Mission Viejo Buzz



	The Buzz A Mission Viejo resident found religion in a wooden chair, as reported in the June 24 OC Register. Chipped paint on an Adirondack-style rocker formed a blotch on the wood, which the chair’s owner likens to an image of Jesus Christ. Wanting to share the miraculous find, the owner listed it on eBay for $25,000. * Given City Hall’s obsession with drawing residents into taxpayer-funded silliness, why don’t city employees follow the chair owner’s lead? Invite residents to find images in the cracked-up asphalt of their streets. They could take a picture of themselves lying in the street next to the image and send it to City Hall. Referring to ex-city manager Dan Joseph’s quote, “we’re getting out of the religion business” (when he tried to remove the Nativity Scene from the Four Corners), the range of iconography should include the winter solstice, tree worship and a catchall category, “whatever.” To some people, the cracks might look like crosses. Many streets look more like Jackson Pollack masterpieces, with tar drizzled over an extensive network of cracks. * Greg Woodard’s hatchet-throwing associate often lifts material from this site and posts it as his own on another blog. Woodard is a newly minted politician with the support of “developer world” and a Lake Forest activist. Woodard would like someone – anyone – to believe he’s a legitimate officeholder after receiving an appointment to the OC Republican Central Committee. One of Woodard’s claims on the other blog includes a whopper about his tenure with the California Republican Assembly. With no understanding of CRA, Woodard sided with the culprits who transferred members from one unit to another without their knowledge. * Woodard is posturing as a candidate for the 2012 city council election. He’s on record with his blog posts showing he’s ignorant about the city. His positions against Mission Viejo’s Measure D were based on blatant lies, and he lied about his CRA membership. If Mission Viejo voters think a liar makes a good representative, look no further than incumbent Frank Ury for the 2012 city election. * Longtime Mission Viejo residents notice the city’s demographics are changing. Families that bought the community’s first homes are moving on, and single-family homes are being rented by unrelated individuals or multiple families under one roof. Gang activity is evident in formerly secure areas along Los Alisos Blvd. and Crown Valley Pkwy, and city headlines report armed robberies and other violent crimes. The character of neighborhoods has been undermined by various city councils approving apartments and bringing in more high-density housing each time a developer shows up with cash for their reelection campaigns. * Donald Trump says “You’re fired!” to interns who aren’t quick on their feet, but it took him a month to say “You’re forged.” Trump went silent after he claimed credit for pressuring Barack Obama to release a new version of his birth certificate on April 27. After Trump’s slow response to the obvious birth certificate forgery, he should fire himself. Read the update about Obama’s ongoing birth certificate hoax: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=303181 * Many Americans who voted for Obama are awakening to the “change” they bought in the 2008 presidential election. A message is showing up on highway signs around the country: “So now we know … CHANGE = more debt, more taxes, more welfare, more regulation, more government, more wasteful spending, more corruption. Thanks, Mr. President.” * ACT for America will meet on Mon., July 12. Doors open at 7:00 p.m., and the general chapter meeting begins at 7:30. Guest speaker will be Rich Tuttle, who will present “How to help law enforcement prevent terrorism in our communities.” The group meets at the community center in Mission Viejo. * Mission Viejo residents are reacting strongly against the city’s mess at Oso and Marguerite Pkwy, which includes a road-widening project that’s gone on forever. The bloated city staff lacks real work and real projects to keep them busy. Thus, every project increases dramatically in scope, expense and length of time to complete. The council majority is oblivious to the waste, particularly with costly “decorative” junk in every imaginable place. * To demonstrate the confusion of the city’s bureaucrats, Keith Rattay was quoted during the disastrous Crown Valley Pkwy widening project, which took more than three years to complete. Rattay referred to the arterial as a “vehicular-oriented street.” What other purpose does he think streets have? Despite acknowledging Crown Valley Pkwy is a “vehicular-oriented street,” he proceeded to build a poster gallery down the middle with distractions and traffic hazards. Rattay’s background is landscape architecture – he’s a plant guy. The person who for years made excuses about Mission Viejo’s snarled traffic – alternately saying the same traffic signals couldn’t be synchronized and they had already been synchronized – has a degree in sociology. When the city’s highest-level employees are unqualified for the job, no one should be surprised with the outcome. * A resident emailed: “I’ve been looking at the oversize pots near Oso and Marguerite. They do not reflect the Mission Viejo Company’s Mediterranean concept for Mission Viejo. The new pots look like oversize Mexican bean jars. The fire station near Oso has the same brown jars, and I’d like to know who paid for them. The pots are also along Oso and in front of Ralphs on La Paz. It looks like the city used extortion on Ralphs, as it did to force Sonic Drive-In to buy a $10,000 rusty car, to get city permits. Which city official went on a pot-buying binge in Tijuana with our checkbook?”