Why was Teresa Barth left off the 2nd mailer? She obviously loves Encinitas too. The following clip is from the Sept. 12, 2012 meeting when the True North consultant responsible for the Citizen Survey was questioned about the results. It is worth watching the entire meeting with the advantage of knowing that the intended use in the campaign was a foregone conclusion for the council majority, the consultant if not the city manager.
It was clear several days before the election that the clumsy attempt to sway voters with Gaspars' We Love Encinitas mailers was doomed to failure. The fliers and the sneering comments against Candidates Shaffer and Kranz and their supporters being the 2% who didn't love Encinitas insulted people's intelligence and sense of basic ethical standards.
Despite the above clip, we heard that Paul Gaspar claims Teresa Barth indicated she didn't love Encinitas. This isn't a direct quote as this blogger had to hear it on the grapevine. But, it was so patently a lie and downright slanderous something needed to be said. These twisted kinds of defense will only continue to poison the council's environment. And that is indefensible. The new majority won't stand for it.
And just one more clip to remind us what the current majority had to say about the survey when it was proposed March 28 of this year.
Note how Barth attempts to follow through on Bond's critique of a survey in an election year and she is cut off by our Mayor Stocks. Deputy Mayor Gaspar uses the city manager as fall guy technique to force the vote. She has used this bullying before with Gus Vina here and here. (Hopefully, this blogger won't be the only one crying foul if she continues with this in the upcoming year.)
A word about the whole point of the Citizen Satisfaction Survey. So, presumably it was for the new City Manager, Gus Vina, to get information. He defends it after the fact in his November newsletter, dated the same day Marcos Gonzalez of Coastal Law Group released the search results for the We Love Encinitas records.
The irony du jour is that there is a 6 pm public meeting tonight, Nov. 27, at City Hall on the Hall Property Park with only the most vague description on the city website. News of this via Patch appeared early today or late last night only because Councilwoman Barth saw it on the city website and alerted the press.
Doesn't that perfectly illustrate Barth does love Encinitas and goes above and beyond without grandstanding? If the city manager will check out the citizen responses to city communication in the now infamous Citizen Satisfaction Survey, it would be clear to him that posting on the website alone isn't very effective. City Manager Vina, please try harder to be a real ally serving Encinitas citizenry. Continuous improvement . . . amirite?
Doesn't that perfectly illustrate Barth does love Encinitas and goes above and beyond without grandstanding? If the city manager will check out the citizen responses to city communication in the now infamous Citizen Satisfaction Survey, it would be clear to him that posting on the website alone isn't very effective. City Manager Vina, please try harder to be a real ally serving Encinitas citizenry. Continuous improvement . . . amirite?
