Tuesday, August 16, 2011

CM PRESS # 592

ATTORNEY FOR KELLY THOMAS FAMILY SAYS FULLERTON COP WAS ALSO INVOLVED IN ANOTHER EXCESSIVE FORCE INCIDENT

Promises to file a new law suit tomorrow.
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BILLIONAIRE FUNDING THE CREATION OF FLOATING LIBERTARIAN MINI-NATIONS

If nothing else, an interesting experiment. Start with few laws and rules and see what develops to make life comfortable for the residents.
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AMERICA'S BEST PLACES TO LIVE 2011

None of them are very diverse and most are overwhelmingly white.  Are you surprised?
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NEW COUNCIL GETS COSTA MESA AN A+ TRANSPARENCY RATING

Highly compensated out of town employees not so happy about the transparency as indicated by all the whining about having their great salaries and benefits being shown to the public last week.
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OUT OF TOWN UNION SCREWS UP AGAIN (be careful what you ask for)

Here's the chess moves to date:

1. City sends out requests for proposals (RFP's) on outsourcing.

2. Out of town union says City must follow City Council Policy 100-6 and form committees to do this and that the committees must have employee members.

3. City agrees and asks out of town union to name the employee members they want on the committees.

4. Out of town union chokes and tells city to have City Attorney lay everything out first.

5. City says that's not part of City Council Policy 100-6 and that the out of town union must name the members they want on the committees.

6. ? It's now the out of town union's move. They may have set themselves up for a checkmate.
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 SLIPPERY LEECE:  'I SPENT UNDER $ 16,000 IN MY LAST ELECTION CAMPAIGN'

That one statement from Wendy Leece at her town hall meeting last night sums up one of the problems with Wendy's world view: She doesn't mind telling half-truths and being slippery.

The $ 16,000 is just a partial truth. The whole truth is that the out of town unions spent many thousands of dollars more in printing up mailers and signs for her election.  As we showed you in CM PRESS # 591, the unions spent more than $ 12,000 on just one mailing for Wendy, and that was just part of the thousands they spent on her behalf.

The failed out of town union strategy was to prop up Wendy and elect Chris McEvoy with positive mailings and signs while knocking off Jim Righeimer with a nasty campaign against him that included some cops pulling a disgusting A-Frame Sign around town behind a Cadillac Escalade.

What we're talking about with Wendy in this column is a lack of character.

At another point during the meeting last night, Wendy tried to again explain why the local GOP is angry at her.

Wendy's explanation?  She was called before the GOP Central Committee and GOP Suit Scott Baugh told her that the GOP was concerned about the run-away pensions and that the GOP really needed  her "third vote [on the Costa Mesa City Council in order to stop the run-away pensions in Costa Mesa.]"  Wendy said she then told Baugh and the rest of the Central Committee that she was also "concerned about the pensions."

Now folks, if you read the above paragraph, wouldn't you believe that Wendy, who said that she was also "concerned about the pensions," would then vote against the pension giveaway?  The GOP Central Committee also believed that.  But, you see, they didn't count on Wendy's Clintonesque slippery two step in which she seems to say one thing but then does the other.

Wendy is like Bill Clinton in drag.  "That depends on the definition of 'is.'"

Aren't you fed up with politicians who do this slippery crap?  Don't you want politicians who keep their word? Don't you want politicians who tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

Switch now to Jim Righeimer who is called names by the haters and bigots who support Wendy.  He clearly stated before the election what he wanted to do to fix broken Costa Mesa. Complete straight talk. No mincing of words.  No slippery double meanings.  And, once elected he started doing exactly what he said he would do.  That, folks, is called character.  That is called honesty.

MORE...

There were about 50 people at the sparsely attended meeting.  Most appeared to be local lefties.

Former CMPD chief Snowden was there and gave us a wave and a sour look as we took his photo. 

Seen in the audience were many of the people who constantly show up at City Council meetings to complain about just about everything the good Councilmembers are doing to fix this city. This group included Sandy Genis, Robin Lefler, Cindy Brennerman, Billy Folsom, Jay Humphrey.

At a table in the rear of the room was a flier from "Costa Mesans for Responsible Government," telling us that City employees are all swell and contract employees aren't so swell. Yawn.

EVEN MORE...

A troubling note was sounded by Lt. Sharpnack of the CMPD who told the audience that the CMPD was going to print up fliers in Spanish to reach out to people who live in "south" Costa Mesa (he apparently meant the southern part of the Westside, i.e. the area from around 19th Street to the Newport Beach border).

Now, who needs to read fliers from the cops in Spanish?  Right, illegal aliens.  Did Sharpnack's comment indicate that the CMPD is still going to schmooze with suspected illegal aliens as it has in the past?

Folks, part of the reason the Westside is  the bad side of town is because of all the illegal aliens there along with their supporting charities and lefty do-gooders.  The area can't improve if it remains a Spanish speaking ghetto.  That area of town has to join the rest of Costa Mesa as part of an American city.

Improvers are totally against Costa Mesa printing up fliers or signs in Spanish.  Print them in English or don't print them at all.  When in the U.S.A. do as the, er, USAians do.

Also in the audience were Jim Righeimer and Steve Mensinger along with some people from the Planning Commission and other agencies including Jim Fisler from Mesa Consolidated Water District.
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1 comment:

  1. CM Press, I attended Windy's town hall--yawn! Nothing of substance--lock your car doors, secure your valuables, etc. I only noticed a small group of fringe haters. If that's the "army" the union is counting on, good luck. Doesn't Dave Snowden have his own problems, he lives in Newport and works at Beverly Hills PD. Oh, by the way, Costa Mesa is looking at outsourcing the City jail to the same private company that already runs Beverly Hills jail. The irony is hilarious!

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