AH, MORNING IN COSTA MESAAnd, even now the roads and freeways are filled with City employees coming in from their far away homes in Mission Viejo, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach and other cities.
And, among them will be a few thugs who will show up on Fair Drive to use their City owned computers to call our elected officials "Hitlers," and "murderers," and more.
Meanwhile, out in the neighborhoods of Costa Mesa, the good decent citizens of this city are watching and listening--just as they did before the last election when they rejected the hate and bigotry coming from some out of town employees who tried to defeat Jim Righeimer.
Most of these citizens won't be commenting on blogs. They're too busy supporting their families. But, they are watching and listening. And, from the comments and telelephone calls we're receiving at the CM PRESS, we can tell you they're not pleased with the hate and bigotry they see and they're especially not pleased that it is coming from out of towners who are trying to take over this city.
Meanwhile, some in the media still don't get it. They're listening to the noise made by a few nutcakes who post hate messages under a slew of different names and they're listening to a local blogger who has never been right on the major issues in Costa Mesa and they think there's a groundswell of support against the present City Council.
But, some in the media, who have been around a while, remember the elections of 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and they remember how the CM PRESS has been right in all of them. They may even suspect that we're not just reporting the weather, we're helping make it.
The folks who were at the Daily Pilot back in 2000 were the funniest to watch after Chris Steel won a seat on the City Council with our support.
All the haters had been out against him. The newspapers were against him. The local establishment was against him. Even someone in Dana Rohrabacher's office laughed at us when we suggested they support Steel. He had lost nine times before. No one gave him a chance of winning...except us and the Improvers.
After that election, in which Steel not only won, but did so with more votes than anyone else in the race, we were contacted by reporters wanting to know how such an upset was pulled off. The low I.Q. haters and bigots were coming up with all kinds of absurd suggestions about how Steel had won.
We were asked to give interviews by a whole bunch of reporters. As we always do, we told them that we don't give interviews and we write our own stuff. If people want to know what we think, they can read what we ourselves write. We also truthfully told them that they were focusing on the wrong person. It was the citizens of Costa Mesa who elected Mr. Steel. We only have one vote.
But here's the secret of how Steel won: Those supporting Steel outsmarted those who were against him. Yup, the ordinary citizens of Costa Mesa, ah, out thunk the pros.
That's also the reason why the Improvers have won in every election since then.
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CM Press, word on the street is that if the unions file paperwork to try and recall Gary Monahan, a recall effort will begin for Wendy Leece. Very interesting!!
ReplyDeleteRecalling anyone is nonsense. What is the basis? Not going to a meeting at the last second? Not being liked? As much as I would like to recall Leece, there is no sound basis to recall anyone.
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