3 [NOT] for Encinitas City Council

Ideal campaign buttons for Stocks, Muir and Forrester

Update below
The UT article with the same similar title above seemed to have some glaring errors.  Let us fix that for them. Text in brackets is provided for more accurate accounting.

In the interest of fair use rulings, only excerpts of the whole article will be used.  Feel free to play along at home with your own proofreading.  Better yet, share these missing fixes in the comments section of the posted article.

"In the crowded and hotly contested race for three seats on the Encinitas City Council, we endorse incumbent Jerome Stocks, appointed incumbent Mark Muir and candidate Kevin Forrester [because retrograde policies boost profits for an important few and these gentleman accept this without question].

• path of fiscal responsibility [based on concepts from a bygone era] and economic development [that sacrifices local resilience and strength].  
• economic vibrancy [for distant multinationals and select backers in favor of a strong economic investment locally].
• path of improved quality of life and fiscal responsibility [for a special few who he serves and who donate to his campaign]. 
• Mark Muir is a former fire chief of Encinitas and was appointed to fill the vacancy left by the death of Maggie Houlihan in late 2011 [to choose a super majority voting block over public good will].
• form the solid, pro-[big]-business majority.

Forrester would be the newcomer. He is a real-estate broker and lawyer [ubiquitous roles for retainers to the 1%] who once served on the Olivenhain Town Council and has been on several city task forces, including the Encinitas Ranch Specific Plan Task Force [the ERGA project besieged with financial land mines and shortfalls]. 

• Such planning by strangulation is anathema to improving the quality of life in Encinitas [for the overlords who direct current development goals].
• The [purposeful mislabeling as the] anti-business side of the ballot is represented by Shaffer, a business ethics lecturer at UC San Diego, and Kranz, a printing company executive who ran unsuccessfully in 2010.[Both are emphatically supportive of a strong business environment where profits, people and place are developed in Encintias]. 
• is unwelcome in a sputtering economy [according to the trickle down economics boys].  

They also oppose Proposition K, the Encinitas ballot measure that would make the city’s mayoral spot an elected one rather than an appointed one. [Well, actually rotating from member to member rather than appointing by a majority is the preference to keep with original Encinitas pattern]. 

We believe that voters have the right to choose who sits in their top city job – in the same fashion as most cities, including Oceanside, Carlsbad, Escondido and San Diego. [Ignore this statement as it is proof positive that the UT and it's writing staff are without any sense of irony. They're praising the electorate being allowed to vote choice for an undefined, unfunded new city position, but not be allowed to vote about community development]." 

Update 24 hours later:  Very pathetic that Jerome Stocks comments on the online UT post and his is the only one in agreement with UT.

Jerome Stocks · Top Commenter (what we all want to see, our mayor on lots comment threads)
It is an honor to be again endorsed by San Diego County's only daily papers. "The proof is in the pudding" as they say, and Encinitas has not been overrun by development. For the past 20 years our residential unit growth rate is 1/2 of 1% per year! Comments to the contrary are "sky is falling" boogieman bunk.

I look forward to continuing to serve the people of Encinitas and making Encinitas even better than it is.

20:1 comments articulately refuting this and the fictional achievements cited in the post. There's a good chance even more will comment.  Check back to the original post if you're curious and one yourself.

Saw a quote yesterday that seems fitting for the mayor whose ego soars despite all evidence of failure.

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy