CM PRESS # 278

NICE COLUMN IN THE PILOT BY ERIC BEVER AND JOHN MOORLACH THAT MAKES THE REASONS FOR COSTA MESA'S FINANCIAL CRISIS CLEAR
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As you may know, Bever wants the present City Council to hold off on any further negotiations with the employee unions until after the November election.

The unions, on the other hand, are trying to bully the council into accepting what the unions want before the election. The unions apparently fear that Jim Righeimer, who is a realist and a fiscal conservative, will get elected and will try to cut costs.
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8:36 PM--10/6/10--QUICK REPORT ON TONIGHT'S CANDIDATE FORUM

The audience was sparse. We counted about 80 people there.

Jim Righeimer made the most intelligent comments of the night. For example, in talking about crime, the usual squish answer is to say the police are responsible for a low crime rate in a community.

Righeimer, by contrast, correctly pointed out that the crime in a community is largely a function of who lives in the community and that Costa Mesa needs to attract more young [upwardly mobile] families, and especially to the Westside [and this will lower our crime rate even more].

The candidates were asked by Tom Johnson why the Westside hasn't changed for the better since we now have a majority of people on the council who wanted to improve the Westside.

Wendy Leece responded that the plans have been in place for the improvement of the Westside, but that after these plans were formulated, the economy fell apart.

There was talk about the sports fields in Costa Mesa being in poor condition, and how they need to rest instead of being used all the time. No one on the panel really focused on the fact that the City of Costa Mesa is letting "non-profits" (insert air quotation marks) from outside of Costa Mesa tear up our fields and that we don't even charge them for the use of these fields.

Five minutes of looking at the records on some of these non-profits would tell anyone who's half bright that these "non-profits" turn a profit...for the people organizing them. This is because the non-profits charge their players to be on the teams and for uniforms, etc. Who do you think gets the money? Hmmmmm? As we've written before, this is a great business plan: Get free rent and then pocket any profits.

More later, perhaps.
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WILL SOME OF THE HATERS AND BIGOTS NOW TRY TO SMEAR RIGHEIMER'S WIFE AND KIDS?
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WHITE AMERICANS GETTING SHAFTED; NON-WHITES GET MILLIONS IN FEDERAL CONTRACTS
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Read the above linked article and you'll see one of the unjust laws that the anti-White Obama administration is using to shaft Whites.
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BLACK JUDGE REJECTS PLEA FOR "WHITE BOY'
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PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PENSION CRISIS WORSE THAN EXPECTED
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Jim Righeimer got it right, but look at all the mud the cop union is throwing at him to try to keep him from getting a seat on the city council. They don't want someone on the council who will look out for the citizens of this city first.
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CITY COUNCIL AND NMUSD CANDIDATES' FORUM TONIGHT
6-8 PM at the Neighborhood Community Center (by the downtown library and Lion's Park--aka airplane park).

This should be interesting given the smears that are going around.
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SCIENTISTS FIND 200 NEW SPECIES IN NEW GUINEA
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And, they'll never stop finding them. Why? Because that's what DNA does--it creates new life all the time as it constantly tinkers with the code of life that it carries as it tries to fill the universe with itself by adapting and improving to better compete in every niche.
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WORKING CLASS WHITES SHUN DEMOCRATS
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They're fed up and aren't buying the old sop that the GOP is just for the rich.
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ANOTHER BAD COP FLEECING CITIZENS--THIS ONE THE CHIEF OF BELL
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Claimed disability yet ran in races, etc.
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Has the CMPD become too political? Is the union too powerful? Does the union run the CMPD? Shouldn't police officers who don't live in Costa Mesa stay out of local political campaigns? Would Costa Mesa be better off if the Sheriff's Department policed the city? Is the CMPD becoming less professional by being involved in partisan politics?

The questions above are ones we've heard from citizens in Costa Mesa.

These questions are sure to increase after more citizens see the negative political mailer put out by the police union that attacks Jim Righeimer, mostly because of some financial problems he had back in the '90's.

The interesting thing about the mailer is that it doesn't promote any candidate--it just attacks Righeimer. That seems to be its only purpose.

Perhaps if Righeimer had become a cop, instead of getting involved in the private sector with its ups and downs, he wouldn't have had financial problems.

Maybe if Righeimer had become a cop and was making more than $60,000 per year just in overtime (as do some cops), and had great retirement and medical benefits, he wouldn't have been hurt by a bad economy.

How about you? Would you have weathered past and present economic storms better if you got big bucks and a great retirement and super medical benefits?

Maybe if you had become a CMPD officer you could now be living in Newport Beach or other upscale community and you could be commuting in to punch the time clock and collect your money before going back to your family in a safer and more prosperous community.

And, maybe you could now be helping send out negative mailers trying to influence the voters in a community in which you can't vote as you try to elect people to the City Council who will keep raising taxes and fees on citizens so you can be paid more and get better benefits.

Link to DAILY PILOT story about the Costa Mesa Police Association.
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