"Myths" Encinitas

Mondays may need to become Myths Encinitas feature day.  Today will kickoff a recent Myths Gaspar version.  Kristin Gaspar is quite the myth maker and she was to be central.  But, seriously, our mayor, Jerome Stocks lives and breathes myths and has years on the deputy mayor.  Jim Bond creates his version of history of his 20 years on the dais most every meeting.  At the last meeting Kristin turned on Teresa Barth and wailed,

"Teresa, that is why this council has supported you 100% of the time when it comes to agendizing issues."

[yabba, yabba, yabba . . . ]

"The public has a right to know that a hundred percent of the time we have supported you in your agenda . . . your items agendized, 100% of the time."

That's horse pucky, a flat out lie myth - three times!. There are hundreds of examples in the years Barth has served where she receives 0% support.   The example below was chosen because it illustrates the lengths the council majority and their personal consigliere  Sabine will go to frustrate the simplest of requests, even if it would be a gesture of cooperation with the minority voices on the council, provide goodwill to the community and help mitigate the disastrously bad press (in this instance) nationwide regarding the Surfing Madonna.

I'm not going to write out the entire transcript, but I'm struck by the relentlessness of the attorney to make Teresa Barth jump through hoop after hoop.  The hypocricy of demanding adherence to a rigid council policy standard while letting Stocks violate it repeatedly.  Some highlights:

"That's why you folks play the game," said Sabine (?). . . . "Go through the findings" . . . Stocks interruptions . . . disregard of mayor Bond and meeting rules. And even at the end of the meeting, Teresa Barth cites reference to adding an agenda item from a book the attorney gave her. He responds with 2/3 majority means a 4/5 vote required . . . "

It seemed to go on and on . . .

For additional background to this particular meeting, the clip link here shows the public's speeches regarding the Surfing Madonna. They are two of the many last year around this time.

Correction: The clip made of Kristin Gaspar's non-agendized attack on Teresa Barth faded out before she'd finished her spittle flecked assault. The following is the closing of that tirade to frame herself as a victim(?). It doesn't really make much sense, but it is included to keep all the myths of this speech together.

"And, ah, I don’t know where else in life it works that you treat people that way and then you expect that when it come time for one person to cast that one vote, that my vote will drift your way. It just doesn’t happen in the real world and that’s why I’ve stated before that I’ve always felt like the ball was in your court when it comes to that vote and I treated everything with a fresh perspective. And I quite frankly I’m tired of carrying the burden of that victim role. Um . . . Because it’s not my burden to carry. Um . . . So, I wanted to clarify that and also on the two years, the intent behind that was to make certain that a councilman had served for at least two years before becoming mayor. It wasn’t to do anything else, other than that. It was the intent that we discussed it before was that if you had an election the highest vote getter could be someone new to the process. I was one of those people new to the process and it was to avoid that situation."

End.