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Original post made on Aug 16, 2018
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a resident of Menlo Park: Suburban Park/Lorelei Manor/Flood Park Triangle
on Aug 16, 2018 at 8:30 pm
Vote for Drew Combs!
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Aug 17, 2018 at 11:06 am
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a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Aug 19, 2018 at 12:06 pm
Due to repeated violations of our Terms of Use, comments from this poster are automatically removed. Why?
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Aug 20, 2018 at 7:12 am
Drew Combs:
How can anyone that works for Facebook be unbiased? Or how can anyone (Cecilia Jones) that has gotten Facebook Foundation Grants be unbiased?
There are many still many other choices......
a resident of Menlo Park: The Willows
on Aug 20, 2018 at 8:37 am
Drew Combs has served as Vice Chair of the Planning Commission and as Chair of the Planning Commission.
No one has ever accused any decision he made as being biased. He has to recuse himself on issue related to Facebook.
That is much better than Keith whose record on Facebook is ALWAYS approve. Kirsten Keith's record is the best evidence of bias.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Aug 20, 2018 at 11:03 am
Red Herring:
Are u kidding me? Do u really believing recusing yourself makes up for your professional or personal bias. Who knows what happens behind the scenes.
Keith is not an employee of Facebook or take any money or financial contributions from Facebook.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Aug 21, 2018 at 8:09 pm
@Red_Herring writes, "That is much better than Keith whose record on Facebook is ALWAYS approve. Kirsten Keith's record is the best evidence of bias."
Keith negotiated a trip cap (among other things) as part of the Facebook development agreement. Keith also serves on the Transportation Master Plan Oversight and Outreach Committee Web Link
Combs will need to quit his job, sell all his Facebook stock, and wait a year before being able to have any input on Facebook development or the Transportation Master Plan.
a resident of Menlo Park: The Willows
on Aug 21, 2018 at 9:37 pm
Saying Kirsten negotiated a trip cap is about as ridiculous as you can get. First that trip cap was for the first development in 2012. There hasn’t been one since, for any other development. The cap is so lax Facebook has never exceeded it. Not once. That’s like saying she gave hairspray to a bald man. Either totally irrelevant or totally incompetent or both. The transportation Master Plan is mess. Her stewardship is nothing to brag about.
The fact is Kirsten is a rubber stamp for any development interest that can contribute to her political ambition. It’s time for her to go.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Aug 22, 2018 at 12:35 am
Saying Kirsten negotiated a trip cap is... true. She also negotiated with Stanford to drop medical office from their ECR project.
The transportation Master Plan is... the missing piece of the General Plan Update. Combs cannot participate.
Facebook is proposing the largest development in the history of Menlo Park. Combs cannot participate.
a resident of Menlo Park: The Willows
on Aug 22, 2018 at 4:18 am
Kristen has been awful on development issues on Council.
She has been a lever yes vote. She has never voted against a large development or up zoning.
She absolutely negotiated a terribly irrelvant trip cap for one Facebook project that has no teeth at all. Have you ever been to Facebook. There are cars everywhere! They have valet parking so many cars are coming and going.
She did such a terrible job negotiating with Stanford she blessed a project in negotiation that eventually was completely scrapped. The current project looks nothing like the one she actually endorsed in her negotiations.
She owns the traffic mess in the Belle Haven and on Willow. She approved all of that development. She just accepted more money from those developers.
Saying we should elect her because she can vote on development is a weak argument. That’s precisely why we shouldn’t elect her.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Aug 22, 2018 at 7:03 pm
When Combs eventually names supporters, no real person will want their name/face associated with the nensense described in the previous post. Combs must recuse himself from everything related to or near Facebook. Good luck with that.
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