The San Diego Association of Governments is looking for a law firm with experience investigating white-collar crime to determine how overly-optimistic sales tax forecasts ended up in a ballot measure, and if people knew predictions were wrong but failed to speak up.Encinitas' representative on the board of directors overseeing SANDAG at the time SANDAG was deceiving the public was former ethics professor Lisa Shaffer.
In an executive board meeting on Friday, the regional planning organization decided to create a three-member subcommittee to help hire the law firm, and to publish a request for proposals to advertise for the lawyers.
Friday, March 10, 2017
SANDAG seeks white-collar crime specialists to investigate Measure A misrepresentations
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No govt is better than bad government...
ReplyDeleteShaffer was our most unethical of all council members! That includes Jerome Stocks who also sat on the SANDAG board
ReplyDeleteWhat is the intended end result of this investigation? Prosecution of some sort? Shaffer will open her mouth and stick her foot in it, as is her usual style. "Lock her up!"
ReplyDeleteThe news reports say the error, its coverup and its being included in the ballot measure were staff things. Shaffer was one of 19 board members who, apparently, had no knowledge of the error until Andrew Keatts of VOSD exposed it.
ReplyDeleteThe investigation will reveal what happened.
DeleteNews report just helps to put it in motion.
Nobody knows what the board members might have known, or gone along with, or failed to challenge as they should have.
Right, 1:06, nobody knows so don't imply the board members did.
DeleteIf it weren't for Keatts at VOSD, the public wouldn't know about the deception, and there would be no investigation. The news report did more than help. It caused the uproar.
I have no doubt that Shaffer was completely oblivious, much as she seemed to be through Gus Vina's scandals.
DeleteHope this investigation could expand attention to other questionable forecasting by SANDAG, such as regional population forecasts that feed the RNHA numbers for housing elements.
ReplyDeleteThere has been an objective by SANDAG to increase development in the county by projecting optimistic growth projections, not in line with trends in the US Census.
"...apparently, had no knowledge of the error." Typical Shaffer will say "I wasn't told," her go-to excuse for everything.
ReplyDeleteTalk about the worst kind of bureaucrat.
Good thing Shaffer is gone! She was a total failure to our city! She knew about this mistake and still voted for it - while the rest of the council voted NO. She didn't represent our city and voted for it.
DeleteShaffer quickly fell in with the party line. Will Blakespear do the same?
DeleteBoth have the same character flaw: they absolutely, positively will not rock the boat.
The city manager is submissively compliant - she'll side with anyone in order to stay in good graces. Expect zero from her.
DeleteShe has to be compliant or the five stooges will replace her.
DeleteSome of you fine folks really don't understand how things work down at city hall, do you?
Too true, but we had held hope that our first local city manager would choose to stand and defend for our community.
ReplyDeleteThere is little indication that Karen will do what is needed and it is a shame.
Again: she cannot "do what is needed," she does what she is told. That is how it works. She is hired, the council members are elected. They are the ones we need to put the pressure on.
DeleteSitting back and hoping Karen is going to see some kind of light is not going to happen. She is no different than any other employee, anywhere. She does what her bosses tell her to do. If she doesn't, she's gone.
We keep electing ill equipped people to sit on council. No wonder the citizens are so upset about the way things are going.
DeleteIt's interesting how well Shaffer did in the election, but I have yet to find anyone (even those who liked her) say anything good about her. It seems as if NOBODY really likes her !
ReplyDeleteShaffer was an unknown at the time; she was seen as the relief alternative to $tock$, who had developed a repugnant reputation due to his arrogance. These people grow confident once in office that reelections are the norm. Look at Kranz and Muir - both feel invulnerable now and express attitudes contrary to their supposed political identities used in the election cycles. The majority of the electorate is easily influenced and are swayed by campaign jingoisms.
DeleteKranz especially feels invincible with his first-place council seat win. If half the folks knew his true colors, he would not have made it in at all.
DeleteKranz's developer connections and anger management issues will be his undoing. In the first case he won't get himself under control and in the second, he can't.
Remember Lisa was "Maggie's Choice". The backstory on why this happened is known to many of us who saw it. Lisa kept begging Maggie to do a video supporting her. This is while Maggie was very ill with cancer. Finally one day Maggie decided to get Lisa of her case and she did it. Many people got Maggie dressed, as she puked every few minutes because of the cancer. It was as a horrific scene in my opinion but Lisa didn't care. She got her video and even made little sweaters for the dogs saying "Maggie's choice". I had little use for her after that.
ReplyDeleteI heard the same thing - this is disgraceful! Lisa Shaffer should move out of our city - we don't respect and need people like that in our community! She is sooo phoney!!! Nobody likes her...
ReplyDeleteShe is a liar and attacks others by accusing them of falsehoods and then tries to make the victim prove innocence. What she and Tony Kranz did to Kristin Gaspar made pretty much everyone on both sides hate Shaffer. This is the way that Trump treated Obama. Yes, Shaffer is in the same category as Trump with a similar state of mental health. She can't relate on a human level. She either tells people how brilliant she is or says that she doesn't understand basic words like "reconsider."
ReplyDeleteI suggest you people get over your obsession with Shaffer. She's gone; she's history. She is definitely insignificant. You people keep making her important by discussing her at every turn.
DeleteMove on.
Don't assume because you can't see her she's not still "there." Far from it, she has Blakespear's ear like you cannot believe.
DeleteBlakespear recently called her an "intellectual powerhouse" (blech) and praised her so highly when she left that it got weird.
They are in constant contact, so uh yeah, Shaffer's still very significant to our mayor. If you think she's not influencing decisions today, you're deluding yourself.
8:48 So who the hell cares? Two years and Blakespear will be gone. Then you'll be bitching about someone else.
DeleteYou obviously don't care about crappy decision-making that affects your life, so I gave to wonder why you're here? The claim that Shaffer is irrelevant is debunked and now you're changing your attack.
DeleteGo pull the covers back over your head and have a peek out again in a couple of years. If you still don't care and still don't like what you read here, don't look. There, that was easy.
Long before radio, TV, or even books, people looked up at the nighttime sky. We organized groups of stars into a cast of characters and invented all manner of drama: love, violence, glory, deceit, epic battles, heroism.
DeleteMuch has changed, but people still have fertile imaginations. We do the same thing, only we've replaced lights in the sky with a new cast elected or appointed locally.
Hardly a parallel.
DeletePeople who care about this city care, 9:32.
ReplyDeleteThere are two types of people who read and post here: those who want to put residents first and those with special interests who stand to gain by not doing so. The latter includes "overworked staff."
Ha! That reminds me of a joke!
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ab = a²
ab - b² = a² - b²
b(a – b) = (a + b)(a – b)
b = a + b
b = b + b
b = 2b
1 = 2
Ha!!!!!
- The Sculpin
You remind me of a joke. Wait, you are a joke. Ha!!!!!
DeleteIt's okay if you don't get it, 3:12.
Delete9:20 — Overwrought.
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