The Foothill Cities blog has moved to www.thefcblog.com. As you can see, they've contacted their own attorney and have posted their response to the Pomona City Attorney Arnold Alvarez-Glasman's recent "cease and desist" letter to FC.
Frank Giradot in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune also reported on the matter today. Giradot interviewed a number of people, including Pomona officials, and a couple anonymous bloggers.
One of the ironies is that on the one hand, according to the article, "Pomona officials questioned the lofty aspirations of Foothill Cities and challenged the need for anonymity." On the other, City Attorney Alvarez-Glasman refused to say which Pomona official asked him to send the threatening letter in the first place citing "attorney-client privilege." Alvarez-Glasman wants it both ways - attack anonymity when your city is criticized and use it as a shield when it's convenient.
We've seen the same sorts of nonsense in Claremont. Nothing raises the ire of the Claremont 400 more than anonymity. Their Parks and Pasture Assessment District, a tax on Claremont property owners, failed 56% to 44% last year in part because of a largely anonymous campaign to defeat it. Rather than focus on discussing the reasons their measure was rejected, the Claremonters flailed about demanding the identities of the opponents.
When that didn't work, they just tried to erase it. Assessment District? Never happened.
The odd thing is, whether it's Pomona or Claremont, the people complaining about anonymity invariably do so to change the subject from one they are uncomfortable discussing. Moreover, they are often willing to use the power of a governmental agency to quash that discussion, even if their own arguments verge on the unconstitutional.
Typical of the Claremonsters' thinking, we recently received an email from one such person who asked why, if we didn't like some of things in town, don't we just move? To which we ask, why should we? Isn't it our town too?
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