WILL THE THREE IMPROVEMENT MINDED MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL TAKE THE BAIT!The libs are still trying to get the improvement majority on the City Council to accept liberal plans.
The libs used to be able to have prior liberal Councils accept just about any squishy, big government, spend your money program they proposed, but with the improvement majority it's become more difficult.
The libs had hoped to get either Garlich or Scheafer on the Council, which would have given them the majority. But, because Leece won a seat they have to be more devious in getting their plans approved. Now they're trying to bend with the wind to get their way.
Part of their thinking, no doubt, is the belief that the improvement members of the Council aren't very bright and can be easily fooled.
Let's back up a minute. Some citizens who have seen the big PR push for the Gang Initiative might justifiably be scratching their heads over the fact that just a couple of years ago, when the libs had the majority on the Council, the libs denied that there were gangs in the city. Complete denial. No gangs. Period. People who looked as though they were in gangs were just dressing like gang members because they liked the clothing style according to the libs.
Remember that? The CM PRESS even used to make fun of the libs by calling gang members "fashion models."
Now, however, the libs are all saying we have gangs. Seven gangs, in fact. Up from four just a few years ago, by gum. And, hey, we libs are with you improvers, we sure do need to get rid of these gangs. Why, we need a Gang Initiative. Yup. We're going to be real tough on gangs. Strong enforcement. Zero tolerance.
And, oh by the way, we think it should be a "comprehensive" plan and that we should put in, oh, some stuff in the schools and have neighborhood meetings with the community and shunt wannabe gang members off to some non-profits in the city and etc. etc. etc. etc., and don't worry your pretty little heads over these details, improvers. We libs will take care of them.
Of course, as we've reported before, the gangs in Costa Mesa are almost completely Hispanic and have a nexus with illegal aliens, but the Gang Initiative--inadvertently showing its liberal roots--doesn't once mention that the gangs are Hispanic and that there might be a connection with the vast numbers of suspected illegal aliens who have flocked here due to the magnet effect of the charities run by the libs and their pals.
And, to repeat what we've written before, about half of the so-called Gang Initiative looks to us to be the discredited D.A.R.E. program under a different name and with some other liberal things thrown in.
In other words, the libs have baited their hook with tough sounding gang enforcement talk to reel in the three improvement members of the Council.
If the Council buys this "comprehensive" plan as it has been presented, we believe we may eventually end up with a new job center, free English classes, more charity give aways and all sorts of social programs that will increase the illegal alien magnets in this city. And, we may see the ICE agent in the jail being told to take a hike because he's too divisive and is counterproductive to the Gang Initiative.
Do the three improvement minded members of the Council see the hook in the bait? It's hard to tell. They, like the other two Council members, are part timers and they get a lot of reading material thrown their way, so maybe they haven't really read the so-called Gang Initiative with a critical eye.
Still, you'd think that the majority would see that many of the people behind the soft liberal parts of this so-called Gang Initiative are the same ones who were involved with Return to Reason and/or were against Mansoor/Leece in the last election. Shouldn't that give the majority a clue?
So, what would the CM PRESS do if we were on the Council? We'd accept the enforcement aspects of the plan, but throw out many of the other things. They don't belong in this plan. We'd tell the proponents of the other things to come back with another plan at some future date, but that we're going forward with the enforcement parts of the plan right now.
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GRAFFITI IN FOLEY'S NEIGHBORHOOD THIS MORNING
Oh, by the way, we spotted large gang graffiti in Katrina Foley's neighborhood today. As is our practice, we won't call it in to the graffiti hot line. We don't want it covered up too fast. We want Foley's neighbors to see it and wonder why she's not getting rid of the slum in her neighborhood that is the breeding ground for gangs.
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