L.A. Times article exposes Mayor Brand e-mails
by Garth Meyer An article in the Monday Los Angeles Times, “Crude e-mails reveal nasty side of a California beach city’s crusade to halt growth,” featured messages from Mayor Bill Brand and various supporters, spanning 2014-17. Excerpts included Brand asking for input on “a first pass at an ass-kicking editorial to ram it up Aspel’s cancerous ass,” regarding former Mayor Steve Aspel, who at the time had colorectal cancer. “… Where’s the angry black woman in you?” Brand wrote as part of an exchange with Candace Nafisi, a black woman, and a supporter, who has filed to run for city council next year in District Three. “The increasingly Latino-laden Coastal Commission is NOT going to be happy about the exclusivity of the CenterCal project…,” Brand wrote regarding the former plan to rebuild the waterfront. The e-mails were compiled as part of discovery for a 2017 CenterCal-funded lawsuit against the City of Redondo Beach. CenterCal is the commercial development company which was slated to remake the waterfront until the project was ultimately voted down by the public. The mayor told the L.A. Times that the messages were “cherry-picked” private exchanges. He said the comment about…
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