Sunday, November 8, 2015

"Encinitas Goat Buster" Facebook campaign backfires

In the wake of the recent "barnyard" robocalls against Blakespear, Kranz, and Shaffer's plan to allow farm animals in suburban Encinitas, someone going by the name of "Encinitas Goat Buster" (apparently a close relation of Encinitas Goof uster) has set up a Facebook page to warn about the coming chickens, goats and bees. The page's posts showed up as "Sponsored" in Encinitans' Facebook feeds, meaning the Goat Buster was paying Facebook to promote the posts.

The campaign seems to have missed its target; most of the comments on the post are supportive of suburban agriculture. A sampling:
You can already have chickens in Encinitas (there are rules) just no roosters. Most chicken owners I know keep their coops cleaner than the dog parks.

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Also, did you know that Olivenhain, Leucadia, and Cardiff are part of Encinitas? Olivenhain already allows livestock and bees. Methinks you just may have a beef with these city council members and are trying to find some poopie to stir up.

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I live in village park and my next door neighbors have chickens. Not a problem

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Seeing as how San Diego County has MORE small farms than any COUNTRY [sic] IN THE NATION, it makes pretty much sense. We are a GARDEN CITY. Agriculture is in our roots. Animals are an integral part of that system.

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I grew up here and we had goats, cows, horse and chickens... I was in the 4-H… And showed my animals at the Del Mar fair....i loved it, and so did all of my friends.... I bet my food was way more organic than whole foods....

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I live in encinitas and have chickens people should not get into ppls business and just let them pluck there chickens

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Bring it back. I want the old flavor of Encinitas and Leucadia to dominate. Tate Sanderson's family had chickens, peacocks and geese. Aside from the ocasional attacks it's was totally cool.

12 comments:

  1. It's easy enough to report this page to Facebook and call it spam or offensive. Seeing as I already know who is behind this, I may wait a while, but report I shall.

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    1. Facebook take action? More likely turn you in to the NSA - their master.

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  2. I think it's funny and don't think FB will see it as spam or offensive. We all know who is behind it, and I doubt it will gain much traction if we just leave it there and not post on it. Who is going to know it exists unless someone else tells us?

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  3. 10:44 AM
    It is funny. Although the comment about dirt farmers is a put down. Many of us have dirt farming in previous generations.
    Who is behind it? Someone running for office?

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  4. Baaaaaaaaaaa
    Another Federal project financed by homeland security?
    Project Description from the bids section on the city website:
    All work to be done in accordance with these contract documents including Drawing No. TS - 07 5 and TS - 076 entitled “
    Fiber Interconnect Project 1 HSIP5 - 11 - 007 ” and “Fiber Optic Interconnect
    Project 2 HSIP5 - 11 - 008”.
    The work consists of:
    • Removal of existing pullboxes and connecting existing conduit.
    • Removal of existing wireless radios and installation of new radios with Ethernet extenders and all appurtenances and rerouting of Ethernet cable.
    • Installation of 6 - strand, 36 - strand, and 72 - strand fiber optic cable, PVC conduit, mule tape, tracer wire, concrete pullboxes, concrete fiber vaults, splice closures, fiber distribution units, port panels, splice trays, and all appurtenances necessary for communications.
    • Installation of side mounted battery backup cabinet and relocating existing battery backup system components and installation of serial to Ethernet converters for battery backup systems.
    • Upgrading existing traffic controller equipment including, but not limited to switch, 170E serial to Ethernet converter, conflict monitor unit, PDA Type 1 to PDA Type 2 conversion, and power cycle relay switch
    . Because this is a Federal project, at least 30% of the contract work is to be performed by the prime contractor.
    However, the more stringent Greenbook provision of 50% of the contract work to be performed with Contractor’s own organization, shall apply

    ENGINEER’S COST ESTIMATE
    : The Engineer’s Estimate is: $785,000.00

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  5. all this for a life guard tower at Moonlight Beach?

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    1. No. It's for controlling traffic signals.

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  6. So is this Mike Andreen? Sounds like him.

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  7. And what part of old Leucadia do you miss the most?? The bums in the park ( they are back) or the hookers on 101??

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  8. Andreen addressed the Planning Commission against Urban Ag but was drowned out by the East Coast interns from Leichtag sent before the Planning Commission against him by his old friend Mim.

    Tony, Lisa and Cathy are meeting Thursday, November 11th at 11:00 PM in the Poinsettia Room to discuss not making any changes to their personally-written ordinance that was called tiered but was un-tiered. The Council subcommittee meeting should be 'standing-room-only'.

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  9. Was this an attempt to deceive? There is/was no Thursday Nov. 11, as I learned the hard way by going down there this morning Thursday Nov. 12, only to find no meeting was happening. I am sure it was not yesterday, Wednesday Nov. 11 either, as it was Veterans Day. All three of the halls were empty for the most part when I checked around 11am. It is on me to have confirmed this beforehand, so you got me this time.

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