CM PRESS # 471

FINNISH RIGHTIST PARTY MAKES BIG GAINS IN ELECTION
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Jumps from 6 seats to 39.
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WENDY LEECE'S SILENCE

We just went to Wendy Leece's blog [HERE] to see if she had any comments on the terroristic threat against Mayor Monahan.   Nope, nothing from Wendy. 

We guess she wants to go slow.  Doesn't want to move too fast. Wants to take time.  Wants to think it over.   Perhaps,she wants to put her finger in the air.  Doesn't want to rush. Wants to wait for word from her lefty supporters.

Wendy is a nice person, and we don't like to write negative things about her, but geez, she seems to be listening to the wrong people.  She's just gotten off on the wrong track and isn't thinking logically about what is best for the citizens of this city and what is best for improving the Westside.

HOW WENDY GOT ON THE CITY COUNCIL IN THE FIRST PLACE

We feel partly responsible for Wendy being on the City Council.

Here's what happened. 

Back when Wendy was defeated for her school board seat by Tom Egan, we went to a couple of our local politicians and suggested that Wendy would be good for the improvement of the Westside but would probably get out of politics if something wasn't done to keep her warm and to set her up for a possible future run for the Council. 

So, we suggested that they reach out to her and give her a seat on the Parks and Recreation Commission where everyone could see how she'd do and how she'd vote. 

Our reasoning for suggesting PRC rather than Planning was because the PRC interfaces with the school district (playing fields, etc.) and  we felt that Wendy would be a natural and could shine on that commission, since she had been on the NMUSD board.

Anyway, some of the folks then apparently did talk to Wendy (if I remember correctly, she had gone to Hawaii to nurse her wounds after losing to Egan), and she was asked if she'd like to be on the Parks and Recreation Commission. She accepted.

Fast forward a couple of years and the next City Council election was approaching. 

The guy who was in line to get Improver support, and who expected it, was told, to his surprise, that he wasn't just going to be given the nod, but had to show that he could be a better campaigner and do a better job in raising funds--before officially deciding to run--than Wendy.

He wasn't pleased about this because he had been in the trenches for years and had graciously bowed out of prior campaigns in order not to split the Improver vote.

Anyway, when all was said and done, and in the eyes of the politicians, Wendy did  end up doing a better job in campaigning and raising funds. So, she was told she would get the support, and the other person was told that he wouldn't get the support.

Wendy then pulled papers and the other individual didn't.

Wendy later went on to win the election.
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LIST OF PROLIFIC HATERS AND BIGOTS WHO NEED TO BE IDENTIFIED, QUESTIONED AND ELIMINATED AS SUSPECTS IN THE ATTACK ON MONAHAN

cmwatcher2011
bigdawg
station44
daddytaughtmegood
almost done
rigdiculous
brocktoon
Mike O'Reilly
wallywallace
debbiemallard1
OCJester
UtterlyDisgusted

Since many on the above list are suspected of being city employees, including cops and at least one civilian employee of the CMPD, does it make sense to have the CMPD investigate the terroristic threat against Gary Monahan?

A few of the above have switched to new screen names but you can recognize them because of their distinctive mistakes in writing.

The buzz is that several of the above have been identified with a high degree of probability.

With the physical attack and written threat, this whole hate fest caused by the bigots and haters has been ratcheted up several notches and citizens want some arrests made.

We know that some citizens contacted city government about some prior blog post threats, and that they were told that the threats were being looked into.  Well, if that was just to pour oil on troubled waters and do nothing, that should change.

This brick and threat are not minor things. This shouldn't be minimized as vandalism.  This was a serious terroristic threat that was aimed at intimidating an elected official.
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CITIZENS ARE SAYING THAT COSTA MESA SHOULD CALL IN THE FBI TO INVESTIGATE THE THREAT MADE TO GARY MONAHAN

According to this article in the OC REGISTER, the CMPD took about 45 minutes to respond to Skosh Monahan's after a brick with a threat was thrown through his window.

The police station is about  3 minutes (literally) away from Monahan's.

Also according to the OC REGISTER article, the CMPD isn't taking this incident very seriously, even though this was a threat against an elected official--the Mayor of our city. 

And, this was far more than just some hot head spouting off in vague terms.

This was done by someone who apparently thought this through in a premeditated fashion, obtained a brick, fashioned a note, attached the note to the brick, surveilled the bar, and then threw the brick through a window.

How serious was this person?  Well, apparently, this person had to throw the brick multiple times to get it to break a window.  So, it wasn't just someone walking by who picked up a random brick, scribbled a note and threw it. This was a calculated hate crime and a serious terroristic threat, by someone who is obviously mentally unbalanced and who is acting out his hatred. 

What will this person do next?  Will he bring more than a brick the next time?

According to the OC REGISTER article, the CMPD is  apparently just treating this as an act of vandalism as though this serious threat and attack  is the same as one in which a 10-year-old kid walking home from school  kicks over a trash container on a whim.

This was not a simple property crime. 

This was a threat and an attack against an elected official.  It was not the building or the bar that was attacked.  This was an attack on Gary Monahan, personally, with the bar simply acting as a surrogate...this time.

Now, the CMPD says it is going to investigate?  Who will do that in the CMPD? 

Will it be the cops who dragged a big anti-Righeimer sign around the city? 

Will it be the cops who are spending hours posting hate on the Daily Pilot site?

Will it be the cop who put a GPS device on a woman's car to stalk her? 

Will it be the cop who got in a bar fight and shot a guy to death in front of the guy's young son? 

Will it be the cops, whose names the CMPD refuses to divulge, who allegedly tried to intimidate two people putting up Righeimer signs?

Will it be the cops who took 45 minutes to respond to this threat and attack?

Will it be the two cops who tried to intimidate an activist after he wrote a rebuttal column to one written by a former chief?

Many citizens believe it's time to have a trusted outside agency investigate this crime and that the FBI be asked to help with the investigation.

YOU DO NOT THREATEN ELECTED OFFICIALS. PERIOD.

By the way, did you see how the press has characterized this as "an attack on Monahan's bar"?

It was not an attack on the bar.  It was an attack on Monahan.  He was the object of the attack.
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