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The People Speak Their Minds About David Dilworth

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Comments on the Hear-Old article left by readers on the Internet.

poodlewalker
#6
David Dilworth is the laughing stock of PG.

Mr. Mayor, please reconsider your resignation. We need you to help steer the city through this crisis.

You have the full support of the majority of PG residents.

Litzi
#7
Please don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Dan Cort!

MAYBE Morrie Fisher can become the “temporary” mayor while they’re hunting for a replacement for Mayor Dan. After all, Morrie is over-qualified as one of the “good ol’ boys” of Pacific Grove.

Water-Viewer
#8
Dilworth is an IDIOT!!!!!! IF he goes for mayor of PG, and wins….look out folks, he’ll make things a whole lot worse around here!

DAN STAY AS MAYOR OF P.G.!

Kermit
#9
Yeah. Nice. The Bulletin comes out with a hit piece on the same counsel members on the same day. Good call PG Bulletin. Maybe you can can get them all to resign and reinstate the load of buffoons that got PG into this mess in the first place. Good luck with that guys. You’ll be know as America’s Broke Hometown. Since all the Butterflies are gone, I guess you work with what you’ve got, huh?

Litzi
#10
Perhaps Ted Hollister, who ran against Dan Cort in the last election, should consider throwing his hat in the ring. Considering he was a late write-in candidate, he garnered a lot of votes.

There aren’t too many qualified people to hold the position. This is Pacific Grove, after all…

Just A Thought
Crete, NE
#11
Sounds like extortion to me. Dilworth sounds like he needs some time in the mental health system.

The People Speak Their Minds About David Dilworth

Letters From The Editor – Feast Of Lanterns – Fun Or Racist?

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Every year, right on time come the letters calling the Feast Of Lanterns a celebration of fascist oppression. Followed by rebuttals. Over in Salinas it’s the same at Rodeo season with the animal huggers…

Fo l2002 Belly Dancers

July 27, Dale writes:

I find the irony of the Festival of Lanterns too much to bear. Living on the Peninsula my whole life, I noticed that strange little festival in P.G. where people parade around in Chinese clothing. Sometimes, to me, it seemed like a “mockery” of Chinese.

July 29, Diana replies:

The festival is not about a group of people who lived on the Peninsula and were, yes, indeed persecuted. As stated at the onset of the evening festivities, the “tale” (that denotes fantasy, does it not?) takes place in ancient China, and is clearly presented as a fantasy tale, much like Cinderella or other fantasy tales.

8/1, Jeffery adds:

The letter the other day that said Pacific Grove is celebrating a tradition of an oppressed people from 100-plus years ago really made me laugh. Tell me who hasn’t been oppressed? I’m half Irish, so should I tell everyone to stop celebrating St. Patrick’s Day because the Irish were sent into slums straight off their ships from Ireland? The Irish were treated as bad as any culture in U.S. history, and they, like the Chinese Americans, have prevailed.

Letters From The Editor – Feast Of Lanterns – Fun Or Racist?

Pollacci Pleads Not Guilty – Drawn Out Process Continues

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Tom Pollacci

Dr Bergstrom was caught, trialed and convicted for sex crimes in less time. What makes Pollacci’s take so long?

A Pebble Beach man pleaded not guilty to a sexual assault charge this morning in a Salinas courtroom.

Thomas Pollacci, 50, is accused of raping a woman in a loft above Ron’s Liquors, his father’s Pacific Grove establishment . . . .

. . . a pretrial hearing for Sept. 3, at which time a trial date will also be set.

Remember, please do not spend your money at Pacific Grove businesses that employ sex offenders or domestic abusers.

Pollacci Pleads Not Guilty – Drawn Out Process Continues

Feast Of Lanterns Officially Ruined

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Fire Dixie Lane. Appears that the kooks have taken over the last great funky thing in P.G.

“The whole festival represents our heritage in Pacific Grove,” said Feast of Lanterns President Dixie Lane. “It’s a fabulous little multi-cultural festival.”

This is Lane’s inaugural year to preside over the event, though she has been on the board for several years.

As a former student of history and a zealot for all things multicultural, Lane has focused on emphasizing multiculturalism and historical traditions for the 2009 Feast of Lanterns.

Feast Of Lanterns Beach Reserve Sign

Feast Of Lanterns Officially Ruined

Eeeek! Jumbo Flying Aggressive Squid Lurking Off Coast!

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Humbolt Squid

Thousands of jumbo flying squid — aggressive 5-foot-long sea monsters with razor-sharp beaks and toothy tentacles — have invaded the shallow waters off San Diego, spooking scuba divers and washing up dead on tourist-packed beaches.

The carnivorous calamari, which can grow up to 100 pounds, came up from the depths last week and swarms of them roughed up unsuspecting divers. Some divers report tentacles enveloping their masks and yanking at their cameras and gear.

Stories of too-close encounters with the alien like cephalopods have chased many veteran divers out of the water and created a whirlwind of excitement among the rest, who are torn between their personal safety and the once-in-a-lifetime chance to swim with the deep-sea giants.

Eeeek! Jumbo Flying Aggressive Squid Lurking Off Coast!

P.G. School District – Tax, Spend, Beg, Tax, Spend

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Lather, rinse, repeat. Odd that they spend the money on all things except books & supplies to teach our precious fry. Well at least we can play football on artificial grass.

If there were ever a monument to how local public entities waste taxpayers’ money, it is the Pacific Grove Unified School District’s use of the $42 million in Measure D tax revenues.

This money was designated for classroom and school facility repair and construction. Even though the existing stadium was adequate, $6.5 million of this money, 15 percent of all available Measure D funds, was used to build a state-of-the-art shrine to Jockdom under the euphemism of “stadium reconstruction.”

P.G. School District – Tax, Spend, Beg, Tax, Spend

Lattitudes: It’s Hot Hot Hot

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Check out the ad in the BullS**tin this week:
Lattitudes menu

Police said a Molotov cocktail was found on the roof of the restaurant at 631 Oceanview Blvd., near Lovers Point.

Pacific Grove Police and Monterey Fire personnel discovered the incendiary device after they arrived about 5:50 a.m. to find the building’s roof on fire. Crew extinguished the blaze in 10 minutes. Police officials declined to say if an arrest was imminent.

Lattitudes

Lattitudes: It’s Hot Hot Hot

Congress Extension Parking – Council Speaks Out

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No Barking

Where should we go from here? First, let’s modify the plan to avoid taking out healthy trees. Then, let’s really find out how much the committee’s plan for Rip Van Winkle Open Space might cost, both up front and annually. Finally, let’s see if we can get all the parties to that old agreement to strike the “no-parking” clause. If we can’t, then no parking plan will work.

Other parks and neighborhoods are still available for dog walking. Safe parking is available along Forest Lodge Road; a safe pathway runs along the east side of Congress; and a walkway across Congress with rumble strips already exists.

Lets move to more important matters..

Congress Extension Parking – Council Speaks Out

Tax The Tourists? Moe Say Don’t Do It, Everything Will Be Fine!

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Moe knows what’s REALLY good for P.G.

Baghdad Moe

In addition, he will ask the council to consider an emergency resolution that would allow new or increased taxes to be put on the Nov. 3 ballot. Those include raising the hotel room or transient occupancy tax increase from 10 to 12 percent, increasing the business license tax by deleting an annual tax limit, imposing a new 1.5 percent real estate transfer tax, and a parcel tax to fund the Pacific Grove Public Library.

The room and business license tax proposals are fighting words to Pacific Grove Chamber of Commerce President Moe Ammar.

“We are opposed to this all the way,” he said. “This one, we’re going to fight. The city has to live within its means.”

Tax The Tourists? Moe Say Don’t Do It, Everything Will Be Fine!