Monday, October 16, 2006
"Your Neighbor" - A Break Dancing Fool
And the beat goes on, and on, and on...
It's three weeks until the election and the vitriol continues. One persistent activist in town - a man who very much resembles my theoretical character, Your Neighbor - continues to spin issues in this election like the Tea Cups ride at Disneyland.
In his blog this morning he uses his "little newsletter" to jeer a letter published in the Daily Pilot today by a resident and business owner on the Westside that rejects Mayor Allan Mansoor's on-going accusations during the campaign that if Bruce Garlich and Mike Scheafer are elected they will not adhere to the plans approved for the Westside revitalization. The letter-writer states in very clear terms that he, and the group of business-owners he represents, fully intend to support the revitalization plans as presently approved, period.
However, the activist mentioned above - doing his version of literary break dancing - uses his blog to basically call this man, and Garlich and Scheafer, too, liars. I guess he must feel, since he and his slate in this election - Mansoor and his campaign barnacle, Wendy Leece - don't hesitate to fabricate facts, that their opponents lie as well. What a sad, telling assumption.
Through his influence on our young jailer/mayor and his cadre of malcontents, this activist has twisted facts 180 degrees and has appealed to the darkest side of human nature in this city for years.
The last line of his current blog entry is right on the money. He states "It is people who make a city what it is." That's very true. Costa Mesa is a vibrant, wonderful city, full of hard-working people trying to make it a better place to live. This man, with his racist rants and divisive rhetoric, has helped make this city a benchmark for intolerance.
One sure way to make this city a better place would be for this guy to move. I suggest somewhere in Idaho, where his vision of the perfect city might exist - a place with only white faces. I'll buy his ticket.
9:45 am pdt
It's three weeks until the election and the vitriol continues. One persistent activist in town - a man who very much resembles my theoretical character, Your Neighbor - continues to spin issues in this election like the Tea Cups ride at Disneyland.
In his blog this morning he uses his "little newsletter" to jeer a letter published in the Daily Pilot today by a resident and business owner on the Westside that rejects Mayor Allan Mansoor's on-going accusations during the campaign that if Bruce Garlich and Mike Scheafer are elected they will not adhere to the plans approved for the Westside revitalization. The letter-writer states in very clear terms that he, and the group of business-owners he represents, fully intend to support the revitalization plans as presently approved, period.
However, the activist mentioned above - doing his version of literary break dancing - uses his blog to basically call this man, and Garlich and Scheafer, too, liars. I guess he must feel, since he and his slate in this election - Mansoor and his campaign barnacle, Wendy Leece - don't hesitate to fabricate facts, that their opponents lie as well. What a sad, telling assumption.
Through his influence on our young jailer/mayor and his cadre of malcontents, this activist has twisted facts 180 degrees and has appealed to the darkest side of human nature in this city for years.
The last line of his current blog entry is right on the money. He states "It is people who make a city what it is." That's very true. Costa Mesa is a vibrant, wonderful city, full of hard-working people trying to make it a better place to live. This man, with his racist rants and divisive rhetoric, has helped make this city a benchmark for intolerance.
One sure way to make this city a better place would be for this guy to move. I suggest somewhere in Idaho, where his vision of the perfect city might exist - a place with only white faces. I'll buy his ticket.
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