Indeed, arrogance did doom the 241-- arrogance of the OC Republican Party, the Building Industry Association which depends on the party to carry its water, elected losers like Bates, Walters, Campbell, Norby, who on this issue are most certainly "losers," and the sycophant losers on city councils throughout south county.
 How could TCA lose? They sit around regularly and congratulate each other on their brilliance and ability to shuck, jive, obfuscate, and hustle. Aren't they always right? Can't they change reality merely by denying it?
Guess what: Coastal Commissioners got your number. 20 years and a 3 foot pile of crap doesn't add up to research or mitigation-- it adds up to crap.
 "Biased?" Absolutely. The Coastal Commission is biased by their job, defending the coast. Did the Commission pop up over night, a sudden obnoxious challenge to TCA's shining plans? No, it's been there all along, a known, understood, and predictable obstacle to 241's grimy destruction.
 Wall Street must be lovin' the TCA now. Blowing $-millions on bogus science sure to be picked apart by a persnickety commission. Wagging it's finger at the commissioners and niggling over was is and isn't their jurisdiction. Behaving like the arrogant boneheads they are. And the best part: TCA's learned absolutely nothing in the process.

Arrogance and greed combined will defeat TCA's public and private investment and business objectives.....

Why didn't you print the entire response? Because it undermines your premise? Good thing the OC Weekly prints the whole truth. And by whole I mean 7.4% based on word count. But hey, what's 92.6% between friends.

I guess that's what one should expect from a publication that is picked up more for its escort service and phone sex ads than its reporting. Perhaps you should start working in the advertising department.

For the record here is the remainder of the response.

"... On page 5-10 (Table 5-3), the changes in regional PM10 emissions are shown for various FEC Alternatives and various growth Alternatives. The changes in PM10 emissions compared to the corresponding No Action Alternative range from an increase of five pounds per day to a decrease of five pounds per day. An increase or decrease of five pounds per day is not considered a significant change. As a comparison, the SCAQMD uses a very low operational significance threshold of 150 pounds of PM10 emissions per day. Theclaim that PM10 levels (concentrations) will not increase significantly at intersections is consistent with the regional forecast in the Draft EIS/SEIR which showed that the total PM10 emissions with and without the project does not change significantly. It is also consistent with the traffic assessment that shows the corridor Alternatives removing traffic from arterial roads and intersections, thereby reducing congestion at those intersections."

Now go back to law school and be a crappy lawyer rather than a crappy reporter. You'll be much less obvious as a crappy lawyer.

I love your linked in summary :

"I desire to help reveal, clarify and transmit information with the goal of helping others to make better, more informed decisions so that we all might have an easier time working together to try and foster progress."

and by love I mean it made me throw up in my mouth a bit.

You need modify it to read

"I desire to help reveal, clarify and transmit 7.5% of real information with the goal of helping others to make biased, less informed decisions so that we all might have an easier time by making the world the way I think it should be."

Hater:

Well? Which is it? 7.4% or 7.5%? Make up your mind! You TCA supporters can never get your numbers right.

I note you don't explain what about the remainder of the response undermined my premise.

By the way, kudos - I've never seen such a spiteful piece of apparently-researched bitchery actually be CROSS-POSTED before. The irony is, by visiting my personal blog, you've doubled my daily hit-count and brought me joy.

"Haters, if you need someone to hate on, feel free to hate on me." -Kat Williams

Listen, Alex, here's some advice from one journalist to another: when you quote something, you had better not just quote the relevant parts. A responsible journalist would quote the original statement in its entirety. When I get done with my 2,100 page review of War and Peace, I'll forward it to you as an example, so you never make this grievous mistake again.

David Belardes, Discovered to be a Non-Indian, Misrepresents Juaneño Tribe in Initial Agreement with TCA to Support Proposed Toll Road

TCA, the Transportation Corridor Agency, is currently in discussions with David Belardes, as a “representative” of the Juaneño Tribe, to drop opposition to the agency’s proposed toll road in exchange for a reported $350,000. But, it turns out that David Belardes is not a Native Juaneño or even Indian and is not an enrolled member of the Juaneño Tribe. Belardes’ Non-Indian ancestry was reported by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of Federal Acknowledgement during the Tribe’s ongoing petition for federal recognition. Domingo Yorba, Belardes’ paternal great grandfather whom he based his ancestral claims on, was classified as a Non-Indian in the Department’s report, which is part of the public record (JBMI 84A Proposed Findings, U.S. Department of the Interior, 2007, pp. 247-252.). The genealogical and historical evidence demonstrates that both paternal great grandparents of David Belardes were in fact of Mexican and Spanish descent—not Juaneño or California Indian.

As many Southern California residents know, in February 2008, the California Coastal Commission denied a proposal by the Transportation Corridor Agency (TCA) to extend the Foothill-South Toll Road through southern Orange County. Members of the Juaneño Tribe and other residents expressed concern that the proposed toll road could disturb sacred Juaneño ancestral sites. The TCA has since discussed a potential agreement for support of the proposed toll road with David Belardes, a San Juan Capistrano resident who falsely claims to represent the Juaneño Tribe.

David Belardes Found to be a Non-Indian and Misrepresented Juaneño Tribe in Agreement with TCA to Support Proposed Toll Road

Back in June, TCA paid David Belardes $350,000 in exchange for dropping opposition to the proposed toll road as a “representative” of the Juaneño Tribe—but David Belardes is not even Indian, let alone Native Juaneño. TCA, a state agency, is entering into an agreement with a man who is not who he says he is. The Office of Federal Acknowledgement, who is in charge of approving Tribes’ petition for federal recognition, reported that Belardes is not an Indian in their review of the Juaneño Tribe’s current petition. In his application, Belardes’ claim to Juaneño blood was based on his paternal great grandfather, Domingo Yorba. But the Office of Federal Acknowledgement later classified Domingo Yorba as a Non-Indian in its on-the-record report, found here: JBMI 84A Proposed Findings, U.S. Department of the Interior, 2007, pp. 247-252. In fact, public genealogical and historical records show that both of Belardes’ paternal great grandparents were actually of Mexican and Spanish descent, not Juaneño or California Indian. Belardes is misrepresenting the Tribe’a position on the toll road, a road that could potentially disrupt sacred Juaneño ancestral sites.