Pedroza - Yin and Yang (Flip-Flop)

Sam Pedroza has a great advantage in this election. No, we don't mean the organizations whose endorsements he's trying to use to fool the voting public. We mean the fact that Pedroza gets to take both sides of an issue.

On 8/1/2006, at a meeting at city hall, Pedroza got up and argued against the city's proposed affordable housing project on Baseline Rd. That project was being pushed by Helaine Goldwater, Linda Elderkin, Ellen Taylor, Sandy Baldonado, all the usual League of Women Voter suspects. Those fine ladies pulled along a good chunk of the Claremont 400. When Pedroza spoke against the project in August, he actually brought up some good points and showed some original thinking:




By 10/24/2006, less than three months later, Pedroza got up at another city council meeting and argued the exact opposite position. We need to put that project in, he was saying. What happened to Pedroza? He got the special Claremont 400 treatment and was told what he should believe. Here you see the real, syntactically-challenged Pedroza (not the one in his campaign video):



If you play both at the same time, you can approximate what the ultimate effect of the Claremont 400 is: a lot of self-defeating, random noise.