John Canalis: Can outsider beat Richardson?

Nick Dibs suggests discussing his unlikely Congressional bid in an unlikely place: Community Hospital of Long Beach.

[Mary]

Of course she has to make a deal about him not living in the district! That's a pretty big deal! how do can we expect him to represent us if he doesn't live in our district.

also what else can she go on? what has this guy done?

another non-story PT...

[Joel]

This guy can't seem to hold down a job...how the hell can we expect him to lead in Congress?

Vote the smart effective choice. vote Laura

[interesting observation]

the first two posts are both from servers in Washington, DC and were made within 4 minutes of each other. Laura's Washington pals or staff? The same person using different names? There haven't been many supporters posting, that's for certain.

Seems that once most people learn of her (mis)conduct, they want her out of office.

[Dan Martinez]

interesting observation wrote:

the first two posts are both from servers in Washington, DC and were made within 4 minutes of each other. Laura's Washington pals or staff? The same person using different names? There haven't been many supporters posting, that's for certain.
Seems that once most people learn of her (mis)conduct, they want her out of office.

They MUST be her homies who are on the public dime. No one else can see a single reason that the citizens couldn't be better served by any 8 year old child picked at random.

[Constituent]

"One of the things I want to do in Congress is lower class sizes to 20 or less and scrap No Child Left Behind," he says.

How would Nick Dibs propose to fund a 20 or less class size? Scraping No Child Left Behind would erase any form of school accountability and how would he hold schools accountable for their results if at all? Competition is good, these questions wouldn't even come up without it.

[LFF]

Wow after reading Nick Dibs ideas and his bio I seriously wonder if the cure (electing him) is worse than the disease ( keeping old Batty)?

[Josh]

Dibs is no rational alternative to the serial Grifter!

[37th District Voter]

Nice of ole Laura (scumbag) Richardson to send out her hack to do her dirty work. To chant the "carpet bagger" mantra is definately the "pot calling the kettle black" Laura was a "carpet bagger" herself in Long Beach when she got her first subprime loan to buy a home in the 6th district so she could run for city council. She dumped that job costing taxpayers several hundred grand to have a special election to replace the biatchhhh. Next she jumped ship again in Sacramento, costing the taxpayers yet again in a special election.

Laura your trash. Vote for Dibbs. WE can't do any worse.

[Searching]

The article is no longer available!

[LAURA IS A JOKE]

Raise your hand if you have ever had the opportunitiy to speak with our Joke of a Congresswoman!!!

If you have spoken with her, then you will never vote for her again. Talk about ignorant, self-obsessed, and astonishingly conceited. She cant argue her points of view at all and has no idea what she is talking about.

In my conversation with her, she repeatedly referred to Senator Barack Obama as "that man" (whom she admitted she had only met once) and even told me "he isn't really black."

WOW. Thanks, Laura. You're the best.

[Searching]

why was the article removed after 12 hours?

[fred]

Constituent wrote:

"One of the things I want to do in Congress is lower class sizes to 20 or less and scrap No Child Left Behind," he says.
How would Nick Dibs propose to fund a 20 or less class size? Scraping No Child Left Behind would erase any form of school accountability and how would he hold schools accountable for their results if at all? Competition is good, these questions wouldn't even come up without it.

No child left behind law has done more to screw up our school system than anything in history. schools spend more time teaching kids how to take a test than teaching! with such a high percentage of ESL kids in the schools system, and many of them are transitory, schools are getting reemed for low test score. Then this "wonderful" system CUTS funding for class size reductions, and the suppiles needed for this "wonderful" system. He guess what? whenever the feds or state representatives (non teachers) get involved in our schools, it goes down hill. Look back at all the stupid, politically motivated, "ideas" politicians have made into laws. name one that worked. Teachers have a motto "this too shall pass".

[Josh]

fred wrote:

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No child left behind law has done more to screw up our school system than anything in history. schools spend more time teaching kids how to take a test than teaching! with such a high percentage of ESL kids in the schools system, and many of them are transitory, schools are getting reemed for low test score. Then this "wonderful" system CUTS funding for class size reductions, and the suppiles needed for this "wonderful" system. He guess what? whenever the feds or state representatives (non teachers) get involved in our schools, it goes down hill. Look back at all the stupid, politically motivated, "ideas" politicians have made into laws. name one that worked. Teachers have a motto "this too shall pass".

Sell it to another vapid freakish socialist. NCLB is an insult to the good teachers. But........ No Child Left Behind is a DIRECT response to the far lefts mission to transform Public Schools into labratorys meant for leftist social indocrination. It was a "life preserver" meant to protect children and see that they we at least taught the Basics. Paint it any way you want...but, this is the admirable response to leftist nonsense being fed our children when we though they were being educated. Period.

[simon]

dibs is going in the right direction...be a "progressive", assure free-bees to everyone under the sun and you'll be rewarded with the democrats. never telling the hard working class that any free-bees are actually their money which will come from taxes. being like richardson and democrats is a bonus. if it was anyone else in her situation, our house would be gone and we would loose our jobs but since she's a democrat...she'll get protected and rewarded. It's always O.K. to be a racist, thief, & liar as long as you have a "D" infront of your name.

[simon]

fred wrote:

<quoted text>
No child left behind law has done more to screw up our school system than anything in history. schools spend more time teaching kids how to take a test than teaching! with such a high percentage of ESL kids in the schools system, and many of them are transitory, schools are getting reemed for low test score. Then this "wonderful" system CUTS funding for class size reductions, and the suppiles needed for this "wonderful" system. He guess what? whenever the feds or state representatives (non teachers) get involved in our schools, it goes down hill. Look back at all the stupid, politically motivated, "ideas" politicians have made into laws. name one that worked. Teachers have a motto "this too shall pass".

MORE MONEY...MORE MONEY...MORE MONEY for schools and teachers. That is all we ever hear and we throw more and more money and the school is getting worse and worse. What makes everyone think that money will solve what has been broken in school? We can throw 100% of our budget at the school and it will still be bad and the teacher's union will still cry for more and more money. All these increase and programs cause "us" the hard working middle class more hardship. Why does everyone think that the government just prints money for programs? Every penny the government gives away is "stolen" from a hard working American family.

[jfutch]

Searching wrote:

why was the article removed after 12 hours?

Somebody was doing maintenance on the site and pushed the wrong button. It's up on the main page and in the section NEWS/COLUMNISTS/CANALIS.

Sorry. Thanks for pointing out the problem.

[Annonymous]

Someone needs to ask Mr. Dibs about his previous employment with the State of California... it will be interesting to see how he responds, as he has never mentioned it before.

[Josh]

I repeat..........pick ANY 10 year old American citizen child and they would be more likely to more compassionate and far more worthy of the public trust than the uber vile Ms. Richardson. The State Democrat Party has risked being abandoned by tens of thousands of good, decent, Long Beach Democrats by disrepecting us all.

[Gata]

Joel wrote:

This guy can't seem to hold down a job...how the hell can we expect him to lead in Congress?
Vote the smart effective choice. vote Laura

Yeah, because Richardson is a great example of financial responsibility. She might be from the area but she also has no problem screwing over people from her area. Such as stiffing local business owners and only paying up once the PT outed her.

[Dan Martinez]

Laura's staff......Mary and Joel above......can always go on the reality show.....THE WORST BOSS.
One thing is certain, they will NEVER work for a more disgusting person with less integrity. But, as we all know, L.R. is PLENTY good enough for Long Beach Democrat voters.