Signs on steroids
Rachelle Collier, Leucadia
Each election cycle, our candidates put up signs to indicate endorsements. I would like to call attention to the fact that some candidates have what I call signs on steroids.
But what is more telling than the size of the signs is their location. I have noticed that they are mostly on nursery land and empty lots. Now, anyone can put signs up to endorse their candidate. Tony Kranz and Lisa Shaffer signs are up throughout many neighborhoods in people’s yards.
This tells me that the community of Encinitas endorses Tony and Lisa. The signs on steroids are on locations with the potential to develop. Anyone who pays attention to local politics knows that there is a disconnect with what neighborhoods want and what is being built in our fair city. No one can stop development and everyone wants business to thrive.
We live in a very special place and development should fit the community character. We should not change our character to suit the development. There is a reason that most of us moved to this incredible place. If you value this unique area, please vote for Tony Kranz and Lisa Shaffer.
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Around the same time this letter to the Coast News editor was posted, blogger Encinitas Undercover printed this picture that perfectly illustrated Rachelle's point with another version of this same essential story captured in a headline.
Very good stuff. The first comment was from a well informed local describing some history of this location."This property was owned by the Browns, who always supported Stocks, Bond, and Dalager. The property was sold to City Ventures and is zoned RR-1 (Rural Residential 1 house per acre). A call was made to City Ventures, who responded that the Browns still have the right to give permission for the signage."For more go here .
Wave signs, read blogs, write letters and talk to friends, because we are all educating our community one step at a time and bringing change. And, in the in-box we received the plea by the North Coast Current Online Publisher Roman S. Koenig via his point of view editorial at his own paper. Read the whole thing by all means. The following is just a taste. We disagree strongly only with his recommendation on Encinitas Proposal K. Please vote no.
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Leave Jim Kydd alone.
Some of you might find this statement surprising coming from the editorial director of the North Coast Current, especially those of you who have chosen to use recent coverage in this publication as a passive endorsement of typical Encinitas-style “hate politics.” I found it fascinating in the past couple of weeks how the Current, in its work to cover news and provide civil discourse, had cuffs and chains thrown at it for this town’s mud pit of rhetorical nonsense.
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This whole rhetorical battle over encinitaselection.com certainly has its amusing moments. The most amusing comes from an exchange in comments Oct. 27 between posters Jack Lane and Vikki St. Mary.
Lane accused the “blog” North Coast Current of being part of a leftist conspiracy against Jim Kydd: “This latestest (sic) critique of Jim as a person and his publication is typical of the vitriol that come from the Left and its need to smear and define others.” To which St. Mary replied: “So there is a liberal media conspiracy against the liberal media?? You are confusing please explain.”
St. Mary’s call is right on, although I would say our publications are ultimately more centrist (not to speak for Jim Kydd, though).
The Coast News and North Coast Current are on the same page when it comes to Encinitas City Council endorsements. The Current, like Coast News, supports Lisa Shaffer and Tony Kranz, and does not support conservative incumbents Jerome Stocks and Mark Muir. However, the Current supports Propositions K and L, largely attributed to the council’s conservative majority. Much of the “vitriol,” as Lane puts it, is in the comment sections of the Current, Patch and blogs from supporters of conservative candidates such as Stocks.
All of this goes right to St. Mary’s reply to Lane’s cliché interpretation of recent events.
A leftist plot by one centrist publication against another? I think not.
Roman S. Koenig is editorial director and publisher of the North Coast Current. Columns are the opinions of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of North Coast Current ownership.
