North Coast Current:
Muir and other speakers at the City Council meeting expressed concern that the map might have been designed to retain current council members’ seats while making it more difficult for certain portions of the city to be represented in the future.Encinitas Guerrilla:
“Drawing a map that takes into consideration allowing each of the elected council members to keep their district is simply the definition of gerrymandering,” resident and former planning commissioner Ruben Flores told the council. “This reflects the potential future behavior of you as elected officials. I believe you’ve lost credibility.”
Recently retired Encinitas city spokesman Jerry Mander has endorsed Tasha Boerner Horvath, a candidate for the California State Assembly District 76 seat.
Tasha didn’t think this through, and she can’t admit it.
ReplyDeleteThe first error isn’t disqualifying; the second is.
Good 'Ol Jerry Mander. He worked hard as the city spokes hole. He deserves that $100+K retirement pension.
ReplyDeleteTasha dissed the residents who took the time and effort to submit a map. Only two maps were chosen - both hers. It would have been nice to have at least one or two others submitted by others so they would have felt so left out of the process.
ReplyDeleteTasha should be ashamed of what she did. The mayor is equally to blame for allowing such a thing to happen. The mayor made it sound like Tasha was so smart to come up with such wonderful maps and all the other maps weren't good enough.
A very shameful process that won't be forgotten.
Mapgate.
DeleteFollow the monies.
A Thanksgiving greeting arrived from Tasha today. It's a string of trite cliches from beginning to end. At least she had the decency not to ask for money to finance her campaign for assembly.
ReplyDeleteRemember that her actions count far more than her words which endlessly come out of her mouth, pen, and keyboard.
She's a politician, devoid of an morality, ethics or conscious. Only in it for the money.
DeleteLisa Shaffer II
ReplyDeleteHer political career must come to an end.
DeleteExcept, right now, Shaffer hates her too!
DeleteShe knows better than everybody else, talks way too much and doesn't listen. She outsmarted herself and is well on her way to irrelevancy and obscurity.
ReplyDeleteSo, I'm wondering, do these lines have to be redrawn with each ensuing census? In order to maintain roughly equal population density, I would think that would have to be part of the process.
ReplyDeleteYes they do have to be redrawn after each census to maintain an equal amount distribution of Latinos.... it is part of the process.
DeleteTasha tells Catherine and Joe what to do! OMG, think for yourselves!!!
ReplyDeleteThe real 3 stooges!!!!
What I do know is that more scketchy bums are hanging around the Leucadia Roadside Park since the City put the porto potty there.
ReplyDeleteGet rid of the porto potties and quit sending the message to the sketchy homeless that they are welcome in Leucadia or anywhere in Encinitas.
They are not. Send the message to go to Oceanside or OB, or downtown SD. The current policy on vagrancy is causing more and more people to live like vagrants.
The Mayor and City Council should send a letter to the state and federal politicians requesting on tougher laws the books about vagrancy and start enforcing it.
City Council needs to switch its focus to protecting EXISTING residents quality of life.
That's how we got rid of Andreen.
DeleteI was happy living in my house, but then I saw the new porta potties.
DeleteSaid no one, ever.
All hail to the man cleaning Leucadia Roadside Park yesterday morning. He picked up all the trash and disposed of it properly. Who was that man?? I don't know. I can tell you who it wasn't... Mosca, Kranz or Muir.
ReplyDeleteBlakespear is having a fundraiser for Tasha. Don't know about all of you, but that seems rather uncool.
ReplyDeleteTasha is also being back by Unions and Developers!
ReplyDelete3:20 - The exact reason I will not be voting for her.
ReplyDeleteFrom the mayor's fan-girl missive to her email list:
ReplyDelete"Tasha was born for public service and policy work. She sweats the small stuff and has the eye of the tiger."
There's much more over-the-top language. It all sounds like Tasha has a strong obsessive-compulsive component in her personality.
What has she done for Encinitas, except to stick us with a gerrymandered map of voting districts and a new world's record of Most Words Spoken In First Year Of Office.
It seems like most on our council members aspire to be developers or are in the pocket of developers. Blakespear's family tried to develop a parcel along Rossini Creek and will eventually be back, Tasha speaks about wanting to add a 3rd floor to the house that she lives in, and Tony has stated that he wants to convince his mother-in-law to do a density bonus project on her property. It seems like Muir is the only one who is not backing up development. I don't know much about Joe's position on this, but the residents and environmentalists continue to be marginalized at the expense of the high density building crowd.
DeleteExactly who is representing the rest of us?
4:18 Sure reads like a Russian troll."It seems like Muir is the only one who is not backing up development". Well done though...
DeleteCabezon
Bizarrely, Muir is the only one giving residents the right votes. Bizarre, but true. How sad is that when the others are the ones who ran on representing residents?
DeleteIt's important to look at the votes of each council member. Muir had the correct vote on Tasha's gerrymandered voting district maps. Muir also had the correct vote on the west side location of the Cardiff rail trail. He sided with the majority of citizens on both these important issues.
DeleteMuir wasn't on the council when pension benefits were decided. He was in the fire department and certainly took advantage of them, as did very single city, county, and state workers. Blame, however, falls mainly on Sacramento and public worker unions.
Don't forget the Hymettus vote: Muir alone rejected the developer in favor of residents and preserving community character.
DeleteMuir also opposed the majority changing the definition of agricultural zoning to allow Leichtag to put in non-agricultural offices.
DeleteAnd he opposed the majority on that commercial building on the east side of El Camino Real where the owner massacred a eucalyptus grove so he could push the parking lot much closer to the Jolina Way neighbors' property lines.
And he opposed the majority surrendering to developer legal threats in recent settlements.
Maybe Desert Rose too? I don't remember, but I have noted that Muir is often in the minority, supporting residents over developers.
4:18pm. You and others now supporting Mark are being played.
ReplyDeleteSure, you got a couple of favorable rulings and have conveniently chosen to ignore Marks history. Wake up.
Mark can sit through the same discussion as the rest of us and then come out with a question or statement that makes one think, where the hell has his attention been?
We deserve better, and at least have someone that can comprehend the information that is being offered. Thank the stars that he, along with others up there on the dais will not be rotating into the mayors seat for a year at a time.
We need some new blood up there. We need some non-apathetic citizens to run next year. Not everyone has the ambition to run for public service but we can still hope for better representation without self serving motivations showing so clearly as they do now with some of the council members.
Muir is interested in his pension and the salaries and pensions of his firefighters buddies. Period. Nothing more nothing less. He is a tool of the big govt tax and spend.
DeleteThrow the bum out!!
I really don't take your point about being played by Muir when the real ones playing residents demonstrate it week after week.
DeleteAll we have to go on are actions. As Tasha has shown is in spades, words are cheap. REAL cheap.
As Tasha has shown "us"....
DeleteMuir ran on a ticket with Paul Gaspar and Phil Graham last year. All three were funded by developer interests. This is public domain information. People who paid for Gaspar/Graham/Muir signage did not do so without expecting something in return. Follow the money.
DeleteThen they have t gotten their money's worth yet out of Muir. I'm more interested in following the money on the Blakespear/Kranz/Horvath developer-friendly votes. Why aren't you, 11:41?
DeleteThe problem is this: Who wants to run for public office? You get ridiculed, your life is scrutinized, every decision you make is up for someone to take you to task, and i could go on. Perhaps we need to stop trashing people who are running and hopefully some people will step up.
ReplyDeleteMuir is lazy, uneducated, and rarely serves on any sub-committee of council. He asks dumb questions and is always in his own clever way trying to trip some one up with a silly question.
ReplyDeleteThis guy is laughable and I hope he doesn't run again. He is wasting our time and we need some one who has more energy and doesn't look like an overstuffed elephant that can barely waddle.
"Trip someone up?" Like who, a lying staffer?
DeleteMuir is playing an old game. Vote for "the people" only when you are on the losing end. He's obviously prepping for a supervisor run.
DeleteI think he voted against the popout house on the tiny lot that violated all the setbacks too:
Deletehttp://encinitasundercover.blogspot.com/2016/11/popout-neighbor-from-hell.html
I'll take his so-called "old game" over the crap the other pull. I can only go by what they all do, not say.
Delete"Muir is lazy, uneducated, and rarely serves on any sub-committee of council.
DeleteHe asks dumb questions and is always in his own clever way trying to trip some one up with a silly question." Uneducated was the giveaway that this post was from a neutered elitist Cultural Marxist. As if ANY advanced degrees would allow a City Council member to better represent us citizens? SO typical of a leftist elitist kook to make such disparaging remarks about the ONLY city council member that knows volumes of information and who has the courage to vote in favor of tax payers and conservatives. What a leftist hate-filled clown you really are and neutered (married to a feminist that picks out shirts for you to wear). Go back to San Francisco or NYC you silly little tool!
9:02 and 9:07 It is obvious you are enthralled with Muir, who by the way, casts dissenting votes that don't mean diddly shit. They just look good on his voting record, but to say his votes had any benefit to we the tax payers is really stretching it.
DeleteName calling won't get you any where except your own reflection when you look in the mirror.
9:26, defend the other three. As an ex-supporter of Blakespear, Kranz, and Boerner-Horvath I can tell you, I can't. Virtually all their votes have gone against residents - look at those EU and others listed in Muir's favor and you'll find the three voted the opposite.
DeleteMuir voted against Tasha's map for district voting. He was smart enough to figure out that Tasha was attempting to gerrymander him into defeat, if she could possibly accomplish it. He was smart enough to know that Tasha, Joe, and Catherine violated the Brown Act in getting themselves perfectly aligned. Oh, so obvious!
DeleteThis was a major vote. Muir got it right.
3:23 So, please explain how Muir's "no" vote was a benefit to the citizens. Majority vote was a "yes". Muir's vote meant nothing except to himself. I think a Latino should run against him. That would be good for this silly so-called impending lawsuit.
DeleteMuir's "no" vote meant plenty to the residents.
Delete9:50 How did the residents benefit from that "NO" vote? Be specific.
DeleteObviously, the project will go through. But after multiple private meetings with all five council members, only one even pretended to listen. The others made ALL the right sounds in front of the neighbors, then acted like they didn't understand the problem when it came time to discuss and vote.
DeleteIf you can't understand the benefit that comes from feeling you've been heard, then I don't know what to tell you.
5:20- Agreed. Total disappointments. Instead of focusing on needed projects like streetscape, they've focused on welcoming sketchy homeless and lowering existing residents quality of life and property values by putting in porto potties around town. Whats next food stations, blankets and cots?
ReplyDeleteWhy is Streetscape needed?
DeleteFavors to developers.
DeleteTry favor for residents. Hwy101 is a death machine and designed as a highway for 60mph + traffic.
ReplyDeleteThe road needs to be redesigned as a local roadway for 30mph speeds to best serve the community.
Some wide eyed ex council woman, can't seem to understand that a freeway running right through our beach area is not a great idea. Geeze.
Crazy C proves some old dogs can not learn.
That you, Charlie Marvin? You or another 101 property owner clinging to the bizarre thought that slow traffic will bring more business, and drooling over the unfettered development the roundabouts would enable?
DeleteWipe your mouth, your greed is showing.
8:32 There are better ways to slow the Leucadia 101 traffic than one-laning and packing five roundabouts at the extreme north end. Parking on the east side with crosswalks to the west side would do it and help the businesses.
Delete1:38pm - Your a dumb ass. Talk about causing injury accidents. You need roundabouts to get the people from the east side to the west side safety. Signals suck. I hate wasting life sitting for minutes at clogged intersections staring at red lights.
DeleteCrazy eyed C has no life, so she could waite for 10 minutes or more per light and it wouldn't phase her one bit. She has no where to go anyway except to ramble on to some poor person willing to act like they are listing and waste more energy. Sigh..... :(
Nor is a train running through town at 70 mph good for the community.
Delete8:32am. Slimy mikey's infatuation has reared it ugly head again and attacking a respected citizen.
ReplyDeleteSuch respect will never be within your grasp. What a sad pathetic creature you are.
Whooo, look at her crazy eyes spin. Crazy eyes is triggered big time.
ReplyDeleteMaybe she'll blow a gasket at City Hall like she did last time?!
Slimy mikey, be careful of what you wish for. The gasket that is more likely to blow is yours, with all the blackness that resides within your rotting soul.
ReplyDeleteMikey's gasket blew along time ago. He's stuck in the past, jawing about someone he's no longer getting paid to harass. Talk about crazy.
DeleteAs the current behavior of some men against women is finally being called for what it is, bullying, and much worse, so are slimy mikeys rants against a respected citizen who never posts here.
ReplyDeleteMikey, your days are numbered, if you continue to bring up comments against a citizen who never posts here. You better believe that every single one of your rants over the years are being collected. This number in total shows a problem that needs to be prosecuted for what it is, and the sooner the better.