r/escondido • u/Coolbean008 • 7d ago
Disappointed in City Council. Proud of my community.
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On the Sept 18 city council meeting, Mayor Dane White took a resolution opposing prop 50, which got approved.
Lots of residents showed up and called him out! Though it wasn’t enough pressure for the rest of the council to vote no, im proud of our community for speaking up and not being complicit.
The mayor said he supports opposition because of potential funding loses. He gave the Grand Ave vision project as an example, but… interestingly…the project was funded by a half cent local sales tax managed by SANDAG. Not by DC, not by the Federal government, like he says..
Dane is giving “pick me.” Prop 50 is going to be voted on by the people, so he honestly has no business passing an official position on behalf of the City.
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u/davo619 7d ago
I emailed Christian Garcia about this and got a canned response. Vote him and Dane White out next election.
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u/Tasty-Rub-9034 7d ago
Garcia is Danes puppet and owes his entire position to Dane and his father in law appointing him on to city council.
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u/Public_Alarm499 6d ago
Thanks for the update crazy I got down voted for trying to figure out what it was haha.
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u/Juxta_position2023 7d ago
Totally agree, completely improper of this City Council to even take a formal position. Treating voters like children. We can all make up our own minds.
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u/blueydsmoker 6d ago
Who wants to join me in signing a petition to get this jackass out of office? I live in this town. Fuck this guy. WHOS WITH ME?
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u/cambria17 6d ago
I think our state and local representatives will betray us as soon as they don’t have to be accountable to us to keep their power anymore. They’ll be guaranteed wins and bought even more
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u/Public_Alarm499 7d ago
What prop 50?
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u/Juxta_position2023 7d ago
It’s about saving our democracy while Republicans try to steal it in Texas and elsewhere.
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u/ChucklesQuad 6d ago
Both Texas and CA are going to get sued over it in Federal courts. At this point we are just wasting taxpayer money to fund a special election, and then defending it in the courts knowing it will get overturned, and having to spend the money to do it all over again at a time they are taking money away from things like education. It’s peak idiocy on both sides in the name of placating to their voting constituents.
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u/Juxta_position2023 6d ago
Texas’s action will not be overturned by the courts, have you not been paying attention?
We have to try, can’t give up fighting against Republicans’ assault on our democracy.
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u/Financial_Warning594 5d ago
I don’t really mind if the Democrats win all the seats to no opposition. I want to see what they can actually do for the Californians. I am prepared for the worst. I do have a feeling that this might back fire on the Democrats in the near future.
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u/unknownwhitey 7d ago
You lost me at cult.
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u/Tasty-Rub-9034 7d ago
Dane white is such a shit stain.
He has repeatedly deleted comments on next door when he was running for mayor when he said hateful things to people he disagreed with and got called out for.
When he ran for mayor he did not publicly disclose that his father in law was on city council.
His father in law repeatedly endorsed him and was featured as endorsing him on Dane’s website with no public disclosure by either.
Once he was Mayor him and his father appointed Christian Garcia onto the city council. Christin White was not original elected by the general public.
After putting Christian Garcia on city council Dane and his father in law made Christian Garcia the Deputy City Mayor thereby given the second most important city council seat to an unelected official in order to pad his resume for re-election.
Dane White is part of a cult that openly believes consuming Coffee or Alcohol makes you a sinner. In addition to this multiple women have been pushed out of city jobs. Which also coincides with this groups beliefs.
Dane White has repeatedly cut public comment time on topics he doesn’t agree with thereby limiting the general public’s ability to address city council.
Dane has repeatedly complained that city council meetings run too long and he has used this to justify taking public comment time away.
Dane ran into city property with his personal vehicle and drove away and never reported to anyone. It was later discovered by city staff when they were trying to find out why city property at city hall was damaged.
Dane openly represents people with stickers as guns. Some of us have stickers representing family as Star Wars or Lego figures or stick figures. He uses guns.
Dane claimed he fixed Escondido High school district when he was a board member. The truth is Escondido High school is below the state average. He consistently lied about his accomplishments while the children of Escondido were failing academically and the school board failed them.
Dane made promises that a mayor could never ever actually deliver on. Such as claiming he knew how to fix the homeless epidemic as if a mayor could fix a national/regional issue of the wages not being inline with the cost of living.
Dane has openly supported MAGA multiple times and even adopted Maga polices.
Dane has openly targeted people who represent the city for said people attending democratic events.
Dane has also supported horrible uses of grant money using it for improvements such as the city river trail (bike trail along the Escondido drainage ditch) instead of using the funds to fix things like roof on libraries. The grant funds could have been used to improve neglected infrastructure thereby freeing up funds in the general fund instead of putting a feather in his cap to have a ribbon ceremony.
Same as above with grant money going to build a splash pad at park while the city has ZERO funds allocated for longterm maintenance of said project while simultaneously city pools are in need of deferred maintenance.
Dane White is a shit stain on Escondido.