CM PRESS # 90

CITY TO STOP PAYING POOR TO BE GOOD
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Another stupid lefty program that doesn't work. Lefties always want to deny human nature and reality, and they keep coming up with dumb ideas that get lots of press and then fail.
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CITY OF COSTA MESA TRYING TO BUY FAIRGROUNDS
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Is City's attitude: "Trust us. Remember, we're the folks who brought you Triangle Square"?

In a press release from the City of Costa Mesa, just received by the CM PRESS (4:00PM PDT), we read that the city has "retained" Ms. Bailey-Findley to serve as project manager for the purchase of the Fairgrounds.

Unfortunately, the City didn't inform the public of the terms of the retainer.

The CM PRESS view is that the citizens of Costa Mesa are owed very open and transparent dealings on this matter all the way through.

Since the City has obtained the exclusive right to negotiate, then there shouldn't be too big a problem with letting the public in on what's going on instead of just dropping the finished deal in our laps.

Remember, the City is already in a deep financial hole, and if this isn't negotiated properly, that hole can be even deeper.
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CALIFORNIA'S LAST AUTO PLANT SHUTS ITS DOORS
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The once golden state is now a lousy place to do business.
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BREITBART'S GOT THE ID ON THE LEFTY WHO ALLEGEDLY THREATENED HIM IN SEARCHLIGHT
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LOOKS LIKE THEY'VE GOT THE LHC WORKING (AT LEAST FOR NOW)
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Gives you a good feeling after you spend about $10 billion and 2o years in building a machine when it actually works once in a while.
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UH OH, DEMONS AT NY TIMES BEWARE, THE EXORCIST IS ON THE CASE
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NICE ARTICLE IN THE OC REGISTER ABOUT GRAFFITI IN COSTA MESA
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The OC Register article mentions "gangs." We think this is important because the graffiti that many citizens are most concerned about, and rightly so, is gang graffiti.

There are those in city government who try to downplay the role of gangs with regards to graffiti and other problems in the city, and we believe this does a disservice to citizens who might be lulled into a false sense of security and an incorrect understanding of the real problem.

After a recent report to the City Council about graffiti in the city, in which a CMPD officer stated that 80% of Costa Mesa's graffiti is tagger related and only 15% gang related and 5% anomalies, the CM PRESS tried to obtain the data behind those figures from the city, but got no response.

We wanted to see the methodology behind those percentages to see if those statistics are correct and how the department quantifies graffiti.

For example, if there is spray painted gang graffiti on a wall that is three feet by three feet; is that counted as one incident of graffiti and considered just the same as a tiny one inch by one inch pencil mark on a cross-walk pole or a sticker from Volcom on a light pole?

You can see the problem. If the gang graffiti and tiny marks and Volcom stickers are all counted as the same, then we don't get a true picture of the situation.
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JOE BELL MENTIONS FLOPSY FOLEY AND HER 'AGONIZED' OUTBURST FROM THE DAIS IN HIS COLUMN TODAY
[We'll be kind here and simply let Bell's term "agonized" stand as the characterization of Flopsy's outburst.]
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Here's a little of what Bell wrote:

"All this reminds me — in a role reversal sort of way — of Costa Mesa Councilwoman Katrina Foley’s recent agonized cry of 'enough' when she said from the dais: 'I’ve sat here for six years as a City Council member, and nearly every week we have to hear the vile and the venom about the people in our city, and it does not reflect my views.'”

Actually, we think Flopsy said "bile," but as she was fairly frothing at the mouth, the sounds she made were hard to understand and it might have been "vile," or maybe "Nile" or "tile."

Well, Flopsy, unless you resign from the City Council--which would be a big improvement for Costa Mesa--you'll get to hear more citizens complaining that the City Council needs to do more than bake lasagna for the families of those killed in gang shootings in this city.

And, in a sort of life-imitating-art sense, this tickles my memory banks just a little in regards to an off-off-off Broadway version of "Marat/Sade," that I once appeared in.

"What? Oh, Excuse me for a minute, dear reader, my agent is on the phone."

"Yes, hmmm, ah, uhuh, 'Can I play the part of an illegal alien Mexican truck driver in a low budget flick about invaders from outer space who look like potatoes?'"

"Si, Senor. That's what I do best."

Welcome to the Asylum of Charenton, otherwise known as planet Earth.
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