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Okay…we'll take Steve
May the request or the lawsuit will stop the ticking statutory bomb on time limit for the appointment. On the other hand with all contracts to future consultants, future monetary give backs to developers of the bay front, and future legal bills when McCann sues people for alleged offenses, maybe the $600,00 would be chump change for corruption system— January 22, 2015 5:54 p.m.
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Thanks for the link. I just printed out this letter.— January 22, 2015 5:50 p.m.
Okay…we'll take Steve
I have not heard or read anything on the lawsuit. John Moot used to be a player in the political area when John Goss was City Manager. As to your previous comment, I believe that is the source of the "South Bay Brats" nom de corruption (bad french). The Brats will have to die, move away, or be dethroned for there to be more than superficial change. Chula Vista has always suffered from a "clubby" business and political environment. Sweetwater Union High School District and Southwestern were like the royal families of Europe, incestuous in dealings if not deeds, and not to swift with the long term view. The schools and the local government are suffering from this insularity as people without money, connections, or with challenging and different ideas were marginalize or ridiculed.— January 21, 2015 2:20 p.m.
Okay…we'll take Steve
Right on!! It is time for a reform movement to provide the structure to clean the sewers of local government as individuals, civic groups, and partisan groups need a way to rally the comatose citizenry for voted these corrupt boobs. I have thought for a long time there should an investigative body at the state level with regional offices staff by non affiliated people to provide a permanent vehicle for the tools of reform.— January 21, 2015 2:09 p.m.
Okay…we'll take Steve
I agreed. It seems the names changed, but the corruption game continues. When I worked for the City of Chula Vista and attended a training session in the Spring of 2002, one of the attendees, who was from Philadelphia, said the City seem to be run as if the lemon groves were still here. I guess that is still the corporate culture, but the fruit has rotted and fallen on the ground. Chula Vista has become large populated area run by small minded people seeking monetary and ego inflation at the cost of good governance and civic responsibility.— January 21, 2015 8:46 a.m.
Okay…we'll take Steve
The political scene in the South Bay is fast becoming a candidate for a new reality series called "Revenge of the South Bay Brats" starring Malcolm et al with the et al becoming more powerful. Who investigates the background of the candidates?— January 21, 2015 8:40 a.m.
Horton's at the door
You are so right. It is time to demand accountability from elected officials as responsible citizens. It is also time to move beyond slasher Pam and juvenile John, and the victim Mary. Having supported Mary Salas and had dealings with Pamela Bensoussan I am not impressed with the former electoral teammates of 2012. McCann and Bensoussan have had chances to change and be more community oriented and have decided to be speed bumps. What are the unexpressed agendas of the mayor and of all the council members? This why investigative reporters are just as important as individual citizens. The old Watergate refrain "fellow the money" is still unfortunately the moving force in hidden as well as public agendas— January 15, 2015 2 p.m.
Horton's at the door
Than you for your reply. I was working for the City of Chula Vista when her husband was there running the bookstore. He was a very nice man. At the time, there were two Spanish language bookstores in Chula Vista as well as two other bookstores. I feel that we have just changes faces not the corporate culture of administering governance in Chula Vista. We need bold and daring people to seek economic development. The border to south is only one asset; have not the political leaders heard of the Internet and the Pacific Rim (historical Japanese and Filipino connectins) or is this more political gesture not an economic one. Will the people on both sides of the border benefit or will it just more wage exploitation of Mexicans and job losses to Americans.— January 12, 2015 1:10 p.m.
Horton's at the door
I have lived in Chula Vista for most of my life and except for the Chula Vista Star-News under Lowell Blankfort, there has been a dearth of investigative reporting except for Susan Luzarro and the true citizens of the South Bay (the people who add their comments to the Reader). The lame questions to the potential council member demonstrate the lack of vision that has plagued this area for over fifty years. The need is to build up businesses that are here and not keep repeating "bring in new businesses" mantra and "put Chula Vista on the map" (it has been since April 1887). Some of my classmates at Hilltop High who have left the area and are well known in their field , claim not to be from Chula Vista, but from south San Diego County. The lack of civic and regional identity is more than a marketing issue because it provides a unique identity similar to that which Lisa Moctezuma spoke of for the bay front not the cookie cutter plan that is proposed. The question not really asked why come to, live in, and promote Chula Vista. The asset and liability is not the proximity to Mexico, but the mediocre minds running the city. Candidates Moctezuma, Meisen, and Hall may have connections with the power structure, but the other named candidates are more entwined in the web of civic and economic corruption that has run this city for over thirty years. Focusing on Bensoussan-McCann ineptitude and corruption ignores that the new mayor is part of the same environment and needs to step up and be a force that she has not been, quiet Pat Aguilar might be the one to watch.— January 12, 2015 10:49 a.m.