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Bypassing Bylaws in Golden Hill
Couple of points for the reality-blind "GH supporter": The CDC used/uses the Republican-thug-tactic-Bush/Rove regime playbook perfectly. In part, this is why, after 8 years of federal corruption, the CDC is viewed so harshly. The people who oppose them, self included, are very progressive Democrats who would gladly pay much, much more than the ripoff assessment to the General Fund. Do you get that!!!? Progressives are NOT anti-tax. Are anti-privatization and anti-waste and anti-dishonest-nonprofit-corporate scams! San Diego's budget would be in fine shape if we could just have a sensible tax base for the General Fund, and stop creating private-tax fiefdoms courtesy of the Republican -dominated "nonprofit" corporations so cherished by the rightwing City government/voter base. The CDC group has always employed and continues to employ Rove-style PR, using their cronies' PR companies (such as Mary McLellan Lydon and M Cubed Strategies) and their cronies in the City to put forward propaganda to say exactly the opposite of the truth. They have been closely aligned with the CCDC and Nancy Graham, and I'm sure they miss Nancy, who mentored them in the years before she was discovered to be a crook and fled San Diego. CDC has milked the system for decades, getting HUD money, State money, Federal money, grants from San Diego Foundation, local CIP monies, etc., with nothing to show for all the dollars they've grabbed to "improve the quality of your life," except for their braggodocio about all the great things they've done FOR YOU, the poor, stupid, resident who cannot help yourself. I suspect you don't know this because you are too young and haven't been around long enough to understand the kind of game they play, and how they use the low-income, Hispanic, and renter community, in particular. The CDC is/always has been upper-class white rental/business-property owners, Mills Act (low-tax-paying) owners, and real-estate agents/brokers who give money to and vote for Republican politicians. They are NOT for the community. They are for themselves. Period. [cont]— September 20, 2009 10:13 a.m.
Revenge of Hueso
Hueso: "I understand the city employee contacted you..." So Hueso WAS intimidating the employee. Hueso's never the brightest bulb on the block, as he reveals once again here. He can be counted on to be unintelligible all the time. If he weren't so disgusting and sleazy, he'd be funny. Real funny thing is, of all the lies he's told, he's on a tape someone has, saying one honest thing that he would NOW like to lie about, but can't because he knows he was recorded. He's on his way out, hooray, and his equally sleazy bro hasn't a chance in hell of parking his butt in Hueso's council chair. Bye-bye Huesos!— September 19, 2009 6:23 p.m.
Bypassing Bylaws in Golden Hill
Pat Martin "newly elected menber" of the CDC? What a gas, Pat. You've been in the CDC since the dinosaurs roamed Golden Hill Park. Remember when Bob Filner invesigated your use of the CDC newspaper "The Cornerstone" for supporting a protest and boycott of Planned Parnethood's fundraising tour of the old houses in GH? That's right, Pat, you used your nonprofit CDC boardmenbership role for political puposes, because you are a rabid anti-free-choicer. There is a huge record of lies, greed, self-interest, tax-dollar grubbing,and political bullying by all of the CDC old guard, such as Kessler, Willetts, Poppe, and Mclellan-Lydon, going back decades.— September 19, 2009 2:19 p.m.
Compliantly Uncompliant
The Greater Golden Hill Community Development Corporation is allowed to spend assessment taxes only as expressed in a contract with the City. This Maintenance Agreement contract, in Article IX, Compliance with Controlling Law, requires the CDC to obey the laws of the City when spending the assessment taxes. CDC failed this, by having no permit to trim palms. That is clear. That they took out a permit covering the next 30 days, the Monday after performing the Saturday work, does not change the facts. The permit is not retroactive. The two important collateral issues are (1) the CDC's right to charge the taxpayers' assessment account to pay WCA for their illegal actions and (2) their continued right to act as managers of the assessment taxes. Beth Murray in City Planning and Community Investment seems to believe that her inane comment takes care of these legal issues. It does not.— July 20, 2009 8:21 a.m.