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Posted on July 16 at 8:39 a.m.
Today by Travis:
"I noted on Saturday that there was speculation that Mrs. Blum has been discussing a possible resignation with associates..."
That is not what his article said. He stated that sources who are political supporters of Mayor Blum, had personally informed Travis, that they had been told by the Mayor, that she had been discussing with family and friends, resigning. Even the sturcture of his sentence, which one assumes is the product of close and careful editing, is the epitomy of deception: " ...there was speculation that Mrs. Blum has been discussing a possible resignation..." How can one speculate about what someone else has been discussing???
Did Travis have a reliable source who told him that he/she was witness to a conversation with the Mayor about an imminent resignation? It appears not other than maybe in an intoxicated dream.
And his tired complaint about our Mayor using her City email account to communicate with City staff? "Shes used plenty of taxpayer resources to go after me and other individual citizens...." Does it cost us any more that Mayor Blum uses her email account for this purpose? I have no problem with our relatively poorly paid Mayor using her email account to communicate with City staff.
And how about a parttime janitor at the Carrillo Rec Center being his big headline whistle blower story. No one who has any knowledge or sophistication about our City government really believes Mayor Blum gets involved with hiring decisons regarding part time janitors, particularly right now with all that is going on in the City.
Finally while I am at it, it will be curious to read how Travis spins the vote on the Price Coast Village Road Project. The 4-3 coalition makes it difficult for him to take his usual jibes against the Mayor and his other cabal members, with her voting with his favorites, Falcone and Francisco.
Posted on July 14 at 6:05 p.m.
It would be appreciated if you could do something about GR. Could really ruin what is otherwise an interesting discussion. Thanks.
Posted on July 12 at 10:48 p.m.
Curious you say he ends up at the Young America Foundation. I found that article about Anne Coulter so bizarre. She is a tough person for anyone to like but to hear Travis, a gay American Indian who at least in San Jose was a registered Democrat trying to sound like he liked her and what she had to say in her speech, was again to stretch all credibility. I have always wondered when Ms. McCaw will cut that string. He must know how expendable he is and then I see no way he remains here.
Posted on July 12 at 5:23 p.m.
Has Travis gone off the deep end? He has always been mean spirited; often writes without knowing the facts; and the anti-Blum campaign is nothing new but since he returned from his vacation recently, his Editorials, particularly the first one with the tiara picture that Mayor Blum responded to, and now this one, are truly incredibly bizarre coming from the News-Press' Editorial page editor. Mayor Blum's response to the first article was short and straightforward and was published in many local sites (why not in the Independent?) but of course not in the NP. How can the NP not respond to Mayor Blum's claims this time as well? Who do they think they are kidding? If Armstrong has any evidence whatsoever he must publsih it or it is time for him to leave town and find other employment. This is just unacceptable. There was a similar matter from the PR guy for Caruso, the owner of the Miramar, published in the Montecito Journal last week, regarding Armstrong refusing to respond to his repeated attempts to engage him, after his articles about the Miramar project. Enough of this weirdo already!
Posted on July 3 at 12:55 p.m.
The story I take from this and his recent attempt to sabotage the Rincon septic to sewer Project is that the South Coast is fortunate to be rid of the Firestone era, and good riddance. The defeat in the primary of his hand picked crony is the best reflection of what we thought of his time in office and we need to be diligent that he is not allowed to wreck any further havoc before his term is over.
Posted on June 23 at 12:57 p.m.
It will be interesting to hear what staff says to the City Council about water for Bishop Ranch. They can't ignore the UCSB LRDP and no one claims there is enough water for UCSB and anything else. Bishop Ranch may force the staff to say what happens next?
Posted on June 17 at 8:34 p.m.
Thanks for the nice article. Al was an SB institution from the Lobster House days until he left us.
Posted on June 12 at 1:55 p.m.
I am at least happy to see attention paid to the UCSB LRDP water issues. What has not come out and is part of the problem is that the DEIR has significantly underestimated the amount of water needed. Faulty legal analysis of the University's claim to Water Dist. supplies and a significant underestimate of the new water demands of the faculty and senior staff housing has resulted in an underestimate of demand of several hundered acre feet per year. Hopefully this will all come out as the Project is more closely scrutinized.
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Posted on June 7 at 1:08 p.m.
Disappointed at the turnout. This is the single largest new development project ever proposed in the Santa Barbara County South Coast and the no-growthers who oppose every little apartment complex fail to show. As proposed they have an insurmountable water problem. CEQA is very sensitive to the type of comments made by Mr. Fischer here. If they are truly going to "reassess" their water needs and consider other water sources not specificaly addressed in the DEIR, they will need to prepare a new one and go through the process again. It will be very interesting to watch if they actually do that. Our only real hope for reasonableness on this Project is the Coastal Commission and it is my information that they are in fact paying attention and they have historically not acquiesced to the University as most others (apparently including our local no-growthers) do.
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Posted on July 18 at 8:27 a.m.
I don't buy into the bribery implication it is just the perverted mindset of Firestone, on South County land use and environmental issues, good riddance and thank God he did not run for re-election. This just frames the obvious unfortunate reality we have come to live with, that politics does drive land use decisions. If Farr was on the Board this project would not have been approved. In an ideal world (which of course we do not live in) land use decisons would not be decided that way. We need to delay as many important land use decisions as possible at the County until after the first of the year.
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