There they go again. The Malibu Community Action Network (Malibu CAN) in recent newspaper ads is once again standing the truth on its head. Claim: Jeff Jennings and Ken Kearsley changed the Malibu General Plan to “open the door to one million square feet of new commercial development in Malibu’s Civic Center.” False. Neither Jennings nor Kearsley (nor any other member of this council) changed or voted to change the General Plan to increase the total amount of development in the Civic Center allowed under the existing city ordinances. Their plan was to reduce commercial development in the Civic Center by acquiring the Chili Cook-Off site. Malibu CAN opposed them.
Claim: Jennings and Kearsley approved over 13,000 additional car trips per day on PCH to support commercial development. False. The converse is true. Jennings and Kearsley planned to reduce the amount of commercial development in the Civic Center by acquiring the Chili-Cook-Off site (with State bond funds available without cost to the people of Malibu), thereby eliminating potential traffic created by potential new development allowed under existing city ordinances. Malibu CAN opposed them.
Claim: Jennings and Kearsley supported spending millions of dollars on legal costs, lawsuits and Sacramento consultants to support commercial development. False. Not one dime has been spent by the city to support commercial development.
Claim: Jennings and Kearsley supported commercial development and Measure M to build shopping centers. False. The converse is true. Existing city ordinances allow for two additional shopping centers in Malibu. Measure M would have reduced the number to one.
The Malibu Can puppeteers, confident in their ability to spend whatever it takes to elect their candidates, are betting that they can buy the Malibu City Council by flooding every means of communications with falsehoods, distortions and phony surveys against Jennings and Kearsley. Let’s call their bet. Please vote for the independent candidates, Jeff Jennings, Ken Kearsley and Pamela Conley Ulich, whose allegiance is and always will be to the city of Malibu and all of its people.
David Kagon and
Daniel Glosser