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Call For DEI Task Force Gets Crickets

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Can’t think of anything else to divide people over?

The Mayor of Pacific Grove said the city is extending the deadline for residents to apply for seats on its boards, commissions and committees.

Regarding the DEI task force, one position has been unfilled for months while two other spots will become open when terms for chair Kim Bui and vice chair Nadja Mark expire in January. The task force has had an especially difficult t time retaining members. In January, two new people were appointed to serve until 2025, but they were both gone by August,

Call For DEI Task Force Gets Crickets

City Council Fires Tina Rau

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No to Tina Rau and other divisive applicants. Don’t forget.

Resident Carol Marquart at the Jan. 9 meeting echoed a growing number of residents’ concerns that the DEI task force is only inclusive and accepting of citizens who are in lockstep with its goals, and she called for new members to replace the incumbents.

“I’d like to see a new group of people with the same passion that you have — only less divisive,” Marquart said at the meeting.

For example, after it was discovered late last year that Rau had mocked Catholics and other Christians in a Twitter post, Rau doubled down on the comment and initially refused to apologize. Her task force colleagues also refused at first to condemn the anti-Christian comments — which some called hypocritical considering the task force promotes “diversity and inclusion.”

City Council Fires Tina Rau