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seat on that City Council. This despite the many other hopeful applicants <br />who’d lived there for more than a hot minute. When he actually needed to <br />run for that seat a few years later, he barely eked out a victory over an 80- <br />year-old resident who rarely left the house due to his ailments. <br />The ad spots run by his opponent’s campaign featured footage of Mosca <br />acting up at Sierra Madre City Council meetings. If you’ve ever lived in <br />Sierra Madre you should go to the March 20 entry of The Tattler and check <br />one out. You might be in it. <br />Which leads us to the present, and a story that ran in several Encinitas <br />weeklies. Apparently they all share the same reporter. “Mosca announces <br />he won’t run again for Encinitas City Council: Encinitas City Councilman Joe <br />Mosca will not seek another term in office, he announced at the March 16 <br />council meeting.” <br />Deja vu? Again? I asked a politically connected Encinitas resident what’s up <br />with this. The reply:  “Mosca certainly would have encountered an <br />absolutely brutal campaign going up against a respected Planning <br />Commissioner, someone who knows the code and fights for residents. <br />Joe’s reputation in Encinitas, and especially in his district, is one of favoring <br />over-development. Specifically burdening his district, mostly horse country <br />having wildfire evacuation issues already, with the high-density 283-unit <br />Goodson project, which spawned the citizens group Encinitas RRD.” <br />Joe and his development issues. They follow him wherever he may roam. <br />My poetic informant then added this: <br />“Joe never stops talking. The endless thanking of city staff (who often get <br />things wrong at resident expense) is mind-blowing. His revisions of history <br />are outright lies and he has no shame telling them, straight-faced, to people <br />11/12/23, 11:16 PMPage 3 of 4