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  2. I don’t know which form of collectivism I despise more, racism or the welfare state but his comment makes it clear to me that both contribute to a vicious cycle of “us vs them” politics.

  3. In regards to the vicious cycle of “us vs them” politics especially involving immigration since 1975 to our shores. Why you ask? Because we let it happen incrementally by overlooking and ignoring what was transpiring; a treasure hunt for freebies.
    Talk to our senior citizens in their 80’s & 90’s and you get an entirely different contrast on the motives of individuals coming here today. To the greatest extent it’s not to become full fledged Americans in the traditional sense per se but to take advantage of our country’s largess with no accountability in regards to fraud and abuse of the unearned entitlements being bestowed on documented & undocumented immigrants.
    As far as I can superficially tell, Mayor Lewis was merely illuminating and pointing out a current situation costing taxpayers considerable dollars.
    Want another one taking a even bigger chunk the taxpayer is also funding for which few know about or talk about? Take a drive any morning along our southern border in the East County and observe the school buses picking up children coming directly across the International Border to go to school here. Well don’t they have an address here in the United States to establish residency? Sure they do. In a trailer park drop box where 20 to 30 families are using the same address. So are the school districts going to complain and have their enrollment and ADA (avg daily attendance) suffer a decrease with a coinciding loss of taxpayer money from Sacramento?
    Bottom line: we are bleeding dollars everywhere. Death by a thousand cuts.

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    Before anyone settles on this being solely about Lewis talking about “freebies,” they might be advised to listen to the entire interview.

  5. Brian Brady decries collectivism while Michael Crimmins lumps all immigrants into the category of those who don’t want to become “full fledged Americans in the traditional sense per se but to take advantage of our country’s largess with no accountability in regards to fraud and abuse of the unearned entitlements being bestowed on documented & undocumented immigrants.”

    I no longer wonder why Michael’s campaigns never gained any traction.

  6. “As far as I can superficially tell, Mayor Lewis was merely illuminating and pointing out a current situation costing taxpayers considerable dollars.”

    Dig deeper and click all the links. It will take you back to the source material. What Lewis uttered were ridiculous collectivist statements while condemning the abuses of abusive and collectivist government policies.

    The welfare state destroys most everything that was good about this country, not limited to but including the precept that we judged individuals by their actions rather than lumping them into some sort of ethnic group.

    I’m afraid I’m not going to be joining the “those people are taking our socialist goodies” crowd. I’ll just condemn the real culprit here; collectivism.

  7. Lest anyone wring their hands concerning the loss of a conservative city mayor (and before HQ ET AL try to CLAIM that Lewis was a conservative) — he was not. Certainly not on fiscal matters.

    Mayor Mark Lewis reregistered Republican more than a decade ago because he thought it would help him politically in the East County. He ran for State Assembly against Brian Jones (didn’t go well). Previously Lewis was registered Democrat.

    Lewis stayed largely true to his original party’s agenda. Lewis successfully led the charge for a full 1% increase in the El Cajon city sales tax, making El Cajon one if the highest sales tax cities in the state at (currently 9%). Within our county, only true-blue (and hapless) National City has that high a sales tax.

    Lewis remained largely committed to “his” public employee labor unions — especially the police. To put it mildly, Lewis was less than enthusiastic about meaningful public employee benefit reforms — preferring tax increases to real reform.

    Lewis championed the building of a monolithic multi-story multi-million dollar El Cajon police compound — an imposing blockhouse that would have brought a tear to any East German Stasi bureau chief. That building dominates the El Cajon landscape — perhaps in part because of the city’s deteriorating economic climate accelerated by the city’s super high sales tax.

    Mayor Lewis championed the city’s insane ill-advised and ill-fated $345,000 loan to a microbrewery start-up in the city. The company folded within the year. To quote the SAN DIEGO COUNTY TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION (when it gave El Cajon last year’s coveted “Golden Fleece” award):

    GOLDEN FLEECE WINNER: City of El Cajon – Investment in Microbrew

    “Not all craft brew operations in San Diego are created equal. In 2009, the City of El Cajon decided it would get involved in San Diego’s emerging craft brew scene by investing $345,000 in a new local brewery. Before the brewery opened for business, another $300,000 was needed. A year after its doors opened, the brewery filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and has now closed its doors. With only some beer equipment estimated to be worth less than half of their investment, over half a million in taxpayer dollars is at risk because the city decided to take a gamble in the restaurant business at taxpayer expense. On the bright side, the city is optimistic a new brew business will come in, set up shop, and even pay off past debts. We have a feeling this is just the tip of the ice-cold-beer-berg, but until then…bottoms up, taxpayers!”

  9. Wasn’t Michael Crimmins booted out of the GOP for allegedly making racist comments?

    I don’t think the public can be reminded enough of why his campaigns never gain traction.

  10. That’s right Michael Schwartz. Allegedly and purportedly in a storyline pushed by Krvaric in a whispering campaign to deflect from his own leadership of the SDGOP which clearly reflected a demonstrated lack of transparency and accountability to the CentCom members. When I was expelled the story was then pursued and investigated by the local press. It was found to have no basis in reality other than a smear tactic. In fact Mason Weaver admitted the comments were never made both to myself and the press. Weaver was used by Krvaric and of the 4 candidates in the then 2010 Republican Primary and the 18 running for a spot on the Central Committee he finished dead last in both.

    So time to basically smarten up Michael and disabuse yourself of a false narrative.

  11. So the women who heard you make the racist comments never came out and retracted their statements?
    Just Mason Weaver who never was reported to have heard it in the first place? It was about him. Not in front of him. Saying it in front of him would have taken a backbone. I don’t think anyone every accused you of that.

  12. Michael there were no women who had to retract anything as it was reported I made the comment directly to Mason Weaver’s face in a conversation between he and I. At the very least get your story straight as the press did a thorough search looking for these so-called witnesses that were dredged up. None ever materialized. Unless your talking about IC loons. You’re a member of that aren’t you?

    Discussing this issue with you is akin to discussing weight control and self discipline with someone who is obese refusing to admit they are.

  14. Michael by who’s standards? Yours? By someone who hasn’t seen the football since kickoff. So if you want to travel down that path, stupid is as stupid does apparently.Not totally surprising when reading some of your past submissions on Rostra which indicate you know what you know because you know what you know.

    Personally, I’d be real careful running your mouth/pen w/o the facts and disparaging a combat wounded Marine who served honorably for 21 years. FYI, the Marine Corps doesn’t condone or tolerate any racism or racist comments and behavior.

    A little unbiased research on your part would surely reveal the facts, enlighten your critical thinking skills, plus expose which candidate pulled the proverbial race card to both gain political advantage and to salvage a losing campaign. Some salvage operation; he finished dead last in both elections and within months left San Diego.

    More to the point, when do you suppose we can expect you to submit to a public examination and run for office? Now that would be a profile in courage for an individual who lives life as a back bencher.

  15. Disparaging? I’m sure there are many circles you run in that would find the racist remarks a reason to celebrate you.

    Now why not get back to complaining about immigrants. You were doing so well.

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    Ok, given this has very clearly crossed the line into the personal realm, let’s move on.

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