A member of Councilman Ed Harris’ office has egg on his face, is eating crow – (throw in your own fave idiomatic phrase) – and is a tad embarrassed these days.
It seems that our favorite member of Harris’ staff, Chet Barfield, mistook a two-year old press release about a ribbon-cutting for the OB Entryway Project for an event scheduled for this mid-December, after his boss leaves office.
There was a red flag in the press release: it stated that the event would be on “Tuesday the 14th,” but this year, that day is on a Sunday.
So, the flap over the seeming competing ribbon-cuttings for OB’s new entryway – which we help spread with our post from last week – is all a big mistake.
It’s actually funny, given the history of the politicization of public events that ought to have a non-partisan tinge to them – events we outlined in our post. They include the Tony Hawk Day deployment of Lori Zapf at the OB Skateboard Park, where Harris – the councilman for the district – was not even invited. Plus there was the trotting out of Zapf by her Republican friends at the dedication of OB’s newish lifeguard statute. Again, why – if not for partisan PR advantage?
So, we apologize for believing the statement of the councilman’s rep at a public meeting. Hey, Chet – we forgive you and hopefully our readers will forgive us.
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Mercifully, I missed the big flap, or flop, last week. I do know that in my dealings with Chet Barfield regarding the OB Friends of the Library, he’s one of the good guys.
FYI, SD reader has an update on the entryway project
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2014/nov/17/stringers-ocean-beach-entryway-delayed-salty-soil/