Encinitas Is Number 5 Among Privileged White Racists!

Using Zillow data, the folks at Fox 5 San Diego have identified the “cities with the most expensive homes in the San Diego metro area.”

Encinitas ranks Number 5, Oceanside is way down at Number 20, and Carlsbad is at Number 6. Only homes in Solana Beach (4), Coronado (3), Del Mar (2) and Rancho Santa Fe (1) have a typical value higher than those in Encinitas. The typical home value in Encinitas is given as $1,712,308.

Observers suspect that this news does not bode well for Encinitas Mayor Catherine Blakespear’s state Senate campaign. She wants to be seen as a progressive woman of the people, not a member of the privileged white racist class, they say.

Hence it’s rumored that Blakespear will dispatch city Equity Committee member Mali Woods-Drake to condemn the privileged white racists in Solana Beach, Coronado, Del Mar and Rancho Santa Fe, and to say that Encinitans look inclusive, charitable and kind by comparison.

It’s impossible to predict what the reaction will be in Encinitas, let alone the other four cities.

The full Fox 5 San Diego report is here:

https://fox5sandiego.com/news/business/cities-with-the-most-expensive-homes-in-san-diego-metro-area/

Petition Circulates to Tell Encinitas Deputy Mayor to STFU

“Honestly,” said Olivenhainian Horace Chestnut, “I’ve never heard anybody talk so much and say so little.”

Chestnut directed his comment to Encinitas Deputy Mayor Joe Mosca. Chestnut felt so strongly about the issue that he started a petition demanding that Mosca STFU.

Although the petition started as a joke among Olivenhain neighbors, it quickly escaped and spread to Cardiff, Old Encinitas, New Encinitas and Leucadia.

By the number of signers, the STFU petition now rivals the Our Neighborhood Voices petition. Chestnut wryly speculates that his petition has gained so many supporters because its name is easy to remember. He modestly omits his petition’s worthy goal.

“Encinitas residents who have followed Mosca’s City Council career know what a windbag he is,” said Chestnut. “They dread his, ‘Let me start by thanking blah blah blah . . .’ because they know what follows is volumes of hot air with little or no substance.

“The man has no self-awareness,” said Chestnut. “He likes to hear himself pontificate, and he must think everybody else does too. The popularity of the STFU petition proves that’s not true. I’m not surprised the petition has spread so quickly. It struck a vein of truth.”

State Senate Candidate Blakespear Eyes Orange County Keyhole

Few voters are paying attention to the upcoming California state Senate District 38 primary election. That’s understandable because today is February 14 (Happy Valentine’s Day!), and the election is June 7. The filing deadline is March 11, so new candidates can still jump in.

Because the new district numbers and boundaries didn’t go public until late December 2021, sites like Ballotpedia and Wikipedia haven’t caught up on District 38 facts. And since county registrars of voters usually publish election data after elections, there’s not a lot to be found for 2022 on the Orange County or San Diego County registrar of voters sites.

However, our crack team of data crunchers managed to find these compelling facts:

District 38 total population — 975,288

Citizen Voting Age Population — White: 68.29%, Latino: 18.44%, Asian: 8.84%, Black: 2.86%

Note that the percentages are of voting age population, not total population or registered voters. Also note that our crack team of data crunchers searched so many websites that they lost track of where they found the statistics above. The validity of the statistics is not affected.

According to the Orange County Register, the District 38 state Senate candidates to date are

• Catherine Blakespear, D – Encinitas, mayor

• Eleanor Juanita Evans, R – Oceanside, Oceanside Unified School District board member

• Matthew Gunderson, R – Mission Viejo, former car dealership owner

• Joe Kerr, D – Coto de Caza, former fire captain

All but Evans have Senate campaign websites.

Blakespear probably figures that with her sterling record of improving people’s lives as mayor of Encinitas and chairwoman of SANDAG, she has San Diego County in the bag. That county’s portion of District 38 starts at the Orange County line and hugs the coast all the way down to Mission Beach. Its voter registrations favor Democrats by 4.9% and, as noted above, its citizen voting age population is 68.29% white. Blakespear’s mouthpiece, Mali Woods-Drake, has her work cut out for her.

But what about that weird little keyhole in Orange County?

It includes these cities: Laguna Hills, Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita and San Juan Capistrano, these census designated places: Ladera Ranch and Las Flores, and these locations that are neither cities nor cdps: Rancho Trabuco and Robinson Ranch.

Readers who want to calculate the population of those locations and others that fall within District 38 might find this website helpful:

https://statewidedatabase.org/redistricting2021/redistricting_database.html

Blakespear must be worried about Republican candidate Matt Gunderson because she’s already complaining that he raised nearly as much money as she did but in half the time. She’s out begging for donations. Interested parties, see:

https://catherineblakespear.com/

She has a ton of endorsements, including Bill Walton. What could go wrong?

Springtime for Blakespear and Primary!

Politics was having trouble, what a sad, sad story

Needed a new leader to restore its former glory

Where, oh where, was she? Where could that gal be?

We looked around and then we found

The gal for you and me

And now it’s . . . 

Springtime for Blakespear and primary

3–8 is happy and gay

We’re scamming at a faster pace

Look out, here comes the autumn race

Springtime for Blakespear and primary

Winter for Matthew and Joe

Springtime for Blakespear and primary

Come on, Demos, get on with the show

I was born in Oceanside, and that is why they call me Clyde

Don’t be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Demo party

Springtime for Blakespear and primary

Twostep’s the new step today

Cash falling from the skies again

3–8 is on the rise again

Springtime for Blakespear and primary

Cash ships are sailing once more

Springtime for Blakespear and primary

Means that soon we’ll be going

We’ve got to be going

You know we’ll be going to score!

Encinitans Will Happily Say Pau to Roy Sapa’u

“Development Services Director Roy Sapa’u has never seen a development he didn’t like,” said long-time local activist Larry Gomorka. “It took him many years of siding with developers to rise to the top of the department. Nobody gets the top spot by rubbing the City Council the wrong way.

“But people tend not to last long as director,” said Gomorka. “Take Brenda Wisneski, for example. She was imported and then in the top slot for barely two years. Maybe she made the grift by the council, staff and developers too obvious, too public. 

“Sapa’u came up through the ranks,” said Gomorka. “He’s seasoned and probably too savvy about city ways to get canned early. Yet things like his tortured explanation of why a three-story building is actually two stories say even he could be vulnerable.

“He’s pulling down a pay package of $233,000,” said Gomorka. “There’s a lot of motivation to stay put.”

“Naming the department ‘Development Services’ says what the city is gung-ho about,” said Gomorka. “They always have to go after new revenue, and that comes from continuous development. To keep it rolling, the department must have a director who’s on board and keeps his staff in line.

“Yet, as contradictory as it might seem, there are some developments that are a bridge too far for the City Council and, therefore, for Sapa’u and his department,” said Gomorka. “At least in the current circumstances, one of those verboten developments was the grotesque Goodson project in Olivenhain. Stopped dead in its tracks as proposed but only for the time being.

“Maybe Goodson will rear its ugly head and test Sapa’u and the council’s character after the November election,” said Gomorka. “Few Encinitans would weep if the city said pau to Roy Sapa’u.”

Minimum Wage Workers Can Afford Electric Bike Rides

There’s good news for California minimum wage workers who visit or live in Encinitas!

Encinitas BCycle bike rides cost only $14 per hour. Correspondingly, minimum wage workers earn $14 an hour where there are 25 or fewer employees. Minimum wage is $15 an hour otherwise. With one hour’s pay, members of either group can ride an electric bike for a whole hour. Not only that, those who earn $15 an hour will have a dollar left over!

It’s like manna from heaven. Taxes and other payroll deductions not considered, of course.

The city launched Encinitas BCycle on January 5. There will be 100 docking stations placed in key areas around the city. That means easy access wherever minimum wage earners work.

“We are excited about the launch of Encinitas BCycle – we know a bikeshare program is a great way to provide bikes to more people in an easy and affordable way,” said Crystal Najera, Sustainability Manager for the city of Encinitas. “We see this as an opportunity to allow more Encinitas residents and visitors to try an e-bike, avoid emitting transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions, and help the city meet its Climate Action Plan goals.”

Surely, every Encinitas visitor and resident wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The BCycle program gives minimum wage workers an affordable way to help.