Ninety-eight percent of the adults in Malibu are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that I voted for that get all the publicity. But then I voted for them. Land conservative Dan Wallace has asked me in his letter to The Malibu Times on 9/13/01, questions that indicate I am against open space and his friends. Councilman Ken Kearsley sermonizes that I am against kids and I don’t want to pay more taxes (Measure K taxes Malibuites under Proposition 13 considerably less than newer residents of Malibu) and that I am a curmudgeon who steals from the open-space community. Next, I will be accused of being a snitch for the Malibu Code Enforcement officer.
Oh, well! I have never affirmed anything other than that the Lily’s Caf Malibu Steering Committee and I are cohesive in that Measure K, a $15,000,000 bond issue, must be defeated as written. We believe that the proposed general bond is in fact, general, all-purpose, and broad-spectrum and does not reflect the wishes of Malibuites. We believe that the desire of the citizens of Malibu is not to give the City Council an unbound hand in the spending of this general bond money based upon local politics and political influence. Finally, we question the availability of the Malibu City Council to use eminent domain in purchasing private property from an unwilling seller anywhere in Malibu.
I have publicly stated (Taki Talks) that we are in favor of a bond measure being placed on the ballot in which the Malibu Council does not have blank check authority and the measure is line itemed as is traditional with 99 percent of all bond measures in the United States of America. We want to understand what Malibuites are voting for. Where is the bond tax money going?
Mr. Wallace, since I asked for Measure K to be traditionally worded, your co-committee associates complain that I’m a wet blanket, my house has been paint-bombed, egged and wine bottles have been thrown against its front door. I am now awaiting the traditional cross burning on my front lawn for being incompatible with the Malibu Open-Space Conservatives over simply the wording of Bond Measure K. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. God bless Malibu.
And that is all I have to say.
Tom Fakehany