They're Back! (Amended)*
You will recall that, back in May, I told you about a probable infestation of our City Council meeting by outside agitators from the Orange County Young Republicans, HERE. We'll, they're back at it again.
CALL TO ACTIONIn an Action Alert sent out this week those rabid young misguided folks are being asked, once again, to flood our city council chambers at the meeting tonight - when the council WILL vote to place Jim Righeimer's Charter on the November 6th ballot.
This time the flames of this Action Alert are being fanned by a guy named Dave Everett, HERE, who apparently recently left his position as Executive Director of the OC GOP for a position with the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC). In correspondence provided to me he exhorts the troops to rally at City Hall at 6:30, luring them there with the promise of pizza and a chance to visit the Fair. Well, the Fair is dark on Tuesdays, so these gullible, easily-manipulated young folks will be disappointed. That's a lesson they'll learn more than once in their young lives if they don't begin thinking for themselves instead of following the OC GOP script.
LEAVE BRAINS AT HOMESpeaking of which, in his correspondence Everett asks these young people to wear RED shirts in a show of solidarity - they wore black last time - and tells them that he will provide them with SCRIPTS to read to the council. Oh, yeah, Young Republicans... just leave your brains at home... we'll provide everything you need - pizza and a script!
"TRANSPARENCY" AT WORK HEREIn his correspondence Everett says, "For ABC, we are trying to get charter's up and down the state for cities, so that our members are not excluded from bidding on contracts for those cities...". It looks to me like Everett has become the reincarnation of Kevin Dayton - the shill for the ABC who almost incited a riot in council chambers back in February, HERE and HERE.
MARCHING ORDERS ARE CLEARI've mentioned many times that the changes being attempted in Costa Mesa by Jim Righeimer and his pals on the council are actually being guided by marching orders from Scott Baugh and the OC GOP. Here is yet another example of them trying to influence the APPEARANCE of broad public support for these schemes. One could interpret this as a recognition by the current council majority that this bogus scheme does NOT have broad community support so they're trying to stack the deck purely for appearance purposes - to make it appear that folks who will actually be impacted by Jim Righeimer's Charter are supportive of it. Personally, I find it offensive that these guys think it's necessary to import agitators with no skin in the game - especially when NOTHING that will be said tonight is going to change the fact that the four members of the council WILL vote to place the charter on the ballot.
ARRIVE EARLYIf you plan to attend the council meeting tonight - it begins at 7:00 p.m. - I suggest you plan to arrive a little early if you want to have a seat. Everett has rallied his young troops for 6:30.
I had a chuckle when I read the Action Alert mentioned above because they linked to two of my previous posts and referred to my blog as a "liberal blog". Me, a lifelong Republican, being painted by the FAR RIGHT wing of my party as a liberal makes me smile. These guys just keep doing the same things over and over again, failing every time, and getting closer and closer to the cliff of irrelevancy. If they don't soon change their tactics the Republican Party in California will be only a memory - and that's not a good thing for any of us.
I'll report on the meeting later tonight. See you there.
*STILL NOT SHOWN ON WEB SITE!
By the way, despite several telephone calls, at 1:30 Tuesday afternoon - less than 6 hours until the Charter meeting time and less than 5 hours for the Special closed session at 6, the City still has NOT shown the two council meetings on their schedule of events on the City home page. Instead, they continue to show the following image. So much for transparency, huh?
Labels: Charter City, Dave Everett, Jim Righeimer, Kevin Dayton, OC GOP, Orange County Young Republicans, Scott Baugh
posted by The Pot Stirrer at 7/31/2012 11:16:00 AM
9 Comments:
Why rally all these knuckleheads down to city hall when we all already know that the Council is going to vote to put the charter on the November ballot? The decision, it is safe to say, has already been made. At least now I know they won't all be over at the Concert in the Park.
"Geoff West is a liberal. I read it on the internet."
As the kids say these days.... xD!
Yeah, why bother? We can have a better time at the park, and we don't have to come in costume.
The baby elephants in your picture are so cute.....too bad they are being led by hyena's.
this is a very liberal blog, genis and leffler are very liberal also. yet all republicans? LOL
charter vote by council and later by citizens is done deal so the kids are wasting their time speaking but they get to see the freak show from the usual speakers. they will enjoy that.
Yep, just put them in a uniform, show them some shiny objects, feed them some pizza and they'll be happy - or, at least that's what you're hoping, right?
A better strategy would be for for every resident to simply stay home. A 4-1 yes vote is assured. So why not let them have their little Hitler Youth political rally in an empty council chambers.
Just don't stay home in November...
So if the charter vote is a done deal, why bother?
To: All Young Republicans
From: Boss Hog Riggy
Tonight we want everyone to come prepared for "Fitzy Camp," starting right after the council meeting. There you will learn valuable skills like bootlicking and doing everything I say 24/7. Campers will wear beat up clothes from the 80s, quit or walk off any jobs they may presently be at, and bring at least 3 changes of underwear and a case of Twinkies each.
If your parents could have your arms and legs measured for puppet strings in advance, this would be most helpful.
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