CM PRESS # 739

MS. ELEANOR IS AT IT AGAIN

Here's how Eleanor Egan starts off her latest anti-good Councilmembers tirade in the Daily Pilot:

"Some Costa Mesa voters are under the false impression that, if the city were to adopt a charter, it could walk away from its pension obligations or substantially change them."

They are?  Which voters, Ms. Eleanor?  Which ones? 

Can it be, Ms. Eleanor, that you've just made this up as an easily knocked down straw man that you use as a segue into more negative comments about the charter--which, of course, isn't your real target at all, is it Ms. Eleanor?  No, you are really out to knock the good Councilmembers and you're using the charter as your latest attaque au fer, are you not?

But even if you did hear someone say what you claim "some Costa Mesa voters" believe, so what?  Costa Mesa voters can be found who have all sorts of odd ideas, but most people don't think it's necessary to pen a column for every nutty idea that is out there--unless of course, as we indicated above--we want to use the nutty ideas as a lead in for another attack on the good Councilmembers.

We see you Ms. Eleanor.  Say, isn't it now time for Mr. Tom to write the next attack? Then, it'll be you again.  Then, Mr. Tom, then you, then Mr.Tom, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. 
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LATINOS ATTACK WHITES IN SAN CLEMENTE--ONE WHITE IN A COMA

Phony OC Human Relations Commission quick to say anti-White racism isn't involved, yet the cops say they don't know the motive.

Here's a clue:  All the attackers were Latino.  All the innocent victims were White.

HERE'S another story about this along with a poor quality video.

The  CM PRESS didn't see anything about the above attack in the OC REGISTER.  Did you?  Let us know.
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HEY MANSOOR, DON'T BE A PARTY PUKE

The lines below are in the above article about Scott Baugh pushing the local GOP to endorse Allan Mansoor, and they caught our eye:

"Mansoor made his reputation as an opponent of illegal immigration while on the Costa Mesa City Council, before winning an Assembly seat two years ago. But he wasn't interested in talking about immigration in an interview Wednesday..."

Yeah, we know how it works.  You get elected and then the party hacks start dictating to you to play ball.  And, in this case, playing ball means to follow the dictates of Baugh and the other suits who are pursuing a PC agenda that, among other things, has them not talking about illegal aliens.

Remember last year when Baugh was outraged over a joke about Obama made by a grandmother who is on the Orange County Republican Central Committee?  That's just part of the PC nonsense these suits are into these days.

Say, Mansoor and Baugh, how about starting a California Legislative White Caucus?

Don't know how to do it?  Well, just go HERE to the California Legislative Black Caucus Website  for ideas.   When you get there, you'll note that it says the Black Caucus has had "44 Years of Legislative Advocacy for African Americans."

Still need more information on how to do it?  Just go HERE to the California Latino Legislative Caucus Website.

Uh oh, the Good Whites are outraged.  "The CM PRESS used the word "white."  That's racist.  And, the CM PRESS wants a California Legislative White Caucus.  That's white supremacist.  What's that you say? You want to know why the Black Caucus and the Latino Caucus are okay, but a White Caucus wouldn't be okay?  Ah, er, you're a racist to even ask that and you should be ashamed of yourself." Sigh.
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NICE COLUMN BY RALPH NADER ABOUT THE NEOCONS TRYING TO GET US INTO A WAR WITH IRAN

Many tough talking neocon warmongers were draft dodgers. 

It won't be their kids who will die for no reason. It'll be the kids of average Americans. Just as it was in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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A POLITICAL ERROR OF THE COSTA MESA CITY COUNCIL

Costa Mesa City Councilmembers don't get many opportunities to bring supporters  into government with them.

For this reason, the Councilmembers should choose wisely and not waste a single opportunity. Their next election chances may hinge on bringing the right people in with them.  Read on. 

The only paid people the Council can directly appoint are five people to the Planning Commission and five people to the Parks and Recreation Commission.  Ten people. (10)  These ten should be the main line of support.

The Council can also appoint friends and supporters to the unpaid committees, but these are much less important appointments.  Perhaps sixty people. (60)

Lastly, the Council can set the tone so the City Manager  CEO might choose to hire people who are friendly to the sitting Council. (Just a few people).

All of the above appointments and hirings are important, especially if a Council, like the present one, is activist and brings in major changes to the way the city is governed.

With changes comes controversy and opposition and with major changes comes major controversy and major opposition.

When there is controversy and opposition, the Council needs stand-up people to counter the controversy and opposition.

The Council needs family, friends and supporters to go to City Council meetings.  It needs family, friends and supporters to write letters to the newspapers. 

It needs family, friends and supporters to stand up and support the Council and its actions and to talk to other friends and neighbors.

But, the Council is just five members, and in our present case, there are only four Councilmembers who are bringing in the changes. 

How many family members, friends and supporters of these four are we hearing from?

Where are they?  They're certainly not filling the City Council chambers.  They're not making many comments in the Daily Pilot.  Where are they?  Don't tell us that they're the silent majority.  Don't tell us they're too busy working.

Where are the 5 Planning Commissioners, their family members,their friends, their supporters and those they influence?

Where are the 5 Parks and Recreation Commissioners, their family members, their friends, their supporters and those they influence?

Where are the 60 or so Committee members, their family members, their friends and their supporters and those they influence?

Where are the highly paid executives hired by the City; perhaps with some influence by the Council?  Where are their family members, their friends, their supporters and those they influence? Well, in this last case, we can answer that some of these highly paid executives don't even live in Costa Mesa, so they have no interest in standing up for the Council. And, yes, we know they mostly have to appear to be apolitical, so we'll speak no more of them here.

The Council members can suggest to their own families, that they should support the Council, but they really can't demand that the Commissioners and the Committee members do so.  This is something that these people must choose to do or not do all on their own. That's why the Council has to choose wisely.

Are we seeing many stand-up types among the people brought into government by the present Council?

Not really.  There are a couple of people who stand up--a couple on the Commissions, maybe a few on the committees, but most aren't doing anything.  Most are just sitting on their hands. They just aren't showing up or doing anything meaningful.

Politically speaking, the Council has wasted a lot of opportunities to build support by making poor appointments, and it shows at every City Council meeting lately and in comments in the newspapers.

Except for a few exceptions, the Council has not appointed the A team to help make the changes that the Council wants to make and to win election this year.

If I had the ears of the Councilmembers, I'd tell them they need to take some corrective action.

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ISRAELI SPIES PUT AMERICANS IN DANGER BY IMPERSONATING AMERICAN CIA AGENTS AND THEN RECRUITING TERRORISTS TO KILL IRANIAN SCIENTISTS
From the Huffington Post.

This false flag operation convinced the terrorists that they had the sanction of the U.S. to assassinate Iranians.  This apparently then led the Iranians to believe it was the U.S. behind the assassinations and to step up their own anti-spy work against Americans.
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SECRET INTEL REPORT LEAKED:  U.S. IN DEAD END IN AFGHANISTAN

Taliban waiting for NATO troops to leave so they can take over again.

Another meaningless loss of life as the U.S. continues its bull in a china shop foreign policy.
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WARMONGERING NEOCONS KEEP TRYING TO GET U.S. TO ATTACK IRAN

Iran is not a threat to the U.S. and U.S. kids should not be sent there to die for nothing.

Remember the lesson of Vietnam.  Hundreds of thousands of kids died there. For what?
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