The Buzz

A blog reader’s reaction to the prospect of a weekly Farmers Market in Mission Viejo next to the library: “I have been to the Farmers Market in San Juan Capistrano. It does very well among businesses on a busy street and needs no ‘advertising and marketing’ paid with taxes. When driving on Alicia Parkway in Mission Viejo, I see several retail centers where a Farmers Market would work. It would be good for the centers and give a head start to the Farmers Market to put it among businesses. It is not a good idea to put a Farmers Market next to the library.” – R.D., Mission Viejo

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Kudos to Councilwoman Cathy Schlicht for bringing her Safe Parks Ordinance to the council on Oct. 17. Her proposal passed, banning registered sex offenders from entering public parks. Can citizens remember the last time any other council member proposed something with genuine benefits for the community that didn’t cost a fortune?

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Last week’s Taste of Capo deserves mention as a well-organized and highly successful event. PTA leaders and other parents at Capo High School formed a Foundation to raise money for the school’s needs. That’s the kind of project the community can support, especially when parents work hard for a good cause without asking for public funds.

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Despite several lessons, City Manager Dennis Wilberg hasn’t learned he’s no match for residents on the blogs. Wilberg again last week posted a little jab, and he was immediately smacked down. ( http://missionviejodispatch.com/city-aestheics/letter-the-perfidious-promise/#comments ) Wilberg shows disdain for residents as well as council members – past and present – who have ever disagreed with him. In 2003 when then-city manager Dan Joseph was fired, the council had an opportunity to hire an intelligent, ethical administrator to work for the city instead of against it. Before Wilberg was promoted to city manager, he demonstrated his corrupt nature by creating a stealth grading project to make work for a city contractor, Granich Construction. After watchdogs smoked him out, the council should have fired him.

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Mission Viejo residents frequently comment on how often the city tears out vegetation from the medians. While city-owned slopes around town are either barren or poorly maintained, medians are planted and replanted with flowers of the season. Perhaps City Hall’s goal is to impress commuters speeding through town from points east on their way to the freeway.

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Tea Partier Robert Homesley reminds all patriots to tune in to KCEO AM 1000 every Thursday from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. or listen live at http://www.longliveamerica.com . This is Orange County and San Diego County’s only Tea Party AM radio show. Robert invites listeners to call or send in Tea Party announcements. Call (760) 931-1604 to be part of the live show.

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Columnist Mark Steyn comments on the Occupy Wall Street movement, “ … the 'Occupy' movement has no real solutions, except more government, more spending, more regulation, more bureaucracy, more unsustainable lethargic pseudo-university with no return on investment, more more more of what got us into this hole. ...." http://patriotpost.us/edition/2011/10/17/brief/

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“With the most recent GOP presidential primary debate just concluded, it's clear that the frontrunner is none other than ... you guessed it, Barack Hussein Obama. The incessant bickering bullpucky and petty assaults among most of the GOP wannabes is undoubtedly a source of great glee for the Obama campaign. That infighting, and the fact that Obama's adoring Leftmedia sycophants are promoting the GOP candidates they believe Obama can most readily defeat, largely account for the GOP candidate poll standings -- and are keeping Obama in the lead.” http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2011/10/20/memo-to-gop-contenders-cut-the-crap

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From Tea Party Patriot Dawn Wildman: “John Bryson was approved as Commerce Secretary by a vote that included 21 Republicans. Bryson is founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, major funder of the "NO on Prop 23" campaign. Remember the "two Texas oil companies are trying to ram this into law" ad campaign? Yep, that was the work of the NRDC. Bryson is a huge investor in electric cars and solar panels. One of his investments, Bright Source, just received $1.6 billion from the DOE and those few remaining dollars from the stimulus. Time to find out what these 21 Republicans got for this vote and boot them out.”