- After reading Patricia McKeon's "interview" Scott Wilk sends a letter (Debate Request 11292011) to our Mrs. McKeon requesting TEN Lincoln-Douglas style candidate debates between now and the date of the open primary in early June, or roughly one debate every two and one half weeks. And Bob Hau...er Patricia McKeon's reply, from the Gail Ortiz school of writing, in it's entirety:
Scott
Thank you for the nice comments. As I told Mr. Holt, I'm being very deliberate in how I'm developing my campaign organization and I'm doing so on a schedule defined by the volunteers working so hard on my behalf. I have no doubt that you and I will have many many opportunities to engage the public and to discuss the issues facing California and to that end I look forward to doing so.
Let's be honest, your request is really a Campaign 101 tactic for a candidate who needs to raise their profile. As you and I know, the election is nearly a year away and the only people paying attention to this race are you, me, our supporters, and those you carboned on your note to me.
I think you are getting a little ahead of yourself. It's been just a couple of weeks since your last election and you're already focused on your next campaign. I know that some think that campaigns are about merely reaching for the next rung on the political ladder, but I don't share that view.
In the meantime, we both have a lot of work and a lot of listening to do before we do anything else.
Sincerely,
Patricia
Translation: We will have ten debates when monkeys fly out my butt
- I will link to the SIGNAL article only because of the great comments.
- Through other experiences I have had personally Wal-Mart is by far the most diligent retailer in catching phony credit card users and bad check writers. In this story they triumph again.
- Though I can't link to it at the moment, some Occupy Santa Clarita folks were at the Occupy LA Tent City early this morning when it was cleared by LAPD and submitted video of the event. Kudos to both the LAPD for not busting heads AND the protesters for submitting to arrest without violence. I feel somewhat proud to know that both the police and the protesters in Southern California set up a model for how to do these things right
- And in the category of when all you have is a hammer everything you see is a nail Jon Hatami on his FB page now thinks it would be a good idea for the City to fund two full time deputies to patrol the Town Center Mall. In addition to preventing one alleged bathroom assault every 15 years the deputies could crack down on that bane of Western Civilization, underage smoking. Also, the City could update its ordinances and make it a misdemeanor to be a hipster doofus, which would bring loads of revenue into the City coffers and make it easier to get a genius bar appointment at the Apple Store.
And for those wondering if Jon Hatami is OK with the crony capitalism and mercantilism that pervades City Hall I guess he is, because this is a City subsidy for a specific business. Will Westfield contribute to his campaign?