Bulletin Blurb

From today's Bulletin:

CLAREMONT
Campaign blog resurfaces

The "Claremont Insider" - an anonymously penned blog - resumed publication Sunday after a nearly two-year hiatus, and its author's sights are aimed squarely at several City Council candidates.

The blog can be accessed at claremontca.blogspot.com.

Sam Pedroza and Linda Elderkin are the author's main targets, and those candidates and their supporters this week denounced the Web site's tactics in interviews.

- will.bigham@dailybulletin.com

A couple notes. The Bulletin calls this a "Campaign Blog". It's not. We just happened to start back up in the midst of an election that is sucking the air out of most other issues. When we started in May 2005, there was no election. We are just tired of an absurd situation where this Claremont 400 group thinks it can control this town and ignore everyone else.

Pedroza and Elderkin aren't targets, they are simply the faces of a group of people who've lorded their power over our fair city for too long. The equation's been an unequal one. All power on one side, powerless on the other, at least until recently. We just choose to shine a light on what's been going on in town and that is something the "400" cannot stand.

Elderkin needs legal advice? She gets it free from the City Attorney. What other candidate has received such a benefit? None. City funds, city time, city candidate. Elderkin's Bulletin piece, posted here yesterday, said, "I love this city." No wonder. Who wouldn't love a free attorney on retainer?

The "400" always makes it about them. It's not. It's a about a town we all love. On that note, we will add that it has always been our intention to broaden this blog beyond the 400, and we will. This is a town with much to offer, and we will spotlight those things, cultural, social and political, as time goes on.