LAPDOG
OF THE DEVELOPERS ON THE CITY COUNCIL QUITS (CNS) DANA POINT-- Karen Lloreda has finally decided to stop torturing the Dana Point electorate, and call it quits. As an elected official on the City Council of Dana Point, Ms. Lloreda never saw a development she didn't like. She has personally caused so much turmoil and trouble in Dana Point, she will be lucky to continue living in the Capistrano Beach neighborhood of Dana Point she has resided in since 1965, the animosity and hostility against her is so great. She, herself, had to admit that while under her leadership, Dana Point became the "butt of every city joke there could be."
Lloreda now plans to go back to her previous employment, as a school teacher, and all of Dana Point prays that their children will not be subject to her as an instructor. Lloreda was one of the principals responsible for closing down the Olinda Drive Homeless Shelter, which was followed by a crime-wave in the Lantern District. She also abdicated her role as a community leader, by allowing Ed Knight and Angela Duzich to go out into the community shutting down all the non-profit community services that existed in Dana Point, which at this moment in time numbers about four services. (Of course, the excuse of the council is that they give money to services in neighboring communities, but this, again betrays the fact that the City is totally ignorant of the relevant fact that the majority of the homeless at the Olinda Drive Shelter were not from other communities, but from Dana Point itself). One can only imagine the terrible values this woman will imbue into innocent school children; there have been some suggestions that a career move more suitable to Lloreda's mean-spirited nature would be that of a prison guard, at least then her victims would stand a sporting chance of defending themselves.
In the Dana Point News article that heaped laurels upon this menace, the recall effort that was launched to remove her was diminished by the reporter's referral to it as a "failed effort led by Councilwoman Toni Gallagher," implying that the whole effort was nothing but the product of a minority opinion that might not have taken off if Councilwoman Gallagher had refrained from lending her support to the campaign. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. First, thousands of registered voters of Dana Point signed petitions calling for the recall; enough to force an election, pursuant to state law. If it had been a real minority driving it, the effort would never have qualified. Secondly, Lloreda missed being recalled by such a tiny number that anyone who infers that the failure of the recall represented any kind of public mandate should be ashamed of himself or herself for suggesting such a patently ludicrous assertion.
To finish, Lloreda then goes on to accuse the people who were angered by her political intrigues, of causing dissension. This has echoes of Nixon accusing the press of being troublemakers, because they were exposing the crimes of Watergate. Ms. Lloreda is one of the principals responsible for the divisiveness in Dana Point, and it's high time she behave like an adult and own up to it. Lloreda probably realizes that because of the tiny margin by which she remained in office, after the recall, that she would not win another election.
Exclusive for Dana Point Online, from the Central News Service
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