CM PRESS # 570

KATRINA FOLEY ALMOST DAILY DAILY PILOT JUST DOESN'T GET IT

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More from the KFADDP about the Senior Center and Mayor Pro Tem Leece. Our comments are in [].

Wendy Leece and the Costa Mesa Senior Center: Costa Mesa Mayor Pro Tem Wendy Leece has been fighting for months for a bigger role in the management of the Costa Mesa Senior Center, but executives and board members say her efforts are counterproductive and distracting.

[Seniors need Wendy Leece on the board.]

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She says complaints from seniors that weren’t being addressed by staff prompted her inquiries.The board has fought back. Members say that the vast majority of seniors who participate in activities and food programs at the center are happy with the service and Leece’s presence is only stirring up trouble that wasn’t there before and costing the center money in the process.

[Every complaint by our vulnerable senior citizens should be looked into.]

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Leece, however, says that even though the center is not owned or operated by the city it should have to disclose the information like a city-owned agency would because city money makes up part of the budget.

[Actually, the building the Senior Center is in is owned by the City of Costa Mesa and the City rents it to the Costa Mesa Senior Corporation for a buck a year. Come on KFADDP, the CM PRESS reported this already. Geez. Also, the City gives the Costa Mesa Senior Corportation more than $200,000 per year.]

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The center’s management says it’s fine with giving a council member a vote on the board, just not Leece.

[Maybe it's time for the full City Council to weigh in on this and demand transparency and ensure that Ms. Leece has a seat on the board.]

Read the full column HERE.

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KATRINA FOLEY GIVES HER OPINION ON CMPD HELICOPTER

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MORE ON THE ATTACK ON THE HOMELESS MAN

Here's a LINK to an article in the OCR about the attack.

This version more closely gibes with what the CM PRESS turned up than what you may have read in the Katrina Foley Almost Daily Daily Pilot.

Meanwhile, the KFADDP continues to try to have you think that violent crime in Costa Mesa is an equal opportunity employer by telling you that the suspects in the attack may be white (read, non-Latino white).

Somehow that doesn't seem to add up, but we have open minds here at the CM PRESS and if it was non-Latino white teens in a dirty and dark alley, with Latino gang graffiti on the walls, behind a row of apartment buildings almost exclusively rented by Latinos, in the heart of the Latino gang infested Westside at 9 p.m., during the darkest time of the year, then we'd be very surprised.

In another story (in the OCR)a homeless man said attacks on homeless people in Costa Mesa are increasing and he recounted being attacked by teens with rocks who told him to get out of their "barrio." Barrio is not a term used by many whites.

Have you seen many white teens in those alleys at 9 p.m. walking around with paint ball guns?

Say, maybe they were some rich white fraternity kids who thought it would be fun to commute in from Newport Beach to walk around gang infested Westside alleys threatening people with paintball guns. And, maybe they weren't aware that the guns normally used in that area shoot more than paintballs.

But if the KFADDP is right about the alley, then this makes it much less probable that the attackers were white, and the CMPD should be looking at teens living in the apartments right behind the alley. How many got paintball guns for Navidad?

Oh, and one last thing. The KFADDP is now saying the guy who was attacked was confused and that's why he didn't know he wasn't sitting at a table reading a magazine in Lion's Park as he stated to the CMPD, the OCR and the CM PRESS, but was actually in that alley behind Center Street sleeping. But, when the guy says his attackers were white kids, the KFADDP apparently doesn't think he might be confused on this point. Figures.

NOW TO THE LARGER QUESTION

Is it important to know the race/ethnicity of outstanding criminal suspects? You bet. Race/ethnicity is one of the main ways we can identify others.

To not publish such information about outstanding violent criminal suspects is to do a disservice to the public and is to possibly put others in danger. And, it doesn't help with capturing violent criminals.

Let us restate this: The CM PRESS believes that all important identifying information on outstanding violent criminal suspects should be in news stories and this includes the race/ethnicity of the outstanding suspects. Don't edit to be PC. Just publish the facts as you know them and let the chips fall where they may. The more the public knows about violent crime and criminals the more they can avoid becoming victims and the easier it will be to capture the criminals.

The CM PRESS is perfectly happy to see outstanding white violent criminals identified as such. But what we are against is lefty newspapers just identifying violent criminals by race/ethnicity when they are white and not identifying violent criminals by race/ethnicity when they're not white.

Had the KFAADP been more honest in such things, it might not have had one of its employees murdered by an illegal alien who had been living with twelve others in a tiny apartment in the Shalimar slum.

That employee, if she had been fully informed about the nature of local violent crime, might have been a little more on guard and might have considered the neighborhood and the probability that her murderer might be up to no good, before he had a chance to kill her.

And, if the KFAADP didn't try to gloss over the crime in our slums, a female student at OCC might have been warned and might not have moved into the Mission-Mendoza slum (in Katrina Foley's Mesa del Mar neighborhood) where she was murdered.

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Those are our opinions. Thanks for reading them.