Aguirre’s guardian
Don’t get me wrong—I appreciate that The Reader‘s Don Bauder refuses to hop aboard the Dump-Aguirre Bandwagon. Like Bauder, I sometimes grow weary of the zealots who blame San Diego’s energetic city attorney for just about everything.
But Bauder’s eagerness to defend Aguirre 100 percent of the time—not to mention his eagerness to lambaste his old employer, the Union-Tribune—sometimes blurs his vision. Check his latest blog entry about Aguirre’s memo to the mayor and the police chief regarding evacuation. Bauder freaks out over the the U-T‘s coverage, saying the paper was wrong to represent Aguirre’s memo as a call to evacuate the city as the Witch and Harris fires charged westward. Bauder focuses on the word “plan,” arguing that Aguirre was merely suggesting the city develop a contingency plan in case the city’s residents one day all have to split in a hurry.
But many of the people making comments on the blog read the memo the same way I did: Aguirre was suggesting a plan be “implemented”—he was suggesting city leaders come up with plan and then put it into action. That’s what “implement” means.
Nice effort, Don, but a little short of the mark.
For a different take on Aguirre’s memo, read Scott Lewis, who actually talked to the city attorney.
