{"id":8298,"date":"2018-09-25T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T21:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=8298"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:45:29","slug":"retired-eid-general-counsel-opines-about-eid-lawsuit-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2018\/09\/25\/retired-eid-general-counsel-opines-about-eid-lawsuit-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired EID General Counsel Opines about EID Lawsuit Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Tom Cumpston, Retired EID General Counsel]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>El Dorado Irrigation District Director Greg Prada claims that EID\u2019s agricultural water rates violate the law. \u00a0Last year, he presented his arguments publicly at an EID Board meeting. \u00a0 Within weeks after that, his supporter Darwin Throne initiated what\u2019s now become a lawsuit against EID on the very same legal theories. \u00a0Coincidence?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m an EID ratepayer, and I wanted to find out. \u00a0I requested public records from Prada\u2019s private email account to see if Prada orchestrated Throne\u2019s lawsuit. \u00a0Prada stonewalled my first requests. \u00a0Eventually, he swore in writing that he\u2019d deleted all such emails.<\/p>\n<p>A Grand Jury condemned Prada\u2019s behavior and recommended that the EID Board censure him \u2013 which it did. \u00a0But that can\u2019t bring back Prada\u2019s missing emails.<\/p>\n<p>EID has spent $50,000 of ratepayer (our) money defending the lawsuit so far, and it will probably cost at least $200,000 more before it\u2019s over. \u00a0EID should win, but there are no guarantees in court. \u00a0And if Throne wins, EID (we) will be on the hook for millions, plus Throne\u2019s attorneys\u2019 fees.<\/p>\n<p>Four out of five EID Board members voted to fight this lawsuit: \u00a0everyone but \u201cratepayer advocate\u201d Greg Prada.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Greg Prada want to be re-elected! \u00a0I support his opponent, Pat Dwyer. \u00a0Pat is a breath of fresh air, and he wants to earn your support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Cumpston, Retired EID General Counsel] El Dorado Irrigation District Director Greg Prada claims that EID\u2019s agricultural water<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/News\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8299,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298\/revisions\/8299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}