CM PRESS # 340

HELEN THOMAS BLASTS SCHOOL FOR PULLING AWARD
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Points out that being against Zionism isn't the same as being against Jews.

Thomas's argument is roughly analogous to an argument that holds that one can be against Communism but not be against the Chinese.
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UPDATE: 8:28 P.M.--Despite the usual lefties and know nothings going to the podium telling the council that they should  appoint their pal Wendy Leece as Mayor Pro Tem again, the Council voted to seat Jim Righeimer as Mayor Pro Tem.
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BREAKING NEWS: 7:53 P.M.--Gary Monahan was elected Mayor.  Jim Righeimer is about to be elected Mayor Pro Tem.

Councilmember Leece was clearly unhappy.
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MOORLACH THINKS BEVER WANTS TO BE MAYOR
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We received the following email update from Supervisor John Moorlach this morning, which we've edited down to this relevant paragraph:

 "I predict that Gary Monahan and Jim Righeimer will nominate Eric Bever to serve as Mayor of Costa Mesa tonight. With Alan Mansoor out of the way, Bever will make the argument that Mansoor was a Mayor “hog,” always maneuvering himself into the position. Think about it, Mansoor was always mayor. Bever will argue that he was passed over once too many a time and seek the title."

Actually, Eric Bever was Mayor back in 2008, so he doesn't need to be Mayor again in order to end his time on the City Council in two years as "the former Mayor of Costa Mesa."  He already has that honor.

We're not sure Bever even wants to be the point man on the Council--the one who gets all the press and all the grief.

Bever has always struck us as being a quiet and thoughtful person more interested in the substance of improving the Westside and Costa Mesa than being in the public limelight.

Back when we were organizing for improvement, we can remember the then ponytailed Bever standing out in front of the Home Depot on Harbor Blvd. all by himself, handing out fliers for improvement.

To his credit, Bever hasn't changed.  He still gets his nails dirty in attempting to improve the Westside and all of Costa Mesa.  Being on the Council hasn't gone to his head.  You may recall that he was out putting up a large sign for Jim Righeimer just before the just past election when the political police drove by and gave him the stinkeye.

Many new readers may not know this, but Bever was working to improve Costa Mesa long before Mansoor came on the scene.

 In fact, it was at a community meeting organized at Victoria School by Bever--long before either Mansoor or Bever ran for office--that Mansoor first popped up and approached the Improvers and said that he also wanted to help improve Costa Mesa and that he was thinking of running for the City Council. 

As we've written before, either Bever or Righeimer would be fine with us as Mayor.  If Bever wants it, he has the time in grade and bonafides to take it. If he doesn't want it, then we think Righeimer would be good.

We believe either one would be good for improvement, but Bever is more of a known quantity.
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BLACKS HAVE DIFFERENT PLAQUE THAN WHITES (Racist plaque?)
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You mean plaque isn't a social construct and is caused by genes?
Genes are us.
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CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT

The big question, as we wrote before, is who will become the new Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem. 

Will Jim Righeimer get all squishy and help put Wendy Leece in as Mayor (as one of the lefties at the Daily Pilot wants) or will he try to become the Mayor on his first day on the Council? 

The CM PRESS hopes Righeimer tries to become Mayor and succeeds.

The City needs bold and decisive action to improve, and to get rid of the red ink.  We think--we hope--Righeimer is the guy who will help those things happen.

THE FUTURE OF COSTA MESA IS NOT A GAME

Although the CM PRESS often uses game metaphors and analogies to descibe our elections in Costa Mesa, this is not a game for those of us who want this city improved.

We don't want to see Jim Righeimer kiss and make up with those who smeared him in the election campaign and we hope he doesn't do that.

We've seen at least one local politician elected who did that kiss and make up crap in the past. Long time readers will know who we mean.  This guy got smeared all over town.  Then when he got elected, the smearmeisters, knowing that he now had political power, suddently started acting as his new best friends.

This dope then figured that these people had come around and now realized that he was a great guy.  Of course, this was nonsense. They played him, and he was so stupid that he didn't even know it.  He did nothing for improvement while on the dais and quickly got shunned by the Improvers.

Then, when the Improvers helped unelect him in the next election, his new best friends abandoned him.  They were never his friends.

The lefties, the unions, and Wendy Leece are not Jim Righeimer's friends.  They never will be.  We hope he understands this. 

He should be polite and professional with them, and work with them when he can, but he should never think that they have now come around and see what a great guy he is.

And, speaking specifically of Wendy Leece. She's a status quo union vote and she's also a vote against real improvement in Costa Mesa.  She talks one way and votes the other.

We would say to Jim Righeimer, if we had his ear: "Remember those dark moments during the campaign when some haters and thugs tried to destroy you and how some of them did everything they could to smear you?  Remember that they would have completely destroyed you and your family if they could have and they'd now be laughing at you, had you lost the election.

"Remember how people such as Wendy Leece didn't come to your defense?  Remember how some local political groupies and hangers-on just sat on the sidelines, like weak sisters, and let you be smeared and wouldn't defend you?  Don't forget this.  You now have the power. Use it to improve Costa Mesa."
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