Saturday, April 30, 2016

Kibbles n' bits

SANDAG and Coastal Commission: not so fast on Cardiff Rail Trail flip-flop.

Phil Graham to seek council seat. This is the first new serious candidate the Republicans have found in four years. He'll have resources and a professional campaign, and is almost certain to be elected. But unless the Republicans can come up with another serious candidate, he'll be relegated to the minority.

Effort to restore La Paloma and put it on the National Register of Historic Places. Well deserved, and thank you.

Wag Halen Kook.

29 comments:

  1. Phil Graham want to be a politician. He doesn't care at what level. Shows bad integrity.

    What has he done for Encinitas? How long has he lived here?

    Unless he has some serious good ideas like cleaning out deadwood staff and cutting staff costs, I will not be voting for a wantabe career politician. Sheeze.

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    1. Graham was endorsed by San Diego Mayor Faulconer, Encinitas Mayor Gaspar, Congressmen Issa.
      Enough for me, NOPE!

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  2. Graham is related to Pete Wilson by the marriage of his mother - that's enough to disqualify him for me. Looks like a clone protégé of $tock$.

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  3. Why don't they simply say Pete Wilson's step son? He was 14-15 at the time of the marriage.

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  4. Why is he certain to be elected? What's the background on that statement?

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    1. Eh. 4 seats open, usually a very weak field in Encinitas, anybody with a professional campaign would seem to have a pretty good shot.

      Maybe I'm wrong.

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    2. If he has any money behind him, a campaign full of standard clichés should be enough to get him elected. Encinitas doesn't have a great track record for the quality of elected officials. Muir got in on having been a fireman and Gaspar on Wonder Woman stunts - pretty much shows the standard for electability - none.

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    3. What local city does, Carlsbad, Oceanside, Vista, San Marcos?

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    4. The first 4 candidates on the ballot will be elected. That's how many voters make their choices.

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    5. 4:45,

      You're too cynical. Voters take their local voting orders from party mailers.

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    6. 5:54 PM

      "Voters take their local voting orders from party mailers."

      How nice, denigrating Encinitas voters. They're just too stupid/automatons. But you're a lot smarter then they are. They couldn't possibly agree with the candidates they vote for. They just mechanically vote for whatever is in the mailer. How arrogant.

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    7. 1) When was the last time a candidate won without having the endorsement of one of the two major parties?

      2) Have you seen how council election results by precinct correlate with party registration?

      You'd be surprised! The majority of Encinitas residents don't pay attention to city council and many if not most couldn't name two council members.

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    8. 11:24 AM

      What a news flash that voters tend to vote for members of their party which is why we still have Darrell Issa as representative. But you go on insulting Encinitas voters because you're way smarter than they are.

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    9. Insult? Hardly.

      Most Encinitas voters who don't pay attention are productive career and family people. They have better things to do with their time than pay attention to a podunk city council.

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    10. Wanna bet what the response rate to the city's random scientific survey is, for example?

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  5. I'm a republican and I think he stinks almost as bad as $tock$.

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  6. Sounds to me like mommy told him to go into politics. I'm not sure if JR has the cloth for it.

    From the photo alone-- Not.

    Can't wait to hear little JR platform and see all the establishment money flier.

    Almost guaranteed- He cares about the environment, yet never seen that mug out in ocean.

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    1. Yea, he cares for the environment - that of the smoke filled room of his cronies! Get the bulldozers fired up - there is still some open space to jam pack with condos! Carpet baggers are coming to town!

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  7. Don't forget about Lerch. You know he'll be in the mix as well...

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    1. Where's the dope smoking kid? He is as viable as anyone else - maybe more so!

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    2. Alex? I think he got 10 votes last time...

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  8. Advocate has an interesting story on potential restoration of La Paloma theater.

    Noteworthy: the theater was completed in 1928 by a profit-making developer as part of a plan to turn Encinitas into a resort town. Which means the intellectual ancestors of many on this blog were likely calling him names, complaining about how awful the building was, mourning the loss of the shack that previously stood there, and calling for the heads of whoever approved the plans.

    For the sake of consistency, maybe we should tear it down now?

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    1. Nah, it's easier to just bitch, ad infinitum.

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    2. Correction: should read ". . . profit-making OUT-OF-TOWN developer . . ."

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    3. Your historical inaccuracies befuddle the imagination!

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    4. 3:46,

      Enlighten us.

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    5. It is done - go now and err no more!

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  9. That's a stretch. ha

    U have quite an imagination.

    I'm sure the do nothing grammar patrol will have something negative to say about your comment.

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  10. Dig up Bing Crosby and prop him up in front of the theatre on Rocky Horror Picture Show night! Now that's history! (Or substitute the fossil Logan Jenkins - they look the same "vintage" at this point).

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