MARK YOUR CALENDARS--CANDIDATES' FORUM THIS THURSDAY
Mesa Verde Community, Inc. is presenting a Costa Mesa City Council candidates' forum this Thursday, August 21, 2008 at the Neighborhood Community Center, 1845 Park Ave. Costa Mesa (Airplane Park).
The reception begins at 6:00 PM and the forum itself starts at 7:00 PM.
Although this is usually just a soft ball love fest, with a format that discourages tough questions and follow-ups, the CM PRESS will be there and, as we have at past forums, we'll try as hard as we can to nail candidates who are full of crap.
The improvement of Costa Mesa is too important to just elect phonies who don't have any good ideas on how to move improvement along.
At one of these forums a couple of years ago, a couple of yuppies sitting in front of the CM PRESS heard Flopsy Katrina Foley--the Council Snow Bunny--answer a few questions, and then they said to each other that she sounded like a good Republican conservative. We kid you not! We then let the yuppie couple know that Foley is actually a radical liberal Democrat who will say anything to get elected.
"Oh, dear, how do you know that, Mr. CM PRESS sitting behind us taking notes?"
"I know that because I pay attention--all the time--to what's going on in Costa Mesa and I don't just wander into one of these beauty contest candidates' forums for a couple of hours every two years to get a free snack and to have my head turned by friggin' liars and phonies. That's how I know, yuppie couple. And, I sure as hell don't suffer fools."
And, speaking of free snacks, this year I won't forget to wear my pants with the rubber pockets so I can stuff them with free food to take home to my single-wide out by the train tracks to feed my hundred or so kids.
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NOT ONLY INVISIBLE CRIMINALS, WE NOW HAVE INVISIBLE LOCATIONS!
Below are just three crime log reports from the OC REGISTER about gang involvement in Costa Mesa. LINK
Notice that the CMPD didn't release the locations of the gang involvement.
We checked all the rest of the gang involvement reports for Costa Mesa in the paper today and they were all the same: "undisclosed location."
Now, why isn't the CMPD releasing the locations of the gang involvement?
Is it to keep citizens from knowing that our gang involvement is mostly coming from just a few slum areas and that if we remove the slums we'll pretty much get rid of the gangs and the gang involvement?
Or is this an election year gambit on the part of one or more Return to Reason cops who know that if they downplay crime and not reveal locations (to keep activists in affected neighborhoods from organizing to vote for tough on crime candidates--meaning improvement minded candidates), their squishy candidates such as Katrina Foley will have a better chance of being elected?
Again, is someone in the CMPD playing politics with crime reports to help elect people like Foley?
First, we get no real descriptions of most violent perps and now we don't even get the locations where there is gang involvement.
The majority on the City Council should ask some questions about this and get straight answers. Pronto.
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NOT ONLY INVISIBLE CRIMINALS, WE NOW HAVE INVISIBLE LOCATIONS!
Below are just three crime log reports from the OC REGISTER about gang involvement in Costa Mesa. LINK
Notice that the CMPD didn't release the locations of the gang involvement.
We checked all the rest of the gang involvement reports for Costa Mesa in the paper today and they were all the same: "undisclosed location."
Now, why isn't the CMPD releasing the locations of the gang involvement?
Is it to keep citizens from knowing that our gang involvement is mostly coming from just a few slum areas and that if we remove the slums we'll pretty much get rid of the gangs and the gang involvement?
Or is this an election year gambit on the part of one or more Return to Reason cops who know that if they downplay crime and not reveal locations (to keep activists in affected neighborhoods from organizing to vote for tough on crime candidates--meaning improvement minded candidates), their squishy candidates such as Katrina Foley will have a better chance of being elected?
Again, is someone in the CMPD playing politics with crime reports to help elect people like Foley?
First, we get no real descriptions of most violent perps and now we don't even get the locations where there is gang involvement.
The majority on the City Council should ask some questions about this and get straight answers. Pronto.
| What: Gang involvement Where: Undisclosed location Costa Mesa, CA When: 5:52 p.m. Tuesday, August 12, 2008 Description: Undisclosed location, Costa Mesa, CA |
| What: Gang involvement Where: Undisclosed location Costa Mesa, CA When: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, August 12, 2008 Description: Undisclosed location, Costa Mesa, CA |
| What: Gang involvement Where: Undisclosed location Costa Mesa, CA When: 7:37 p.m. Tuesday, August 12, 2008 Description: |
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