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At taxpayers’ expense, they abuse

stuff and there aren’t many Newspapers Dean Eckenroth
citizens there to witness it or Sr. He did not return any of

the system to silence their critics

By Ed Kravitz their minivan. And pho-
tographs taken of the inci-
and he built it as an act of
civil disobedience and out of
request that an item be pulled
and held for a public hearing
before voting. It’s great to
have a reporter who is asleep
or who only prints the offi-
my calls. But his display
advertising manager, Guy,
did call to tell me that the
Eagle Times would not print
our “IBCC House Of Cards”

B
ecause of other tech-
nical mistakes and
perjurious disputable
testimony, the case of John
Carr, arrested while trying to
join SWIA two years ago, is
headed back to court.
In closed session, two
years ago, Patricia McCoy
voted to pay the City
Attorney to represent Mayda
Winter in a personal civil
case.
The City Attorney’s
efforts to have the matter
resolved ex-party, without
the defendant present, failed.
Winter had pleaded to the
other council members for
the City Attorney's represen-
tation to have restraining
order issued against John
Carr. This would have pre-
vented Carr from covering
City Council Meetings for
the I.B. Sun newspaper and -
- whatever your opinion of
the I.B. Sun, that's censor-
ship of the press.
And, to add insult to
injury, this attempt at censor-
ship was paid for by the very
taxpayers who need to be
told what's happening in
council meetings. Whenever
the City Attorney is hired to
represent the City, he is paid
a flat fee retainer of $7,500
to take the case. That’s a lot
of taxpayer money, especial-
ly if the case happens to be
frivolous. He bills additional
time on an hourly basis.
Winter committed perjury
in her testimony before a
judge of the Superior Court.
Her allegation that she was
in “fear for her life” and
“Carr was only a foot away
from me when I got to my
car,” now appears specious.
Winter and Deborah Carey
were almost jovial, smiling
and laughing as they entered
dent by two different parties
show this. Carr was nowhere
near the vehicle.
When this case goes back
to court, Mayda Winter,
Patricia McCoy, Diane Rose
and Jim Janney will have
some explaining to do before
a judge in the Superior
Court. Did the Council sup-
port Winter’s efforts to get a
restraining order against Carr
to prevent him from covering
City Council Meetings and
reporting accurately about
what was really going on at
City Council Meetings?
The ladies don’t like criti-
cism. You can get a lot more
work done when people
don’t know what your doing.
Carr has questioned their
ethics and motives in editori-
al comments. So Winter’s
restraining order against Carr
had very little to do with
whether or not it was legal
for him to try to join a
501(c)(3) non-profit group
called SWIA.
McCoy approved spend-
ing a minimum of $7,500 for
the City Attorney to execute
a vendetta against Carr, for
coining the phrase “Las Tres
Cucarachas” to describe the
three ladies on the council’s
ability to survive disaster
after political disaster. The
restraining order was a pun-
ishment handed out in the
same manner as the $35,000
fine the three ladies imposed
on Carr for building a fire
escape on his apartments
after the City had delayed his
plans for more than a year.
The building was occu-
pied and the small deck and
stairs, within his fenced yard
protected him from liability
as a landlord in the event of
fire. He could not wait more
than a year to get it approved
self preservation in case
there ever should be a fire
when there was no fire
escape.
The small railed wrap-
around porch and stairs were
removed by Carr after the
City cited him ”within his
fenced yard” that one of the
posts was in an easement.
While it would have been
easy to give a variance for
six inches, they made him
dismantle the entire structure
and build it back another foot
or two. After he complied,
they voted to fine him
$35,000 anyway.
No wonder Carr is pissed
off! And this is the “Patricia
McCoy Treatment.” If you
criticize the council, you will
be punished too. If I was
doing this project and living
in Imperial Beach, I’d be in
jail for spitting on the side-
walk. They would abuse
their power and influence to
the extent they could get
away with it.
Why are people afraid to
display SaveIB.Com bumper
stickers, T-shirts and other
art? Fear of retribution is the
sad answer. Although most
of my former neighbors and
friends are pretty smart peo-
ple, they are also afraid to
speak against the ladies and
their new accomplices. They
know about how David
Garcias or Greg Wade can be
sicked on a business or a
homeowner. They’ve heard
about it in the past and
they’ve been there long
enough to have seen it with
their own eyes.
A passive press is very
important in the overall plans
of the three women and their
two newer accomplices on
the City Council. When your
doing sneaky consent-item
cial press release from the cartoon. He also went on to
incumbents as being news. tell me that the Eagle Times
People in Imperial Beach would not sell me advertis-
are just waking up from a ing space in next week’s pre-
long sleep. You guys missed election newspaper. He said
a lot while the IBCC was he had been told by
running the City. If you read Eckenroth to tell me they
the Eagle & Times, you would no longer advertise a
know almost nothing. That’s Web site.
they way they like it! I asked him if he would
The SaveIB.Com Web be willing to send me an e-
site has run a series of adver- mail to document that, and
tisements in The Imperial he hung up the phone. We’ve
Beach Sun and in the Eagle reached a milestone. We are
Times Newspaper. We paid officially censored by the
an advertising contract with local adjudicated newspaper
Eagle Times for four ads the Eagle & Times. While
over six weeks and then that might sound like it’s not
expanded that ad with two so good, here’s the good
more color ads of business- news:
card size. We have exceeded our
For the last two days prior bandwidth. That means that
to this writing I have placed there’s an awful lot of you
more than six telephone calls folks out there reading this.
to the editor of Eagle Times SEE ATTORNEY, PAGE 8
Is this Bixler's car?
Could this illegally parked auto on south Seacoast belong
to Port Commissioner Mike Bixler?
For some reason it has neither been ticketed or towed dur-
ing its long term parking experience on South Seacoast
Drive. Note the debris under the tires! It’s
been there long enough to be towed, no
matter who it belongs to.
This is a perfect example of selective
code enforcement and parking enforce-
ment. A policy supported by Patricia
McCoy, Mayda Winter, Diane Rose &
Fred McLean. Who knows where Jim
Janny stands. But it looks like he’s stand-
ing with the ladies now! Commissioner
Mike Bixler

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