HEY KIDS, LET'S MAKE THE WESTSIDE A LATINO BARRIO JUST LIKE HUNTINGTON PARK!
These days, you won't hear many brown racists and assorted anti-white bigots and special interests put it as directly as the headline above, but that's been the plan of some for many years, and that's exactly what they said they wanted to do several years ago.
These days, you won't hear many brown racists and assorted anti-white bigots and special interests put it as directly as the headline above, but that's been the plan of some for many years, and that's exactly what they said they wanted to do several years ago.
And, those who want the Westside to be an official Latino Barrio have allies in their plan--some of the charity bosses and some out of town industrialists along with a few dimwit liberals who wrongly think they're on the side of social justice in helping keep the area downscale and full of pollution.
"Pollution?" Why, according to former City Council candidate Bruce Garlich--who was supported by the out of town industrialists and the crowd that wants to turn the Westside into an official Latino Barrio--there's no pollution on the Westside.
Baloney.
There is pollution and it's been well documented. And, worst of all, the 60 acre swath of industrial buildings on our Westside Bluffs is upwind of most of our homes and schools full of people--including vulnerable kids and senior citizens--who are forced to breathe air that first passed over the industrialized Westside Bluffs.
There is pollution and it's been well documented. And, worst of all, the 60 acre swath of industrial buildings on our Westside Bluffs is upwind of most of our homes and schools full of people--including vulnerable kids and senior citizens--who are forced to breathe air that first passed over the industrialized Westside Bluffs.
You don't think there's pollution? Go look at the seven acre site on Monrovia that has to have its dirt trucked away because of the toxic soil.
And, guess what? The source of that pollution is not on that site, according to representatives from the state, but migrated there from another site that they wouldn't officially identify. The implication is that this source site may still be putting dangerous chemicals into the ground.
And if that site on Monrovia doesn't convince you of pollution on the Westside Bluffs, just drive down Placentia Avenue with your windows down. That odor is not flowers, folks. That odor is caused by chemicals being put into our air where it is quickly blown over our homes and into our lungs.
THERE'S MONEY IN SLUMS FOR SLUM PROFITEERS
As a very rich guy once told me: "There's money in slums." This guy had made his first millions in the slums of Detroit before moving to Southern California where he now lives in a custom built mansion and is making money in the slums of LA.
I know of another guy, who lives in a mansion in Beverly Hills and who belongs to the most private and exclusive millionaire's club in the state, who makes his money from an old factory he owns in the worst part of Los Angeles.
Neither of the above two industrialists would want any changes to their respective golden goose slums and would fight any changes should any of the people who live near their factories start trying to improve the area for the people who actually live there.
THERE'S MONEY IN SLUMS FOR SLUM PROFITEERS
As a very rich guy once told me: "There's money in slums." This guy had made his first millions in the slums of Detroit before moving to Southern California where he now lives in a custom built mansion and is making money in the slums of LA.
I know of another guy, who lives in a mansion in Beverly Hills and who belongs to the most private and exclusive millionaire's club in the state, who makes his money from an old factory he owns in the worst part of Los Angeles.
Neither of the above two industrialists would want any changes to their respective golden goose slums and would fight any changes should any of the people who live near their factories start trying to improve the area for the people who actually live there.
Of course, these industrialists would never think of living near their factories. They're not crazy.
So, what about the middle class people who live in those areas? They're not there anymore.
So, what about the middle class people who live in those areas? They're not there anymore.
They all moved. They've been replaced by illegal aliens who work off the books in the factories. That's the stuff of a falling tide lowers all boats; that is, all boats except the yachts of the rich who sail in to collect their money during the day and then sail away on the evening tide.
We're seeing the same thing on the Westside of Costa Mesa. A few people are making lots of money by keeping the Westside as slum central.
We're seeing the same thing on the Westside of Costa Mesa. A few people are making lots of money by keeping the Westside as slum central.
These slum profiteers don't want real improvement. Some minor cosmetic things such as flowers along the streets are okay with them, but they begin howling when there is talk of making the structural changes that are truly needed.
As we reported before, a group actually came to a Costa Mesa City Council meeting several years ago with a formal scheme to turn the Westside into a new Huntington Park. They even used the name Huntington Park and held it up as a model for the Westside!
Huntington Park, for the uninformed, is a city near Watts and Compton in LA and is more Tijuana than Tijuana. LINK
The slum profiteers, the out of town industrialists and the assorted haters and bigots are afraid that any changes--especially to the Westside Bluffs--would start bringing in upwardly mobile citizens who see the area as a more affordable version of Newport Beach, and that the presence of these people would kill their golden goose.
These slum profiteers are one of the main reasons why the Westside is not improving and that's why Improvers want a tough City Council that actually does something to improve the lives of the citizens and voters of Costa Mesa instead of the slum profiteers from Newport Beach and other cities upwind of their factories on OUR Westside Bluffs.
Improvers have consistently said that they don't want Costa Mesa split up into ethnic neighborhoods or barrios but to be a typical American city where people can live in any neighborhood that they choose.
As we reported before, a group actually came to a Costa Mesa City Council meeting several years ago with a formal scheme to turn the Westside into a new Huntington Park. They even used the name Huntington Park and held it up as a model for the Westside!
Huntington Park, for the uninformed, is a city near Watts and Compton in LA and is more Tijuana than Tijuana. LINK
The slum profiteers, the out of town industrialists and the assorted haters and bigots are afraid that any changes--especially to the Westside Bluffs--would start bringing in upwardly mobile citizens who see the area as a more affordable version of Newport Beach, and that the presence of these people would kill their golden goose.
These slum profiteers are one of the main reasons why the Westside is not improving and that's why Improvers want a tough City Council that actually does something to improve the lives of the citizens and voters of Costa Mesa instead of the slum profiteers from Newport Beach and other cities upwind of their factories on OUR Westside Bluffs.
Improvers have consistently said that they don't want Costa Mesa split up into ethnic neighborhoods or barrios but to be a typical American city where people can live in any neighborhood that they choose.
They want the City Council to jump start the transition of the Bluffs to their highest and best uses. They want to see homes built on the Bluffs where people will stand in line to buy them.
They don't want to be under the iron heel of out of town rich industrialists or brown racists or left wing kooks or special interests.
And, they don't want to hear the Councilmembers mumble sweet nothings and high school level theories about the free market as an excuse for doing nothing.
It's as though some of these elected officials think that a city will improve spontaneously. Sorry, it doesn't work that way.
Thinking that way would be a little like thinking that if you want to go someplace, all you have to do is jump in your car and it'll start itself up and drive you to your location with no effort on your part.
THE REAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COSTA MESA AND HUNTINGTON PARK
The Pacific Ocean.
Because of Costa Mesa's closeness to the ocean and tony Newport Beach, we have a unique opportunity to pull ourselves up by our flip-flops that Huntington Park does not have.
Come on City Council, you've been given the power to improve Costa Mesa--make it happen!
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