Posted on September 10 at 7:55 p.m.

Sevendolphins, do not romanticize Brooks Firestone for "arranging" the purchase of low income housing. The project was long overdue.

Legally, those county funds appropriated for affordable housing were mandated by the State to be spent sooner and it was due to Brooks Firestone's neglect, incompetence, and dismissal of local needs that he did not ensure that this occurred.

There is a limit on how much the RDA fund could grow; once it accumulates to a certain amount, the funds need to be spent on affordable housing. It was actually Craig Geyer, chair of IVPAC, who learned that the County needed to spend those funds to be in legal compliance. Brooks Firestone did not galvanize the building of affordable housing; he was obligated to do it.

Brooks Firestone was NEVER perceived by the long-term, low-income residents of Isla Vista as an advocate of affordable housing, so don't try to pull one on us by saying he ever was. Those who care about affordable housing would be more than happy to see him go in 2008.

On Burning Bridges

Posted on August 29 at 8:48 p.m.

Doreen Farr isn't the "people's candidate" if a lot of the people on the ground don't have a clue who she is and what she stands for. Who is this woman??? What has she done for the people???

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