What kind of a crazy world do we live in that any judge would even for a second believe that canceling an election somehow protects the voting rights of Rosemead citizens? 4,200 confirmed, registered voters in Rosemead signed the petitions to ask for a recall election of Jay Imperial and Gary Taylor. State law does not give a city council the discretion to decide whether or not to hold an election once a sufficient number of signatures have been verified.

Article about Jim Flournoy's work on the earthquake fault issue:

Cached version at:

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:7s1W1koyHEJ:www.sgvtribune.com/news/ci_3366712+flournoy+earthquake&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2

An older story, but I love that quote from Sam Yue:  "There are no changes to our preparations.  We are going to assume the worst and continue our campaign."  As I said a few weeks ago, it really says something about your candidate when "the worst" would be to have to stand before the voters in an election.  So much better to play duck and cover, eh?

There's new software on the site. It's the new version of CivicSpace, which is very similar to the old software, which is called Drupal. There are some odd differences, though, so, things may be a little weird for a while until it is all fixed up.

I'll upload a better logo soon.

Two stories of interest to us in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune today.

First, the Garvey School District has voted to sue Rosemead over the lack of attention in the EIR to the effects of pollution and traffic if the Supercenter were to be built across the street from Eldridge Rice Elementary School. The story quotes Garvey School Board President Henry Lo: "What we are doing tonight is exercising our option to mitigate any potential harm to our kids, teachers and parents." Thanks to Garvey School Board members Henry Lo, Bob Bruesch, and Felipe Agredano for their support.

Wal-Mart has applied for a 24-hour liquor license for its yet-to-begin-construction, not-supposed-to-be-a-24-hour-store. Although we certainly hope the disposition of this liquor license becomes a moot point [because the store will never be built], you may wish to protest this liquor application. If so, here are some bases for protesting:

[With minor editing, this material copied from http://www.nfocouncil.org/ABC_procedure2002.htm]

Anyone else wonder why Jay Imperial seemed so adamant in setting the recall election date on February 28th? He kept saying, "That's the date of the next city council meeting!"

Does this mean he has accepted that he will lose the recall election, and was simply asking for one more paycheck before he retires from public life?

At the request of City Councilmembers Tran, Nunez, and Clark, the Rosemead City Council met in special session on December 16th, 2005. At that meeting, the council rescinded its actions of December 5th and re-established the recall election for February 7th, 2006.

Councilmen Tran and Nunez were joined by Councilwoman Clark in voting to reinstate the election. Councilmen Imperial and Taylor voted against reinstating the election.

The big ole eucalyptus trees in the field south of Eldridge Rice School [I refuse to call it "the Wal-Mart site"] have been felled. Folks in hard hats were on site, and grading has begun.

But don't panic. Wal-Mart owns the land, and they do have a permit to grade. However, Judge Yaffe has not yet signed off on the revised EIR. So, until that litigation is fully resolved, what ever work Wal-Mart undertakes in the field south of Eldridge Rice School is at their own risk. Let's hope they spend a wad of money and then get shut down.