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Medical observers are alarmed. Infections have erupted everywhere from Los Alamitos to Laguna Niguel. Familiar with the patient, these observers predict symptoms getting worse before they get better.
Gus Ayer always located the origin of the OC we know in the 60’s-70’s “White Flight” from LA after the Watts Riots. This is our parents’ and grandparents’ OC we grew up in, the “Republican stronghold” always hostile to minorities, immigrants and the poor. But the 21st century’s liberalism and toleration has been tugging at us relentlessly, with assistance from inexorable demographics, to the point that we chose Hillary over Trump in 2016.
However, these changes are not happening without some violent resistance! Two recent liberal provocations in particular – California government’s defiance of Trump’s ICE raids, and Judge David O. Carter’s insistence that county government finally provide a place for our homeless residents to stay – were a step too far to OC’s xenophobic deadenders.
All of this seemed to happen at the same time! Little Los Alamitos (last in the news for its former Mayor Dean Grose’s racist “watermelon” e-mail about Obama and funny tweets about the poverty of Mexicans) surprised us all with the vehemence of its anti-immigrant pro-Trump fervor, cheering its Council’s unanimous rejection of California’s new “sanctuary state” law with chants of “Build the wall!” All this nativism, the same ugly sentiment that rocketed Trump into the Presidency, really makes no sense at a time when immigration has been net zero for years, but again that’s rational talk, and rational talk is quaint these days.
HB assemblyman and gubernatorial candidate Travis Allen, still tumescent from Trump’s lawsuit against California’s sanctuary status (which was Travis’ idea), celebrated Los Alamitos’ move and expressed the hope that other OC towns, especially his own Huntington Beach, will follow suit! Oh, that will be pretty. Chris Epting and Chuck Johnson will have a field day, yelling at Gina and our Oak View friends. [Breaking – it’s on the agenda for April 2!]
This week at LAX – Shawn and Michelle Steel, some other scumbag, Trump.
And – and this all seemed to happen at the same time! – Supervisor Michelle Steel, still flushed from leaving a Board meeting early to go welcome Trump at LAX with her husband, applauded Los Al’s xenophobic rebellion against Sacramento, immediately proposing to bring the same thing to the County! In her press release, Her Husband’s Dim Puppet® tells ONCE AGAIN the sad story of Kate Steinle that helped get Trump elected, as a stern example of why the OC has to make it even easier for Trump’s ICE to deport more Mexicans.
And guess who immediately agreed with Shawn Steel I mean Michelle Steel that our County government needs to help Trump get rid of more Mexicans, tear apart more families? And if you guessed her fellow Supervisor, also running for Congress in the North County, Shawn Nelson, you guessed right! Shawn’s press release, uploaded here, proposes to direct County Counsel to either join in the Trump lawsuit against California, or enjoin these Sanctuary State policies on our own. Basically California has been saying: “Enforcing Trump’s (draconian) immigration policy is not the state’s business but the Feds'”; while OC and Los Al are saying “No, we want to help you deport as well, dear Mr. President!”
And this will be discussed at the next Board meeting Tuesday at 9:30. What a circus that will be!
This was all at the same time as Judge Carter’s insistence that, just as he wouldn’t allow the County to throw hundreds of homeless people off the riverbed with no place to go, he also wouldn’t allow the County to rip them out of their 30-day motel room stays with nowhere to go. So the Supes went back to an old plan of Shawn’s from last year (at least Shawn’s been trying to do something about this for a while unlike the others) and proposed Tent Cities in Irvine, Laguna Niguel and Huntington Beach.
And did the NIMBOTS rise up in force, in all three municipalities! All three cities are suing the County, at the behest of their TERRIFIED homeowners, for trying to comply with the Judge’s orders. And no wonder the good citizens of Irvine, Laguna and HB are terrified, with Supervisor Todd Spitzer spreading lies both on the radio and at their Council meetings about how dangerous and dirty these homeless are – to hear Todd talk these homeless folks are all violent sex offenders on drugs, and he nakedly eggs these cities on to rebel against the county AND Judge Carter. Don’t you know – DA candidate Todd is The Only Man Who Can Keep This Delicate County Safe.
[UPDATE: Note in the above video how Todd riles up the crowd with the words “SEX OFFENDERS” FIVE times, when describing the homeless who would come and “destroy [Laguna Niguel’s] community.” Today’s Voice of OC tells us: “…county Probation Department officials, who track sex offenders, say there is one sex offender among the 697 homeless people who moved from the riverbed into motels.” And also: “Sex offenders would not be moved to the proposed Irvine shelter, but instead would be offered beds in a separate location where they would be monitored, according to a county official speaking on condition of anonymity.” Thus Todd demonstrates not only the textbook definition of liar, but also of DANGEROUS DEMAGOGUE.]
At the Laguna Niguel meeting Todd presented himself as a sympathetic friend and supporter to the NIMBYs there, but his colleague and THEIR Supervisor the Crooked Lisa Bartlett was having none of that spin, as she recounted Todd telling her “My district has done its share, it’s time for other parts of the County to do their share sheltering the homeless.” Actually Todd was right when he said that, it’s long been an accepted truism on the Board that we need a shelter in each of the Five Districts, but nothing ever happens in the places where people are rich and loud. Here’s Crooked Lisa:
Abruptly upon hearing from their outraged voters, as though recoiling from a hot stove, the Board’s two females Crooked Lisa and Her Husband’s Dim Puppet® had Second Thoughts cloaked in awkward Double-Speak. Lisa no longer wants a homeless tent city in Laguna Niguel, nor does Michelle want one in Huntington. What were we thinking!? Jeez, are we ditzy.
The Steels – I mean Michelle – being sworn in.
I’ll say it again: the existence of many homeless people is an inevitable symptom of the huge and growing inequality in this nation – Orange County especially – and I think it’s a GOOD thing that folks for whom the system is working well should have to regularly see (and hopefully help) those for whom it’s not.
All OC towns need to do their share, and nobody should think that they’re too good to have to see homeless people, brown people, or black people. That’s not the OC most of us want any more. But look at me going on…
This is your Weekend Open Thread. Speak up, I can’t hear you!
March for Our Lives – Orange County, CA
Centennial Regional Park
3000 W Edinger Ave
Santa Ana, CA 92704
Saturday, March 24, 2:00 PM
Mimi Walters Office – In front
3333 Michelson Drive
Irvine, CA 92620
Saturday, March 24, 11:00 AM
Lake Park/Huntington Beach City Hall
2000 Main St
Huntington Beach, CA 92648
Saturday, March 24, 10:00 AM
Laguna Beach Main Beach
107 S. Coast Highway
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Saturday, March 24, 10:00 AM
https://event.marchforourlives.com/event/march-our-lives-events/search/
Well here’s something constructive at least – Shawn is partnering with Senator Moorlach to “take emergency action to open Fairview Developmental Center (in Costa Mesa) as an emergency homeless shelter.”
Read Shawn’s brief press release:
http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/shawn-fairview.jpg
Tuesday’s BoS meeting should go on all day at this point.
I think there is a difference between someone here illegally trying to make a living versus someone who is in jail who robbed banks or committed more than 3 DUI’s. I think in California’s sense of feeling most would not support deporting in the first case, but we should not defend criminals who after they serve their sentence who are here illegally to return back to the United States, they should be deported. SB 54 needs to be revised more so we dont defend turds like Mr.Banda.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/sd-me-banda-case-20180323-story.html
We are usually a fair and generous people, we accept 1.5-2m people who immigrate here legally a year, people usually donate money to charities for homeless and or severely low income people. I think people just dont want to reward people who just want to be homeless and just inject heroin daily. Maybe drug treatment and other counseling/medication in addition to helping to straighten out people’s lives in exchange for hotel room subsidies would be a fair idea.
Also people just want to dump the homeless to a place where other people have to deal with it. It seems also the Inland Valley is a place where the homeless is dumped. Maybe Irvine could allow for some people to stay at the great park area if they have connections to the Irvine community such as graduated from an Irvine high school.
It’s rather pathetic to watch these Supervisors flailing away at they know not what. They just get bobbed about by whatever tide is running.
Bartlett is encouraging her constituents to sue the County?! Vintage Spitzer, though. Nothing new here from Mr. Perpendicular Pronoun.®
This Board of Supervisors will go down with the B.O.S.of 1994 Orange County Bankruptcy dropped the ball asleep at the wheel…
current Board of Supervisors acted as if nothing was going on in regards to the homeless issue and were shocked to find out that there are homeless people outside their door where did they come from and how come they didn’t know about it even though it had been festering for 15 years or so
and had to be brought to task by the federal judge David O Carter and having to stand up and take account of what was going on or being forced to and their case
as I also stated in regards to South County Irvine and Huntington Beach and the like that you need not worry because Anaheim has took in the Lion’s Share of this issue of homelessness while the rest of you have done nothing in some of the most affluent areas this County even though it’s a human tragedy
and how history will judge us that will be told that this generation stood by and watched civilization erode before their very eyes before they stood up and did something
would you rather be on the right side of History or would you rather be on the Board of Supervisors side of History?
*As our old First Sgt said: “Only about 10% are leader material, of that only about 1 to 3%
actually get the respect to do the job properly!” At the other end of the spectrum is the 10% that don’t want to do anything, but cause trouble. The great gray in betweeners..sort
of just go along for the ride. We guess if most people were looking for leaders…..they may have actually elected them! Since this has not happened…..we can gather that it may be time to move some desks and rotate some of these folks…out of office.
While you’re already convulsing and vomiting-
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-27/twitter-user-breaks-down-all-personal-data-facebook-and-google-collect
Ten years (yesterday) since my first story on the Orange Juice Blog! I’d been commenting and arguing here for a few months, while working to get Debbie Cook elected against Dana Rohrabacher, and Art Pedroza invited me to write a piece about that campaign:
http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2008/03/mayor-cook-vs-dana-volley-1-iraq/
That was 1,068 stories ago … excluding the things I wrote as admin, “Phobius” (my anti-gay alter-ego), “The Royaliste” (backing “Queen” Meg Whitman), “Miss Info Asperger,” “Joe Hill,” “Anaheim Insider,” and I forget what other names.
Just tripped across this on (where else?) YouTube, and those involved / aware of the 405 mess might be interested to know things are the same for our neighbors to the east-
Well, news to me, anyway – FWIW
So – THESE Republican candidates so far have come out in favor of the OC Supervisors’ EMBRACE OF TRUMP’S DEPORTATIONS: CA-39 candidates YOUNG KIM, BOB HUFF, and (obviously) SHAWN NELSON; CA-48 candidates DANA ROHRABACHER and SCOTT BAUGH; and obviously Supervisors TODD SPITZER running for DA and MICHELLE STEEL running for re-election.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-1522296639-htmlstory.html.
I think OC Republicans have signed their death warrants, but that all depends on how many of USTEDES vote. What do you think? More here:
http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/2018/03/resistance-resistance-2018-elections/
Hillary beat Trump in many of these districts. By a lot.
Making a bet with the devil is risky. Better play that fiddle hard.
Got this today, as I’m sure did a whole lot of other people, from Shawn. We talk, but I don’t really know him all that well. So a question for those who do: does he WANT to have a bunch of Latinos come out and protest his “playing the role of a racist” butt? If so, does he want them playing mariachi music?