Thursday, March 25, 2021

Coast News on Tashamandering scandal

 Coast News:


Some critics, including former office-holders, maintain the city’s transition from citywide to district elections was less than transparent and tainted with secret maps and gerrymandering, leading to the ouster of a conservative councilman and helping to solidify Mayor Catherine Blakespear’s leftward influence over the council.

And a recent utterance from an Encinitas representative only reignited long-smoldering embers of voter discontent over the city’s electoral changeover, leading to fresh allegations of official misconduct.

“We know why that part of the city is in District 3, it’s because Mark (Muir) lived, you know, over there, and we wanted to make sure that every council member wasn’t competing against one another,” Councilman Tony Kranz said during a Feb. 24 meeting.

12 comments:

  1. Kranz, the gift that keeps on giving.

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  2. Coast news is hard to take seriously with the amount of time and articles it does for Mark Muir aka concerned citizen. This kind of agenda setting, for the clear minority in the city, blames everything and anyone for republicans losing elections while ignoring the fact that demographics and opinions have changed since he was on the council. Everywhere in san diego county and southern california has been trending towards democrats for the past decade and shows no signs of reversing because people are not buying the lies and grandstanding of the self serving GOP

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    1. Lame attempt to rewrite history, 2:51. Too bad the facts don't support your claim. Name one article critical of the mayor in the past two years. The now-gone Coast News reporter Caitlin ?? gave the mayor every leg up throughout the campaign. Interesting she remained employed until just after the election.

      And grandstanding was the standing "Mayor's Minute" propaganda column that was finally canceled when the campaign started last year and it would have been illegal for the paper to continue giving Blakespear the free bully pulpit.

      2:51 has Verdu written all over it. That fake reasonable tone gives him away every time. Still waiting for that olive branch, by the way.

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  3. anti incumbent fan fiction for the dementia hags

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    1. And there we have a spouse, folks. Stay classy, guys.

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  4. Gonzalez in the Blakespear-love Verdu echo chamber Encinitas Politics. Makes the usual excuses no matter what. Has no clue how absurd he is. Barth likes his comment, there's a clue.

    "It was no secret at the time of districting that there was a goal of adopting a map that would place all of the councilmembers in different districts. The same discussion happened in Carlsbad. That anyone took Councilmember Kranz's comments and deduced some sort of "gothcha" evidence of a Brown Act Violation is ludicrous, and the article author's willingness to quote unfounded opinions as he did undermines any credibility in the claim."

    Sorry Gonzalez, it WAS a secret - thus the Coast News FOIA request that revealed "only" Tasha as the maps' author. Fast forward to Tony who has no impulse control, admitting they all did it in the dark. Whoops, on the wrong team - again.

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    1. FOIA is a federal law for federal documents. You mean CPRA, which is California Public Records Act.

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  5. The gerrymandered District 3 included Mark Muir in the northern appendage so he would be separated from other council members. The districts were approved in Nov 2017.

    Hubbard beat Muir in the election a year later. So the City Council was thinking ahead and gambling that a geographical Cardiff resident would run and beat Mark Muir?

    Maureen Muir ran in the 2018 76th state assembly district primary. Phil Graham was another Republican candidate. According to VOSD, the Muirs paid Ken Moser to sully Graham so Mo Muir would have a better chance of winning. Tasha won the seat in the general election.

    https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/politics/telemarketer-says-another-gop-campaign-was-behind-phil-graham-robocalls/

    Irony: Mark Muir got tight with Julie Thunder to increase his street cred in Cardiff.

    The Coast News article chart omits "in District 3" from the headline but says it in the caption.

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  6. Always thinking ahead, our council.

    A rose by any other name stinks just as bad - FOIA, CPRA, PRA: "The Coast News originally discovered in a public records request that Boerner Horvath authored the two final maps from which the council selected the final map."

    https://thecoastnews.com/encinitas-to-hold-district-elections-in-november/

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    1. Get the facts straight before you post. If you confuse FOIA with CPRA, it shows you're careless. That makes anything else you post questionable. Getting it right is called good, responsible journalism. And please don't excuse your sloppiness by saying it's just a blog.

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  7. Great Job Coast news. Good reporting

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  8. Hey Just FYI, this was the article that originally uncovered the map in discussion was crafted by Tasha: https://thecoastnews.com/final-maps-drawn-by-encinitas-councilwoman-boerner-horvath/

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