Mission Viejo Recall

Letter: Reasons MacLean Lost His Supporters

January 24, 2010

The issue of the recall is Councilman Lance MacLean – nothing else. I want to take a moment to respond to MacLean’s campaign rhetoric versus the facts on just a few of the relevant issues. He told Councilman Gail Reavis to “Shut the Hell Up.” The truth is certainly more aggressive than Lance and his [...]

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Letter: The Fiscal Fall Means ‘Yes’ on Recall

January 24, 2010

The purpose and reason for MacLean’s recall take several forms. Besides the liability of his quick temper and his resulting tendencies towards violence, Maclean, Ury and Kelley are following in the footsteps of irresponsible spending choices that have prevailed in this city for many years. It’s not that the residents voting YES on the recall don’t [...]

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Letter: MacLean Recall Will Send Message

January 19, 2010

It really is time to send a message to City Hall by voting yes on the recall. Increasingly I feel that elected officials are far out of touch with the average private sector employee. Most folks work their entire lives and don’t get the benefits the council voted for 12 years of a part-time position, [...]

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Letter: Lapdog Leckness v Watchdog Tyler

January 16, 2010

Dave Leckness, the establishment candidate for Mission Viejo City Council, supports the current direction of city hall, which includes cutting street and slope maintenance and preserving lifetime medical benefits for part-time council members who serve three terms. “I love the way things are going,” he said in an SVN interview Jan. 15. Leckness, if elected, [...]

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Police Union: No Shame?

January 5, 2010

It took four police officers to wrestle Lance MacLean to the ground and handcuff him, while Lance hurled profanities at the officers following his violent physical attack on a UCI co-worker. In two separate incidents, a councilwoman and a female council candidate sought police assistance against threatening explosions of anger from MacLean. So why is the OC [...]

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Letter: Condoning Violence & Intimidation

January 3, 2010

With the appointment of Lance MacLean as Mayor Monday night, Mission Viejo City Hall might well be adopting a culture of violence as a natural extension of the culture of power and intimidation that the city council majority and staff nurtured in the last two years. While under investigation by UCI, MacLean gave up his [...]

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Lance MacLean Enlists Outside Special Interests To Fight Recall

December 21, 2009

Lance MacLean is having difficulty defending the recall charges against him, but he has enlisted a host of professionals and special interests to help him fight the recall, according to the campaign financial report he filed Monday. Here are his partners, so far: CH2M Hill, a worldwide construction management and consulting firm. Committee for [...]

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Letter: Banana Republic Of Mission Viejo

December 10, 2009

Regardless of how you feel about the recall, to put a guy who could be bounced out of office in 3 months as Mayor is stupidity on the highest level, and is just an embarrassment to the city. It makes you wonder if these 3 “leaders” are actually striving to make MV look like a [...]

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Letter: My Experience With MacLean

December 10, 2009

As you may all recall, Lance MacLean put out 500 signs the weekend before the 2006 election that I was in. Those signs said “Reject Greenwood and Barker. They will raise your taxes and lower your property value”. It was an absurd claim, but he was running scared. It was that same weekend that he [...]

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Politics: Mr. Violence Is Mayor Of Safest City

December 9, 2009

Over ten thousand Mission Viejo voters signed recall petitions citing “violence” and self-dealing against a sitting council member. The OC Weekly Newspaper quoted a police report documenting the violence: “After a short verbal altercation (about 30 seconds) between the two men, Maclean [sic] took a step forward and bumped [Jack] McManus against the chest. Maclean [...]

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