It’s getting hard to keep track of all the Tea Party groups in the SCV, but one stands out above the rest.
The newly christened SCV Patriots group, which evidently evolved from the SCV Tea Party Patriots, has built a new website/blog with lots of flags, quotes from the Founders and references to freedom sprinkled liberally throughout the (ironically) blue website:
Your liberty awaits your click
“It’s just another Tea Party group,” you say. “Big deal.”
Ahh, but that’s where you are wrong. In one of their first posts on the new site, the Patriots say they have partnered with a 501(c)3 group called American Majority to create a new generation of local leaders who will “restore constitutionally limited government to the Santa Clarita Valley.”
The group wants to find 10 SCVers to participate in the program, which will train the future leaders in fundraising, get out the vote efforts, and new media communication. Eventually these new principled leaders will become candidates for local office.
Now I just might be a bike-riding liberal living in the high density bowels of Newhall, but I think I know a thing or two about local politics. Isn’t this largely a pointless exercise? I mean can you conceive of a City Council man more conservative than Bob Kellar? Or a State Senator who could possibly be more against social programs than George Runner?
Or to put it another way, how could anyone possibly run to the right of Bob Kellar?
And I’m sorry to say but I don’t think the Patriots have thought this whole “restore constitutionally limited government to the SCV” thing out yet. After all, a constitutionally limited SCV government wouldn’t have things like ridgeline ordinances, building-height limitations, or density restrictions of any kind. It’d be laissez-faire for everyone – none of that stuff appears in the US Constitution.
Indeed, local conservatives are fine with activist and interventionist local government so long as it prevents private companies from building big developments near where they live. Back in the spring, the SCV Tea Party endorsed Dave Gauny precisely because he promised to put a break on development.
But it’s all good. I look forward to the SCV Patriots finding 10 principled SCV leaders to elect to office. The 2012 City Council election is only 16 months away after all, and Laurie Ender & Bob Kellar will be up for reelection.
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“Now I just might be a bike-riding liberal living in the high density bowels of Newhall”
Where do you come up with such great lines, Master Blogger? Ha!
A constitutionally limited SCV government wouldn’t have “…building height limitations, etc.!?!?!?” The city staff and reigning council always find some appropriate “mitigation” to render a “no significant impact” conclusion when they want to exceed any limitation, ordinance or restriction.
tru dat
“The 2012 City Council election is only 16 months away after all, and Laurie Ender & Bob Kellar will be up for reelection.”
And they will easily win reelection if they run, and I take no pleasure in asserting that.
I thought Bob indicated he would not be running again.
Word on the street is that he probably will run again. He and David Gauny will engage in some kind of quixotic slate type of campaign and Laurie Ender will come first by a long shot. She is not lazy like Frank Ferry and she will raise a ton of dough and you can expect that she will send out two mailers each week; one with a picture of her and Bob Kellar talking about how wonderful things are at the City and another hitting David Gauny with all the negative things you can imagine.
The only wild card is that her and Ferry try to take revenge on Bob Kellar by running someone like Bill Cooper to try and capture Bob’s seat, but that is a huge waste of time.
I thought Bob was a man of his word. I think he believes in the value of his word. The new girl has too much baggage. Besides, bad decisions, and the course the city in on, will likely cast a negative cloud over the entire council. Much worse than their shady deals have already cast.
Bob has stated for sometime that there is a 95% chance that he won’t run in 2012. Many of us are trying to convince him to go with the other 5%. His hearing may be bad but at least he listens.
Amen.
RE: Can you be right of Kellar?
Socially, not very much, but fiscally, yes.
I like Bob Kellar, and he’s pretty conservative (the two are not unrelated). But I find his voting pattern incomprehensible. At the last meeting, a guy complained that it was too expensive to participate in SCV’s adult softball league. Pulskamp pointed out they only raised fees to cover the cost of field maintenance, lights, etc.; the old fees meant the City was subsidizing softball players. But he still didn’t like it and now it’s going to be agendized.
While being against fee/tax increases is conservativeish, in practice, it sounds like he wants a taxpayer-subsidized recreation program, which is pretty liberalish.
I too am a Bob Kellar fan, but subsidizing adult softball!? That is not a good idea. If those guys don’t have jobs and can’t afford their hobby then they need to spend more time looking for work and less time playing around.
You must have noticed that Weste jumped on Bob’s band wagon, re: the softball fees. Something she did not do when Bob did not want to raise the open space tax. The difference is that Richard Green grows his nursery stock on Weste’s property. Weste needs to be recalled, she has lost sight of the difference between right and wrong governance.. She has been there way too long and seems to think the city belongs to her. .
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How is Weste leasing land to Green related to Kellar voting to subsidize softball? I need more dots to make the connection
Oh, Connect, that’s what’s fun about SCVTalk!
The point was that Weste did not support Kellar when he asked that the tax for open space not be increased next tax year, because of the bad economy. Weste could care less about the economy when it came to funding her pet project and she opposed Bob. Now Bob uses the same argument to not raise the softball fees, and Weste is all for it. The difference is that Weste rents her land to Richard Green, the guy that brought the issue to the council. This seems to have influenced her position on taxes and fees. (<:)
Interesting… thanks for the extra dots!
We know we saw the videos.
From my understanding of the Tea Party Movement, the focus of a constitutionally limited government and limited government spending is all at the Federal level, with the states, municipalities, and individuals getting back more of the balance of power. So I guess I don’t see anything contradictory about Tea Partiers wanting more active local governments, but restricted federal governments…I view that as their platform. IMHO.
I know a lot of people are interested in “restoring the Constitution,” but I’ve often wondered which parts. Do they want to enforce Article I Section 10, which says among other things that states must pay all debts in gold and silver coin?
Jeff stop trying to clue them in. In the long run the Tea parties are the best friend of the democratic party.
Has Nate already forgotten our GOP/Tea Party shellacking of liberalism on November 2nd? Ha!
Thanks Jeff, for info on the new outstanding Patriot Blog… I just book marked it into my favorites tray to the RIGHT of your Blog!
Has Bill forgot th tea party kept the GOP from owning the senate. The tea party had nothing to do with the “shellacking”. It was a combo of a weak liberal echo chamber. John Adams hit it on the head democrats don’t control their people… To many Independent thinkers.
GOP thinks this election is a green light for their hidden agenda… The public is expecting job creation and debt reduction. When the gridlock begins, who do you think will take the blame? Obama just raised the Rublicans, 2 years with no pay so who they like making the sacrifices they expect everyone else to make.
What will you say when the debt ceiling is raised….? Hope and change… I think not just more of the same.
Hey man, the lame duck has tin ears, but at least the GOP/Tea Party is taking care of business. First things first: no tax increase and approve a budget. What is so hard for Harry Weed and Nanny Nancy to understand? America spoke loud and clear on November 2nd and the GOP/Tea Party listened.
Sorry Nanny Natie Nancy, but extending unemployment $$’s and passing the Dream Act does not grow our economy!
Anyone hear of the emerging Tequilla Party?
I heard they allow no lemons.
Yes, and I understand they meet in OTN every Saturday afternoon.