Regional Appointments in the news!

Local elected officials routinely serve on various regional or sub-regional Boards or Joint Power Authority Boards, and usually the appointment of Council Member X or Mayor Y to such mundane tasks is a matter important only to them.

Not so regarding the appointment to SANDAG from Oceanside and Encinitas this year! This has gone full blown political…read it here.

The Mayor of Oceanside, Jim Wood,  is VERY unpopular with the City Council majority, and they’re threatening to pull him off of the regional appointments such as SANDAG. He insists that as mayor, he has the final word… We’ll see how this shakes out on Wednesday! Attorneys to the ready!!!

In good old Encinitas, which is always a great place to find a political laugh, the Councilwoman who is VERY UNPOPULAR with the current as well as the past Council majority, and in fact came in almost 1,000 votes behind an “unkown” challenger to barely win re-election, Teresa Barth, attempted to strip Encinitas Deputy Mayor Jerome Stocks of his appointment to the SANDAG Board. This was particularly giggly because the regional leaders on the SANDAG Board, consisting of a representative of each of the 18 Cities plus the unincorporated County had just voted unanimously to make Stocks the SANDAG Board Chair for the year. Even Maggie Houlihan,  a frequent Barth ally refused to go along with this most recent Barth temper tantrum leaving Ms. Barth swinging in the wind all alone.  Read about that.

Barth was rewarded for her nastiness by being removed as the Encinitas alternate to NCTD, and being demoted from first alternate to SANDAG to the second alternate to SANDAG. This is really all insider crap, but it’s fun when it spills out!!!

In the words of Rodney King… Can’t we All Just Get Along??? … Naaaahhhhhhhhh… What fun would that be???