WHY AM I THE LONE RANGER? BECAUSE YOU MATTER & I LIVE HERE TOO

THE SCENE, THE VOTERS, THE RECORD, AND THE HYPOCRISY

Temecula, CA – I can’t wait for November 5^th, Guy Fawkes Day, and the day after all the elections are over, national and local. I was questioned as to why I don’t just stick to ‘scene’ news and bands. Well, Sports Fans, if the sitting city council had approved of something besides country, karaoke, and covers, had worked with small businesses to have a place for young people and parents who love or have bands who make new original music, had put in a reasonable fee plan or a percentage fee, or hadn’t said in letters two different conflicting approaches to permit operation, then perhaps I would have stayed out of this fray. But noooo, it had to be their way or no way.

The city had to be able to make money, excuse me, more money (isn’t $23 Million in surplus aka RDA funds aka the ‘golden goose’ –their words not mine) on the backs of kids and kids’ parents, and put whatever, and whoever, that tried to maintain some ‘spot’ for the non-motocross, non-BMX, creative, and music loving kids, out of business, well, that was all I could stands, and I couldn’t stands no more.


Forget that our traffic system has you driving from stop light to stop light like this area was Mayberry. When it was 2000 people living here, a Podunk mentality was fine, but now you have 200,000 people living here. People from all over the world and people who have actually lived in a ‘city’ rather than a ‘small town’ live here now and it is that ‘me first’ attitude rather than a ‘how can we collectively’ make this area better for ALL mindset that drives me.

I don’t know any of the people who run things here personally so I have no axe to grind on a personal level. But when you see and hear things like signage put up for a developer’s incumbent friend while denying the same privilege to a challenger on property that is being developed by the city for all, when you have council members who say they only want your vote and then they will make all the decisions because ‘you’ would only slow things down, when you see certain community benefits denied as not happening on ‘my watch’, well, I guess I have to ask, ‘Who died and made you God?’

Every day a new revelation comes to light about the people we elected, the lies they told, and the abuse of power they have pulled off, because they can. Yesterday it was a democrat who had an affair with a 50 year old worker through intimidation (“you work for my pleasure” he said, before allegedly paying her over $100K for her silence) and today it is proof that the Bush Admin signed off on ‘waterboarding’.

I would love to praise a politician who does something positive for the whole of his constituency, not just a select few, and if you don’t like to see politicians held up in The Review, move to Russia or Saudi Arabia or Iran or some other place where a differing opinion or a certain person isn’t allowed on a shirt or in a cartoon. But Sports Fans, this is America, so far, and I have a platform where I can speak my piece and you can speak yours.

Otherwise come back and read this column after November 5^th, or you can catch my non-political stuff in print in Neighbors magazine. Either way, have a great day, and thanks for the blow-back. It’s good to know that not everyone is watching Bill O’Reilly. Perhaps after this election I’ll have some politicians, some new ones TO praise. I HOPE so, really, and I speak for the whole scene in that anticipation. Late.

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