Saturday, February 7, 2026

Landscape designer runs for city council, opposes current majority

North Coast Current:
Lefkowits is positioning himself as an alternative to the current council majority, which includes Mayor Bruce Ehlers and councilmembers Luke Shaffer and Jim O’Hara, along with Marco San Antonio, who was appointed to the District 4 seat in January 2025.


UPDATE: And school board member Viskanta to challenge Ehlers for mayor. She'll have the Democratic Party endorsement and mailers, which might be enough. It worked for Blakespear, though she had much weaker opposition.

50 comments:

  1. Positioning himself, huh?

    All I have seen is an announcement he is running for a seat representing with no other current candidates.

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    1. Landscape designer = can’t wait to approve overdevelopment for monetary gain to his industry. Progressive? Give me a break. This is straight up quid pro quo same as Dalager and $tock$. Please no fake outrage from thunder. Two wings of the same rapacious bird.

      Who is running for D4? So over San Antonio’s coy refusal to state his intentions.

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    2. You mean Dalager the lying scumbag who funded LukeJim's legal defense fund?

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    3. I thought that promising not to run for reelection was a condition of San Antonio's appointment. Not that Ehlers would ever go back on his word. (I won't appoint)

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    4. No, he refused to say he wouldn't run.

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  2. Leftofbitch is Freakshow and does not stand a chance.

    I hope there are other worthy candidates.

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    1. I thought you moved to Florida?

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    2. Your thoughts are screwed up

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  3. I'm in the process of drafting my first proclomation, here's what I have so far:

    "Whereas, Drag Queen Story Hour is a city effort to encourage maximum exposure of male snorkeling equipment to children"

    - Bradley-Boo-Bash Mamdaniwitz

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    1. That sounds accurate.

      Brad Leftofbitch is a fucking commie.

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  4. We are now entering the local political scene and Encinitas Votes is happy to be a part of allowing people to share their thoughts and feelings regarding who is running. But there needs to be guidelines. So here they are:

    1) Make sure what you're saying is factual even though I'm a compulsive liar. Lying about the candidates I don't like is allowed but you'll need to prove anything said about my candidates in triplicate. If you prove your point, I'll probably just block you or stop the discussion.

    2) Don't generalize the whole group, even though that's what I do about other groups.

    3) Keep the politics local, unless its a point I'm trying to make. I'll break any rules whenever I want to push my agenda.

    4) Be civil to one another, unless I don't like you or you're associated with people I don't like.

    5) It has been a long time since EV has blocked anyone even though there's hundreds of people blocked.

    6) The local elections are not about what political Party you happen to belong to. It's about dedicating my group to make sure the candidates I want to win, win.

    7) We, as adm. and moderators, have a right to also express our thoughts and opinions about a candidate. I'll pretend I'm not biased but it'll be stupidly obvious to everyone. If you aren't voting like I am, be prepared to be shit on without repercussions. If you shit on candidates I want to win, you'll be blocked.

    8 If you have a problem with me or a moderator, too bad. I'm too old and too crazy to pretend I care about anything but my candidates winning.

    Lastly, be kind. Unless you're attacking someone I don't like. Thank you for participating on Encinitas Votes, another biased propaganda site that pretends it isn't. As we get closer to the election, It'll be more and more obvious how I'm doing my part to push my candidates to the win.

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    1. Are you lonely or what? Maybe get a hobby?

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    2. 9.) How dare you. I’m lying in a hospital bed on a breathing machine being fed through a tube, and have been for years.

      10.) Also, I’m going to shut this group down because I don’t receive enough praise and ass kissing.

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    3. 8:58 is Andrew Matuszeski from Carbondale, CO. What a loser!

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    4. 6:42 is also Andrew Matuszeski!

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    5. Hey Larry, you have the wrong site. stay on Facebook. ✅🤣

      This site is for Encinitas real time news!

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    6. Larri know this is a site that people go to to see real time news that’s why she’s posting here.

      No one’s going to recite anymore.

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  5. Signed, someone who got kicked off of EV...

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  6. What's EV? My safe space is EPU

    - Everyone trying to get on council

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  7. 8:58pm's elocution is beyond $tock$ ability so who might the author be? The distant sound of the gods bowling in the skies?

    Or anyone of a number of likely, but highly unlikable, former failed actors?

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    1. The answer is either Marlon, Fox or Chatfield.

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  8. 8:58 had a rockin Saturday on the town.

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  9. 👆 by rockin , you mean that they got wasted at numerous bars on Highway 101, stopped in a City sponsored drug hut and got blitzed so they couldn’t see and then went and ran down some mothers and children.

    Now that’s the Encinitas rockin way. ⚰️🪦🪦🪦

    When will thing chang?

    RIP- Emily and Emery. 🙏😢

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  10. The City of Encinitas is awash in revenue. What the City of Encinitas has is a huge problem from an incompetent City manager,.

    The city council holds the ability to rezone the low use Pacific Coast property mistake to match the surrounding zoning and build likewise residential homes on it. This would realize the taxes gained by doing so, and that would also eliminate the huge cost associated with this project with operations and maintenance of this low used property, as well as the gigantic upkeep of a building next to the ocean.

    Kranz was and is always an idiot. Arizona Jenny is incompetent as usual and never did a feasibility analysis on this site to present the city council.

    The public has a saying decision. It’s called a public hearing other than that it city council’s decision.. You elect these folks and they need to represent our best interest.

    This city needs to start making good financial decisions. As we all know, and Greg Lev has clearly explained, this city is awash in revenue. What we have as a gigantic spending problem from poor leadership like Arizona Jenny.

    Bruce apparently is under her spell 🥰and we need leaders like Jim to step up and lead us out of this misery.

    So far, Bruce Ehlers seems to be implementing Blakespear’s agenda playbook other than a slight slow down in the overdevelopment of Encinitas. 🤮

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  11. This blog has officially left the building...

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    1. You mean you don’t like truth?

      Well, you leave them. The rest of us appreciate the real time news!

      😁👏👏👏

      💪❤️🌎

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    2. It's not news, it's opinion. News is in newspapers or written by a journalist. Reactivate your brain.

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    3. 👆Wrong again retard.

      Why are Libtards so stupid in Encinitas?

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  12. We are so back!

    🫠

    The male guy is strike 1.

    The school board member is strike 2 and 3.

    These paternalistic out of touch elitist would make Nerospear look like a walk in the park.

    Are people really that ignorant?

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  13. 👆

    Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

    -The Honorable Mr. Gooden Hard

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  14. 7:19am Do you ever get tired of being wrong and showing everyone how uninformed you are to the truth, no matter who many times you are told the city council does not have to right to rezone Pacific View? The voting public does. Try to keep up.

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    1. Nope… CC can with super majority.

      You’re wrong again.

      But we would even be up for putting it for a vote of the people.. Everybody knows that Pacific view is a low use waste of money. We already built a regional park that we’re maintaining for everybody outside of Encinitas.

      Prior council members like Kranz and Dalager was dumb as fuck.

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    2. 2:42, you are not correct.

      City Council can only upzone during a period when a judge has set aside Prop A, which will happen only once per housing element cycle.

      When PV was owned by the school district, they were entitled to a zoning change through state law, but they don’t own it anymore.

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    3. 3:04- you are not correct. The city council can change the zoning on its zone ordinances through a super majority. It does not need about other people.

      Regardless, send it to a vote of the people. The people know a bad thing and a horrible return investment when I see it.

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    4. 3:41, I admire how much confidence you can maintain when wrong.

      Very impressive.

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    5. 👆You continue to prove your ignorance 👎

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    6. 5:11, you’ve learned well from your leader.

      Never admit when you are wrong, even when it’s obvious to everyone.

      Never defer to people who know more than you.

      I don’t know if overconfidence has ever defeated a lack of knowledge, intelligence and talent, but if anyone can do it, my money is on you.

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  15. Thank you Pipeline. Thank you for your continued public access. The truth can still be available. I choose not to join any site from my own perspective of being profiled by all the trolls working to end our fragile democratic experiment. For the trolls, democratic does not refer to either of the major political party perspectives. That that needs to be stated, says much more about the sell out of our nations ideals by the right wingers. Own it.

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  16. As Rush always said......"everything the left does, it ruins"
    It is proven time after time that leftists do not possess any logic.
    It is, a brain defect.
    Many people on the right believe in religions.......more whackiness. In other words.......superstitions.
    People.......they can't be fixed.

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    1. Explain why all the red states are at the bottom on lifespan, teen pregnancy, violent crime, college education, investment, innovation, economic growth, drug and alcohol addiction, federal spending relative to taxes paid, diabetes, obesity, real estate value, gun deaths, access to healthcare, child and infant mortality, and racism?

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    2. ^
      I
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      Crash out 3:PM pst

      https://x.com/RT_com/status/2020167353020084701

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  17. So it is Rush Limbaugh that you idolize? Big surprise! Not in the slightest. You are another sheep in the flock of those who have given up on our democracy. The rot runs deep with all of you right wingers who lack the spine to stand up and defend our democracy.

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    1. Ahhhh' the generalizing from the left. Notice I picked on the right as well. Reminds me of the joke......
      What's dumber than a leftist?...someone that likes em'

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  18. Fearandloathinginencinitas.substack.com

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    1. Makes me love our local heroes like the Strong Women of Encinitas even more.

      You can take your fear and Freakshow, and AZ Jenny snd stick it up your butt!

      -Truth 💪❤️🌎

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  19. Do tell.

    For yourself next time.

    If possible.

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