Hershell Price slams Olga Diaz

Encinitas Votes:

Self-proclaimed environmentalist, Olga Diaz, dodged another environmental vote today by not attending the San Dieguito River Valley JPA meeting where she is a voting member. A motion was made to Oppose the Marisol project planned for the Del Mar North Bluff. She missed the meeting. Why would that be? Because Marco Gonzalez has endorsed her and he has been retained to represent Marisol. She seems to always to side with developers while proclaiming her environmental values.

If you appreciate our environment and want to keep some of our open spaces here in North County, vote for anyone other than Olga Diaz. She is definitely not an environmentalist.

If you want to elect a true environmentalist, vote for Terra Lawson Remer for District 3 County Supervisor.

Diaz and Lawson-Remer are in a three-way race for the Supervisor seat held by Kristin Gaspar. Presumably Gaspar will make the top two in the primary and either Diaz or Lawson-Remer will advance to a close election in November.

Turney responds to FPPC issue

Someone's commenting about an FPPC fines against the Prop A folks:

". . .Turney and Canler are required to admit to 13 Political Reform Act violations and agree to pay a $1,000 fine, according to the FPPC announcement."

From Susan Turney:

Because of our support of Prop A, I and others became a target of those opposed to Prop A.

My guilty pleas were over minor clerical errors and the FPPC settled with me for a nominal amount - $38 per infraction. Asking the FPPC to impose minimal fines for minor offenses prevented Ken Moser and Harry Eiler, who made the complaint, from filing a civil lawsuit against me that could have led to huge legal expenses.

Since Ken Moser lives in San Diego, he had to use an Encinitas resident, Harry Eiler, to file against an Encinitas resident. Moser makes a practice of filing these frivolous clerical-error lawsuits against political opponents. He and Eiler have a history of harassment in Encinitas in particular, having filed 96 complaints in one year alone against former Encinitas Mayor Maggie Houlihan - anything to hassle the opposition. Because of Moser’s complaints, the FPPC has remarked that there were odd things going on in Encinitas elections.

Moser himself is now facing a $10M fine from the FCC for repeating a fake assault claim against a candidate: https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/politics/political-smear-case-just-took-another-bizarre-expensive-turn/.

Moser has been doing the same thing in Encinitas for years, apparently always against the slow-growth / community character side of the aisle, and also against Democrats elsewhere in the county.


Here's some background from when Moser sued Jim Kydd, publisher of the Coast News.

And here's some history on his partner Harry Eiler.

Encinitas featured in New York Times

Uh-oh. Here come the New Yorkers.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more quintessential California surf town than Encinitas, a sun-drenched pocket of coastal North County San Diego where wet suits hang like flags from bungalow porches and taco shops promise “No shirt, no shoes, no problem.” But when Morgan and Trevor Gates moved back to the area in 2018 after spending a year in Boulder, Colo., it wasn’t so much Encinitas’s beachy energy that convinced them to buy a home in the neighborhood of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, with its dramatic bluffs and cluster of oceanfront restaurants. It was its elementary schools.

“We liked the vibe, the landscape and the downtown that feels like a small town,” Ms. Gates said of Encinitas, a 20-square-mile city with about 60,000 residents. “But first and foremost, it was the school district.”

Lots of discussion on real estate prices, schools, and development.

Home invasion robbery in Encinitas

Encinitas Advocate:

[...] an Encinitas resident called 911 [Monday night, February 10] to report that a man had forced his way into her home as she slept, threatened her, stole money from her wallet and demanded the keys to her vehicle before driving off.

Deputies and CHP officers chased the van more than 30 miles, from south I-5 to south I-805. CHP officers deployed a spike strip at I-805 at El Cajon Boulevard but the van kept going, the CHP said.

The minivan next headed north on I-15, where the driver “abruptly stopped” in lanes near the El Cajon Boulevard exit and refused to get out, sheriff’s Sgt. Daniel Wilson said. Deputies shot out the driver’s side windows, then sent a sheriff’s dog to help take the driver into custody.

Leichtag Foundation executive Charlene Seidle still pushing “anti-Semitism in Encinitas” trope

Nextdoor.com and Facebook:

The article she's complaining about is here:

https://beachgrit.com/2020/02/surf-towns-benevolent-jews-offer-shelter-to-homeless-gentiles/

It doesn't seem to be either anti-Semitic or written by anyone in Encinitas, and Seidle has blocked comments on the Nextdoor post.

Coast News on Julie Thunder’s mayoral announcement

Coast News:

Longtime Cardiff resident Julie Thunder said she is running for mayor of Encinitas because she’s fed up with the direction she sees the city going in.

She announced her bid during a contentious marathon City Council meeting last month where she was one of more than 100 people who addressed the council regarding the overnight homeless parking lot they were set to approve.

“To everyone here tonight please join me right here and right now in keeping Encinitas a beach town as I hereby announce my candidacy for mayor,” she said at the end of a three-minute impassioned speech at the meeting on Jan. 22, as the crowd erupted in applause.

During that speech Thunder said she sees the city moving away from its small beach-town feel due to a long list of projects the council has approved, including chopping down hundreds of old trees in Leucadia to make way for road diets, parking lots and roundabouts; bringing high-rise apartments to “our peaceful, backcountry jewel” in Olivenhain; building a concrete rail-trail in Cardiff “that becomes a beach boardwalk in the summertime” and approving a regional homeless parking lot and slapping it “right in the middle of one of our cherished agricultural properties.”

2/12/20 City Council meeting open thread

On the agenda: Bonita development appeal and breakup with Surfing Madonna group.

Please use the comments to record your observations.