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This is what our residents have to go through just to participate at council meetings. The far right council members also have a fan club that show up and heckle everyone they don’t agree with.
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The Blue Shield of CA Foundation has pulled their conference from
#HuntingtonBeach
over the
#Pride
🏳️🌈 issue.
This is a huge loss of revenue to the city.
#lgbtq
@BlueShieldCA
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Librarian Lindsay Klick: “No one is forced to check out a book. If a parent doesn’t want a book that has anything about sex education, I’m not going to offer it to them. Not every book is for every person. If we only had books for everybody, we’d have a very small library.”
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Gavin Newsom’s statement on
#HuntingtonBeach
fighting the state:
#citycouncil
#HousingCrisis
@GavinNewsom
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Council Member Moser talks about the photo examples from the books being mixed up and out of context. She the tells Gracey: “If you look at this presentation it says ‘Huntington Beach Library Children’s Books’. That’s just false. These are not all children’s books.”
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Local librarian Lindsay Klick:
“I’ve conducted thousands of story times and summer reading programs with thousands of families. It’s strange to see the disconnect between my everyday life and what is being described by people who seem like they don’t actually go to the library.”
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Don’t forget to turn off your automatic sprinklers, please. You shouldn’t need to water for the next week or so!
#huntingtonbeach
#storm
#HurricaneHillary
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Natalie Moser thanks the community for supporting librarians and the library: “I am so proud of my city. Thank you for showing up. Thank you for your thoughtfully written emails that were paragraphs long. The public comments were the same way. I appreciate all of thoughts.”
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Rest in power, Nex.
Thank you to Pride at the Pier for organizing this event. It was a very peaceful and beautiful experience.
#lgbtq
#nexbenedict
#HuntingtonBeach
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Here is the video that was shown at Edison High. It’s a simple explanation of
#Pride
month and does not show two women kissing, just their heads together.
The message of this video is to love and accept everyone on campus. That is all.
#BoltTV
@EdisonChargers
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HB resident Wendy Rincon spoke at the 9/5 city council meeting about the number of votes the new council majority members received: “13.6%, 13.4%, 12.3%, 12.2%. We do have a voting problem. Not enough of us are voting, but you do not have a full mandate from the community.”
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Kim Carr has released a statement regarding the legal victory of the lawsuit against her by the Pacific Airshow.
#HuntingtonBeach
#airshow
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Former mayors will be holding a press conference November 1st at 2pm in front of City Hall to speak out against the actions of the
#citycouncil
.
#HuntingtonBeach
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This rainbow fence is painted right across the street from Sowers Middle School.
#loveislove
#lgbtq
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HB resident Pat Goodman expressed her opinion that she feels Van Der Mark is not fit to serve as mayor due to her associations with Oathkeepers, Proud Boys, and 3 Percenters.
She was harassed by a large number of the audience.
#HuntingtonBeach
#citycouncil
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I do not support the Great Pacific Air Show not because I “hate America” as others have said. It is because Kevin Elliott is a terrible human being.
#huntingtonbeach
#airshow
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With all the negative news lately surrounding the
#lgbtq
community, I’d like to remind you all that 84% of Americans support you.
Don’t let the loud minority bring you down! 🏳️🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
#lovewins
#Pride2023
Research here:
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HBHS Student Nastasia Nastic speaks about the
#lgbtq
hate group at the high school.
She gives a wonderful speech about equality. Please listen to it!
You can also hear adults booing her, indicative of the hate that lives in
#HuntingtonBeach
@HBOilers
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I emailed Mayor Pro Tem Van Der Mark to request an apology for sharing a video that has led to a teacher being harassed in our own community.
You can see her response in the second photo.
#HuntingtonBeach
#citycouncil
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I’ve been feeling terrible all weekend, so I took a COVID test and it came back positive.
Unfortunately I won’t be making it to the council meeting Tuesday, but I will still post clips and recap the rest of this week.
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My kid has been a target of bullies for the last year. It’s been a lot to deal with. This morning, on the bike ride to school, it escalated to a white kid calling my kid the N word before speeding off on an e-bike. For the record, my kid is not black, but also not white.
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Per supplemental communication posted before 2pm on Tuesday, this is the final tally on For/Against Item no 18, the library book item.
I counted every single one. More than 95% of all emails were from HB citizens.
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When your city is continually popping up in national news as a “can you believe this?” topic, your city just might be on the wrong side of these issues.
Whether it is affordable housing, flags or libraries,
#HuntingtonBeach
continues to be the butt of a joke.
#hbo
#citycouncil
Here's just the clip of the John Oliver episode about the idiotic nature of our city council's book banning effort--and he was unable to even get to the non-librarian review board that has final approval!
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A big THANK YOU to those sharing and interacting with my content. I do this on my free time as I believe it is important for people to see and hear city council meetings. I hope I break it into digestible enough bits for all. Please share wherever you can!
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Kalmick: “Everyone’s pension gets canceled the second they become a private employee. I want to be very clear on that.”
He also reminds the council that they are the stewards of over 1,000 city employees, and the council has not been acting responsibly.
#huntingtonbeach
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My personal opinion:
Please vote NO on Measures A, B and C by March 5th!
The al measures are not well written with no cost analysis for any of them. No one knows how much any of these measures will cost taxpayers once implemented.
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Bolton on hate crime: “Pretending like this stuff doesn’t happen, it does not help us. I try not to get personal about this stuff, but as a person of color in this city, there are things that I see that perhaps you don’t.”
#HuntingtonBeach
#hate
#citycouncil
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A great letter by a local high school student that brings a more mature perspective than most of the adult comments I read.
#HuntingtonBeach
#library
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Kathy Rider on the housing element: “If you drive down PCH from say Goldenwest to Beach Blvd. I already see a lot of multistory buildings. I already see huge swaths of development… This idea that we’re some little sleepy coastal town; that ship has sailed.”
#HuntingtonBeach
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Gina has won her case against the city. The air show settlement will be made available.
#HuntingtonBeach
#airshow
We The People have prevailed. The CA Superior Court has just ruled that the City of Huntington Beach and City Attorney Michael Gates must turn over the Air Show settlement to me in accordance with the CA Constitution and CPRA. Today the Court adopted all of our arguments and
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#Racism
is taught and unfortunately too common here. With the abolishment of the Human Relations Committee, I will try to document hate in this city as I come across it.
#HuntingtonBeach
#racists
#stopracism
#hate
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HB resident Ashley Williamson invites all allies to come to the pier May 21st for
#Pride
at the pier.
She has been at the pier every Sunday from 11-1 and the numbers grow each week.
Harassment has occurred at these events, including against children.
#HuntingtonBeach
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Looks like the
#Pride
🏳️🌈 decision had an impact on Vans decision to pull out of the US Open after all, despite some community members saying otherwise.
#HuntingtonBeach
The global brand president of Vans had this to say after the Huntington Beach City Council voted to stop flying the Pride flag on city property. He asked the Council to reconsider. This email was sent to members after the final 4-3 vote to approve the flag item.
@TheDailyPilot
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Bolton to Burns: “You don’t ever have to worry about being pulled over for driving while black. As much as I’d like to say we are all under the same umbrella, we’re just not there yet”
Burns: “That’s your opinion.”
Bolton: “That’s my reality.”
Burns: “You don’t know my reality.”
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I’m sure you’ve all read about the horrific accident on Bushard.
Don’t forget that the city council voted 7-0 to postpone building a roundabout at Bushard and Banning, deciding to focus on maybe adding brighter lights instead.
Traffic calming saves lives.
#HuntingtonBeach
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Council Members Kalmick, Bolton and Moser have submitted an item “Denouncing Hate in Huntington Beach”.
“The City Council of
#HuntingtonBeach
denounces antisemitism, white supremacy, and anti-LGBTQ hate.”
#citycouncil
@DanKalmick
@nataliemoser
@RhondaMBolton
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Kalmick: “PCH is underwater; which is something we should be very concerned about. What are we going to do when he have to shunt traffic down Warner because PCH is closed? That is a local issue we should be addressing.”
#HuntingtonBeach
#citycouncil
@DanKalmick
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Yeah, this is so much better than closing down Main St to vehicles, isn’t it?
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Council Member Natalie Moser rode down the parade route in a classic car.
#HuntingtonBeach
#July4
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Bolton: “There is a hell of a lot of confusion. I heard… that we were not going to be acknowledging as a city Women’s History Month and Black History Month. If council members have changed their view, I would like to hear from those council members about what’s changed.”
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Here is Mayor Pro Tem Van Der Mark with John Yoo, who developed the “Torture Memos” for GW Bush.
She’s also reading ‘The Great Parent Revolt’, a book about “fighting” CRT in schools.
#HuntingtonBeach
#citycouncil
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Moser asks why can’t the city celebrate both the already established months from years prior and these new history topics.
She also points out there is no inclusion of the Indigenous Tribes who originally inhabited the land.
#HuntingtonBeach
#citycouncil
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EveryLibrary is rescinding their bid for the library RFP. You can read their statement in the photos below:
#HuntingtonBeach
#library
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Yes, these two paragraphs are on an official city website.
Count the typos.
#HuntingtonBeach
#library
@CityofHBPIO
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“A Huntington Beach man accused of helping establish a S. California-based militant, white supremacist group has been extradited back to the United States from Romania to face federal charges for allegedly instigating violence at local political rallies.”
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Council Member Bolton: “There are roughly 30 committee positions that council members have historically been assigned to, to represent the public. The mayor has assigned herself to 25.
This is not hurting me. I have plenty to do. This is hurting” the residents.
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It takes awhile to get there, but Bill Neese gets Gates to admit there was zero formal discovery for the air show to prove their losses. They only did informal discovery for purposes of the settlement.
#HuntingtonBeach
#airshow
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Council Member Moser says the council should have a discussion on privatizing the library, rather than going straight to a vote.
“It’s unfortunate we have a lack of responsiveness and discussion to all of the people who came tonight to speak about their love for the library.”
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If you were thinking of eating at Basilico’s to “own the libs”, you may want to check out their latest health inspection: Handwashing supplies not available, Employees with no food handlers license, improperly stored meat, improper sanitizing.Full report:
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UPDATE: Making
#HuntingtonBeach
better, one swastika removal at a time! Thank you to everyone who reported this to finally have it removed after decades!
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This account exists to share news and city council information and present all opinions from the council members.
I will call out misinformation, as I believe facts are important.
I also stand with
#LGBTQ
community because that is not political, it is an issue of human rights.
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HB resident Buffie lists the things the council has “banned” over the last year:
#HuntingtonBeach
#citycouncil
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Council Member Moser notes that the Human Relations Committee is being dissolved at a time when OC has seen an increase in hate crimes of 75%, hate incidents up 142% in the last five years, and a 126% increase in anti LGBTQ hate activity compared to 2021.
#HuntingtonBeach
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Bolton: “I know it may be confusing to some people, but that is the way the First Amendment works. The default is the government doesn’t get involved. The parents decide. That’s the function that the library serves for us.”
#HuntingtonBeach
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Apologies for the lack of updates. I started a full time job recently and it’s sucking all my energy! I will keep updating and uploading clips from council meetings when I can, but it may be delayed a bit.
Thank you for following!
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Kudos to Council Member Moser for having the “This is fine” fire meme on her cup facing for everyone to see.
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Mayor Van Der Mark is against High Density Housing, saying it will ruin the environment and delicate ecosystems of
#HuntingtonBeach
.
Now she is in a plane that lands right on the beach.
The environmental damage to the city by the air show is a post for another day.
The Pacific Airshow announced today that it is returning to Huntington Beach on Oct. 4-6.
Two STOL planes, carrying director Kevin Elliott and Mayor Gracey Van Der Mark, landed on the sand before a press conference.
This year’s air show will contain a temporary runway on sand.
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Rant of the day:
I don’t care how long you’ve lived in
#HuntingtonBeach
- whether a month or 40 years- your views about the city you live in are valid.
Generational HB residents seem to think their opinions mean more than others and that is ridiculous.
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Kalmick continues: “Libraries are one of the last places in this county, in the world, in society, where you’re not expected to spend money to be there.
It’s interesting to take something that literally gives things away for free and try to make a profit doing that.”
@DanKalmick
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Bolton on the mask and vaccine mandate: “Why are we talking about this? I find it incredible we’re sitting here talking about Covid masks and vaccines. Nobody has asked for this. They expect us to solve the e-bike issue and deal with homelessness.”
#HuntingtonBeach
#citycouncil
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OC local Braunwyn Windham-Burke speaks on the pride flag: “Queer kids contemplate suicide at 45% and they attempt it at 18%. That is more than double their straight counterparts… If a flag can save one kid’s life, isn’t it worth to fly it for one month?”
#HuntingtonBeach
#LGBTQ
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Alex Mohajer gives a moving speech about Love:
“Love is what LGBTQ means to me. It’s what the Pride flag means to me. I feel so sorry we couldn’t do more for Nex Benedict. So tonight, let us be affirmed that the power of our voices means something.”
#NexBenedict
#lgbtq
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NO HOUSING ELEMENT meets consequences: The State has been granted preliminary injunction in the housing lawsuit.
Also: “The Court suspends the City’s authority to approve any new development on any RHNA site that would not satisfy minimum density requirements.”
#hblawsuit
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Oscar Rodriguez: “This is a direct attack on affordable housing in the city… Tell that to a single mom who’s trying to make ends meet, or the elderly woman or man who is on a fixed income, that there is no space for them.”
#HuntingtonBeach
#planningcommission
@oscarhbcali
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Due to the large amount of public comments at the last council meeting (nearly 6 hours), I will be going through them after I do the council meeting. Expect to see them uploaded later this week and probably the following week as well.
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Natalie Moser: “One of the [public commenters] said we are a ‘family friendly city.’ I ask which families are we friendly to? There are many different types of families. Two dads. Two moms. A mom and a dad. Just a mom. Just a dad. Many of those have straight kids,
#LGBTQ
kids.”
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Kane Durham asks the council majority why are they even in government: “If you are so determined that government employees are unintelligent, hurtful to our community, groomers, or evil; why are you even in government?”
#HuntingtonBeach
#citycouncil
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Bolton speaks on residents no longer being able to get a report on what was discussed at meetings, other than a link to minutes.
Bolton continues: “We have half the council not representing the residents on these regional boards. This is not amusing.”
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Cathey Ryder thanks Pat Burns for putting the letter of solidarity with Texas on the agenda at the previous meeting. By doing so, he brought national attention to
@protect_hb
and helped them raise thousands of dollars.
#HuntingtonBeach
#citycouncil
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Moser: “I am deeply concerned about the implications of continuing to deviate from established norms and procedures in our city council.
The disruption of these longstanding traditions….undermines the trust and predictably essential in our governance.”
#HuntingtonBeach
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Apparently blocking the entire bike lane and parking at a red curb is OK while waiting to pick up your kid from school in
#HuntingtonBeach
.
@HBPoliceDept
drove by and did not care.
We need better infrastructure for all residents and student safety.
#Infrastructure
@DanKalmick
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Bolton on Texas letter: “Each council member is free to have whatever political views they want and to express those views, but the role of a city council member does not mean we get to use the city’s municipal power and apparatus to randomly blast our views.”
#HuntingtonBeach
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Council Member Bolton on the gender and sex identity bills: “This is part of the culture war stuff. This is talking about people’s gender identity and minors and parent and custody and visitation. It, to me, is not relevant to the business of the city.”
#HuntingtonBeach
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The staff has released a new budget cut proposal. There will be no cuts to the library.
Thank you to Cooper for the photos.
I will be back tomorrow evening and will update then.
#HuntingtonBeach
#citycouncil
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Council hopeful, Chad “no platform” Williams continues to post photos of himself after hanging up his trolling “No Woke Agenda” signs. He apparently has nothing better to do with his time.
#huntingtonbeach
#council2024
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🧵I feel it’s time for a reminder on Alison Steinberg- HB local and OAN news anchor- going on this tirade last year. People like her are the fringe minority that Pat Burns is placating to. This dehumanization should not be tolerated in modern society.
#LBGTQ
#HuntingtonBeach
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Meanwhile, in
#LongBeach
, the city is actively engaging the
#homeless
population in a positive way, instead of treating them like they are less than human.
#HuntingtonBeach
could do so much more.
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When you’re wondering why Valentina and folks like her don’t get gaveled when saying inappropriate things at public comments when others do, this is why.
#HuntingtonBeach
#citycouncil
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Stepping out of HB for a moment to recognize my hometown, Long Beach, for always being a great example of inclusion and acceptance.
Long Beach's proposal to create a designed queer district is a gorgeous thing. Even more gorgeous are the young ppl, when asked about what they would want from such a district, overwhelmingly said to know more about queer history. The kids get it:
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Mayor Pro Tem Van Der Mark: “It’s not a book ban. You just reject some books. Some books are not a good fit for our community.”
#HuntingtonBeach
#library
#books
#bookban
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Dan Kalmick on the state of the city council: “It’s a banana republic down here… This isn’t Republicanism. This is nihilism.”
Great article by Alexei Koseff on Cal Matters.
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HB resident Avery Counts: “To all the LGBTQ+ members in HB; you are welcome here. You are loved here. You are valuable and important… HB is for all. Fly the pride flag.”
#huntingtonbeach
#pride
#LGBTQ
#citycouncil
@averycounts
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Moser on Texas: “It is up to each of us to advocate. You should call the members of the House and encourage them to pass the bipartisan bill.
We however, on this dais should not even be talking about it. We should be rolling up our sleeves and getting to work for our community.”
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Here is a “No on A, B, C” video made shown during public comments at the last council meeting.
#HuntingtonBeach
#vote
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Moser talks about the ‘Teen Central’ signs that were taken down and shows some books on puberty that were moved to the 4th floor restricted access.
She says: “[Understanding puberty] is not pornographic, nor are they obscene. How are we defining the criteria for these books?”
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Kalmick talks about an Irvine ordinance that states city council shall not consider or act upon matters of a non municipal nature.
“This is a non municipal matter. It’s a feel good piece. Texas is not waiting for the city of Huntington Beach to weigh in on this.”
@DanKalmick
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As of 6/16, 16 emails have come in regarding the library book agenda item.
100% of them have been against. I will continue to monitor and update.
#HuntingtonBeach
#library
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Bolton says the library is a public good and everyone benefits from it whether they pay for it or not, just like the fire department and EMS service.
She doesn’t buy the claim that LS&S will be able to save money & keep the same staff, and notes the staff will lose their pensions
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Bolton on obscenity in books: “If these books were obscene do you think the City Attorney’s office wouldn’t have noticed that by now?
We’re talking about the budget, service cuts, the air show settlement. These things have all been dealt with before.”
#HuntingtonBeach
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Kalmick: “I’m happy to give up my council budget to save the library in that way. The council budget is something like $300,000 a year. If we’re talking about folks losing their pension and having to go to a private company to fix something that is not broken for cost savings.”
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A follower sent this photo from the press conference. The
#Pride
flags reflected in the window are poignant and perfect.
#LGBTQ
#huntingtonbeach
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Dan Kalmick asks if Van Der Mark’s book committee resolution is even allowable, given that resolutions usually go through city staff first and not straight to a vote of the council. He also notes that no other resolution has a signing spot for the mayor pro tem.
#HuntingtonBeach
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Kalmick explains ways the new library book committee can be broken:
“We purchase something like 6,300 unique titles, so they go through the list and pull the ones they deem objectionable. If any book can be pulled by any member, what stops someone from pulling every single book?”
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Just as I thought I was going to bed, this happens.
A heavily scrutinized, racially insensitive judge gets a Huntington Beach man with a history of violence released from prison.
#HuntingtonBeach
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Kalmick says the RFP for the library shouldn’t even be in the agenda, as there was no direction from council or and H item.
He says they are not showing their work in how they came to this conclusion, and therefore it is suspect.
#HuntingtonBeach
#citycouncil
@DanKalmick
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Council Member Moser on the library: “We would be releasing our local control to a for profit organization and giving up our public institution and the management of that.
The gall to have created a ‘We love our libraries’ month only to turn around and look at selling it out.”
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Moser continues talking about Gracey’s past misinformation: “So there was no Sharia Law indoctrination. That was called World Religion and World History. Also misinformation about the California Healthy Youth Act at the time. There was a constant misinformation campaign.”
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