#HuntingtonBeach’s former elected maga city attorney, Michael Gates, resigned to take a position in 47’s DOJ, fired for cause (creating a hostile work environment), came back, rehired by the city—😂 put his name to the letter that sank Texas’s gerrymandering. Incompetence at every level. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Plot twist -- former HB city attorney and former DOJ attorney Michael Gates ineptly sank the 2025 Texas redistricting maps which were struck down by a three-judge panel today: tinyurl.com/nhe6er4j 1/6

Is that you, Huntington Beach city councilmember Butch Twining, dressed in black, holding a candle and a small flag, at the very end of this clip from last night's Charlie Kirk rally at the pier as the crowd is shouting "WHITE MEN FIGHT BACK!"?

Jason Schmitt, the proposed appointee for city treasurer, made campaign contributions to the HB3 last year. $249 contributions are often a sign of personal entanglements because that amount is just below the conflict-of-interest threshold. Plans may have already been in place for him a year ago.

Great LAist article expanding an important story brought to light by Surf City Sentinel. :-) Key quote: “Surveillance equipment and surveillance, in general, are a lot of times a crutch for bad social policies,” he said. “They don't solve the underlying issues of crime.” laist.com/news/politic...

Without transparency, there can be no trust when it comes to government surveillance. surfcitysentinel.substack.com/p/oak-view-s...

For the first time I can remember in the 26 years that I've lived here, patriotic red, white, and blue plastic sleeves were NOT wrapped onto the street lights in my tract in advance of the Fourth of July. Coincidence, or statement? The absence seems fitting, for I see little to celebrate today.

Here is the No Kings protest at the Huntington Beach pier at PCH & Main at noon on 6/14/2025. With the traffic congestion on PCH, there's no way I could have planned this very lucky dashcam video capture. :-)

Know your protest rights.

Our city tax dollars at work with HBPD assisting LAPD in suppressing legitimate protest against the Trump regime.

Turnout so far in the library special election -- Dem 19.1%, Rep 12.8%, NPP 10.6%.

The kids understand -- vote YES on June 10th special election Measures A & B to protect your freedom to read and to save the library from privatization!

Best HB political mailer EVER. Vote YES on A and B! :-)

Well, this is gonna hurt. OCTA is penalizing the city by withholding millions of dollars of Measure M2 money for the next five years because the city paid $29K of transportation funds to an employee for non-transportation purposes. www.ocregister.com/2025/05/16/f...

And there it is -- city councilmember Gracey Van Der Mark is running for Assembly District 72 in 2026.

In a move signaling awareness of their impending defeat in the 6/10 library special election, the city council has initiated partial repair of the fountains. This weak PR does nothing to soften their reputation as library enemies. Also, somebody should CPRA the book banning board applications.

OCGOP knows that book banning is deeply unpopular with HB voters, and so their fat cats have entered the election campaign to convince you that unelected political appointees should have the power to control what you can read. Set them straight by voting YES on A & B. Ballots will be arriving soon!

We are now living in the Fahrenheit 451 timeline as demonstrated by the Huntington Beach Firefighter's Association contributing $2,500 to Chad's book-burning PAC. Note that it is listed as being from firemen not firefighters. I guess Chad thinks women have no place in public safety professions.

Voting NO on Measure B is a vote in favor of Michael Posey's plans for his employer Library Systems & Services (LSS) to slash public library services to drive private corporate profits. He unethically omitted his employment. Vote YES on B to prevent it from happening without a vote of the people.

Huntington Beach's unofficial poet laureate nailed it at last night's city council meeting -- "their mission is quite clear, stoke up cruelty, hate, and fear".

Just another day in MAGA-ruled Huntington Beach, LOL.

Property owner seeks rezoning to build up to 800 medium-density residential units and 350 hotel rooms inland of PCH between Seapoint and Goldenwest. www.facebook.com/surfcitysent...

What is it about Huntington Beach that causes entertainment companies like Code Four and Symphony of Flowers to come looking for sweetheart deals to bail them out of bad financial situations? The folks behind Flowers are facing bankruptcy in Canada. www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/03/27/i...

MAGA city councilmember Chad Williams has created a self-promotional PAC to oppose both library protection initiatives in the June 10th special election.

Bravo, Protect HB! :-)

Construction has started for the new Tesla Supercharger and protest location 😉 at the Amazon Fresh shopping center on Warner at Goldenwest. When this project was first submitted, it was 12 stalls, but it has since been upsized to 24 stalls.

Huntington Beach has made the big time of the Lincoln Project's latest video, with the Chris Klewe city council incident appearing briefly at the 0:35 mark. www.youtube.com/watch?v=64L3...

WOOHOO! Natalie Moser has filed a candidate intention statement to reclaim her city council seat in 2026. :-)

In the end, the Huntington Beach MAGA city council years will only be remembered for the partisan circus sideshows meant to entertain and distract, and not for any lasting accomplishments that might have built a better future for us all.

There was a hot mic moment at last night's city council meeting as Chris Kluwe approached the podium. Mayor Burns says to Gracey, "See what you started?", then chuckles. Gracey responds with something unintelligible except for the word "Trump", then Burns retorts "Oh fuck 'em". Unacceptable!

Why it's important to commemorate Black History Month in Huntington Beach. www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

BREAKING NEWS! CITY LOSES AGAIN ON VOTER ID! 🙂 In an OC Superior court ruling today in the state's voter ID case against the city, the city's demurrer was overruled, and a hearing on the merits has been set for April 3, 2025.

The city has been sued to overturn library censorship. See link to complaint at end of press release. :-) www.aclusocal.org/en/press-rel...

Use the Secretary of State website to follow along for district-wide results in the SD36 special election which spans both OC and LA counties. electionresults.sos.ca.gov/special/stat...

Huntington Beach is a defendant in a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging sexual harassment by a police officer against a resident, followed by intimidation from other officers to keep it quiet. Read the details here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In a defeat for MAGA City, the State Court of Appeals has ordered the OC Superior Court judge in the HB voter ID lawsuit to render a decision on the merits, and the writing is on the wall that the charter city justification for voter ID will fail. voiceofoc.org/2025/02/stat...

A self-explanatory Huntington Beach city council public comment video about the MAGA library plaque -- wait for it. ;-)

Councilmember Don Kennedy knows that you can't just revoke land use entitlements for no reason, but he and the rest of the council are plotting to do that very thing for the previously approved Bolsa Chica senior living community. Lawsuit sure to follow by that applicant.

I like former councilmember Natalie Moser's new gloves-off mode, but Mayor Burns blue-carding her was condescending petty tyrant stuff.

Trump just worsened Huntington Beach's budget deficits. The auto tariffs will cause prices to spike, crashing sales and thus sales tax revenues that the city depends on from our auto dealers. www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/c...

What is it about the airshow that makes local HB politicians like City Attorney Michael Gates do such brazenly unethical things?

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