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DBoon

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Sat Jan 20, 2024, 11:55 AM Jan 2024

LAT: Column: Yes, you can fight city hall. Huntington Beach retirees are waging a revolution

Protect Huntington Beach — a revolution led by retirees — is waging a spirited fight against what the group sees as a City Hall attempt to screen, and perhaps ban, library books with sexual content, reel in Pride flags and suppress voting rights.

A posse of six or seven hell-raisers in their 60s, 70s and 80s agreed to meet with me Tuesday night as they geared up before a city council meeting, but before long, the group had grown to 10, then 15, then 20. Some of them were new to activism; others have histories.
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Former Huntington Beach Mayor Shirley Dettloff, who’s almost 89, didn’t hesitate to join the resistance.

“We’re really the people who built this city, and we’re proud of what we did,” Dettloff said. “And this new council is diminishing all that we worked for.”


https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-20/column-yes-you-can-fight-city-hall-huntington-beach-retirees-are-waging-a-revolution


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LAT: Column: Yes, you can fight city hall. Huntington Beach retirees are waging a revolution (Original Post) DBoon Jan 2024 OP
good on them. the push back crew. AllaN01Bear Jan 2024 #1
Raising hell is SOP for MOMFUDSKI Jan 2024 #2
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