CM PRESS # 803

HEY KIDS, GET IN ON THE LATEST CRAZE--MISINTERPRET WHAT JIM RIGHEIMER HAS SAID AND THEN WRITE TO THE DAILY PILOT OR SPEAK TO ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN TO YOU AND TELL THEM THAT YOU'RE NOT A UNION MEMBER

If you've been following the local scene and have half a brain, you'll know that Mayor Pro Tem Righeimer has indicated that in his opinion the unions (or as some like to label themselves: associations) are the driving force behind many of the antis.

He has not said that all the pawns showing up at meetings to say the same things over and over are union members, er, association members, or that these pawns are even fully aware of the union, ah, association connections.

Many, but not all, of these people are just being used by the unions  associations. Many of them don't even know what they're supposed to be mad about.  Something about a helicopter, or is it layoffs, no, maybe its about a charter (whatever in the world that is), or maybe the Council hasn't appointed fifteen person committees to decide whether or not to paint a curb. 

The antis want us all to be against rightsizing government and taking some of the power away from Sacramento and giving it to those of us who live in Costa Mesa and they want us to be against getting the best price on labor, goods and services that we can get.

Yes, we should all wave red flags (or pieces of colored paper) in the air and yell: Workers of the World (some of whom make more than $300,000 per year) Unite! Fight the bourgeoisie! Support the proletariat!

Hey, wait a minute.  You mean to tell me that some members of the proletariat make $ 300,000 per year for climbing ladders and holding hoses?  Why, they make more than the bourgeoisie.  And, you mean many of them live in expensive homes in Newport Beach? There's something wrong here.

The workers have become the bosses and push the elected officials around and tell them how many people to hire and what to pay them and what benefits to give them, and the elected officials can do little but obey.

This is screwy.  We didn't vote for City employees--many of whom don't even live here and thus can't vote here--to run this city. 

We voted for our fellow citizens of Costa Mesa to work part time on the City Council on our behalf, and we pay them a very small amount of money for this service and we expect them to hold regular jobs to support themselves and their families.

It's time we restore the natural order and put the elected officials back in charge. They're the ones who have a fiduciary responsibility to the voters.   They're the ones who have to act like adults and not give away our money when some creeps stomp their feet on the floor or call them names to try to intimidate them.
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 BLACK COLLEGE GIRL GOES CRAZY IN CLASS AND THREATENS TO KILL WHITE PEOPLE

Caught on video.
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CM FIREFIGHTERS UNION ASSOCIATION SAYS...

"We didn't become firefighters in order to play politics." 

That was one of the things we saw in a slick brochure put out by the  union association that was in the rear of Council Chambers last night.

Well, if you don't want to play politics, then stay the hell out of Costa Mesa politics.  Stop spending thousands of dollars each election year in trying to elect scumbag political puppets who will repay you by giving you more of our money.  Act like professionals and do your job and then go home to your own cities and leave the politics of Costa Mesa alone.
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Stock photo of City Council

REPORT ON LAST NIGHT'S CITY COUNCIL MEETING

**Public Comments will still be near the front of the meeting after Mayor Bever decided to keep them there, so long as the City Council meetings stay orderly.  He reserved the right to trail them to the end of the meeting on a meeting by meeting basis if he wishes.

**Urban Master Plan screening request for five, three story detached homes at 1974 Meyer Place was heard and commented on by the Council and some in the audience including the CM PRESS.  We believe this project is underparked and we suggested that the developer should build one less unit.  Councilmember Mensinger disagreed and said the problem was not underparking but people using their garages for purposes other than parking their cars.   OUR POSITION: Don't approve these projects on the basis that people should park their cars in their garage, but on what really happens. The reality is that neighbors around such projects are going to suffer because of increased parking on the street.

**19th Street Sign project will move forward but not as contemplated in the staff report.  Instead, Mayor Bever will marshal the efforts and will, with the help of citizens, come up with a design and hopefully a local fabricator to make a sign to help re-brand this street and perhaps the whole Westside.
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