Re-post Of Righeimer Questioned About Sobriety (Update)
An Explanation: I had to delete the first version of this post from yesterday... a bug infected it, as some of you with Internet Explorer already know. This should have fixed it... I retained all the comments posted previously. Sorry about the confusion.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Righeimer Questioned About Sobriety(Updated)
When I saw this story in the Daily Pilot, HERE, I hesitated about writing about it at all. I didn't want to be accused of piling on. However, despite the fact that, according to the Daily Pilot report, Righeimer was NOT under the influence, it IS news and it is VERY unlikely that this story is going to go away any time soon.
I have never seen Righeimer drink and I have never seen him drive. So, I have never seen him drive drunk. Many people who will read the Daily Pilot article and this note will assume that Righeimer is correct - that he was "set up" by political opponents. That, of course, is very possible - he's made a lot of enemies in this town through his actions since he arrived six years ago.
I'd like to think that the call that generated members of the Costa Mesa Police Department to go to his home and give him a preliminary sobriety investigation in front of his children was made by a person seriously concerned about getting someone they perceived to be driving while impaired off the road. Yeah, I can hear the groans out there now.
Righeimer has created a situation, going back at least two years, where he's not a popular subject among members the Costa Mesa employee family. If this was, in fact, a "set up", that is absolutely unacceptable behavior. Those who did it MUST cease that kind of crap immediately. If you read this blog and are responsible for it, PLEASE STOP!
UPDATE AS OF 10:00 P.M. THURSDAY NIGHT
The Costa Mesa Police Department issued a press release about this
incident shortly before 9:00 p.m. Thursday, August 23rd. It covers an
"allegation of reckless driving" that occurred at Fairview Road and
Avocado Avenue on August 22nd at approximately 6:00 p.m. Here is the
text of the synopsis of the press release:On Wednesday evening, August 22, at approximately 6:00 p.m., a motorist called the Costa Mesa Police Department to report that he was following a possibly intoxicated driver. The caller provided a description of the vehicle and followed it to a residence. An officer arrived and made contact with motorist who pointed out the residence of the driver of the vehicle. The officer made contact with the driver, identified as City Council Member Jim Righeimer, and determined that Mr. Righeimer had not been drinking and was not under the influence. The Police Department is currently looking into the initial information received to ensure its validity.
NOW WE WAIT FOR THE RESULTS...
At
this point it seems there is nothing else to do except await the
results of the investigation by the Costa Mesa Police Department into
this situation. I, for one, sure hope that happens FAST!
Labels: CMPD, Jim Righeimer
16 Comments:
Labels: CMPD, Jim Righeimer
posted by The Pot Stirrer at 8/24/2012 08:48:00 AM
Another thought is... this guy's a dirty politician and something like this diverts attention away from the critical eye he been getting and redirects it at his opposition.
You'll immediately start hearing from Mensinger, Fitzy and the rest, how this shows who they're fighting the good fight against. The union thugs who do these kinds of things to a good family man in front of his kids.
This comes right out of a political playbook. Don't doubt that this will be in the news and brought up over and over again to paint an example of who they are standing up to and this is the price that they pay for standing up to the union thugs.
I'm not buying it.
Calls to police are easily traced. Nobody over 14 would do such a "set-up."
I would bet that friends of Righeimer did this to cast aspersion upon CMPD and generate sympathy for the gang, in order to distract from the 3 stooges heading toward a massive election loss in November.
Riggy sounds exactly like his buddy Jim Fitzpatrick. Fitzy falsely accused other CMSD Directors of a personal attack and having some sort of vendetta against him too! Wow, these two knuckleheads are obviously using the same playbook. It’s getting really old. Boohoo, let’s cry to the Daily Pilot. They look like complete fools!
I thought these guys were confident their side is going to win? If so, why would they be worried about a couple of enemies? After all, as Deepthroat said in another post, they have some bombshells of their own that should be coming out within a week. Wow, I can’t wait for that! Hmmm, perhaps this news story is just a set up…
Take some advice Rig and Fitz: If you do the right thing and quit pissing people off, you’ll find that your life will be much, much better. It’s really that simple. You should try it. That way, you wouldn't have to be so paranoid.
Quote Steve Mensinger... "in the end the tactics define the cause and it's supporters".
There it is! The political reason behind something like this... is so he can say that.
Those damn union thugs have to be behind this "tactic". Right? I'm not buying it.
Maybe this call was placed by a fellow GOP person as a scheme to make it look like the unions are playing dirty, thus taking some of the heat off of Mr Righeimer and his group.
Agreed - if someone did this as a 'prank' for lack of a better term, that doesn't even belong in the Dirty Politics Pantheon.
If not, they will still try to use it to their advantage, as they already are. Seeing lots of new names on the Pilot comments coming out in support, as they should.
But who can forget the checkpoint fiasco a few years back? Anyone, on any side, can play dirty, as we've come to learn. Would sure be nice to know the truth - the good, the bad and the ugly.
http://news.yahoo.com/police-investigating-reported-threat-against-akin-231410114.html
I can't help but be suspicious.
This reminds me too much of the brick through the window at Skosh Monahans and
the vandalism at Estancia HS.
Did we ever get to hear what happened, who did it, etc.?
Any resolve, any arrests?
Did the note tied to the brick ever appear?
NO- they faded away in the sunset.
This may very likely be the same scenario.
We shall see.
something doesn't fit here...kind of reminds me of the mysterious red paint on Mensingers truck and the mystery brick at skosh's
This is gonna be a wild election season
Just like other commenters said. What about all the previous "incidents"? Monahans, where the cameras miraculously were not working, Mensinger's vandalism where he didn't make a police report. What ever happened with that "stink eye" deal? I seem to recall that was unfounded. In each of these cases, it was Riggy or his boys who brought this into the public eye, not the police department. Again. It's all very fishy.
This incident clearly needs some of the city's vaunted "transparency"!!