Supporters, opponents trade barbs during special meeting
From left, new District 1 Council member Luke Shaffer, new Encinitas Mayor Bruce Ehlers and new District 2 Council member Jim O’Hara pose at the end of Tuesday night’s swearing-in ceremony. The city’s newly elected mayor and two council members were sworn into office Tuesday in front of a packed room that included both their most fervent supporters and the people who passionately backed their opponents.
A while later, Marco Gonzalez, who supported the outgoing council members, said he thought people like Jones “lacked grace, class and perspective.” “This is a move to the center and we want to be about Encinitas being Encinitas,” Ehlers, who previously was the city’s Council District 4 representative, said as he described how he wants to keep the city’s “small town beach atmosphere.”
O’Hara said he was impressed by how many people care so much about the city and thanked his supporters for putting their trust in him, saying he was fully aware of the “weight and the burden” that comes with the job. After the new council members were sworn into office, Ehlers nominated District 3 representative Joy Lyndes — the only council member remaining in her current post — as the city’s new deputy mayor, saying he wanted to “build bridges” from the old era to the new one. Shaffer and O’Hara both said they supported this move.
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