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Majority Rule Needed, Not a Recall
Posted Sep 08, 2008 2:04am
by Elliott D. Petty
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On Friday, San Diego's City Attorney issued a full opinion on the Blackwater issue, calling for an immediate stop-work order and environmental impact report. This was most certainly a welcome development, but even more encouraging was the response from Mayor Sanders, who agreed and "ordered work to stop on Blackwater Worldwide's proposed military training facility in Otay Mesa."
A Sanders spokesperson explained that the Mayor would revisit the issue after the city's CEO completes an ordered review of the permitting process- due May 23. So this buys at least a week and is a demonstrable step in the right direction from the Mayor's office. If he does in fact stick to his good governance guns, there's simply no way that Blackwater's new facility fits under the permits that have been issued. It will be important to find out what went wrong in the process and fix it, but first we've got to prevent the bad outcome.
Brian Bonfiglio, for his part, did his usual bang-up job of making Blackwater look condescending and tone-deaf: Read More »
A Sanders spokesperson explained that the Mayor would revisit the issue after the city's CEO completes an ordered review of the permitting process- due May 23. So this buys at least a week and is a demonstrable step in the right direction from the Mayor's office. If he does in fact stick to his good governance guns, there's simply no way that Blackwater's new facility fits under the permits that have been issued. It will be important to find out what went wrong in the process and fix it, but first we've got to prevent the bad outcome.
Brian Bonfiglio, for his part, did his usual bang-up job of making Blackwater look condescending and tone-deaf: Read More »
As I noted briefly on Friday and Julia explained in more depth over at Calitics, Blackwater has officially dropped its plans for a training facility in Potrero. According to Blackwater WestVP Brian Bonfiglio, "the proposed site plan simply does not meet our business objectives at this time."
In short, the grassroots power of the citizens of Potrero defeated Blackwater. And that's reason for some pride. But Potrero activist Jan Hedlun put time aside to write a letter of thanks to the members and supporters of Courage Campaign. It's really something, and I hope you'll go read the whole thing. While you're there, we've made it easy for you to write your own letter of thanks and/or celebration to the people of Potrero who took on Goliath and won.
Here's the email that Rick Jacobs sent out to Courage supporters earlier today, describing the victory better than I could:
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