No litmus tests for Oceanside nonprofits North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County News: "No litmus tests for Oceanside nonprofits
By: North County Times - Editorial
Our View: One mayoral stumble leads to an even bigger blunder. First, Mayor Jim Wood threatened KOCT's funding in an attempt to muzzle criticism of him. Now he has taken an even more dangerous step, proposing a political litmus test for nonprofit boards receiving city funding. Such nonpolitical, volunteer boards would be expected to be politically balanced to the mayor's liking.
It's not enough that citizens drawn into volunteer service attending countless community meetings have to scrounge and scrape to accomplish their important work, but they now would have to also declare themselves politically as friends or foes of this or presumably any other politician who asks.
Doesn't the mayor have his hands full trying to help direct a thriving but politically contentious city without this kind of power grab ---- all because he has a thin skin and can't "
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