- No you were not reading the Onion this morning if you saw two stories in the Signal about Patricia McKeon’s candidacy for Assembly. First, Mrs. McKeon relates the proto story of her candidacy inspiration due to the County bag tax at a Stevenson Ranch market (which we roundly mocked on SCVTalk last week). Among her major qualifications for Assembly:
- Watching Fox News and reading HuffPo and MSNBC on the interwebs, and listening to NPR in Washington taxicabs;
- Being the treasurer for Buck’s campaign and “guarding all the $25, $10, and $5 donations.” Who handles the donations with three zeros behind these numbers that come from the defense industry?
- And if you hadn’t thrown up already, one can visit Mrs. McKeon’s parallel universe with a lightning round of her quotes on the issues which includes a reference to a “little gal.” I’m not kidding.The only saving grace? Known right wing commenters on the Signal website are piling on Mrs. McKeon. Let’s see how long before the Signal turns the comments off.
- Two residents of Santa Clarita plead guilty to federal fraud and money laundering charges brought just under a year ago connected to a phony debt collection business. One interesting detail: The businesses website said they were located in Fresno while their “true” business address was in Bakersfield. You’ve got to wonder about criminals when they believe a Fresno address is swankier than B-Town.
- We can’t solve very many daylight homicides in the SCV but car burglars beware! Sheriff’s deputies nab another three after a chase in Newhall which brings the total to six in less than a fortnight.
- What did Jon Hatami promise today? In a continuing feature we reference Jon Hatami’s Facebook page to see if he is addressing and making promises on more issues that are not within the writ of the City Council, not legal or both. Newest edict is a “revelation” that four out of five City Council members are completely beholden to PAC’s, particularly Laurie Ender. On a happier note, the FB page has 6 more “likes” since Friday. At this rate Candidate Hatami will be up to 300 likes by election day; firmly in David Galvan territory.
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Herman Cain….chirp, chirp, chirp. I guess we all know why he didn’t want Sharia implemented in the US……
From Jon’s FB Page….4 of the current 5 city council people have been bought by PAC’s, especially Citizens for Integrity in Government. Thousands of dollars were paid to Laurie Ender. The voters will have to decide in April 2012, if it will be business as usual or if there needs to be new blood and a fresh change to the current Santa Clarita City Council.
Tim; Why do you portray this as a “revelation”? He is simply bringing up what is a legitimate campaign issue. There is nothing in this statement that makes it sound like he just became aware of this yesterday.
Here’s a revelation….Ender, Ferry, Lambert, & Hacker-Braley all donated to Richard Alarcon’s LA City Council Campaign in 2007…a time when Alarcon was perceived as an obstacle to expansion of Holy Cross…probably just a coincidence.
The daily news summary fails to mention that The Signal has a story that Patricia McKeon will ‘preside’ over the installation of new officers of the Santa Clarita Republican Women’s Club, and will give a speech about what it’s like to be a Congressman’s wife. The topic of her speech underscores my belief that she will be a no-show Assembly member if elected…Why give up the fun at parties inside the Beltway and hunker down in a ratty apartment in Sacramento and do some real work?
And on the funny side, at the last Republican Women’s shindig, Mrs. McKeon wasn’t prepared to give any speeches so Bob Hauter, Congressman McKeon’s aide, gave a speech for her.
For this new installation of officers meeting speech is Bob Hauter going to dress up in drag, and pretend he’s Patricia McKeon?
Sorry to see that there was no mention in todays brief about Mike Gaber’s death.
Mike was an incredible gentleman who had a true love for baseball, and kept stats like no one else. RIP, Mike; you will be missed.
http://www.the-signal.com/section/19/article/55390/
Herman Cain will end up in the heap of wanna bee candidates. His pronunciation of simple words is painful to hear as much as the personal relationship accusations every other day. I’m sure they’re true
Are you serious that 6 readers here, who are largely left leaning, disagree with my comment. I think somewhere really deep has frozen over.
Oh my gosh. Where do you start with the Patricia McKeon “interview”? Maybe nowhere. I just comes across as someone sounding very naive with some typical sloganism’s but no concrete ideas about how to really deal with the issues.