COSTA MESA INVESTIGATES CALL CENTER
Link to Daily Pilot story.
We think there's more to this than revealed in the Daily Pilot.
In fact, in February we were working on some leads and requested the SOP from the Call Center.
After getting a runaround, and being busy with other things, we put our request on a back burner with the thought that we'd come back to it after we finished the other things we were working on.
Now, it appears we won't have to do anything but read about something that we suspected. Then again, maybe it's something else that we didn't suspect.
Let's just say that where there's smoke, there is often fire. Follow the former and you may get to the latter.
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UPDATE: WE JUST GOT A TIP THAT CONGRESSMAN ROHRABACHER (A COSTA MESA CITIZEN) MAY SPEAK AT TONIGHT'S TO-DO AT MONAHAN'S
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Link to Daily Pilot story.
We think there's more to this than revealed in the Daily Pilot.
In fact, in February we were working on some leads and requested the SOP from the Call Center.
After getting a runaround, and being busy with other things, we put our request on a back burner with the thought that we'd come back to it after we finished the other things we were working on.
Now, it appears we won't have to do anything but read about something that we suspected. Then again, maybe it's something else that we didn't suspect.
Let's just say that where there's smoke, there is often fire. Follow the former and you may get to the latter.
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UPDATE: WE JUST GOT A TIP THAT CONGRESSMAN ROHRABACHER (A COSTA MESA CITIZEN) MAY SPEAK AT TONIGHT'S TO-DO AT MONAHAN'S
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YOU'RE INVITED--IMPORTANT MEETING TONIGHTThe Costa Mesa Taxpayers Association inaugural meeting kicks off today, Thursday, March 24th, at 6:30 p.m. at Skosh Monahan's.
There'll be free appetizers and plenty of great socializing as this important group is launched in Costa Mesa.
The organizers say it's all free and they want you and your family to join them.
The group's website: http://www.cmtax.org/.
The CM PRESS likes where we think this group may be headed.
First, it's a local group and seems to want to focus on local issues. This means, we think, that it may not have people attracted to it who will waste our time telling us that we don't have to pay taxes or that we need to fill our closets with gold coins and how this or that group hiding in basements is controlling our money.
Second, we think it may have the potential to help get Costa Mesa's municipal government on the right track, not only as far as spending goes, but in other ways as well.
Third, we think it may help with the improvement of Costa Mesa.
Fourth, the City Council election of 2012 is well underway in Costa Mesa, and potential candidates may emerge from this group to either show they have the right stuff or show that they don't.
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ANOTHER ONE: 'TEENS' BRAWL INSIDE DEPARTMENT STORE
Link with video.
Okay, "teen" is one possible descriptor. These people also seem to have something more relevant in common, though. Can you guess what it might be without first looking at the video?
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TWO BLACK COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYERS CHARGED IN RACIAL ATTACK ON A WHITE MAN
Link
One of the Blacks was heard saying he was going to hit the first white person he saw. Will there be hate crime charges filed? Of course not.
The truth is that an unprovoked attack on one person because of their race is an attack on all people of that race.
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NEXT DUI CHECKPOINT THIS SATURDAY 17TH & NEWPORT
The CMPD will be conducting a DUI/Drivers License checkpoint on Saturday, March 26, 2011, on Newport Boulevard at 17th Street between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m.
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ALL THE CHICKEN LITTLES (MANY WITH THEIR HANDS IN YOUR POCKET) ARE SQUAWKING ABOUT THE END OF EXISTENCE AS WE KNOW IT
As the first business-like City Council of Costa Mesa keeps moving forward to cut the waste out of bloated local government, we keep hearing the usual cliches about how they're going too fast or that they're going to leave citizens without services. This is nonsense.
In the first place, the Council has to move fast. The ship is sinking.
Many prior Council members failed to act and just grinned, scratched their butts and kept increasing staff levels and pay and benefits in order to get election support from the out of town employee unions. Right now, we only have one Council member like that: Windy Leece. If she prevails, Costa Mesa will probably declare bankruptcy because it won't be able to pay its debts or it will be forced to raise taxes and fees to pay employees who make more--often, much more--than the citizens who are paying them.
Imagine, if you will, that you have a maid and butler in your home, and that they make more money than you do. Then, when you decide to cut back, they whine that you simply have to take a second job to keep paying them because they're entitled for some reason to have life time employment with you.
We can't tell you how many meetings we've attended over the years where we've gone to the podium and told the Council that they were wasting our money on this or that specific item or function. Our comments fell on deaf ears.
In the second place, the Council has its hands largely tied by bad contracts with employee unions so there is very little latitude in what they can do to save money.
In the third place, and we think this may be the most important point, it is much easier to hire people than to lay them off (bad union contracts again). This means if Costa Mesa does lay off many people and then finds that outsourcing isn't working for certain functions, it can easily take back those functions and hire people on the city payroll. And, we bet the line to fill such jobs, if this happens, will be a mile long.
And, on this third point, this is the main reason why the CM PRESS, has emphasized that the Council should not enter into long contracts for outsourced services. We want to be able to end those contracts if we need to do so. The other reason we have suggested that we should only have short term contracts is because it keeps those firms we contract with on their toes. They know if they screw up, they'll be gone in the blink of an eye.
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HELICOPTER DINGBAT AT IT AGAINLefty Barbara Venezia, who seems to want to channel Lucille Ball, and who may have found Luci's old bottle of red hair dye to help with the job, is at it again.
In her latest smarmy column [HERE] Venezia tells her few readers that she met with Costa Mesa's new PR flak Bill Lobdell, blah,blah,blah.
Then, near the end of her column, she writes that Mayor Gary Monahan may have to resign to improve Costa Mesa's public image.
What a load of crap.
Monahan absolutely should not resign. He did nothing wrong. Our image is fine (except with lefties).
But, here's what really bothers us about the trial balloon floated by Venezia about Monahan resigning: It came after her meeting with Lobdell.
One has to wonder if Lobdell planted that thought with Venezia. If so, he's not the right guy to be doing PR for the City.
You have lots of 'splainin to do, Lobdell.
[NOTE: The woman in the photo is Lucille Ball, not Barbara Venezia. Lucille Ball only pretended to be a dingbat.]
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UPDATE: Details on Blacks who attacked Burger King employees.
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Those are our opinions. Thanks for reading them.
CM Press, word is just coming out that Congressman and Costa Mesa resident Dana Rohrabacher will be attending and speaking at tonight's meeting of the Costa Mesa Taxpayers Association on the importance of taxpayer activism!!
ReplyDeleteIt's time, in fact it's way past time, to dump those greedy, whining city employees. Let them go get a real job like the rest of us have! Why should we pay their six figure salaries when taxpayers rarely ever make more than a mid five figure salary?
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