Well said, you have correctly stated Tulare citizens’ issues and concerns. Unfortunately those who seek to protect HCCA/Benzeevi and keep the status quo feel they need to minimize and greatly downplay what is actually happening to our hospital. They strive to trivialize citizens of Tulare as negative naysayers. As for Pablo, I wish you all the best in your personal fight against cancer and that with God’s grace you live long and prosper.

Despite what you say, it is not ok for Benny to lock out the legally elected Board directors. It is also VERY VERY WRONG for Benzeevi to have called the police on ordinary peaceful decent citizens of Tulare who had shown up to attend a meeting.
This has nothing to do with lynching or mob mentality. We are paying a man several millions of dollar a year, and he has proven to be an incompetent and atrocious CEO. Tower has not been finished. People dying due to lack of OR staff. A grade of F for the hospital. Specialists leaving. Law suits brought from left and right from people who are not getting paid. Instead of acting contrite and speaking with the citizens, Benny calls the police. Need I go on?
This is not a racial issue. It is about a grossly overpaid incompetent CEO who is desperately trying to hang on.
It’s time for our elected board to remove Benzeevi, and put a competent organization in charge.

1. If a man violates the law, there is are constitutional processes under the law where he can be charged, and in the presence of evidence, convicted and punished.

2. In the America I grew up in, a man was innocent until proven guilty by a jury of his peers.

3. Under the law, a contract between two entities where there is a meeting of the minds and both agree is binding.

I do not have a “Side” in this issue except, as a man diagnosed with stage four cancer a few months ago, I value quality health care and those who provide it. Every day I wake up I am thankful for the not only to the providers , staff but also to those administrators and public officials who kept the doors open until I was in desperate need of life-extending care.

I fear for myself, my neighbors and my family when I see what is happening to Tulare, California, USA. The prejudice, racism and mob mentality is reminiscent of the lynch mobs in the deep south, the riots in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, and more recently the mob violence in Charlottesville Virginia. The name calling is ridiculous and not becoming of our heritage as a nation.

In the USA I grew up in, we were taught that is was impolite and un American to make disparaging comments about anyone referencing their nationality or country of origin. (BTW, if you are dying, you don’t care what color or nationality the hands are that save your life… Just saying.)

No health care professional in their right mind would come to help this hospital when they see how TULARE’s citizens act and treat an agreement freely made between their duly elected officials and health care professionals. Especially the total lack of respect for dignity and the rule of law.

We will NEVER get out of this “hole” until BOTH sides stop throwing dirt back in as fast as anyone can dig.

I SAY, THROW THE BUM OUT AND READY THE GALLOWS!!

The citizens of Tulare are etitled to their constitutional rights!!!

If Mr. Benzeevi (or anyone else involved), is guilty of a crime, lets throw the book at him , sue him for all he is worth (and ever will make) and put him UNDER THE JAIL. (Calling someone “crook” doesn’t make them a crook any more than calling on my hamburger make them a big Mac.)

Innocent until proven guilty MUST mean something even when all the circumstances make point two guilt.

We are Americans we obey the law. In America we are all equal under the law.

I’m afraid the prejudice (prejudging) and mob mentality has passed the point of no return. I have notice that, anyone who expresses an opinion, contrary to those in favor of a ”lynching,” are torn to shreds here.

My greatest fear is that, at the end, after the name calling, legal manipulation, suits and counter suits, are over Tulare will end up with a huge empty building with an unfinished tower, and people like me, who depend on the quality healthcare, will die.

It’s time for the “Suicide Bombers” to stop and think about what they’re destroying. It is time for a truce and the rule of law.

My grandparents did not escape the oppression of Russia in the dark of night to come to a USA filled with anger, hate and bigotry. They believed that here, unlike where they came from, the law would protect them and their family. Thank God, my parents prospered and grew up to build a company that serves nationwide. I have done very well… I only wish the same for my grandchildren after I’m gone.

So I guess YOUR ulterior motive would be simply to trash talk Mr. Sigala. I don’t know about his being a Union organizer, not that there is anything wrong with that….if it wasn’t for the Unions there would have been no middle class and if you aren’t too biased to notice money hungry corporations gained enough momentum to make “Union” a dirty word our middle class has been slowly declining. But enough of that…..it sounds like you may well be a supporter of HCCA/Benzeevi attempting to do their dirty work by muddying up the waters…..it ain’t gonna work!

Actually I appreciated what Mr. Sigala said for the most part. He is a good and decent man who sets a high bar for his fellow city council members to aim for. We need more men of his caliber on our city council. And we the citizens of Tulare can work together to save our hospital from HCCA/Benzeevi but we first must get rid of HCCA/Benzeevi. No matter the outcome in the end, we must terminate this one-sided contract with HCCA/Benzeevi. Stay strong people, keep up the resistance.