Thursday, October 18, 2007

CM PRESS #222



IS ICE GETTING ALL THE SUPPORT IT CAN GET?

There's an interesting back and forth about ICE going on over on the DAILY PILOT BLOG.

In essence, it appears that one person believes that there may be a small clique of overly political police officers with a liberal bent in the CMPD who may not be doing all they can to cooperate with the ICE agent.

Apparently, this person is offering no evidence of this but is urging that the records be checked to dispel any rumors. We at the CM PRESS have also heard this rumor and we've written about it.

Part of the basis of the rumor is the known fact that some CMPD officers--including many who don't live in Costa Mesa and who thus can't vote here--took an active part in the last political season to try to defeat Mayor Mansoor and Wendy Leece. Some were also involved with the liberal Return to Reason group.

Since having a top flight professional police force is important to drive down crime and make Costa Mesa the great city it can be, you might want to see the back and forth on the Pilot blog and even add your own comments.

The CM PRESS is aware that for at least a decade there have been attempts by various local politicians and activists in Costa Mesa to try to have the police and firefighter unions stay out of endorsing local candidates.

The reasoning of these politicians and activists is that police officers and firefighters, due to their jobs, get special respect from the public and thus may use this special respect to sway voters.

Furthermore, since most firefighters and police officers who work for Costa Mesa don't live in Costa Mesa and can't vote here, some believe that it is not appropriate for them to try to sway citizens, who do live and vote here, by endorsing candidates.

Because of this special respect given to these public servants, you'll almost always see individuals running for the City Council posing in front of police cars and fire engines in campaign literature. Some have gotten in trouble when the photos they're in show the Costa Mesa City logo on the vehicles. That's a no/no. Generic police car or fire engine, okay. CM logo showing on the vehicles, can't do it.
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MORE GANG GRAFFITI IN KATRINA FOLEY'S NEIGHBORHOOD THIS MORNING

The CM PRESS saw more gang graffiti in Mesa del Mar this morning (10/18). This is the neighborhood where Councilmumbler and local do-nothing Katrina Foley lives. Nope, we're not going to call it in to the graffiti hotline. We want as many people to see it as possible and have their consciousness raised to the fact that we have problems in this city that too many people just try to hide instead of solve.

Maybe Foley and her gang of liberals can go have another group hug and photo op in the Mendoza slum in her neighborhood as they did last month. For some unknown reason--at least to Foley and her pals--such group hugs don't seem to stop the gangs from doing what they do.

We also saw more abandoned shopping carts in Mesa North this morning. We're not going to call these in to the City either.
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