Thursday, December 4, 2008

CM PRESS # 543

New Article: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 2:40 PM--scroll down

BRADY RHOADES THINKS KATRINA SHOULD BE MAYOR
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(That's not Brady Rhoades on the bike. Honest. It's Pee Wee Herman.)

Brady Rhoades over at the almost daily Daily Pilot thinks that Katrina Foley should be mayor, because, ah, because, er, she's been on the City Council for some time.

Sorry, Mr. Rhoades, it takes more than just being there to get the gig.

Many improvement minded voters in Costa Mesa believe that Ms. Foley simply has the wrong world view to make a good mayor of Costa Mesa and that if she had that position she'd use it as a bully pulpit to turn Costa Mesa away from genuine improvement.

It's been a slow process, but Costa Mesa is now moving in the right direction and we need a firm hand on the rudder to make sure we keep heading in that direction.

Mayor Bever did a good job as mayor when he took over from Mayor Mansoor and now that Mr. Mansoor is back in the jaybird seat, we expect things to continue moving in the right direction.

Unfortunately, the improvement majority doesn't get all the credit that they should. That's because many of the things that they have done, are things whose impact one can only speculate about. These Councilmembers have often acted to head off problems before they became problems in a sort of a stitch in time saves nine way of thinking. If you see conditions that might lead to a fire and you change those conditions so there is no fire, you won't get credit for putting out the fire that didn't happen.

For example, how many gang killings and other crimes have been prevented since the improvement majority brought an ICE agent to Costa Mesa? There's no telling. We do know that violent crime in Costa Mesa has fallen. We do know that many illegal aliens have been deported. We do know that we haven't had any recent gang killings.

Does the almost daily Daily Pilot give credit to Mansoor and company for this? Nope. The paper would rather write about Katrina Foley taking a plate of lasagna to the family of a man killed in a drive by shooting or about her planting flowers in front of a gang infested slum.

You see, that's how liberals think. What's important to them is not stopping the killings before they happen, but the compassion you show after a killing--even if the conditions that led to the killing were allowed to continue by the liberal in the first place.


Look, you don't have to be a genius or be prescient to understand that if you allow decrepit slums with gangs, that you'll end up with gang shootings at some point. We live in a cause and effect universe and things have trajectories and probabilities. Why not head off the problems before they begin?

Any intelligent and fair minded person who looks at Costa Mesa today will have to admit that it is a safer and nicer city than it was just a few years ago. And, it didn't get safer and nicer all on its own.

But there's much more work to be done and it has to be done each and every day.
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