Quote of the Day

"The only thing that can stop us now, Turko, is the county bureaucracy, but we're working on that. Our staff is in daily contact waiting for the final approval so that we can go to bid, award a bid and build this thing." Jerome Stocks

Mayor Stocks is doing what he does - blaming others - regarding Hall Property sitting empty for a decade instead of Encinitas having a park. KUSI "Turko Files" shows Michael Turko speaking with Tony Kranz, Kevin Cummins and Mayor Jerome Stocks in (tiny) video format. If this were a drinking game and you took a shot for every lie, for everyone and for everything Stocks blames for no park being built, you'd be cautioned not to drive right now.

Unable to embed video so you'll need to go to the source. Note, talking heads and advertisement precedes clip. Oh yes, and Michael Turko adopts the framing used by the council majority that NIMBY's (not in my back yard) are the wacky people complaining and keeping all good things out of reach. Well, no, he gets that one wrong and his opening premise.

Take a look at video archives of the many Hall property discussions in council meetings. (You can look forward to clips at this blog all year.) Really serious issues have been raised by a whole community of conscientious citizens, including leading scientists who live in our city. The council majority typically fights, forgets, deflects or otherwise fails to address or solve issues raised in any kind of timely fashion. Some local political history buffs in the anonymous comments lay out these verifiable facts at the Undercover blog. The consistent message to the community from this majority has always been and will continue to be told to sit down and shut up. On the other hand, I'll chalk Turko's characterization of a NIMBY problem as the one our Mayor supplied. We'd really like to see Turko continue to expose this story to the voters of Encinitas.

You'd think Our Mayor suspects we are all stupid or have no memory or ability to get the facts out to the voting public. He'd be wrong you know; a veritable mountain of wrong.

Update: Speaking of facts. Kevin Cummins has a a whole retrospective for you at Leucadia Blog.