I just heard that Tuesday night, the Stanton City Council, after accepting the City Clerk's certification of the voter initiative to repeal their misbegotten forced pre-sale home inspection ordinance Tuesday, then voted 5-0 to repeal the ordinance themselves.
A welcome display of common sense, saving the city the cost of an initiative campaign would that certinaly have ended in the same result.
And not uncoincidentally, the council's action spares Mayor Brian Donohue, Mayor Pro Tem David Shawver (remember him?) and Councilman Ed Royce, Sr. from having to seek re-election on the same ballot as an initiative seeking to repeal an unpopular policy they had supported. If they're lucky, Stanton politics will return to form and no-one else will file to for City Council and they'll get to cancel the election again.
I hope the Santa Ana City council is watching and will not go forward with the the same bad plan.
Posted by: Heads up Santa Ana! | June 29, 2006 at 05:50 PM
Mayor Pro Tem David Shawver (remember him?)
You know what cracks me up over the bashing folks gave Shawver? Somehow he wasn't worthy of being a supervisor. Yet his credentials are remarkably similar to others. He is a career school teacher. He's been a city councilperson for almost 20 years. Sound familiar? Look no further than the credentials of the present supervisor for the 4th district prior to unseating an incumbent.
What a hoot.
Posted by: Supe credentials | June 29, 2006 at 08:32 PM
I think Norby and Silva were both school teachers.
Posted by: Sup. to Nuts | June 29, 2006 at 09:06 PM
Being a teacher didn't automatically discredtit Shawver.
Norby wasn't a union puppet, dredged up by the public employees at the last minute, and bankrolled by the unions in order to run against a candidate they feared.
Posted by: redperegrine | June 30, 2006 at 07:35 AM
You're correct. Norby was a puppet of the anti airport forces who funded his campaign.
What's the difference?
Posted by: Supe credentials | June 30, 2006 at 08:21 AM
No, Norby took advantage of a consistent policy position with regard to El Toro that he had held since the mid-nineties. No puppetry going on, esp. since the airport issue is dead.
Dave S., othe other hand, was a virtual marionette of the public employee unions who will never go away. Any real comparison?
Posted by: redperegrine | June 30, 2006 at 11:29 AM
Shawver's credentials are no different than Norby's when he ran back in 2002. Rationalize all you want. But that is the fact of the matter.
Posted by: Supe credentials | June 30, 2006 at 03:58 PM
Other than Shawver is a union stooge and Norby is virtually a political libertarian.
Yeah, other than their political philosophies, there's no difference at all.
Posted by: You sir, are an idiot | June 30, 2006 at 04:19 PM