This Wednesday's council agenda:
| 10A. | Agenda item to terminate the term of Bruce Ehlers from the Encinitas Planning Commission effective immediately. Contact Person: Mayor Blakespear and Council Member Kranz |
Ehlers is currently running for city council in the Olivenhain-New Encinitas district, and was a leader of the Proposition A "Right to Vote" initiative that the council despises.
More at Coast News.
Wow - unbridled political attack on a potential opponent! Using their incumbent status as a base from which to launch an attack is the most egregious abuse of office. Blakespear and Kranz are unfit to "serve" in any capacity. I hope the voters take note of this lack of civic character on the part of these two.
ReplyDeleteAll the more reason to vote Blakespear out of political existence and recall Kranz. Their allegiance to big monied interests has never been more evident with this outrageous political attack.. Blakespear is showing her true colors and desperation now - citizens need to take a stand and rid the political arena of these two sell outs!
ReplyDeleteEvery chance he gets Kranz votes to destroy Encinitas. He sure makes me sick that I voted for him the first time. I voted against him in the last election and he barely won.
ReplyDeleteDalakranz promotes LA barf.
Kranz = LA beach dump and loss of coastal access. Let recall Kranz NOW!
In 2020, Kranz won by 11 or 12%. That's a lot more than barely.
DeleteUm, against an unknown who was not able to get out and campaign hard - not to mention the Caitlin Steinberg/Marco/Mali/Blakespear team were hard at work burying the contender with the usual bank of lies and innuendo.
DeleteKeep it up, Blakespear! This is another failed attempt pivot away from the mess you have made of this city and your failed leadership at SANDAG. You are proving once again that beside being incompetent that you are spineless and vindictive. Kranz is just along for the ride since he also wants someone else to take the heat and the attention away from his jaw-dropping stupidity and his pandering for bribes.
ReplyDeleteAsk Blakespear about the spending abuse at SANDAG. She is unreliable, dishonest, vindictive and two-faced. She serves only her political donors and has attempted to crush citizen participation in the crucial decisions about their community development. She has to be defeated In November and put into obscurity.
ReplyDeleteDecapitate is an interesting choice of words. Coincidence that Dementia Del Mar Pam called for beheading the Mayor in response to this article?
ReplyDelete9:51 that word has been passed among residents since the news broke. Sounds like you will benefit personally from Ehlers gone and "staff," directed behind the scenes by the developer-funded Blakespear, calling the shots.
DeleteCan't wait to see who she chooses to replace Ehlers. Mali Woods-Drake? Marlon Taylor? Spouse Omed Demiri? Making the popcorn.
Make no mistake. "Professional staff" member Roy Sapau has been whining that Ehlers has made his life of serving developers harder since Ehler's pointed out to him that the he supports the Planning Commission and not the other way around. Sapau told the Planning Commission that he couldn't perform hid paid duties on account of "work load." The City's response was to give Sapau a promotion. They reward poor work and have their knives out for people who work hard and represent actual Encinitas residents. Get rid of Blakespear, Kranz and take Sapau with them!
ReplyDeleteSapau is an incompetent stooge lacky of Blakespear. The stench of corruption at City Hall is overwhelming.
ReplyDeleteMarco did you write "Omed's" insider strategy post for him?
ReplyDeleteStop by the street fair today and tell BIAspear, Dalakranz, and Oh Joy what a great job they are doing at destroying Encinitas.
ReplyDeleteI can not believe Joy actually will be seen with these two losers.
She is going to get sooooo smoked by Thunder come November! Bam!
Remember, Joy called Joe Mosca her "mentor" at his last Coffee Meet. Learning from only the best.
DeleteMosca a "mentor"??? He is a worthless, carpetbagging opportunist. Blakespear at the street faire - kissing babies routine for her. Should have a picture of a big developer's ass for her to lay the smooch on.
DeleteGive you a clue as to Joy's judgment.
Delete11:53 - I've seen that picture. BIA was kissing the developoers butt and Kranz didn't want to get outdone since the crappy development was in his district so he stuck his whole fat head up the developer's ass!
DeleteWhat a team!
Sounds like this was a long time coming, and is now a useful way for a candidate to gain name recognition.
ReplyDelete1:14 - You mean BIA, Dalakranz and Oh Joy all getting smoked in Nov. I agree. It can not come soon enough!
ReplyDeleteYou're attempting to speak for all Encinitas voters, and that is a mistake. You're going to have to convince the rest of us that don't obsess over and hate the current council. Talking the same shit about the same people probably isn't going to work, because we don't all have the same ideals as "long time residents" (as if only those people have deep roots in the city), plus that approach was a complete failure in 2020.
DeleteIsn't that Kranz you're talking about? Deep roots? Deep Ecke/Meyer roots?
DeleteLast time the mayor, her hubby, Kron had Covid to cover themselves and the Coast News carrying their water. This time not so much....
4:23 I mean voters that have lived here, and their families have lived here, for multiple generations. Their last name doesn't need to be Ecke, or Meyer, or ever Kranz for them to exist.
DeleteOh yeah - while your at the street fair tell Blakespear and Kranz you are really looking forward to paying another 1.5% sales tax and 4.0 cents a mile for driving on roads in the near future. I didn't think things were expensive enough now anyway, I look forward to paying more for every purchase in the near future. Thanks to the team that is making things happen- Higher Prices, closing access to the beaches, and Destroying Encinitas! Nice!
ReplyDeleteAnd Blakespear cashing in on the SANDAG illegal credit card bonanza.
DeleteSucking off the taxpayers' dime, while proposing even more taxes and big development. She is a cancer on this community!
Paying by miles driven was dropped months ago.
DeleteOnly after the public freaked out. It would not have been "dropped" if the pressure to do so had not been so great.
DeletePay/tax per mile was dropped publicly, but not removed from the plan. SANDAG has plans to bring it back.
DeleteThe point is the public didn't go for it and never will.
Delete1:55- Nice! That will bring us up to the sky high tax rate of LA and look how nice LA is! Beautiful tent cities, section 8 housing, pollution everywhere... people peeing and pooping all over the place near the tent Cities. I am so glad BIA and Dalakranz are working hard to make us more like LA everyday!
ReplyDeleteSo add another 1.5% to our existing 7.75% will give us 9.25%. Winner Winner Chicken Dinner.
I hope you have tons of savings and discretionary money, you are going to need it after November. Now go give your paycheck to BIAspear's tax collectors and wait in line for your assigned section 8 bed and then you can get in the bread line. BIAspear's government will provide your bread and bedroll.
They are not done after this year either after adding their SANDAG Transnet tax increase add to the existing 7.75%
ReplyDeletehttps://www.avalara.com/taxrates/en/state-rates/california/cities/encinitas.html#:~:text=The%20minimum%20combined%202022%20sales,sales%20tax%20rate%20is%200.25%25.
they plan to increase more taxes in 2024 and 2028.
You don't need any of your money anyway. Money is for paying more and more taxes brought to you by genius Dalakranz !!
You can trust Dalakranz. He almost passed a community college finance class once.
He also awarded himself a BA that he never completed. He is a liar and a dumb liar at that!
DeleteRaising the Transnet tax requires a public vote. It failed last time, and it will fail next time.
ReplyDelete6:32 and 11:39 - I wish! Thats exactly what they want you to think. Like so many other things with BIAspear things are not as she signals.
ReplyDeleteWhen her team at SANDAG approved the bus and new train plan in December, because of huge public protest, the Blakespear and Mayor Gloria buckled at the last minute and the team said they didn't support the road charge but then they turned right around and approved the plan with the road charge included. Blakespear and Kranz have been supporting the road charge and three other tax hikes for over a year.
Then right after they approved the plan with the road charge included, they approved a motion to re-evaluate a revised plan at a later date without the road charge.
Well guess what, the evaluating the plan at a later date never happened. So today, the plan included the roadcharge.
Check it out for yourself
Look at the huge taxes they are proposing - https://sdforward.com/docs/default-source/final-2021-regional-plan/appendix-v---funding-and-revenues.pdf?sfvrsn=e3c3fd65_2
This is Blakespears plan to build the failed CA bullet train approach throughout San Diego. I swear. That woman must not use one ounce of the grey matter God gave her between her ears.
Blakespear - Wake up! The CA bullet train was a big flop and you are a big flop. and Kranz is even more brain dead.
You two should do something you are good at like wondering around mommy's home trying to figure out how to recycle all of your amazon boxes into compost or electricity.
Leave governance to those with some common sense.
Blakespear will do or say anything for her self-promotion to higher office..But she will always do the bidding of her political donors, consequences be damned. She has exposed her real motives often enough to realize that she is untrustworthy and should be expelled from politics.
DeleteThe key word is "proposing." The public will reject the plan.
DeleteI think you are right, but the sneaks are at it and love the double talk and trick the voters.
DeleteThe latest- SANDAG is not even putting forward their own transnet tax to support their own plan, they are leaving that to the unions through a voter initiatives, because the unions apparently want to build trains to nowhere for $168 billion. A voter initiative lowers the voting requirement to 2/3 vote to simple majority 50% +1.
That action in itself seems to miss the mark for a governing body supporting or not supporting a government initiative, but we will see were the lawsuits land.
Secondly, What ass-wipes would even come up with this plan?
Someone that bends the truth as much as BIAspear -
“There will not be any request for any sales tax without this board approving,” Ikrata said. “Whatever a third party does is their business. We’re not involved. We cannot be involved. We won’t be anywhere close to that. But you’re absolutely right, this board will be the final say on whether we go to the voters or not and the voters will be the final jury on whether this passes or not.”
Bailey was not pleased. The Politics Report spoke with him Friday. To him, either the board was letting someone else control a process it should influence, or the board was actively influencing the process, which would mean it is not really a citizen’s initiative.
“Refusing to even consider an agenda item on a supposedly essential new funding source is, at best, a dereliction of the board’s responsibility. At worst, it’s potentially illegal as it has the appearance of circumventing election law since it relies on a third party to carry SANDAG’s water and raise taxes as the plan requires,” he said.
Politics Report: The Tax Measure That SANDAG Requires But Will Not Speak Of - https://voiceofsandiego.org/2022/03/12/politics-report-the-tax-measure-that-sandag-requires-but-will-not-speak-of/
Question remains: who will Blakespear appoint to the planning commission? Will have to be someone from that district. DAN VAUGHN. He will do her bidding all the way, a real Blakespear apologist that one.
ReplyDeleteIf she had any integrity at all she would go with her top two picks.
Delete1. Randy Goodson
2. David Meyer
Both support BIAspear's vision of turning Enciitas into LA ASAP for developers profit.
*Encinitas
Delete*developer's
Dan Vaughn leads ERRD's anti-Goodson effort. He is highly intelligent, articulate and well-informed. He could have Blakespear for lunch.
DeleteMy personal observation, and that it all it amounts to is, some of the potential saviors I support refuse to come out and publicly support an opposition to the current majority for the mayor.
ReplyDeleteJeff or Cindy? I would have thought that would be an easy choice. Not so. Apparently.
I could not care less whether these candidates lean toward the right or the left. This is local to me.
While I respect the passion it takes to run, I also have an undying respect for the greater good.
Easy enough for me to say. I am not running for anything.
Enough said. You can decide which mayoral candidate will serve our community the best. I know who I hope for to come out on top and I am not in anyones camp and never have been.
Wack job, or the essence of stability? It could not be more clear.
Holy Smokes. Does your brain really think like that?
DeleteRamble much?
Question is - could it get any worse?
ReplyDelete4:02 - No
ReplyDeleteEhlers should re-target his campaign to run for mayor. He would beat Kranz.
ReplyDeleteExcuse me for wanting the best mayoral candidate to help replace the current majority.
ReplyDeleteYes, it can get worse. We have all seen it over the last few years.
OK... so Kranz would be worse. Far Worse if you can even imagine that.
ReplyDeleteMy big question will be who is so stupid enough or paid off to even support Kranz and put a sign up in front of their house?
I can not wait to see. They will have the Scarlett letter for joining the team to destroy Encinitas.
If the Encinitas fire Union supports Kranz, I will hate them forever. It will shoq they care nothing about the city only about their selfish pensions. I supported them when they resisted the city requiring mandatory stick.
Of course developers will support Kranz. For them it's all about profit.
I can not wait to see the first reporting period for Kranz contributions. Lets see your support base Kranz. We will also be watching Enc/Leucadia Town Council lawns. Let watch the sell outs!
This will be fun. Raise your hand, who loves LA and shutting down coastal access?
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ReplyDeletehttps://yourencinitasguerrilla.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteBlakespear is the new Pierre Delecto.
ReplyDeleteTrans tho
1:45 another Encinitas Guerrilla hit, captures Blakespear's speech had she lived in earlier times. Watch for extreme justification to be in play among the council and whoever they plant in the audience to support the despotic mayor.
ReplyDeleteThe clown variant cometh and the result will not be filling the skate parks with sand but all driveways in 92024 shall be filled with 300,000 cubics of sand so nobody leaves their home.
ReplyDeleteCall it BlakesXi inspired lockdown
Even smart Democrats know that the plan BIAspear and Kranz suppports makes absolutely no sense.
ReplyDeleteThere are three tax proposals in the plan, including two from SANDAG taking effect in 2022 and 2028, and San Diego Metropolitan Transit System’s measure for the 2024 ballot, Meier said. The three would total a 1.5-cent increase in sales taxes and generate an estimated combined $28.2 billion in revenue, according to SANDAG’s funding plan. The road user charge would add another $14.2 billion.
Meier said the citizen’s initiative calls for a majority of funds directed to capital expenditures with 50% on transit projects, 27% for road and highway flow, 12% on transit operations, 7% for local streets and roads, 2% for rail and transit maintenance and 2% on administrative services.
However, several board members and public speakers urged caution with this plan, including Del Mar Councilwoman Terry Gaasterland and Mike Bullock, a former vice president of the Democratic Club of Carlsbad and Oceanside.
Gaasterland said the board should take a step back “and look at what’s going on here,” noting the measure is complex.
“I don’t understand it and I’ve read it five times,” Gaasterland said. “If the SANDAG board prepares a measure like this one, there is a higher likelihood of a two-thirds vote if we do it together instead of a 50% for private interests.”
Great Article Coast News. The Coast News editors are on fire lately.
https://thecoastnews.com/sandag-discusses-citizens-half-cent-tax-measure/
Blakespear is corrupt and incompetent. She opposes citizen participation in city government, purges her rivals by using the stooges she has set up on the council, covers up her SANDAG credit card scandal, bows at the feet of her developer donors. she is toxic - give her the Gaspar treatment - VOTE HER INTO OBLIVION!
ReplyDelete11:06 Dan Vaughn still thinks he can work with Blakespear and because of his church's ties to her and Kranz will always carry their water. He may be intelligent intellectually but his refusal to see this council for what they really are makes him emotionally stupid. And who needs that? Rumor is he's going to run against Bruce at the mayor's request. All you need to know.
ReplyDeleteDan Vaughn diligently led ERRD's fight against Goodson. How many lawsuits has ERRD filed to stop the project? Who presented ERRD's case during the City Council hearings about the Goodson project? Dan Vaughan.
DeleteDan can't hold Bruce's water. That being said, would he be chosen to take Bruce's seat as representative of Olivenhain? He'd have to recuse himself on Goodson, leaving him free to vote in Clark, the Encinitas Blvd 200 and the rest of the 15 disasters this mayor and Kranz are shoving down our throats. If he runs for council, Bruce will thrash him once and for all.
Delete1:58 True Vaughn has been an integral part of ERRD,but it's also true he's highly unpopular with much of the group. Simpatico with the mayor and Kranz, what more do you need to know?
DeleteIt's the homeless showers of blessings and feedings where Dan, Catherine, Kellie, Tony are joined at the hips. He will not bite that hand.
DeleteWill Goodson's revised project have to go back to the Planning Commission stage of the process?
DeletePlus, he has a lawsuit against the city. It was on a closed session agenda a few weeks back.
And yet no one brings up the historic Olivenhain. What a great idea, build ghetto apartments in historic Olivenhain.
DeleteYou see, people like goodson don't think anything can happen to them. tic toc goodson...tic toc
SANDAGATE - Blakespear was participant in the credit card scandal. She may deny it, but the facts speak for themselves. And why no further investigation? Who signed the receipts? Why no disciplinary actions taken? It is being swept under the carpet. Call on Blakespear to demand accountability - she'll go mute very fast.
ReplyDeleteIf there is no further investigation, what you're writing may as well be imagination. Or a lazy way to stir up controversy.
DeleteOr fact. There are photos of her with the bill.
DeleteOr maybe cover-up. Rats guarding the cheese.
DeleteBklakespear declined to be interviewed by KUSI on the growing SANDAG credit card scandal. Her hacks claim KUSI is "partisan".. Maybe she should call it "fake news"! Seem this misuse of public funds for personal pleasure is beginning to simmer and may catch fire. Could Blakespear's Senate run go up in flames?! She has some explaining to do.
DeleteIf they are building ghetto apartments in historic Leucadia and Cardiff thanks to BIAspear and Dalakranz, Kranz would build them in a second in Olivenhain. To Kranz, its all fair game. When is his next junket trip to Israel or are they going to splurge this time and send him to Thailand?.
ReplyDeleteEnquiring minds want to know. Kran$ is a known quantity who excepts favors. You scratch my big ol' hairy back and i will scratch your big ol' cash filled back (wallet).
The yokel has been in office so long, the quid pro quo becomes more obvious.
DeleteBlakespear needs to come clean on the $2.5 million spent on the SANDAG credit cards. She is trying to avoid it like the plague - SANDAGATE is about to bust loose! She is in the thick of it and proves she is unfit for office.
ReplyDelete"Historic" Leucadia and Cardiff...lets not get ahead of ourselves here. Cardiff looks nothing like it did 20-30 years ago. Leucadia is heading in the same direction, with or without streetscape. Wealthier people bought property, and turned it into what they liked. That is what Cardiff is, and Leucadia soon will be. Sad, but not something you can drop on the current council's lap.
ReplyDeleteUmmmm except we can. Streetscape is a major acceleration of your "inevitable change" story. And the reason some of the plan is held up is some property owners are refusing to sell.
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