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Is that you, Huntington Beach city councilmember Butch Twining, dressed in black, holding a candle and a small flag, at the very end of this clip from last night's Charlie Kirk rally at the pier as the crowd is shouting "WHITE MEN FIGHT BACK!"?

Jason Schmitt, the proposed appointee for city treasurer, made campaign contributions to the HB3 last year. $249 contributions are often a sign of personal entanglements because that amount is just below the conflict-of-interest threshold. Plans may have already been in place for him a year ago.

Why were surveillance cameras installed in Huntington Beach’s most iconic Latino neighborhood? The city says the cameras are intended to fight crime. Some residents worry they could be used to aid in federal immigration enforcement.

Great LAist article expanding an important story brought to light by Surf City Sentinel. :-)

Key quote:

“Surveillance equipment and surveillance, in general, are a lot of times a crutch for bad social policies,” he said. “They don't solve the underlying issues of crime.”

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Oak View Surveillance Expanded 10 new police cameras are being installed without any public oversight.

Without transparency, there can be no trust when it comes to government surveillance.

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For the first time I can remember in the 26 years that I've lived here, patriotic red, white, and blue plastic sleeves were NOT wrapped onto the street lights in my tract in advance of the Fourth of July.

Coincidence, or statement?

The absence seems fitting, for I see little to celebrate today.

Here is the No Kings protest at the Huntington Beach pier at PCH & Main at noon on 6/14/2025.

With the traffic congestion on PCH, there's no way I could have planned this very lucky dashcam video capture. :-)

HBPD states that while its personnel were present in LA over the weekend for the protests, they were only there in an observational role, and that the mounted unit was NOT present.

Know your protest rights.

Our city tax dollars at work with HBPD assisting LAPD in suppressing legitimate protest against the Trump regime.

Turnout so far in the library special election -- Dem 19.1%, Rep 12.8%, NPP 10.6%.

The kids understand -- vote YES on June 10th special election Measures A & B to protect your freedom to read and to save the library from privatization!

Best HB political mailer EVER. Vote YES on A and B! :-)

Failed audit will leave Huntington Beach without its share of transportation funding for five years Huntington Beach has used the money for repaving roads, rehabbing bridges and building curb ramps in neighborhoods.

Well, this is gonna hurt. OCTA is penalizing the city by withholding millions of dollars of Measure M2 money for the next five years because the city paid $29K of transportation funds to an employee for non-transportation purposes.

www.ocregister.com/2025/05/16/f...

And there it is -- city councilmember Gracey Van Der Mark is running for Assembly District 72 in 2026.

In a move signaling awareness of their impending defeat in the 6/10 library special election, the city council has initiated partial repair of the fountains. This weak PR does nothing to soften their reputation as library enemies.

Also, somebody should CPRA the book banning board applications.

OCGOP knows that book banning is deeply unpopular with HB voters, and so their fat cats have entered the election campaign to convince you that unelected political appointees should have the power to control what you can read.

Set them straight by voting YES on A & B. Ballots will be arriving soon!

We are now living in the Fahrenheit 451 timeline as demonstrated by the Huntington Beach Firefighter's Association contributing $2,500 to Chad's book-burning PAC.

Note that it is listed as being from firemen not firefighters. I guess Chad thinks women have no place in public safety professions.

Voting NO on Measure B is a vote in favor of Michael Posey's plans for his employer Library Systems & Services (LSS) to slash public library services to drive private corporate profits.

He unethically omitted his employment.

Vote YES on B to prevent it from happening without a vote of the people.

Huntington Beach's unofficial poet laureate nailed it at last night's city council meeting -- "their mission is quite clear, stoke up cruelty, hate, and fear".

Just another day in MAGA-ruled Huntington Beach, LOL.

Surf City Sentinel BREAKING NEWS: California Resources Corporation (CRC) has submitted an application to rezone the oil production parcel on the inland side of Pacific Coast Hwy between Goldenwest and Seapoint (see...

Property owner seeks rezoning to build up to 800 medium-density residential units and 350 hotel rooms inland of PCH between Seapoint and Goldenwest.

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«Insolvable», Cavalia est menacée de se faire liquider ses biens Cavalia est «insolvable» et ne respecte plus ses engagements selon Desjardins, qui menace de saisir ses biens immobiliers en Beauce et en Estrie.

What is it about Huntington Beach that causes entertainment companies like Code Four and Symphony of Flowers to come looking for sweetheart deals to bail them out of bad financial situations?

The folks behind Flowers are facing bankruptcy in Canada.

www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/03/27/i...

MAGA city councilmember Chad Williams has created a self-promotional PAC to oppose both library protection initiatives in the June 10th special election.

Bravo, Protect HB! :-)

If you're referring to this part of the plans, those are electrical cabinets.

Construction has started for the new Tesla Supercharger and protest location 😉 at the Amazon Fresh shopping center on Warner at Goldenwest.

When this project was first submitted, it was 12 stalls, but it has since been upsized to 24 stalls.

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project Forgotten Man

Huntington Beach has made the big time of the Lincoln Project's latest video, with the Chris Klewe city council incident appearing briefly at the 0:35 mark.

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WOOHOO! Natalie Moser has filed a candidate intention statement to reclaim her city council seat in 2026. :-)

In the end, the Huntington Beach MAGA city council years will only be remembered for the partisan circus sideshows meant to entertain and distract, and not for any lasting accomplishments that might have built a better future for us all.

There was a hot mic moment at last night's city council meeting as Chris Kluwe approached the podium. Mayor Burns says to Gracey, "See what you started?", then chuckles. Gracey responds with something unintelligible except for the word "Trump", then Burns retorts "Oh fuck 'em". Unacceptable!