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over-development and traffic gridlock. Cameron and Graboi are clear about where they stand. They support the citizens and our quality of
T he C oast News life, not based on general platitudes but by specific commitment to “yes or no statements” on the issues. Sheila has called for the removal of the City Attorney and Manager who are the hangover from the build or bust days of Stocks/Bond/Gaspar. The
current City Administrative Power Structure does not support the ideology of the citizens or even the current council. Sheila’s position is critical to the change needed. The City, with new creative intelligent administrative and legal leadership from within and the right council elected, can thread its way through the state imposed mandates to come up with a unique and appropriate response for our city, rather than simply caving in to the status quo. I will vote for Cameron and Graboi. Dennis Holz is a former mayor and council member of Encinitas and a Leucadia resident.
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vision when it comes to solving our traffic problems. Additionally, Blakespear promises to maintain the course already set by Barth, Shaffer, and Kranz. So, the choice between voting for Kranz and Blakespear instead of Gaspar and Lerchbacher is a no-brainer. The far trickier problem is the presence of Sheila Cameron, which could divide the slow-growth contingency. Sheila entered the race on the final day of application, giving Kristin Gaspar the best birthday present she could imagine. And her presence threat-
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ment clause” of the Constitution because it did not promote any religious doctrine. The conservative law group argues that Meyer’s ruling contradicted his own findings that yoga has Hindu roots and the most recent version of the school district’s curriculum at the time included practices that were identical to a subset of yoga that has overt religious overtones. “This conclusion does not follow from the ... facts listed above,” the brief reads. “Rather, exactly the opposite conclusion follows: that since yoga and Ashtanga yoga are religious, having their roots in Hinduism, and since
yoga or Ashtanga yoga is the cornerstone of EUSD’s program even after EUSD purportedly stripped it of religion, EUSD’s program is religious.” The school district has argued that the yoga it teaches students has been stripped of its religious vestiges and is a vital part of the district’s health and wellness program. It has expanded the yoga program significantly in size after receiving a $1.3 million grant from the Sonima Foundation — previously known as the Jois Foundation — by increasing the number of yoga instructors from 10 to 18. Dean Broyles, an attorney with the National Center, said the case will have implications across the country and mirrors a
case currently before the Supreme Court in India, where justices there are hearing arguments in an appeal of a lower court’s ruling that teaching yoga in public classrooms discriminated against Christian and Muslim minorities. “Public schools may certainly objectively teach about religion because religion is historically and culturally important. And students are free to express their personal religious beliefs and practices at school,” Broyles said. “But the state itself is not constitutionally permitted to endorse or promote religion or religious practices at school sponsored events, as is now occurring in EUSD P.E. classrooms.”
ens to throw a monkey wrench into the progress the city has been making. Not because her positions are faulty. On the contrary. I agree with most of them, and, in fact, they do not differ substantively from those of Kranz. Sheila is sharp and has been a dutiful public servant in the past. I hope she will run for mayor again in the future sometime. The problem is that Sheila Cameron can’t win. She just doesn’t have broad enough support. What she can do, though, is draw votes from Tony Kranz and help elect Kristin Gaspar in the process. Do you remember what
happened in our 2000 presidential election? The presence of Ralph Nader is what drew votes from Al Gore, essentially giving the election to George W. Bush. Our local situation is almost identical. Sheila Cameron may well be the Ralph Nader to Kranz’s Gore and to Gaspar’s Bush. That Sheila did not take this into account when deciding to enter the race is cause for concern, as it shows a lack of good judgment. It also suggests that she’s in the race for more personal reasons. If she really cared about the future of Encinitas, she would never have decided to run this time. And it may not be too
late. If she really cared about Encinitas, she would withdraw from the race right now and publically throw her support to Tony Kranz, who would then have a chance of defeating Gaspar (and all of her contributions from developers who don’t even live in our city). If you care about Encinitas continuing on its (moderately) progressive path, towards less traffic and a cleaner environment, you should support Tony Kranz for mayor and Catherine Blakespear for Encinitas City Council.
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Darius Degher is a Leucadia resident.
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