Don't for a minute think Stocks is laughing with us all. He laughs at us, believing us stupid, blind and deaf.
This deferential treatment of shiny, smiling Gaspar isn't really new, but it seemed more obvious at this evening's venue despite more than a hundred in the audience and an estimated huge audience online.
Remember the last meeting, June 27 when Gaspar was on vacation? We stared at her empty chair at the end of the meeting when her item was pulled from the consent calendar. Via teleconference she essential challenged City Manager Vina's numbers, staff negotiations, anyone's ability to make a lease decision without her amazing financial acumen? Despite all of the City Manager's figures, Muir's confidence (as fire guy), Teresa's attempt to suggest this as a future agenda item the Deputy Mayor was having none of it. Up to and through the voting she was a petulant brat. She is only too aware that there is a ME in team, despite her hypocritical attack on Barth at that very meeting, saying sanctimoniously there was no I in team. You can't make this crap up!
Here is the clip of the entire festival of indulgence and time wasting brought to us all by Deputy Mayor Gaspar, the financial wizard.
The Mayor's and Deputy Mayor's tête-à-tête is the highlight here. And, Gaspar's demand that her wishes and comfort level be honored DESPITE the majority decision and Stocks ingratiating explanatory contortions to appease her are equally gag worthy.
Get a room . . .
Oh, and just for context to the first clip, note the more common demeanor of Mayor Jerome Stocks at the very opening, the onset of this Special Encinitas Meeting.
Throughout the meeting he cut some people off, allowed others to ramble, censored some, charmed others. Bully. Crony. Bully Crony. Every Encinitas citizen needs the visceral political experience of attending one of the 9 meetings left before the election. The opinions are not unanimous - even among us all here. But the actual meetings, and the actual words and behaviours in the clips are plain enough to see. Please pass along links to all of our neighbors, coworkers and friends. We can do so much better for our community than this. We have such talent and ethical individuals who actually want to serve.
