Here are council meeting clips from last January 2012 at City Hall when artist, Mark Patterson offered the famous art piece for free (covering all costs of installation and maintenance) as an art loan to Encinitas.
*sigh* Stocks really did ask the artist his name after he spoke. Yes he did. Anyone who followed the blundering of the council majority broadcast nationally for months on end in 2011 knows that the mayor must have been really embarrassed at the Republican establishment praising the artist at this very council meeting. Oh, wait . . .
Stocks' lack of perception is the stuff of town legends. Kristin Gaspar seems to have a vocabulary that includes concern sounds and she uses them a lot for what is called concern troll behavior. The definition below was coined to the virtual world, but it applies to real world polit-speak as well. For Gaspar it is the go-to approach to argue against most things related to the public good.
"A person who posts on a blog thread, in the guise of "concern," to disrupt dialogue or undermine morale by pointing out that posters and/or the site may be getting themselves in trouble, usually with an authority or power. They point out problems that don't really exist. The intent is to derail, stifle, control, the dialogue. It is viewed as insincere and condescending."
Beneath the patina of praise and thanks for the gift of art, the council majority is rather insistent about hypothetical risk factors in the future and require legal assurances that the artist will carry all of the liabilities. Classy. (/snark)
