Thursday, August 17, 2006
Defending Stupidity and Westside Whiners
During their council member comments section of the City
Council meeting on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 we got a clue about
just what the campaign season is going to be like this year.
Mayor Pro Tem Eric (L'il) Bever chastised Councilwoman Linda Dixon for her recent commentary in the Daily Pilot. You will recall from a previous blog entry that Dixon shredded our young jailer/mayor, Allan Mansoor, for his insensitive, callous remarks following the tragic shootings a couple weeks ago in which one young man was killed and four others were wounded.
Bever, Mansoor's pal, said he thought Dixon's remarks were "unprofessional" and "absurd". He didn't say they were not accurate. Mansoor followed with his own rebuttal of Dixon's commentary, also calling her "unprofessional". You'd think they would at least try for a little originality! Mansoor went on to affirm his views, digging himself deeper into the hole he created for himself. He blamed the whole thing on the editors of the Daily Pilot, flatly stating that they misrepresented what he told their reporter. In fact, he quoted that reporter as telling him as much.
During his pitiful attempt to absolve himself of any wrong-doing, our young jailer/mayor once again beseeched residents to call him or send emails. He said he always returned calls promptly and replies to every email. Well, I'm here to tell you that he's telling a big, fat lie! Months ago I sent him a long email, asking questions that I thought needed answering. To date, the mayor has yet to reply to me. I guess he only responds to messages from his supporters, including the out-of-town agitators from the Minuteman Project.
Speaking of which, one of the Minutebabes that fawn all over him is a woman named Eileen Garcia - a Laguna Beach resident. She's been a frequent speaker for the mayor during city council meetings, entertained him at the recent fundraising picnic and blew the whistle on the Laguna Beach Day Labor Center. She let the state know that the center was on state land without a permit. That got resolved in favor of the center. However, she recently submitted a letter to the editor to the Daily Pilot which heaped praise on our mayor. So far, few actual Costa Mesa residents have written favorably about him... that tells me something.
Also at the council meeting Tuesday night, former mayor Sandra Genis stood at the speaker's podium and scolded the council for their behavior in the wake of the shootings. She spared no one, accusing both sides of pure political opportunism while the family of the dead young man grieves. She was near tears at the end.
This morning in the Daily Pilot there was a commentary by Westsider Christian Eric in which he praises our mayor and raves about how wonderful it is in his neighborhood since they put the utility wires underground and re-paved his streets. He talks about the revitalization plans that are being implemented as though they were unanimously approved by the Westside Revitalization Oversight Committee - which they were not. Bever quick-pitched the system eighteen months ago and proposed the current plans, which are not the plans submitted to the council by the WROC. The current plans meet the demands of only a narrow group of angry westsiders, including Christian Eric, instead of addressing the unanimously approved plans - those that had been hammered out over many months by the diverse group represented on the WROC.
As always with the group that calls themselves the Westside Improvers, it's all about THEM and what the city needs to do for THEM. They've refined whining to an art form when it comes to getting their way. Now that they've got two of their guys - Mansoor and Bever - on the council, all you see are smirks of self-satisfaction from them. Well, they'd better enjoy themselves while they can. November is sneaking up on us and change will happen.
12:41 pm pdt
Mayor Pro Tem Eric (L'il) Bever chastised Councilwoman Linda Dixon for her recent commentary in the Daily Pilot. You will recall from a previous blog entry that Dixon shredded our young jailer/mayor, Allan Mansoor, for his insensitive, callous remarks following the tragic shootings a couple weeks ago in which one young man was killed and four others were wounded.
Bever, Mansoor's pal, said he thought Dixon's remarks were "unprofessional" and "absurd". He didn't say they were not accurate. Mansoor followed with his own rebuttal of Dixon's commentary, also calling her "unprofessional". You'd think they would at least try for a little originality! Mansoor went on to affirm his views, digging himself deeper into the hole he created for himself. He blamed the whole thing on the editors of the Daily Pilot, flatly stating that they misrepresented what he told their reporter. In fact, he quoted that reporter as telling him as much.
During his pitiful attempt to absolve himself of any wrong-doing, our young jailer/mayor once again beseeched residents to call him or send emails. He said he always returned calls promptly and replies to every email. Well, I'm here to tell you that he's telling a big, fat lie! Months ago I sent him a long email, asking questions that I thought needed answering. To date, the mayor has yet to reply to me. I guess he only responds to messages from his supporters, including the out-of-town agitators from the Minuteman Project.
Speaking of which, one of the Minutebabes that fawn all over him is a woman named Eileen Garcia - a Laguna Beach resident. She's been a frequent speaker for the mayor during city council meetings, entertained him at the recent fundraising picnic and blew the whistle on the Laguna Beach Day Labor Center. She let the state know that the center was on state land without a permit. That got resolved in favor of the center. However, she recently submitted a letter to the editor to the Daily Pilot which heaped praise on our mayor. So far, few actual Costa Mesa residents have written favorably about him... that tells me something.
Also at the council meeting Tuesday night, former mayor Sandra Genis stood at the speaker's podium and scolded the council for their behavior in the wake of the shootings. She spared no one, accusing both sides of pure political opportunism while the family of the dead young man grieves. She was near tears at the end.
This morning in the Daily Pilot there was a commentary by Westsider Christian Eric in which he praises our mayor and raves about how wonderful it is in his neighborhood since they put the utility wires underground and re-paved his streets. He talks about the revitalization plans that are being implemented as though they were unanimously approved by the Westside Revitalization Oversight Committee - which they were not. Bever quick-pitched the system eighteen months ago and proposed the current plans, which are not the plans submitted to the council by the WROC. The current plans meet the demands of only a narrow group of angry westsiders, including Christian Eric, instead of addressing the unanimously approved plans - those that had been hammered out over many months by the diverse group represented on the WROC.
As always with the group that calls themselves the Westside Improvers, it's all about THEM and what the city needs to do for THEM. They've refined whining to an art form when it comes to getting their way. Now that they've got two of their guys - Mansoor and Bever - on the council, all you see are smirks of self-satisfaction from them. Well, they'd better enjoy themselves while they can. November is sneaking up on us and change will happen.
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