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CAMPAIGN SIGNS

We have a local election this coming Tuesday.

The indications are obvious.

Our junk mail has risen like a a tide, the dinner time phone calls are mounting up (we have the recorder on full time with a mute bell), and the campaign posters have bloomed on every vacant lot in town.

And some non-vacant lots.

We have a sign up the drive, technically on the neighbor's lot but we maintain it. A long story.

There is currently a huge turnover in City positions.

We will have a new mayor, two new council members, maybe new water board guys.

Our neighbor Bill has been on the Water Agency Board for years and he is opposed for the first time.

No one is very happy with the local government here.

The dominance of the development mentality has pissed everyone off.

We are in a vicious circle. We have mounting mandated costs with the retirement funds of public safety personnel and so we allow new construction to get the tax revenue.

Then we have more people and have to hire more public safety personnel. No stopping it.

The current Council have never met a developer they didn't like.

We have seen this first hand.

Water usage is also an issue. Same thing. Development.

And there is another referendum issue about land conservation. Stopping a development right below the Chino Cone Tramway entrance. The Council approved this.

A step too far.

None of them are running for re-election.

The fuckers would be thrown out.

You can sense some emotion here I suppose.

It has to stop. Soon.

I don't have a lot of hope though.

We elected reformers before and they turned in the first year. It costs $100,000 to run a Council campaign. Where do you think the money comes from? Not guys like me.

When we first moved here the town was moribund. Very nice in a way.

The main issue in those days was hyping up tourism. It worked.

Then when a lot of the tourists decided to stay and most of them were gay, there was the issue of gay representation.

That solved, the realization hit that growth is not always a good thing. Especially when your planning and regulation process is incompetent and probably corrupt.

It took a long time to figure that out.

They still are not out of the woods.

So it is an important election.

Aren't they all?

Vote.

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