Judge Tony Brandenburg joins the city council race.
There are now five candidates for three seats, with a fourth seat opening up if Blakespear wins the mayor position.
Tony Brandenburg is a retired Superior Court commmissioner, current planning commissioner and long-time Olivenhain community activist. Unlike the other four candidates, we're not aware of his partisan affiliation.
I usually try and give candidates a fair shot, but being that Brandenburg has run before, I think it's fair game to say every time I saw him at a neighborhood forum he seemed at best uniformed, and at worse totally clueless on what the issues facing the city were.
ReplyDelete-MGJ
I've gotten the same impression from watching him perform at PC meetings over the past three years. Kind of surprised he wants to take on a tougher job.
DeleteSadly, we have little choice this year. I hope he doesn't try to run as retired judge again.
DeleteHey, whatever happened to the guy from Sierra Madre? Remember on this blog where we had all the scary stuff about he was coming to town to destroy Encinitas? Guess we're safe for now...
DeleteI think this guy presided over a driving citation case I fought in court years ago. He was a total dbag, making the court adversarial and one-sided against me. He didn't care one bit that he abdicated the court's fiduciary duty of fairness of objectivity. If it were up to me, I'd show this guy the exit door, and leave a footprint of my shoe on his backside for good measure.
DeleteStack and Pack Brandenburg can join Phony Tony Kranz in claiming "deep local roots" while supporting more density and up zoning to destroy community charachter
ReplyDeletePC and CC members may have party affiliations, but you wouldn't know it from the way they actually vote on city issues.
ReplyDeleteThis will make the candidates forums even MORE riveting!
ReplyDeleteMaybe the judge can weigh in on the Dumanis campaign fund scandal. How is this crook the District Attorney?? Voters in SD County are clueless to keep electing crooks like Dumanis.
ReplyDelete"Voters in SD County are clueless ..." That encompasses Encinitas voters.
DeleteWith the impatience Anthony shows on the Planning Commission at every meeting, no matter the agenda issue, all I can ask is, why would he want more? I can think of some candidates that I would rather have him than them, but the fix is in. This election is already in the bag.
ReplyDeleteCatherine will be our next mayor.
Tony will keep his seat.
Mark will keep his seat.
Tasha will get a seat. Who does that leave?
If I am correct, council will be choosing a seat filler without us electing a replacement. Frack!
Anyone care to take a guess on who that might be? That is a scary proposition.
What can us voters do at this point to deny council this choice of selecting another one of their own? Scary, scary, scary.
You could have run but that would entail actually putting your butt on the line instead of complaining anonymously. Frack!
DeleteWell, then they'd finally have their supermajority to put a sales tax increase on the ballot.
DeleteThe fix is never in, you always have your vote, and if you don't like the candidates, run yourself or convince someone you like to run. Saying the fix is in is a cop out...
DeleteI don't see Blakespear capturing mayor, and A lot of former supporters will be actively campaigning AGAIST Kranz. It is still too early to tell.
ReplyDeleteKranz needs to be eliminated from council. Bad example, bad temperament, and turned on voters. Only accomplished more development and Spock block.
DeleteI think Catherine will wins hands down. She has been around the block (so to speak) and knows the workings of the commissions and city better than GASpar Wife No. 2. Besides, Catherine will look better in heels than physical therapist.
Delete6:20 perhaps you are a paid Blakespear troll, man hating feminist Hillary uses Soros money to pay for positive trolls online, perhaps that is happening here as well.
DeleteAs a person who supported Barth, Shaffer and Kranz- who all turned out to be dishonest, sneaky and conniving, I have seen little to like in Blakespear. She is nicer than Barth or Shaffer, and she might want to be genuine, but she isn't. Just look at Blakespear's dishonest claims last year in an opinion piece that the city is in good shape financially- she is either dishonest or naive.
So to compare Mr. Gaspar with Barth/shaffer/Blakespear- Mr. Gaspar started his own business. Barth and Shaffer worked for the government, and Blakespear has a trust fund. Hmmmmmm
Mr. Gaspar has had to meet a payroll, Barth and Shaffer worked for the government and fed at trough of taxpayers, Blakespear has a trust fund.hmmmmmm
Mr. Gaspar clearly respects and values all sexes, Barth and Shaffer have pushed to hire woman for city positions regardless of their qualifications and Blakespear wrote a condescending article with a sexist title saying here come the husbands.
I will be voting for Gaspar. Just because Barth and Shaffer might hate qualified successful business and family men does not mean we have to join them in their intolerance.
7:58 You are certainly free to vote for who you wish.
DeleteJust remember. you've been duped.
Rumors have it that Gaspar's business is in trouble. So much for being successful.
7:58 May I refresh your memory and point out that Kristin Gaspar, in her state of the city address, publicly announced that the city was in great financial shape.
DeleteHmmmm, must be that Gaspar is a liar also.
7:58- Paul Gaspar, as well as his wife, are both voting for Donald Trump. Since Trump does not value all sexes, as we all have seen in his campaign. He has also violated HIPPA laws and is being looked in to over that. Not sure I want him as our Mayor. I do agree with you on Kranz. He betrayed his base, and that is not good when a politician does that?
DeleteKudos to 7:38 for bringing in not only the conspiracy mindset, but also the George Soros mention and the anti-semitic connotations that always accompany that mention.
DeleteThese are local people folks, you can go meet them at a variety of events the next few months. Stick to local issues and who you think will do the best job on those issues. If you don't like the candidates, maybe you should have run yourself...
9:05. Donald Trump relies on his daughter Ivanka to help run his billion dollar business. Donald Trump relies on Katrina Pierson and Kelly Ann Conway to help lead his campaign. Keep spreading your lies and untruths.
DeleteHillary Clinton on the other hand is bought and paid for. She destabilized Libya. Before Hillary woman and children in Libya got free health care, security and college educations 0aid for by the state. Since Hillary destabilized Libya 3o,an are raped, sold into sexual slavery and can'take leave their houses. Hillary received $ 25 million from the Saudi's who subjugate woman and imprison homesexuals- those are facts which candidate sounds like they value and respect woman most? The candidate who is backed with money from governments that subjugate woman?
Want to see a Physical Therapist lose his $#!+?
ReplyDeleteIn the debates, constantly refer to him as a chiropractor.
7:58pm. You have to know that by voting for Paul you are also bringing $ssss$ and mikey back in to a position of influence. This community will never allow that. If Paul publicly and privately divorces himself from these cretins, he might stand a better chance, but that ain't happening.
ReplyDeleteWe have quite a season ahead of us and the debates will not spare any of them. Of that, we can all be sure. I imagine the debates between the citizens isn't going to be a pretty picture either as already illustrated. Gentleman and Ladies', start your engines. varoom........
Paul GASpar - same bullshit; different asshole.
Delete8:49 By the same token, Muir is best friends with $tock$. He shouldn't be let back in either.
Delete8:59- How do you know that Muir and Stocks are BEST friends. They know one another, they are both Republican, but they are certainly not best friends.
Delete9:06pm You obviously are new around here and, if not, you have had your head buried in the sand. Not that that is a bad thing. Some need to stay buried and yet they keep crawling back out from under their rocks.
ReplyDeleteMany of us know only too well how close Muir and $ssss$ have always been. How do you think Mark ended up with such a fat pension? Oops, I mean large pension.
Who do you think was caught on camera putting up campaign signs before it was legally allowed to do so? Yes, it was two and same, Mark and $ssss$. Partners in crime from way back and I don't mean criminal, except for those early campaign signs.
If there were more choices, Mark would be gone.
That previous city policy/ordinance was unconstitutional. The government cannot regulate how long political signs can be posted; that is, the govt. cannot regulate freedom of speech based on content, except when the content clearly creates harm, and is untrue.
DeleteStill at the time it was illegal, and the rules were set by the council itself with approval of the city attorney. How ironic that two setting council members themselves were caught violating the very regulations the council had promulgated. To top it off the partner of the city attorney was the "consultant" called in to help write the very ordinance that was unconstitutional.
DeleteMuir is a chameleon. He certainly played that role in the signgate scandal. He did it again last Wednesday when he argued in favor of the renaming of the library, but then voted against it. The vote was 4 to 0.
Muir is dead weight on the council.
DeleteYea, it is a slam dunk that most of these clowns will retain their council seat. Basically, incorporation was a mistake.
DeleteWell, I was around before incorporation. One thing for sure: We wouldn't be in the At Home in Encinitas mess with the high RHNA numbers imposed on the city by SANDAG when Jerome Stocks was our representative on the board. If we hadn't incorporated those numbers would be spread over the whole unincorporated areas of the county, and like Rancho Santa Fe, we might have escaped the draconian upzoning we are being asked to do now.
Delete5:13 PM
DeleteOf course, I doubt there would be a Prop A because it would have to be passed be a majority of the whole county. Also, the county doesn't require a popular vote to rezone properties so I wouldn't be surprised if unincorporated Encinitas already had a number of upzonings by now.
Currently, Encinitas is in the third district with Escondido and Abed could have been our next supervisor. I'm just fine with incorporation.
8:34, stop making your unbelievably stupid comment about incorporation being a mistake.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who thinks incorporation was a mistake clearly was not around when the crooked County Board of Supervisors ran things.
DeleteLocal control!
DeleteIf the city ceded control to the county, why not have the county cede control to the state, and the state cede control to the feds?
5:42,
DeleteStop drinking water or any liquid immediately.
If you have just one sip, it could lead to a gulp, then guzzling, and eventual drowning.
Reductio ad absurdum
9:58 AM Got a burr up your rectum?Incorporation has lead to local control of land development by monied schemers, massive accumulating pension obligations, ineffectual city bureaucracy, frivolous mandates on insignificant issues, amongst others. The county being a better option is debatable. All government has its drawbacks.
Delete8:02 You can't be serious. Do you really think Encinitas would be better off under county control?
DeleteYou have to consider the question in the time frame since Encinitas became suburbia and its population exploded.
Everything was much different when Encinitas was a remote outpost barely known by people in San Diego city.
The problem is not local vs. remote control. Local control is unquestionably better. The problem is who's in control locally.
If Encinitas had had better council members since 1986 — more people like, say, Dennis Holz — things would be much closer to hunky-dory
Even if reverting to county control were a good idea, it's not gonna happen so harping on the point makes no sense.
DeleteWe incorporated so that, as a city, we could have local control. As the years have gone by, we are now faced with the challenge of being controlled by the developers. If we are not careful, we will lose this battle.
ReplyDeleteJust look at who the developers are supporting in this campaign season: Kristin Gaspar.
We can fully expect the developers to support Paul Gaspar as well in his run as mayor of Encinitas.
In order to keep control, we must NOT ELECT these two to any position that will guarantee an easy path for the developers.
STOP GASPARS before it is too late.
The Gaspars need to come clean about what their hidden agenda is and who they are beholding to. They continue to align themselves with $tock$ and we all know that anything to do with him is not a good thing.
DeleteThey must think we are all blind and don't see what is going on.
8:56 - stop being ridiculous. They can't "come clean" otherwise it wouldn't be a "hidden agenda"! So let's say they did "come clean"...you would most likely take it as proof positive that they're deflecting away form their double secret hidden agenda! Besides, didn't you answer your own question with the 2nd sentence?
Delete- The Sculpin
Yup, pretty obvious to me what the Gaspars stand for, which is why I'm not voting for them.
Delete9:43 Bottom Feeder --- shut the hell up. You offer nothing.
DeleteI think it's pretty clear what the Gaspar agenda is at this point, there's been a few years to figure it out. You don't need a conspiracy mindset, just follow the money, the votes, and the abstentions...
Delete-MGJ
Color commentary:
DeleteSculpin makes 11:42 look foolish.
11:42 can't handle it.
12:17 PM Only in your eyes.
Delete12:17 Just because you say so, does not make it so. Crawl back in your hole.
DeleteGaspars are shills for the developers and all the associated interests. They power brokers stack the local city councils of the region and then run rampant with revisions to the building codes and regulations that allow them free reign. The given assumption is that the majority of the electorate are clueless and fall prey to the last minute mailers that inundate their mailboxes. When Paul Gaspar can run for Mayor, one realizes an inanimate object qualifies for office in Encinitas.
ReplyDeleteWhere in a drought, conserve water . Traffic is unbearable do not drive . Beaches are slammed with people yet no Sand.
ReplyDeleteGas bars and developers cancer is the pack more people and increased density and develop the crap out of it. Keep Encinitas nice keep Gaspar out .
Blakespear hasn't shown me she's not in the pockets of the developers...
ReplyDeleteTrue - I think they all are.
DeleteThe only difference is in degree. Gaspars, et al, we become Newport Beach in 10 years. Blakespear et al it's 20. Unfortunately the dismal science of economics is inexorable and the best we can do is slow it down.
DeleteHer father is a developer!
DeleteI might vote for the judge - if he is stupid neutral, that's better than sold out.
ReplyDeleteHe appears to sleep through entire Planning Commission items, only to finally come to confused and needing the motion explained to him.
DeleteThis could be a plus, but then again he's been heard to mumble upon awakening "I guess I have to go along with this thing" and then voting in favor of the developer.
I will vote for any candidate who strongly opposes Measure T. Tony, are you listening??
ReplyDeleteSlim pickings. Everyone running either strongly supports the HEU or feel they have no choice but to accept it.
Delete4:34pm You and I can't expect Tony, or for that matter, any of the declared candidates to come out in favor of the residents will to fight the urbanization plan we are confronted with.
ReplyDeleteOur votes can count for something and that is a No on Measure T.
As for the candidates this go around, the choice is simple, and not always appetizing, but we can get rid of one faction that has been around much too long. We have to start somewhere and ousting Muir and the newest Gaspar and Phil Graham is a step in the right direction.
With some of the rulings of the sitting council members and their chosen candidate, it may be hard to get past these, but the choice is easy.
Clean out what we can this time and hope in 2 years we will have some that will defend this community.