CM PRESS # 38

THE LIE: IF ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE TURNED OVER TO ICE, THE POLICE WON'T BE ABLE TO GET TIPS FROM THE "COMMUNITY" THAT WILL LEAD TO THE ARREST OF CRIMINALS AND MAKE EVERYONE SAFER.


THE TRUTH: DEPORTING ILLEGAL ALIENS WON'T CUT OFF THE NON-EXISTENT TIPS, BUT WILL DRIVE DOWN CRIME.

If you've been reading the LA TIMES or the OC REGISTER you're aware that Santa Ana, which is perhaps the most illegal alien occupied city as well as the most illegal alien friendly city in the nation (those two things go together), has almost nightly killings on its streets.

This past Sunday, two 14-year-old kids were shot to death on East Camile Street in Santa Ana.

Fourteen years old! The police say that the 14-year-olds had gang affiliations. This is as if to say, "See, your own kids are safe. This was just a gang matter. Don't worry about it."

Well, this is something to worry about. Santa Ana's illegal alien fueled gangs, illegal alien crimes, and other problems are spreading to Costa Mesa. Our schools are failing. Our middle class is fleeing. Our slums are growing. We now have gang shootings on our streets. Gang graffiti is common.

(By the way, there was more gang graffiti this morning (12/20) in Mesa del Mar where Katrina Foley lives. Libs are probably confused about this. Didn't they just spend about $ 200,000 of our money to pave a slum alley near that graffiti? Why didn't that solve the gang problems in Mesa del Mar? Hmmm? Maybe the libs will next suggest we plant some flowers in front of the slum buildings. That's sure to solve the gang problems. )

What do the libs want to do about illegal alien crime in Costa Mesa? They want to give our tax money to some midnight basketball type charities that many citizens believe are part of the problem, not part of the solution. And, they want to make Costa Mesa even more friendly for illegal aliens.

Most intelligent citizens realize that this is going in the wrong direction and will just act as a magnet for more problems for Costa Mesa.

But, what about that lie that opened this column about making nice with illegal aliens to drive down crime? It doesn't work and it won't work.

Here's a quote from a column today on page Local 2 in the OC REGISTER about the shooting of the two 14-year-olds: "As detectives try to figure out who wanted the teenagers dead, they must wade their way through a tight-lipped community snapped shut with fear."

Forget that part about "snapped shut with fear." That's nonsense. There are plenty of opportunities for people to talk to the police anonymously; and in Santa Ana--the most illegal alien friendly city in the U.S., remember--there is no fear of being deported if you do talk to the cops.

So why aren't people coming forward to help the police find the killer of the two kids? Again, the cops in Santa Ana are the new best friends of illegal aliens and won't turn them over to ICE, so why are the non-citizens silent?

Haven't the libs been telling us that we'd better be nice to illegal aliens or they won't help drive down crime (that they cause)? Haven't the libs been telling us that Costa Mesa would have more crime because of a meanie Mayor and his policies to turn illegal aliens over to ICE?

So, how do the libs explain the silence of illegals in Santa Ana? Could it be the libs are wrong? Yup. They are dead wrong. And, their liberal views, which have been in effect in Costa Mesa for at least the last two decades, have driven our city down to levels just above the very low levels of Santa Ana.

But, the answer to the larger question about why "immigrants" don't talk to the cops lies in the fact that there is a different culture at work than we are used to in the U.S. Most people in such cultures just don't talk to the cops or most other government officials--even in their own countries.

It would take too long here to go into all the complex reasons for this and we'd have to discuss anti-European racism that sees most authority figures as part of the European type's perceived innate cultural and social norms (The "You kids get off my lawn," phenomena.) and a fatalism based on religion and other factors, as well as the noblesse oblige racism that often underlies various liberal do-good programs that actually make things worse.

But here's a tantalizer and a dot to connect up if you can: There's a reason why so many pedestrians are hit and killed by cars as the pedestrians cross the streets in Santa Ana, and it's not usually because the pedestrians are unaware that cars use the streets or because the pedestrians are drunk.

There's a correlation between the high pedestrian fatality rate in Santa Ana and the fact that people don't talk to the cops and various other things we see in Santa Ana and increasingly in Costa Mesa. Human beings aren't fungible. If you think they are--if you deny their true humanity--you'll never get things right.

Take understanding from this, Grasshopper.

The cops can schmooze with the "immigration" population all they want and they can look the other way when they come into contact with illegal aliens with no identification, drivers licenses, auto insurance or registration and it's not going to lead to tips--except in rare instances--to drive down our crime in Costa Mesa anymore than it has in Santa Ana.

The way you drive down crime is by making your your city intolerant of crime and by removing the habitats and magnets for a criminal element.
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CM PRESS # 37

THE SKY IS STILL FIRMLY ABOVE US

During the recent election campaign, there were some libs in Costa Mesa who did pretty good imitations of Chicken Little as they warned of dire consequences if the citizens of Costa Mesa didn't defeat Mr. Mansoor and Ms. Leece.

We're happy to report that the sky is still where it should be. Not a smidgen of it has fallen.

Also, from all reports, the three improvement minded members of the City Council (Mansoor/Leece/Bever) are hard at work trying to get Costa Mesa back on track to being the great coastal city that it should be.

Of course, some of the usual Chicken Littles are still running around with their dire and vague predictions of the sky's impending fall. These perennially unhappy sad sacks might want to seek professional help to get over their negative thoughts and self-destructive obsessions.

As for Mr. Mansoor, Ms. Leece and Mr. Bever; you have a mandate. It's up to you to lead Costa Mesa forward. The parade is there. You just need to jump in front. If you don't do this with all the political power the citizens have given you...well, you may remember a former City Councilmember.
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CM PRESS # 36

CITY COUNCIL MAJORITY SHOULD BRING IN THEIR OWN TEAM TO GET THE JOB DONE

BACKGROUND AND BASICS

In the best of all worlds, people run for public office because they have things that they want to accomplish--they have a big vision.

Of course, there are some who run because they just want to pad their resumes or for other reasons and they really have no desire to do anything except collect their pay checks and avoid controversy.

We've had some candidates in the past who told the CM PRESS, when asked about their big visions for our city, that they didn't have any visions and would just listen to the people. This was an empty suit and an empty head answer.

It goes without saying that elected officials should listen to people, but these officials should come to the table with big visions that they want to see implemented. We don't need empty suits with no ideas to be our political priests to intercede on our behalf between us and government. We can all talk directly to government ourselves.

We need elected officials with big visions for our city who will tell us what these visions are and who believe strongly enough in their visions that they will argue for them, but who will be open minded enough to listen to other arguments.

In other words, let's have our elected officials run their big visions and major ideas up the flagpole to see if we salute. Note that the CM PRESS isn't saying that all decisions should be run up the flagpole. Many things that are decided by government are routine in nature. Under our representative form of government, the citizens have delegated certain of their authority to our elected officials to handle these routine matters for us. Notwithstanding this, however, citizens need to keep a watch on these routine matters to make sure someone hasn't slipped in something major among the routine matters so it won't be seen.

THE TWO COMMISSIONS

How do our elected officials in Costa Mesa implement their big visions? It's often through many small decisions made by the Council and by the two Commissions appointed by the Council. The cumulative effect of many bad small decisions over the years by liberal City Councils has caused Costa Mesa to become less like our sister coastal communities.

The good or bad decisions often start with the two Commissions we have in Costa Mesa that are appointed by the City Council.

Each Commission is composed of five people: The Planning Commission (often called the no-Planning Commission by the CM PRESS), and the Parks and Recreation Commission. All Commission members serve at the pleasure of the City Council.


The Planning Commission is the second most important body in this city after the City Council. There are five Planning Commissioners. Planning Commissioners receive about $ 400 per month and some other benefits for their service. The current members of this Commission are: Bill Perkins, Bruce Garlich, Eleanor Egan, Donn Hall and Jim Fisler.

In third place in importance is the Parks and Recreation Commission. Parks and Recreation Commissioners get paid about $ 100 per month (if memory serves). The current members of this Commission are: Mark Harris, Bob Graham, David Stiller, Byron De Arakal, Wendy Leece ( Ms. Leece was just elected to the City Council so her seat is open).

It is important to note, here, that neither Commission requires that its members come to their positions with much specific knowledge or expertise. They are, however, supposed to have at least average intelligence and be able to reason logically based on the facts presented to them so that they can arrive at proper conclusions about matters that they decide. For example, a Parks and Recreation Commissioner doesn't have to know Elms from Palm trees.

The Commissioners are there for their judgement. Staff supplies specific facts and expertise. In the above example, Staff will tell the Parks and Recreation Commissioners the difference between an Elm and a Palm tree.

The Commissioners are a little like a judge and jury in a courtroom. They hear the pros and cons of various matters and make decisions about the things that come before them.

The City Council has a right to expect these Commissions to carry out the will of the Council and not go against the Council consensus especially as the consensus relates to the direction our city will take (the aforementioned big visions).

If you see the City Council constantly overturning decisions by either of these two Commissions, you have a clue that the Commission involved may not be in sync with the majority on the Council.

In the just past election, some of the members of both Commissions took political sides that give a clue as to whether they're for genuine improvement or not.

In simplest terms, some Commission members were on the side of improvement and some went with the anti-improvers and supported candidates who lost in the just past election.

Two visions. Improvement or anti-improvement. The lines were more clearly drawn in this just past election than in any election in recent memory.

Improvers took note of which side the Commissioners were on (and also of their past comments and decisions) and are telling the CM PRESS that on the Planning Commission, the two Commissioners who are most likely to help with genuine improvement are Donn Hall and Jim Fisler.

On the Parks and Recreation Commission the two Commissioners who Improvers feel are best for genuine improvement are Mark Harris and Bob Graham
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COMMITTEES

There are also a number of Committees whose members are appointed by the City Council.

These Committees consist of volunteer citizens, who receive no compensation, and their role is advisory. We'll get into these Committees in a future issue of the CM PRESS, but what you should keep in mind is that the Council has actually appointed people who don't even live in Costa Mesa to some of these Committees and has also appointed people to some committees who are strongly against genuine improvement of Costa Mesa.
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CM PRESS # 35

TOO MANY REHAB HOMES IN COSTA MESA?

The Current has a good article about rehab homes in today's paper. http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/sections/news/local/communities/costamesa_newport/

According to the article here's how Costa Mesa and other cities in the ring of cities stack up against each other for state-licensed homes. There could be hundreds more that aren't licensed because they have six or fewer residents and don't need to be licensed by the state.

Costa Mesa----------20
Santa Ana-----------20
Newport Beach------11
Huntington Beach----2
Irvine----------------1
Ft. Valley------------No info available.

So, in yet another statistic, Costa Mesa is joined at the hip with Santa Ana.
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CM PRESS # 34

WHAT ARE YOUR KIDS BREATHING COSTA MESA?
(Another part of the Mansoor/Leece mandate)

According to news reports today, the European Union has just passed a tough chemical law that regulates about 30,000 toxic substances. (See LA TIMES, pg A9, 12/14)

This law is far tougher than any we have in the U.S.

It seems the Europeans are getting fed up with their citizens dying of cancer and other diseases caused by toxic substances.

Switch now to Costa Mesa.

As we've reported many times before, the way Costa Mesa has developed is backwards.

Our best land for homes is on the Westside bluffs. This land has some ocean views and almost constant moist ocean breezes. Instead of homes, Costa Mesa has a massive industrial area on these bluffs.

In fact, of the cities in the ring of cities (those cities that surround Costa Mesa and which touch some part of our land), only Santa Ana has more of its land zoned for industrial uses than Costa Mesa and Santa Ana doesn't have its industrial buildings on view bluffs between the ocean and people.

Here's a comparison that should make Costa Mesan's shudder. Costa Mesa has a whopping 14% of its land zoned for industrial uses and much of it is on our Westside bluffs.

Newport Beach only has 2% of its land zoned this way, and much of the industrial zoning in Newport Beach is on the Westside bluffs right next to Costa Mesa. Huntington Beach only has 8% of its land zoned for industrial uses and most of that is far inland.

The CM PRESS has long maintained that Costa Mesa needs a proper balance and that we should only have about 7% of our land zoned for industrial uses and most of this should be downwind of most of our population, not upwind as it is now.

In the just past election, many of the out of town industrialists tried to elect Bruce Garlich and Mike Scheafer to the City Council. They failed.

The voters of Costa Mesa gave a mandate to Allan Mansoor and Wendy Leece to clean up and improve this city. Part of that mandate is to move at warp speed to revitalize the Westside and make it a nice and safe place to live--with clean air.

We'll be watching to see if Mr. Mansoor and Ms. Leece, along with Mr. Bever, can finally break the stranglehold of out of town interests that have been screwing up Costa Mesa for many years and if they can turn our present Slum on the Slopes into the Shining City on the Hill that it should be.

For all their PTA type cooing talk, Katrina Foley and Linda Dixon have been very silent about cleaning up our bluffs. Could that be because some of their pals are the out of towners who tried to defeat Mansoor and Leece?

Could it be that Foley and Dixon really don't care about what our kids are breathing? Are they as much in denial about toxic chemicals as they are about illegal alien crime in our city?

No doubt, they'd give their usual lip service to saying that we should have a clean and safe city. The problem is that when it comes time to actually do something about it, they always seem to be on the side of the improvement obstructionists.

If you get a chance, ask Foley and Dixon why they don't seem concerned about what our kids are breathing. If they give you a phony PC answer (which is likely), ask if they'd like to see homes built on the bluffs to replace some industrial buildings as a step toward the transformation of Costa Mesa into the great city that it should be.
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CM PRESS # 33

DISCRIMINATION? WHAT DISCRIMINATION?

At tonight's City Council study session, the CM PRESS once again told the City Council of a non-profit in Costa Mesa that got caught by the feds discriminating based on race/ethnicity.

We even held up a copy of the official federal consent decree from the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, that we obtained about the case.

We also told the Council that in our opinion there are other non-profits that the Council is funding with our tax money that may be discriminating in a similar fashion and should be looked into.

Oh, did we forget to mention that the discrimination is against White citizens and favors some who may not even be in the country legally?
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CM PRESS # 32

WHERE WILL THE NEW POLICE CHIEF LIVE?

Improvers are telling the CM PRESS that they hope that Costa Mesa's new police chief, who starts work the first week of January, will buy a home in Costa Mesa when he moves his family here from Arizona.

The last two police chiefs chose not to live in our city that pays them so well.

Even though they didn't live here and couldn't vote here, these last two police chiefs tried to use the innate influence that goes with the title of police chief to defeat Mayor Mansoor and new City Councilmember Wendy Leece in the recent election.

Most Improvers agree that having our high ranking city employees--such as the police chief-- actually living here, under the same conditions as we live under, would be a good thing for the improvement of Costa Mesa.

We'll let you know if the new chief chooses to live in Costa Mesa or not.
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CM PRESS # 31

ICE AGENT AT JAIL ALREADY HAVING AN EFFECT!

One Quarter of arrestees so far are illegal aliens

The buzz on the streets is that twenty-five percent of recent Costa Mesa arrestees have been discovered to be illegal aliens by the ICE agent who has just started work at the Costa Mesa jail.

Our guess is that, if the CMPD doesn't play catch and release on the streets, this percentage will rise to something probably a little shy of about fifty percent.

Why didn't you read about this in the Daily Pilot? The Pilot has access to the same information and should be able to hear the same buzz as the CM PRESS.

Could it be that this information doesn't fit the Pilot's agenda? Could it be that the Pilot is putting too many of its resources into trying to get quotes from Katrina Foley about whatever meaningless thing she's doing now?

Long time readers might remember that a long time Daily Pilot employee was murdered by an illegal alien who had been living in a one bedroom apartment in the Shalimar slum with twelve others.

You'd think that murder, that wouldn't have happened had the illegal alien not been welcomed here in Costa Mesa, would have caused some of the liberals at the Daily Pilot and their pals who are trying to stop improvement of our city to realize that Costa Mesa has to stop being a sanctuary city for illegal aliens.

But, the liberal mind is a closed mind, dear friends. It is full of bigotry and hate masquerading as compassion. It is a mind that can't accept facts that don't fit its closed mind worldview. It is a mind full of neuroses. It is a mind that denies the truth in favor of sweet nothings.

Examples of this constantly appear in the editorial and opinion pages of the Pilot as some of these libs write in and say they've never seen crime in Costa Mesa [and, therefore, there must be none]. One recent letter writer wrote just such nonsense--and we've had five murders in the last few months. "Crime? What crime? I don't see any crime."
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CM PRESS # 30

DAILY PILOT, DUH!

We searched the editorial and opinion pages of the Sunday Daily Pilot today to find something worthwhile to comment on, but there was nothing intelligent there.
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CM PRESS # 29

WE GET MAIL ABOUT KATRINA FOLEY

Dear CM PRESS:

You know that "Keep Kids Alive, Drive 25" campaign that Katrina Foley keeps getting press coverage over? I seem to remember that former Mayor Sandy Genis came up with that idea, or something very similar, years ago.

The council majority at that time decided instead to go with the existing, boring "slow down you are entering a residential neighborhood" signs. If I remember correctly, Ms. Genis wanted the plan to start on the Eastside and then expand city wide, while Foley is apparently just doing it in her own Mesa del Mar neighborhood (naturally).

I also noted the coincidence that Foley "happened to" see the Pilot reporter at South Coast Plaza the day after Thanksgiving, per recent new story. Isn't it amazing that with over one hundred thousand people at SCP on Friday, the reporter ran into Foley? Pilot reporters and Foley seem to keep running into each other, just by coincidence, at all kinds of places. Does she have a hired publicist or do the Pilot reporters fulfill that function for free?

Name Withheld by CM PRESS

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WE COMMENT

Anything that makes our city nicer and safer is welcome.

However, it seems to the CM PRESS that many of the things that Foley does are noncontroversial window dressing sorts of things and then the Pilot gives her maximum press coverage as though she's just done something very major and substantive when she hasn't.

We half expect to see a headline in the Pilot that reads: "FOLEY BAKES COOKIES--SAVES COSTA MESA!"

Meanwhile, the Pilot is largely silent or downplays the meaningful things that Mayor Mansoor and Mayor Pro Tem Bever have done and are doing.

Mr. Mansoor and Mr. Bever are responsible for closing down the job center and for the Westside Residential Overlay and for many other substantive things that are already starting to make a real difference in our city. What they are doing is mostly not window dressing.

And, for their genuine efforts to make our city nicer, they're often insulted in the pages of the Pilot. Of course, maybe that's to be expected. If you really do something substantive, it's easy to be criticized. If you do nothing but fluff (such as what Foley usually does) you get little criticism--except from improvement minded citizens who realize that we can't sit on our hands in Costa Mesa anymore.

After years of bad decisions and neglect, we now have to move boldly to fix things to make Costa Mesa more like our coastal neighboring cities. Foley and Dixon won't do it.

If our city is to be improved, it'll be Mansoor and Bever and now Leece who will have to lead the way and do the heavy lifting to get things done.

Meanwhile, if the recent past is any clue, Foley and Dixon can be counted on to sit on the dais, collect their checks, and try to block real improvement while offering nothing new or innovative to fix our broken city.

We'll be watching and we'll report as things develop and we'll let you know who is doing what.

It's our belief that City Councilmembers are supposed to be leaders and they're supposed to initiate things that are then implemented by staff. We'd like to see more of this and we'd like to see more major things being done at every City Council meeting.

Cities don't stand still and they don't fix themselves.
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CM PRESS # 28

LUNCH AT THE POLONIUM 210 CAFE

[Tom Johnson has a column in the Daily Pilot today that we comment on below. What does Katrina Foley think about this? Get ready for more quotes from her in the Pilot.] http://www.dailypilot.com/articles/2006/12/08/columns/dpt-fairgame08.txt]

So, first, Tom Johnson--known around the HQ of the CM PRESS as Waving Johnson (more about this a little further on)--pulled out all the stops to try to defeat Allan Mansoor and Wendy Leece by inflicting paper cuts on them with the Daily Pilot, and now he's going to make nice and have lunch with them.

Mansoor and Leece should remember what the Libertarians say: TANSTAAFL. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

What's with Johnson? This is the sort of stuff reminiscent of barroom fights in cowboy bars in 1950's movies where everyone shakes hands and becomes new best friends after trying to beat each other's brains in with balsa wood chairs.

The difference from those old fake barroom fights is the fact that this just past election wasn't a meaningless barroom dispute among Hollywood extras pretending to be drunks, and the head beating wasn't with balsa wood.

This election was about Costa Mesa's future--no, really--not in the cliché and glib way that this expression is normally used, but in reality. There were no phony drunks duking it out. There were very sober people trying to convince voters that their way was the best way.

Had Johnson's pals won this election, Costa Mesa would have had a new job center for illegal aliens, and the welcome mat for criminals would have been extended even further. In addition, the Westside Revitalization would have been aborted and our city would have reversed direction and headed away from being more like our coastal neighbors and more like an inner city to our north.

Now, if Johnson really wants to mend his ways, and get on the path to making Costa Mesa the Shining City on the Hill instead of the Slum on the Slopes, by having the Pilot be more even handed--not just with Mansoor and Leece--but also with the improvement minded citizens who elected these two, then that's a great thing.

A daily newspaper actually helping improve Costa Mesa would be something new in our city.

Could it be that this just past election was the equivalent of a Zen slap that opened Johnson's mind? Anything's possible, Grasshopper. However, Johnson has probably telegraphed his true intentions with some squirrel phrases in his column.

For example, Johnson writes: " I respect Mansoor and was happy that he was elected mayor of Costa Mesa for a second term. In my mind, given the council make-up, he was far and away the best choice."

TRANSLATION: "Mansoor is the mayor, damn it, and I have to live with it and try to at least be civil or the only two people on the city council who will talk to the Pilot will be Katrina Foley and Linda Dixon, and they were on the losing side in the election and have been sent to the sidelines. And, if the council had not selected Mansoor as mayor, the job would have gone to Eric Bever who has publicly said that he doesn't even read the Pilot and who mostly won't talk to us at all."

Johnson then writes, of Wendy Leece: "I also believe that she's open to people's ideas and thoughts."

TRANSLATION: "Maybe she's not as tough as Mansoor and Bever, and maybe she's not as focused on improving Costa Mesa and can be turned against improvement with a little sweet talk. This will destroy the three person improvement majority on the Council. Maybe I can romance her to side with Foley and Dixon. Hey, maybe her gender will trump her desire to fix broken Costa Mesa. I'll give her some flowers or something."

If Johnson and his pals think they can turn Ms. Leece's head, we think they'll be in for a shock. We've watched her on the school board for several years, and she's no one's weak sister. Think Margaret Thatcher without the accent. No smoke is going to be blown up her skirt.

Now, about that Waving Johnson appellation for Tom Johnson. Sometime ago, Johnson went to the now closed job center and sat there in a crowd of day workers and later gushed in a column how wonderful the place was. Oh, the humanity of it.

We thought the whole thing was funny. When he was at the job center, it looked like a Where's Waldo scene as a goofily smiling pale faced Johnson sat there in a sea of day workers. We then spoofed the whole thing in the CM PRESS and we had Johnson waving and yelling "Yoo-hoo" to potential employers from Newport Beach as he tried to find day work as a publisher based on his resume from the Daily Pilot.

In the end, we had Johnson being rejected in favor of an illegal alien whose publishing experience was far more extensive than Johnson's in that the illegal alien published fake ID cards to be used at the very job center where Johnson was sitting.

If Johnson, as he seems to indicate in his column, has heard the will of the voters in Costa Mesa, and if he now wants to be on their side in helping turn Costa Mesa into a first rate city that is more like our coastal neighbors, we'll know that in the direction and the tone of the Pilot over the next few months. Johnson is Mr. Big at the Pilot, and he's told us as much in an email, so what you see in the Pilot is coming from Johnson.

And, of course, if he isn't on board with this, we'll also know that.

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