Comments on: Surfing Madonna is in eye of the beholder

By: Surfing Madonna

Surfing Madonna — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:53:48 +0000

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By: evilbunny

evilbunny — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:38:28 +0000

Re: Domino Due (May 31 @!:49),
Bottom line – if some dumb shmuck WILLINGLY step out into traffic for a photo, it’s their own fault!! Would lose in any court.

By: a spade a spade

a spade a spade — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:59:23 +0000

OK, leave the Madonna and put up a surfing Allah, Mohammed, Krsna, John Smith, Dali Lama, Billy Graham, Oral Roberts, Devil right next to it.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 01:55:32 +0000

To Someone Who Knows,

In the comments that Andrew Audet has made to council in the meetings that I have seen on tv, he makes positive suggestions about ways to save our taxpayers money. I suppose that it could be seen as insulting and threatening to the economic interest of Mr. Stocks and Mr. Cotton, who are receiving pay from City taxpayers, but there are about 60,000 taxpayers who are funding a few hundred at City Hall, and they work for us. We all understand that to get a job with the pay and benefits that Cotton had–especially for one who went missing paid and mostly unnoticed for 3 weeks is not easy to find, why is it inappropriate for any citizen to raise questions about whether we are getting good value from a "retired City Manager" or anyone else who is a City employee or a council member?

As Chris has stated below, Andrew Audet’s opinions should be the least of their worries. Phil Cotton’s hourly contract is available online, and a number of professional journalists have printed stories in all of the local newspapers about this situation and they are available online. A judge has recently ruled that Encintitas has to start honoring citizens’ Freedom of Information Act requests and has also discounted Glenn Sabine’s claim that if they were to start following the law, it would somehow impede staff’s ability to do their jobs. Instead of taking this case to court and subjecting our city to the expense and public ridicule of these explinations of why staff and our 2 councilmen perform at the level that they do, we need to get leaders who work in citizens’ best interests– not their own. Thank you Andrew Audet!

By: Chris Stubber

Chris Stubber — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:34:15 +0000

To someone who knows,
Mr. Audet is willing to use his name and give is view in his OPINION column. You seem willing to come in and bash Mr. Audet with hand grenades and run into the corner. If he has done so much wrong why has the council or you come out and publicly respond to Mr. Audet using your name? Has the coast news blocked you from using your name here or in your submissions to the letters section? Now, that would be evidence that Mr. Audet has found a way to silence dissent, but that hasn’t happened. The council is the one trying to silence the dissent by sending attack dogs to bite the messenger.

By: Some one who knows

Some one who knows — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:47:54 +0000

Apparently no one has followed Mr. Audet and his city council meeting appearances. He does have a personal vendetta against mr. stocks and anyone who does not agree with his point of view. Go see for yourself. The city keeps an archive of city council meetings, Audet can be seen numerous times making demeaning and insulting comments because he disagrees. Audet intentionally misrepresents information in this article, talking about city manager spiking his pension. What he fails to acknowledge is that the City Manager is infact considered retired. He is collecting his PERS retirement which means his payout can and will not change unless he were to come out of retirement and earn more of an income for 12 months. This is a deliberate attempt for mr. Audet to bash and further his agenda. Frankly, im sick of people like him with his holier than thou attitude spoiled and selfish thinking that only his views are correct and that he infact represents the majority of this city. Well sir, there is a silent Majority in this city, and you keep opening that big mouth of yours and watch as you wake a sleeping giant.

By: local yokel

local yokel — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:49:03 +0000

Stocks bashing? It’s all in the eye of the beholder. I’m been observing Stocks since he got on the council. Mr. Audet hasn’t reported anything that is not factual. Domino Due needs to present some facts where Audet is wrong. Otherwise he is guilty of Audet bashing.

There are lots of rumors circulating in Encinitas about Stocks’ personal and public behavior. Audet is only reporting and commenting on what is documented.

Stocks supported and bullied the council into approving a stoplight at Crest and El Camino Real, when the real need was at Willowsprings and El Camino Real, only a block away. It was a self-serving and expensive move by Stocks because he lives nearby. It would not be bashing to report this. A lot of residents on Crest were incensed by Stocks and would have welcomed comments by Audet. The local press never touched it.

By: Dump Stocks?

Dump Stocks? — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 03:08:55 +0000

I think that Domino Due is assuming that Mr Audet has a personal dislike of Stocks. I think that he is responding to a pattern of decisions by both Stocks and Bond that have not been in the best interest of taxpayers–like the huge increase in staff pension and pay and his position to let Phil Cotton take 3 weeks paid vacation as an hourly worker to name a few. When the taxpayers approach Mr. Stocks or Mr. Bond and point out that their giving favors to friends or campaign contributors at the expense of taxpayers is unfair, what do you expect?

Why do we keep hearing the same complaints about particular councilmen from people who don’t even know eachother, but have similar stories of decisions for their own gain over the interests of the little people in Encinitas? More and more people see that they really are no different than Dan Dalager.

By: enc. observer

enc. observer — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:48:34 +0000

Since Domino Due’ is talking about the safety issues in Encinitas, the Planning Commission didn’t let safety get in the way when they approved an 8100 square feet house with a six car turnaround garage and driveway for two additional cars on narrow San Elijo.

By: Domino Due'

Domino Due' — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:49:05 +0000

Remember three years ago when an innocent student from SDA was killed by an out-of-control truck driven by a fellow student under the freeway on Santa Fe Drive?
While ‘Our Lady of Encinitas’ is beautiful, it also is unsafe. It is what is called ‘an attractive nuisance’ meaning, sooner, rather than later, some visitor will step backwards out into traffic to shoot a digital memory on their camera and get run over or killed.
It is sad how many folks do not recognize this fact. Would you rather have your taxes spent on medical bills or civil suits or environmental stewardship?
All Jerome Stocks has asked for is for those who want it saved, to participate in fund-raising to move it somewhere appropriate and safe.
You want it saved? You can help pay!
This column needs to be renamed; it is the same subject every week; Dump Stocks!
The grasp of this ‘new’ columnist for local history, process, rules of order and the Socratic Method is always questionable.
Be honest; change this column’s title to ‘Dump Stocks!’ and quit pretending to be about anything else.