King Howze, under the guise of the “City of Turlock” is counter suing Former Turlock City Manager Tim Kerr. Tim Kerr filed a breach of contract lawsuit in October of 2009. Kerr claims he was cheated out of money.

In the counter suit, Howze is accusing Kerr of loaning the Turlock Centennial Committee $90,000.00 and then telling the Committee the loan didn’t have to be repaid, and just like clockwork he implicates Mayor John Lazar.

According to a statement by Mayor John Lazar, Howze is the author of the lawsuit filed on March 15th of this year.

Howze was recently quoted as saying “We were hearing rumors during the whole centennial process that the committee was vastly overspending”.

Yet Howze who was fully aware of the fact that the City had loaned the Centennial Committee money and admittedly heard rumors of overspending throughout the entire process waited until now to show his "outrage". The centennial was last year. Why the delayed reaction? Why now? It‘s an election year and Ted Howze is an opportunist.

While there may be a few chanting “long live the King”, I will counter that claim by doing whatever I can to dethrone His Majesty. The last thing Turlock needs is another four years with this ego on a stick.

Linda Taylor
Turlock