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This week, the Orange Juice Blog is going to ask you a favor – if you value California’s beautiful coastline and want to continue to protect it from endless profiteering development, please sign these two petitions demanding our Coastal Commission not fire their fine Executive Director Charles Lester.
A statewide controversy by now, articles and editorials identify this as an attempted coup by Governor Brown’s four pro-development appointees on the commission, against a leader who takes seriously his charge to enforce our Coastal Act. If you have thought of our Governor Moonbeam as someone who might place protection of our environment over temporary union construction jobs, you have been sorely mistaken, as borne out by his Coastal Commission appointments and his silence throughout this controversy.
This is especially important to Orange County, as we have thought of the Coastal Commission as our last major line of defense against two horrific, environmentally disastrous proposals: the Poseidon desalination boondoggle planned in Huntington Beach, which will come before the Commission again in May (with their expected whining that they can’t use the environmentally preferable subsurface intakes without eating unacceptably into their profits) and the high-density “urban village” planned by Shell and Exxon-Mobil on Newport’s Banning Ranch – also to come back to the Commission this spring.
Offered the chance to resign quietly or defend his record, Dr. Lester (whose record of allowing development is actually quite moderate and reasonable) has opted for a Feb. 10-12 showdown in Morro Bay. He fully intends to continue in the tradition of his predecessor, Coastal Act co-author Peter Douglas, who famously said “The coast is never saved. It’s always being saved.”
You can send a short email in support of Dr. Lester to: StatusOfExecutiveDirector@coastal.ca.gov. If you think you may be able to attend the Morro Bay hearing, write us for more info.
This is your weekend open thread, so do that thing where you talk about this or whatever within the bounds of whatever it is that Greg always says and stuff. If you feel “decency and decorum” slipping from your grasp, take three deep breaths and don’t hit publish till you feel serenity. By all means, be yourself, but still resist the narcissistic siren song of finding your every stray brain dropping fascinating and assuming that your persona is per se lovable and endearing. Still and all, we want to hear from you – don’t be a stranger! Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Go placidly amid the noise and waste…
And so the spiral (who knows if it is up, or down ?) continues-
http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/la-cannot-afford-its-convention-center/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House
Could Anaheim’s elite be haunted by the spirits of dead mice ?
I notice the two kleptoblogs are in a tizzy because now Anaheim’s People’s Map has no Latino majority districts. I believe they think they are pointing out a great irony and a great vindication of Jordan Brandman who was fighting so gosh darn hard for those oppressed Mexican-Americans that he became anemic.
Can they really be soooooo stupid as to believe that three solid Latino plurality districts is worse than two majority districts? Their disingenuous bullshit runs so deep that it’s hard to tell.
Someone should remind Straw Man and Lil’ Clumski that you don’t need 50% to win a district seat.
I haven’t seen a reach like this since Plastic Man.
But hey, let’s all pitch an epic snit fit over a tenth of a percent, because there’s literally not one issue impacting Anaheim and Orange County more important to highlight and discuss.
Goddamn embarassing.
I would feel pity but there is much to laugh at.
Straw Man is getting paid to dish out this petulant propaganda so it doesn’t matter asking whether he is that stupid or not.
The other oaf isn’t getting paid, so really must be that dumb.
But seriously, who gives cares anymore? The fight is over and the kleptos got their bruised asses handed to them. Now they need to bear down and find some cleaned up, genuine house-broken minorities to represent PringleCorp on the city council.
Exactly. It’s personal.
Egofreakingtastic.
I ran the numbers myself last night. I’ll publish on it once the other person working on it checks in, but based on my calculation it is over 50%. I think that I know what the error was that led to the low estimate, but I’ll wait for the second opinion to come in.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/article59533841.html
http://voiceofoc.org/2016/02/blatantly-disregarding-public-will-coastal-commission-votes-to-fire-executive-director/
“Morro Bay, CA – [Yesterday] more than 1,000 concerned citizens, elected officials, former commissioners, staff members, and environmental and social justice advocates attended the Coastal Commission hearing in Morro Bay. Every single speaker emphasized the importance of the Commission’s independence, and urged the Commission to retain Executive Director Charles Lester, a trusted leader that has championed the public good over special interest. In a show of willful disregard for the will of the people it is meant to serve, the California Coastal Commission voted 7-5 to fire Dr. Lester.”
This was engineered by Governor Brown’s four pathetic appointees to the commission, classic foxes guarding the henhouse. And this augurs very badly for our attempt to thwart both Poseidon and the huge development oil companies have planned for Newport’s Banning Ranch. The least we can do is ask Governor Moonbeam to remove his appointees, so he doesn’t go down in history as the Governor who gutted the Coastal Act for the benefit of developers and a few thousand TEMPORARY union construction jobs:
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/governor-brown-remove.fb51?source=s.icn.fb&r_by=486178