“You can fool all people some of the time and some people all the time.” “Is truth really an issue with Falcone”? – Riverside politics since before we were born
AS THE PAGE TURNS from 2023 to an election year in 2024, Thirty Miles examines the local candidates who would like to lead Riverside for the next 4 years. We start in Ward One – our ward – which now includes Downtown, the Wood Streets, the Eastside, and the Northside. The Grand neighborhood was unceremoniously dumped from Ward One during the decennial redistricting process by current Ward 1 Councilmember Erin Edwards in favor of the Eastside – we hear because they refused to believe her that the homelessness problem in the riverbed was clearly getting better. The nerve of those pesky constituents having different opinions!
Anyway, in keeping with the holiday theme: out with the old and in with the new! And that includes Ms. Edwards, who would later – in a surprise move that no one saw coming – announce last Summer that she would not be running for re-election to the City Council. We here at 30 Miles waited with dread as to which intersectionality candidate with the most (or is it least?) points on the wheel of power & privilege Erin would foist upon us as her handpicked successor. And we waited. And waited. And then we took a nap. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz…..in other words, it was kind of like waiting for her to produce her resume back in 2019 when she first ran for Council.
Riverside Marxist/Socialists ideal political candidate: a poor, old, big-boned, homeless, transsexual, undocumented, disabled, dark-skinned, lesbian sociopath, who doesn’t speak a lick of English and is off their meds. Someone I’m sure you all could identify with!
Finally, when we just about couldn’t take any more of the waiting, a candidate arrived in the form of Phil Falcone(y), a former aide to Mayor Patricia Lock-Dawson, who from what we can tell is about the least oppressed person in Riverside according the Intersectionality Olympics competition guide. Something didn’t quite add up.
Phil Falcone(y): Perhaps there’s some neuro-diversity or mental health issues the kid’s hiding?
It wasn’t his ideology that confused us. He’s 100% aligned with our current Mayor in making sure City Hall’s top priorities – painting murals, flying the right flags, handing out proclamations – are being taken care of. He believes showing more compassion and offering more gifts (and less consequences) to the City’s homeless population and criminals will eventually lead them to becoming productive citizens. And he believes that taking care of our City public employee unions in order to keep morale sky-high is more important than providing services – fixing streets, trimming trees, processing permits – to residents and businesses.
Heck he was even endorsed by the Marxist/socialist front Run For Something. In other words, he stands for almost exactly the opposite of just about everything we at 30 Miles think good government is. We believe making independent judgments based upon critical reasoning skills in order to improve the quality-of-life of the average constituent here should be the focus…BUT WHAT THE HECK DO WE KNOW!?
Runforsomething.net motto: get’em while they’re young and don’t know any better, aka Phil Falcone(y)
Then it dawned on us in a rare moment of clarity that only arrives during a near death experience (like a rotten City-owned tree nearly falling on our house): Mr. Falcone(y), backed by the political elite of Riverside, was the Good ‘Ole Boys’ attempt to co-opt the woke movement – a fake, a sham…a PHONEY. At least Councilwoman Edwards was a true believer in her Marxist/socialist ideology: we can almost respect that; well, if it wasn’t for the fact that if played out it would destroy the State and Country. 25-year-old Phil, on the other hand, and in our experience, will pretty much say anything to anyone that he thinks will get him elected (including stretttttttttttttching the truth as it conveniences him), so that the game continues here in Riverside: special interests scratching each other’s backs to the detriment of the general public. Tails they win; heads you lose. Meet the new boss; same as the old boss!
One of our neighbors got a close up of this rotten cyprus tree during a recent wind storm: If only we had money for tree trimming, or better, tree removal!
We remembered young Phil from his last run for Riverside City Council in 2019. Fresh off an internship with former Mayor Rusty Bailey, the then 21-year-old was well spoken and impeccably manicured, but with a sense of entitlement towards the position that was only dwarfed by the complete lack of self-awareness that he wasn’t experienced enough to lead nor be effective in the role. Ah …the long-term effects of raising an entire generation of participation trophy winners. With 10 years or more in the real world we figured perhaps he might someday be ready for local office. We wished him well on his journey, as did 80% of Ward 1 voters, who chose the two older candidates to advance in the run-off election that year.
But alas, Falcone(y) is now back, and only 4 years later, and not much different we surmise from before. But for one difference: the backing of our current Mayor Patricia Lock-Dawson and her cadre of political elites. So we at Thirty Miles, semi-retired now with nothing much to do but watch trees fall from our front window, decided to find out what Phil Falcone(y) has been up to recently and inform our faithful followers. And what we found out was, to say the least, interesting. Interesting as to how the Old Boy network chooses their proteges and grooms them for their future use: a symbiotic tale of cronyism at its finest, and all with our money! But we drank, smoked, and gambled too much over New Years, and we need a nap. Look forward to “Phoney Falcone(y) – Part 2” coming soon! THE SUSPENSE!
Young Falcone(y) sings about b______y? Fill in the blank. (Hint: it rhymes with “phoney”)
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