From: Gary S. Gevisser
Sent:
Saturday, August 07, 2004 10:34 AM
To:
Del Mar Times - Editor
Cc: rest; htprice@adelphia.net; Michael Willis; FBI
Subject: The Fish Rots From The Head Down

Letters to the Editor of the Del Mar Times

 

 

The Fish Rots From The Head Down.

 

Hershell Price’s three-quarter page “stinky fish” response in the most recent print edition of the Del Mar Times which I couldn’t find on the Internet to what seems to have been a reasonable observation,

 

Please don’t run 4 a seat on the Del Mar City Council” [sic],

 

by one resident of Del Mar to the potential conflicts of interest given Hershell’s new spouse’s involvement in a “competing” public service organization, seems a little overboard?

 

Why get so personal with a neighbor who understands rather well the issue of “conflict of interest” that not only must one be impartial in order for our so fragile democracy to continue standing erect but one must appear to the commoner to be a man-woman who under no circumstances can be bought and paid for when behind “closed doors” which is not to suggest we get into the knitty gritty of the Price’s personal lives altho I see nothing wrong with those seeking governing positions to provide balance sheets forget tax returns going back say 5 years, agree?

 

Rather than get into a monologue, my Partner-Wife expressing such matters rather well,

 

When the dialogue becomes tTOo monologues it is the beginning of the end” [sic],

 

why don’t we have a town hall meeting and for those owners and renters who are vacationing in other hot spots around the globe to watch via a TV-Satellite broadcast such an entertaining gathering, folks encouraged to wear their most elegant attire, everyone encouraged to choose their words carefully, a little more fearful of “flyer-buster” [sic] speeches letting the rest of the world observe closely as we get down to serious, “dirt-business”, agree?

 

What will our kids many coming of age, able to read and understand whose formal education has yet to interfere with their learning make of the sanctimonious leadership, agree?

 

Hypocrisy like evidence when well presented not in the least bit difficult for folks to follow assuming they have had no more than a 6th grade education to mention in passing their sequencing not being interrupted, each and every one of us pretty much programmed right at the start, agree?

 

The knee jerk reaction of the Mayor of Del Mar, “No!” so very telling to my question at the councilmember workshop back on Monday July 19th,

 

Did the consultant you hired to assist with your new tax proposal effecting each resident of Del Mar not simply the property owners many such as myself easily able to afford the more likely $12,000 in additional taxes on every house sold which us rich folk, not necessarily all of us having a private Swiss Banker at the ripe old age of 10, needing all that much more formal education to know how to sock it to the working class and dirt poor, bother to do a ‘risk assessment’ to share with all the residents of Del Mar the lunacy of such a property transfer tax which will only go up in time while possibly triggering a real estate market crash” [sic]?

 

Agree, it is very possible given the Digital Age that has some of us operating our laptop computers wirelessly able to breath in the fresh “Oshon” [sic] swept air will be able to relay suggestions coming in from all 4 corners of the planet much like I was trying to do at the last Del Mar City Council powwow where Hershel, in my opinion, was quite the cheerleader worthy of, at a minimum, a bouquet of flowers which once I have finished this email sitting on the beach here at 15th Street in downtown Del Mar just a “hop jump and a scotch” [sic] from where the Willis Brothers have pitched their tent, watching, as I type at lightening speed, our 11 year old blast thru the 24 centimeter surf on his RAT designed surfboard, I will walk up to the flower shop at the corner of 15ht street and Highway 101 leaving it up to Hershell and his wife to “will call” since I only have Hershell’s email address which he so kindly provided me when we last rubbed shoulders at that pitiful City Council “workshop” that assisted me greatly, a very much retired almost half centurion former corporate “work out” guy to feel full-on rejuvenated.

 

Risk Assessment” is my business.

 

Gary S. Gevisser

 

Ps – It’s not class warfare that I am encouraging, its class welfare I am questioning. And I am a member of the favored class.

 

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