Monday, September 17, 2012

CM PRESS # 983

HATCH MEMO VS. HATCH ACT

In the above linked Daily Pilot article, we read that Erwin Chemerinsky seems to indicate that Costa Mesa CEO Tom Hatch's original memo about political participation of City employees was fine as it was and didn't need revising (as the CM PRESS had suggested in CM PRESS # 979).

Chemerinksy is quoted: "In fact, the government even may prohibit all political activities by its employees, even off work, as does the federal Hatch Act, for civil service employees," Chemerinsky said. "The Supreme Court has upheld this and rejected 1st Amendment challenges."

That's not totally correct.

Under the Hatch Act, the government may restrict some employees from some activities, but the above statement gives the impression that all employees and all activities can be prohibited.

By the way, and as far as we know, CEO Tom Hatch and the long deceased politician who the Hatch Act was named after are not related. But this is a neat bit of synchronicity, is it not?

We have to believe that Chemerinsky was misquoted or misunderstood by the Daily Pilot, and we expect to see Chemerinksy correct things once he reads the article.

We expect to hear a loud "What the...." coming from his office at UCI.

It would have been nice if Chermerinsky had given the reporter the actual Supreme Court case citations that he refers to in his above quoted statement to further clarify things.
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BIG UNION WANTS TO TAKE OVER THE COSTA MESA CITY COUNCIL--ALL THEY NEED  IN ORDER TO DO THAT AND TO STOP IMPROVEMENT IS 3 LOUSY SEATS ON THE COUNCIL

Sandy Genis--Union supported candidate.

John Stephens--Union supported candidate--and an
attorney with offices in Newport Beach.


Harold Weitzberg--Union supported candidate--and the guy
who bragged about shouting someone down at
the very podium you see Weitzberg at in this photo.
All that a union (or labor federation or association) needs to do to take over the Costa Mesa City Council and, thus, the whole city, and  turn the city into an ATM for out of town employees, and stop the improvement of Costa Mesa, is to win three seats on the Costa Mesa City Council.

That's it folks.  If Big Union gets three seats on the City Council they can stop the improvement of our city dead in its tracks and they can start hiring redundant union workers by the score to return to the days of big bloated government full of workers who make more than most citizens of Costa Mesa make in the private sector.

The Orange County Labor Federation has picked its three candidates to take over the Council.

They are Sandy Genis, Harold Weitzberg, John Stephens (he's an attorney with offices in Newport Beach).

HERE'S the link to the federation's endorsement page.

Watch now, as the usual dimwits say "Hey, it's not a union, it's a federation," just as they tell you that there's no police union in Costa Mesa.  It's an, er, association.

Weitzberg, you will recall, is the guy who bragged in a letter to the Daily Pilot [HERE] that he helped shout down a speaker at a City Council meeting and he even wrote that he'll do it again.

Genis has been flitting (literally) around Costa Mesa for years, but Stephens (the attorney with offices in Newport Beach) and Weitzberg (the guy who helped shout down a speaker) seem to have just fallen out
of their respective beds one day and decided to run for the Council.   Really, had you ever heard of these two before the present election season?
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1 comment:

  1. Actually they only need two candidates for a majority since Leece is already on the council.

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