CM PRESS # 12

BFF Sandy Genis & Greg Ridge
They like supersized government
with redundant employees.

UNIONS TRYING TO GET PUPPETS ON THE CITY COUNCIL TO KEEP CITIZENS PAYING THROUGH THE NOSE FOR A SUPERSIZED PAY AND PENSION SYSTEM

We just got a no on Measure V flyer here at CMPRESS HQ and it has a photo of Greg Ridge--who used to comment all the time in the newspapers as Gericault.

Correct us if we're wrong, but isn't Ridge one of the CMFROGS who constantly try to tell everyone that they have nothing to do with the unions who are spending big bucks to defeat Measure V and the 3Ms?

The reason we ask is because the flyer we received says it was "Sponsored by Orange County Employees Association ID # 1346919, 830 N. Ross Street, Santa Ana, CA 92701"
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THIS JUST IN--ANOTHER PHOTO FROM LAST NIGHT'S CHARTER DEBATE







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ZZZ-Zzzz-ZZZzzz-libDzzem--zzZZZ

SEND FOLEY TO NEWPORT BEACH

At last night's charter debate, Katrina Foley kept telling the audience how much she likes Newport Beach's charter.

Foley also has her office in Newport Beach, and she has reportedly pulled her kids out of Costa Mesa schools and put them in Newport Beach schools.

So, it seems that Foley's only link to Costa Mesa is that she sleeps here.

Hey Katrina, why don't you just move to Newport Beach?
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MEMO TO THE 3MS AND THE GOOD COUNCILMEMBERS

We've been discovered.

Geoff West [read the comments below this article in the DP] has learned that you guys are all taking orders from me.

Now, I'm not sure how he learned this, but do you remember when I had you all meet me in the field down by the pig sty and one of the pigs kept inching closer to us as I was giving you instructions? Right.

But, there's more. This character West has a very weak wall between his subconscious mind and his conscious mind  and the Freudian slips keep bubbling up to the surface.  In one of the comments this guy makes, he refers to "bacon," I mean, what could be clearer?

In another comment, but this isn't relevant here, except to point out his frequent subconscious thoughts coming out, West, who has never had children, calls Jim Righeimer "the sperm donor" of the charter. I kid you not.

Well, I'll let these photos speak for themselves.

In the future, I'll be sending you guys my instructions via your decoder rings so this guy won't catch on.

/s/ He Who Shall Not Be Named
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Foley asleep on her feet?

FOLEY SHOWS HER CONFUSION ABOUT HOW OUR GOVERNMENT WORKS

Can it be that Katrina Foley, who spent years on the City Council, simply doesn't understand that our form of government is a representative democracy?

Can she not know that we elect representatives to make decisions, and that it has always been that way in Costa Mesa since the city was first incorporated (and also in every other city that we know about in most states)?

At last night's charter debate, Foley kept coming back to the fact that the charter gives power to a majority of three on the City Council.  So what?  That's the way it is now and that's the way it has always been. The charter doesn't change that.

Foley simply had no good arguments and every one that she made was countered with facts and truth by Jim Righeimer.

The real reason for the controversy

The babe in the lowrider paint job suit got to the nub of the controversy in Costa Mesa when she asked Righeimer if the controversy about the charter is simply because some people don't like him.

And, of course, that is precisely the reason.

Those opposed to the charter are from Venus and Righeimer is from Mars.  Righeimer hasn't had a group hug with them and he hasn't walked around with teary eyes while holding a candle and singing kumbaya.  That's why they don't like him. He's not touchy feely enough for this sad crew of do-nothings.

Look, here's the reality, many of those opposed to the charter are women and they have a feminine world view driven by estrogen (which has them care more about feelings than results).  And, some of the pantywaist  men (no, they're not all pantywaists) who are opposed to it are males who seem to lack testosterone.

By contrast, many of those in favor of the charter have a more masculine world view and they like Righeimer because he gets things done.  Righeimer is results oriented, not feelings oriented.

You won't find Righeimer sitting around under the hair dryer all day talking about his feelings before pounding in a nail; he'll simply pick up a hammer and pound the nail in.

And, when he pounds the nail in and does it correctly, the Venus folks are all aghast that he didn't share his feelings with them before pounding in that nail and they are upset that he didn't have a committee formed to talk about if for six months.

Bam. Job done. It's fixed. Boo hoo, whaaaaaa, the big bad man didn't share his feelings. Whaaaaaaa.
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IN CASE YOU MISSED OUR PRO-CHARTER COLUMN THAT THE DAILY PILOT TURNED INTO A LETTER AND BURIED UNDER A GENERAL LETTERS HEADING ABOUT BIKE LANES...

Here's what the Daily Pilot ran on Saturday (2 paragraphs)...[LINK]

Keep Sacramento out of Costa Mesa

Letting the politicians in Sacramento have the say on every bit of minutiae in Costa Mesa is like having an apartment complex with hundreds of apartments but with all the controls for the TV, the heating and air conditioning, and the hot and cold water for the shower up in the Sacramento penthouse, where a small group of elites will decide what is right for them and then force that on all the other apartment dwellers.

Thank you very much, elites up in the Sacramento penthouse, but I'm an adult and I'll control my own TV, my own heating and air conditioning, and also the hot and cold water in my shower. You do not know what is best for me, so butt out.

M. H. Millard

Costa Mesa

Here's the above as we submitted it (12 paragraphs)...

Why I'm Pro Charter

by M. H. Millard

I believe that government that is small and closest to the people is generally the best. I like every smidgen of local control that we can wrest from bloated, faraway Sacramento (also from D.C., but that's for a different column).

To me,  letting the  politicians in Sacramento have the say on every bit of minutiae in Costa Mesa is like having an apartment complex with hundreds of apartments but with all the controls for the TV, the heating and air-conditioning, and the hot and cold water for the shower located up in the Sacramento Penthouse  where a small group of elites will decide what is right for them and then force that on all the other apartment dwellers.

Thank you very much elites up in the Sacramento Penthouse, but  I'm an adult and  I'll control my own TV, my own heating and air-conditioning, and also the hot and cold water in my shower.  You do not know what is best for me, you folks up there in the Sacramento Penthouse, so butt out.

I've seen a few arguments against the charter and they mostly seem to be of three general types:

The proposed charter is a Cut and Paste Job--Well, yes, that's how all contracts and legal documents are crafted.  No one starts with a blank piece of paper.  When drafting such documents you find clauses already in existence which have passed legal muster and you use them in your new document.

One of the City Council candidates who opposes the charter is an attorney (as he tells everyone at every opportunity). Ask him how he puts together contracts.  If he's truthful, he'll tell you that he has all the clauses in his computer and he cuts and pastes.  No one with any sense tries to reinvent the wheel.

The proposed charter will put too much power in the hands of the City Council---Nope.  The Council already has the power to do what it thinks is necessary to govern Costa Mesa.  They derive that power from us.  The charter simply gives the people of Costa Mesa a little more power, which we will exercise through our elected representatives.

Except in small villages and towns, usually found in rural New England, we do not have pure democracies.  The reason we don't is because with larger populations it makes no sense to have all the voters show up at Town Meetings to vote whether or not to spend $ 13.45 to buy Old Bob the street cleaner a new snow shovel or not.  Instead, we have representative democracies.  We vote for representatives--in our case, City Council members--and they figure out whether or not to buy Old Bob his snow shovel.

And if you've ever seen a City Council meeting in Costa Mesa where you have men showing up in Tutus, people shouting down speakers they don't agree with, people singing while at the podium, other people talking about drilling oil wells when the subject is the city budget, and all the rest, you'll get an idea why a pure democracy wouldn't work in a city the size of Costa Mesa. It's like a scene out of Marat/ Sade.  Poor Old Bob would be down to a shovel with no blade and the citizens still wouldn't have decided whether or not to buy him a new shovel.  You'd quickly become a fan of our lack of snow and our representative government.

The proposed charter wasn't the product of a committee of citizens-- So what?  Here's a heads up on how the real world works. Often times when those running a City form a non-blue-ribbon  committee of ordinary citizens, with no real experience in the subject being discussed, it is a purely psychological move to give the appearance that everyone contributed, and thus have citizens  buy into whatever is decided even though they have usually  been manipulated to a certain decision that was made beforehand and they really didn't contribute anything.

Instead of wasting our time on an illusory, feel-good, committee, we will now have the opportunity to vote up or down on a well written charter in November.

Here's something else. Some of the folks who oppose the charter remind me of some of the Loyalists who wanted the colonies to remain part of England.  Read some of the history of that era and you'll see what I mean. Same types of personalities.  Same arguments.

To repeat. On election day, you can vote for a little more freedom and local control for Costa Mesa by voting for the charter, or you can vote to have Sacramento dictate to us.  It's no more complicated than that.

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A FEW PHOTOS FROM LAST NIGHT'S CHARTER DEBATE IN WHICH JIM RIGHEIMER TROUNCED AN UNPREPARED AND FLUSTERED KATRINA FOLEY

Any day now

Outside the debate room

Katrina Foley with double chins

Jeffrey Harlan talking to a Q-Tip

Intro by woman wearing paint job from a low rider

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