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Yes on N & P, No on Santa Claus

This entry was posted on 11/9/2006 1:00 AM and is filed under uncategorized.

I can’t begin to describe the discontent I felt when I woke up Wednesday morning only to see that Measures N & P had passed.
I was talking to a friend from out of town that thought I suffered from a bad case of “Sour Grapes.”
I explained to him that “Sour Grapes” was when my college football team loses by 30 points; embarassment is when the citizens of Arcadia let a Corporate Bully come in and dictate City Politics through lies, deception and manipulation.
I thought the citizens of Arcadia were smarter than this. Every councilman urged residents to vote ‘NO’ (didn’t we just elect these guys?); every past mayor (that I can think of), every major local organization that went public, etc., said vote ‘NO,’ yet the citizens of Arcadia decided to listen to pretty mailers that had a quote on it from someone I have never heard of………sad…….
What is sadder is that today I realized that Voting & Politics (the basis on which this country was founded) was now determined by who is a better marketer, not what the message is or what is right or wrong.
At the end of the day, do Measures N & P really change anything? No, but what did change is that today I realized there was no Santa Claus and that the good guy doesn’t always get the girl.

Kevin Tomikns
founding member, Arcadia Wins!

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11/9/2006 9:50 AM G D wrote:
N and P get yes, I have to blame the people who were supposed to educate the public about what those inititives really were about. You can't just use the platform that Big Bad Westerfield is greedy, because residents on Arcadia have liked having that mall, and most of us go there often, even if we are not buying things. Instead, those opposing N and P should have just made it about $$ cost to run the stupid ballots, cost to the city, waste of $. Also you could have educated the public on differences between City Council Codes and Ballot inititives. Half of Arcadia barely speaks english, and I would doubt they understood what a No vote actually would mean. Oh well. Westerfield just trying to prolong the inevitable. Hey, the Mall is getting Cheescake Factory? That's finally a new restaurant I'll go to. kudos. BTW, I happily voted NO. Now it's so funny, because someday in the future when Westerfield wants to put up a huge glowing sign, they will have to go to a new inititive, which will cost the city another $600,000, to overturn this new law.
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11/9/2006 10:07 AM Rebecca wrote:
A lot of ignorant voters! The ballot language and set up didn't help. It almost appeared as if the city council was requesting a change to the master plan. A "yes" vote would make you feel like you were doing what they needed permission from the voters to do....if I knew nothing, why else would it be on a ballot? I think a lot of people know absolutely nothing about the struggle.
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