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The District Weekly: AN ELOQUENT PLEA FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT VS. THE MEN IN VERY FINE SUITS | The District Weekly

  • Chris Ziegler · 1 year ago
    great work dave
  • Mike Kowal · 1 year ago
    Excelent article. Keep up the good reporting. Mike
  • ryan s · 1 year ago
    ooooh....what happens next? *sizzle-pop!*
  • howardx · 1 year ago
    its always enlightening when you find out just how little a politician gets to sell us out.
  • lbwhiner · 1 year ago
    see comments two articles ago. If Schipske could grow a personality, she might get further. It's as simple as that. She's the wrong person to hook your cause to, no matter how worthy the issue. A Schipske-led charge will end up where they take the drek the clean off the beaches. She ain't got no political capital.
  • LBRez · 1 year ago
    Whiner I agree with you on that, she has a lot of very solid ideas, does a good job of communicating with her blog, but there seems to be something missing.... Can you imagine her proposal not going to committee for discussion if presented by DeLong or one of the Lowenthals? (p.s. anything to rumors she has been applying for city attorney jobs in the OC?)
  • Sam_Lowry · 1 year ago
    "Can you imagine her proposal not going to committee for discussion if presented by DeLong or one of the Lowenthals?"
    ...No, but then again, I can't imagine any of them having balls enough to put this on the agenda.

    "If Schipske could grow a personality, she might get further... She ain’t got no political capital."
    Style again wins out over substance. It's the sad story of Long Beach... so many are so used to the aggressive mediocrity that our council routinely negotiates amongst itself, that anyone who leads the charge for common sense change gets labeled an iconoclast.
  • lbwhiner · 1 year ago
    I've no problem with the above, but it doesn't matter how many great ideas she has, if her personality limitation/deficit blocks implementation. You've got to combine the two: style it might be, but getting some doesn't mean you sacrifice substance in the process.

    So let's buy Schipske some style, then she'll her substance will get closer to reality...who wants to chip in?