OC's Scariest People 2012!

 @GustavoArellano  @GregDiamond  Your Klan pieces are OK -- they are simply not a priority for talking about race in 2012.  It would be as if you were writing during the march on Selma and telling people that they should stop bugging you about what happened the Edmund Pettis Bridge because you had something important to tell them about the Rutherford Hayes administration.

How much more important and pressing is it, in your eyes, to note that some cretin from Yorba Linda's distant pass is a Klansman than to ask what the effects of the Costa Mesa Charter would be on that city's middle class?

"Blithering idiocies" from a "laughably inept dumbass" that you apparently can't refute.  You pick out one thing to defend -- the most personal thing, naturally -- and the rest you answer with sweeping and general insults.  I don't know who you think you're fooling -- but you certainly seem to think that they're awfully gullible.

 @GustavoArellano  @rotoro91

 Ricardo is my name. I had a brief conversation with David Amin and I asked him about their past ties to Pringle. He said that Pringle changed, he is a different person. I am not going to put las manos en el fuego and I will look this up. Many of us look up to the examples of successfull members of our community.  The severity of the disagreements between you and Dr Moreno appears as "cannibalism". If the disagreements are legitimate, then ni modo, we will survive.

The KKK pieces are a good reminder of the racist legacy in OC. It helps to understand the reactionary set-mind of many politicians and institutions, especially the police departments. However, history and description of current events are not enough to change the pinche reality. Endorsing good people like Duane Roberts is a step in the right direction, but much more can and needs to be done. I do not know Dr Moreno personally, but him and Los Amigos, have done a lot to advance solutions favouring the most vulnerable in our community. I am dissapointed that he has been included in this list. I expected Greg Diamond to be included. He is scary, whether you like it or not, in addition to put you to sleep, the guy is intelectually a force to be reckoned. I appreciate that the word pendejo has not been used to dismiss disagreements.

 @GustavoArellano I'll grant you the hit on Albert Chavez and I'll throw in the one on Troy Edgar.  (The latter looks like it was handed to you on a platter, though.)  Those weren't what you mentioned in your comment, though.  That was about Costa Mesa.You've stopped calling out "Riggy's shit" -- your coverage of the Charter (Measure V) seems to be limited to one paragraph in your voter guide for that city, here: 

"Perhaps the most contentious issue among Costa Mesa voters is deciding whether to pass or strike down Measure V, which aims to make Costa Mesa a charter city as approved by the council. If passed, Costa Mesa would follow a local constitution, giving it more control over its municipal affairs. Essentially, it allows the city council to outsource its workforce, mandates voter approval for any increase in public pension benefits, and prohibits unions from taking money out of city employee paychecks for political use. All of which, the council majority says, will save the city money. Critics, including union members and community activists, contend the proposed charter places too much power in the hands of a few council members, and is unnecessary to balance the budget."

No mention of the great issues that have been brought up continually by the likes of Geoff West and Greg Ridge, asking how THIS charter compares to others -- like in the City of Bell -- and why it grants  such MASSIVELY BROAD powers to a Council that has already irresponsibly run up enormous legal fees with other people's tax money to try to fix the race.  And this is in your own city!  By next Friday or so, I'll have written more about Measures T and U in Brea, which I've educated myself on last week, than you'll have published about the MERITS of Measure V in the past year.

I can't take credit for breaking much new ground on the Charter at our place, but at least I've written about and tried to make sure that people are aware of the great work at A Bubbling Cauldron.  The Weekly's just giving a full page to reviewing Geoff West's thoughtful criticisms of THIS PARTICULAR Charter (rather than another possible charter) would be an achievement.  But no -- your last story dealing with the substance of the Charter issues was from Sept. 1, 2011: http://www.ocweekly.com/2011-09-01/news/costa-mesa-jim-righeimer-huy-pham/.  If one of the civil leaders 100 years ago in what became Costa Mesa had been a Klansman, though, we'd sure know about it!

Thanks as always for the campaign advice.  Yeah, I have a campaign to run.  Don't you have a readership to inform?

 @GustavoArellano  @GregDiamond I agree, Anaheim is worse. But surely, Bustamante is scary enough to make that cut.....and don't assume Riggy was my reference. You can hold up a 73 year old retired marine with a gun, or a vicious city code harassment scheme, either way he's getting robbed. There's a lot more going on over here than you know about.