Comments on: Short honeymoon for new Santa Rosa mayor http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/ Your Sonoma County Politics Site Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:36:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Danielle http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-834486 Danielle Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:34:02 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-834486 Let the circus commence led by an arrogant mayor who publicly demeans a member of the community. Bravo Erin Carlstrom for electing yourself and this tool as vice mayor/mayor. Everyone just sit back and enjoy this train wreck of a city council self destruct.

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]]> By: James Bennett http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-827657 James Bennett Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:33:55 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-827657 A moderate in an era of an extremist takeover.
The adherent local “newspaper” complicit in the propaganda pile on.
Setting a tone of intimidation.
Next they’ll show at council with face covered, goggles and helmets.
Add the bicycle coalition to the army of NGOs, boards, commisions, “advocacy” groups, “social justice” and planning cronies and “consultants”.
Ready to deploy, at ICLEI’s disposal when needed for a “job”.
Creating an illusion of “consensus”.

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]]> By: Joe merckx http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-823755 Joe merckx Sun, 16 Dec 2012 16:15:08 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-823755 This “pedestrians and bike friendly theme” sounds fine, but is really managed and controlled by a much greater force. Social engineering and the folks behind it are brainwashed. read this..It has all the same buzzwords. It doesnt work, haven’t we learned.”The Ideal Communist City” published by the former Soviet Union’s University of Moscow (circa 1970) well before the UN came out with the Sustainable Development definition in 1987… But the book is chock full of all the current designer planning buzz-words like “high density, mixed-use walkable, livable, less-auto dependent communities”

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]]> By: Caller http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-822772 Caller Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:04:17 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-822772 WOW!!! It looks like Laura Gonzalez got caught posting as “Victoria Rose Pierce”!!! She and her bully buddies have criticized people for posting anonymously, but apparently she doesn’t have a problem with posting under a fake name. Anonymous is one thing, but a fake name that is supposed to appear like someone’s real full name… WOW!!!

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]]> By: Elephant http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-819986 Elephant Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:14:49 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-819986 @ Victoria Rose Pierce

I beg to differ. Cluelessness by voters in electing people who don’t care about the real needs of the masses is what caused this problem (along with countless others throughout Sonoma County) in the first place.

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]]> By: Chris http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-818946 Chris Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:21:54 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-818946 Victoria Rose Pierce sure looks a lot like Laura Gonzalez an elected member of the school board…did she forget how to write her own name?

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]]> By: Victoria Rose Pierce http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-815707 Victoria Rose Pierce Sat, 15 Dec 2012 07:16:45 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-815707 “It is funny how the left has no problem characterizing people as racists, homophobics, or some other vile term, but “clueless” leaves them speechless, demanding apologies.”

Racism and homophobia are vile things which must be called out and uprooted from our society. Cluelessness, otoh, doesn’t cause nearly the same amount of destruction.

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]]> By: Mark Bowman http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-815572 Mark Bowman Sat, 15 Dec 2012 07:04:03 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-815572 Although we don’t expect city council members to agree on everything, they certainly need to show respect for each other. A deeply divided city council is not going to function well. Healing the current division is going to take conscious effort on the part of all the council members.

In this case, it would have been better if Mr. Wysocky and Ms. Combs had shown some support for our new mayor, instead of dividing the council even further. Let’s put political infighting aside and work on the issues facing the city.

Mayor Bartley made a relatively restrained response to the frustration of someone who was attacking him and misrepresenting his views. The public needs to keep that context in mind and ALL of the council members need to back him up. You may call that naivete–I call it good for our city.

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]]> By: Steve Klausner http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-813232 Steve Klausner Fri, 14 Dec 2012 21:59:43 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-813232 Well it is reassuring to see that Santa Rosa is still a little cow town. Nothing important going on here. The council, the public and the press will be debating this for the month.

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]]> By: Dan Drummond Sr http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-812856 Dan Drummond Sr Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:41:02 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-812856 It was not a fine day for young ducks. Ms. Carlstrom may have lost future votes.

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]]> By: Vinyl Rules http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-812320 Vinyl Rules Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:18:24 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-812320 In politics, if you are explaining you are losing. Obviously, Bartley has no notion of such a simple concept. This should be an entertaining next two years. Thanks Ms. Carlstrom!

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]]> By: Mark Epstein http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-812192 Mark Epstein Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:57:20 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-812192 I would start by objecting to the term activist and insist on the term special interest advocate. I think with this change, we clear up the intentions of the causes of the cluelessness in one fell swoop.

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]]> By: Alex Cartwright http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-811542 Alex Cartwright Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:01:43 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-811542 Get a CLUE, Jenny! The whole city does revolve around your neighorhood, nor you!

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]]> By: Professional, mature behavior? Nah. http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-810415 Professional, mature behavior? Nah. Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:58:30 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-810415 The newly selected mayor has sadly started out on the wrong foot. If this is the kind of disrespect that we can expect from him when he doesn’t agree with us, on any particular issue, this is a bad sign for the future.

And for all the yahoos who have posted on this thread, wait til you’re on the other side of some snide remarks by the mayor, and let’s see how you defend that.

The mayor has a different role in the city than other council members: he is supposed to work hard to facilitate public participation at the same time that the city’s decisions are being made and facilitating real discussions. The mayor can not work well by shutting down citizens of the city and representatives of neighborhoods.

That’s a very different task than being a cheap-shot politician. Now’s the time for Bartley to learn some new skills and behavior. Pronto.

Does Bartley’s rudeness demonstrate Erin Carlstrom’s “reaching across the aisle” to “reduce conflict”? Seems like there are at least 2 rookies on the council, and quite a bit of naivete got one of them to be mayor. Good luck, Santa Rosans.

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]]> By: Mac E. Velli http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-808735 Mac E. Velli Fri, 14 Dec 2012 02:55:21 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-808735 The Neighborhood Goon Squad aka the Neighborhood Alliance shows its vicious claws right out of the gate. Jenny Bard, who rivals Vladimir Putin for number of times she’s taken ‘office’ in her little fiefdom, marches right down and defends little Jack Swearingen.

This nasty band of self-appointed neighborhood ‘bosses’ would be swept right out if anyone knew who they were. They run their Alliance out of a secret location and won’t let any real neighborhood people in to see what they’re plotting.

Their fangs are already dripping as they get ready to make life hell for anyone who won’t renounce cars (they have them), single family homes (they live in them), and green house gases (they emit them.) This band of chest-beating hypocrites deserves the boot.

Mac E. Velli saying ‘Enjoy the show!’

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]]> By: Fiscal Conservative http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-808564 Fiscal Conservative Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:56:20 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-808564 More political actions taken from the textbook ‘rules for radicals’ written by the communist activist Saul Alinsky.

Nobody on any neigborhood coalition was elected, they represent themselves and a whack-o agenda. The whole neigborhood Czar thing needs to be scrapped. Same with the Bicycle agenda. Let’s replace it with freedom and liberty.

Offending an attacking collectivist by calling him clueless is not an offense.
It’s Leadership.

I think ‘clueless’ is kind a gentle.

Give them Hell Mayor!

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]]> By: The Hammer http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-808515 The Hammer Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:27:38 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-808515 Watch out for the Neighborhood Alliance. It’s full of wackoes. Lots of them. Don’t let them push you around Mayor. Most real folks don’t agree with their ideas. They just seem to have a lot of time on their hands to attend meetings.

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]]> By: RICHARD http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-808514 RICHARD Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:18:34 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-808514 This debate could degenerate to hate. Time to stop it, before it’s too late.

There has been a conflict between Wysocky and Bartley that neither have handled smartly.

To those who fan this flame, I say shame, shame, shame.

Pleas put your ego away, get to work and earn your pay.

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]]> By: Real Truth http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-808428 Real Truth Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:12:47 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-808428 Rule 1: When you say something stupid, apologize. Only then will it go away.

Rule 2: Grow up and accept the fact that when you hold elected office, you don’t get to publicly excoriate your citizens.

Rule 3: Apologize. It’s that simple.

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]]> By: Marc http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/2012/12/cities/short-honeymoon-for-new-santa-rosa-mayor/#comment-808306 Marc Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:23:21 +0000 http://www.watchsonomacounty.com/?p=24625#comment-808306 If He is doing his job for EVERYBODY and looking at the big picture he will offend a Lot more people to get his job done! And this is a good start.

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