Fighting Back!

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Now we wait for Mr. Hildreth and the law firm he is employed with to lodge even more complaints because Mayor Pro Tem Long used the city letterhead and logo in his letter to the California State Bar.

So the gloves are off on more than my hands in dealings with Marymount College.

Mayor Pro Tem Long mentioned two earlier issues that Mr. Hildreth was a representative for that I wrote about in an earlier post.

I remember both Mayor Pro Tem Long and Councilman Campbell call for all parties to communicate well and demonstrate how parties with differing positions might still remain civil and respectful.

Unfortunately, both elected representatives of all the residents have witnesses first hand what tactics Marymount College representatives have been using and will probably continue to use.

The two gentlemen are certainly not the only elected leaders who have seen, read, and heard what Marymount's cadre of talking heads, marketers, and legal counselors have brought into Rancho Palos Verdes over the last ten years and it appears that the Marymount cadre is only going to ramp up the words and marketing tactics as the election approaches.

Naturally, with this kind of letter-writing and all we have seen from Marymount, CCC/ME, and other individuals and groups, it is almost as true as the sun rises that lawsuits will eventually provide the end result to determine whether Marymount ever finds approval to have residence halls on its campus.

That is a bad thing, but almost completely inevitable, I believe.

I feel it is bad because The Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project most likely will never see the light of day, now that it has been completely approved. That is because Marymount's officials won't proceed with any of the Project until a final determination has been made about dorms on campus and then Marymount's officials may cry poverty and never build anything according to the Project.

It is a dreamer's imagination to even think that Marymount's administration and trustees would begin construction using the approved Marymount College Facilities Expansion Project and then attempt to have on-campus housing approved if officials prove that the Project is being successful at raising the number of students attending Marymount.

How far Marymount's Trustees and administration will go to try to sway voters to vote to approve The Marymount Plan is something hardly any of us know.

But with developments beginning last September and continuing to be carried out with the letter to the city, there is no telling how low, far, and what I might call, 'mean' Marymount's representatives will probably get.

It seem very difficult for Marymount's marketers to offer only the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, because many of us have already shown that they haven't done enough of that lately, in my opinion.

Now that potential charges were written about and an elected representative of the residents has fought back, this is going to be a long, hot, and fairly difficult summer and fall, I expect.

It's not going to be nice from here on out. What charges fly next are anybody's guess.

But I think everyone who regularly reads this blog can be sure to understand that Marymount College must have on campus housing to survive and attract students of wealthier parents, who don't live in the local area for the most part.

Having on-campus housing at Marymount College is unsafe and if you don't believe me, then debate me.

Allowing Marymount College to supersede municipal codes and change our city's General Plan all for the sake of mostly non-local wealthier parents and students, is not in the best interest of our residents and if you don't believe me, debate me.

Our city has a history of providing effective and fair land uses for our residents and businesses and Marymount College should not be allowed to override that. If you don't believe me, debate Mayor Pro Tem Tom Long. Oh what the heck, debate any member of the City Council and all but two former Mayors.

Or, how about providing every honest and open reason Marymount College continues to want to have on-campus housing. Remember, honesty and openness must come out....if Marymount's representatives are truly that.