May 14, 2010 – Daily Brief

Get out of town, Scott. Too many people now know the Wilk name means scum. This latest upchuck of yours just validates a lot of people’s opinion of you that you need to move on. Think you will get any kudos for today’s piece of trash? How soon you forget that even the “inner circle” Republicans in this town backed David Gauny, and we will continue to do so right into the next election. Obviously, this fact is still bugging the hell out of you. You know, I am beginning to think you really might not know that everything you write just makes you look like a bigger and bigger fool.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, nobody leads the tea party movement. The movement is a set of principles and a state of mind. Anyone trying to make their name or further their own cause by invoking their relationship with the tea party is a danger to the movement.

Scott Wilk if full of it. He’s basically a paid political hack and as a result, anything that comes out of his mouth is based on the $$’s he’s received on any particular issue. The bottom line is there were plenty of better places to site medical office buildings (they don’t need to be right next to an existing hospital). Look at the many Facey buildings and other MOB’s in the SCV that are not located near the hospital. They do well in spite of their lack of proximity. If there was a dirty campaign, it was run by the Signal and the incumbents with their taking credit for normal city operations.

How did this point escape me? Wilk’s right. The Summit homeowners were in it for the view. Opposing the expansion of our lone hospital in order to preserve a view? Awesome! NIMBYism plus racial resentment. The most disgusting candidacy in SCV history. Props to Wilk.

It appears that Wilk has a fan club of one. I gagged so bad after reading the headline on his column that I couldn’t read the rest.

Wasn’t Scott Wilk a paid lobbyist for the developer of the medical office building expansion at the community hospital site? And wasn’t he the paid campaign manager for one of the incumbents in the recent election campaign, and essentially the campaign manager of the ‘slate’ campaign of all three incumbents? Facts missing from the Signal by the way. The press is really the only tool we have to keep government in check and accountable. When the press won’t do it’s job, we all suffer.

We desperately need a hospital on the East Side of town, can you imagine the impact and improvement for trauma, heart attack, and stroke patients to receive emergency care 20 minutes sooner?

Notwithstanding Wilk’s ties to lobbying or the hospital, he makes a very good point. The challengers were excessively negative in this campaign. So much so it turned me off to almost all of them. It’s not an exaggeration to say they were making the city and Santa Clarita sound pretty terrible. In addition, the challengers had no positive message of change to counter the incumbent’s list of accomplished tasks, like the CVC and other projects. All they could say was that the city is corrupt, in bed with developers, and committed to remaking the SCV into San Fernando Valley. They attacked staff too, which sucks because the staff is not allowed to respond. And then toward the end they started attacking high density, which offends me on a personal level since I live in a high density project right now. They ran a campaign to please the likes of NotaFerryFan.

Getting approval to build a new hospital in Valencia takes exactly the same amount of time as it does to gain approval in Canyon Country. Medical services that can be performed in places outside of an official “Hospital” do not have to be performed within earshot of a “Hospital or Trauma Center” itself. When you give a developer the ability to exceed density requirements, you inadvertently reduce their cost and give them an unfair economic advantage over a developer that is playing by the rules. That in itself discourages a second hospital to be built until such time as the effect of the unfair advantage is overcome. Unless of course, you do not care what you are doing to existing neighborhoods and intend to let every developer violate the rules. Another similar situation is coming into focus and that is the Medical Office building proposed at Singing Hills and McBeam. While expanding Henry Mayo Hospital is good for the public, adding the majority of the office buildings on the Henry Mayo site is not going to improve medical services in Santa Clarita. When residents of the Summit bought their homes they were told that they were purchasing in a planned community. They have every right to expect that local government would protect them from developer’s intent on making a profit at their expense. That scenario is becoming all too common in Santa Clarita. It is up to our council members to hold the line on policies that protect existing homeowners.

I too nearly tossed my cookies when I simply read the title! Scott’s name in the same hemisphere as the word “honest?” LMAO! However, in the old days when that rag actually had some decent journalists at the helm, Tim Whyte would have certainly added an editor’s note informing readers that Scott Wilk was a lobbyist for G&L Realty and was the campaign manager for the incumbents. And not a very good one, if he can’t do better than that for Frank, but then, Bob Kellar doesn’t think much of Wilk’s manager “talents” either. Jeff and Mike too often appear to be tools for the city and they need to take their heads out of those holes in the sand. Damageinc needs a better disguise. But it’s obvious that most can see the truth about Scott Wilk, and anyone with half a brain knows the truth about the medical office building project that G&L attempted to disguise as a hospital expansion. Scott Wilk does anything for a buck and Scott is definitely scum, as many, including many local Republicans, have named him correctly. This city would be better off without Scott Wilk and his ilk. Enough said.

“They ran a campaign to please the likes of NotaFerryFan.” Is that a pot calling the kettle black? Certainly is! So, Jeff, the reason you support high-density is a personal one. Because YOU live in high-density housing, an entire city is supposed to accept high-density housing based on your own living arrangements. Once again, LMAO. The challengers ran honest campaigns that resounded mightily with a lot of fed-up people, people fed up with not counting with our developer/lobbyist-owned city staff and our developer/lobbyist-owned City Council. Proof is in the amazing number of votes the challengers got for first-timers going up against well entrenched, developer supported incumbents. History was made in this last election and it was made because a hell of a lot of people got their heads up out of the sand. G&L bought that election, and now we have G&L sitting in 4 Council seats. Yeah, really something for incumbents and Scott Wilk to be proud of, but considering the lack of ethics on all their parts, it’s a safe bet that they don’t feel a twinge.

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Anyone know how to get a hold of Michael Parks? I can throw some business his way and the fact that he’s mobile is a big PLUS!! IF anyone knows anything would you let me know…:)

Jeff says: May 14, 2010 at 10:40am They attacked staff too, which sucks because the staff is not allowed to respond. First, why would staff have to respond? Didn’t Frank Ferry tell us at city council that he considers city staff “above reproach?” Yes, Frank certainly did scream that at us, and 3 other councilmembers feel exactly the same way as Frank. So how lucky can staff be, having bosses that think their employees should be cannonized for sainthood. Don’t believe I was ever that lucky to have bosses that considered me “above reproach,” but if I did, I wouldn’t worry about defending myself to tax-paying property owners who value their neighborhoods and are questioning a serious lack of transparency from their local government. Second, staff lies. It is not an attack to state the truth. As a member of a community coalition, I am one of many homeowners that have seen firsthand at OVOV meetings and the community meetings set up by Bob Kellar that staff is not always truthful with the information they give Santa Claritans. There were so many misrepresentations involved in the OVOV documents it was criminal what they tried to pull. OVOV is a document that can very possibly negatively impact our property values when that document becomes The Law According to Ken Pulskamp. When homeowners uncovered false information and misrepresentations regarding this documnent, our righteous outrage was above reproach. But I don’t think I remember seeing you at any of the OVOV meetings, Jeff, where I personally witnessed city staff’s lack of truthfulness. As for Scott Wilk, he is a lobbyist. Lobbyists don’t care about anyone or anything but the almighty dollar. Expecting more than that from any lobbyist is a lesson in futility. Especially when the scumbag, er, lobbyist, is Scott Wilk.

Wilks is a hack…. I guess over $ 40,000 from GL to the incumbent was just because they liked them….can we say payback…

Get home from work and miss all of the fun about Wilk, Gauny and the Hospital. A point that needs more common sense is the desire by many responders to have a hospital in Canyon Country. While that would be great, it doesn’t happen just because you want it. Somebody neds to buy enough land and build it. No other hospital, including Providence, has proposed a Canyon Country Hospital. In fact, the property Providence claimed to have in escrow was off of the 126 In VAlencia! The fact is that Henry Mayo is the only game in town for the forseable future. Time will tell if the proposed mix of Hospital and Medical Office works. If it does, what will Ferdman, Gauny and Boydston say then? Finally, I agree that the challengers ran negative campaigns. That is what you do when you want to defeat an incumbent. You have to give people a reason. And Gauny almost rode the anti incumbent wave in this Country to victory. However, for those who want change for change’s sake, remember that is what President Obama sold us. Are you happy with that?

Bottom line – we do need new blood on City Council. G&L now owns 4 seats, only people who would accept that woulld be city staff, City Council, G&L lobbyists, and Henry Mayo shills for G&L. Everyone now knows that the medical office building project will not be giving this city a hospital expansion. Anyone who refuses to acknowledge that fact is obviously part of the afore-mentioned entities. Term limits are good enough for even the President of the United States. We need term limits, too, to get rid of councilmembers who only work for developers. It’s lame to say new councilmembers MAY NOT be any better. How do you know unless we try. No reason NOT to try and get some new blood, at the very worst, getting rid of the garbage we have now won’t hurt us one little bit. And obviously, by the results of the last election, the people of this city want change. If not for G&L, that change would have very likely occurred. Like I said, if it doesn’t bother you that G&L contributed so much money to keep their puppets on OUR City Council, then you must be part of the entities mentioned above. I find it interesting that you only accuse challengers of running megative campaigns when Frank Ferry’s tbreats to David Gauny are not mentioned. And I suppose you have no problem with Ferry’s illegal campaign donation to Laurie Ender when she ran on G&L money? And you see nothing wrong with Laurene Weste’s Newhall Redevelopment scheming to insure she benefits as much as she can, financially? Interesting how you ignore really serious negatives from councilmembers. The challengers continued to run honest, clean campaigns and they pointed out the truth about our developer-owned City Councilm and they pointed out the truth about the lack of honesty from city staff. If you think that is negative, then by that very admission it time for change.

Damageinc says: May 15, 2010 at 12:56 pm What a loser I am. YOU ARE SO RIGHT!