The Pit Bull's Back!

REMEMBER THE PIT BULL?

Do you remember back about 10 months ago, when, during the heated City Council campaign being waged by Jim Righeimer, I reported receiving a little "love note" from his lawyer and brother-in-law, Mark Bucher? I characterized it at the time, HERE, as Righeimer unleashing his pit bull. He sent a similar letter to the Costa Mesa Police Association.
THE ORIGINAL THREAT
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CAMPAIGN TACTIC
I had mentioned Righeimer and bankruptcy many months before, had a

BUCHER'S BACK - FOR MENSINGER

HE SAYS...
He states in his letter to me, "Recently we became aware that you have written on your blog, "A Bubbling Cauldron" that Mr Mensinger's "...division of SunCal ended up in bankruptcy!" He went on to say, "This statement is demonstrably false and defamatory. No company Mr. Mensinger has been an employee of, including the division of SunCal that he managed, has ever gone bankrupt."
OOPS, VERIFIED

Although I already knew that his accusations were specious, I spent a little time browsing the internet and in a very short time I found more than 20 articles that verified the facts.
SU

Regarding the first statement - a sentence fragment, taken out of context - SunCal companies has been mired in bankruptcy proceedings for several years, and those proceedings include the Multifamily Division of which Mensinger had been President.
THE BETHANY GROUP - BANKRUPT
In addition, Mensinger was also a Division President with The Bethany Group before he went to SunCal, and that company also filed for bankruptcy.
SHOW ME WHERE I'M WRONG..

I wrote back to Bucher informing him of those facts and invited him to either provide me with more information to support his allegation that I've inaccurately characterized his client or to stop harassing me. Clearly, this is just one more attempt to silence a critic and, as I've said many, many times before, neither Mensinger nor Righeimer likes criticism.
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HIS WORK HISTORY IS CLEAR

I don't have personal knowledge about Mensinger's management style or capabilities. The record shows, as chronicled in a recent Daily Pilot article, HERE, that he worked for former Ambassador George L. Argryos at Arnel Development twice for total of nearly two decades, that he left to start a business called "Smart Cart Services" then returned to Arnel as President of a division before moving on to The Bethany Group as a President of a division. From that assignment he moved to SunCal as President of its Multifamily Division and, when he left SunCal, he apparently established some kind of real estate consulting firm using the names of his sons in the title.
WAS HE A GOOD MANAGER, OR NOT?

IMPATIENT AND VINDICTIVE
What I DO know, from watching him operate as a planning commissioner and council member, is that he's an impatient man who appears to have his opinion locked down before public comments

AN AUTHORITARIAN STYLE
During his brief tenure on the City Council - much too long for me - we've seen Mensinger criticize speakers from the dais, demonstrate an impatience with speakers and staff members and, at times seemed so bored with the proceedings that he'd spend much of the time texting. His management style that's on display for the public to see is that of an impatient authoritarian and, sometimes, a bully. And, of course, there was that difficulty adding 2+5=7 at the last council meeting.
BUCHER'S THREAT

A PATTERN OF BEHAVIOR THAT HURTS OUR CITY
Sadly, this pattern of behavior with both Mensinger and Righeimer, only further demonstrates their willingness to intimidate and threaten those who disagree with them. Heck, this might be a systemic genetic flaw within the leadership of the Orange County Republican Party. Cost

WHOSE RIGHTS ARE NEXT?

Labels: Jim Righeimer, Mark Bucher, Steve Mensinger