Cardiff Woman Chosen as Community Scold

The Encinitas Locals Council (ELC) has chosen longtime Cardiff resident Lorri Greene to be the community’s censor and scold.

The ELC announced the appointment in a statement on its website:

“After careful consideration of a dozen candidates, the Encinitas Locals Council has chosen Lorri Greene as community censor and scold because we felt she was most qualified.

“Ms. Greene launched a Facebook page called Encinitas Votes several years ago. She regularly kicks members off the page after scolding them for not being nice or for not following the rules.

“She consistently complains about how much work monitoring and censoring the page is, yet she doesn’t seem to realize that if she didn’t smother so much, the good apples would drive out the bad, and she wouldn’t have so much work.

“The ELC recognized Ms. Greene as the perfect person to roam through all the Encinitas Facebook pages, the local Nextdoor, Instagram, TikTok and other social media sites, and the local blogs to apply the same rules and exacting standards she applies to Encinitas Votes.

“The job would likely be overwhelming for a lesser person, but Ms. Greene is reportedly a doctor of some kind, so the ELC is confident she can handle it.

“We look forward to having Ms. Greene clean up social media in Encinitas.”

Encinitas Mayor Announces Series of Speeches

Given the popularity of her Oct. 15, 2019 speech titled “Increasing Suburban Density to Fight Climate Change,” Encinitas Mayor Catherine Blakespear has announced a series of Zoom speeches she will give toward the end of her reelection campaign this year.

Blakespear will give the first speech in the series on Oct. 5, the date the county registrar of voters starts sending vote-by-mail ballots to registered voters.

She’ll give the final speech on Oct. 31, which is Halloween and the night of a blue full moon. Blakespear will announce the dates of the intervening speeches in her newsletter.

The titles of the speeches are —

“Marketing Perforated Condoms to Fight Population Growth”

“Wearing Lace Face Masks to Fight COVID-19”

“Eating Cheeseburgers and Fries to Fight Obesity”

“Selling Aphrodisiacs to Fight Promiscuity”

“Building Cycle Traps to Fight Using Cars”

Encinitas Mayor Adopts New Campaign Slogans

Encinitas Mayor Catherine Blakespear is running to be elected for another two-year term. Her campaign slogans are:

Pave Paradise, Put Up a Homeless Parking Lot

Pave Paradise, Put Up a Humongous Hotel

Pave Paradise, Put Up a Colossal Apartment House

Pave Paradise, Put Up Tons of Market-Rate Housing

Pave Paradise, Put Up a Cycle Trap

Blakespear will rotate the slogans among her campaign appearances and communications.

Election day is Tuesday, November 3.

Bike Groups Demand Bike Wheel on Encinitas Sign

BIKE WHEEL! BIKE WHEEL! BIKE WHEEL!

The chants rose from the area of the Encinitas sign over Highway 101 at D Street downtown. Hundreds if not thousands of bike group members gathered with their wheeled steeds, filling the streets and blocking traffic as they chanted.

“The wings are OK but not the wheel between them,” said Isaac Sergakov. “That’s a chariot wheel or a wagon wheel or a mag wheel from a redneck pickup. We demand a bike wheel. We want more spokes.”

Asked if the bike riders also wanted an air pump and some goat’s head thorns added to the Encinitas sign, Sergakov said, no, just a bike wheel will do.

The number of bike riders at the protests has been rising daily, as has the agitation level. Sheriff’s deputies have been seen monitoring the protests, and their level of self-protective gear has been growing.

The deputies presence and rising gear level but lack of action has had some bystanders wondering if a National Guard or Homeland Security deployment is imminent.

“We can’t have this perpetual disruption,” said local resident Hooey Buoy. “With state and federal property nearby and peace under attack, I think we can expect a response from a higher law-enforcement authority.”

“Non-violent protest and redress of grievances are American rights,” said Sergakov. “They are guaranteed and protected by the Constitution. We are within our rights to demand a bike wheel on a public sign. We will continue to protest until we get the result we seek.”

Seven Questions for Encinitas Mayoral Candidate Julie Thunder

At Large: Are you a Republican in disguise?

Cardiff: Tasha’s gerrymandered districts put Mark Muir in your Cardiff district. You and he co-publish the Encinitas Current online. What is your comment on the allegations that Muir paid for robocalls that attacked Phil Graham, Muir’s wife Maureen’s opponent in the 2018 76th Assembly District race?

Leucadia: Do you support Leucadia 101 Streetscape and tunneling the railroad tracks through Leucadia?

New Encinitas: As more retail along El Camino Real becomes vacant, do you support converting it to affordable housing?

Old Encinitas: Do you support the concentration of bars and other alcohol-serving businesses along Highway 101 in downtown Encinitas?

Olivenhain: Do you support the proposed Encinitas Boulevard Apartments complex near the boulevard’s intersection with Rancho Santa Fe Road?

Bonus: If you are elected mayor, what will you do to contain and defeat COVID-19 in Encinitas?

Encinitas Mayor and Acolyte Choose Which Laws to Obey

FPPC — pffft! Who cares? Certainly not Kellie and me. If the FPPC drops a fine on us, our rich friends will pay it, and we will have accomplished our purpose anyway. That’s to get elected so we can continue to ruin Encinitas. We can’t win on our merits or records, so we cheat.

I’m in it for me, my family and my friends. They said, hey, you’re the perfect politician. You look OK, you come across well in public, you grin and sound real even when you’re lying through your teeth. People will believe you, not realizing that you’re totally disingenuous. 

Guess what. The people who told me I’m a perfect politician were right! They nailed it long before I did myself. They said, OK, get your feet wet on one of the commissions, then start up the ladder. You’ll be mayor in no time, and if you can keep the phony front up, you’ll be reelected as many times as you want. Just think of what you can gain for yourself, your family and your friends. What a legacy!

Prop A — it might as well be renamed Prop ZZZZZ. Sure, I know it was a ballot proposition that passed in a special election. Sure, I know it was incorporated within the municipal code, but I don’t like it. It goes against my interests. I chose to ignore it, undermine it and will eventually kill it altogether.

Lots of locals are angry that my cronies and I got the city to sue them over Prop A. Too bad, losers. I’m playing hardball even though Encinitas is in the bush leagues as cities go.

And, hey, if I can get free Surfing Madonna entries for me, my family and my buddy Scott, why not? If Encinitas merchants — grocers, bars, restaurants, whatever — want to comp me, my family and my friends, I’ll go for that, too. Why the hell not? I’m the mayor!

Surfing Madonna crossed me, so they’re gone. Let that be a lesson to anybody who doesn’t follow my dictates.

Measures T and U — total straw-man measures. I knew the voters would kill them, but the measures were a means to an end. The judge put Prop A aside, the state lit the green light, and we got the HEU that allows humongous developments that my family, my cronies, the BIA and I want.

You do realize that “Preserve Paradise” was just a manipulative slogan, don’t you?

I trot out the “my hands are tied” line when it’s expedient. I choose which laws to follow and which to ignore. That’s my privilege!