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Thursday, November 27, 2008
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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Monday, November 24, 2008
My book cover
On the cover is a photo of a specially-made Cancer Bitch. I'm told it's small and somehow it's a whistle--I think if you take off the head. It was my friend S's idea to have the circle-slash over the left breast. Click here to read more about this book.
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
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Saturday, November 22, 2008
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Friday, November 21, 2008
Leslie Daigle Fights For Her RIGHT To Be Mayor
So the Daily Pilot has weighed in with their own article about Daigle possibly being passed over for the Big Seat too now. Here's my previous take as well.
Well...according to even Daigle herself, she's already assuming that she's going to be passed over.
“It is ironic that while nationally, young and/or women elected officials are advancing, just the opposite may be happening in Newport Beach,” Daigle said.
Of course Daigle is saying this after being a Planning Commissioner for ONE (maybe TWO) meetings before getting Appointed to the Dais over many, many other MALE City's Leaders ...most of which who were (and still are) fixtures in Newport Beach's Business (President of the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce) and Political (Planning Commissioner, Parks Beaches and Recreation Commissioner) activities.
It's fascinating that Newport Beach's last female Mayor Jan DeBay says that she,
"...doesn’t think the so-called glass ceiling is holding Daigle back"
While Former Mayor Evelyn Hart was more...delicate about this issue by suggesting that a Mayor needs two years (in reference to another 1 year Mayor Selich term) to get anything worthwhile done.
“I think that Leslie Daigle would make a fine mayor; however, I do see some real advantages of having a mayor for two years,” Hart said. “If a mayor wants to try to really accomplish something, there’s no way they would be able to do something in one year’s time, so I think I see more of an advantage of having a two-year mayor.”
But I don't remember her, or anyone else for that matter, saying this when Steve Rosansky was Mayor, when Don Webb was Mayor, when John Heffernan was Mayor...
So Daigle the Great continues by saying...
“We have a time-honored tradition of rotation,” Daigle said. “Whether the mayor has done a good job or bad job, this is our system.”
Interesting how Daigle considers it her RIGHT to be the next Mayor as opposed to a PRIVILEGE.
And I'm not too sure the City of Newport Beach should have someone in the Big Seat who feels as though it's her RIGHT to be Mayor.
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Comet
Today I was rushing to meet an editing client at 2pm when L called. He said, I have bad news. He told me that our good friends' son was killed in a car accident earlier today. At first I was in minor shock, just feeling shaky and unable to process it. I knew people died in car accidents, and I knew the son, but I couldn't connect the two. Later I found the news story on the web and just keep thinking about the times I've seen this kid (who was 28). The last time was a few years ago at his wedding.
People say that when you have cancer you start worshiping at the altar of carpe diem. It's one thing to think of yourself slowly fading away; it's quite another to find out that a healthy 28-year-old was thrown out of his car when a tire blew out while he was on the exit ramp.
I'm sure that his parents, our friends, will replay the "what ifs" forever and ever.
***
It's amazing that we drive these machines that are so deadly. Many of us can name people who were killed in car accidents. The mother of a friend of mine was killed on the road between Austin and Houston, in 1991. Her daughter, my friend's older sister, was in the car with her. My friend A's cousins lived with their grandparents because their parents had died young in a car crash. And then one of the cousins, in his late twenties or thirties, and married, died of lymphoma. If I'm not mistaken, there's a part of Milan Kundera's novel Immortality, which I read back in the 1990s, that discusses the strangeness of the very high rate of deaths caused by automobiles. Why do we accept it?
I read once in In These Times, I think, that in Germany (and this may have been back when there was an East and West, and this was in West), conscientious objectors who refuse to pick up guns are not allowed to drive cars, because they too, are fatal weapons. I couldn't confirm this, but the (Christian) Orthodox Peace Fellowship reports, "Thus there are Orthodox priests who do not drive a car because of the danger of inadvertently causing someone’s death."
It is dangerous to drive. It's even dangerous to be around cars. I know someone who was walking downtown and was struck by an out-of-control car that roared up on the curb. She is now quadriplegic.
Monday, November 17, 2008
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Amazon
This is a painting of Diana, goddess of the hunt, not quite an Amazon, but she could pass. According to legend the Amazons cut or burned off their right breasts so they could shoot arrows better. This is by Artemisia Gentileschi.
The reason I was looking for an Amazon is that now Cancer Bitch is on Amazon. With blurbs and everything--except not a cover image yet.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Can Leslie Daigle Count to Four?
Who will be Newport Beach's next mayor?
Typically it's the Mayor Pro-Tem, who's bumped up to the hot seat.
But...
The "One" in line has had an interesting time on the City Council, first getting appointed to her City Council seat after ONE (maybe two) meetings as a Planning Commissioner,and barely beating someone who had already withdrawn from the 2006 City Council race, still owing her Political Consultant dough from that race (as of June 30, mind you...)
So...will Mayor Pro-Tem Leslie Daigle (who's been EXTREMELY quiet lately...no fabricating issues, no "fascinating" opinion pieces, no Environmental Lessons, no Community Tours) be able to Count to Four?
Can Leslie Daigle get three others on the City Council to unleash her ego and jumpstart her rumored campaign for the 2010 Assembly primary race by voting her in as Mayor of Newport Beach?
The past year with Mayor Ed Selich at the helm has been relatively quiet for him.
The previous year with former Mayor Steve Rosansky...well...not soo quiet for him.
What will the next year bring?
And will three others on the Newport Beach City Council risk all kinds of "Fun Times" on the City Council by letting Leslie be the City's Figurehead?
Looking at the City Council roster...and who might support her?
After hours of cigar smoked discussion, my guess?
4 to 3 - in favor of Mayor Daigle.
A Democrat/Socialist led (in the White House and Congress) US of A.
An increasingly unpredictable Sales-Tax raising California Governor.
A County of Orange who cannot be trusted to stand up to the Unions, so we have to do their job and vote on Union Pension Increases.
and now...
Welcome to the Mayor Leslie Daigle era...
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Monday, November 10, 2008
Electing a Mayor...how bad could it be?
process and ambiguous options for electeds! Demagoguery comes
when "the people" are not informed fully....or are occluded
from the process of Representative Government.
Newport Beach has a 20th Century process which has served the
people (those that really don't care much) well for now over
100 years! It is very much like watching Fess Parker as Davy
Crockett when he ran for Congress from Tennessee. "Hey, have
a drink on Davy and send him to Congress!". Those were great
days...when we elected concerned veterans from World War II,
dedicated and caring people ran for office that loved their
community and wanted to keep it a lovely place to live. It was
a time when perhaps the biggest issue to be faced was a defaced
Pulic Restroom or an errant tree growing in front of someone's
ocean view plain!
But today is today and the great Irvine Company, as well as
the various Sons and Madam's of the Irvine Company have all
taken it upon themselves to guide and direct the fortunes of
Newport Beach. Allowing groups like Greenlight, Stop Polluting
Our Newport or even the Airport Working Group are certainly
not worth considering in any regard. Those groups have seen
their day....done their work for the power structure and are
no longer viable. "Concerned Citizens of Newport Beach" is a
newbie. CCNB is looking to protect our community from the
rabid influx of Rehab Homes and Drug Rehab facilities in Newport
Beach. They follow on the heels of the group of daring do
environmentalists and concerned citizens that fought changing
the location of the new City Hall to Fashion Island. So far,
both groups haven't won much yet. CCNB has been fighting the
Rehab issue for several years and found that lots of people we
would not expect..were deeply involved ..one way or the other.
The truth is: We have no City Leader that "the people" can go
to and ask for a "policy decision" or vote out if they are
insensitive to our needs. Lord knows that our City Manager
Homer Bludau..has been doing his best to fill the void, but
the problems are even bigger than what the designated Newport
Beach Bureaucracy can handle fairly or logically. We need as
a citizenry to find Leadership that can in fact Lead. Right
now, there is a sloppy configuration of 7 individuals all or
mostly supported by a back room group and power structure, all
with their own back pocket considerations which makes finding
the direct leadership we seek - rather unconvincing!
Those presently elected would be the first to argue that they
have a wonderful group of people that work together and that
this loose and relaxed oligarchy does everything either almost
perfectly or in the best way possible! Odd..that this basic
theme has been ongoing for just about 35 years. Remember the
great upheaval the election of Dick Nichols caused? They acted
as if the end days had come. One lone voice had them beside
themselves!
The issue is plain: We need someone willing to offer policy
choices to the electorate! We need someone that actually can
run "for something" rather than just because they know someone!
Ed Selich couldn't even get anyone to run against him in this
last election! Ed, by the way is a very nice guy but not
exactly Mr. Excitement!
To the point...we need to elect a Mayor! Irvine does so...and
has not fallen off the San Andreas fault! Why can't Newport
Beach have an elected Mayor too?
How about two things: "Vote for a Mayor!" and let's also "Vote
for Restricting Rehab Homes!" Oh, we have to change the Charter?
Great! Then let's do it! Time for Newport Beach to become the
City that it is - with all the warts and an elected leader!
Saturday, November 8, 2008
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But what I have been mystified by throughout this campaign is the change of heart Dolores appears to have had about the support of one's campaign. While apparently is what offensive to her that God and country loving Americans like myself and other LC members would give $500 whopping dollars to Keith Curry, apparently rallying with $250,000 of independent expenditure money from Jack Croul was just fine. I actually happen to think it was - I don't begrudge this guy the right to waste his money on whatever grudge and political score he wants. I believe in the first amendment, and despite some of the extraordinary things one reads even on the comments section some time of this excellent blog, a candidate is not "in bed with big business" when someone freely supports the candidate they believe in. Quid pro quos are already against the law, and no slanderous mailer can make lemons out of lemonade. So, I reiterate, IE's, Jack, 250k, Dolores - it's all good by me. It is a free country. BUT, I have to say, it may not be a wise investment for the rest of us looking to spend 250k in the future to dethrone a city council member. As one will see from the below exact election results, this 250k ADDED 1,000 votes to Keith Curry's margin of victory. I have to think that if I ever get tempted to do an IE, this would scare me a bit.
2008 Results - Curry win by 2924 votes
Vote Count
Percentage
KEITH D. CURRY
16,606
54.8%
DOLORES OTTING
13,682
45.2%
2006 Results - Curry wins by 1999 votes
Vote Count
Percentage
KEITH D. CURRY
13478
54.0%
DOLORES A. OTTING
11479
46.0%
I hope Keith will govern the city well. I think he will. I believe there is a lot of good happening in the city, and I believe there is a lot of work to be done. I hope those of us who love the city will calm the rhetoric a bit, and move on with the job of civic responsibility and improvement.
In Grant Park
It was nice, I tell people. Yes, it was nice.
That's not what they want to hear. They want to hear that the Obama rally in Grant Park on Tuesday was fantastic. Exhilarating. Incredible. Moving. They want to hear all that, but they'll have to hear it from someone else. I wish they could hear it from me. I wish I had burst into tears, like other people standing around me, like my husband. I wish that I'd felt a whoosh, a thrill, when I clapped along with everyone else when we heard that Iowa was going for Obama, and then Ohio. I wish that when I yelled in my green Obama t-shirt, among the tens of thousands in their t-shirts and caps and hijabs, holding their American flags aloft, wearing Obama pins, one girl with Vote Obama written on her face in blue, that I felt a thump in my chest, a heave in my heart. I wish that when I cheered along with everyone else when the CNN announcer on the JumboTron said, "It's looking exceedingly grim for John McCain," I felt gleeful. But I didn't.
CNN announced that Obama was the apparent winner. My friend Garnett, standing next to me said, "For the first time the country can actually get better." I agreed with her. A voice came over the loudspeaker: "Final sound check for the next president of the United States." Then I shouted along with everyone else, "Not for us!" when McCain said it was natural to feel some disappointment. I sang the chorus to "Sweet Home Chicago" along with the rest of the crowd. Then the president-elect came on stage (though I couldn't see him with my naked eye), but I didn't feel anything. I felt like the girl who sings "Nothing" in A Chorus Line. Except she became defiant about not feeling the way her acting teacher wanted her to, and I was disturbed.
What was wrong with me? This was historic, the first African-American president-elect. A brilliant man, a non-imperialist, a person we wouldn't have to disavow when traveling abroad. This was what I wanted--this is why I made phone calls to Iowa and rang doorbells in Indiana and Wisconsin, and organized a fundraiser in Chicago. This was the result I had hoped for, when I argued with Hillary supporters early on. In the park I listened to Obama, his stirring words about unity and inclusion and sacrifice, I listened to him say everything I would want a president to say--and still...
Wednesday I felt--or didn't feel--the same way. I kept trying to figure out what was going on. I kept thinking of syllogisms. Like: This country is conservative. Obama is progressive and I agree with him. But the country elected him. Therefore, Obama can't be progressive.
Maybe, I thought, I never supported a winning candidate before. That's partly true, except I voted for both Obama and Durbin for the Senate. How did I feel when Obama won his Senate seat? I don't remember. I did a tiny bit of work for that campaign. I campaigned for Harold Washington's second term. I was out of state for his first win. But he was hamstrung by a racist bloc of aldermen--at least at the beginning. I worked for an aldermanic candidate who lost twice. I voted for Carter and Clinton--but I didn't support either of them in the primaries.
Most of my adult life I've been politically marginal. My friends ran for state office on the Iowa Socialist Party ticket, and I voted for them. That was the choice: you vote for your beliefs or you vote for the compromisers. You vote your dreams or you sigh and vote for the possible. This is so ingrained in me that when I finally support a candidate who wins, with whom I agree, with whom I share a world view--my brain short-circuits and threatens to explode. How could suddenly a nation that I don’t quite feel a part of, embrace the same candidate that I embrace? How did that happen? Am I in shock?
Or am I depressed?
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Should Someone At Least Win Their Own District?
If you are running for City Council in District 2. You need to live in District 2.
You represent District 2. You are called District 2's City Councilmember.
But the entire City gets to vote for you.
So while you are associated with being District 2's Representative, you are voted at large.
But...
You should at least represent your District and your District should want you as their Representative right?
Interestingly enough...
District 2's Councilman Steve Rosansky didn't win his own District in the 2008 election.
Out of the 3049 people living, or registered to vote, in District 2 who voted for the City Council race -
- Steve Rosansky got 1481 votes - 48.5%
- Gloria Alkire got 1568 votes - 51.5%
District 2 also had the lowest voter turnout as compared to the rest of the City too, bringing out only 51.4% while Citywide, Newport Beach had 58.5% come out to vote.
What does this mean?
The people who know Steve Rosansky best (his neighbors) didn't want him as their City Council Representative, while the people who don't live or work next to him do...
In case you are curious...
In the District 7 race between Incumbent Keith Curry and Challenger Dolores Otting, as voted by District 7
- Keith Curry had 2827 votes 59%
- Dolores Otting had 1939 votes 41%
Congratulations - Here's to the Power of Incumbency
To say that this election cycle wasn't contentious...well...it wasn't like having the 13 candidates from two years ago, but this election was certainly fascinating.
Lots and lots of money was spent...and the status quo for Newport Beach was kept.
Thus the power of incumbency.
Regardless of how much money was spent, how much mail was mailed, none of that really made too much difference.
Consider this...my neighbor is as Conservative as it gets.
She likes to consider herself well informed.
She voted for McCain,
Voted Yes on 8
Voted for all the Republicans (in partisan offices) and that's all that really mattered to her.
But when it came down to the down ticket items...
She voted for our City's incumbents.
Why?
Because life in Newport Beach is great.
Why change it.
None of the money spent, none of the mailers, none of the newspaper articles made a difference to her.
Heck...she didn't even know about any of them.
Never noticed.
All she cared about was McCain and Prop 8.
Costa Mesa kept it's Incumbents and the top vote getter was the former popular Mayor.
Irvine (who's money spent DWARFS Newport Beach's spending) kept their status quo.
Throughout Orange County...only a very few incumbents lost.
Nationally -
Incumbent Crack-smoking Marion Barry was easily re-elected to the DC City Council.
Incumbent Convicted Felon Alaska's US Senator Ted Stevens still holds a slim lead.
So congrats to Steve and Keith on their victories.
And congrats to Newport Beach for keeping Newport Beach's status quo...
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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Monday, November 3, 2008
Dolores and the raffle
Specifically, from what I understand the raffle violated the following seven laws;
1. Violation of Penal Code Section 320. The raffle itself was illegal. Political campaigns are specifically not defined as “eligible organizations” under state law for purposes of conducting a raffle.
2. Violation of Penal Code Section 320.5 (C) (f). This section states “A raffle may not be advertised, operated, or conducted in any manner over the Internet, nor may raffle tickets be sold, traded, or redeemed over the Internet.” From September 9-October 20, Dolores Otting’s web site advertised the raffle and provided a down load to a raffle entry form.
3. Violation of Penal Code Section 320.5 (C) (h) (1). This section states “An eligible organization may not conduct a raffle authorized by this section unless it registers annually with the Department of Justice”. In addition to not being an “eligible organization” this raffle was not registered with the Department of Justice.
4. Violation of Newport Beach Municipal Code Section 1.25.030 (Count 1). The fair market value of the six day Honolulu vacation offered as a raffle prize exceeds the $500 contribution limit of the Newport Beach Code.
5. Violation of Newport Beach Municipal Code Section 1.25.030 (Count 2). The fair market value of the Cancun vacation, which includes “economy airfare for two, two free nights in a five star hotel and round trip ground transportation to Cancun International Airport” exceeds the $500 contribution limit of the Newport Beach Code. (Airfare alone is approximately $500 per person).
6. Violation of the Political Reform Act. The source and fair market value of the Cancun vacation have not been reported in accordance with the provisions of the Act. This is now more than two weeks since Ms. Otting assured voters that disclosure would be forthcoming.
7. Making false statements under penalty of perjury. On October 6, 2008, Dolores Otting signed her FPPC Form 460 attesting to the following statement “I have used all reasonable diligence in preparing and reviewing this statement and to the best of my knowledge the information contained herein and in the attached schedules is true and complete. I certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct”. This report listed a $495 in-kind donation of the Honolulu vacation by “Lesna Orozco”. Public statements by Linda Orozco confirm that the donation of the vacation was solely by Linda Orozco and that Lesna Orozco did not make any contribution of value to the campaign. This makes the reported donation a false statement.
So tomorrow is a big day for our country and our city. And in both cases, the votes seem obvious to me.
Studs
Friday afternoon I was walking to the main library downtown and thought about the time, years ago, I was in the library and this guy came up to the counter asked the librarian if she had any books by Studs Terkel, if she'd heard of Studs Terkel. It was Studs, in his characteristic red-checkered shirt. I don't think she had. I should have said, Yes, I've heard of you, I've read your work--but I didn't.
See, it's all about me. A great wonderful person dies and I think of myself. I feel sorry for myself, I feel regret: I met Studs a few times, talked to him, but I wasn't friends with him. I knew people who were friends with him. At a party a few weeks ago I talked to T, who was telling me about visiting Studs, who was not doing well. He may have been bed-ridden. T told me that Studs told him that he'd wanted to stay alive to see the Cubs go the World Series, and now he wanted to hold on until the election. (His absentee ballot arrived at his house the day he died.) I thought later that I wanted to ask T if I could go with him next time he went to see Studs. Would that even have been appropriate? I'm sure Studs wouldn't have remembered meeting me. My friend S came to Chicago several years ago to read from her book of oral histories. She visited Studs. She visited Carlos Cortez. She could do that because she was from out of town. Now both of these grand old men are dead.
I still haven't read the obit. I couldn't figure out my resistance to it, and then I thought: It's because I'm jealous. I wish I'd written it. I wish I'd known him the way Rick Kogan, who wrote the obit, knew him. What is wrong with me? I just heard on the radio Studs recalling the day that Rick was born; he was friends with his father, the editor Herman Kogan. (I met the elder Kogan once. So what?)
I wanted Studs to read at the fundraiser for Obama. I asked a friend of his, twice, if he would ask Studs for me, and both times he said: Studs is ill.
On the radio now are people I know talking about Studs. One of them is another grand not-as-old man, Quentin Young. I know him through his daughter. I wrote about his wife's funeral. (Studs was there, looking frail.) I admire him and want to spend time with him. How can we do that? We can call to ask him to dinner. Would he want to come to dinner with us? Would he want to be with us?
And I wondered, did Studs die the moment I happened to think about him?
Why does it matter, Cancer Bitch?
I want to be like him, but he didn't get to be who he was by wanting to be like someone else.
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Sunday, November 2, 2008
Town Hall
Fancy Hospital had its annual Town Hall meeting last week on breast cancer. Meaning, anyone could come and ask questions of a panel of experts: my erstwhile oncologist, my current oncologist, my erstwhile and very nice radiologist, a patient advocate (who lives in Des Moines) and a oncologist-plastic surgeon. I learned a few things, some of them unsettling. That estrogen-positive cancer (such as mine) is easier to treat than other kinds, but it also has a greater chance than other cancers of coming back after five years. How did I miss hearing that before? That triple-negative breast cancer is more common in African-American women than in women of other races, and that it's more aggressive and more likely to recur than many other other kinds of breast cancers. That according to one trial, five years of tamoxifen is better than 10 because breast cancer cells can learn to grow with the tamoxifen.
A man asked about Dr. Susan Love's new research effort. My old onco pooh-poohed Love, calling her an "entrepreneur," and said he was "not sure what she's doing." My current onco said that Love was encouraging patients to get in clinical trials to help the next generation. "What she's doing is great," she said. My onco also said that bone scans and CT scans and tumor markers aren't helpful in finding metastasis. It makes no difference, she said, whether you find out now or three to six months from now that the cancer has spread.
One woman was dressed in orange and spoke with an accent, maybe Eastern European. She had sleek short hair that may have been, now that I think about it, a wig. She asked about extra testing when a person is in remission. Her mammograms didn't show anything but "now I find out ... I don't have much time."
But the most shocking thing I heard was this, at the beginning: My former oncologist said that he'd gotten e-mails from some patients, asking him if there was going to be anything new at the Town Hall this year. What? He gave his e-mail address to patients? And he answered them? Unbelievable.