Read these two links below and then go on to lean about tonight’s main event:
KLEPTO WHITE POWER POWER GRAB AT HUNTINGTON BEACH CITY COUNCIL MEETING!
BE THERE!!!
| During a council meeting on August 1st, Huntington Beach Councilwoman Natalie Moser questioned Mayor Pro Tem Gracey Van Der Mark’s ability to appropriately participate in a committee to amend the city’s Declaration of Policy on Human Dignity because of her history of not commenting on allegations denying the Holocaust and friendships with Proud Boys. Now three men are trying to censure Councilwoman Natalie Moser just for asking if Pro Tem Gracey Van Der Mark believed the holocaust happened considering she would be on an ad hoc committee for a declaration that mentions the holocaust and deals with human rights (the product of that Ad Hoc committee is also on the agenda and in addition to just being grammatically abhorrent, jarringly adds Anti-LGBTQ+ language.) Watch the entire exchange and judge for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/embed/tepr01blp3Y?si=MOCDjbXMBg_bcrpK&controls=0&start=25954 The censure’s addition to the agenda is a distraction from the real issues that should be of concern to this Council and taxpayers of Huntington Beach: The nearly $4 Million the City is paying the housing non-profit, The Kennedy Commission for court losses on failed anti-housing policy (that could be repeated again with this new Council Majority’s new round of anti-housing lawsuits.) Then there’s the $1.2 Million cost for the special election to place unnecessary Charter Amendments on the ballot for March 2024 in an attempt to further protect an out of control “City Attorney” and help get his wife elected City Clerk. These amendments were concocted behind closed doors with no expert or community input (several of the amendments could be potentially illegal; running afoul of the measures the State put in place after the City of Bell scandals) And finally, the Council majority is trying to hide the fact that the Mayor is recommending the City Council choose the lowest ranked Federal Government Affairs respondent – I have no idea why, there’s no explanation, but it’s against the staff recommendation. This agenda is a dangerous power grab by this new City Council majority. The proposals include requiring voter identification and monitoring ballot boxes (with no explanation or understanding of cost or logistics of leaving the County voting platform), changing the requirements to be the City Clerk to any four-year bachelor’s degree from a business administration or similar degree, moving voting for the City Treasurer and City Clerk to the same year in which the City Attorney is on the ballot to align with the gubernatorial elections (why? see above?). In addition to the above stated ‘protection’ of the “City Attorney”, these amendments as written would undermine the Council’s ability to have any direct oversight or accountability of Elected City Staff.Councilwoman Moser’s censure is coming from the same people who agreed to give millions of dollars of taxpayer money to their airshow pal without any investigation into the facts of the matter or legal exposure to the City. The hypocrisy and corruption knows no bounds and that is why it is important to me that residents are aware of what is happening at City Hall. Next week’s agenda is so packed that we will send another email on what else will be coming up at this Tuesday’s meeting. Stay tuned for more. How can you help?Show up at the meeting on Tuesday at City Hall (2000 Main St) at 6pm and tell this new Council majority to drop these wasteful policies and to leave the Charter alone. All four of the new Council members ran on a platform opposing the Charter Amendments that a public Charter Review Commission spent nearly a year preparing (and included now-Councilmember Casey McKeon) and put forth in November of 2022.Send an email to city.council@surfcity-hb.org and supplementalcomm@surfcity-hb.org to let the City Council know how you feel about specific agenda items.Consider clicking the Donate button below to help fund the re-election campaign; to make sure your represented voice is being heard from the dais. Dan Kalmick,Huntington Beach City Council |
Dan Kalmick. lol
Stephanie Erickson. ROTFLMAO.
I remember Stephanie Erickson as the karen who kept complaining to the library that Oak View residents (i.e. Mexicans) were allowed to use the public library.
I guess her crowd is in charge there now.
A brainless cabal.
The “Fab Four” coming off looking more like the Fascist Four. The censure of Natalie Moser makes the four far right extremist council members look like complete idiots. What a waste of time. Childish vindictiveness to say the least. Unfortunately for Huntington Beach, my fellow neighbors seem to have a strong thirst for Tito Ortiz light. What next, a Q-anon flag over city hall?
Requiring voter ID and monitoring ballot boxes is a “power grab” ?????
Sorry, try your “gas lighting” somewhere else. Ensuring safe and secure elections is the foundation of our democracy locally and nationally.
“Ensuring safe and secure elections…”
That’s Trumpy code for “the election was stolen” for those too chicken to say so but who want to support the narrative.
And after an HB election where the four MAGAtards won overwhelmingly – they still think there was cheating?
Maybe they think illegal Oak View voters swung the national election away from Trump.
Irony is not their strong suit. Their strong suit is Grievance Theater.
Well, it’s against the law in California— in fact doing so is considered voter intimidation and the person making the request is committing a serious CRIMINAL offense.
In this case, just in order to ask for voter ID we would be throwing all the election safety, security and integrity built into the OC Registrar’s state, rated as one of the best in the nation.
Instead we will have voting with god knows what equipment, in someone’s garage, with a very questionable chain of custody, and then hand-counting ballots? That would make the elections extremely vulnerable to fraud and abuse. And turnout would go waaaay down due to limited voting hours.
All as intended….
As some readers may know, I recently wrote a long story on Anaheim and a novel theory of application of the Brown Act.
https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2023/08/anaheims-ethical-cesspit-is-so-much-worse-than-ashleigh-realizes/
I discussed how slates of candidates elected by the grotesquely disproportionate spending of huge donors to or for PACs supporting their campaigns — Disney and the Angels for Anaheim, the Pacific Air Show owner for Huntington Beach — might be in violation of the spirit of the Brown Act to the extent that, from the start of their campaigns, they understood that they would all follow the lead of one or another member of their claque who individually may have received orders or guidance from that donor. (It is as obviously true here, in the disgraceful handling of gifting of public money to Big Air Show, as it is anywhere in Anaheim.
I would like to STRONGLY SUGGEST that attorneys in and involved with Huntington Beach politics read that piece. To the best of my knowledge, this application of the Brown Act — violation of which would negate Council actions — has never been employed, because it’s not so much a “hub-and-spoke” for discussion as an advance arrangement, one rendering public comment and outside opposition irrelevant, as it is arranging ahead of time that one or another actor will essentially control a majority of votes by themselves. I’ve come to think that this may be how much of the worst evasion of the Brown Act in OC (and presumably elsewhere) occurs — and it would be much easier to get good case law coming out of HB, given their psycho tyrant City Attorney, than it would from Anaheim.
Kalmick is very self-serving. I would not believe anything he says. I was the Area Inspector on his remodel project at his HB home. I found multiple corrections on his contractor’s work on 3 different occasions.. My Inspection supervisor, Eric H., went with me along with two others at next scheduled inspection. My corrections were validated and additional corrections were added. I was removed from the project the very next day. He obviously went to Ursula, the Director, to have me removed. Shortly after, Eric H. left the the city, a job he was recruited to . . . only a few months before. It was a shock to all of us. So, read between the lines and take his words w/a grain of salt.
Hmmm. Well if that’s true it must mean all those things were NOT on that night’s agenda, and we all imagined that crazy meeting. Good to know.
I don’t think that there’s as much between the lines as you seem to think is there.
And what’s obvious to you is not obvious to me. This is why it’s useful to get two sides of a story.