SQUIDFRY 10.04.18 Howard’s End

HOWARD’S END… Squid spent the past weekend hiding in the lair, blanket pulled over Squid’s head to block out the horrible vibes reverberating through the universe following the horror show better known as the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings of beer-loving manbaby, JudgeBrett Kavanaugh. Squid planned to stay sequestered in the lair, but then Squid’s phone started chiming.

Squid reached one tentacle out from under the blankey to see who was disturbing Squid’s tranquility and it was none other than the leader of the insane clown posse, Marina Coast Water District board member Howard Gustafson. And boy, was he tweeting up a storm.

First he opined on the sentencing of Bill Cosby for drugging and raping a woman, proclaiming Cosby’s innocence and adding, “millennials should not serve on any jury, they have been brainwashed by school.” Then the tweets took a turn toward the truly deplorable. On the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, Howard stated: “women get uglier as they age, some will do anything to gain attention, money, etc.” And then he referenced Ford’s allegations that Kavanaugh, while in high school, dragged her into a bedroom at a party, threw her on a bed, clamped his hand over her mouth and tried to rip off her clothes: “Kavanaugh is innocent, you sound like you were a little whore running around in you (sic) younger days girl?”

Squid wishes Gustafson’s fellow board members would do something beyond commenting on how distasteful the tweets are, like, say, censure him. Maybe they’re just relying on that old axiom: Opinions are like assholes, and boy is Howard one of those.

GOING LOW… On that note, Squid would rather write about politics than be a politician. Things just get nasty.

They certainly have for Monterey mayoral candidate Bill McCrone, who’s made his name locally as a former planning commissioner and sometimes cantankerous watchdog of the city’s leases on Fisherman’s Wharf. Already, he says, about 40 of his campaign signs have been stolen, but that’s not all: A Defense Language Institute contract worker, Matthew DiPietro, sent an email on Sept. 23 to KSBW claiming that McCrone was patrolling the neighborhood near DLI, harassing people and taping flyers on cars that chided drivers for taking up residential parking. KSBW’s Caitlin Conrad shared the email with McCrone, who flatly denied the allegation. Squid’s colleague reached out to DiPietro, who says the whole thing was a case of mistaken identity: DiPietro says the harasser – who he confirms was not McCrone – came to his friend’s garage with a McCrone campaign flyer and said he was running for mayor. Making the whole thing even more bizarre, McCrone says no one has handed out flyers but himself.

Go home 2018, you’re drunk.