DOWN AT THE DAILY PILOT
Sometimes, newspaper columns are so stupid that you almost can't respond because you're laughing so hard.
Auntie Steve Smith has one of those really stupid columns in the Daily Pilot today as he wags his finger and tries to insult Mayor Mansoor.
And, speaking of fingers, Smith apparently counted his fingers on one hand and came up with six things that he finds fault with that were done or were said by Mansoor. And, dear friends, Smith is not a hexadactyl, if you know what we mean.
Here are the six things, starting with the one that Smith says is the most "shocking" (we kid you not, he actually wrote "shocking"):
1. The mayor said "The Job Center was a blight on the neighborhood." Smith was shocked, shocked, I say.
The Truth: Actually, the mayor got it exactly right. It was a blight. It was a terrible and a horrible blight and it was helping keep the Westside as slum central for the benefit of Smith's out of town pals who used illegal workers off the books and who used them to puff up their charity rolls.
Smith whines that he now sees day workers looking for work on the sidewalks and streets around the former Job Center. Well, Mr. Smith, they were all around the place in the past and in far greater numbers. Those who you see now are a fraction of the mobs that used to be there. And, as out of town employers start feeling the feds breathing down their necks for hiring illegal aliens, the jobs will dry up much faster than will your moist eyes as you shed tears over the fact that Costa Mesa is being improved, thanks in large part to the strong leadership of Mayor Mansoor.
2. Smith says that Mayor Mansoor is wrong when he says that the new rules at Paularino Park "will not keep anyone from tossing a ball or throwing a Frisbee with their kids."
The Truth: Again, the mayor got it exactly right. The new rules will just be in place if they're needed to stop dangerous activities if they occur. Cops won't be hiding behind trees to catch a ball thrower. Smith is just absurd.
3. Smith complains that Mayor Mansoor is falsely taking credit for the ICE agent in the jail, when this wasn't Mansoor's idea.
The Truth: Again, Smith is just full of crap. The only reason we have an ICE agent in our jail is because Mansoor stood firm in having citizenship status checked at our jail, and when ICE saw that he wasn't going to back down, they put one of their own agents in the jail. But for Mansoor, we would not have an ICE agent in our jail and more than 300 illegal alien criminals who have now been deported, would still be running around our streets.
4. Smith says that Mansoor is falsely taking credit for "studying the possible extension of the 55 Freeway through cut and cover tunneling."
The Truth: Contrary to know-nothing, do-nothing Smith's assertion, Mansoor does deserve credit for this. Sure, many of us have been talking about doing this for years. So what? Talk is cheap. Mansoor is the guy who actually brought this thing to the front burner.
5. Smith then gets even sillier when he says that Mansoor didn't comment on the issue of safe and sane fireworks.
The Truth: Huh? So what? If Mansoor commented on everything that's going on, he'd have to do nothing but make comments all day long.
6. In the same vein, Smith then whines that Mayor Mansoor didn't comment on the hotel bed tax.
The Truth: Ho hum. Hey, he also didn't comment on a thousand other things. So what? Read # 5, above. Mansoor also didn't comment on the fact that Smith seems to be in la la land, but maybe he should.
Despite the blather from Smith and his lefty pals down at the Daily Pilot, Costa Mesa is a far better place today because of Mayor Mansoor.
When someone does things right, as Mayor Mansoor has done, some bad things that might have happened, do not happen. We can't know for sure about such things that haven't happened, but there's a high probability that we would have had more crime and more gang drive-by killings and similar things without the sure hand of Mayor Mansoor at the rudder of our local government.
Because of Mayor Mansoor's leadership, Costa Mesa is improving. Smith and his fellow obstructionists don't like it. They want the city to continue to be a magnet for illegal aliens. They want charities on every corner giving freebies to illegal aliens. They want polluting industries on our Westside bluffs to be able to hire illegal aliens. They don't mind that our schools are at Third World levels because of illegal aliens.
As we've written many times before, slum profiteers and their pals don't like improvement.
These days, Auntie Smith and his pals are having conniptions. They've thrown every smear they can think of at Mansoor but the mayor just keeps smiling and doing the right things.
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