well if there's one woman that can get under Wendy McCuckoo's skin, it's SB City councilmember Cathy Murillo...it seems Cathy is ruffling lots of conservative feathers these days..
I met Cathy briefly at the PODER/News-Press protest and she's not exactly a wallflower...her political star is rising fast and Wendy knows it....and with Dale Francisco and Frank Hotchkiss in Wendy's pocket, Cathy is a real threat to Wendy...and Team Wendy
ok, so this is good...I'm reading CASA real estate mag and I see Cathy has an opinion about the News-Press sitch...she says she and some folks caught up with Wendy's obedient pooch, Don Katich who was returning to NP from lunch....Cathy confronted him and asked questions about immigration...but I think this meeting must've upset Don who then ran and told Wendy who then ran and told Scott to do something about Cathy..
so Scott comes up with a public records request to see if Cathy, in an 11 day period, wrote any correspondence with city letterhead on it...well, this is comical..Cathy is an elected official so I guess the News-Press is trying to pin something on her that isn't there, citing an open meeting lawsuit filed against Cathy's husband years ago...both Cathy and hubby are not fans of the News-Press and this is what the records request is all about...stifling free speech of city council members who don't agree with Wendy.... contrarians!!
Wendy is trying to intimidate Cathy which ain't gonna happen...besides, Wendy will NEVER show up face to face with Cathy because as we've seen, Wendy is a coward..the biggest phony and coward in the county...
ok so it'll be fun to watch but there is nothing unusual about a body of council members or directors going into executive session which is closed to the public..matters of law, vendors or whatever are discussed...happens all the time...
now another paper, El Latino that replaced Wendy's freebie Latino publication, had a story about the News-Press protest....as you can guess, it wasn't very flattering to Wendy's goons...
so a public records request by the News-Press for what?? that's the question and the city lawyer better not give the store away again.... elected city council members have an expectation of privacy and we'll soon see if Wendy crossed the line..and for what reason...Scott complains that Cathy was at the protest, but so were Dale and Frank..why not ask for their email records??
well maybe I will!!
but this sounds like a case of harassment by the News-Press against Murillo...I'd get a restraining order against Wendy!!
and another frivolous lawsuit by Wendy that the taxpayers are gonna fund?? hmmmm
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Locals have the News-Press figured out -- and they know it's not about the newspaper's claim of free speech. It's about the latest person or group who has offended Wendy McCaw. She has a history of stiffing vendors, and threatening, firing, suing, and defaming in the News-Press anyone with whom she's displeased. Now her target is Cathy Murillo. It will be amusing to see how far Mrs. McCaw takes this. Maybe she'll bring Peter Lance in for another "investigative" series. She last tried to take down Lois Capps. Big fail there.
Excellent observation. It does put the position of the News-Press in perspective. We do not have a community paper, we have one subverted into the hurtful and slanderous plaything of one woman, bringing shame on our city and its citizens. I am very embarrassed to have this newspaper as our only local "news" publication. If those who gathered "in defense" of the News-Press are supposedly representative of our community's viewpoint, then I am embarrassed to be a Santa Barbaran. That kind of tar and feather attitude belongs to another time and another place, not in what I think is the enlightened community of Santa Barbara. This latest hit piece is inexcusable and childish. Wendy McCaw, shame on you for degrading what it means to be a Santa Barbaran.
Maybe we should start calling it the Santa Barbara Vendetta Press.
Yes to Vendetta Press. During the meltdown, to punish an editor who had disagreed with her, Wendy had his personnel record searched. She found a verbal dustup he'd had with another employee, who'd since moved on. Wendy put the employee back on the payroll without her having to do any work, then tried to pressure her into filing a criminal complaint against the editor.
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