CM PRESS # 198

NEW SKATE PARK ON THE AGENDA

At it's regularly scheduled August 21, meeting, the City Council will decide whether or not to award a contract to RJM Design Group in the amount of $ 79, 895 for planning and conceptual design services for a new skate park that the City is considering building in Lions Park.

There are really two issues here.

1. Is Lions Park the best location for such a skate park?
2. Who should design and build a new skate park?

As of this writing, the CM PRESS doesn't have enough information to intelligently discuss the location issue. And, since we don't live near Lions Park we defer to those who do live near the park.

As to who should design and build the skate park, the CM PRESS wanted to know more. So, we went to RJM's Website. While it looks as though the firm has much experience in some areas, we only found one example of a skate park that the firm had been involved with. It seems that RJM'S past work is mostly with sports parks (baseball, etc), cemeteries, community centers and community parks rather than skate parks. Here's the link to RJM.

We then spent a few minutes doing an Internet search and came up with a company named Dreamland that seems to be one of the top firms for designing skate parks. Dreamland's skate parks also seem to have garnered the endorsements of many of the super stars of that field. Here's the link to Dreamland.

With the above in mind, we wonder if City staff has taken the time to visit some of the skate board shops and professionals in the field to get their views on design, location and other factors about this new skate park?

If we're going to build a new skate park, why not have it be one that is unique and has bragging rights?
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TRASH SCREW UP?

Residents on some streets in Mesa North were surprised today to see large item trash trucks show up on their streets--since they hadn't received notice that this was the day for such service.

As might be expected, the streets were empty of large items and the large item trucks left mostly empty.

If you're one of those who didn't get a notice about a large item pickup, you might want to call the Costa Mesa Sanitary District (949) 645-8400 and CR&R (800) 826-9677 and do a little trash talking.
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CM PRESS # 197

AVERAGE MEDIAN HOME VALUES FOR JULY 2007








Newport Beach...........................$ 1,768,125
Huntington Beach...................... 705,625
Fountain Valley.......................... 705,000
Irvine........................................... 693,187
Costa Mesa................................. 671,250
Santa Ana................................... 578,000


What do the numbers tell us?

Costa Mesa continues to be in the basement with Santa Ana.

Costa Mesa should really be in the # 2 or 3 slot given our closeness to Newport Beach and the fact that we share the same school district and were once closer to that city in quality of life matters.

Why are we now so far from our sister city, Newport Beach? Costa Mesa is overrun with illegal aliens and Newport Beach isn't.

Why is Costa Mesa overrun with illegal aliens? We have slums that attract them and we have charities that make them feel warm and cozy here.

Did you see that one charity has given out more than 1,500 backpacks to "poor" kids in Costa Mesa? "Poor" in our city usually means illegal aliens. As far as we know, no backpacks were given out in Newport Beach.

And, when school starts next month, parents will be told, again, that instead of buying pencils, paper, glue, etc. for their own kids that they have to buy these items and give them to the school which will then give them out to the kids. Why? So, the children of illegal aliens who are living off charity in Costa Mesa won't feel bad.

Folks, a city does not improve by pandering to illegal aliens. We need to (please excuse the cliche) reach for the sky. We need to aim higher that we are right now. We need to be a city that attracts upwardly mobile citizens who work hard and struggle to make better lives for themselves and who value education.

If you took all the illegal aliens from Costa Mesa and moved them to Newport Beach and moved an equal number of Newporters to Costa Mesa, Newport Beach would be as Costa Mesa is today, and Costa Mesa would be as Newport is today.

People matter. It is people who make cities nice or not so nice.

If you're an illegal alien in Costa Mesa, you can get free breakfasts for your kids in school, free day care courtesy of the city government, free bags of groceries, free dental and medical care and much, much more.

Why would you want to move to where you can afford to live if you can supplement your income in so many ways in Costa Mesa? Costa Mesa offers illegal aliens the good life on the backs of citizens.
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CM PRESS # 196

WHY NOT TRAIN CMPD OFFICERS TO ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAWS?

Congressman John Campbell has a good column in the Daily Pilot today in which he writes: "[L]et's just let local law enforcement officers check immigration status as part of routine police work."

ABSOLUTELY!

The CM PRESS believes that our local cops should do this. It's just common sense and it helps protect the cops themselves as well as citizens.

Too many cops are being killed around the country by dangerous illegal aliens who are slipping through the cracks with phony identification cards.

If the cops can ask reasonable questions about immigration status and hold those who appear to be in violation of our immigration laws for further checking, we'll have safer streets and fewer cops killed during routine traffic stops.

The CM PRESS believes that having the ICE agent in the Costa Mesa jail is a good move and should be continued, but we also believe that our CMPD officers should be cross trained to also do immigration checks.

The CM PRESS is aware that some citizens in Costa Mesa believe there is a small clique of overly politicized officers within the CMPD who don't want to confront illegal aliens and who try to avoid doing so. These citizens suggest that if there are such officers on the force, that they are causing citizens to not trust the CMPD and that this is not good for this city as a whole.

How about it City Council?
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CM PRESS # 195

MICHAEL SAVAGE TO SUE OVER DEFAMATION?


World Net Daily is reporting that a top attorney is offering to help radio talker Michael Savage file a civil rights law suit against the City of San Francisco and others.

If you've been paying attention to smears closer to home, you may be struck by how similar Savage's case seems to something going on locally.



Top attorney backs Savage against San Fran official
Government slams radio talk-show host for his stand against illegal immigration

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One of the nation's top civil rights attorneys has offered his assistance in suing a San Francisco city supervisor who attacked nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Michael Savage for his tough stance against illegal immigration.

Daniel A. Horowitz of Oakland, Calif., wrote to Savage after Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval introduced a resolution condemning the radio talker urging him to sue the official, whom he compared to Adolph Hitler, Josef Stalin and Hugo Chavez in the way he attempted to silence political speech by rallying the mob.

"You have a strong federal civil rights action that you can file against Supervisor Sandoval and the city of San Francisco," he advised. "You have a constitutional right to state your political opinions and no city official has the right to lie about what you said or to call for a mob to come to your door to threaten you and to try to have you fired."

Horowitz said the Civil Rights Act of 1871, designed to tame the terror of the Ku Klux Klan, can be used as the basis for a federal civil rights action against the official and the city.

"You are protected by this civil rights act because you are the victim of the same type of mob terror that (the) Klan used to inflict," wrote Horowitz. "This terror is being organized against you simply because people do not like what you say. Translated into legal language, you are being attacked by a type of terrorist because you have exercised your First Amendment rights."

Horowitz wrote: "The Klansman in your case is wearing a suit and not a white robe. He is doing his dirty work under the hood of his elected position instead of under the coward's hood of the Klan."

The call for action against Savage came at the same time city supervisors were considering using taxpayer dollars to pay for immigrants' green cards and citizenship.

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Horowitz wrote: "This Sandoval fellow accused you of using 'defamatory language ... against immigrants.' Of course, this statement by Sandoval is slander. I have listened to your show. You are very complimentary of immigrants. In fact, you frequently mention that your parents were immigrants. The slander by Sandoval arises because he claims that your opposition to illegal entry into this country is somehow a stand against Hispanics. That is like saying that every Border Patrol agent and every Congress person is anti-immigrant because they don't condone illegal border crossing."

"I will back you, Michael, and file this lawsuit if you wish," concluded Horowitz.

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CM PRESS # 194

ICE DETAINERS AT COSTA MESA JAIL

The Costa Mesa Police Department reported today that between December '06 and the end of July '07, the ICE agent in the Costa Mesa jail had issued 384 detainers on suspected illegal aliens. There were 52 detainers issued in July alone.

Of the 384 detainers, 146 involved underlying felonies. Of these, there was 1 murder; 5 sex crimes; 6 cruelty to children crimes; 6 robberies; 18 burglaries; 3 dangerous weapons offenses; 17 assault/battery crimes; 46 drug offenses; 12 thefts; 16 felony warrants; 1 DUI; 2 miscellaneous vehicle code violations; 13 others.

Included in the 238 detainers based on underlying misdemeanors there were 2 sex crimes; 6 dangerous weapons offenses; 6 assault/battery charges; 9 drug arrests; 8 thefts; 74 DUI (not a complete list).

In other words, there are 384 fewer illegal alien criminals walking the streets of Costa Mesa right now, due to the efforts of the CMPD and ICE.

To put an even sharper point on this: If Mayor Mansoor had not stood his ground and insisted on checking on the citizenship status of those who come into contact with the police, and had he given in to the local lefties, there would be 384 more illegal alien criminals on our streets. Some of these criminals might even be casing your home or looking at your kids right now had they not had the ICE detainers put on them.

According to the CMPD, 92% of the illegals with ICE holds in July were Hispanic (46 from Mexico and 2 from Guatamela). Countries of origin for prior months were not given by the CMPD. Two on ICE holds were from Canada, one from Syria and the country of origin of one individual was unknown.
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WANT TO STAY INFORMED ABOUT ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIME? Go here:

http://www.americanpatrol.com/

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HAVE YOU NOTICED...

That the lefty crackpots in Costa Mesa who oppose any type of meaningful improvement and who are in favor of having the job center reopened, and who want to keep polluting factories on our beautiful (well, they should be) Westside Bluffs, and who are the best friends of illegal aliens, and the charities that draw them here, are now suddenly saying that they're conservatives?

We kid you not. Don't believe 'em folks. Ask them their positions on specific issues and watch them squirm and try to sidestep the questions.

Take illegal immigration, for example. These "conservatives" don't like illegal immigration, by golly. That's what they'll tell you. But, they're in favor of a path to citizenship (read amnesty), and they're in favor of having a job center, and they don't like having the ICE agent in our jail, and they want the charities to keep giving freebies to illegal aliens.

Yup. They're sure "conservative," all right. Laugh out loud, and, please, do it right in their smarmy faces.

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CM PRESS # 193

IS IT TIME FOR THE DAILY PILOT TO BECOME A CHAPTER OF DENSA--THE LOW I.Q. SOCIETY?

Tony Dodero is the latest non-Costa Mesa resident and ink stained scribbler from the Return to Reason Daily Pilot to whine about Paularino Park being made safe for residents.

These people at the Pilot all seem to be cut from the same stupid cloth and they all do the bidding of Newport Beach resident Thomas H. Johnson who is the publisher of the Pilot and who is ultimately responsible for the tone of the newspaper. If you work for the paper you had better write what this guy wants or you'll be looking for a new job. And, finding jobs in the shrinking world of newspapers isn't easy these days.

It appears that Dodero just used his blather about Paularino Park as an excuse to launch one of the Pilot's regular attacks on anyone who tries to improve Costa Mesa in meaningful ways. Maybe Dodero is looking for a raise from Johnson.

Mayor Mansoor was Dodero's specific target today.

As usual, Dodero goes off into lala land with his column as he fails to address the real issues and doesn't even discuss why the Pilot didn't complain--as pointed out by Mayor Mansoor in the mayor's earlier column--when the residents near Tanager Park in Mesa Verde had basketball removed from that park.

As you may recall, when the residents who live near Tanager Park complained about noise from basketball being played in the park, the City quickly removed the basketball hoops. When it did so, there were no smears in the Pilot about racism or about how residents hate kids or how kids would now get fat or about how the government was stealing our freedoms. Nothing. Not a peep.

Why? Hmmmm. Let's play the Pilot's silly smear game for a moment, just to make the point. Our eyes narrow to slits and we lower our voice to a knowing whisper. "Pssst. Didja hear that the Pilot is institutionally racist? Pass it on.

"Psssst. Which group in the U.S. is most closely associated with basketball? Blacks. And, which people, according to some, mostly play soccer in our parks? Hispanics.

"So, could it be that the Pilot hates Blacks and loves Hispanics? Is that what this is about? Is that why the Pilot was silent about removing basketball hoops, but has been filling its pages with slack-jawed complaints about Paularino Park?

"And, why does the Pilot have no Blacks on staff, that we know about, while it does have Hispanics? Why are there columns about the "vibrant Hispanic community," but none about the "vibrant Black community," or even the "vibrant White or Asian communities?"

See how easy it is to smear? But, it's nonsense. The issue is about making parks safe and having them be used in appropriate ways so the greatest number of people can enjoy them.

And, speaking of appropriate uses for our parks, if we follow the Pilot's silly logic, we would allow anything in all parks. It's an absurd result. But, the Pilot is pretty absurd.

Consider: Would the folks at the Bark Park like soccer pickup games there? Would the folks playing soccer at the Farm Complex want people having picnics in the middle of their fields? Would the people at the Volcom Skate Park like model airplanes being flown there?

The truth is that all of our parks are different and they all have to be tailored for different needs and uses depending on a wide range of circumstances, including the wishes of the people who live near those parks.

Maybe if the Daily Pilot had more people working there who actually live in Costa Mesa the paper wouldn't be so out of touch with the community that it's supposed to be serving.

Duh!
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CM PRESS # 192

DOWN AT THE DAILY PILOT

Sometimes, newspaper columns are so stupid that you almost can't respond because you're laughing so hard.

Auntie Steve Smith has one of those really stupid columns in the Daily Pilot today as he wags his finger and tries to insult Mayor Mansoor.

And, speaking of fingers, Smith apparently counted his fingers on one hand and came up with six things that he finds fault with that were done or were said by Mansoor. And, dear friends, Smith is not a hexadactyl, if you know what we mean.

Here are the six things, starting with the one that Smith says is the most "shocking" (we kid you not, he actually wrote "shocking"):

1. The mayor said "The Job Center was a blight on the neighborhood." Smith was shocked, shocked, I say.

The Truth: Actually, the mayor got it exactly right. It was a blight. It was a terrible and a horrible blight and it was helping keep the Westside as slum central for the benefit of Smith's out of town pals who used illegal workers off the books and who used them to puff up their charity rolls.

Smith whines that he now sees day workers looking for work on the sidewalks and streets around the former Job Center. Well, Mr. Smith, they were all around the place in the past and in far greater numbers. Those who you see now are a fraction of the mobs that used to be there. And, as out of town employers start feeling the feds breathing down their necks for hiring illegal aliens, the jobs will dry up much faster than will your moist eyes as you shed tears over the fact that Costa Mesa is being improved, thanks in large part to the strong leadership of Mayor Mansoor.

2. Smith says that Mayor Mansoor is wrong when he says that the new rules at Paularino Park "will not keep anyone from tossing a ball or throwing a Frisbee with their kids."

The Truth: Again, the mayor got it exactly right. The new rules will just be in place if they're needed to stop dangerous activities if they occur. Cops won't be hiding behind trees to catch a ball thrower. Smith is just absurd.

3. Smith complains that Mayor Mansoor is falsely taking credit for the ICE agent in the jail, when this wasn't Mansoor's idea.

The Truth: Again, Smith is just full of crap. The only reason we have an ICE agent in our jail is because Mansoor stood firm in having citizenship status checked at our jail, and when ICE saw that he wasn't going to back down, they put one of their own agents in the jail. But for Mansoor, we would not have an ICE agent in our jail and more than 300 illegal alien criminals who have now been deported, would still be running around our streets.

4. Smith says that Mansoor is falsely taking credit for "studying the possible extension of the 55 Freeway through cut and cover tunneling."

The Truth: Contrary to know-nothing, do-nothing Smith's assertion, Mansoor does deserve credit for this. Sure, many of us have been talking about doing this for years. So what? Talk is cheap. Mansoor is the guy who actually brought this thing to the front burner.

5. Smith then gets even sillier when he says that Mansoor didn't comment on the issue of safe and sane fireworks.

The Truth: Huh? So what? If Mansoor commented on everything that's going on, he'd have to do nothing but make comments all day long.

6. In the same vein, Smith then whines that Mayor Mansoor didn't comment on the hotel bed tax.

The Truth: Ho hum. Hey, he also didn't comment on a thousand other things. So what? Read # 5, above. Mansoor also didn't comment on the fact that Smith seems to be in la la land, but maybe he should.

Despite the blather from Smith and his lefty pals down at the Daily Pilot, Costa Mesa is a far better place today because of Mayor Mansoor.

When someone does things right, as Mayor Mansoor has done, some bad things that might have happened, do not happen. We can't know for sure about such things that haven't happened, but there's a high probability that we would have had more crime and more gang drive-by killings and similar things without the sure hand of Mayor Mansoor at the rudder of our local government.

Because of Mayor Mansoor's leadership, Costa Mesa is improving. Smith and his fellow obstructionists don't like it. They want the city to continue to be a magnet for illegal aliens. They want charities on every corner giving freebies to illegal aliens. They want polluting industries on our Westside bluffs to be able to hire illegal aliens. They don't mind that our schools are at Third World levels because of illegal aliens.

As we've written many times before, slum profiteers and their pals don't like improvement.

These days, Auntie Smith and his pals are having conniptions. They've thrown every smear they can think of at Mansoor but the mayor just keeps smiling and doing the right things.
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CM PRESS # 191

DAILY PILOT AND SLOW SPEEDERS (HOW ABOUT SLOW THINKERS?)

"ENFORCEMENT IS THE TICKET TO SLOW SPEEDERS," today's Daily Pilot.

Slow speeders? Sort of like giant shrimp? "Do you know why I pulled you over?" asks the traffic cop. "No idea," says the driver. "You were slow speeding," replies the cop.
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LINDA DIXON TAKES A POSITION TO NOT TAKE A POSITION (Again)

Linda Dixon just wants to be loved. Maybe that's why she constantly talks out of both sides of her mouth. She's on every side of every issue. Doesn't seem to know her own mind. Must be a drag when ordering at a restaurant.

According to the Daily Pilot today, Dixon now wants to put the hotel bed tax and the sale of fireworks on the February ballot.

On the fireworks issue, Dixon told the Pilot: "I'm neither for nor against it."

Well, Ms. Dixon what's your position on slow speeding? Hmmmm?
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GOOD LOCATION FOR A NEW NEWPORT BEACH CITY HALL

Merge Costa Mesa and Newport Beach and call the result Newport Beach since that brand name is to cities what Rolls Royce is to cars. Costa Mesa? Think broken down Hyundai. Then have the present Costa Mesa City Hall be the new Newport Beach City Hall.
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COMMUNICATION PROBLEM?

The other day we sent an email to the CMPD asking how we can get accurate figures on ICE holds, since our counts from the logs in the front lobby sometimes differ from what we see reported elsewhere.

So far, we haven't received an answer. Probably busy ticketing slow speeders.
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CM PRESS # 190

BRIDGES MAKING YOU A LITTLE NERVOUS THESE DAYS?

Take a drive on the overpass on Redhill Ave. that leads to Main Street.

There appears to be a 20 to 30 foot long crack a couple of inches wide in the pavement in the southbound travel lanes.

The CM PRESS has seen work crews trying to fix the crack over the past several months, but it appears that it keeps opening up.

As of yesterday, it looks as though the crack has been filled in again, but its location is very visible.
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CM PRESS # 189

COSTA MESA CITY COUNCIL--STOP PUSSYFOOTING AROUND

There's a column in the Daily Pilot today about how things have "changed" after the shooting death of a man on Baker Street last year.

The Pilot reported that the shooting location is on the Westside. Wrong.

It's actually just west of Fairview Road and across the street from Halecrest--where Libby Cowan lives. This is ironic, because Cowan, who used to be on the City Council, often denied we had gangs in the city and implied that citizens who complained about gang members in the neighborhood were racists and didn't like Hispanics who were just making fashion statements.

After Cowan's comments, the CM PRESS started calling gang members "fashion models."

According to the Pilot, the shooting "[R]oiled the community with racial tension." Baloney. That's typical crap from the Pilot. They're as wrong with this nonsense as they were wrong about the location. There was no such racial tension. There were, however, calls from citizens for the City Council to stop pussyfooting around and start getting to the root causes of such shootings.

The Council didn't listen. They're still pussyfooting and looking for work-arounds rather than getting to the root cause of our problems.

Citizens bright enough and open minded enough to look at facts point out some commonalities in many of our problems in Costa Mesa involving gangs, our high serious crime rate, and our other social problems:

1. Most, if not all, of the gangs in Costa Mesa have a nexus with illegal immigration. These gang members have been welcomed into this city and enabled by local lefties who keep funding charities and other services for them and who try to make life as comfortable as possible for illegal aliens while sticking it to the good, decent citizens of this city.

2. Most of the violent crime; gang and otherwise, and the social problems that we see in this city come from just a few slum areas: A. Shalimar; B. Mission-Mendoza; C.Fillmore-Coolidge; D. A several block area around Hamilton Street west of Harbor and east of Placentia.

So what does the City Council do to solve our problems? Do they move to get rid of these slums or at least thin them out by buying up buildings and putting in pocket parks or much needed sports fields? Nope. They hire more gang officers.

This is a work-around--it's reactive rather than proactive. It doesn't get to the root cause of our problems and remove these root causes.

Here's what the Council should do: Remove the habitat for these gangs--the slums--and their "food" sources--the tax payer funding of their support organizations in Costa Mesa. Then, illegal aliens and their gangs will move elsewhere. Santa Ana is right next door, and illegal aliens can find less expensive housing and many social services to help them live the good life there.

All living things tend to move to where they are comfortable and they try to avoid places where they are uncomfortable. Right now, Costa Mesa is far too comfortable for illegal aliens, their gangs, and their violent criminals. And, they are ruining our city and turning it into a new Santa Ana.

Here's another example of a work-around that the City Council recently did and which we reported on previously.

The problem: Abandoned shopping carts from supermarkets.
The citizen friendly solution: Have the supermarkets install devices to keep the shopping carts on the premises and have the CMPD cite those who steal them.

What the City Council actually did (the socialist solution): The Council is using $40,000 per year of your tax money to supply a valet pickup service of these carts to return them to the supermarkets. What kind of message do you think this sends? Right...

"Come on in illegal aliens. The Costa Mesa City Council wants you to move here. Shop at our supermarkets and take your groceries home in stolen shopping carts and then leave them on our sidewalks. The City Council will see that they're picked up and returned to the supermarkets."

"Is there anything else we can do to make you feel comfortable in Costa Mesa, illegal aliens? What? Oh, you'd like Katrina Foley to have a cleanup of your Mission-Mendoza slum? Maybe have some flowers planted? Build some fences? Paint some buildings? No problem. We'll do that on August 5, 2007. We do want you to feel welcome in our neighborhoods."
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CM PRESS # 188

SANTA ANA HEIGHTS--THE NEW SURFRIDGE?

See those streets on the left of the photo? There used to be more than 800 homes in that neighborhood called Surfridge.

Great location, right on the beach in tony Playa Del Rey in Los Angeles County. It's now a ghost town. Wonder why? That's Los Angeles International Airport on the right. Get it?

Meanwhile, down the coast in Orange County,the folks in Santa Ana Heights got their wish and are now part of tony Newport Beach. That's the good news for them.

The bad news is that Santa Ana Heights may go the way of Surfridge.

The problem for Surfridge was that it was under the landing and takeoff flight paths at Los Angeles International Airport--just as Santa Ana Heights is under the flight paths of John Wayne Airport.

Folks in Surfridge didn't worry much, though. Hey, they could cap flights out of LAX and do other things to keep their area safe from the airport. Why, they could even stop LAX from expanding by writing letters to the newspapers.

In truth, they were just whistling past the graveyard.

The inevitability of bigger airplanes and more air traffic caught up with them. It's a shame, too, because, given their ocean close location, even tear down shacks in that area (sans an airport) would now probably sell for more than a million dollars each.

The people in Surfridge--more than 2,000 of them--didn't have much of a chance of stopping the expansion of LAX, even though they apparently didn't know it or wouldn't accept that fact.

That's because there was no alternative location available to replace LAX.

The folks in Santa Ana Heights do have a chance of stopping the expansion of JWA. That's because there is an alternative location available to replace it--a relatively small part of massive Camp Pendleton.

Unfortunately, about the only people talking about the possibility of building an LAX size airport on a tiny portion of Camp Pendleton are those of us in the CM PRESS skyscraper.

We've watched some of the others involved in trying to keep JWA from expanding. To us, some of them look like a bunch of chickens running around with their heads cut off. Their only ideas seem to be to keep trying to cap flights out of JWA or to use some sort of fast trains to Ontario, or to a former airforce base in San Bernardino that they think could be turned into an international airport.

We think those choices are bad ones and that some are just wasting time and effort that could be put into a focused campaign to build an airport on Camp Pendleton that will serve the area's needs for the next hundred years and which will head off the necessity of JWA growing.

Don't buy our arguments above? Well, here's our axioms. Prove us wrong:

1. Demand for air travel will continue to grow.

2. Planes will continue to get larger.

3. To accommodate both the demand for air travel and for larger planes, airports will have to grow.

4. If no alternative airport is found to take the pressure off JWA, it will continue to grow.

5. Santa Ana Heights is to JWA as Surfridge was to LAX.

So, what's to be done? Residents of Santa Ana Heights (or whatever they now call their area) need to get better organized and start contacting politicians at all levels of government to get them on their side, and they need to present them with an alternative to JWA. And, they need to speak with one voice about one alternative. They also have to make their case to others in Newport Beach and Costa Mesa who are not as directly affected by JWA.

Again, our belief is that the most viable alternative to JWA would be a new airport on a tiny part of Camp Pendleton. That's the location we would push if we lived in Santa Ana Heights.

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