Short-Term Tom Responds: No denial

Yesterday I posted about the upcoming City Council election in our city. Specifically, I posted that sources familiar with Tom Cagley, the recently elected Councilmember, were reporting that Tom will not be seeking re-election in November of this year. Voters in Lake Forest should be surprised by this news as Cagley won his seat only last month in the recall election held on January 2nd. This morning I received an email from Tom himself regarding my post. While Tom did a good job of conveying his dismay with the release of this information, he offered nothing in the way of a denial of the facts presented. Notedly, Cagley seemed to be confused about why I and other voters have a negative opinion of disgraced former councilman Adam Nick, who was caught stealing competitors campaign signs in the middle of the night by the Orange County Sheriff. As a seeming defense of his ignorance of the history surrounding Adam Nick and the recall attempts, Cagley asserted that he has "not lived my life in the sheltered world of Lake Forest." I am not sure why our newly elected Councilman does not believe that Lake Forest indeed is part of and exists in the real world, but his continued alliance with Adam Nick and Jim Gardner make some sense in light of this revelation.

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