Today's Labor Day kook costume was put up Thursday night. It's a competent, if rather pedestrian, homage to American Labor. The city unions and their council lackey Jerome Stocks decided to leave it up for at least two days, and probably for the long weekend as well given city work hours.
Contrast that to the treatment the far more beautiful, elaborate, and creative Madonna Kook got. It was torn down by early afternoon of the same day it was put up.
I labor custom has been left up because...BIG LABOR AT CITY HALL HAD LAST FRIDAY OFF FROM WORK!!! Meanwhile all private enterprise people worked on FRIDAY!!! Why?? Because they need to pay the bills and save for the future, unlike GOV'T workers.
ReplyDeleteCity workers are on a 9/80 work schedule. They work M-Th 9 hours per day. They have two 8 hour Friday shifts per month and are off on the other two. This style of work schedule is common in the private sector and helps reduce business costs.
ReplyDeleteDo they all get the same Fridays off? It would seem this could lead to a dangerous lack of respect for Jerome Stocks' and Richard Phillips' authoritah as unauthorized graffiti is allowed to remain up for long weekends.
ReplyDelete$tock$ realizes that his political career could be in jeopardy in 2012; he is banking on the fact that the developers' will fund the big signs and glossy mailers. Most voters in Encinitas are completely clueless about the scandals in City Hall - this is what $tock$ is banking on for reelection. Any criticism is stifled quickly, as with the Kook's political statement. If $tock$ can be reelected, democracy is a farce.
ReplyDeleteCity Hall was closed on Friday, and Monday is a holiday, so city work crews probably won't dismantle it until Tuesday morning. Good timing by Bycor, the construction company that had their name on a sign hanging from the statue. The sign has been removed. Bycor is a San Diego construction company that works in North County. They did the renovation at Cardiff Town Center where Rimels and Zenbu are. It looks like corporate sponsorship has entered into the decoration of the Cardiff Kook.
ReplyDeleteThe kook's hat says Bycor too.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't they have him with his pockets turned inside out and waiting in the unemployment line?
ReplyDeleteAnon5:19...LOLOLOLOLOLLLL Reduce bidness costs??? LOLOLOLOLOL Gubmint exists to increase the costs of doing bidness!! When you been boy??? Git your head outta you ass!!!
ReplyDeleteMost private bidness works to satisfy the customer. Gubmint exists to be satified. Fool. You ain't nothing but a fool.
So all of those groups of Encinitas City staff members I see at the Pannikin during core business hours, or the people who have been seen surfing on work days are actually saving us money? Thanks for this clear explination Anon 5:19.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah that's right. I forgot that private bidness is soooo good. Exon, BP, Enron, Blackwater, Haliberton, World Com, AIG, Goldman Sachs, Countrywide, B of A, Bernie Maddof... They care so much about the customer, don't they? As far as city worker issues I suggest you take some photo's with your smart phone and send your sightings of staff misconduct to the new city manager. I think he would like to know.
ReplyDeleteBycor - any chance they are political contributors to $tock$???
ReplyDeleteHow does one find the list of contributors to an individual's campaign - $tock$ in particular?
ReplyDeleteThey are public filings. I think you get them from the CA Second of State or the County Registrar.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone has them, please send them to me and I'll post.
Ask the city clerk. The list is online in the archives but much of the information has been blacked out. Around 2004 Stocks had
ReplyDeletecontributions from various people associated with a company that manages or owns shopping centers in Mira Mesa.
$tock$ is listed as an insurance salesman - it would be interesting to know how how many of his 'clients' have contributed to his campaigns and whether there was anything in it for them. He's no Dalager, so I imagine it would be more difficult to find anything overt. I couldn't find anything on State records; I'll try the County next...
ReplyDeleteJust a guess but I suspect you'd find some of the big developers with business before the city council just happen to buy insurance from Stocks.
ReplyDeleteThe North County Times just happened to run an article on the "gifts" that were reported by the City Council people. Seems Houlihan gets the prize for accepting (or admitting) the most; $tock$ likes the all American past time - baseball. But, like loans and kitchen appliances, some stuff doesn't make it on the reports, unless you have 'loose lips' like USS Dalager. Ahoy matey - thar be perks on the horizon for ye 'public' servants. Just hide them discretely.
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