Last Chance to Sign Petition to Save Dog Beach

PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE!

This is the last call for you to join the 2,800+ signatures to help save Newport’s beloved Dog Beach– where dogs can roam freely off-leash at the border between Newport and Huntington.  Newly-minted mayor Diane Dixon released a “public outreach campaign” on her very first day as mayor; ostensibly, this outreach was to determine how many people wanted to see Newport’s last Dog Beach (actually on County Land) dismantled.  This would happen legally by having the City of Newport enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the county and police it, similar to how HB patrols other lands– essentially taking over county land and condemning Newport’s last remaining Dog Beach into just another standard beach area.

As the citizens responded to the survey, the sentiment was universally clear: The county is doing a GREAT JOB as-is!  Even the anonymous survey sponsored by the City of Newport was only able to muster a whopping 24 supposedly-real people who anonymously indicated that they didn’t think the county was doing a good job.  Comparing that to nearly two hundred others on that very same survey who thought the county was doing a GREAT job, and one should have an overwhelming indication of what the population believes.

After seeing this, I knew the need was there for a more comprehensive list.  Quite frankly, given the city’s history, people simply don’t trust the city’s outsourced third party system with their personal information (which is required in order to sign it).  So, I made one here– And instead of forcing people to hide in the shadows, I allowed it to be public, so people can see the names on the list, accomplishing total transparency (which was ironically one of Dixon’s many failed campaign promises).  So far, people have signed up here literally by the thousands.

I then wrote an email to Dixon, showing the results of both the city’s survey and our petition.  I asked her that since it was abundantly clear that the public was on the side of the County and keeping the land enforced as-is (and the same way it’s been enforced for the last 50+ years), whether or not we could stop this before it got embarrassing.  She said it would be decided in the Study Session (in other words, “No.”).

So how do we activists force our out-of-touch politicians to listen to us– their constituents– and make common-sense decisions rather than spending gobs of taxpayer money catering to the whims of a few loud friends?  We get louder.

Please sign the petition below to add your name to this list.  I will be presenting this list at the study session, but I will also email you and let you know when that study session is.  In addition to that, I will supply you with the OC Parks, OC Supervisors, and/or the Coastal Commission email addresses that you need to drag our councils proposals in front of them.  Our council may be able to pretend to ignore thousands of their constituents, but when they start getting calls from county and state officials whose inboxes are flooded and who are asking what exactly they think they are doing– they will simply not be able to ignore you any longer.

So sign below, expect an email from me, and promise that I will make sure that our voices are heard.

Your email address will not be sold, shared, or spammed.

Supporters:

Latest Signatures

6,587	Erin Silber	Feb 09, 2024
6,586	jean daniel	Jul 20, 2023
6,585	Vanessa Villalpando	May 08, 2022
6,584	Muriel Francis-Hoyle	Feb 04, 2022
6,583	cheyenne holt	Sep 25, 2021
6,582	Phuong Lam	Jul 08, 2021
6,581	Kimberly Hales	Apr 19, 2021
6,580	Chelsey Clure	Apr 14, 2021
6,579	Porsche Santoro	Mar 07, 2021
6,578	Ann Miller	Oct 08, 2020
6,577	Emily Campbell	Oct 02, 2020
6,576	Toru Matsumura	Sep 23, 2020
6,575	Sabrina Torres	Sep 21, 2020
6,574	Liz Bishop	Sep 16, 2020
6,573	Noemi Malaluan	Sep 10, 2020
6,572	Paul Rohrer	Aug 28, 2020
6,571	Erin Dresser	Aug 27, 2020
6,570	Valerie Van Ness	Aug 14, 2020
6,569	Brian Rizzo	Jul 13, 2020
6,568	Caroline Vallejo	Jun 09, 2020
6,567	Krikor Kupelian	Jun 07, 2020
6,566	My Vu	Jun 05, 2020
6,565	Miguel Salcido	May 22, 2020
6,564	Ann Miller	May 13, 2020
6,563	Natasha Selvidge	May 13, 2020
6,562	Ralph Maglonso	Apr 30, 2020
6,561	Jenna Murrell	Apr 27, 2020
6,560	Brittany Lovero	Apr 27, 2020
6,559	Lance Land	Apr 25, 2020
6,558	Diana Wilkinson	Apr 08, 2020
6,557	Sophia Dang	Mar 28, 2020
6,556	James Moore	Mar 20, 2020
6,555	Meg Kott	Mar 05, 2020
6,554	Cinthia Montes	Feb 17, 2020
6,553	Kathleen Hsu	Feb 16, 2020
6,552	Alexandra Pinto	Feb 15, 2020
6,551	BEOMYEONG KIM	Feb 12, 2020
6,550	laura rivera	Feb 07, 2020
6,549	Seth Van Der Linden	Jan 31, 2020
6,548	Sierra Decota	Jan 29, 2020
6,547	Marissa Rietman	Jan 25, 2020
6,546	Michael Cordeiro	Dec 09, 2019
6,545	brian Hernandez	Dec 05, 2019
6,544	Adam Swerdlow	Dec 05, 2019
6,543	Richard Milling	Nov 26, 2019
6,542	Richard Milling	Nov 26, 2019
6,541	Geena Garcia	Nov 25, 2019
6,540	Heidi Mitchell	Nov 24, 2019
6,539	Michael Nguyen	Nov 23, 2019
6,538	Mackenzie Thurston	Nov 20, 2019
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