Getting Dixon Fixed: A Proposal That’ll Finally Save Dog Beach

Remember nearly three months ago in June when Scott Peotter said that he was going to agendize the off-leash hours in Newport Beach?  Well guess what never happened.

As it turns out, despite Dog Beach having support for approval by the vast majority of council, I have been told that Dixon has promised to oppose on all significant votes, anyone who votes to even agendize Dog Beach– let alone vote for it.  If true, she has the council completely frozen in fear under the leadership of Mayor Kevin Muldoon.  If this is true (and given her history and the current circumstances, I have no reason to believe otherwise), this is a dereliction of duty across the board.

There is only one thing left for us to do: to create a voter initiative.

This entire scenario was caused by Dixon, an LA resident for nearly her entire life who moved here just 6 months before deciding that she alone was qualified to run our city– and that’s a problem.  To fix this problem, in addition to the Dog Beach voter initiative, I will be presenting language to permanently correct the problem of the entire city voting who should be running your district– a solution known as “District-Based Elections”.

Do Peninsula residents have the moral authority to vote on who should be representing Corona del Mar?
Does Big Canyon have the moral authority to vote on who should be representing the Balboa Peninsula?
All areas should be able to vote for where they live– but not where someone else lives.  Pretty basic stuff, here.

The fact is, each district should have their own ability to vote in their own elected officials– and we should do that every two years, not every four– assuring each person a regular vote for their own district, and kicking out bad operators via regular elections twice as quickly as we are currently able to.

In any voting system, a candidate needs to communicate to all voters– city-wide, that’s over 55,000 people.  District-wide, that’s closer to 8,000.  Anyone who is relatively active in their community can get a message out to 8,000 people, but there is no way to effectively communicate to 55,000 people without sending them mail pieces– and those are expensive!  With a $1,100 donation limit in Newport Beach and a mailer costing around $0.60/person, guess who winds up funding our city-wide elections?  You guessed it: Special interests and their political cronies.

With elections based in our districts (rather than simply requiring someone to live in that district), our neighbors vote on people who are known-quantities.  People can’t simply move into an area, dump a bunch of money into confusing mailers, and steal our city from underneath us: With District-Based Elections, we control it.  We will be able to re-assert that control, rather than special interests playing confusing messages to pit 6 of our 7 districts against the other 1– seven times over.

Yes: I know this isn’t a “sexy” proposal, which ironically is why Dog Beach is such a great one.  With Dog Beach, we will be able to bring in supporters who normally wouldn’t care about something so boring, and in the end– they not only get Dog Beach, but they get a better election system to boot, and they fix the problem that caused Dixon and her attempted elimination of Dog Beach in the first place.

Yes: these petitions will be separate, so if you want Dog Beach but you’d like to continue to have elections funded by special interests, you are free to only sign one of them (or none of them, if you so choose).  If you’d like to join in the volunteer efforts and sit just for one evening at a grocery store to help us collect signatures, or if you’d be able to get a few neighbors to sign up– each signature counts… a lot!  Please let us know by signing the Save Dog Beach petition, below:

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Latest Signatures

6,587	Erin Silber	Feb 09, 2024
6,586	jean daniel	Jul 20, 2023
6,585	Vanessa Villalpando	May 08, 2022
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6,583	cheyenne holt	Sep 25, 2021
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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
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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
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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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