[Magdalen] Small-town politics bringing out the worst.

[Jay Weigel]

We have an election coming up here too. I didn't even know there was a
Democrat running for state senate in our district until about 2 weeks ago
because there was no advertising whatsoever. That's the problem with Dems
here, they just don't advertise and nobody knows they're even there! But
the other guys have all the money. Someone called here for the other guy
(who I despise) and got out about two sentences telling me who he was
campaigning for and I said, "Sorry, we're Democrats," and hung up on him.
Bet they don't make THAT mistake again! But it was followed about 45
minutes later by a robocall from Dr. Ben Carson *barfing noises off*

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 6:25 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> >>>When I saw the subject, I wondered if it was going to be about our local
> elections!<<<
>
> Good God.  I gotta deliver my mail-in ballot on Monday or I'm up a certain
> creek!  (It's only one small school district race, and the incumbent is the
> daughter of my Pop's first boss and why I live in Salinas and not El
> Centro.  My vote is guaranteed!)
>
> As for local politics on the county level, recently our Planning
> Commission approved a "canine sports center" in Carmel Valley right between
> the Quail Meadows Golf Club and the river.  The neighborhood was aghast,
> and since one of the Planning Commission members was spearheading it (duly
> recused during voting), no warm local feeling was for this project from the
> beginning.  (Forget the illegal grading that began before the project had
> even been applied for.)  The Planning Commission's approval was obviously
> appealed to the Board of Supervisors, who this past week KILLED IT.  Dead.
> The prevailing sentiment was that the Planning Dept had failed to do its
> job, and especially the Planning Commission itself.  There were plenty of
> issues, trust me, but the one that the EIR categorically said was
> UNmitigated to the extreme was traffic, and on that alone (besides
> neighborhood opposition), it was put to bed for good.  It can be litigated,
> but no longer appealed.  But after all the money spent to railroad it
> through so far (much of which came from the purse of the Planning
> Commission member mentioned earlier), it's unlikely a judge ruling in its
> favor would be worth the risk.  It's already being rumored that that
> Planning Commission member might resign, as well as others, and it's worth
> saying that said Planning Commission member's husband is on my Water
> Resources Agency board, so who knows how things will shake out.
>
> And all about what I've been calling "Martha's Dogs" all along.  A canine
> sports center.  Sheesh.
>