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J. Livingston's avatar

Thank you Bonnie, for alerting to these city matters.

Why are we paying these city employees their extravagant salaries, benefits and pensions for such incompetent work products? Who controls this continued municipal mismanagement?

Who is really in charge: The Mayor (one vote), the City Administrator, the City Council majority (four votes), the voters now splintered by district elections (six districts), the city employee unions and their union bosses? All of the above; none of the above. City appears to be floundering in a leadership vacuum, as badly as the current Biden White House.

Santa Barbara is fast becoming a microcosm for the bloat, unaccountability, fraud, partisan games-playing and corruption we now witness daily at the national level. Let a volunteer DOGE loose on the city as well. With the new city council pro-union, "progressive" majority things are going to get even worse.

Voters, stop being lazy. Do not let "term limits" do the work we still need to exercise ourselves, in order to save our once beautiful city.

(Visited downtown last night for dinner and theater to see the entire dead zone called State Street. How I wished to see the enlivening that used to come from regular car traffic on our former main street - now it is only a long, empty, dark and unwelcoming void.)

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Eric Gordon's avatar

From Goleta, with love ❀️, I couldn’t decide which popular phrase to use here either 1. β€œWelcome to my Nightmare” by Alice Cooper….or 2. β€œWelcome to the party, pal!!” (Bruce Willis to the cop in the movie β€œDie Hard”

One more time for posterity: there is no housing crisis. These politicians are just servicing their donors that overwhelmingly got them reelected a few weeks ago.

The city and entire South Coast area will be trashed and congested and ugly and crime ridden. It’s what was voted for.

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