Don't Forget To Vote!

UNDER THE WHIP NOW...
Well, it's almost over.  All the lies, deceit, sign theft and the blizzard of stuff coming from your mailbox is just about over.  Twenty-four hours from now we should have a pretty good idea about how the election in Costa Mesa is going to turn out, although I don't really expect to see the final numbers until the weekend if previous elections are any indication.
 

I'LL POST UPDATES TOMORROW NIGHT
I plan to post the preliminary results tomorrow evening.. I'm not sure how many times I'll post - it depends on how interesting the results are.  The results will be certified by the City Clerk sometime over the next couple weeks and the winners of the City Council races will be seated at the council meeting on December 4th.  I've already gone over my choices, but this is a final reminder for you.

COSTA MESA CITY COUNCIL
Vote for the Top 3 on the ballot - John Stephens, Harold Weitzberg and Sandra Genis
These three solid citizens each brings individual special skills to city government and have run an honest, clean campaigns unlike their 3M opponents, who have used lies and deceit to try to capture votes.  It's time to return honest, mature leadership to our city and to reject the Orange County Republican Party's attempt to turn it into some kind of a petri dish for social experimentation.

MEASURE V
Cast a NO vote for Jim Righeimer's Charter scheme - Measure V
This charter is ill-conceived by ONE man - Righeimer - to suit his own, personal political agenda and to curry favor with his OC GOP handlers.  IF Costa Mesa takes the leap as a Charter City, it shouldn't be with THIS charter and it shouldn't be now.  The attempt by Righeimer and his fellows on the council to rush this charter onto the ballot and their unwillingness to even consider improvements to it should make every voter apprehensive about their motives and VOTE NO!

MESA CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTRICT
Vote for Fred Bockmiller, Trudy Ohlig-Hall and Jim Fisler
Bockmiller and Hall have provided outstanding, mature, knowledgeable leadership to the MCWD for decades.  Their opponents - termed-out lame duck Mayor Eric Bever and Righeimer protege' Ethan Temianka - are part of a takeover plot to control and then combine both special districts.  They are marching to the tune of the OC GOP and should be soundly rejected.  Fisler should be chosen over Minuteman Dan Worthington.

COSTA MESA SANITARY DISTRICT
Vote for Art Perry and Jim Ferryman
Both Perry and Ferryman should be returned to their seats.  They've provided superior leadership to the district for decades.  Their challengers, Jeff R. Mathews and Don Harper, are part of that OC GOP plot to takeover the districts.  Mathews is an OC GOP insider who has bought his way to seats on the Parks and Recreation Commission and, most recently, onto the Planning Commission, replacing Jim Fitzpatrick.  They should be rejected.

74TH ASSEMBLY SEAT
Vote for Robert Rush
I covered my reasons for casting my vote for Bob Rush instead of Allan Mansoor and that decision was affirmed today when I saw an invitation from Mansoor to help work the neighborhoods in which he referred to Costa Mesa as "Ground Zero", echoing OC GOP Chairman Scott Baugh and Jim Righeimer for the past couple years.  Lock-step lemming Mansoor lacks the skills to do the job.  Rush, a moderate who recently became a Democrat, on the other hand, has the formal training as a numbers guy and the background as a salesman.  Those skills are necessary to do the job in Sacramento. 

PLEASE VOTE!
Please vote tomorrow.  If you don't participate you give up your right to complain...

The Scariest Person In Costa Mesa

TODAY IS HIS DAY!
In recognition of the day, I thought I'd give you my thoughts on what a REALLY scary Halloween character looks like.  Since his arrival in town six years ago he has become the personification of the word "SCARY".  He's dragged with him his coven of lock-step lemming zombies to do his bidding and is just about to take over our city if his charter scheme passes next week.  If Measure V passes he'll be able to make the rules instead of being forced to follow those already in place to protect us from corruption and abuse.

FALSEHOODS AS AN ARTFORM
He'll stop at nothing to complete his takeover of our city.  No fabrication of facts is too extreme for him and his sycophants.  They've developed falsehoods to an art form and just keep on firing them at the voters, hoping nobody will catch on.  Be afraid - VERY afraid!

WATCH OUT!
So, folks, while you're out with your kiddies, knocking on doors looking for candy, keep your eyes open for the Scariest Person In Costa Mesa.

BOO!