Jimmy Fitzy Finally Gets A Gig!

REALLY?
A friend provided this link to me yesterday - HERE - announcing that former Costa Mesa Planning Commission Chairman and de-frocked Costa Mesa Sanitary District Director, Jim Fitzpatrick - Mister Solutioneer himself -  has finally gotten a job.  Well, maybe not a "job", but some kind of a consulting gig with an outfit called Signal Bay, HERE.

UH, HUH...
As you will see when you go to the announcement link, Jimmy Fitzy is described as a "Southern California Land Planner and Land Use Expert".  (Have you heard this definition of "expert"?  "Ex" is a has-been, and "spert" is a drip under pressure.  Sounds about right...)

SHILLING FOR THE POT GUYS
Apparently Jimmy Fitzy will bring his "expertise" into play by helping these guys "identify and secure the best locality to operate an approved analytical testing facility" for medical marijuana in Southern California.  Want to guess where he'll begin his search?

TESTING YOUR DOPE
You may recall that earlier debates on medical marijuana in Costa Mesa included the fact that the "products" lacked any kind of consistency normally established by a testing process, like that in the drug or alcohol businesses.  These folks apparently spent 40 grand for an interest in an Oregon testing lab and now plan to transplant that kind of operation south.

JIMMY FITZY, GARY, DANA AND MORE

And, this announcement comes shortly before Jimmy Fitzy will host a mixer at Costa Mesa Councilman Gary Monahan's pub on Friday, July 17th, sponsored by the San Diego-based Alliance for Responsible Medicinal Access, a medical marijuana advocacy group of which he is a member of the Board.  Read about that organization HERE.  Apparently pro-pot congressman Dana Rohrabacher will attend this event, which begins at 5:30.  It doesn't surprise me that Monahan is letting his place be used for this event - he's already in the addiction business.  How nice it will be for my Eastside neighbors to have so many pot mongers all in one place Friday night.  Sounds like a GREAT place for a DUI checkpoint to me.

JUST DANDY!
So, on one hand, I guess I'm happy for Fitzpatrick's family now that he apparently finally has a job.  On the other hand, I find myself wondering, "What the heck is he thinking?!"  Here we are in Costa Mesa - with a crime rate dramatically rising and sober living homes sprouting up all over town like mushrooms - and some of our elected leaders and former city officials are actively supporting the pot industry!  The oft-repeated words of Mayor Pro Tem Jim Righeimer keep ringing in my ears  - "Crime is caused by the people living in our city."