Not a Ferry Fan, Chair of the Santa Clarita Valley Know Nothings, is back. I apologize for not seeing his funny little videos sooner, but after a ten month break, he posted his first one in December right as I was riding my bike up a mountain in Hawaii and thus, I missed it.
First up: a doozy. Apparently Frank Ferry ripped into the Town Council form of government on the West Side of Santa Clarita during a Santa Clarita Council meeting. I’m not sure if this happened in December, but it’s new footage to me so I thought I’d post it:
NAFF’s number one target during his two + year reign of YouTube hilarity has always been Councilman Frank Ferry. Some of his videos about the 12+ year councilman are dead on; others, well they don’t really make sense. Whatever the case, it looks like FrankenFerry will be back for this year’s Council election as Ferry seeks another term in office.
If you’re not familiar with NAFF’s volume of work, count yourself lucky. The anonymous YouTuber clearly has a political agenda, but divining what that agenda is like trying to read heiroglyphics without the Rosetta stone. He (or she) is:
- Critical of the City Council when they approve too many developments
- Critical of the City Council when they hassle local developers
- He evidently moved here from the San Fernando Valley (he’s always referencing it, thus confirming my stereotypes)
- Worried about over population of Santa Clarita
- Distrustful and hostile to alternative transportation
- He pre-dates the Tea Party crowd but probably attends their meetings
- Thinks Ken Pulskamp pulls all the levers of local government and development
- Worried that people like me want him to live in “hi density” (sic) urban tenements
- He is angry that there are so many people around him
- He uses the term “suburban bedroom community” un-ironically
Indeed, if you watch enough of NAFF’s videos, you’ll realize rather quickly they aren’t even internally consistent. For instance, in this video:
He posts footage of a crowded street full of cars then mocks Marsha McLean for suggesting residents use other, greener forms of transportation. “We’ll just ride our little bicycles all over town while you clobber up our limited traffic corridors, rrrrriiggght” he says, tossing in a bit of global warming denialism for good measure.
Apparently NAFF thinks “traffic” is a term you use to refer to all the other cars around you when you’re driving down the street, alone in your car.
But no one said local politics had to make sense or be consistent. NAFF’s main point seems to be that there is no distinction between the City Council, City staff and developers; they are one, and they are elitist, know-it-alls and the rage is justified to save the SCV from the SFV’s fate.
But in 2010, as we enter the City Council race, I’m wondering if there are more NAFFs out there. Is he representative of a certain frightened SCV demographic that some savvy Council candidate might tap into as we enter this year’s Council race?
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