Comments on: We’ve got the Encinitas Silver Anniversary Blues

By: cubbysmom

cubbysmom — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:42:24 +0000

Maybe we can sell Dalagers appliances on Craigs list and pay for the band. Thanks for this column and for keeping it real.

By: FIA

FIA — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:09:15 +0000

I just read a few minutes ago that serial loser, and Encinitas City Attorney Glenn Sabine was paid over $1,000,000 for his part-time employment with our City. Could we file a Freedom of Information Act request to find out??

Oh, right! He just lost a lawsuit on that topic and was ordered by Judge Timothy Casserly to turn over the records, and he announced that the City would be filing an appeal to this decision prior to the Friday meeting that the council held to decide the matter!

I’m sure that the $50,000 that he charged us for and the $30,000 that Encinitas now owes the other attorney were worth it– For Sabine!

I wonder how much San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith makes by comparison? It must be at least $20 million if Glenn gets paid for a City of 64,000.

By: Local yokel

Local yokel — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:02:26 +0000

The Coastal Commission lobbyist that the city hired is indeed Susan McCabe. The city paid $25,000. The city also hired the Sohagi law firm in Los Angeles and paid $100,000 for the legal assistance.

This is all public information. Mr. Audet has it right. We will all be singing the Silver Anniversary Blues when the city can afford hundreds of thousands of dollars for high-priced legal and technical help, and not the paltry $1000-$2000 to hire a band. Jerome Stocks was particularly aggressive by insisting the public should step up for free. We have highly paid staff, and Stocks is one of the cheerleaders always saying we need to pay higher salaries and benefits to stay competitive. Yet our staff frequently fails us and has to be supported by expensive consultants.

It’s time for a second chorus of the Silver Anniversary Blues.

By: Gotta Disagree

Gotta Disagree — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 19:28:01 +0000

I think it is a low blow to suggest that Andrew Audet or anyone else would aspire to be Jerome Stocks!! Give us a break!

By: Jackson A

Jackson A — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:24:30 +0000

Wow! There are so many factual errors in this particular column, one is not sure whether to try correct the record or wrap fish?
Apparently the Coast News doesn’t do fact checking, because by stating that the City has hired a new City Manager for $25 million dollars, (much like the Anti-Prop A Opinion Piece Jim Kydd published on his front page that was off by several hundred million dollars) has no one at the Coast News ever discovered a calculator? Or is it more likely they just don’t care?
Nest, there is no ‘Silver Anniversary Celebration Committee’and, have none of the scribes at The Coast News discovered just how ridiculous they appear to the public by inconsistently arguing for more money for Houlihan’s favorite band to get paid a couple grand of taxpayer’s green at a 25th Anniversary Party in the same column he is decrying the expense of developing the park that the Cardiff haters have been responsible for holding up the process on for 8 years?
Mr. Audet, its clear that you wish you had Jerome Stock’s power/position; (Luckily this week you didn’t liken yourself to Gandhi or MLK as you have recently in public on a mic)but weekly diatribes with only the barest of facts interconnected by homilies about your mom and dad and ONLY designed to destroy another human being do not a successful column make.
Journalism Professor’s Grades on this specific column.
Style, grade F
Content Veracity, grade F
Research, grade F minus
Envy, grade A
Responsible to reading public, F minus
Semester grade composite: D minus
What? No disclosure of the profits Mr. Audet made off of campaigning against certain city council Members in the last Encinitas election?
Check out his political paperwork on the City’s website.

By: Namenames

Namenames — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:09:43 +0000

Just who was the rip off coastal lobbyist? Name names please. Let’s hold people accountable. This type of local government rip off lobbying at the Coastal Commission is unneeded and virtually useless. Check this out: http://www.newtimesslo.com/cover/6113/consulting-waste/

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:52:23 +0000

What about the cost of a 2nd lawsuit to try to fight against the order a judge gave the City when Glenn Sabine lost another frivilous lawsuit to deny citizens access to public records? Now he wants to go back and go a second round at our expense.

Sabine is among the worst lawyers in San Diego. Why can’t we find someone who is at least average to represent us?

By: Tony Allegretti

Tony Allegretti — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 04:23:31 +0000

Lame crap like your newspaper. I’m going to sue your ass.

By: trains acoming

trains acoming — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 03:30:57 +0000

Thank you, Mr. Audet.
As the freight trains rumble pass Pacific Station and over the Madonna, the train whistles will echo the Encinitas Silver Anniversary Blues.