Only in Irvine

California has a gay friendly, business hostile climate. Irvine is living proof of that. If you saw the Register, it featured photos of a "gay pride" event held in Irvine. While Irvine is celebrating a public display of perversion, businesses are fleeing Orange County; which has the highest rate of desertion in the state! Allowing a high quality international airport like El Toro to sit idle does not help matters.

The mentality of South Central O.C.

Our once fine conservative county is literally rotting with moral decay from its center core. There is a triumvirate of 3 extremist cities that are spreading their poisonous radical agenda to other parts of our county. That would be Irvine, Laguna Beach, and Aliso Viejo. All 3 of them voted for "gay rights", for Obama, and against El Toro International Airport.

If one wants to have a gay wedding in any of those cities, the voters fully condone it as they did vote no on proposition 8, which an activist judge just struck down as somehow being "unconstitutional". But try to keep an EXISTING airport open for business, they are militantly opposed to it. They love gayness, but hate the Marine Corps and aviation. It is God, guns, guts, and glory that made America great, not gays!

The triumvirate of cities think they are so slick in silencing the airport. But they are in for a rude awakening as employers are leaving the area for more business friendly climates. The latest example is Boeing is leaving Irvine and moving to Mesa, Arizona.


Irvine has El Toro Marine Corps Air Station and has CLOSED it for aviation.

Mesa has Williams Air Force Base and kept it OPEN for aviation.

Is it any wonder why Boeing has ditched Irvine to move to Mesa?

Also, on the land of the former Air Force Base is a decent sized satellite campus for Arizona State University. On the other hand, Cal State Fullerton had a couple buildings at El Toro and Lennar gave them the boot. An international airport would provide enough revenue to allow CSU Fullerton to stay put.

Those gullible enough to vote for The Fake Park can enjoy that traffic jam commute to Fullerton and good luck finding parking once they arrive. In contrast, parking at the El Toro satellite was never a problem. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Irvine tried to "fix" El Toro and we all know what happened.

Great Pork is Great for Trial Lawyers!

If you are a trial lawyer, The Great Pork is the gift that keeps on giving. First, there is Forrest Lawn suing the park board for a flawed EIR. And now we have the family of a late ice skater suing the park board for unsafe ice skating conditions.

Typically, I absolutely loathe trial lawyers. But in this case, I hope they do prevail and Irvine does get soaked for the $40 million verdict. Assuming Irvine has a population of 200K, this means every man, woman, and child could be on the hook for $200 each. That is not counting whatever fees Irvine incurs in trial costs and spin doctoring from this tragedy.

Irvine taxpayers got hoodwinked into getting saddled with this albatross park around their necks. Instead, they could have a job creating, money making airport that would add revenue to the community rather than the current fiscal liability that is The Great Pork.

Then there was a Register article showing how ONLY 19 PEOPLE are employed by the park. That's right, ONLY 19 PEOPLE! (Virtually all of them Agranistas that got to ride on the gravy train.) About a quarter billion dollars has spent to date and ONLY 19 PEOPLE are employed by this boondoggle. Even Obama and his porkulus projects don't have THAT bad of a money spent/jobs created ration! Only the Agranistas could make the Obama administration and the Democrats look like economic experts by comparison. On the other hand, it was projected the airport would create 100,000 jobs.

Next, almost 300 people attended some Great Pork fundraiser says the Register. Almost 300 people are all that is left in Orange County that are gullible enough to believe they will actually see the park completed within their lifetime. One large jet or two average size jets could carry almost 300 people. Almost 300 people would use El Toro International Airport in a matter of mere minutes.

Finally, Garden Grove is being overwhelmed with applications for low income housing. Wait until word hits the street that Irvine has plenty of room for the low income masses as they are mandated per SCAG to build 35,000 low income housing units. That was due to a self inflicted wound made possible by silencing the airport and freeing up 14,000 acres in the buffer zone for residential development. Keep it an airport, and the surrounding environs are only permitted for industrial uses.

Irvine residents either wise up and re-open the airport or enjoy the low income housing, 99 cent stores, lowered property values, endless lawsuits, and 19 whole jobs the Great Pork has cursed your city with. As an added bonus, you don't even have a functional golf course at El Toro anymore.

Expand THIS?

Yesterday The Register had an article about the status of John Wayne Airport. Not surprisingly, long time Newport Beach hater and El Toro superNIMBY Len Kranser weighed in. "Leonard Kranser, a longtime airport watcher, says the cap artificially reduces capacity, driving up ticket prices.
"Airplanes make noise; people really don't as they fly over," Kranser said. "So, to tell an airline that they can't fill a seat because of the (passenger) cap, but then have them fly an empty seat, doesn't really make a lot of sense."

Real funny coming from someone who lobbied for artificial caps of zero flights at El Toro International Airport. Kranser is a denizen of Dana Point who exhibits class envy of Newport Beach. Even lower tier Newport (aka Santa Ana Heights) has higher property values than his city of Dana Point. In fact, if one peruses one of my previous blog entries, they will see that Dana Point property values have dropped MORE than any other city in Orange County, while Newport Beach consistently maintains the highest values in the county.

What's a matter Kranser? Can't afford John Wayne's high ticket prices? Hate that long traffic snarled drive all the way up to LAX to catch either a cheap flight or something that goes international? You will just have to live with the consequences of your actions. If you will not contribute to increasing air capacity, you are in no position to point your finger at others.

I oppose John Wayne expansion, not because of noise as I live near the coast and hardly hear it, or because of some South County manufactured myth about airports somehow harming property values. I oppose John Wayne expansion due to the displacement of a significant number of private aircraft owners, many of which are local business CEOs. Just imagine what would happen to the local economy if they left town.

The socialist RINO NIMBY logic is to tax the wealthy earners in order to finance evicting the wealthy fliers and condemning the wealthy landowners within Newport Beach. They should win a Nobel Prize in Economics for that brilliant idea!

Seriously though, how logical is it to accommodate the flying masses who want to have cheap Southwest flights at the expense of the business executives who run the local firms that employ thousands? The average person flying in these cattle cars is frugal and does not typically own a business that employs people. Why are they receiving priority?

John Wayne should only be for private aircraft for businesses while El Toro International Airport serves the masses of the flying public. Besides, El Toro has much safer 10,000 foot runways for large commercial jets versus only 5700 feet at John Wayne. There are already private country clubs for VIPs whose time is valuable and do not want to compete with the masses for precious tee time. It should be the same way for airports as well.

In addition, I read that 99 Cent Stores are rapidly expanding in South County. They should also have their cheap cattle car flights out there as well at El Toro. In contrast, we in Newport Beach have no use for 99 Cent Stores as we prefer upscale shopping at Fashion Island. While we are at it, why not have John Wayne used exclusively for upscale flying?