It is early in the election season for Morro Bay. There are still a couple weeks for people to take out papers in order to run for mayor or council member. Some are already hard at it. Right now three people have pulled papers to run for mayor, Bay News editor and political gadfly, Neil Farrell; my way or no way Bill Yates; and one term council member Rick Grantham.
One of the sore spots in Morro Bay government that often gets mentioned by citizens is the fact that many of our highly paid managers live somewhere else, not in Morro Bay. It is felt that they just don’t have the same sense of ownership and pride that a resident has. Now, I am not making a judgment on this because everyone is different and has their own reasons for living and working where they do. I only bring this up because this perception has been an issue in Morro Bay more than once.
So, I see this email from mayoral candidate, Rick Grantham, and go to his website. Guess what I notice on the contact page? He is using a San Luis Obispo address for his campaign. WHAT!!?? Doesn’t he know anyone in Morro Bay that is willing to work on his campaign and use a Morro Bay address for campaign central? Is he totally oblivious to the friction that I described above about out-of-towners running this town?
Politics 101 – Try to relate to your voters.
Follow-up: After this info became public I received an email from Rick with his explanation and he informed me that he has now changed the address on his website to a Morro Bay address, his own. No further comment is needed on my part.
Speaking from Morro Bay 
April 3, 2010 at 6:19 pm |
Oh gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawd not Grantham for mayor!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then again this might force him to come out of the closet
March 10, 2010 at 7:26 am |
It does seem like it would be easy to come up with some kind of Morro Bay brick and mortar address for his campaign, if only a storefront or a mail box. Also seems strange because he DOES appear to live in MB on Ironwood Ave.