FOLEY PRETENDS TO DO SOMETHING, AGAIN. IS SHE FOOLING YOU?
Costa Mesa City Councilbumponalog Katrina Foley is at it again with nice sounding nostrums that offend no one but do nothing.
In # 186 we wrote about Foley and her plan to "improve" the Mission-Mendoza slum by planting some flowers out front.
Now, the Daily Pilot is reporting on her efforts to make the city green. "There's so much that I think we as a community and as a country need to do to protect the environment," Foley told the Pilot.
Like, like, like...according to the Daily Pilot...putting plants on the roof of City Hall, and by having waterless urinals (what does Foley know about urinals, anyway?).
Hey, Foley and Daily Pilot, why aren't you discussing protecting the environment on the Westside Bluffs?
Remember the 60 plus acres of industrial buildings in which all sorts of chemicals are being used? Remember that what is done on the Bluffs doesn't stay on the Bluffs because they're upwind of most of the people who live in Costa Mesa?
Why no talk about the soil that has to be dug up and trucked to a hazardous waste dump from a site on Monrovia Ave. because it is contaminated and dangerous to humans? Why not discuss how one of your anointed and losing City Council candidates in the last election told the CM PRESS that there's no pollution on the Bluffs? Laugh out loud!
If this were a real time article about the sinking of the Titanic we'd probably read in the Pilot that Foley is rearranging the deck chairs. "There's so much we can do to make the Titanic look nicer. Next, I'm going to make sure those darn urinals on this ship are clean, by golly."
Folks, don't be confused by the busy work and sweet nothings that Foley is always pushing.
Costa Mesa needs more than these cookie baking types of sweet nothings. We need substantive changes.
Because Foley and her buddy Linda Dixon are pals with the mostly out of town industrialists who own the factories on the Westside Bluffs, you won't find Foley or Dixon talking much about cleaning up the Bluffs. Instead, they'll talk about waterless urinals and plants at City Hall.
There is some hope to clean up the toxic Bluffs, however. The State of California has now moved in and is supervising the cleanup of the land on Monrovia that we mentioned above.
That land that the State is working to clean up right now is just the tip of the iceberg. The State says that the toxic chemicals in the soil didn't originate at that location but are part of a plume of toxic chemicals about 20-30 feet below the surface on the Bluffs that comes from a point to the north and east of this location that still needs to be pinpointed and cleaned up.
The soil on Monrovia is so toxic that it will be trucked out of our city in special trucks along a special predetermined route, early in the morning before most people are awake, that will lessen the danger to citizens of Costa Mesa.
We imagine...
An accident victim is bleeding profusely from a missing arm. Katrina Foley rushes up and decides the most important thing to do is comb the victim's hair. "There is so much we can do to make accident victims look nicer," said Ms. Foley to the Daily Pilot. The Daily Pilot headline: "Heroic Katrina Foley rushes to aid of accident victim." Then, in the very last paragraph of the Pilot story, we read that the accident victim bled to death while his hair was being combed.
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