The Cookiemonster saga of Claremont Mayor Ellen Taylor has been playing itself out in the pages of the Claremont Courier's Reader's Letters section.
The Courier, incidentally, has posted the original story by Tony Krickl that first reported on the matter.
The initial salvo was fired off by people who sided with the Girl
Scouts, including this by Girl Scout parent Ray Garvin.
Taylor didn't receive much defense until very late in the game, but one of Taylor's fellow League of Women Voter members, Carlynne McDonnell jumped to Taylor's defense back on recent editions of the Courier carried one letter by a Lore Dormer and another by Upland resident Louise Bachman.
Bachman touched on Mayor Taylor's claim that she was merely concerned with the Girl Scouts' safety. Questions to Ms. Bachman: If Taylor were so concerned with safety, why did she force them off her property in the first place? Why not show some generosity and invite them to use her office building's parking lot? And, Bachman also forgot that according the Girl Scouts, Taylor came out and threw out her then-Mayor Pro Tem title in a way that sounded as if Taylor were trying to intimidate the girls and their leaders.
Dormer criticized the Courier for devoting news space to something Dormer felt was non-news. Dormer was also critical of a certain blog that she said she never reads (we've heard this from a sort of thing from a number of people, including Queen Ellen - sounds more than bit like a Claremont 400 talking point!):
Not only has your paper become thinner and thinner, but your front-page as stale as the Claremont Girl Scout cookie sale. It happened so long ago that, apart from a blog I never read, we have other things to worry about: So the fate of the stores and the restaurants in our new Claremont West which opened too close to the general recession and deserve your continuing support in featuring and advertising them.
Dormer also brought up that non-Claremont residency of one of the Girl Scout parents, Maya West, as if that mattered to anything.
The pro-Girl Scout voices may have had the last word, however. Yesterday's Courier carried a letter by former Claremonter and former Courier reporter Chris Bray, who also sent the Insider a copy of the same letter:
Subject: deadly foreign cookies
Editor,
My thanks to Lore Dormer for putting the important facts on the table regarding Mayor Ellen Taylor's brave confrontation at the very gates of death with a group of Girl Scouts. As Ms. Dormer notes, the Girl Scout troop leader was a foreigner, having violated Claremont's sacred membrane to inflict her savage La Vernian ways on a noble and decent people. Did you know that Girl Scouts in La Verne punch bones through their septums, ululate over the bodies over their slain enemies, and believe that sheep are the only fungible currency? Commerce on the sidewalks, harrumph! It is not done this way in our town, indeed!
Also, what's this I hear about ladies wearing bloomers?
Chris Bray
The Far-Off Wilds of West Hollywood
(Claremont Missionary Traveler)
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