Tested
Yes, he was tested on October 5th. Thank you to Joe Corder for administering the test. Test result: An F for dishonesty and blatant disregard for our municipal codes.

Proven:
What exactly has he proven in his 10 month tenure at council?
Encinitas good credit rating is not to Muir’s credit. In fact large pension of $170K a year for retiring at 55 is unheard of!
Same can be said about the balance budget. It has nothing to do with what Muir did on council. He has not even been on council for a full budget cycle.
Encinitas Community Park is now being built. Oh yes, take credit for that one too. All Mark Muir has done is approve an $8M revenue bond and shovel contaminated soil for a photo op!
Moonlight Beach improvement? More debt, an a photo op opportunity shoveling sand.
Rejected high density on El Camino Real: Any official with a brain would have realized that stuffing 1300 apartment units on a short section of El Camino Real was a disaster.
Then Mark Muir has the nerve to claim he will favor a vote on the final general plan. That’s ludicrous. The update to the General Plan will be adopted by a 4/5th council majority. Why would Muir claim this but then in turns oppose the Right-to-Vote Initiative on zoning increases? This is one of the intended consequence of the initiative: Put the GPU up to a vote of the people, since the GPU will result in zoning increases
Voted for pension reform: The only council meeting where pension reform was discussed was not even attended by Mark Muir.

Trusted: ditto from Tested. We can’t trust Mark Muir. He has failed the character test on October 5th. He is also aligned with Stocks which make untrustworthy

Mark Muir: Failed Test, unproven, can not be trusted!

FIRE MUIR ! OH Yes and DUMP STOCKS!

Stocks, as we know, doesn’t follow parliamentary procedure or Roberts Rules of
Order. He unilaterally shortens our alloted time to speak, as listed on the
agenda, while allowing City and Water District reports to go on interminably.
These should be restricted to no more than half an hour, particularly when there
is a full agenda and many public speakers. Instead, the public’s right to speak
is taken away and a “connected” few, special interests, get to go on an on,
approaching or for more than an hour!

Outgoing Mayor

All of Encinitas Council should be calling out points of order, objecting to outgoing Mayor Jerome Stocks’ actions. Councilmember Mark Muir, when he said he supported Councilmember Teresa Barth’s motion on lifting the ban on banners,
should have corrected, “I mean that as a second! “

Then Council could have voted. Instead, a bogus subcommittee was appointed, an
alternative not on the agenda, so no public speakers could address or object to
the advisability of that move to delay and extend the banning of freedom of
expression within a limited public forum. As usual, the subcommittee idea
didn’t come up until the public hearing portion of the discussion had been
closed.

Stocks has the balls to blatantly manipulate the agenda, to change the law to
ban banners, while trying to do retroactive damage control . . . in a futile
attempt to cover-up or excuse his violations of the Constitution and EMC. He
attempts to codify the very abuse of discretion to which lawyers, artists and
the general public object!

Stocks, in his flagrant disregard for the letter of the law, demonstrates that
he thinks he is the law, and therefore above it. The issue of campaign sign law
is also not about hours or days; it’s about Stocks’ hypocrisy in his lack of
respect for the public trust, for our Constitutional and common law rights, our
property rights . . . our right to pursue happiness while causing no harm . . .

Like outgoing, convicted Mayor Dan Dalager, before him, Stocks has been talking
out of both sides of his mouth. With one face he calls for decorum, while the
other side threatens us with the “big guns” of a bully, who disregards,
disrespects and attempts to devalue the voice of the community as we ask our
representatives to stand for truth and our freedom to enjoy and be grateful for
our quality of life.