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James Madison famously said, "The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood: if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes, that no man who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow."
Are District Attorney Dan Dow's 'mutable policies' what Madison warns us of, and is his special DEI 'Public Integrity Unity' unconstitutional as it targets a specific group of people?
If someone commits a crime no matter who they are, aren't they subject to the just and common sense laws of our Constitutions (State and Federal) and not subject to mutable policies and unjust social justice laws? If so, why is a 'special unit' needed. Doesn't that open the door to a potential for causation in order to justify such a unit?
As you read on, please keep in mind I never denied not staying at my AG City 'residence' routinely (as I was not required to) and that this fact is what Mr. Dow and his team originally accused me of. So why would they need a nine-month investigation to conclude what I have already confirmed, unless you motives are deceitful?
Here is an excerpt from an email I sent to Public Integrity Unit Investigator, Nicholas Coughlin and District Attorney, Dan Dow on May 27, 2025 - I was sick and tired of the neverending government overreach: harassment, psychological warfare, election interference, violation of my privacy and of the privacy of others, and the weaponizing of 'discretion' (not to arrest me, though they claimed I commited a crime) to terrorize and victimize me.
To Nicholas Coughlin, PIU Investigator and Dan Dow, DA
"Your efforts remind me of a famous quote by Lavrentity Beria of the Soviet Union, "Show me the man and I will find you the crime".
Government sanctioned Lawfare/Social Justice, basically.
As you mentioned, you have your biases and are intent on turning over every rock/stone ... (at great expense to the taxpayer and in my view an obvious assault on my civil rights) in order for the DA's office to charge me (if they so choose) with whatever 'crime' you/they 'feel' I have committed. I then look forward to receiving all the evidence that you have collected over these past eight months that I will utilize in my defense. The evidence will also assist my continuous efforts in building a Civil Rights case against the County." Gaea Powell
When ambushed (a spectacle for my landlords and neighbors) by an overly excited Mr. Coughlin another investigator and an officer, I immediately confirmed Mr. Coughlin's accusation. I had NOT been staying at the condo room I rented in the City of Arroyo Grande as I was told by the City Clerk, it was not required. Though I had intended on staying there, life happened and unexpected personal challenges arose. I also shared my intent of eventually staying there full-time.
Here is the July 6, 2023 email from Arroyo Grande City Clerk, she confirmed this fact verbally during my first campaign as well:
"Good morning, There are currently no residency restrictions related to time spent at one residence within the City limits verses at another residence outside City limits. A candidate does need to be a registered voter within the City limits. Thank you."
- Jessica Matson, Director of Legislative & Information Services/City Clerk"
Though I caught the investigator following me, and he had questioned my landlord, had taking aerial pictures of my rental, and had taken photos of my car...Mr. Coughlin failed to speak to the City Clerk regarding the City of Arroyo Grande's rules, municipal codes, ordinances regarding election residence requirements, before ambushing me.
Maybe his judgement was faulty and biased due to his over zealous enthusiasm to 'get me' because of a similar candidate/residence case he investigated from May - September 2024 (my investigation started in September 2024). It was related to a San Luis Obispo County Supervisors election ($114,067 annually) that was unlike the at large Arroyo Grande Mayoral election (2 year term, part-time position at approximately $800 a month).
IF I COMMITTED A CRIME, which I did not, WHY DIDN'T HE AND THE OFFICER who accompanied Mr. Coughlin ARREST ME RIGHT THEN AND THERE, on the night of September 27, 2024? Afterall, I just confirmed Mr. Coughlin's claim ending the need for further investigation, right?
As I answered Mr. Coughlin's questions, my husband asked why they were there. Mr. Coughlin finally informed us that he had a search and seizure warrant for my cell phones. I asked if I was allowed to read the warrant. Mr. Coughlin finally presented me with the warrant that clearly stated it was not to be served at night. Though it was obviously night. Mr. Coughlin claimed night meant after 10:00 pm. My cell phones were seized (still not returned), and I was harassed for over nine months which included more warrants to be delved out over that time (all digital information from T-Mobile, GOOGLE, META (Facebook/Instagram), and Next Door. Over four years of my personal and professional data to be analyzed by the special Cyber Forensic Laboratory, Mr. Coughlin and others, ALL TO PROVE WHAT I HAD ALREADY TOLD THEM!
Or, was Mr. Coughlin eager to wield his 'discretion' power not to arrest me for over nine months for voyeuristic reasons, so they could utilize their Cyber Forensic Laboratory to review my most personal/intimate data on a 'mining' expedition. An action that severely violated my First, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Nineth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights as well as the rights of those I corresponded with? Is this also a Section 1983 violation?
From my perspective, for over nine months Dan Dow's 'special' unit was desperately trying to prove some sort of conspiracy or that I had committed a serious crime so they can stop me from my ongoing efforts of calling out many of our local representatives' anti-American WOKE agenda (federal crimes, child porn in schools, child abuse, boys in girls safe spaces and sports, DEI Social Justice policies, the celebration of a dangerous ideology that harms children, serious conflicts of interests, Brown Act violations, civil rights violations including against property owners, millions wasted on special interests, non-government organizations, and 'consultants'...).
After sending the above email, DA Dow charged me with eight felonies for the original accusations that were made way back on September 27, 2024, regarding my 'residence' (voting, filing candidate papers, signing those documents utilizing my rented condo room). Back to square one even after reviewing terabytes of, in the Deputy DA Ben Blumenthal words, a "voluminous" amount of my data. To be clear, my personal digital information encompassing over a four-year span would obviously be 'voluminous' (another intimidation tactic?). I guess they had to add something to the original allegation to justify all the time and money spent investigating me for nine months as well as the use of their Cyber Forensics Lab to nail me with another false charge, a misdemeanor claiming I spent over $2000 on my first campaign.
ALL JUST TO SHUT ME UP AND SHUT ME DOWN?
I am a concerned citizen who felt compelled to do my patriotic and moral duty by running for office in an effort to serve and restore the Constitutional rights and American values being stripped from us. People routine refer to California as Communist California for good reason.
As Plato basically warned, if you refuse to be involved in politics, be content with being ruled by idiots.
Most of my campaign website content remains in its original form here, including the Press page. Here are samples and the latest: https://www.sanluisobispo.com/search/?q=Gaea%20Powell&page=1&sort=relevance. / https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics-government/election/article310698355.html
I have added a new page for those who are interested in my history of calling out corruption, unjust laws, mandates, what I view as treason in San Luis Obispo County as well as my perspectives, views and my side of the story regarding District Attorney Dan Dow's nine month investigation into my 'residence'. I rented a residence in the City of Arroyo Grande for a number of reasons, one being so I could run for City office. I intended to eventually rent the entire residence and/or purchase it. I had no intention of running a second time but continued to rent the room. Sadly, when the mayor's term was expiring again, I could not convince anyone else to run, so I ran again. No good deed goes unpunished?
Over the nine-month investigation, I answered every question, met with investigators, and was fully cooperative even after being served with five search warrants for all of my digital data. I look forward to reviewing the 'voluminous' terabytes of data they searched through that spanned more than four years. I also look forward to discovery and to my fighting for my rights in court.
A BIG BEAUTIFUL THANK YOU to my loving husband and hundreds of supports and well-wishers!! Your kind prayers are appreciated! Please don't let the three recent investigations of patriots done by the DA discourage those considering a run for office. Be courageous so common sense and sanity can be restored to our beloved California. United we stand strong!
The Lawfare page is a work in progress. Please excuse typos... Stay tuned!
WE NEED A FEARLESS, CRITICAL THINKER
From my perspective, we need innovative, creative, strategic, critical thinking leadership in Arroyo Grande to protect our values, principles, our way of life, and always rely on the protections the United States Constitution as well as our State Constitution provide. Regardless, of unjust laws, mandates and dictates our current government officials attempt to force upon us, we must always remember these Constitutions encompass the Supreme Laws of our great nation and state. We must restore our individualism and community sovereignty to avoid the fate lawless cities now suffer like San Francisco and Los Angeles, due to the implementation of what I believe are unjust laws.
Where will it end? These laws are forcing a frightening ideology upon us. I personally found pornography (which include illustrations of children performing sexual acts) and erotica in the Arroyo Grande High School Library (it remains there today), so we are well on our way to an unimaginable fate if we don't take action now, regain a our societal moral compass and stand strong against all who threaten our way of life and freedoms.
How did we get to this point?
In my view, a Mayor's role is to be focused on what is best for Arroyo Grande now and for future generations by ensuring a strong infrastructure is in place, maintaining it along with our roads and City property, to protect City assets, create resource sustainability (particularly agriculture and water), to create a retention plan for talented City staff, support safety and our Police
Officers and Firefighters, develop a Civil emergency protection plan, and protect our heritage and lifestyle.
Our current Mayor is a puppet 'politician' who has been in office for years, and from my perspective is a failure. She talks A LOT yet gets little done between her efforts to raise taxes and use taxpayers’ money to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to consultants for voters data mining; general planning, diversity, equity (not equality), inclusion (DEI), and social justice implementation and compliance; etc. She has served, and has serving on Committees/Commissions that many consider a conflict of interest and/or unethical. One example, she was the Chair Central Coast Blue, which is a fiasco that will cost Arroyo Grande taxpayers over two and a half million dollars ($2,520,227).
During COVID and beyond, our current Mayor patted herself on the back while obediently following and enforcing every lockdown and mandate (which are not laws nor constitutional) and engaged in the deceptive propaganda, including videos encouraging all to be injected with an experimental chemicals (the 9th Circuit Court recently ruled the jabs are not "vaccines" as claimed) that devastated the health and wellbeing of thousands of our residents, including children during the C19 hysteria.
Like many other officials and bureaucrats, she practiced medicine by repeatedly telling citizens to get the shot. Why? This should be a personal choice after independent research. Is it because our City signed a binding contract with our government in order to receive relief funds? A contract with a dangerous demand that our leaders promote the government's propaganda, enforce their mandates, and comply with Executive orders and if they failed to comply and are unable to return the funds (our tax dollars) the government could seize City assets.
Basically, signing away our rights to be free individuals, educated, speak our minds, ask questions, assemble, make choices that are in our own best interest and forced many to live under the dictates of our government and City's "emergency" powers. I believe we must embrace the protections of our Constitutions and that we cannot allow the current Mayor to reign over our town, especially if we are faced with another questionable "emergency".
Also, in 2020 while all were distracted in dealing with C19 hysteria, shutdowns, educational and economic devastation, she was involved in creating, embracing, promoting, implementing, and voting in a racist DEI (diversity, equity (not equality), inclusion) and Social Justice Policy. Now she is attempting to enforce this racist DEI ideology (an ideology is a religion) policy in Arroyo Grande as she kowtows to bureaucrats and to those in our State and Federal government who have broken their oaths, abandoning our our State and Federal Constitutions, thus our Republic - We the People.
From City Memorandums
2020 - "Promote" DEI during 2020 shutdowns and mandates
2021 - "Implement" DEI
2022 - Vote in a DEI and Social Justice "Policy"
A quote from their Policy: "Inclusion and equity do not seek to treat everyone the same".
Is there a 'special' class for those in our community who deserve more rights than others? No, we all have equal rights under the law and the Council, under her leadership added "JUSTICE" (DEIJ) to that Policy. Who in our City will be wielding the power of determining what is just? This sleight-of-hand, Trojan horse tactic is likened to the endless add-ons of the dangerous LGBTQ+++ progressive fringe movement that our current Mayor supports. Even though most Gays, Lesbians, Bi and Trans adults do not support this dangerous gender ideological movement and are making headway in stopping it. Gays Against Groomers is an excellent resource for more information.
We can't afford NOT to make a change to preserve our lifestyle, values and our fiscal stability. Our current Mayor is spending a small fortune of taxpayers’ money to collect citizen's data and determine voting trends to increase her power and create strategies to raise taxes as well as enforce a Critical Race Theory (CRT); Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) agenda.
Her actions along with others resulted in dictating that 'pornography' be forced into our public schools. As mentioned, I personally found such books at AG High School depicting children engaged in unspeakable sexual acts which included illustrations, along with errotica. My discovery was saddening, infuriating, disturbing and emotionally devastating. How have we allowed so many of these leaders to remain in office? From my perspective they are void of a moral compass, as they support the creation of laws that dictate children be abused by exposing them to these books, and gender ideology.
This ideology has also lead to more laws that include girls being forced to allow boys into their private, safe spaces like locker rooms, dressing rooms, bathrooms, to compete in their sports, and visa versa. Is it not our moral obligation to stand against what we believe (and common sense dictates) are unjust laws? Please reach out to me and I will provide my research (in a digital file) including what I found in AG High School's library as well as proof of what this can lead to, chemical castration, sterilization, and surgical mutilation of children leading to the complete destruction of young lives and parents dealing with the aftermath.
We are all equal under our existing laws, with inherent and protected individual rights and liberties. Arroyo Grande is already inclusive and welcoming to all who are law abiding and we already have laws the protect against discrimination, period. We do not need our Mayor and City leaders dictating or "educating" us on their DEIJ Policy. Again, we are a Republic with State and Federal Constitutions to guide and protect us from dictates, unjust laws and this discriminatory and racist Policy.
CRT/DEI promotes reverse racism, which is racism. This is a very dangerous ideology our City leaders have unleashed on our small town, like a cancer which has created division in our community that did not previously exist. This division includes our current Mayor's advocacy and vote to fly the LGBTQ+ progressive flag on City property and declaring this flag worthy of hanging alongside our nation's stars and stripes that represents our unity, failures, victories and the many lives sacrificed to protect freedom as our society continues to evolve. Though the LGBTQ+ progressive flag cloaks the 'groomers' it represents (some are pediphiles and sex offenders who prey on our kids), our current Mayor claims, "you will be safe in my arms".
Our public schools should not be flying this flag nor should they be confusing, sexualized and brainwashing children. These practices can lead to harmful drugs, mutilating surgeries and potential sterilization, which will devastate these poor kids' lives, all to "affirm" a delusion created by "trusted" adults who should be protecting them from harm. At the same time, our government is stripping parents of their rights leaving them powerless to protect their kids, and forcing them to helplessly watch their children being psychologically and physically abused. Some may be gay but NO child is trans. Let's end wokeism and support individualism.
The current Mayor is a member of the Teacher's Union, a powerful union not seemingly interested in the abysmal academic scores and degradation of our educational system. While too many kids are failing academically, suffering from depression and dealing with health challenges, very dangerous influencers have infiltrated, been integrated and are contaminating our schools and governments with their dangerous ideology, supporting the sexualization and indoctrination of kids. Let's guarantee our children are taught how to think, not what to think as well as how to exercise and protect their individual rights.
When elected, I promise to stand by the supreme and ultimate laws of our great nation and state that are protected within our State and Federal Constitutions. I will demand unjust laws be challenged and the just laws be enforced. I encourage others to run for office and for all to exercise their rights to eliminate these predators and dictators who have infiltrated our schools and government (local, state and federal) and to not comply with government lockdowns, mandates, forced drug use, and overreach when faced with any emergency, or at any time.
I am a successful business consultant with an extraordinary and diverse career, who advised the small business owners I work with, not to comply with the dangerous government dictated lockdowns and mandates (which are not laws). They took my advice and thrived during the hysteria and were there for our community when we needed them most. I educated them, their clients and patients regarding their rights, how to exercise those rights and how to protect their liberties. As Mayor, I would engage the same strategy if we are faced with another government dictated 'emergency' or 'crisis'. We will not be separated, silenced, censored or locked down. Our independent and thoughtful voices will determine the best strategy to protect Arroyo Grande, regardless of the challenge, or challengers.
Arroyo Grande is my home. I want to preserve its values, heritage, charm, and its cherished way of life, while at the same time strategically anticipating and proactively leveraging change, which is inevitable. Such action takes strong, common-sense leadership that welcomes dissenting views sensibly and without condemnation to achieve optimal resolutions that best serve Arroyo Grande.
My vision is to see Arroyo Grande declared a Constitutional City (it already is) to protect its citizens’ freedoms, prosperity, safety, health, and wellbeing while addressing fear-based government, corporate and global elites’ overreach. Holding the Constitution as our guide safeguards Arroyo Grande’s assets, resources, independence, and its citizens’ fundamental human rights. Sovereignty is the answer.
I am dedicated to achieving sensible, creative solutions for our local challenges. I believe goals are successfully accomplished by continuing to appreciate and support those who have already made great strides, as well as by encouraging passionate, dedicated, critical thinkers in our community to join a collaborative coalition in that effort. Development must be thoughtfully and artfully planned and managed, and we must be willing to change course as needed to protect and provide for generations to come.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
(805) 441-5557 Gaea.Powell@gmail.com
