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Posted on 01/16/2003 12:36:38 PM PST by logician2u
By Stanley Allison
Times Staff Writer
January 16 2003
Laguna Beach Mayor and environmental crusader Toni Iseman is the newest appointee to the powerful California Coastal Commission, the panel announced Wednesday.
Iseman, appointed by Senate President Pro Tem John Burton (D-San Francisco), has been an outspoken environmental advocate since the 1970s and has helped lead an ongoing battle against the development of Laguna Canyon.
"She recognizes the economic importance of protecting California's coastal resources," said Mark Massara, director of the Sierra Club's coastal programs. "What coastal commissioners are asked to do on a monthly basis is sacrifice long-term economic health for short-term profits. It's vital that they appreciate the value of saying no to developers. She gets it."
The 12-member commission acts like a planning agency responsible for development decisions along the entire 1,150 miles of California coastline. It routinely determines the fate of building permits for oceanfront homeowners and real estate developers.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
But then we shouldn't really expect Gray Davis to appoint a person who respects property rights to a commission whose purpose is to violate them, should we?
That would be hypocrisy, and we know only Republicans have that vice (along with pandering, boot-licking and hero worship in the absence of present-day Ronald Reagans).
Democrats, on the other hand, let it all hang out. They don't mess around. None of this namby-pamby stuff, like "You're either with us or against us." Nosiree. They owe their election victory to the disorganized Republicans, most especially to George W, Bush and to former mayor Richard Rearden, but you won't see Gray Davis raising a toast to his allies in the opposition party.
No, he'll rub their collective noses in it by appointing the most extreme left-wingers he can find for important positions.
Contrast this to the way Republicans, once in office, promise a "bipartisan agenda" and try to "accommodate" Tom Daschle and his fellow socialists.
California is well on its way to becoming irrelevant with its state spending out of countrol, greenies deciding what can be built where and when (if ever) and a Republican Party that's become powerless to stop the march toward fascism.
It used to be a great place to visit, even.
But who'd want to live there.
wha....?..
WHAT?
Does she recognize the economic importance and environmental protection of drilling offshore to collect naturally seeping oil?
This coming special session to "fix" the Coastal Commission had better get unanimous Republican opposition or we are finished in California. (They need Republican votes to pass an emergency measure.)
The Demo_Rat "fix" will be to create a super legislature out of the Coastal Commission and we will get nut cases like this presiding over it. We have one here in Monterey County who is in competition to chair the Coastal Commission.
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