Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Chief Snowden's "Reason" & Wendy's Disappearing Web Site
Former Costa Mesa Police Chief Dave Snowden, now the Chief of
Police for Beverly Hills, wrote a commentary in the Daily Pilot
last weekend in which he attempted to define the role of the
political action committee, Return to Reason, which has been
much maligned in letters to the editor recently. His description
of the group, of which he is a member, was clear and accurate
and should have left no doubt in any reader's mind about the
group's intended mission - to return Costa Mesa to governance by
mature, reasonable leaders.
As anticipated, one controversial activist who bears an amazing resemblance to my theoretical character, Your Neighbor, has made a full frontal assault on Chief Snowden on his web log, decrying Snowden as an "outsider" and questioning his motives. Of course, Snowden served this city with distinction for most of two decades, during which he was part of a group of leaders that took on significant problems and solved them. He was, for example, part of the group of civic leaders that recognized the problem of loitering day laborers and created the Job Center and implemented a non-solicitation ordinance to encourage the use of the Job Center. That idea was far ahead of it's time, worked without a single hitch for seventeen years and became the model for other such facilities all over the country until the Mansoor majority pulled the plug last year.
Chief Snowden certainly has reason to feel some pride of authorship for many of the progressive policies in this city. He spent more than 16 years building an effective police force and developing a sense of trust throughout the city, and within the Latino community in particular. Additionally, he has family living in this town, so he has a very real vested interested in how this city is governed.
Your Neighbor is the inspirational leader of our young jailer/mayor and his band of malcontents, providing them with tactics and strategy and is the builder of their philosophical underpinning that has led the council majority to follow his tune and attempt to expunge the Latinos from this city. He attacks anyone or anything that will threaten the current majority on the council and, consequently, his influence on city issues. One only has to read his internet essays to fully understand his underlying philosophy - racial purity.
Our young jailer/mayor will deny any relationship with this man, but history proves the association. I guess the voters of this city will tell us in less than 60 days whether they also go along with a philosophy of intolerance and bigotry.
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More on Wendy Leece's web site. This morning I attempted to visit it and found only a blank page - no note about it being under construction, nothing. I know they were working on it, to try to make a more appropriate campaign statement - something that would more accurately reflect her platform and state her views. It looks like they've accomplished that.
Incidentally, a loyal, valued reader took me to task for my reference to Leece as "Grandma Wendy". That term was not intended to be taken as a pejorative reference and I apologize if others took it that way. It was simply a way of identifying what appeared to be her main qualification for the office she seeks. I'll try to be "nicer" in the future.
2:09 pm pdt
As anticipated, one controversial activist who bears an amazing resemblance to my theoretical character, Your Neighbor, has made a full frontal assault on Chief Snowden on his web log, decrying Snowden as an "outsider" and questioning his motives. Of course, Snowden served this city with distinction for most of two decades, during which he was part of a group of leaders that took on significant problems and solved them. He was, for example, part of the group of civic leaders that recognized the problem of loitering day laborers and created the Job Center and implemented a non-solicitation ordinance to encourage the use of the Job Center. That idea was far ahead of it's time, worked without a single hitch for seventeen years and became the model for other such facilities all over the country until the Mansoor majority pulled the plug last year.
Chief Snowden certainly has reason to feel some pride of authorship for many of the progressive policies in this city. He spent more than 16 years building an effective police force and developing a sense of trust throughout the city, and within the Latino community in particular. Additionally, he has family living in this town, so he has a very real vested interested in how this city is governed.
Your Neighbor is the inspirational leader of our young jailer/mayor and his band of malcontents, providing them with tactics and strategy and is the builder of their philosophical underpinning that has led the council majority to follow his tune and attempt to expunge the Latinos from this city. He attacks anyone or anything that will threaten the current majority on the council and, consequently, his influence on city issues. One only has to read his internet essays to fully understand his underlying philosophy - racial purity.
Our young jailer/mayor will deny any relationship with this man, but history proves the association. I guess the voters of this city will tell us in less than 60 days whether they also go along with a philosophy of intolerance and bigotry.
***
More on Wendy Leece's web site. This morning I attempted to visit it and found only a blank page - no note about it being under construction, nothing. I know they were working on it, to try to make a more appropriate campaign statement - something that would more accurately reflect her platform and state her views. It looks like they've accomplished that.
Incidentally, a loyal, valued reader took me to task for my reference to Leece as "Grandma Wendy". That term was not intended to be taken as a pejorative reference and I apologize if others took it that way. It was simply a way of identifying what appeared to be her main qualification for the office she seeks. I'll try to be "nicer" in the future.
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