"I believe we must strive to sustain our five communities’ unique and varied character through fair and equitable implementation of the general plan, fiscal prudence, and environmental stewardship, with respect to all members of the community."
Mark Muir submitted to following for his candidate statement:
"We can continue to protect our treasured quality of life and the unique character of our five communities through fiscal prudence, environmental stewardship, and fair and equitable application of the General Plan."
Plagiarism is what this is called in a world of accountability. Remember when students were kicked out of college for cheating by stealing writing of others? Remember when journalists lost their jobs because of claiming other people's work as their own?
If this doesn't make you angry you may have lost track of some essential principle of humanity. This is stealing.
Speaking of stealing, according to a large outspoken group of active and involved citizens, Mark Muir stole the council seat vacated at Maggie Houlihan's untimely death a year ago. Despite Maggie's own endorsement of Lisa Shaffer and despite popular belief that the next highest vote getter from the previous election, Tony Kranz, represented the people's choice; Mark Muir took the seat handed to him by the council majority.
We have also heard Mark being considered a reasonable, rational voice within the majority club on the dais. That's his scripted role, folks. He is pretty devoid of anything on his own. He is reading his lines, many of them lifted from Barth's own words to sound community friendly. It's not new. Kristin Gaspar did it throughout her meager 2010 campaign offerings and blatantly stole Teresa Barth's wayside horns project and presented it as her own in her very first council appearance. She continues to claim Barth's words, recommendations and motions as her own.
This opposition group doesn't have vision, ideas, plans or community goals. They are part of an army following directions from their funding sources. This doesn't mean they don't have friends and family who love them and their own love for Encinitas beauty and bounty. What they don't have is a desire to serve the public's best interests, the public good or long range goals.
Mark Muir can hardly campaign on the real purposes, extract as much as possible from this lucrative community for those in charge of his election direction.
Funny, the usual desire here at this blog to link to sources and backup for all of the above is just not there today. Without acknowledgment of facts, realty or any kind of accountability it just seems futile.
Mark Muir's theft of Teresa Barth's statement of many years of commitment to Encinitas was spotted in a Patch article. We missed it until now.
