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Tom Metzger has moved to San Jacinto
Yes Laurie- It should have read 22 years not 12 years. You are correct. It will be fixed. Thank you for the heads up.
— July 12, 2018 7:37 p.m.
Scum suckers gotta get paid
dwbat- It's good that you engage in this argument admitting you don't really have any skin in the game. I would guess you have written no hit records and are receiving no royalty checks from ASCAP, BMI or SESAC for your songs. While Mr. Day's approach is maybe rough around the edges, he makes a very good point. There are no limits to how many of these agencies there are or how much they can charge. ASCAP admitted to me they do in fact charge whatever they want. Mega manager Irving Azoff knows this is a government sanctioned license to print money, so he just launched his own licensing company called Global Music Rights. There is nothing to prevent other music moguls or anyone else from launching more BMI's or ASCAPs and they can all collect whatever they want. I know for a fact through personal experience that ASCAP will come to you and say, for instance, you owe $1,500 a year as a venue. I would say I'm not paying because I'm a venue hosting original musicians. They would come back and say, "OK, how about $800 because you have a jukebox (which was already covered by the jukebox company).' Payments to these people is completely negotiable. Like buying a pinata in TJ. Of course there needs to be something there collecting royalties, looking out for songwriters. God knows Jack Tempchin who I have known for 30-plus years loves his ASCAP checks. And of course he deserves them. The law that set up these agencies did nothing to try to make them fair or say how many there can be. If ASCAP comes after you, so does BMI, SESAC and now Azoff's GMR. And they can all charge whatever they want. You are arguing about the concept of these groups which is hard to argue. Their untethered, free for all, pay-me-or-we'll-sue behavior has really gotten out of hand.
— July 12, 2018 3:16 p.m.
Bryan Pease and the OB People's Co-op
Mr. Pease- Sorry your level of discourse has succumbed to "Scumbag Seamus" and "Not a real reporter." I fully expect "fake news" to follow. As I very clearly said, "bro deal" was my words not yours. Did you miss that? The point is, attorneys sometimes do favors for each other. And while I'm sure the attorneys who helped you with this lawsuit were absolutely doing it for altruistic reasons as you state, the fact is you did not have to pay them. Meanwhile, the co-op ended up paying out $50,000. That was my entire point. You maintain that the board stole $50,000 of owner's money. It seems to me they had a lawsuit with real life deadlines and they had to retain legal help to defend themselves against your lawsuit. If they did not retain legal aid, they would have lost by default. Since they did, they were able to fight back, tell their version of the truth, and what do you know? They won! Mr. Pease, we're talking about you not being on a board which does not pay its board members. You chose to SUE them because you were denied a chance for run for reelection. Maybe there were crucial issues that caused the fissure between you and the other board members in the first place. It seems to me those issues were lost because of the struggle of you getting on the board. You SUED because a/you have access to donated legal assistance and b/you were longer be an unpaid board member. Don't you think a better, less destructive path would have been to go public with the issues you raised and with the unfair way (in your opinion) that you were denied a chance to be elected. Clearly there seems to valid points on both sides. As it sits now, you SUED, and the judge said you were wrong and the Co-Op is out $50,000. Also, are you telling me the fact you passed around different petitions with new wording was not mentioned in the judge's ruling? Um, I think that was mentioned in why he decided against you.
— June 8, 2018 2:02 p.m.
Bryan Pease and the OB People's Co-op
Mr. Pease- "Scumbag Seamus" had nothing to do with launching this "hatchet job." I had heard from a friend of someone deeply connected with the OB Co-Op (who did want to be named out of fear of getting personally sued) but who nevertheless felt that your lawsuit was unfounded and baseless because you changed the wording of the petition. Of course the reason for you not being deemed worthy to be re-elected to the board in the first place was very complex and contentious and up for debate. The fact that you changed the wording of the petition (which you agreed happened) seems to any reasonable person to be a crucial point as to why you were not welcome to participate as a candidate (and the judge agreed in the lawsuit). I wrote this story because there was a lawsuit you filed, you lost, and the judge outlined in detail why you lost. Do you understand that concept of news reporting? I did not learn about this until the weekend before the election. I RECEIVED NO INITIAL CONTACT FROM ANY POLITICAL OPPONENT OR THEIR CAMPS. I think it is interesting to note how you told me the costs of the OB C-Op to defend itself was covered by its insurance. This was deceitful. Sure, the insurance company kicked in money BUT ONLY AFTER THE CO-OP PAID THE FIRST $50,000 in legal expenses. You made it sound like the entire legal expense was covered by the Co-Op. Not cool, Mr. Pease. You admitted me to that your attorney expenses were covered by attorney friends on what I would label as a "bro deal" (my words, not yours). The Co-Op did not have access to free legal aid. You mentioned Nancy and Ofelia. The first person I spoke with who spelled out the big picture and proved to me in my mind this was indeed a story, was neither of those people. "Trying to keep this secret" was not suggested. I was amazed that no other media had covered this month-old lawsuit which seemed to be very germane to your city council candidacy. After I spoke with two different OB Co-Op operatives (who were never seeking publicity in the first place) I did reach out to the two Democrat candidates. You can see what they said. One of the spokespersons said they had in fact tried to get publicity on this but that no one in the media seemed to care. That person clearly thought that it would have been much more beneficial to have gotten the story out when the ruling was handed down instead of when it did break. But the initial contact for this story absolutely did not originate from a competing candidate.
— June 7, 2018 1:29 p.m.
Bryan Pease and the OB People's Co-op
He was hoping to return to the board in March 2017, not November. Sorry for the error.
— June 5, 2018 11:33 a.m.
Bryan Pease and the OB People's Co-op
While the Co-op had to pay $50,000 in legal fees out of its own general fund for legal fees, it should be noted that Pease said he did not have to pay anything to the attorneys who did the work for him on this lawsuit.
— June 5, 2018 10:24 a.m.
Meet ten-year-old rocker/actor Tommy Ragen
Enmaragan....on what tweaker planet are you from? Where, at any time have I ever "posted hate against little kids?" I did not select that video. All I did was tell his father to send me a video we could use. He could not get it together by deadline and he knew it because I told him. That video that was used was pulled off the internet by my editor without malice. That video has since been taken off the website. As any reasonable person could tell, there was no hate or malice in the article.
— May 25, 2018 11:55 a.m.
Oceanside's civic freak flag
A few months ago, Tom Shepard, who may be the single most dialed in San Diego politico, said on TV (paraphrasing) that he could not think of a more dysfunctional san Diego county political entity than the oside city council. Before you anonymous bloggers get your panties too twisted, please note that I objected to the lipsticked pig comparison to the CITY of Oceanside. But its city council's ongoing combative demeanor and its current coincil's rush to make it like Temecula is where the pig slur may be on point.
— May 13, 2018 10:41 a.m.
Oceanside's civic freak flag
As I said, Oceanside itself is not a lipsticked pig as two originals commenters said. The disgust I was referring to was what was projected by 100% of the 25 neighbors who commented about how this project will degrade their neighborhood and cheapen the city. Please watch the replay of the meeting on the city's or KOCT's website and you will see what I was talking about and what I trying to reflect in the article. Why did not one neighbor say they wanted this?
— May 12, 2018 11:26 p.m.
Oceanside's civic freak flag
Although its council members sometime show a lack of public decorum and behave with a hog wild, anything-goes abandon, the city itself is not a pig. Although if you ask any of the 25 neighbors who spoke on Wednesday, they would tell you oside has become hog heaven for developers who are cheerfully turning it into Temecula South....Pig sty by the sea.
— May 12, 2018 12:46 p.m.
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Tom Metzger has moved to San Jacinto
Yes Laurie- It should have read 22 years not 12 years. You are correct. It will be fixed. Thank you for the heads up.— July 12, 2018 7:37 p.m.
Scum suckers gotta get paid
dwbat- It's good that you engage in this argument admitting you don't really have any skin in the game. I would guess you have written no hit records and are receiving no royalty checks from ASCAP, BMI or SESAC for your songs. While Mr. Day's approach is maybe rough around the edges, he makes a very good point. There are no limits to how many of these agencies there are or how much they can charge. ASCAP admitted to me they do in fact charge whatever they want. Mega manager Irving Azoff knows this is a government sanctioned license to print money, so he just launched his own licensing company called Global Music Rights. There is nothing to prevent other music moguls or anyone else from launching more BMI's or ASCAPs and they can all collect whatever they want. I know for a fact through personal experience that ASCAP will come to you and say, for instance, you owe $1,500 a year as a venue. I would say I'm not paying because I'm a venue hosting original musicians. They would come back and say, "OK, how about $800 because you have a jukebox (which was already covered by the jukebox company).' Payments to these people is completely negotiable. Like buying a pinata in TJ. Of course there needs to be something there collecting royalties, looking out for songwriters. God knows Jack Tempchin who I have known for 30-plus years loves his ASCAP checks. And of course he deserves them. The law that set up these agencies did nothing to try to make them fair or say how many there can be. If ASCAP comes after you, so does BMI, SESAC and now Azoff's GMR. And they can all charge whatever they want. You are arguing about the concept of these groups which is hard to argue. Their untethered, free for all, pay-me-or-we'll-sue behavior has really gotten out of hand.— July 12, 2018 3:16 p.m.
Bryan Pease and the OB People's Co-op
Mr. Pease- Sorry your level of discourse has succumbed to "Scumbag Seamus" and "Not a real reporter." I fully expect "fake news" to follow. As I very clearly said, "bro deal" was my words not yours. Did you miss that? The point is, attorneys sometimes do favors for each other. And while I'm sure the attorneys who helped you with this lawsuit were absolutely doing it for altruistic reasons as you state, the fact is you did not have to pay them. Meanwhile, the co-op ended up paying out $50,000. That was my entire point. You maintain that the board stole $50,000 of owner's money. It seems to me they had a lawsuit with real life deadlines and they had to retain legal help to defend themselves against your lawsuit. If they did not retain legal aid, they would have lost by default. Since they did, they were able to fight back, tell their version of the truth, and what do you know? They won! Mr. Pease, we're talking about you not being on a board which does not pay its board members. You chose to SUE them because you were denied a chance for run for reelection. Maybe there were crucial issues that caused the fissure between you and the other board members in the first place. It seems to me those issues were lost because of the struggle of you getting on the board. You SUED because a/you have access to donated legal assistance and b/you were longer be an unpaid board member. Don't you think a better, less destructive path would have been to go public with the issues you raised and with the unfair way (in your opinion) that you were denied a chance to be elected. Clearly there seems to valid points on both sides. As it sits now, you SUED, and the judge said you were wrong and the Co-Op is out $50,000. Also, are you telling me the fact you passed around different petitions with new wording was not mentioned in the judge's ruling? Um, I think that was mentioned in why he decided against you.— June 8, 2018 2:02 p.m.
Bryan Pease and the OB People's Co-op
Mr. Pease- "Scumbag Seamus" had nothing to do with launching this "hatchet job." I had heard from a friend of someone deeply connected with the OB Co-Op (who did want to be named out of fear of getting personally sued) but who nevertheless felt that your lawsuit was unfounded and baseless because you changed the wording of the petition. Of course the reason for you not being deemed worthy to be re-elected to the board in the first place was very complex and contentious and up for debate. The fact that you changed the wording of the petition (which you agreed happened) seems to any reasonable person to be a crucial point as to why you were not welcome to participate as a candidate (and the judge agreed in the lawsuit). I wrote this story because there was a lawsuit you filed, you lost, and the judge outlined in detail why you lost. Do you understand that concept of news reporting? I did not learn about this until the weekend before the election. I RECEIVED NO INITIAL CONTACT FROM ANY POLITICAL OPPONENT OR THEIR CAMPS. I think it is interesting to note how you told me the costs of the OB C-Op to defend itself was covered by its insurance. This was deceitful. Sure, the insurance company kicked in money BUT ONLY AFTER THE CO-OP PAID THE FIRST $50,000 in legal expenses. You made it sound like the entire legal expense was covered by the Co-Op. Not cool, Mr. Pease. You admitted me to that your attorney expenses were covered by attorney friends on what I would label as a "bro deal" (my words, not yours). The Co-Op did not have access to free legal aid. You mentioned Nancy and Ofelia. The first person I spoke with who spelled out the big picture and proved to me in my mind this was indeed a story, was neither of those people. "Trying to keep this secret" was not suggested. I was amazed that no other media had covered this month-old lawsuit which seemed to be very germane to your city council candidacy. After I spoke with two different OB Co-Op operatives (who were never seeking publicity in the first place) I did reach out to the two Democrat candidates. You can see what they said. One of the spokespersons said they had in fact tried to get publicity on this but that no one in the media seemed to care. That person clearly thought that it would have been much more beneficial to have gotten the story out when the ruling was handed down instead of when it did break. But the initial contact for this story absolutely did not originate from a competing candidate.— June 7, 2018 1:29 p.m.
Bryan Pease and the OB People's Co-op
He was hoping to return to the board in March 2017, not November. Sorry for the error.— June 5, 2018 11:33 a.m.
Bryan Pease and the OB People's Co-op
While the Co-op had to pay $50,000 in legal fees out of its own general fund for legal fees, it should be noted that Pease said he did not have to pay anything to the attorneys who did the work for him on this lawsuit.— June 5, 2018 10:24 a.m.
Meet ten-year-old rocker/actor Tommy Ragen
Enmaragan....on what tweaker planet are you from? Where, at any time have I ever "posted hate against little kids?" I did not select that video. All I did was tell his father to send me a video we could use. He could not get it together by deadline and he knew it because I told him. That video that was used was pulled off the internet by my editor without malice. That video has since been taken off the website. As any reasonable person could tell, there was no hate or malice in the article.— May 25, 2018 11:55 a.m.
Oceanside's civic freak flag
A few months ago, Tom Shepard, who may be the single most dialed in San Diego politico, said on TV (paraphrasing) that he could not think of a more dysfunctional san Diego county political entity than the oside city council. Before you anonymous bloggers get your panties too twisted, please note that I objected to the lipsticked pig comparison to the CITY of Oceanside. But its city council's ongoing combative demeanor and its current coincil's rush to make it like Temecula is where the pig slur may be on point.— May 13, 2018 10:41 a.m.
Oceanside's civic freak flag
As I said, Oceanside itself is not a lipsticked pig as two originals commenters said. The disgust I was referring to was what was projected by 100% of the 25 neighbors who commented about how this project will degrade their neighborhood and cheapen the city. Please watch the replay of the meeting on the city's or KOCT's website and you will see what I was talking about and what I trying to reflect in the article. Why did not one neighbor say they wanted this?— May 12, 2018 11:26 p.m.
Oceanside's civic freak flag
Although its council members sometime show a lack of public decorum and behave with a hog wild, anything-goes abandon, the city itself is not a pig. Although if you ask any of the 25 neighbors who spoke on Wednesday, they would tell you oside has become hog heaven for developers who are cheerfully turning it into Temecula South....Pig sty by the sea.— May 12, 2018 12:46 p.m.