Mayor Catherine Blakespear and the City of Encinitas are now under threat of legal action after the 38th State Senate District candidate issued what some residents called a “disingenuous” public apology over the weekend as part of a settlement agreement for blocking her critics on social media, attorneys familiar with the matter informed The Coast News.
Michael Curran, attorney at Carlsbad-based law firm Curran & Curran Law who represents more than a dozen of residents who were reportedly barred from Blakespear’s social media pages, told The Coast News his clients will pursue a government tort claim against the city and Blakespear in both her official capacity as mayor and as a private citizen for violating her sworn oath to protect and uphold the constitution and infringing residents’ free speech rights.
If the city does not agree to settlement terms under this action, Curran said the plaintiffs will pursue a lawsuit in state court.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Blakespear's "apology" inflames her censorship victims
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Blakespear and Kranz have a lot of apologizing to do for shutting down public comment and public censorship. Where is our first amendment rights?
ReplyDeleteschools, bars, restaurants, churches, parks, movie theaters, massages, hair salons, stores are all open with no mask requirement or open window requirements or anything.
Everyones is vaccinated with numerous jabbs yet, the horrenous COVID still reigns and shuts down public meeting at City Hall. All while life everywhere else is apparently not effected. Hugh. Interesting?
Our City Hall, closed to public meetings because one thing BIAspear and Kranz hate more than anything is public feedback.
They hate it when people tell them they should not sell out to every developer over residents interests, They hate it went people tell them it makes no sense to allow thousands of new residents and new water meters in Encinitas when the whole southwest is over developed and water is a scarce resource, they hate it when people get pissed that Tony is focused on taking trips overseas with his developer "friends" and then provides free parking to his developer buddies along Vulcan Avenue for their apartments where there should be a nice trail like BIAspear recevied in Cardiff, they hate it when people say their family members are getting ill from all. the senseless noise and pollution from the empty polluting trains spraying spent diesel and dust clouds over our children and neighboring communities and breaking ear drums and causing dementia throughout the City, they hate it when people ask for money to be budgeted for repairing primary beach access over about 20 Karen water coloring club that wants a new $30 million dollar beach front new City Community Center that will sink the City iinto further debt due to the huge long term operational and maintenance costs. But most of all they hate:
1. People requesting that they address the hazardous conditions they created by removing perfectly good bike lanes on high speed roadways and puttin in more sharrows guaranteeing more law suits. People are pleading for their lives and BIAspear and Kranz do not want to hear it.
So there we have it. BIAspear and Kranz in an election year when primary votes are being cast, these two losers shut down public comments at City Hall.
Criminal? maybe- pathetic clearly!
BOOPO and KOOPO
6:51 AM Well stated! Blakespear is one of the most divisive, incompetent, arrogant and conceited Mayors in City history. Blunders, scandals and cover-ups are her forte. She puts her loyalists into positions of authority, without voter approval or even periods for citizens input or questions. She goes quiet on controversies and hope they blow over. Now her developer handlers are funding her attempt at the State Senate, where she can serve their interests even more! Blakespear is damaged goods and will only get worse if allowed to move on.
ReplyDeleteVOTE FOR JOE KERR - end the Blakespear nightmare of corruption, ineptitude and phony platitudes on June 4th....
Hopefully the next poll will show Joe Kerr rising and again hopefully, overtaking the mayor, not my mayor.
ReplyDeleteThere is not a keeper in the whole bunch of them. A new majority is our only chance for real change. It would be nice to see tony and hinze in the minority. Just maybe, hopefully, they would read the tea leaves and resign.
Blakespear stumbling - how could anyone vote for such a flawed and compromised individual? She is a disaster!
DeleteCan't even do a simple apology. Arrogance!
Polls don’t matter and our rags. Developers pay for the polls. Remember stocks was polling he was going to win. Blakespear is far worse than Stocks!!
DeleteIf any tort liability is assessed against the City because of Blakespear's refusal to comply with the settlement, the City should sue her for recovery.
ReplyDeleteTort liability for alleged breach of contract? Good luck with that one, legal scholar.
Delete1:02 PM Read the article again, comprehension impaired dolt.
DeleteJust because Curran's an idiot of a lawyer, doesn't mean 1:02 was wrong. From what's been reported, a settlement agreement was entered, but the plaintiffs now allege the mayor didn't fulfill one of the contractual terms. This doesn't mean the original first amendment claims spring back to life (that would require rescission of the contract). It's now just a breach of contract case, and the questions are whether the mayor's apology was good enough and what the property remedy would be. The plaintiffs might be requesting rescission, but from statements they've made elsewhere, it seems they're claiming financial damages. I don't know how they're going to prove that one.
DeleteSnore, Margo.
DeleteHonestly what did CB think was going to happen when she issued that non apology?? What hubris to double down and think the masses would be grateful for her scraps.
ReplyDeleteOf course you'll see the usual suspects Gonzalez, Zenick, Fox, Barth all making her excuses.
The Tyrant Queen has no clothes!
ReplyDeleteBlakespear's fake apology up to 595 comments on her campaign/city page.
ReplyDeletecmon amanda, you know you want to say something.
DeleteBlakespear's "apology" is self-erving and characterizes herself as the victim, claiming personal attacks and harassment. Always right - never wrong. She refuses to see the facts and is used to silencing her critics. She is totally unfit for the State Senate. Vote Joe Kerr.
ReplyDeleteself-serving
ReplyDeleteWorst Mayor in Encinitas's history.
ReplyDeleteEmpty polluting public health disaster and known killer -
ReplyDeletehttps://thecoastnews.com/two-pedestrians-killed-by-amtrak-trains-in-separate-incidents/
The wonder of it to me is that Blakespear keeps going and going with no regard to how she might win an election. She has always been a cheater who bends rules for herself. People will not forget that she is only too happy to meet with people from other cities yet ignore the needs of Encinitas residents who she was elected to serve.
ReplyDeleteOh that is too clear. I can see our whitest of whites Mayor completely skipping as many City Council meetings as possible. She hates taking public comment worse than anything. Its like the people actually give a shit about their community that she is ruining?!
DeleteShe would be more successful being mayor of a town like IB where people are too busy working or trying to keep the crack off their babies breakfast menu to ever worrie about public comments.... but then there is our whitest of whites:
The bleach white privileged princess, raised in the whitest of Cardiff's neighborhoods who then went to the heart of puritan whiteness, Salt Lake City Utah, to find her perfectly white husband who would take orders from not only her but her amazingly white mommy while living under their wing for the rest of his life.
The BIAspears had the support to live anywhere with much more diversity and culture, but where did they choose to live and raise their kids? You guessed it, a neighborhood with 100% pure anglo-saxon blood line with whiff's of bleeding heart jews on neighboring streets.
What was their first step? To move in to Mommy's compound on the whitest street in Cardiff where they talk to all their white friends about how terrible it is that people did not mix and have multicultural family, friends, schoolmate, and working mates. All while their brown landscapers, maids, and other servants cared for all their compounds needs.
Do actions speak louder than words?
Oh yeah, thats right, I'm the one with the racist issues.
Blakespear is a bumbling hypocrite, that surrounds herself with yes-people and con artist lawyers. She is going by the book with her phony glossy mailers - saving the town, saving the coast and now even saving planet Earth! Artificially constructed photos of the firemen, little kids and next will be her gun control rant to capitalize on current events. She has only ONE interest - HERSELF!
DeleteVote Joe Kerr.
6:46- spot on!
DeleteSo another sleepless night in Encinitas due to the empty deadly pollution machines raging havoc pumping our deisel waste and dust clouds over our children, baslting horns to reduce everyones sleep so they lose their mind and feel like a zommie, and running down people left and right trying to get to the beach and not drive. Yes. All these things promoted by Kranz as his focus of increasing the distructive train service all while no one rides the slow disfunctional transit because it is super slow and not a good experience. What a collosal waste of tax dollars.
ReplyDeleteSo what is Kranz going to focus on today:
1. Fencing off more of the Encinitas coastline, or
2. Figuring out how to spend $30 million to build a new arts community center for 20 of his Karen water coloring friends to staff up and spend millions and millions of dollars operating and maintaining in perpetuity all while people can not access the beach or walk along Vulcan Avenue and La Costa Avenue.
there is a better way- https://coaster-rail-to-trail.org/
I see on tonight's Shit Show agenda a bunch of studies and homeless stuff and they will be appointing a planning commissions following removing the best commissioner that city has ever had, but of course they will not be discussing the no. 1 issue of Encinitas:
Opening Beacon's Beach Access!
This clown Council is the biggest turd bucket of losers ever!
BOOPO and Recall Kranz Now
Beto Blakespear
ReplyDeleteRather ironic that Kerr got the Encinitas Firefighters endorsement. Made even more interesting as Mali's boyfriend is an O.C. firefighter.
ReplyDeleteIts ironic that a firefighter got endorsements from fellow firefighters? Ok.
DeleteMakes sense to me. Considering Blakespear is a control freak and wants to stick everybody with shots and close beaches for no reason.
DeleteYeah, it makes sense . Where is the irony though?
DeleteThe air waves are being blitzed with Blakespear propaganda - the BIA is shelling out big time for their shill.
DeleteShe is damaged goods, so they are throwing more $$$ at her campaign to attempt to bolster her lack of achievements and sell outs to developers as some vague accomplishment. The idea is that the electorate is uninformed, as she is the worst candidate ever!
Catherine O'Rourke
ReplyDeleteOr in laywomans terms the most vile disgusting human on earth in 2022.
Electric chair material
Perfect example of why you psychotic and violent trolls got banned in the first place. No class trash.
DeleteExactly 10:32.
DeleteAs predicted, the latest glossy mailer for Blakespear deals with guns; obviously exploiting the horror from the Texas school shooting. It refers to "ghost guns" and why Blakespear voted to ban them from HER city. Pathetic pandering for purely political intentions.
ReplyDeleteVote for Joe Kerr.
Blakespear still hasn't addressed her role in the SANDAG credit card scandal. She is neck deep in it, so all she can do is lay low and hope no one confronts her for an explanation. Notice that no criminal charges have been filed - it's a cover-up. I guess $2.5 million of taxpayers' money "misspent" isn't worth pursuing. Where's the District Attorney on this one?
ReplyDeleteQuestion of the moment - Did Blakespear have one of the many SANDAG credit cards that were issued and abused? If so, will she publish the list of charges that she made with it? The possibility of her coming clean - ZERO!
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