is that whats going on?
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Basically, but looks like ’Da Mayor Jimbo is out hunting for businesses to move to Palmdale, and if they are in Lancaster…Oh well Too Bad TRex.
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wonder if lil rex will hit him with ethic violations?
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I think TRex might think about having one of his body guards have a word with ’Da Mayor…or something like that. Maybe a horses head in his bed or something like that.
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Rex needs to learn the laws of cause and effect.
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Maybe ‘Da Mayor got his nose out of joint for the new Wally’s World deal, but I think there’s probably more going on that that. Maybe the plans and city $$$ going into improving the Lancaster auto mall. Heck each dealer sells probably $10 Million or more each year, and that’s a lot of sales tax for the city.
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Hear there’s a melt down in the Rex camp. Rex tearing into someone at a Runner function at the Cascades Restaurant while the rest of us sit back and watch as the red flows into his face and his eyes probably rolled back in his head all spooky and all. Good thing someone reminded him he was in public and not sitting in his chair at a city council meeting.

One of my comrades also told me a conversation about da Mayor Rex was overhead at Perks (you know the source and author of the Mann ethics violation) thinking ole’ Rex is on edge. They were supposidly Visco-ites.

Maybe the other Titans are thinking ole’ Rex isn’t doing his job the way they need him too. Maybe they think he’s melting down. Nothing like sending Jimbo a letter that came out of a Wheaties Box with a secret decoder ring to make Jimbo’s knees knock. Or better yet, to stop the pressure on Rex from the other Titans.

Paranoia must be setting in for the Rex entourage.

By the way, Bill Parris is having an operation in a few days. SERIOUS OPERATION. He’s been fighting a long battle with cancer and he needs the prayers and support of all. It wouldn’t hurt to PM him and send him your best wishes. That includes Rexy too.
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jim, who is not my mayor, but someone i’ve seen speak, and who i’ve spoken to, briefly, appears to have a certain humility that may allow him to ask and recieve more input from others. (i want to point out that i do not know the man), which probably helps make better decisions.
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Then we can all feel good about this Christmas holiday season knowing the city had done its part.
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My love for Rex will never leave me. Once bitten you are smitten. Thank you for accepting that reality.
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If only the NS and dbeard show would start in this bog, my posting will be complete.
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By the way, did anybody else catch this? In the article, Parris says: “…For a restaurant that pays almost no sales tax at all?” This explains why there are so few restaurants of quality in Lancaster; the power brokers won’t be able to glean as much money for the Redevelopment Fund to pirate for their pet projects as they would from, say, a Wal-mart. Parris doesn’t want real amenities for the people of Lancaster, he wants money for himself and his buddies!
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Real Steve, thank you for opening that closet door, holding my hand, and walking out with me into the light.

Now everyone knows about you and I and how we get a rush everytime TRex’s name is mentioned. Easy Real Steve, don’t get too excited. You always make a big mess.
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What does that tell you about the entire administration over at Lancaster City Hall?
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I’m sure once this agreement passes the Palmdale City Council, there will be a giant retail sucking sound from Lancaster to Palmdale.
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Secondly, I do not believe that Rex has the ability to take any business away from Palmdale at this point. That painful realization may also be one other possible reason why he is making such a stink. If Rex was in a more powerful position (read business friendly), then he wouldn’t be worried so much… If that were the real issue (which I seriously doubt that it is).

In the end, it appears to be just another story of ‘look over there, not here’ that Parris and his cronies have been pulling on a regular basis (and some bloggers have bought). It just makes one sick to watch.
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Your leader’s greed is blinding him from reason.
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Maybe the voters of Lancaster will eventually figure out that the Emperor has no clothes.
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imho!
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With all the screaming and yelling the Lancaster mayor was doing, me thinketh thou protest too much!
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Seems to me that this is a simple case of a resaurant, with very little sales tax value for Lancaster (according to Parris), decided that they would be better served moving out of Lancaster to Palmdale. The business friendly city staff agreed to give them a short deferment on their business licensing fees (something that they do a lot of, being business friendly) and assisted them to locate an owner of a preexisting location to move to.

This is not a big issue. Or, at least it wasn’t, until Parris started in with his typical egomaniacal concept of the restaurant can’t leave unless he says it can.

No. Even Parris’ ego isn’t that big. There is more at work here. This grandstanding, media-based, attack stinks of a Parrisite smoke screen to deflect attention from a real violation committed by Parris and his cronies before it becomes well known.
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First sentance by Wilson, and Bostwich sez, A day after Palmdale’s mayor disclosed his city might drop out of the 10-year old “anti-piracy” agreement…"

Like I say it was Palmdale blinked first.
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People didn’t realize how much money was being made off of some of those deals — with the rolling over of bonds and who was handling the bonds. Redevelopment dollars were falling from the sky for the Titans.

Rex now has to step up his game to make the Titans happy. It’s not enough to just get these areas re-zoned. Rexy has to steer the efforts in the direction the Titans want and that means not losing anything to Palmdale AND making his E-Solar deal sound important enough to get city dollars. That’s my take. And there’s more deals to come. How many pharmacies do you need? How many Walmarts do you need? How is E-solar going to really be funded when the city doesn’t have the cash? Watch out for something coming down the pipeline……… Palmdale is sniffing something out — and Rex is scared.
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That’s not blinking first my brother. That’s announcing the war is on and they think the mayor of Lancaster has people coming out of the woodwork to tear him apart and send him packing.

In other words, Palmdale doesn’t fear Rex and they got in his face and told him so.
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Also, wasn’t there a business that was taken a while back that the cities got angry over. Was it a Uhaul of something of that nature?
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ROFLOL!!
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Now he wants to make Lancaster the bad guys. This is just plain dumb.
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There is significant evidence that Lancaster has been trying to do a work-around to move an auto dealer out of Palmdale for most of the year. This was a great exercise with Rex feigning indignant to make Palmdale appear to be the moving party. Complete BS.
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What the heck are ether of these clowns doing to work on Sacramento to get the incentives to get job growth at Plant 42? I’ve never understood why CA refuses to play the same game the rest of the country plays to land work.
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Other states are following the same trap CA fell for via free taxes for x-amount of years…so that’s where the corp’s are going now. They’ll leave when their extensions run out.

Californians are the first to realize what a hose job they & the rest of the countries’ been served. The clowns we have for Mayors sniff at reps from the PWD who WENT to Sacramento and tried to get info and create influence that would benefit our area. All Runner does is veto everything—nada there – maybe Knight has a brain? don’t know. Maybe he went to Oz looking for one.

The demand has to come from the voters who elected them. Swartzi’s looking for his legacy…since our deficite is worse than any nightmare Davis could’ve had – maybe it ’s time to hit him up – especially since he let the San Joquine Valley GO DRY.

cool. what else does the GOP have to offer?
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Sarah Palin?
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It was embarrassing to watch him make up a lie about those big meanies from Lancaster plotting to steal Palmdale’s businesses while we were stealing a restaurant that will go broke 6 months after they open. Mike Dizpenza pretty much said it all when he said Lancaster knows how to play the game a lot better than us.
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PLAUSABLE DENIABILITY!

P-Idiot Ron, go back to Lancaster. It’ll raise the mean IQ of both cities!
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ROFLMAO! You have just got to be kidding, PI! XD
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Wow, what an elitist comment from a real idiot like Ron Smith. Bill Gates didn’t got to college and…..what’s your point A.V. Observer. Just because Rex has a law degree that makes him brigher than Ledford.

This is a perfect example of how these elitist minded fools sit around at Cascades Restaurant or on the golf course and think they are ‘somebody’. If you went to college or not, if you don’t have it Ron, you don’t hve what it takes. The very fact mayor Rex went to college and is still struggleing in running Lancaster and Ledford did not go and is rated higher than Parris shows that college is nice but common sense rules.

Hey Ron, if you went to college please tell us which one so we won’t send our children there, or at least let them develop the sense of elitism you wallow in.

How will you walk out of City Hall when you loose. Will it matter if your have to drag your knuckles or not or will college has something to do with that final walk.
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It was cow manure that someone told him was a weed substitute. That’s the source of most of his confusion.
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I wouldn’t really say mayor Parris is a smarter businessman. His wife seems to run the law firm and does quite well. One I offered to nominate her for an athena award. She didn’t want that. I think Parris is just the lawyer and the operations end is run by his brilliant wife. That makes her the businessminded person doesn’t it and him the pawn that moves from case to case. I’m just askin?
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As someone who has been around Palmdale / Lancaster politics for 20 plus years, I think Ledford needs to voice whatever concerns he has as they arise.

Most don’t realize that the Titans of Lancaster still want to take over Palmdale. Now and then it comes up and Ledford, the one with the long historical track record has to remind people that Lancaster is SALIVATING to get their fangs on Palmdale.

The Titans want Palmdale’s tax base and other financial tidbits so Ledford now and then throws a bone out there and let’s people like mayor Rex know — he’s no fool. He’s watching them. Give Ledford credit for anticipating that the war drums are still beating beating between Palmdale and Lancaster and the Titans, with mayor Rex at the lead, would ponce on Palmdale in a second if Lancaster could.

Isn’t that why most people find Ledford to be a more capable, pleasing, engaging and capable leader than mayor Rex in the A.V. poll?
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“Isn’t that why most people find Ledford to be a more capable, pleasing, engaging and capable leader than mayor Rex in the A.V. poll?”

Yeah, too bad he didn’t see Measure R for what it really was…but I applaud him for seeing the KIA theft plan for what it is.
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