Comments by HueyChapala
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Posted on May 10 at 5:01 p.m.
I for one am quite appalled at brazen attempts to swing elections with false voter registrations. 12 newly registered voters at one address - are they serious?
It is time to prosecute such tactics. I urge the DA to formally file charges on every legitimate voter fraud case so we can all rest better in the Democracy that has been so eroded lately. It is time we rise up to demand an end to these tactics -- including the Rove/Bush tactics.
Lastly, I find it interesting that one of the writers above is so cock sure he knows the votes of those whose balots were deemed invalid and were never opened or counted. Curious. Even the County Registrar does not know the content of those voters preferences.
Posted on May 3 at 11:52 p.m.
WPC is a welcome and worthy asset to the SB political community.
But there is a minor factual misimpression. As most SB political historians know, Gloria Ochoa and Naomi Schwartz were elected to represent the same seat on the Board of Supervisors representing the First District. They never served at the same time. Ochoa left the Board to run for Congress against Michael Huffington, a race Huffington won and Ochoa lost.
Susan Rose did not join Ochoa and Schwartz on the Board in the next election which would have made a majority of 3 on the 5 member Board. Ochoa had already left the Board and Schwartz had by then replaced her on the Board. Only Schwartz and Rose served on the Board at the same time.
So the chronology is not correct; but the sentiment is still valid.
Posted on May 3 at 12:15 a.m.
This is a truly shocking story. I had no idea that many people still worked at the NP.
I thought only one reporter was left, that ever-ubiquitous reporter named, Wire Service.
Seriously, the pink slips went to the wrong people. To increase productivity and profitability, the pink slips should have gone to Armstrong, Steepleton, Cappello, von Hamburgler and Wendy. Yes, the best way to maximize her own investment would be for Wendy to fire herself and allow an SB angel to finally buy and resuscitate our newspaper. Even Storke Tower weeps for this paper...
Posted on February 22 at 9:54 p.m.
Acceptance is such a simple act but to withhold it can be so cruel.
I hope we can make a better world for our gay and lesbian children to live in.
Posted on February 22 at 9:46 p.m.
Wow. An obituary for a decent man that hit a nerve. Good going Barney!
Posted on November 29 at 5:28 p.m.
My, it's a sad tail the Poodle wags.
The gene pool for local reporters is suffering for all the chum in the water..
Perhaps we need to cross-breed the poodle into something breedable and yet oh-so-trendy. Since this involves quite a 'crock' courtesy fo the NP, perhaps we can name the new breed, a Crock-a-poodle.
Posted on November 10 at 11:16 p.m.
Gosh, what of Brett Wagner? Anyone remember him?
He's the one who, claiming residency in Ojai, publicly dropped out of the race for a Ventura Congressional seat then hastily called a press conference in SB announcing a recall against Brooks Firestone.
It was a curious episode. In the time of a week, he launched a well publicized tirade upbraiding Ventura County Democratic leaders at a Conejo Valley Democratic meeting then he announced a recall and claimed residency in the 3rd District in Santa Barbara County.
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Posted on November 7 at 11:01 p.m.
Turn-out does not explain the decline in the actual number of votes cast for the top vote getters compared to prior elections, even those with similar turnout figures.
The top vote getters received about 15-45% fewer votes than in the last several elections. This is a dramatic decline.
In this election the top 2 vote getters received: 7315 and 6,539 votes. By comparison, in the last 4 city elections, the top vote getter received: 13,070, 8597, 8359, 10,413 votes, respectively.
It would seem to support the argument for voter apathy; people just stayed home.
Such a dramatic drop in the absolute number of votes tends to favor and exagerate the effect of conservative voters and, conversely, it disfavors and dilutes the effect of liberal voters who vote less reliably.
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Posted on June 6 at 12:42 a.m.
When Bush's NLRB sues the NP in favor of union workers, you know it's a world gone mad.
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Posted on June 27 at 10:31 p.m.
Many writers fall into the trap of trying to color an article with human interest texture. But it can obscure and appear to bias the underlying story.
I don't think it is a newswriter's job to humanize a developer; it is irrelevant. The story is about the 'new' development this developer is proposing that he so far appears to have refused to show anyone.
That would be a short story. But that would appear to be the story. The current subplot is the posturing that is taking place in the run-up to the hearings.
Regardless of how many miles he drives his Range Rover around, he is still an Orange County developer with his hands in the pocket of Gaviota. There are no two ways about that. His only reason to be in Santa Barbara is to profit from that one project.
When it concludes, he'll be gone with his $$ like so many others and the rest of us will have to forever live with the consequences and the cold regret of what might have been.
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