Ever thankful for Jerry's, or is it Gerry's, generosity over the last fifty odd years for his feeding the less fortunate on the holidays and so many other examples he gave freely to this community.
His soulfulness will be missed. Captain Kenos soulfulness has been missed already.
Grossly colored boxes stacked on top of each other is the future. Yuck. At least the drug den hotel will be finally taken down. Little thanks to Swill Properties for their mismanagement and not raising that drug den down to the ground years ago. They knew all along The Portofino was not salvageable code-wise and did nothing to ease the concerns of local residents.
While some are commenting about the loss of Keno's, and all it meant for many longtime locals, here you go being your usual self-serving piece of work with your own agenda no matter the threads topic.
Captain got promoted to Admiral - roof top bar. Serving was used to be $5 jack and coke now will set you back $23 plus 20% tip built in on top of that with tax round up to $30 drinks.
💯filthy air, more angry drivers fed up with the congestion mowing over young, old and all in between due to BIAspear bending over for her BIA masters to add 2,400 90% market rate units by using the lie of building L/Vl income units. Asleep 😴 at the wheel Encinitas didn’t notice what the monster 👹 was doing until it was too late.
6:56🎯 those two major arteries, ECR, all of 101 with its many bars and drug shops, throw in SFD due to engineering screw up, and the biggest scam of all by BWE, pushing children and naive parents to ride their bikes and walk in Encinitas death traps is the work of some very sick, evil 👿 👹 monsters. We need to hand out copies of the Sheriff’s Posted Encinitas Speed Map and the Traffic Collision and Citation Analysis of the city to alert everyone of the dangers of the roads in Encinitas. Not have them fed the bull💩 from shyndler ✂️ and BWE lies🚷🚳🚯
Gonzo has to make money some how so he sells his self out to OC developers, lord knows his law firm sure as hell isn’t making money. His ugly wife and piggy kids need to be fed.
Emery’s dad, John Chalekian, told the council Wednesday that he believes the city has done nothing in the two months since her death to improve Encinitas Boulevard safety conditions for pedestrians and cyclists.
“As a father of a child who was killed crossing a green (lit) intersection, it cuts deep to see no action. (Also) as a father of a 9-year-old who uses his feet and his … bike to go to school, it leaves me frightened and concerned and angry,” he said, later adding, “Safety is not a privilege. It’s a right. Please, please, perform some actions quickly for the rest of this community and my 9-year-old son.”
City Hall, “ death, death death that’s all we hear. Can you please think about us and when we’re gonna get our next raise and how is our pension looking?
The bigger question is when is the rotation of the fire chief going to happen and when will the next chicken little be promoted to chief so they can complete their eternal cycle of spiking pensions?”
“ why are you even worried about this, it’s only tax money”
The city council then replied that everyone knows they don’t run City Hall. It’s the city manager’s responsibility..
The city manager, then passes the buck to Blakespear’s gimp and the gimp’s team of engineers. “ Heck I don’t know what I’m doing. That’s their job. It’s been the gimp all long.”
Councilmember Jim O’Hara said the recent safety problems Encinitas roadways are facing in places like Santa Fe Drive are the result of “bad designs” by previous councils and said the new council is attempting to fix those situations. He added that he was deeply troubled by one resident’s comment that city traffic engineer Abe Bandegan said two lanes would be safer than three for pedestrians and cyclists on Encinitas Boulevard. “I want to caution staff to know that when you say things without a back study, without the report, without the information, you frighten people,” he said. “So, be really careful of that. Be aware of what you say.”
The city manager, then replied, “ Pipe down.. You know the rules. We run City Hall. You don’t. We follow direction from those that hired us, Catherine Blakespear, BIA, and the Kranzinitas team”
Re “Encinitas evaluates traffic safety, driver behavior after 12-year-old’s death” (June 21) : The city of Encinitas has its heart in the right place, but its proposed solutions are not enough. The story references a recurring problem of drivers disobeying stop signs. Instead of installing countermeasures which are shown to slow drivers down at conflict points, like raised crosswalks or raised intersections, the suggested solution is to pay more deputies to sit at intersections and ticket anyone who rolls the stop, or just teach drivers not to do that.
When you have a traffic system where almost everyone is breaking the law, as is the case with rolling stops, the issue is not the people, it’s the system. Let design do the enforcement so deputies can concentrate their efforts on other issues.
And over on Encinitas Enraged they are vilifying O'Hara for asking questions. Can't have that, gotta keep their Beauchamp3M insider access so they can pull staff strings. Shindler was dethroned from her Lyndes-appointed seat at the table with the electeds on the school liaison commission. O'Hara had her move back into the audience where she belonged. Enraged folks cannot stomach being put in their right places. Their game is up and they can vilify all they like, O'Hara is doing exactly what the majority of voters asked for. More than you can say for Ehlers.
Nope. But I hope he does. It's another comment written by another Dem appalled by the arrogance of the Blakespear Kranz Hinze regime. That's all and there are more out there like me. But keep living in your bubble makes it that much easier to trounce you again next time.
Amazing Ehlers didn't learn his lesson last year when Antil admonished him to "stop grilling staff" over basic questions he'd had the nerve to ask. Now he's begging for please-like-me scraps from the same staff he was "grilling" just a year ago.
In 2016, Mayor Kevin Faulconer announced a $128 million lease-to-own deal under which the city would acquire the building as-is from owner Cisterra Development and at the end of the 20-year lease own the building free-and-clear.
Barffein 🤮 from BWE is uglier than her twin, the wicked witch of the west. I was wondering what is so repulsive , like throw up disgusting about her, and I was told that it's because, she sucks on the BIA mafia big time, while killing our kids with her deadly propaganda. Last month there were 105 Accidents and 178 Citations as noted in the Traffic Collision and Citation Analysis for Encinitas. 💊🛢️💉💉💉💊🍺🍻🍸🍾🍷🍸🍸
Yea like when hell freezes over kinda nice👺just like the BIA mafia that she bends over for is nice👹💩👺between the wicked witch of the west twin and✂️muncher it’s beyond belief that the parents are so naive they don’t see that they are evil 👿 to the core. Next you’re going to tell me that kids genital mutilation is nice or the mutilation of a baby in the womb is nice⛏️🪚🛠️🔪go burn 🔥 in hell
Paloma Aguirre is under fire for unpaid taxes and debt for a little less than 10,000. Our council member Luke Shaffer is currently being sued by Bank of America for debt OVER 10,000. Encinitans need to be paying attention to Luke, who not only has trouble with math, but also words. At the last city council he didn’t even know what the word PERPETUITY meant.
Until we get the whole story there is no hay to be made from the $10K debt. It could be an unresolved dispute with Shaffer in the right. Kranz's trip to Israel paid by leuchtag before he returned home to vote against code in favor of their project? No doubt what that was about.
And ignorant? Kranz insisted that Piraeus was a two way street all the way to Leucadia Blvd and they had to stop the council discussion and get out a map to prove him wrong. And that was his district. Can’t read a map and apparently never ventured east of the 5.
*Leichtag. Kranz was a combo of ignorant and arrogant, so could not learn. Luke may have not understood a word but he is no danger like Kranz was. Sure sounds like a TB post there.
Credit card companies don't sue when the user is in the right. They sue when the win is certain. They sue when all other avenues have been exhausted. He runs up bills and doesn't pay. Or maybe it was one of his several baby mamas.
7:45 They are responsible for the traffic and gridlock that has caused so many deaths and collisions in our city, that Caltrans awarded Encinitas four HSIP grants. Four deaths in the 1st four months of 2025 is twice the average number of traffic deaths in that time span. DCM, Gonzo, BIAspear, all answer to the little man behind the curtain, and they all have blood on their hands.
Actually, the research you linked to has not been peer reviewed. It says so in bold print.
“This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.”
It also says:
“COVID-19 vaccines have prevented millions of COVID-19 deaths. Yet, a small fraction of the population reports a chronic debilitating condition after COVID-19 vaccination, often referred to as post- vaccination syndrome (PVS).”
If you’re looking only for medical treatments that have no side effects, then I’m afraid there are none.
I still see the morons wearing masks............gawd people...........dumbing down by the second. It's like the lies about the races all being the same except for skin color..............more lies
I’m concerned about my lover, Phony. Does anyone know what state prison he will be housed?Where can I send my care package to try and protect his precious rear end?
The taxman did his damage on my very own, Al Capone.
- Starstruck lover, Admiral Starvin
Who shared this info with the DA?
Facts regarding hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax Shenanigans.,
Most of us had to save big time (10 to 20% of earned wages for years) and work our asses off to live in Encinitas and I paid bigtime in taxes. ... Not Kranz - look at Kranz's situation on just her legal spounse's home given to her.
Facts and features Type: Apartment Year: 1940 HOA: $42 monthly Interior Bedrooms & bathrooms * Bedrooms: 7 * Bathrooms: 5 Other interior features * Total interior livable area: 3,006 sqft Property Lot * Lot size: 0.41 Acres
Other property information * Parcel number: 2543252900 Construction Type & style * Home type: Apartment Condition * Year built: 1940 Community & neighborhood Location * Region: Encinitas HOA & financial HOA * Has HOA: Yes * HOA fee: $42 monthly
So the scumbag is not paying proper tax on Kranz’s Bedrooms: 7 Bathrooms: 5 huge home Total interior livable area: 3,006 sqft Lot size: 0.41 Acres 2023 assessed: $207,194
Neighbor's houses assessed value - 4.09 million and $2.9 million
Someone needs to make a FOIA with the county tax assessors office, requesting Kranz’s property tax records. That person also needs to send an email directly to the tax assessor personally so it’s on record if the tax assessor does nothing. Finally someone should write an email to Terra Lawson Remer and Blakespear addressing this gross corruption. If nothing gets done, paste the emails with those representatives names all over their Social media pages during re-election. Bottom line, lots can be done to put pressure on Kranz to pay his fair share.
Another interesting item would be to look at Hinze, Mali, Marlon, Gonzo, Fletcher, Barth, etc’s property taxes and see if they’re all paying significantly under the norm.
It creates these dumb imbalances, and contributes to sky high housing prices. Once tax assessments diverge this much from reality, the owners will never put it on the market, restricting supply.
AI would do an excellent job of fair tax assessments at market rate.
Everyone pays based on what the home is worth today.
7:50 how does grandma who bought her home in 1960 for 100,000 and it now worth 1,000,000 pay property taxes when her only income is a $1,700 per month social security check?
How does a family of 4 who bought their home 20 years ago for $200,000 and it’s now worth $1,000,000 pay their property taxes when their making $100,000 a year while putting food on the table and kids through school?
All Prop 13 does is raise property taxes to level that a lot of low income earners can’t afford.
Prop 13 was put in place by Republicans to protect low income earners from losing their house due to high property taxes.
The only people who want to abolish Prop 13 are Gonzo, Blakespear, Horvath and the likes.
We all know,as well as the DA, that properties are assessed when improvements are made.
The current green monstrosity McMahon was redeveloped way after 1920.
The assessed value is much greater than $200,000 even in 1980s values.
There is fraud going on and we all know it.
Al Cajon got jailed and Phony Tranz’s rear end is going to be sore.
#sublime_ tax rape
But that's the way it had to be They locked him up and threw away the key Well, I can't take pity on men of his kind Even though he now takes it in the behind That's the way it had to be They locked him up and threw away the key Well, I can't take pity on men of his kind Even though he now takes it in the behind Tax rape!
8:24 it’s not irrelevant, lots of elderly and low income families who are scraping to get by aren’t making home improvements. Their house is their only asset and getting rid of Prop 13 ( Legislative Dems are hoping for ) would only force these people to sell because they can’t afford their property taxes.
We need to protect our low income earners and elderly from losing their house. Owning a home shouldn’t be reserved for only the uber wealthy.
8:24 I’m not referring to Kranz’s wife’s house. That house has definitely not been reassessed like everyone else’s house was in 2012. If you compare other properties in the area you’ll see that everyone had a spike reassessment in 2012 much more than 2% (with the exception of Kranz). The high assessment justification in 2012 and 2013 was because of the drop im assessments made in 2009 and 2010 because of the housing collapse. Regardless, Kranz was never reassessed like everyone else’s. Kranz is a crook, I agree.
This isn't a case about needing a whistleblower, the assesor has all the records and can see what they've got. You could figure out too if you knew how to use google...
Blakespears crappy old school staff at City Hall need to go.
Too many developer favors, skeletons of staff mistakes and coverups, and dirt ( mistakes) by staff , where it’s better to start Freakshow serving this City Council that likes honest reviews of development, not give everything to the developer at the existing residents expense and gut their quality of life.
Joy, she will be leaving soon. If she runs next time.... she is going to need to fight hard to win. She has done damage to Encinitas. She likes the Santa Fe Project?
Questions asked: how does grandma who bought her home in 1960 for 100,000 and it now worth 1,000,000 pay property taxes when her only income is a $1,700 per month social security check? How does a family of 4 who bought their home 20 years ago for $200,000 and it’s now worth $1,000,000 pay their property taxes when their making $100,000 a year while putting food on the table and kids through school?
How?? By having prop 13 protections that limit, how much their property value and related tax can increase your over a year.
At no point does prop 13 penalize anyone. It allows people to plan for their future, knowing they can actually afford the property taxes at the time they make their home purchase.
As far as low income earners go just look at the Blake Spear and Kranz council to see what a joke they played on the people they claims they were helping. Now, SB 79 that reports to finally solve California’s “housing crisis“ will require just 5% affordable housing on any density project. You are blaming the wrong laws.
Democrat families statewide voted for prop 13. This is not a republican scam although affordable housing under the Democrats sure is.
I’m grandma and demand that once I move to Encinitas, the price of gas, electricity, groceries, trash hauling, insurance, internet, and taxes be frozen so that I can afford to live here as long as I want on A $1300/mo social security check.
How stupid does a person have to be to think raising property taxes will make housing more affordable. The dumbass saying that 100% gets paid by developers just like all, the other lying fuaxgressives.
It’s not about raising property taxes. It’s about everyone paying the same. Pay based on what your house is worth now, not in 1950.
Why should one person pay full price, and their neighbor with a similar house pay a tiny fraction?
It’s stupid.
It would be like locking in your annual income tax payment at age 20, and then the government can only increase it 1% per year. You’d have Bill Gates and his childhood buddy the cop paying the same.
What is absurd is taxing unrealized capital gains. That is what shithole red states do. You do pay taxes, when you sell. The goal is to house people, not tax them out of their home. Tax weirdo. You want to give more money to the government than do it but taxing people more will just make your rent go up.
Old and retired people should be incentivized to sell their homes to families and move into small condos or rental apartments. Other states manage without Prop 13 loopholes.
We absolutely should be taxing unrealized gains. In real estate, stocks, bonds, art, and collectibles.
That’s how the wealthy are scamming the rest of us. They pay almost nothing.
It’s called Buy, Borrow, and Die.
People like Elon Musk tell the board they want no salary. Instead, they want to be paid in options and stock. They amass a huge portfolio of assets that currently isn’t taxed until they sell. Here’s the problem: they never sell.
They use the underlying value of the stock, art, or whatever as collateral for loans. Since they have no salary, there is no income tax; since they haven’t sold stock; there are no capital gains taxes due; and the loan isn’t considered taxable income.
As long as the assets generally grow faster than loan are issued, the person can take out more and more money while paying no taxes.
When they die, their heirs inherit the assets and the cost basis resets to the current value. Capital gains are wiped to zero with no payment due.
Fucking the rest of us schmucks that pay for highways, our military, medical research, and the national parks.
So what if there's a valued transient from my establishment threatening people with a crowbar? Nothing to see here folks, live and let live. Now gimme my expansion! - VanCreep
4:15 what percent of the town do you think would immediately have to pull up stakes and leave if their houses were sudden revalued at current rates? You’re good with that though right?
To quote a Bush: “Nah gonna happen.”
Take your “Prop 13 is racist” rubbish and shove it. You are one twisted virtue signaling freak.
"according to newly released third-quarter data from the FHFA, 73.3% of U.S. mortgage borrowers currently have interest rates below 5.0%. This marks a 12.2 percentage-point decline from the historic Q1 2022 level (85.5%)."
Blakespears crappy old school staff at City Hall need to go.
Too many developer favors, skeletons of staff mistakes and coverups, and dirt ( mistakes) by staff , where it’s better to start Freakshow serving this City Council that likes honest reviews of development, not give everything to the developer at the existing residents expense and gut their quality of life.
Bruce believes in transparency. Let’s start seeing it at City Hall to serve existing residents.
Not the Blakespear/ Kranzinitas way, which was 100% developer serving.
Bruce and City Council just need staff to follow their direction.
Prop 13 is a financial reward to people who don’t move. Why? Is there some public good served by staying in one house for decades? Does society as a whole somehow benefit?
No!
It’s a personal choice whether to move across town or across the world. Your decision to move or not move doesn’t affect me or anyone else.
Government has no business picking winners and losers unless there is a measurable public benefit to the thing being rewarded.
Prop 13 is dumb. It should be eliminated in a revenue neutral way. Let the government collect the same property tax revenue it does today, but shift to a model where everyone is paying based on the current value of the house they own. Period.
Some people will pay more than they currently do. Some people will pay less than they currently do. But in the end, two neighbors living in identically valued houses will have the same tax bill.
Restore sanity.
Stop giving a huge monetary bonus to people for just staying put.
Let's not forget, Republicans are the ones that started Prop 13 and Democrats want to see it go away. Democrats also want to tax your unrealized capital gains in your account whether it be your 401k, IRA, and everything else you hold. This hurts everyone not just billionaires.
When Democrats need more money because their policies don't yield a fiscal return on your taxes they come up with stupid ideas to get more taxes from you like getting rid of Prop 13 and taxing unrealized gains.
Everything Dems touch turns to shit, just like LA, SF, SD etc.
7:14 "Revenue Neutral" is a farce....All it does is shift the tax burden, affecting others disproportionately.
1.Even if the total revenue stays the same, who pays can change dramatically.
Example: Reducing income taxes while raising sales taxes is revenue neutral, but: Low-income households spend more of their income on consumption, so they end up paying a higher share. Meanwhile, high earners benefit from lower income tax.
7:14 2: Equity Concerns Revenue neutral changes can unintentionally increase inequality. A flat or regressive tax used to replace a progressive one (like a wealth or income tax) can hurt vulnerable groups.
7:14 3.May Undermine Public Services In practice, "revenue neutral" often involves cutting taxes and reducing spending to match, rather than replacing the tax revenue elsewhere. This can lead to underfunded schools, infrastructure, and social programs, even if the policy is technically revenue neutral.
4.Complex Transitions To achieve revenue neutrality, complex adjustments may be needed (like calculating offsetting taxes or closing loopholes), which can: Be politically difficult Create confusion or unintended consequences
5. Political Framing Can Be Misleading "Revenue neutral" is often used to sell controversial tax reforms, even if the actual outcomes are not neutral in effect for individuals or groups. It's possible to be revenue neutral on paper, but create winners and losers in practice.
7:14 Bottom Line: While revenue neutrality can help avoid budget deficits, it doesn't guarantee fairness, equity, or that all taxpayers will be impacted the same way. It’s a fiscal strategy, not a guarantee of good or just policy.
7:26, if you think shifting the tax burden and affecting people disproportionately is a bad thing, wait till you hear what Tony’s tax bill is relative to yours.
In fact, Prop 13 is the thing shifting tax burden.
Undoing it is leveling the playing field for all.
Everyone should pay property tax based on the current value. Period.
No more public dole for sitting on your ass.
If having long time locals is a public good, then why don’t long time local renters get paid too?
7:30 so in your mind seniors who can't work need to "get up off their asses" and pay higher property taxes even though many of them are struggling on fixed income. Same can be said for low income families who were lucky enough to buy a house years ago. They should all just be punished, forced to pay higher taxes, run out of their houses and forced to rent.
You sound like a great human being. That mentality is exactly what we don't need representing us.
1. Protection for Homeowners (Especially Seniors) Prevents long-time homeowners—especially retirees on fixed incomes—from being taxed out of their homes due to soaring property values. Ensures that tax increases are predictable and manageable, allowing people to age in place.
2. Limits on Government Taxing Power Restricts how much local and state governments can collect in property taxes, encouraging fiscal discipline. Reduces the temptation for governments to expand spending simply because assessed values go up.
Wrong. There are no limits on income tax, sales tax, business tax. If the government wants more revenues, they have plenty of sources other than property taxes.
All prop 13 does is shift government revenue sources from a relatively stable and predictable one, to more volatile ones. When Silicon Valley has boom years, government revenues are in surplus. When Silicon Valley has a bust year, we get crisis and panic.
7:21 is correct in that prop 13 did shifrt revenue sources in the state. The problem with the system here, it relies too much on capital gains income. The system needs to be more stable...
7:28 or California politicians like Newsom, Blakespear, Horvath need to be more fiscally responsible with their policies so they don't have to consistently find new ways to shove new taxes down our throats.
7:28 For starters we can lower city staff salaries across the state. Jennifer Campbell doesn't need to be making $400,000 a year and then getting a large 6 figure pension for the rest of her life when she retires.
3. Stability in Property Taxes Creates a stable and predictable tax environment, which is helpful for financial planning by both homeowners and businesses. Even in volatile real estate markets, property owners know their tax bill won’t suddenly spike.
4. Encourages Long-Term Residency Rewards people for staying in their homes longer, which helps build stable communities and encourages long-term investment in neighborhoods. Long-term residents often contribute more to civic life, schools, and local governance.
If we are paying a government financial incentive to keep long time locals, then why are renters excluded. I know some people who have lived here their whole life and still rent. They are—according to you—providing a public benefit—and getting screwed.
1. The owner still pays property taxes. 2. The renters still pay local taxes, sales, utilities, etc. 3. Renters make up a much smaller percentage of Encinitas compared to owners, all still pay taxes.
The promise was when prop 13 was passed that landlords would pass savings on to renters, which didn't happen. That's why rent control happened in Santa Monica and LA.
So landlords are supposed to charge long time locals renters differently from newcomers?
This justification for Prop 13 is that it encourages stability in the community by keeping more long term locals, and that is supposed to be a public good.
But long time locals who rent get screwed, unless buildings that haven’t sold for a long time and have low property taxes are reserved for long time locals, and those landlords are required to pass along the savings to the long time local renters.
None of which is in the law or actually happening.
It exposes the whole argument as bullshit.
If the proponents of Prop 13 actually cared about the public benefit of keeping more long term locals, they would’ve extended that benefit to renters.
They did not.
It’s just about selfish public dole for sitting on your ass in one place, at the expense of people who move.
5. Helps Small Businesses Commercial property owners also benefit from tax stability, which can help small businesses afford rent and stay open. Predictable property taxes can reduce the risk of sudden cost increases that might otherwise force businesses to close or relocate.
6. Democrat Accountability Requires a two-thirds supermajority for local tax increases, making it harder for governments to raise taxes without strong public support. Ensures that voters have a direct say in significant fiscal decisions.
7:26 actually it is. Prop 13 requires a 2/3 vote to get rid of it. That's why Tasha Boerner Horvath is trying to change the voting parameters to a 50% vote. She's trying to get rid of Prop 13. Prop 13 is a good thing, Dems want to get rid of it like everything else that protects us.
7:35 Never said Prop 13 wasn't state wide. Look at the context of how "local tax increases" is used. Learn how to read. This is why anti-Prop 13 supporters are idiots, they can't read.
Sounds like the confused 3Ms chasing their tails again. Marlon in particular has a thing about getting rid of Prop 13. Have to wonder if his buddy Marco G feels the same given the huge step up in value he'd suddenly own on his house. Someone needs to set these 3M E4E folks down. Maybe some of the elders in that group who have lived here decades. Maybe the Berlfeins want Prop 13 gone? Degher? Kranz? Lees?
Two-thirds (66.7%) voter approval for: Local special taxes (e.g. taxes earmarked for specific purposes like schools, libraries, parks). These taxes must be approved by voters in an election.
Simple majority for: General taxes (used for any purpose), but only when proposed by a city council or county board, not by citizen initiative (this was clarified in later court rulings, including California Cannabis Coalition v. City of Upland in 2017).
8:11 Yes — bonds for schools in California are typically repaid through property taxes, and whether they require two-thirds voter approval depends on the type of bond and when it was proposed.
What Kind of Vote Is Required? ✅ Before 2000 (or if using a traditional general obligation bond):
Requires two-thirds (66.7%) voter approval (This rule came from Proposition 13 in 1978) ✅ After Prop 39 (passed in 2000):
Most school bonds now fall under Proposition 39, which allows: 55% voter approval (a lower threshold) But with strict accountability requirements, such as: 1.Independent annual audits 2.Specific project lists 3. Restrictions on administrative salaries or operating costs
8:25 and all could not afford their property tax bump up if they got rid of their hated Prop 13. Although at least one on your list would have her parents cover the bill.
It's a top 2 finish open primary, two democrats finished in the top 2, guaranteeing that one of them would be elected. Six Republicans ran, splitting the vote.....
Heartbreaking reality check 😥
ReplyDeleteEver thankful for Jerry's, or is it Gerry's, generosity over the last fifty odd years for his feeding the less fortunate on the holidays and so many other examples he gave freely to this community.
ReplyDeleteHis soulfulness will be missed. Captain Kenos soulfulness has been missed already.
Grossly colored boxes stacked on top of each other is the future. Yuck. At least the drug den hotel will be finally taken down. Little thanks to Swill Properties for their mismanagement and not raising that drug den down to the ground years ago. They knew all along The Portofino was not salvageable code-wise and did nothing to ease the concerns of local residents.
Same developer for that whole corridor?
DeleteI drove by today…and felt sick to my stomach, after seeing it all demolished. Bye, Encinitas. 💕
DeleteBYE kenos!
ReplyDeleteMuch more expensive drinks encouraged by the city. Party on OC style. It’s the new Encinitas way.
ReplyDeleteWhile you’re at it, get freaking higher than a kite at our local drug shops eat cake and Steezy.
Getting fucked up beyond all means and look out pedestrians we’re coming for you. 💊🛢️💉💉💉💊🍺🍻🍸🍾🍷🍸🍸
There is no onsite use, oh clueless one.
ReplyDeleteWhile some are commenting about the loss of Keno's, and all it meant for many longtime locals, here you go being your usual self-serving piece of work with your own agenda no matter the threads topic.
Captain got promoted to Admiral - roof top bar. Serving was used to be $5 jack and coke now will set you back $23 plus 20% tip built in on top of that with tax round up to $30 drinks.
ReplyDeleteThank God, daddy’s got a bottomless visa….
Right, we needed to this to show we love Equity. Right Marlins
DeleteMore gonzo Grover ugly OC ghetto on its way. 🤮
ReplyDeleteHope you’re liking how open and free Encinitas Blvd and Leucadia Blvd are now especially between I5 and 101 because it’s going to get 10 times worse.
#gridlock
#sublimeburn1992
💯filthy air, more angry drivers fed up with the congestion mowing over young, old and all in between due to BIAspear bending over for her BIA masters to add 2,400 90% market rate units by using the lie of building L/Vl income units. Asleep 😴 at the wheel Encinitas didn’t notice what the monster 👹 was doing until it was too late.
ReplyDeleteYou got this
Delete7:40- 💯💪👌
Delete6:56🎯 those two major arteries, ECR, all of 101 with its many bars and drug shops, throw in SFD due to engineering screw up, and the biggest scam of all by BWE, pushing children and naive parents to ride their bikes and walk in Encinitas death traps is the work of some very sick, evil 👿 👹 monsters. We need to hand out copies of the Sheriff’s Posted Encinitas Speed Map and the Traffic Collision and Citation Analysis of the city to alert everyone of the dangers of the roads in Encinitas. Not have them fed the bull💩 from shyndler ✂️ and BWE lies🚷🚳🚯
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DeleteHats off to the cap'nn🧙♂️
ReplyDeleteGonzo has to make money some how so he sells his self out to OC developers, lord knows his law firm sure as hell isn’t making money. His ugly wife and piggy kids need to be fed.
ReplyDeleteGonzo and Grover are earning their living the old way. Being a whore.
ReplyDeleteWhoring their services for the destruction of Encinitas.
ReplyDeleteIn French, "go woke, go broke" is "Devenir woke, devenir fauché." In German, it's "Woke werden, pleite gehen."
https://x.com/cvpayne/status/1939784520859099268
Deflection rejected
DeleteThe EUSD has gone hard woke due specifically to people like Randi Weingarten and people like Margo literally threatening good solid parents.
ReplyDeleteThe "Christofacist" public threat and claim has buried this guy.
We should cheer this for the rest of our lives.
Get behind me satan 💪
What specifically does the head of the AFT have to do with EUSD? That comment was by a teacher in DC, not Weingarten.....
DeleteEverything. You live in a state of stoned helplessness
Deletehttps://x.com/LibertyValkyrie/status/1939798976611438965
ReplyDelete*** Encinitas real time news***
ReplyDeleteEmery’s dad, John Chalekian, told the council Wednesday that he believes the city has done nothing in the two months since her death to improve Encinitas Boulevard safety conditions for pedestrians and cyclists.
“As a father of a child who was killed crossing a green (lit) intersection, it cuts deep to see no action. (Also) as a father of a 9-year-old who uses his feet and his … bike to go to school, it leaves me frightened and concerned and angry,” he said, later adding, “Safety is not a privilege. It’s a right. Please, please, perform some actions quickly for the rest of this community and my 9-year-old son.”
City Hall, “ death, death death that’s all we hear. Can you please think about us and when we’re gonna get our next raise and how is our pension looking?
The bigger question is when is the rotation of the fire chief going to happen and when will the next chicken little be promoted to chief so they can complete their eternal cycle of spiking pensions?”
“ why are you even worried about this, it’s only tax money”
The city council then replied that everyone knows they don’t run City Hall. It’s the city manager’s responsibility..
The city manager, then passes the buck to Blakespear’s gimp and the gimp’s team of engineers. “ Heck I don’t know what I’m doing. That’s their job. It’s been the gimp all long.”
Councilmember Jim O’Hara said the recent safety problems Encinitas roadways are facing in places like Santa Fe Drive are the result of “bad designs” by previous councils and said the new council is attempting to fix those situations. He added that he was deeply troubled by one resident’s comment that city traffic engineer Abe Bandegan said two lanes would be safer than three for pedestrians and cyclists on Encinitas Boulevard.
“I want to caution staff to know that when you say things without a back study, without the report, without the information, you frighten people,” he said. “So, be really careful of that. Be aware of what you say.”
The city manager, then replied, “ Pipe down.. You know the rules. We run City Hall. You don’t. We follow direction from those that hired us, Catherine Blakespear, BIA, and the Kranzinitas team”
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/06/30/proposal-to-add-vehicle-lanes-to-encinitas-boulevard-faces-opposition/
***Truth***
ReplyDeleteRe “Encinitas evaluates traffic safety, driver behavior after 12-year-old’s death” (June 21) : The city of Encinitas has its heart in the right place, but its proposed solutions are not enough. The story references a recurring problem of drivers disobeying stop signs. Instead of installing countermeasures which are shown to slow drivers down at conflict points, like raised crosswalks or raised intersections, the suggested solution is to pay more deputies to sit at intersections and ticket anyone who rolls the stop, or just teach drivers not to do that.
When you have a traffic system where almost everyone is breaking the law, as is the case with rolling stops, the issue is not the people, it’s the system. Let design do the enforcement so deputies can concentrate their efforts on other issues.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/06/30/encinitas-should-reconsider-its-solutions-to-boost-traffic-safety/
I could smell the velveeta soaked timbers as a drove by!!
ReplyDeleteAnd over on Encinitas Enraged they are vilifying O'Hara for asking questions. Can't have that, gotta keep their Beauchamp3M insider access so they can pull staff strings. Shindler was dethroned from her Lyndes-appointed seat at the table with the electeds on the school liaison commission. O'Hara had her move back into the audience where she belonged. Enraged folks cannot stomach being put in their right places. Their game is up and they can vilify all they like, O'Hara is doing exactly what the majority of voters asked for. More than you can say for Ehlers.
ReplyDelete8:08 another comment written by O'Hara himself as he gears up to run for mayor
DeleteNope. But I hope he does. It's another comment written by another Dem appalled by the arrogance of the Blakespear Kranz Hinze regime. That's all and there are more out there like me. But keep living in your bubble makes it that much easier to trounce you again next time.
DeleteAmazing Ehlers didn't learn his lesson last year when Antil admonished him to "stop grilling staff" over basic questions he'd had the nerve to ask. Now he's begging for please-like-me scraps from the same staff he was "grilling" just a year ago.
I wish he was too. I think Bruce Ehlers voted for Blakespear.. He loves her staff.
Delete“Enraged Encinitas” #justcallhimBob
Delete9:14 nope! Wrong again!
Delete12:04 or the wife!
DeleteBiggest fraud in the history of San Diego real estate...
ReplyDeleteTaxpayers bend over Todd Whoria et al is fcuking over san diego good and hard...
https://x.com/Adventuring_RE/status/1939878786033754452
Its not confined to san diego...
Enc CRC much?
Wake up.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101_Ash_Street
DeleteIn 2016, Mayor Kevin Faulconer announced a $128 million lease-to-own deal under which the city would acquire the building as-is from owner Cisterra Development and at the end of the 20-year lease own the building free-and-clear.
There is an extra bed at Alligator Alcatraz for Mr. Faulkner. Free airfare too.
ReplyDeleteIf he tries to escape tell him not to run in a straight line 🤣
DeleteAlso a reserved room for Todd Gliria who signed off on the Ash Street debacle.
ReplyDeleteTodd has to pay his own airfare though.
Wikipedia--- 🤣🤣🤣😂💩🤡
ReplyDeleteI sure hope Jim O’hara runs for Mayor.
ReplyDeleteI think Bruce Ehlers voted for Blakespear. He loves her staff. That’s why you’re not seeing any change. Status quo.
When has a mayor come in and made wholesale changes to staff - never....
DeleteThat’s been the problem.
Delete2 to 1000 wrongs don’t make a right.
When has a Maher been effective?
DeleteMaybe there’s a first time if they don’t do the same thing that’s been done in the past.
* Mayor
DeleteThe current mayor had the option to hire a new top line city manager.
ReplyDeleteHe chose to hire an incompetent existing Blakespear employee.
Bad decision and shows his judgment is way off.
Jim has better judgment and is a stronger leader
!Correct¡
ReplyDeleteAs my limey mates across the pond say---- that mayor bloke Ehlers is a dirty horrible stinking cunt
Vegas is giving 3:5 odds that Keno's finishes before Streetscape.
ReplyDeleteI’m stacking my chips on your bet. All in.
DeleteBarffein 🤮 from BWE is uglier than her twin, the wicked witch of the west. I was wondering what is so repulsive , like throw up disgusting about her, and I was told that it's because, she sucks on the BIA mafia big time, while killing our kids with her deadly propaganda. Last month there were 105 Accidents and 178 Citations as noted in the Traffic Collision and Citation Analysis for Encinitas. 💊🛢️💉💉💉💊🍺🍻🍸🍾🍷🍸🍸
ReplyDeleteShe's actually a nice lady..Come on sour puss, go outside for a bit....
ReplyDeleteYea like when hell freezes over kinda nice👺just like the BIA mafia that she bends over for is nice👹💩👺between the wicked witch of the west twin and✂️muncher it’s beyond belief that the parents are so naive they don’t see that they are evil 👿 to the core. Next you’re going to tell me that kids genital mutilation is nice or the mutilation of a baby in the womb is nice⛏️🪚🛠️🔪go burn 🔥 in hell
ReplyDeletePaloma Aguirre is under fire for unpaid taxes and debt for a little less than 10,000. Our council member Luke Shaffer is currently being sued by Bank of America for debt OVER 10,000. Encinitans need to be paying attention to Luke, who not only has trouble with math, but also words. At the last city council he didn’t even know what the word PERPETUITY meant.
ReplyDeleteYawn 🥱
DeleteThis means she won the election....
DeleteYes she did! Suck it MAGA!
DeleteUntil we get the whole story there is no hay to be made from the $10K debt. It could be an unresolved dispute with Shaffer in the right. Kranz's trip to Israel paid by leuchtag before he returned home to vote against code in favor of their project? No doubt what that was about.
ReplyDeleteAnd ignorant? Kranz insisted that Piraeus was a two way street all the way to Leucadia Blvd and they had to stop the council discussion and get out a map to prove him wrong. And that was his district. Can’t read a map and apparently never ventured east of the 5.
*Leichtag. Kranz was a combo of ignorant and arrogant, so could not learn. Luke may have not understood a word but he is no danger like Kranz was. Sure sounds like a TB post there.
DeleteKeep making shit up. Maybe too many jabs has made you a chronic liar?
DeleteNot a great move on the trip to Israel, but that was perfectly legal, all you have to do is disclose it and he did. Still a bad look...
Delete"four months after he had accepted a trip to Israel from the Jewish Federation of San Diego, which is a major donor to the Leichtag Foundation."
https://thecoastnews.com/fppc-opens-and-closes-kranz-inquiry/
Kranz is worse than Dallablabber, hence
DeleteDallakranz… Enemy of Encinitas.
Credit card companies don't sue when the user is in the right. They sue when the win is certain. They sue when all other avenues have been exhausted. He runs up bills and doesn't pay. Or maybe it was one of his several baby mamas.
DeleteWhy doesn't Rachel, I mean Luke, just make a statement about the lawsuit?
Deletekenos was a dump.......there.......fixed.
ReplyDeleteAI..........leftists....... Arifitial Idiots because no one natural could be this stupid. NO ONE
Correction, Brian Grover and gonzo’s OC stack and pack boxes are dumps.
DeleteThere boxes that generate a shit ton of traffic and gridlock our streets and beaches.
Marco gonzo and Brian Grover our enemies of Encinitas. Horses like Phony, BIAspear, and Arizona Joy are part of the team.
People forget the recent past...
Deletehttps://thecoastnews.com/developer-threatens-encinitas-following-measure-t-results/
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2005/02/02/financial-forms-sum-up-contentious-encinitas-campaign/
7:45 They are responsible for the traffic and gridlock that has caused so many deaths and collisions in our city, that Caltrans awarded Encinitas four HSIP grants. Four deaths in the 1st four months of 2025 is twice the average number of traffic deaths in that time span. DCM, Gonzo, BIAspear, all answer to the little man behind the curtain, and they all have blood on their hands.
DeleteConspiracy peer reviewed theory that the death jab creates long term illness that leads to death---
ReplyDeletekeep up the good work losers!
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.18.25322379v2
Actually, the research you linked to has not been peer reviewed. It says so in bold print.
Delete“This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.”
It also says:
“COVID-19 vaccines have prevented millions of COVID-19 deaths. Yet, a small fraction of the population reports a chronic debilitating condition after COVID-19 vaccination, often referred to as post- vaccination syndrome (PVS).”
If you’re looking only for medical treatments that have no side effects, then I’m afraid there are none.
You bought into the gaslit propaganda hook, like, and jab.
DeleteCongratulations goober!
🤣
I still see the morons wearing masks............gawd
ReplyDeletepeople...........dumbing down by the second.
It's like the lies about the races all being the same except
for skin color..............more lies
I’m concerned about my lover, Phony. Does anyone know what state prison he will be housed?Where can I send my care package to try and protect his precious rear end?
ReplyDeleteThe taxman did his damage on my very own, Al Capone.
- Starstruck lover, Admiral Starvin
Who shared this info with the DA?
Facts regarding hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax Shenanigans.,
Most of us had to save big time (10 to 20% of earned wages for years) and work our asses off to live in Encinitas and I paid bigtime in taxes. ... Not Kranz - look at Kranz's situation on just her legal spounse's home given to her.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1086-Hygeia-Ave-Encinitas-CA-92024/295343177_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare
From Tax Records:
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1086-Hygeia-Ave-Encinitas-CA-92024/295343177_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare
Facts and features
Type: Apartment Year: 1940 HOA: $42 monthly
Interior
Bedrooms & bathrooms
* Bedrooms: 7
* Bathrooms: 5
Other interior features
* Total interior livable area: 3,006 sqft
Property
Lot
* Lot size: 0.41 Acres
Other property information
* Parcel number: 2543252900
Construction
Type & style
* Home type: Apartment
Condition
* Year built: 1940
Community & neighborhood
Location
* Region: Encinitas
HOA & financial
HOA
* Has HOA: Yes
* HOA fee: $42 monthly
So the scumbag is not paying proper tax on Kranz’s
Bedrooms: 7
Bathrooms: 5 huge home
Total interior livable area: 3,006 sqft
Lot size: 0.41 Acres
2023 assessed: $207,194
Neighbor's houses assessed value - 4.09 million and $2.9 million
Someone needs to make a FOIA with the county tax assessors office, requesting Kranz’s property tax records. That person also needs to send an email directly to the tax assessor personally so it’s on record if the tax assessor does nothing. Finally someone should write an email to Terra Lawson Remer and Blakespear addressing this gross corruption. If nothing gets done, paste the emails with those representatives names all over their Social media pages during re-election. Bottom line, lots can be done to put pressure on Kranz to pay his fair share.
DeleteAnother interesting item would be to look at Hinze, Mali, Marlon, Gonzo, Fletcher, Barth, etc’s property taxes and see if they’re all paying significantly under the norm.
My bet is, they are.
Good luck!
For the love of rasta, please stop....
DeleteAbolish Prop 13.
DeleteIt creates these dumb imbalances, and contributes to sky high housing prices. Once tax assessments diverge this much from reality, the owners will never put it on the market, restricting supply.
AI would do an excellent job of fair tax assessments at market rate.
Everyone pays based on what the home is worth today.
7:50 how does grandma who bought her home in 1960 for 100,000 and it now worth 1,000,000 pay property taxes when her only income is a $1,700 per month social security check?
DeleteHow does a family of 4 who bought their home 20 years ago for $200,000 and it’s now worth $1,000,000 pay their property taxes when their making $100,000 a year while putting food on the table and kids through school?
All Prop 13 does is raise property taxes to level that a lot of low income earners can’t afford.
Prop 13 was put in place by Republicans to protect low income earners from losing their house due to high property taxes.
The only people who want to abolish Prop 13 are Gonzo, Blakespear, Horvath and the likes.
8:10- completely irrelevant.
DeleteWe all know,as well as the DA, that properties are assessed when improvements are made.
The current green monstrosity McMahon was redeveloped way after 1920.
The assessed value is much greater than $200,000 even in 1980s values.
There is fraud going on and we all know it.
Al Cajon got jailed and Phony Tranz’s rear end is going to be sore.
#sublime_ tax rape
But that's the way it had to be
They locked him up and threw away the key
Well, I can't take pity on men of his kind
Even though he now takes it in the behind
That's the way it had to be
They locked him up and threw away the key
Well, I can't take pity on men of his kind
Even though he now takes it in the behind
Tax rape!
8:24 it’s not irrelevant, lots of elderly and low income families who are scraping to get by aren’t making home improvements. Their house is their only asset and getting rid of Prop 13 ( Legislative Dems are hoping for ) would only force these people to sell because they can’t afford their property taxes.
DeleteWe need to protect our low income earners and elderly from losing their house. Owning a home shouldn’t be reserved for only the uber wealthy.
“ The current green monstrosity McMahon was redeveloped way after 1920.”
DeleteWhen?
Prove it.
8:24 I’m not referring to Kranz’s wife’s house. That house has definitely not been reassessed like everyone else’s house was in 2012. If you compare other properties in the area you’ll see that everyone had a spike reassessment in 2012 much more than 2% (with the exception of Kranz). The high assessment justification in 2012 and 2013 was because of the drop im assessments made in 2009 and 2010 because of the housing collapse. Regardless, Kranz was never reassessed like everyone else’s. Kranz is a crook, I agree.
DeleteI don’t have to that’s the purpose of 800 report fraud numbers.
DeleteTaxpayer have whistleblower protection. It’s to protect against scumbag like Kranz.
Believe me as a simple, hard-working, taxpayer.
The IRS and state like their tax money and the tax assessor and DA will handle this professionally inappropriately.
Ask Duke Cunningham or Filner or Gonzos brother-in-law, no one is above the law.
We absolutely love the American constitution and our liberty. We all need to pay our fair share💪❤️🇺🇸🌎
8:39,
DeleteBounce back jumps in assessment only apply if the 2008 crash caused assessed value to drop.
If your house is old enough, the crash didn’t go low enough to reach the assessed value. So no jump in assessment in 2012.
Use your head.
8:50, so you have no evidence.
DeleteI’m sure the authorities will get right in that.
The evidence is right there in a tax assessor roles.
DeleteIt’s just a matter of time. The DA is on it
If you are concerned about the criminal, you could send your get well cards to starvin to forward to him in prison.
They'd already be on it if there was an issue. This county needs cash. Go torment someone else for awhile.
Delete9:52 no they wouldn’t “already be on it”. Look at all the whistle blowers who made people accountable because authorities had no idea.
DeleteKramer is a crook, just like Gonzo and they will be held accountable.
*Kranz
DeleteThis isn't a case about needing a whistleblower, the assesor has all the records and can see what they've got. You could figure out too if you knew how to use google...
DeleteKranz has been reported.
DeleteKeno’s was a shithole.
ReplyDeleteThey over served an old man a few years back who stumbled into traffic on the 101.
Too soon?
7:53-
DeleteNo, Marco gonzo.
Correction: You just came out of your mother’s shit hole. ✅
That person drank there every day and lived across the street on Vulcan.....
DeleteYou’re talking about gonzo’s mother. That’s still no reason to give birth to your child out of your butt hole.
DeleteBut then again, that’s how attorneys are born.
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DeleteJill is gone! https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLmzeHmPe2U/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
ReplyDeleteBring in someone else for everyone to hate on!!!
ReplyDeleteOr someone good. ❤️💪
DeleteThat's a matter of opinion, as always....
DeleteI share that opinion.
DeleteBlakespears crappy old school staff at City Hall need to go.
Too many developer favors, skeletons of staff mistakes and coverups, and dirt ( mistakes) by staff , where it’s better to start Freakshow serving this City Council that likes honest reviews of development, not give everything to the developer at the existing residents expense and gut their quality of life.
9:24- Well, it’s about time! Great job, City Hall.
ReplyDeleteA step in the right direction., Thank you, Mayor Ehlers and council member Jim O’Hara!
Finally some positive movement at City Hall.
Did they remove the entire Cardiff Gimp Street Design Team?
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Well, that only cost a city tens of millions of dollars.
DeleteWith that said, it’s a step in the right direction.
Jill? Jill who?
ReplyDeleteIf only it were joy leaving.
Joy, she will be leaving soon. If she runs next time.... she is going to need to fight hard to win. She has done damage to Encinitas. She likes the Santa Fe Project?
DeleteAnd paid developer’s whore.
DeletePersonally paid by developers for her services.
Marble mouth Joy making bread with Baldwin. Ya, she is a real 🍑
DeleteQuestions asked: how does grandma who bought her home in 1960 for 100,000 and it now worth 1,000,000 pay property taxes when her only income is a $1,700 per month social security check? How does a family of 4 who bought their home 20 years ago for $200,000 and it’s now worth $1,000,000 pay their property taxes when their making $100,000 a year while putting food on the table and kids through school?
ReplyDeleteHow?? By having prop 13 protections that limit, how much their property value and related tax can increase your over a year.
At no point does prop 13 penalize anyone. It allows people to plan for their future, knowing they can actually afford the property taxes at the time they make their home purchase.
As far as low income earners go just look at the Blake Spear and Kranz council to see what a joke they played on the people they claims they were helping. Now, SB 79 that reports to finally solve California’s “housing crisis“ will require just 5% affordable housing on any density project. You are blaming the wrong laws.
Democrat families statewide voted for prop 13. This is not a republican scam although affordable housing under the Democrats sure is.
Split roll needed. Close the loophole.
Deletehttps://calmatters.org/commentary/2020/08/how-prop-13-gave-californias-richest-corporations-a-multibillion-dollar-tax-break-they-didnt-want/
I’m grandma and demand that once I move to Encinitas, the price of gas, electricity, groceries, trash hauling, insurance, internet, and taxes be frozen so that I can afford to live here as long as I want on A $1300/mo social security check.
DeleteYeah.
Sorry.
That’s not how things work.
Stuff gets more expensive over time. Tough shit.
How stupid does a person have to be to think raising property taxes will make housing more affordable. The dumbass saying that 100% gets paid by developers just like all, the other lying fuaxgressives.
ReplyDeleteMeet Marlon, who has regularly railed against prop 13.
DeleteIt’s not about raising property taxes. It’s about everyone paying the same. Pay based on what your house is worth now, not in 1950.
DeleteWhy should one person pay full price, and their neighbor with a similar house pay a tiny fraction?
It’s stupid.
It would be like locking in your annual income tax payment at age 20, and then the government can only increase it 1% per year. You’d have Bill Gates and his childhood buddy the cop paying the same.
It’s absurd.
What is absurd is taxing unrealized capital gains. That is what shithole red states do. You do pay taxes, when you sell. The goal is to house people, not tax them out of their home. Tax weirdo. You want to give more money to the government than do it but taxing people more will just make your rent go up.
DeleteYou tax weirdos must really hate prop 19.
Old and retired people should be incentivized to sell their homes to families and move into small condos or rental apartments. Other states manage without Prop 13 loopholes.
DeleteWe absolutely should be taxing unrealized gains. In real estate, stocks, bonds, art, and collectibles.
DeleteThat’s how the wealthy are scamming the rest of us. They pay almost nothing.
It’s called Buy, Borrow, and Die.
People like Elon Musk tell the board they want no salary. Instead, they want to be paid in options and stock. They amass a huge portfolio of assets that currently isn’t taxed until they sell. Here’s the problem: they never sell.
They use the underlying value of the stock, art, or whatever as collateral for loans. Since they have no salary, there is no income tax; since they haven’t sold stock; there are no capital gains taxes due; and the loan isn’t considered taxable income.
As long as the assets generally grow faster than loan are issued, the person can take out more and more money while paying no taxes.
When they die, their heirs inherit the assets and the cost basis resets to the current value. Capital gains are wiped to zero with no payment due.
Fucking the rest of us schmucks that pay for highways, our military, medical research, and the national parks.
Tax unrealized gains.
Sorry you spent all your money on gambling and cannabis. Move to Alabama it's less expensive and missing teeth is normal you'll fit right in
Delete^^ why do you hate renters Marlon so much?🤔
DeleteJill who?
ReplyDeleteJill who?
ReplyDeleteGo to the referenced link dummy
DeleteSo what if there's a valued transient from my establishment threatening people with a crowbar? Nothing to see here folks, live and let live. Now gimme my expansion!
ReplyDelete- VanCreep
Fear monger. Don’t go outside.
Delete4:15 what percent of the town do you think would immediately have to pull up stakes and leave if their houses were sudden revalued at current rates? You’re good with that though right?
ReplyDeleteTo quote a Bush: “Nah gonna happen.”
Take your “Prop 13 is racist” rubbish and shove it. You are one twisted virtue signaling freak.
Prop 13 is going away, in the sense that when a home is sold, it leaves the terms of Prop 13 and is reassesed.
ReplyDeleteThe problem now is that because of lower rates on home loans that people are locked into, a lot of people don't want to move and give that up.
It’s not a “problem” for those of us who want to age in place.
DeleteProp 13 is golden, and is the opposite of a problem.
DeleteIt a great law. One of the greatest.
"according to newly released third-quarter data from the FHFA, 73.3% of U.S. mortgage borrowers currently have interest rates below 5.0%. This marks a 12.2 percentage-point decline from the historic Q1 2022 level (85.5%)."
ReplyDelete6:45pm Thank you using some of your precious time to tell where to go. Back at you.
ReplyDelete8:57- you are welcome. 🙏
DeleteBlakespears crappy old school staff at City Hall need to go.
ReplyDeleteToo many developer favors, skeletons of staff mistakes and coverups, and dirt ( mistakes) by staff , where it’s better to start Freakshow serving this City Council that likes honest reviews of development, not give everything to the developer at the existing residents expense and gut their quality of life.
Bruce believes in transparency. Let’s start seeing it at City Hall to serve existing residents.
Not the Blakespear/ Kranzinitas way, which was 100% developer serving.
Bruce and City Council just need staff to follow their direction.
* fresh….. not Freakshow
DeleteSiri auto spell slip… 🤣
Prop 13 is a financial reward to people who don’t move. Why? Is there some public good served by staying in one house for decades? Does society as a whole somehow benefit?
ReplyDeleteNo!
It’s a personal choice whether to move across town or across the world. Your decision to move or not move doesn’t affect me or anyone else.
Government has no business picking winners and losers unless there is a measurable public benefit to the thing being rewarded.
Prop 13 is dumb. It should be eliminated in a revenue neutral way. Let the government collect the same property tax revenue it does today, but shift to a model where everyone is paying based on the current value of the house they own. Period.
Some people will pay more than they currently do. Some people will pay less than they currently do. But in the end, two neighbors living in identically valued houses will have the same tax bill.
Restore sanity.
Stop giving a huge monetary bonus to people for just staying put.
6:56- Whatever loser.
DeletePull your head out of your ass and maybe you’ll start making better decisions.
Protect prop 13 with all of your might.
I know I will.
“Whatever loser”
DeleteVery well reasoned and supported argument. You’ve given us all a lot to think about.
Please no fireworks this holiday...they frighten my bikes.
ReplyDelete- The Shyndler
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DeleteLet's not forget, Republicans are the ones that started Prop 13 and Democrats want to see it go away. Democrats also want to tax your unrealized capital gains in your account whether it be your 401k, IRA, and everything else you hold. This hurts everyone not just billionaires.
ReplyDeleteWhen Democrats need more money because their policies don't yield a fiscal return on your taxes they come up with stupid ideas to get more taxes from you like getting rid of Prop 13 and taxing unrealized gains.
Everything Dems touch turns to shit, just like LA, SF, SD etc.
What part of “revenue neutral” didn’t you understand?
Delete7:04,
DeleteYou sound like someone on the public dole for sitting on your ass in one place.
Why should the rest of us pay for your sloth?
7:17 you sound like a angry, unhinged Democrat who loves to raise taxes because you can't figure out how to make money any other way.
DeleteAgain, revenue neutral.
DeleteLook it up.
7:14 "Revenue Neutral" is a farce....All it does is shift the tax burden, affecting others disproportionately.
Delete1.Even if the total revenue stays the same, who pays can change dramatically.
Example: Reducing income taxes while raising sales taxes is revenue neutral, but:
Low-income households spend more of their income on consumption, so they end up paying a higher share.
Meanwhile, high earners benefit from lower income tax.
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Delete2: Equity Concerns
Revenue neutral changes can unintentionally increase inequality.
A flat or regressive tax used to replace a progressive one (like a wealth or income tax) can hurt vulnerable groups.
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Delete3.May Undermine Public Services
In practice, "revenue neutral" often involves cutting taxes and reducing spending to match, rather than replacing the tax revenue elsewhere.
This can lead to underfunded schools, infrastructure, and social programs, even if the policy is technically revenue neutral.
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Delete4.Complex Transitions
To achieve revenue neutrality, complex adjustments may be needed (like calculating offsetting taxes or closing loopholes), which can:
Be politically difficult
Create confusion or unintended consequences
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Delete5. Political Framing Can Be Misleading
"Revenue neutral" is often used to sell controversial tax reforms, even if the actual outcomes are not neutral in effect for individuals or groups.
It's possible to be revenue neutral on paper, but create winners and losers in practice.
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DeleteBottom Line:
While revenue neutrality can help avoid budget deficits, it doesn't guarantee fairness, equity, or that all taxpayers will be impacted the same way. It’s a fiscal strategy, not a guarantee of good or just policy.
7:26, if you think shifting the tax burden and affecting people disproportionately is a bad thing, wait till you hear what Tony’s tax bill is relative to yours.
DeleteIn fact, Prop 13 is the thing shifting tax burden.
Undoing it is leveling the playing field for all.
Everyone should pay property tax based on the current value. Period.
No more public dole for sitting on your ass.
If having long time locals is a public good, then why don’t long time local renters get paid too?
7:30 so in your mind seniors who can't work need to "get up off their asses" and pay higher property taxes even though many of them are struggling on fixed income. Same can be said for low income families who were lucky enough to buy a house years ago. They should all just be punished, forced to pay higher taxes, run out of their houses and forced to rent.
DeleteYou sound like a great human being. That mentality is exactly what we don't need representing us.
8:01,
DeleteI’m saying their insurance costs are higher.
I’m saying their trash hauling costs are higher.
I’m saying their water bill is higher.
I’m saying their electric bill is higher.
I’m saying the cost to maintain the home and make repairs is higher.
I’m saying the cost of groceries in town is higher.
I’m saying the cost of having a car is higher.
Everything is higher. That’s life.
Either plan ahead for it by building an appropriate nest egg, or plan to move somewhere more affordable when on a fixed income.
Why should you get a government financial benefit because you didn’t plan for something predictable?
Good Reasons for Prop 13
ReplyDelete1. Protection for Homeowners (Especially Seniors)
Prevents long-time homeowners—especially retirees on fixed incomes—from being taxed out of their homes due to soaring property values. Ensures that tax increases are predictable and manageable, allowing people to age in place.
2. Limits on Government Taxing Power
ReplyDeleteRestricts how much local and state governments can collect in property taxes, encouraging fiscal discipline.
Reduces the temptation for governments to expand spending simply because assessed values go up.
Wrong. There are no limits on income tax, sales tax, business tax. If the government wants more revenues, they have plenty of sources other than property taxes.
DeleteAll prop 13 does is shift government revenue sources from a relatively stable and predictable one, to more volatile ones. When Silicon Valley has boom years, government revenues are in surplus. When Silicon Valley has a bust year, we get crisis and panic.
It’s a dumb system.
7:21- You’re just a call me and likely a freak show member. Get the fuck out Marley and Mali. You are not welcome
Delete* 7:21- You’re just a Commie and likely a freak show member. Get the fuck out Marley and Mali. You are not welcome
Delete7:21 is correct in that prop 13 did shifrt revenue sources in the state. The problem with the system here, it relies too much on capital gains income. The system needs to be more stable...
Deletehttps://calmatters.org/explainers/the-open-secret-about-california-taxes/
Delete7:28 or California politicians like Newsom, Blakespear, Horvath need to be more fiscally responsible with their policies so they don't have to consistently find new ways to shove new taxes down our throats.
Delete7:28 For starters we can lower city staff salaries across the state. Jennifer Campbell doesn't need to be making $400,000 a year and then getting a large 6 figure pension for the rest of her life when she retires.
Delete8:32 The above comment was meant for you.
Delete3. Stability in Property Taxes
ReplyDeleteCreates a stable and predictable tax environment, which is helpful for financial planning by both homeowners and businesses.
Even in volatile real estate markets, property owners know their tax bill won’t suddenly spike.
4. Encourages Long-Term Residency
ReplyDeleteRewards people for staying in their homes longer, which helps build stable communities and encourages long-term investment in neighborhoods. Long-term residents often contribute more to civic life, schools, and local governance.
I’ve lived here longer than you, so I deserve to be paid a government bonus?
Delete723 stupid comment
DeleteIf we are paying a government financial incentive to keep long time locals, then why are renters excluded. I know some people who have lived here their whole life and still rent. They are—according to you—providing a public benefit—and getting screwed.
Delete7:34 Renters aren't excluded from paying taxes.
Delete1. The owner still pays property taxes.
2. The renters still pay local taxes, sales, utilities, etc.
3. Renters make up a much smaller percentage of Encinitas compared to owners, all still pay taxes.
Bottom line: Everyone still pays taxes.
The promise was when prop 13 was passed that landlords would pass savings on to renters, which didn't happen. That's why rent control happened in Santa Monica and LA.
Delete7:45 Rent will always increase, it's called inflation.
DeleteSo landlords are supposed to charge long time locals renters differently from newcomers?
DeleteThis justification for Prop 13 is that it encourages stability in the community by keeping more long term locals, and that is supposed to be a public good.
But long time locals who rent get screwed, unless buildings that haven’t sold for a long time and have low property taxes are reserved for long time locals, and those landlords are required to pass along the savings to the long time local renters.
None of which is in the law or actually happening.
It exposes the whole argument as bullshit.
If the proponents of Prop 13 actually cared about the public benefit of keeping more long term locals, they would’ve extended that benefit to renters.
They did not.
It’s just about selfish public dole for sitting on your ass in one place, at the expense of people who move.
7:23- yes. And free trips to Israel.
Delete- Tony
8:14 Then Tony comes back and suddenly votes in support of Leichtags zoning change. Kranz has to be our city's worst mayor to date. What a turd...
Delete5. Helps Small Businesses
ReplyDeleteCommercial property owners also benefit from tax stability, which can help small businesses afford rent and stay open.
Predictable property taxes can reduce the risk of sudden cost increases that might otherwise force businesses to close or relocate.
6. Democrat Accountability
ReplyDeleteRequires a two-thirds supermajority for local tax increases, making it harder for governments to raise taxes without strong public support. Ensures that voters have a direct say in significant fiscal decisions.
^^ This isn’t Prop 13.
Delete7:26 actually it is. Prop 13 requires a 2/3 vote to get rid of it. That's why Tasha Boerner Horvath is trying to change the voting parameters to a 50% vote. She's trying to get rid of Prop 13. Prop 13 is a good thing, Dems want to get rid of it like everything else that protects us.
Delete“local tax increases”
DeleteProp 13 is statewide.
7:35 I never said Prop 13 wasn't state wide.
Delete7:35 Never said Prop 13 wasn't state wide. Look at the context of how "local tax increases" is used. Learn how to read. This is why anti-Prop 13 supporters are idiots, they can't read.
DeleteFirst you said: “ Requires a two-thirds supermajority for local tax increases”
DeleteThen you explained that first statement be saying “ Prop 13 requires a 2/3 vote to get rid of it.”
Getting rid of Prop 13 would be a statewide issue, not local.
Your explanation of the first statement is wrong.
Sounds like the confused 3Ms chasing their tails again. Marlon in particular has a thing about getting rid of Prop 13. Have to wonder if his buddy Marco G feels the same given the huge step up in value he'd suddenly own on his house. Someone needs to set these 3M E4E folks down. Maybe some of the elders in that group who have lived here decades. Maybe the Berlfeins want Prop 13 gone? Degher? Kranz? Lees?
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DeleteSpecifically, Prop 13 Requires....
Two-thirds (66.7%) voter approval for:
Local special taxes (e.g. taxes earmarked for specific purposes like schools, libraries, parks).
These taxes must be approved by voters in an election.
Simple majority for:
General taxes (used for any purpose), but only when proposed by a city council or county board, not by citizen initiative (this was clarified in later court rulings, including California Cannabis Coalition v. City of Upland in 2017).
8:04,
DeleteNow that makes sense.
So it’s about bonds for schools paid through property taxes? And that requires 2/3?
Thanks for the clarification.
8:11 Did you not understand what I wrote? What specifically did you not understand?
DeleteSee 8:02's post. You are dealing with people committed to not understanding.
Delete8:11
DeleteYes — bonds for schools in California are typically repaid through property taxes, and whether they require two-thirds voter approval depends on the type of bond and when it was proposed.
What Kind of Vote Is Required?
✅ Before 2000 (or if using a traditional general obligation bond):
Requires two-thirds (66.7%) voter approval
(This rule came from Proposition 13 in 1978)
✅ After Prop 39 (passed in 2000):
Most school bonds now fall under Proposition 39, which allows:
55% voter approval (a lower threshold)
But with strict accountability requirements, such as:
1.Independent annual audits
2.Specific project lists
3. Restrictions on administrative salaries or operating costs
8:11 Marlon, Mali, Gjata, you're really bad at this.
Delete8:16 John Gjata, Marlon, Mali, Amanda Zenick, Tony Kranz, all pretentious idiots.
Delete8:25 and all could not afford their property tax bump up if they got rid of their hated Prop 13. Although at least one on your list would have her parents cover the bill.
DeleteTasha Boerner Horvath is an idiot piggy. Just like Blakespear. Vote them out.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, big fucking developer whore 🐷s
Delete7:54 Horvath is an awful human being. She's all that is greedy and piggy!
DeleteYou can thank Mark Muir and that whole Republican in fighting/stepping on d#$S escapade for her election.
Delete8:08 so it's a Republicans fault that Tasha Boerner Horvath was elected in 2016? Please explain....
DeleteIt's a top 2 finish open primary, two democrats finished in the top 2, guaranteeing that one of them would be elected. Six Republicans ran, splitting the vote.....
Delete8:29 which six republicans ran in the 2016 race?
Delete8:29 I'll ask again, which "six republicans ran" in the 2016 election?
Delete8:29 You told us that six republicans ran in the 2016 Encinitas election? Give us the names of the six.
DeleteYou must be the same person who told us that the stock market was going to crash to historic lows that we haven't seen since the Great Depression.
Look where we are now. S&P, NASDAQ and DOW all at record levels.
So which six democrats ran in the 2016 Encinitas election?
It's easy to lookup, 2018 race:
DeleteDemocratic Elizabeth Warren 28,755 26.2
Democratic Tasha Boerner Horvath 27,566 25.1
Republican Philip "Phil" Graham 23,155 21.1
Republican Maureen "Mo" Muir 9,642 8.8
Republican Thomas E. Krouse 8,675 7.9
Republican Amanda Rigby 5,919 5.4
Republican Jerome Stocks 5,119 4.7
Republican Brian Wimmer 840 0.8
Total votes 109,671 100.0
9:07 I'll ask again, which "six republicans ran" in the 2016 Encinitas election?
DeleteWe're talking about 2016.... 2016 precedes 2018, so we're talking about 2016' Horvath's first election.
DeleteIt's 2018, not 2016!!!
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