CM PRESS # 774

COSTA MESA...

VOTE COUNT AS OF 5 PM. Saturday 11/15/14. All the same numbers as yesterday.

VOTES LEFT TO COUNT FOR ALL OF OC ON MONDAY: 50-- LINK

Righeimer keeps his seat.

CITY OF COSTA MESA Member, City Council Number To Vote For: 2 Completed Precincts: 70 of 70 Vote Count Percentage KATRINA FOLEY 9,346 26.5% * JIM RIGHEIMER 7,524 21.3% JAY HUMPHREY 7,477 21.2% LEE RAMOS 5,303 15.0% TONY CAPITELLI 1,856 5.3% AL MELONE 1,470 4.2% RITA LOUISE SIMPSON 1,198 3.4% CHRISTOPHER SCOTT BUNYAN 1,108 3.1% * Indicates Incumbent Candidate, if any

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DAILY PILOT ARTICLE ON LACK OF A CMPD DUI TEAM

The article tells how the former DUI teams were responsible for arresting lots of DUI drivers.

How did they do it?  The article is silent on this point.

Let me tell you my personal experience.

I don't drink alcohol. Period.  I don't do drugs. Period. I'm a Carrie Nation dream.

I was stopped twice by the CMPD DUI experts.  In both cases, my guess is that they were simply profiling drivers at certain times and in certain locations near bars and inventing reasons to stop the drivers.

In the first stop, I was on Baker Street a couple of miles from some bars. A cop pulled me over for no reason. When I asked why, he said I was impeding traffic. There actually was no other traffic on the road except the cop car and the CM PRESS MOBILE.  He let me go about ten minutes later--after looking at my papers--with no ticket.

Another time, I was going south on Harbor by the Triangle and made a right turn on W. 19th Street. A cop pulled me over. I asked why he stopped me, and he said I had failed to stop at a red light before making a right turn.  Nope, I had stopped. No doubt about it. It was a phony stop.  He asked if I had been drinking. He sniffed close to my window. Looked in my eyes. I told him I don't drink.  He let me go with no ticket.
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Check back here after 5 P.M. today for the latest and final(?) vote count from the Registrar's office.

We've been saying from day 1 that Righeimer is the winner, but there is no certainty in these things, only probabilities, until all the votes are counted.
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