2018. She warned us to beware of people that cherry-picked these statistics-- perhaps like liberal news organizations The New York Times, MSNBC, and Bloomberg, to name a few. To Deb's credit, the murder rate comparison in the first quarter of 2018 was misleading, since New York finished the year at twice the rate of London's. She conveniently ignores Chicago, however, which has much more strict gun control than New York, aggressively goes after gun dealers and manufacturers, but has about a sixth amount of the population, and yet saw twice the number of murders of New York in 2018.

Deb then rambles on about how certain guns are only meant for warfare, but she already negated that argument in her first paragraph when she quoted the Second Amendment. Wikipedia says a militia is "'an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional soldiers, citizens of a nation, or subjects of a state, who can be called upon for military service during a time of need." If our citizen militia cannot hold its own by having the same weapons as an enemy-- foreign or domestic-- then it's not very well regulated in my estimation.

Instead of just crying over the latest school shooting in 2012 and expecting public officials to work some magic, wouldn't you think if she really cared about the welfare of her students that she would have worked to get guns in the hands of more good people at school rather than keep them strict gun-free zones?

She ends with an unfair shot at the character and motives of the NRA Board and NRA supporters, a position that may have got her disciplined if she was on a Ludington board or commission. But besides being on the Mason-Lake Conservation District Board of Directors, she serves on the PM Twp Planning Commission:

So unless they have a comprehensive code of conduct, she won't likely be disciplined for her disparagement. Yet, she was recently disciplined for operating a watercraft while under the influence of liquor as seen in the August 8, 2019 District Court Arraignments:

Possibly while using that same boat she was pictured on while she was 'seizing the day' back in 2016. So after her arraignment on OWI, which the Ludington Torch has discovered was followed by a confidential evaluation of Ms. Del Zoppo set up through Bruce Vanderhoof presumably to determine the extent of her abuse of alcohol, Deb sat down and penned this letter to the editor on keeping dangerous weapons away from the wrong people.

Would this include large possibly-motorized boats operated by intoxicated government officials who co-habitate with horses? The Ludington Torch believes in the presumption of innocence as a basic right of all individuals going to trial and we sincerely hope that Deb prevails in her defense if she is innocent of the crime. It is too bad she does not offer the rest of us sane individuals that same affirmation to own the firearms of our choice to protect ourselves and others as the Second Amendment provides.

Epilogue

Since Deb Del Zoppo's term of being a planning commissioner ends on December 2019 and their terms last three years, we will presume she got on the commission in January 2017 or sometime since. Besides owning her stable-house she owns a thin strip of undeveloped land down off South Lakeshore, you would see it on the way to see the silo-house currently under construction.

As noted, this land is undeveloped, has nobody living there, and is owned by Planning Commissioner Deb Del Zoppo. Let's take a look at the recent taxes:

Somehow, while other taxes in the area were going up, the year after Deb gets on the PMPC her taxes for this 5 acre vacant lot are cut by nearly two-thirds. How could that happen? It turns out the parcel has somehow became exempt from paying school taxes just as if it had a homestead exemption. How does that happen when she's living in a stable with three horses up on Iris Road? Maybe she's not crazy or drunk after all.

[NauticalMiles]

The whole family has always operated far left-wing. 3 generations. I'm not surprised of the anti-constitutional views.

[XLFD]

I don't like dwelling on the downright silly, but Deb Del Zoppo put another odd piece out in the local garbage-wrap's opinion page entitled "A need to root out corruption no matter where".  

Of course, it's not any admission that there is an appearance of impropriety in the real estate conundrums brought forth here that Planning Commissioner Del Zoppo hasn't addressed, it was regarding the Ukraine issues.  Not surprisingly, she was frothing and railing against Trump's phone call, but not concerned about Biden's issues looking more cloudy-- at least that's my perspective at this point.  She ends it:

"I applaud any serious investigations into corruption from either political party.  I admire people who dig for facts and share them accurately and completely with their audience without spin or influence.  Most of all I'd like our country to stop electing corrupt officials."

Waiting for that applause and admiration, Deb.  What about elected officials appointing corrupt officials?  BTW, Donald Trump was not an official before he became president

[Willy]

Can you post a link to her comments or can you post a copy? Thanks

[XLFD]

For almost anybody else it would be too much of a bother to do so, but since you're a premium, first-class member of the LT I scanned and present this copy for you to damage your brain cells with (click to enlarge):

[Willy]

Thanks for posting this X. I don't have access to the LDN. All I can say is that she is the definition of an ignorant person. She is one of the foolish useful idiots that the left relies on to believe the lies they spread. Should she take the time to do some research she would discover that Trump is one of the most honest and forthright individuals to ever serve in Washington and most of what the mainstream media reports are lies. As most lefties who supported Obama and the Democrats she has her story backwards. She thinks that Trump and conservatives are trying to undermine our Country when the overwhelming truth is the Democrats, never Trumpers, along with international globalists are in the process of doing exactly that. If people who think like her do not break out of their ignorant cocoons and actually take the time to look at the evidence she will be helping to condemn herself along with her family to a life of totalitarianism. For the life of me I just can't understand how people who should be keeping track of what is going on refuse to search for the truth. It is obviously much easier to turn on CNN, CNBC and their ilk and be spoon fed lies and deceit. It probably isn't her fault for believing the false and fake news since she obviously is a product of their indoctrination. To anybody reading this who actually believe what the liberal press and news are saying, please look at all sides of a story before taking a stance. It's obvious that Zoppo has no use for the truth. It's difficult to stress how important it is for people, who identify with the left, to stand back and take a realistic look at the subversive left and reconsider where they are taking us. If they would study true history they will see the  direct connection between Marxism, Communism and dictatorships and discover how they have ruined many civilizations and cultures and caused the deaths of millions of people. I could post lots of links, videos and articles explaining the truth and how it will destroy America  but people like her would never read or believe that they could be wrong about Trump and the Leftist.

[NauticalMiles]

Right on, Willy!

[Freedom Seeker]

Well said, Willy. I would think del Zippo may have been on a drunken rant when she wrote that editorial. It's hard to believe that the CoLD news printed it but it truly shows their political leaning.

[Du Wright]

Was that a typo, FS? Did you mean zel Dippo?

[Freedom Seeker]

I meant del Zoppo. Blame it on auto correct. Everyone is entitled to their surely opinionatedd politics but should the local news allow rebuttal? I think that's why more people are turning to the Ludington Pitchfork and the Ludington Torch, because of Suppression of communications in our city government and it seems that maybe the local media is told what to say, what to allow, and how to respond by the city government? What happened to the weekly communication by the mayor? Can't tolerate the heat? And has the city manager jumped on the bandwagon of suppressing the truth? Can tolerate any criticism?

[XLFD]

To be fair to our friends in the local corporate media (LCM), the leaders of the local public bodies know the value of press releases and conferences directed to the LCM and the LCM readily seems to take the proffered news and run with it without critical review of the contents.  It sure makes the LCM's job easier, and it doesn't upset the public bodies whom will be more likely to contribute if their propaganda-heavy or slanted press release isn't questioned.

To its credit, the COLDNews does publish opinions from both sides of the fence, there was an op-ed by Walt Carrier the other day, and the occasional column by Tom Shepardson helps balance the often-liberal editorial page and stance of recent editors.  The MCP, on the other hand, rarely to never offers anything contrary to their opinion on their pages and generally will kick you to the curb if you hold a different view should you comment on Facebook.

[stump]

  I thought she was complimenting XLFD for all the work he does digging through the corrupted city leaders miss deeds.