Thursday, June 25, 2009

Cerritos Polluted City?

Publisher's Rant
Time to Act

I heard about the most polluted city report while at the car wash Tuesday morning on Good Day LA, the local Channel 11 show on FIX, excuse me, Fox TV. This is owned by the same corporation that airs Hannity, Beck, Bill O’Really, and other right wing nut jobs, so is this report surprising coming from an organization that allows the aforementioned on the air?
As the owner and I watched, he was as shocked as I. “Not a good way to start your short retreat to Santa Barbara with you daughter for her college orientation”, I said. The reporter blithely stated Cerritos is the blah, blah, blah, and then did not back it up with any facts, much like many reporters on FOX, she must be in training to move up. It got so bad that the lead anchor said, “in all fairness Cerritos is a beautiful city”. “Damn right”, I said.
So what should be done about this? I trust that the city will handle its’ own but that still leaves you and us. Call your congress-people (Linda Sanchez, Grace Napolitano), senators (Tony Mendoza, Alan Lowenthal), Supervisor Knabe, any ear you can bend and tell them that you are outraged and something needs to be done. Post your comments on our blog and we will publish, http://lccng.blogspot.com.
This paper respectfully asks our local politicians act too, and we, as the watchdog in the community, will be monitoring this closely.
It is damage control time, we were broadsided in an attack that took everyone by surprise, but the damage was done. So its time to act.