LOOKS LIKE THIS IS THE FINAL TALLY ON THE CM COUNCIL ELECTION CITY OF COSTA MESA Member, City Council |
Number To Vote For: 3 |
Completed Precincts: 71 of 71 |
Vote Count | Percentage | |
SANDRA L. "SANDY" GENIS | 15,982 | 17.9% |
STEVE MENSINGER | 14,199 | 15.9% |
GARY MONAHAN | 13,945 | 15.6% |
JOHN STEPHENS | 13,790 | 15.5% |
COLIN MCCARTHY | 13,450 | 15.1% |
HAROLD WEITZBERG | 11,697 | 13.1% |
AL MELONE | 3,658 | 4.1% |
JAMES RADER | 2,449 | 2.7% |
WHERE WENDY LEECE AND OTHER IMPROVEMENT OBSTRUCTIONISTS AND IMPROVERS DISAGREE
IMPROVERS: Want to spend a higher percentage of City revenues on fixing the physical aspects of our city so that it is a better physical place that will attract and hold upwardly mobile citizens.
IMPROVEMENT OBSTRUCTIONISTS: Want to spend a higher percentage of our City Revenues in hiring more City employees and in helping charities prosper.
IMPROVERS: Know that people matter and they take a dynamic view of our city and know that people are free to move in and out of Costa Mesa any time they choose. Thus, they try to attract highly educated, upwardly mobile people to the City by providing the physical things that attract such people.
IMPROVEMENT OBSTRUCTIONISTS: They don't seem to realize that we can improve our city to attract the type of people who will be contributing citizens, and they act as though we have no control over our fate and that what will be, will be.
They have a hard time understanding genuine cause and effect and often posit false causes for effects. If there is higher crime, they don't correctly see this as a result of Costa Mesa attracting and holding people prone to crime, partly due to the slums. They mistakenly see it as a matter of having too few police officers.
If the students in the schools score low on standardized tests, they wrongly blame the teachers or the school district and don't realize the problem is the demographics of the City, which, of course, feeds students to the schools.
If there are hungry and homeless people any place in the region, they wrongly believe Costa Mesa should feed them, medicate them and take care of them, and if any long time citizens of the City complain, well these citizens are just cold hearted.
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