Wednesday, May 6, 2020

5/6/20 City Council meeting open thread

The council still isn't allowing public participation other than written comments (LA County got busted and relented, but you know our mayor), but you can watch online.

Please use the comments to record your observations.

30 comments:

  1. Kranz defending red light camera contract just a taaaaad too much.

    Hinze has questions about the integrity of the vendor, but...she wants to renew the contract.

    Hmmm.

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  2. this was a bad night for the mayor. 42 oral comms speakers, had to be some kind of record and not a single person was thanking her for doing anything right.

    between foxpoint farms and the mayor helping the developer lie about the plans to neighbors and the cardiff bike lane scandal she was hit nonstop.

    several people picked up on and remarked on the absurd excuse that the lanes are "still under construction," give it a chance. I can see her newsletter headlines this sunday: "you'll thank us for it later."

    ABC

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    1. Mayor Blakespear was pummeled from all sides. There were also complaints about Brown Act violations, lack of transparency, and careless budgeting. She seems unable to do anything right. What kind of lame excuses will she come up with in her weekly newsletter?

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  3. Is the coast news in such bad shape (or now non-existent) except for some dude who likes beer posting on twitter?

    Asking for a friend.

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  4. How many times did she praise the staff ??

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    1. Don't you mean "professional" staff? Either way, too many.

      She needs to stay on staff's good side because of her complete reliance on them. She can't afford to piss them off.

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  5. 1:42 PM I'm pretty sure you are a little dick with a little dick.

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    1. Some people appear to be trying to deflect criticism of council policy by posting irrelevant, racist comments.

      We've deleted the 1:42 comment.

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    2. Thank you, WC.

      It was telling that of 42 oral comms read, not a single one supported any of the council's actions. Residents seemed to focus on the mayor in particular.

      Lots about the bicycle crashes at the mayor's brand-new road configuration. The city engineer Mr. Bandegan has posted a long and heartfelt "not here as a city employee, but just Abe" open letter on EV and the new "Please restore safe cycling in Encinitas" Facebook page (over 600 members joined in the last few days).

      Bandegan's letter is at odds to say the least with unsympathetic responses he's written to residents who wrote to complain about the new bike lane configuration. It's also at odds with one poster's question on costs. Bandegan replied immediately that those inquires must be made through public records requests (city often takes longer than the legal 10-day limit to respond).

      Many are discussing privately that his post was all about damage control and protecting the mayor. If Bandegan had not written the blame the victim emails and not told a poster to make a records request to get public information, his mini novel would not have fallen so short of sincere.

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    3. EU is making shit up.

      Racists are real, and they are here.

      The small support for the concrete queen is banding together with Roger Ogden and the rest of the hard core racists and anti-semites in San Diego.

      EU knows this is a losing strategy, and it will cause his “shit on local government” movement to again come in at 15%.

      EU hates that, so he makes up some bullshit false flag conspiracy without evidence as pretext to delete the honest rantings of his racist fringe followers.

      Erasing inconvenient truth.

      Sad.

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    4. Well, that illustrates my point rather well!

      Thanks for not saying anything racist this time so I didn't have to delete it.

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    5. Bullshit and you know it.

      I’d like to elevate and illuminate a quote from the thread about the First Amendment lawyer. It reference to the safe overnight parking lot, one of the EU followers wrote:

      “. . . GETTING RID of the special interest and money grubbing religious extremists. . . “

      Hmmm.

      Money grubbing religious extremists?

      I wonder what that means.

      Not much of a dog whistle there, huh?

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    6. Seems like that was the lone racist who has been regularly deleted here for years.

      I'll keep deleting that lone wacko's comments, but I'd ask you to stop with the false flag racist comments in support of the mayor.

      It's unbecoming.

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    7. You are lying about me now, which I take personally.

      I’ll counter lies with truth.

      Anyone want to know how to figure out who the real EU is?

      Step 1: Go back into the oldest archived posts of the EU blog. Read the topics and find the one that repeats out of proportion to what most people think about. Ask yourself: What was the passion subject that kicked things off? It’s that subject that EU was most likely to have written editorials or spoken in front of city council about under his real name.

      Find that topic, and you’ll be on your way. That’s just Step 1.

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    8. Jeez dude, get a life. Who cares?

      Go hang out on Facebook which is more aligned to your argumentative demeanor.

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    9. Exactly. I care more about the "undercover" underbelly of Encinitas city hall exposures than tracking down the admin. 10:14 sounds to me like a nervous city worker or shill. Too much light shone on the cockroaches for 10:14's taste.

      Who cares? is right.

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    10. Lie about me, and I’ll tell truth about you.

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    11. The whacky nut cases on the left. They scream "racists" but ignore the history who started the KKK.
      And let us not forget Jim Crow laws. The America hating left is, the enemy within

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    12. Southern Strategy of Goldwater and Nixon flipped the racists from Dem to Rep.

      I’d rather support a party which a shameful racist past than one with a shameful racist present.

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    13. Ohhh' so you support a party that lies about Russian collusion. Sells out the FBI with fake files and lies and gives American tax payer money to illegals.
      Ya' good choice. Have you always been this smart?

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    14. Enjoy your grand finale.

      The party of the fat orange turd is heading for demographic irrelevancy. There just aren’t enough old unhappy uneducated white dudes who failed at life and want to blame brown people to keep it going.

      Hear that?

      The wave is coming, and paybacks a bitch.

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  6. ATTENTION OLIVENHAIN RESIDENTS: Fool me once, same on you, fool me twice same of me... See utube link!

    https://youtu.be/sJHhzjwX9ww

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  7. WC You can rest assured that many of us here in this community appreciate your managing all the trolls that spout their inanities on our local blog. It takes all kinds and we certainly have a variety that seem to have a compulsion to go where they are not wanted or respected.

    Taking out the trash becomes literal with some these characters rantings.

    Thanks for putting up with the mostly good postings while dealing with the cretins that have become so identifiable whether they are anonymous or not.

    Keep it up WC. You are a much needed outlet. Stay safe.

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    1. Sure. Just don’t accuse people falsely of posting racist comments as part of a bullshit conspiracy, when we have plenty of evidence who the real racists are. They post on Facebook and Nextdoor under their real names.

      We all know who they are, and who they support in the upcoming election.

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    2. Smart money is on it being only a matter of time before this comes to a head. The incumbents aren't going to just sit idly while the racist NC3 group and candidates make a play for their jobs. People may be upset with the mayor and council but only the sickest individuals will stand with these NC3 candidates when their involvement and actions are made public.

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    3. Nice try Jeremy Blakespear!

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    4. I’m not Jeremy. Keep up the lying.

      You’ll get more truth.

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    5. Jeremy, Andreen....

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