Dave Leckness was a perfect partner for MacLean & Company during the campaign. Leckness stood on corners picketing with MacLean, was allied with MacLean opposing the recall, and never spoke a bad word about Lance. He let Lance’s supporters use him as a back-up if Lance was recalled, and never complained.
Today Lance repaid Dave by characterizing him as a “lesser evil” and telling the OC Weekly: “”[Leckness] thinks himself to be quite the jokester. He’s flippant, he’s comical. That’s going to wear real thin after a few meetings in which you’re talking about affordable housing, staff raises, pensions.”
The Dispatch reported earlier Monday that MacLean threatened to sue the Registrar of Voters over the recall process. Lance stepped the threat up later in the day with the OC Weekly, saying he might also have to sue the City of Mission Viejo and the OC District Attorney: “It looks like I may have to sue all three of em,” he told the Weekly. ”It’s wrong, just wrong. Someone’s gonna pay for this [recall]. I want my reputation back and I want my money back. I didn’t buy into this when I was elected to do public service.”
“I don’t trust this process one bit,” MacLean said. “The fix is in.” Click here to view the Weekly article.
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He continues to show his true character. I think Dave is in for more than he bargained for.
Lance needs to give it up, too bad – so sad – BYE BYE. He should look forward to his future and learn how to MacLean the floors at the local Mc Donalds.
Self centered pride is a powerful tool, but in the end it leads to self-destruction. All fall down.
I think Lance MacLean is quite correct in his statement, “the fix is in”. What that means to me is, he is attempting to place that “fix in” for himself and losing that battle with the voters, the ones who are knowledgeable about local politics. He is clearly, I think, using outside interests to put the “fix in” for himself as their insider and group member. He doesn’t have the skill to do that I think.
Lance does have his reputation back. Actually, he never really lost it. It is still the reputation of a man that has displayed physical violence, anger, intimidation, name calling, rude treatment of some present and former coucil members, all while in the employ of our city. This is the reputation that he so richly diserves and earned.
It is fascinating that someone who benefitted from record spending by union bosses on his behalf can complain that the “fix is in” against him.
The anti-recall forces outspent the pro-recall forces by (what?) 10-1?, 20-1?, plus the recall movement suffered the last-minute surprise of their chosen replacement Dale Tyler holding an Indiana driver’s license, and yet the recall still prevailed, albeit narrowly.
With equal spending and an adequate replacement candidate, the recall would have prevailed in a landslide.
I think the best man won. Mr. McLean has made that very clear by his childish tantrum.