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Arcadia Weekly: Arcadia Election Mailer Pokes Fun At Opposition As Election...
Mod: The following article is front page news in this week's Arcadia Weekly, and it is a pretty good indication of the effect The Tattler is having on election coverage there. I can't imagine the Roger...
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Post Mortem: The Night Sierra Madre's Civility Party Died
View video here.Mod: I've been writing columns for the Sierra Madre Weekly, which also run in its sister paper the Pasadena Independent. Here is what appeared there this week.The Night Sierra Madre's...
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'Vote them out': Hundreds of thousands march for gun control across the nation
'Vote them out': Hundreds of thousands march for gun control across the nation (Chicago Tribunelink): In a historic groundswell of youth activism, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their...
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Bencosme's Library Move Flip/Flop: Did Andy Have Privileged Information on...
Above is the "flip/flop" portion of Andy Bencosme's most recent campaign mailing. To go from being a leader in the effort to move the Library to the YAC as the head of an influential city commission,...
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Arcadian's Rights Protection Association Back For More
(Former Housing Authority Police Chief, link.)Over the weekend District 2 and District 5 residents of Arcadia were graced with yet another atrocity of political acrimony from the ARCADIAN'S RIGHTS...
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How to look up your Facebook data (all of the stuff that was mined during the...
I just looked up my Facebook data, you know, to see the kinds of information about me that could have been mined. Wow. Just about everything is there, I think. The photo, the groups you participate in,...
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Arcadia Weekly: Why Is Sho Tay Spending Campaign Money After Being Appointed?
Sho Tay: Not talking to the press.Mod: The Arcadia Weekly's Galen Patterson has a few questions about Arcadia Mayor Pro Tem Sho Tay's murky money today, and comes up with some interesting answers. Why...
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A New Mailer from the Committee to Oppose Chandler - Plus: Where is Bob...
In case you do not live in the same Arcadia voting district as Roger Chandler, here is the latest mailer from the Committee to Oppose Chandler for Arcadia City Council. It makes for some enlightening...
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What is a Spring Egg? Encinitas Takes the Easter Bunny out of Easter
Mod: One of my favorite local blogs here in Lo Cal is called Encinitas Undercover (link). Like the one you are reading now, it attempts to portray what is going on in its community in the most...
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Intelligence officials fear China's global 'kidnapping' program has reached...
Mod: I was sent the following by a real estate friend who has a client that was induced to return to China for some reason and was arrested at the airport. The apparent crime was taking money out of...
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Preservation has put at least $200,000 into the pockets of every longtime...
If the City Council election in Sierra Madre was being discussed at an adult and rational level, there would be different topics for people to talk about. And at the top of that list would be the...
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Is Roger Chandler Running A Racially Divisive Campaign? Plus: Bob Harbicht is...
There have been some complaints about racial insensitivity. These coming from people who are supporting the campaigns of Bob Harbicht and Roger Chandler. Which is kind of odd if you think about it...
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An Election Flyer Making the Rounds in Sierra Madre Plus: Dick Platkin calls...
Mod: So you know that Arcadia Association of Realtors in-kind contribution has yet to be reported by the Bencosme campaign. I guess Andy would prefer that you vote...
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The Committee to Oppose Chandler for Arcadia City Council is Back ... Plus!...
Mod: Why is this shady out of town organization supporting Roger Chandler? Why are they attempting to promote Chandler's campaign by spending thousands of dollars on dishonest and at times even racist...
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Question: Real Estate Agents from other cities are Andy Bencosme’s biggest...
Why hold your kickoff event at an Arcadia Realtor office?According to the legally mandated California FPPC Form 460 Recipient Committee Campaign Disclosure Statement on file at Sierra Madre City Hall,...
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Have the Roger Chandler and Bob Harbicht Campaigns Become a Full Employment...
The Ubiquitous Tony Chen: Buying a Little Influence Perhaps?Tony Chen has become a familiar name in this election. He contributed $1,000 to Sho Tay's campaign on January 15, 2018 after the filing...
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Sierra Madre & Arcadia Report: There Is Nothing Like An Election To Show You...
Sierra Madre: People involved in this election have been sending in their notes from the campaign trail, and at times these dispatches from the front would be funny if they just weren't so sad. Here is...
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Sierra Madre Architecture: Irving Gill’s Lewis Courts
Mod: With community preservation and the architectural legacy of Sierra Madre being such a big issue in this election season, which by the way ends tomorrow, I thought it would be a good moment to step...
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Stop the Vote Count! Is There an Election Landslide Going On at Johnny...
Mod: This showed up in my electronic mail yesterday evening. Allegedly there has been a sudden population boom at disgraced former Arcadia Mayor John Wuo's domicile. This being Johnny Gemcoins Wuo, if...
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Preservation Wins - Bottle Rocket Bencosme Fizzles
In the end it wasn't even close. Andy Bencosme, the Century 21 Realtor who didn't want anyone to know what he does for a living, and outside of cynically flipping on the Library question had absolutely...
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