All I want for Christmas is a jack hammer, and an Army tank! It’s not too late to save Santa Barbara! Staff bureaucrats control Santa Barbara decisions: they ignore the purpose and maintenance of public streets and they’ve destroyed downtown. Replace “do more” Council Reps who waste tax money, raid Measure C Funds, and are close to depleting emergency reserves — with proven successful turnaround business executives in open seats D4,5,and 6. Voters: Take back control. Consider expanding Council to elect 1 or 2 City at-large reps to ensure consideration of the entire City in decision making. Excellent summation Scott! Appreciate the crisis reminder. Santa Monica’s rent control has also failed. Imagine my Aunt who pays $650/mo while neighbors pay up to $9400/mo for their 2-bed ocean view apartment to subsidize hers and others.
Why don’t voters think 2-steps ahead about unintended consequences? Why are tax payers tolerant of such high incompetence of elected reps?
Truth! Everywhere one looks across the Democrat run blue cities and states we see the living definition of Einstein‘s definition of insanity. Socialism has not worked in Russia, nor Venezuela, and it is not going to work in New York or Santa Barbara. For people to stand by and watch this happen and just say la la la la la is truly tragic.
Ventura may beat both Santa Monica and Santa Barbara to the business bankruptcy finish line. Couple that to the extremely narrow traffic corridor through which Ventura's shuttered Main Street runs. Most of this mess in Vta is being pushed via a shadowy NGO run by someone with a couple dozen online identities who has grifted other regions prior. Nothing says freedom and vitality like destroying a town's connection to it's history by jamming a round peg into a square hole.
David Puu- we need a voter guide that rates elected officials; informs of organized activist NGOs and NPOs which names their donors and Board Directors. It’s time to know who is who in every community.
I hear Ventura County is about to get a comprehensive score card of its BOS officials
LT - “suppose to” vs “does”. SB Chapter LWV is partisan, totally biased, showing blatant favoritism. Eastside & Westside are historical “no-go” zones of no interest. Apparently not wealthy enough to justify their time. At the last D1, 2,3 Forum, it was so obvious to be embarrassing. LWV to be avoid if fairness, neutrality are the objectives.
I remember as a kid, my Dad taking me to “Pacific Ocean Park” back in the early 60’s, then headed over to “Marine Land,” for a great family outing. Those days are clearly over now, instead tripping over junkies and the mentally ill, taking your chances on being assaulted, or worse!
Should we fill sorry or pity for Santa Monica and Venice, or is this on them? My son’s friend lives in SM off of Wilshire, where the family owns a large apartment building. We parked my son’s car there and headed over to LAX to catch a flight. The parking structure is on total lockdown so as to keep vandals and thieves at bay. Surrounded by despair, all in the middle of the Wilshire business district, not a cop in sight anywhere.
I just saw the news blurb, Karen Bass is being challenged in her next election, by wait for it…a Democrat- Socialist, and “Community Activist,” Rae Huang! It would appear Bass isn’t even wacky liberal and incompetent enough for the DSP!
As for Santa Barbara, voters have a clear choice next go round, failure, despair and mayhem versus sanity and prosperity. Living in Goleta, I really don’t have a horse in this race, if stupid people want the former over the later, so be it. Unfortunately, the “Goodland” seems to follow SB politically and affected by the same failed, liberal mentality.
Time is running out for us, good, fearless people need to come forward, otherwise the DSP takeover will be complete.
SLO, Ventura, and Santa Barbara DSA chapters invite you to spend a day on the beach with other socialists! Potluck style. Games are welcome. Contact contact@dsasb.org for more information.
DSA - Santa Barbara Chapter is thriving, not just surviving. It’s well funded. Local membership includes respected community leaders, educators, and major donors. https://dsasb.org/
LT, unlike you, who BTW I appreciate, too few locals care to be informed or to research anything. I get a half a dozen requests a day for me to do what those contacting me can easily do themself. Are they lazy or elitist or what?
When I moved to SM in the mid-90s, thought I had died and gone to heaven. 3rd St Promenade was jumping back then, including numerous clubs, eateries and three clusters of movie theaters. My buddy and another surfer shared a solid Craftsman house on Euclid built in the 1920’s. We all (gladly) busted our tails to make the high monthly rent.
I would run into slackers living in nice rent controlled pads near the beach paying a pittance for as long as they wished to remain. I wondered how the hell is that going to work? It didn’t…
Liberal attorneys are losing Santa Barbara County Millions each year from our General Fund. With a budget of over 1.6 BILLION DOLLARS why should this matter to us? The Uber-rich bail out the wokeness! WHY is PUBLIC POLICY supporting delusional constructs???
If SBCC stopped paying Attorney Craig Price, Griffith & Thornburgh, there’d be plenty of money for construction of a 4-story parking garage, facility upgrades, modernized classrooms, essential labs, computers, and more!
Current Trustees are all in on it; former trustees with integrity who monitored money, waste, abuse are devalued, and even threatened with harm by locals!!
Right you are elce. Or how about how Cottage Health System has managed to keep the Unions out? Both SV and CHS, lefty favorites for donations, but manage to keep their entities as closed shops!
There are so many examples of failed downtown main streets when closed to cars throughout the USA. Many of those have reopened. Thank you, Scott, for your common sense approach and keeping this topic at the forefront of discussion.
Let's hope that Santa Barbara will come to its senses about reopening State Street and those folks who think people that want it reopened is because of their disdain for kids on e-bikes have their heads in the sand. I would venture that most who want it to stay closed are either recent implants to Santa Barbara and are unaware of what it once was or have a financial stake in the process of turning Santa Barbara into a 15 minute city.
Did any of you happen to spend time on State Street this weekend? The streets, despite the rain, were lined with hundreds of pedestrians. Satellite, where I work, was packed all night long as were the places in the lower State. Are cars driving up State Street really going to impact how people shop at brick and mortar stores? I hear a lot of banter but even if we brought back cars, they are still going to have to park off State and people are still going to walk in to shop, dine and play.
Regarding the comments about proper parking per unit, what is proper these days when many are chosing to not own cars and utilize ride/car share options when needed?
BTW... good job at getting the " openly radical Socialist Council" statement into the conversation... such statements confirm what a bang up job our Republican and Democratic leaders/media are doing at keeping us divided, hate filled and justified in our loathing for differing points of view.
I won't answer you directly, rather I think you will find the You Tube page, 'Santa Barbara Talks" helpful. Yesterday the guest on the show was Jim Knell. Jim has more of a vested interest in the success of State street than any person commenting here. I don't agree with everything he says but his opinion carry's a lot of weight. Not as much as the "River Nile," that was State street Saturday night.
And you people want to turn it into a promenade? How about paying for some engineering studies in flood control from Victoria to Gutierrez streets? Oh shoot, I'm starting to answer you. . . bye.
Love the mention of Fred Vega!! Class act. He was every bit your description and more. He had a unique and gentle demeanor while taking on difficult local and national topics while providing a forum for both sides. Illegal immigration was a topic from which he did not avoid....especially during the era of Prop 187. While he caught the ire of the open borders crowd, particularly because of his ethnicity, he was a person of principle, i.e., Cesar Chavez.
We could use a similar forum today where citizens from all perspectives could communicate in an environment not limited to three minutes in front of disinterested, yawning "officials" who have already made up their union backed minds.
I have lived here for only 4 years and only go to the down town zone if absolutely necessary. Take a look at Palm Desert if you want to see a thriving city center.
I enjoyed living in Palm Desert off of County Club Drive back in the 80’s. The company I worked for at the time helped start the open heart surgical program at Desert Hospital. The politics in Palm Springs is very similar to Santa Barbara, old money that wants a stable, orderly, clean community. Except, PS has a much larger gay community and the 120 degree weather keeps the homeless population in check.
Can anyone imagine Palm Canyon Drive being closed to cars?
The Third Street Promenade was a great success for decades until rampant crime and homelessness destroyed it.
This article didn't mention rent control. Santa Monica has one of the most extreme rent control programs in the country, which has caused a severe shortage of housing and the highest rents in all of California.
The paralel between these two cities is striking. When you prioritize ideology over practicl outcomes, this is what happens. Streets exist for a reason and the evidence from Santa Monica should have been a clear warning sign. The irony is that the 15-minute city concept actualy requires functional infrastructure, not the dismantling of it. Businesses need customers to arrive somehow.
When living in Ventura County, I loved visiting Santa Barbara. Not the same city now. Currently living in the desert city of La Quinta, I see how smart planning all around each desert city has made it a great and thriving area. Just ask the thousands who vacation and winter here!
I think Randy gets more flak than he deserves. The title 'mayor' in this town is really just another vote and figurehead position. As TVW mentions below, he's often the sole or one of a few voting against the majority. And as 'mayor,' that vote is all he has besides scissors for ribbon-cutting events.
Gads JT! The Mayor position is full time pay, for FT work. The position is what you make it. It’s our City’s Top Job! Your ribbon cutting expectations have been met so you are satisfied: ‘job well done’.
At the same time, you choose to ignore deficit spending, raiding of both Measure C earmarked funding, the housing trust fund, and emergency reserves. The Mayor, any Mayor, is expected to lead, to message, to be a force for results needed to keep SB thriving not barely surviving.
Please — with all due respect to differences of opinion — rethink your expectations and associated taxpayer cost of the Mayor position.
The mayor is not our city's top job. That would be the person who actually captains the ship - the city administrator. And that person makes what 3x 4x the mayor? And I'm not saying anyone is or is not meeting my expectations, I'm just saying I think Randy gets more grief from the public that thinks he's in charge and has more power than he does.
I might be wrong here, but I also didn't think that the mayor, or any of the council, was considered a full-time job. The money they make a year aside.....
Thanks for the off-course civics lesson. Yes, the city administrator is appointed and, on paper, answers to the council. Do you really think that's what happens? Most posters here find the council inept, but somehow they are managing the city administrator? Read the room. Practical Civics 101.
Correct TVW: Mayor Rowse favors opening State St. However, likeable, nice guy Rowse has been a weak leader unable or unwilling to message to voters to make them aware, to build a coalition that’s required to get results. In the meantime business owners scream, and now property owners are in the process of suing City for lost values. Santa Barbara needs executive-class leaders!
DSASB will likely fill open seats D4,5,6. Endorsed allies already fill D1-Eastside (SantaMaria) and D-3 Westside (Gutierrez).
Slightly different take, if Rowse is not a “failed” Mayor, he’s certainly compromised. Put it this way, he was a better restaurateur! Yes, the “Balkanization” of SB by virtue of district elections, concocted in order to get more “brown people” into elected office, has been a monumental failure to the community!
Respectfully, he's weak and ineffective--and in no way charismatic--which would permit him to be more persuasive! I pass him on the street or in the park and he looks down-he's the mayor! That said, I have voted for him every time he has run since, he represents the closest we will ever get to a moderate! He has not attempted to educate (sway) the general electorate on the failed programs and ideas of the endless progressive council members he has served with. Write an instructive opinion piece every week organize forums and throw up more roadblocks on the Dais, and hammer home to the citizens how we are losing this city and more importantly why they must help change course.
Agree Mike! Randy hasn’t been an effective mayor. He will be opposed by Kristen Sneddon, who announced her bid yesterday — early to locking donors and endorsements. Kristen has been mentored by no growth former Mayor Sheila Lodge, supports rent control to appear supportive of struggling residents while knowing it’s the back door to no growth. Sneddon has raided designated Measure C and Housing Trust Funds, supports aliens, and is politically ambitious. Combined with her husband taxpayers compensate them about $750,000 annually.
D5 Rep Eric Friedman who is also termed out and expected to run. Other candidates expected to announce this Spring.
Ya, “Edhate” is certainly a case study in abnormal human behavior. Occasionally, I stop by to rattle the cage, seems to go south on the mere mention of the word “orange” or “blonde,” whereby the animals start foaming at the mouth!
Noozehawk any better? IDK, today’s lackluster edition featured some old hippie dude bellyaching about how hiking trail signage should be apolitical and not remind us of the sheer incompetence of the last administration. Seems slanted story lines given our massive local challenges.
All I want for Christmas is a jack hammer, and an Army tank! It’s not too late to save Santa Barbara! Staff bureaucrats control Santa Barbara decisions: they ignore the purpose and maintenance of public streets and they’ve destroyed downtown. Replace “do more” Council Reps who waste tax money, raid Measure C Funds, and are close to depleting emergency reserves — with proven successful turnaround business executives in open seats D4,5,and 6. Voters: Take back control. Consider expanding Council to elect 1 or 2 City at-large reps to ensure consideration of the entire City in decision making. Excellent summation Scott! Appreciate the crisis reminder. Santa Monica’s rent control has also failed. Imagine my Aunt who pays $650/mo while neighbors pay up to $9400/mo for their 2-bed ocean view apartment to subsidize hers and others.
Why don’t voters think 2-steps ahead about unintended consequences? Why are tax payers tolerant of such high incompetence of elected reps?
Sing along: “We don’t need no stinkin’ pedlets….”
Truth! Everywhere one looks across the Democrat run blue cities and states we see the living definition of Einstein‘s definition of insanity. Socialism has not worked in Russia, nor Venezuela, and it is not going to work in New York or Santa Barbara. For people to stand by and watch this happen and just say la la la la la is truly tragic.
Ventura may beat both Santa Monica and Santa Barbara to the business bankruptcy finish line. Couple that to the extremely narrow traffic corridor through which Ventura's shuttered Main Street runs. Most of this mess in Vta is being pushed via a shadowy NGO run by someone with a couple dozen online identities who has grifted other regions prior. Nothing says freedom and vitality like destroying a town's connection to it's history by jamming a round peg into a square hole.
David Puu- we need a voter guide that rates elected officials; informs of organized activist NGOs and NPOs which names their donors and Board Directors. It’s time to know who is who in every community.
I hear Ventura County is about to get a comprehensive score card of its BOS officials
Isn’t that what the supposed “non-partisan” League of Women Voters is supposed to do under their charter for which they enjoy tax exempt status?
LT - “suppose to” vs “does”. SB Chapter LWV is partisan, totally biased, showing blatant favoritism. Eastside & Westside are historical “no-go” zones of no interest. Apparently not wealthy enough to justify their time. At the last D1, 2,3 Forum, it was so obvious to be embarrassing. LWV to be avoid if fairness, neutrality are the objectives.
I remember as a kid, my Dad taking me to “Pacific Ocean Park” back in the early 60’s, then headed over to “Marine Land,” for a great family outing. Those days are clearly over now, instead tripping over junkies and the mentally ill, taking your chances on being assaulted, or worse!
Should we fill sorry or pity for Santa Monica and Venice, or is this on them? My son’s friend lives in SM off of Wilshire, where the family owns a large apartment building. We parked my son’s car there and headed over to LAX to catch a flight. The parking structure is on total lockdown so as to keep vandals and thieves at bay. Surrounded by despair, all in the middle of the Wilshire business district, not a cop in sight anywhere.
I just saw the news blurb, Karen Bass is being challenged in her next election, by wait for it…a Democrat- Socialist, and “Community Activist,” Rae Huang! It would appear Bass isn’t even wacky liberal and incompetent enough for the DSP!
As for Santa Barbara, voters have a clear choice next go round, failure, despair and mayhem versus sanity and prosperity. Living in Goleta, I really don’t have a horse in this race, if stupid people want the former over the later, so be it. Unfortunately, the “Goodland” seems to follow SB politically and affected by the same failed, liberal mentality.
Time is running out for us, good, fearless people need to come forward, otherwise the DSP takeover will be complete.
Loved your take. What is DSP
DSA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Socialists_of_America - https://dsasb.org/. DSA Potluck by the Beach; November 22, 2025 11:00 am - 4:00 pm; Leadbetter Beach, C832+3MG, 801 Shoreline Dr, Santa Barbara, CA 93109, USA
SLO, Ventura, and Santa Barbara DSA chapters invite you to spend a day on the beach with other socialists! Potluck style. Games are welcome. Contact contact@dsasb.org for more information.
“Democratic Socialist Party,” AKA Batshit crazy liberals!
LT: You might consider using official title DSA: Democratic Socialists of America to enable readers to research policies and endorsed candidates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Socialists_of_America
DSA - Santa Barbara Chapter is thriving, not just surviving. It’s well funded. Local membership includes respected community leaders, educators, and major donors. https://dsasb.org/
BTW Monte, I went on DSA-SB website that you provided and will sign up for the newsletter! This is unbelievable, and right under our noses!
Very concerning that my Council member and Mayor in Goleta are endorsed!
LT, unlike you, who BTW I appreciate, too few locals care to be informed or to research anything. I get a half a dozen requests a day for me to do what those contacting me can easily do themself. Are they lazy or elitist or what?
Umm, I would say white, elitist apathy, which has doomed our society!
Whatever the term, it is used interchangeably in different countries. All predicated on a Neo-Marxist agenda!
“Respected community members?” Do tell!
https://www.dsp-rsp.org/topic/democratic-socialist-party
When I moved to SM in the mid-90s, thought I had died and gone to heaven. 3rd St Promenade was jumping back then, including numerous clubs, eateries and three clusters of movie theaters. My buddy and another surfer shared a solid Craftsman house on Euclid built in the 1920’s. We all (gladly) busted our tails to make the high monthly rent.
I would run into slackers living in nice rent controlled pads near the beach paying a pittance for as long as they wished to remain. I wondered how the hell is that going to work? It didn’t…
Liberal attorneys are losing Santa Barbara County Millions each year from our General Fund. With a budget of over 1.6 BILLION DOLLARS why should this matter to us? The Uber-rich bail out the wokeness! WHY is PUBLIC POLICY supporting delusional constructs???
If SBCC stopped paying Attorney Craig Price, Griffith & Thornburgh, there’d be plenty of money for construction of a 4-story parking garage, facility upgrades, modernized classrooms, essential labs, computers, and more!
Current Trustees are all in on it; former trustees with integrity who monitored money, waste, abuse are devalued, and even threatened with harm by locals!!
Why? Because they’re like a bunch of pigs eating from the same trough, all funded by the tax exempt NGO’s.
Right you are elce. Or how about how Cottage Health System has managed to keep the Unions out? Both SV and CHS, lefty favorites for donations, but manage to keep their entities as closed shops!
There are so many examples of failed downtown main streets when closed to cars throughout the USA. Many of those have reopened. Thank you, Scott, for your common sense approach and keeping this topic at the forefront of discussion.
Let's hope that Santa Barbara will come to its senses about reopening State Street and those folks who think people that want it reopened is because of their disdain for kids on e-bikes have their heads in the sand. I would venture that most who want it to stay closed are either recent implants to Santa Barbara and are unaware of what it once was or have a financial stake in the process of turning Santa Barbara into a 15 minute city.
Did any of you happen to spend time on State Street this weekend? The streets, despite the rain, were lined with hundreds of pedestrians. Satellite, where I work, was packed all night long as were the places in the lower State. Are cars driving up State Street really going to impact how people shop at brick and mortar stores? I hear a lot of banter but even if we brought back cars, they are still going to have to park off State and people are still going to walk in to shop, dine and play.
Regarding the comments about proper parking per unit, what is proper these days when many are chosing to not own cars and utilize ride/car share options when needed?
BTW... good job at getting the " openly radical Socialist Council" statement into the conversation... such statements confirm what a bang up job our Republican and Democratic leaders/media are doing at keeping us divided, hate filled and justified in our loathing for differing points of view.
I won't answer you directly, rather I think you will find the You Tube page, 'Santa Barbara Talks" helpful. Yesterday the guest on the show was Jim Knell. Jim has more of a vested interest in the success of State street than any person commenting here. I don't agree with everything he says but his opinion carry's a lot of weight. Not as much as the "River Nile," that was State street Saturday night.
And you people want to turn it into a promenade? How about paying for some engineering studies in flood control from Victoria to Gutierrez streets? Oh shoot, I'm starting to answer you. . . bye.
And the clowns who run Goleta have learned nothing from these debacles, but instead have doubled down on the insanity!
Love the mention of Fred Vega!! Class act. He was every bit your description and more. He had a unique and gentle demeanor while taking on difficult local and national topics while providing a forum for both sides. Illegal immigration was a topic from which he did not avoid....especially during the era of Prop 187. While he caught the ire of the open borders crowd, particularly because of his ethnicity, he was a person of principle, i.e., Cesar Chavez.
We could use a similar forum today where citizens from all perspectives could communicate in an environment not limited to three minutes in front of disinterested, yawning "officials" who have already made up their union backed minds.
I have lived here for only 4 years and only go to the down town zone if absolutely necessary. Take a look at Palm Desert if you want to see a thriving city center.
I enjoyed living in Palm Desert off of County Club Drive back in the 80’s. The company I worked for at the time helped start the open heart surgical program at Desert Hospital. The politics in Palm Springs is very similar to Santa Barbara, old money that wants a stable, orderly, clean community. Except, PS has a much larger gay community and the 120 degree weather keeps the homeless population in check.
Can anyone imagine Palm Canyon Drive being closed to cars?
2 quick comments:
The Third Street Promenade was a great success for decades until rampant crime and homelessness destroyed it.
This article didn't mention rent control. Santa Monica has one of the most extreme rent control programs in the country, which has caused a severe shortage of housing and the highest rents in all of California.
The paralel between these two cities is striking. When you prioritize ideology over practicl outcomes, this is what happens. Streets exist for a reason and the evidence from Santa Monica should have been a clear warning sign. The irony is that the 15-minute city concept actualy requires functional infrastructure, not the dismantling of it. Businesses need customers to arrive somehow.
When living in Ventura County, I loved visiting Santa Barbara. Not the same city now. Currently living in the desert city of La Quinta, I see how smart planning all around each desert city has made it a great and thriving area. Just ask the thousands who vacation and winter here!
Engineer State Street from Victoria to Gutierrez. CIMA Jim Knell on santa barbara talks with josh molina
https://share.google/mgqqkHDbVw93Fovjt.
How many emergency alerts have been sent to avoid State Street in last 3-days? I just got another one.
Scott-Thank you for the memory of Fred Vega's show! I would add Randy Rowse to the list of failed Mayors.
I think Randy gets more flak than he deserves. The title 'mayor' in this town is really just another vote and figurehead position. As TVW mentions below, he's often the sole or one of a few voting against the majority. And as 'mayor,' that vote is all he has besides scissors for ribbon-cutting events.
Gads JT! The Mayor position is full time pay, for FT work. The position is what you make it. It’s our City’s Top Job! Your ribbon cutting expectations have been met so you are satisfied: ‘job well done’.
At the same time, you choose to ignore deficit spending, raiding of both Measure C earmarked funding, the housing trust fund, and emergency reserves. The Mayor, any Mayor, is expected to lead, to message, to be a force for results needed to keep SB thriving not barely surviving.
Please — with all due respect to differences of opinion — rethink your expectations and associated taxpayer cost of the Mayor position.
The mayor is not our city's top job. That would be the person who actually captains the ship - the city administrator. And that person makes what 3x 4x the mayor? And I'm not saying anyone is or is not meeting my expectations, I'm just saying I think Randy gets more grief from the public that thinks he's in charge and has more power than he does.
I might be wrong here, but I also didn't think that the mayor, or any of the council, was considered a full-time job. The money they make a year aside.....
Haha! The City Administrator works for City Council, for the Mayor. Read the City Charter. Civics 101.
Thanks for the off-course civics lesson. Yes, the city administrator is appointed and, on paper, answers to the council. Do you really think that's what happens? Most posters here find the council inept, but somehow they are managing the city administrator? Read the room. Practical Civics 101.
Details?? Has not Randy supported opening State St.?..and often votes against the majority?
Correct TVW: Mayor Rowse favors opening State St. However, likeable, nice guy Rowse has been a weak leader unable or unwilling to message to voters to make them aware, to build a coalition that’s required to get results. In the meantime business owners scream, and now property owners are in the process of suing City for lost values. Santa Barbara needs executive-class leaders!
DSASB will likely fill open seats D4,5,6. Endorsed allies already fill D1-Eastside (SantaMaria) and D-3 Westside (Gutierrez).
Slightly different take, if Rowse is not a “failed” Mayor, he’s certainly compromised. Put it this way, he was a better restaurateur! Yes, the “Balkanization” of SB by virtue of district elections, concocted in order to get more “brown people” into elected office, has been a monumental failure to the community!
Respectfully, he's weak and ineffective--and in no way charismatic--which would permit him to be more persuasive! I pass him on the street or in the park and he looks down-he's the mayor! That said, I have voted for him every time he has run since, he represents the closest we will ever get to a moderate! He has not attempted to educate (sway) the general electorate on the failed programs and ideas of the endless progressive council members he has served with. Write an instructive opinion piece every week organize forums and throw up more roadblocks on the Dais, and hammer home to the citizens how we are losing this city and more importantly why they must help change course.
Agree Mike! Randy hasn’t been an effective mayor. He will be opposed by Kristen Sneddon, who announced her bid yesterday — early to locking donors and endorsements. Kristen has been mentored by no growth former Mayor Sheila Lodge, supports rent control to appear supportive of struggling residents while knowing it’s the back door to no growth. Sneddon has raided designated Measure C and Housing Trust Funds, supports aliens, and is politically ambitious. Combined with her husband taxpayers compensate them about $750,000 annually.
D5 Rep Eric Friedman who is also termed out and expected to run. Other candidates expected to announce this Spring.
Ya, “Edhate” is certainly a case study in abnormal human behavior. Occasionally, I stop by to rattle the cage, seems to go south on the mere mention of the word “orange” or “blonde,” whereby the animals start foaming at the mouth!
Noozehawk any better? IDK, today’s lackluster edition featured some old hippie dude bellyaching about how hiking trail signage should be apolitical and not remind us of the sheer incompetence of the last administration. Seems slanted story lines given our massive local challenges.
Oh well, there’s always The Economist or Forbes.