he better not be fired. That would be suicide for that station.

Scott Cox should be fired. Not because he stole the signs. He should be fired because he is not a very good radio host. He has a huge ego, which I can understand that he may need that to do his job, I just find him opressive. The few times I tried to listen to him he seemed more interested in hearing himself talk that speaking intelligently on the subject matter. He should have been let go long ago.

I have a hard time believing that the sign stealing was some sort of prank. Moreover, admitting that he had stolen signs from other candidates in previous campaigns in no way casts a better light on this situation. I don't personally care for Chad Vegas, but that is another issue. Still, stealing his signs was wrong, whatever the reason. In his television interview he made a statement about his intent to give Chad Vegas a hard time anytime he could. To me that just enforces that this was more than just a harmless prank. There is a difference between good humor and malicious activities. This was clearly a malicious act.

WOW! Bakersfield police actually solved a crime.The Great Sign Caper--too bad it wasn't something important that they solved. Our tax dollars hard at work; not like we have unsolved murders or any other unsolved crimes in Kern County  they could be working ON.

The guy is a blow hard second ranked radio host.................Fire the blabber mouth and give some one else a shot.....He won't be missed!

I don't listen to Scott Cox.  But I do listen to Chad Vegas, and Chad Vegas is a poison to our community and to the rights of our people.  If Chad Vegas had his way, he would force all of us to convert to his perverted idea of Christianity.  Make no mistake about it--he would do it if he could.  He can deny it all he wants, but he wants to convert this city, this county, this state, and this country to an extreme version of Christianity.  This extreme version of Christianity includes silencing, and perhaps killing, the infidels, the atheists, the agnostics, and anyone else with whom he disagrees.  One need not look further than his statements:

"I took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States as well as the Constitution of the state of California, but I did not raise my hand when I put my hand on the Bible and raise my other hand, I did not raise my hand and say that in doing so I would violate the law of God.  I did not say that I would do that, and nor will I violate the law of God.  It is a superior law."

Vegas went on to tell an unrelated story about Dread Scott and how he would not have supported it.  But since we are students of history and can see through the inconsistencies of Chad's judicial philosophy, let us rightly conclude this:  Racism was bad then, as it is now.  Therefore, Chad would have opposed Dread Scott.  Homophobia was bad then, as it is now.  Therefore, Chad ought to support same-sex marriage.  After all, why would it be appropriate to suppress and subjugate one minority group when another minority group seeks the same rights as everyone else, except in this instance, the issue is not race, but sexual preference.

But wait...he doesn't!  Racism and homophobia are not necessarily relatted to one another.  Racism is the fear of someone with a different skin color, whereas homophobia is essentially the fear of someone wanting to sodomize you without solicitation.

So how does this fare in Chad's world?  For him, we are born with certain genetic characteristics that are beyond our control, one of them being the amount of melatonin we have.  Yet he neglects the other biological fact that some people are born gay.  Yes, it's true.  You know that kid in elementary school who everyone thought was gay because he acted so gayly?  Years later, it turns out that he is, in fact, gay.  Big deal.  Clay Aiken just came out of the closet, and was anyone surprised?  No.

So Chad Vegas says that all gay stuff is wrong because it goes against God's law.  After all, he did not swear that he would go against God's law.

Let's put this into some perspective.  Let's say that I am elected into office.  I swear upon a Bible (and you could substitute a phone book for the Bible--it wouldn't mean anything to me) to uphold the Constitution.  As one of my constituents, you would expect me to, first and foremost, uphold the Constitution.  After all, that's what I said I would do.  But let's say that I didn't swear that I would go against the rules of my bookie--my bookie said that I couldn't do X or Y, and since I didn't swear that I would go against my bookie, I have no obligations to uphold the other oath upon which I swore (that being the oath of the Constitution).  My constituents would kick me out immediately--perhaps even violently.

And that's what Chad Vegas has done.  He has been sworn to office to do one thing, but his loyalty is to something else.  We cannot have this in our government.

Chad Vegas needs to be removed from office immediately.

While I do not advocate theft, Scott Cox has done everyone a favor by ridding this community of Chad Vegas.

Chad needs to be fired and he can take Scott with him.  And Inga. 

Forgiveness is a wonderful thing to be given when an offender apologizes for their sins and wrongdoing.  We would all do well to remember that, and especially the  leaders of our community.  Mr. Cox and Rev. Vegas have often offended others, Scott more often on purpose, to be the "shock jock" guy he tries to be on air, than Chad, who is quite the "prophet" of what he views as Biblical truth, extended into the public/secular realm.  As far as I can tell, Scott has thoroughly apologized for his stupid stunt, which is much more than most of our unapologetic elected and influential leaders have done for their many past offenses.   Even if one feels they are absolutely right when they speak and/or act, there will always be those who are offended.  That's life.  However, our community and society will continue to be irreparably fractured until the offenders and offendees learn to humbly agree to disagree and are genuinely apologetic and forgiving without condescension and efforts to rule and control.

I hope that Chad Vegas as a minister of the gospel will be quick to humble his pride and to forgive Scott Cox.

Chad Vegas is the [edit.] of the century.  It was just a prank.  What kind of jerk says that his signs were paid for by little old ladies..........sniff sniff.

Get rid of this jerk Bakersfield.

Scott broke the law. He tied up city services with his law-breaking. He has shown great disdain for Chad Vegas for years. So when calls it a "hoax gone bad" he is lying. The signs were stolen. How a theft be a hoax? He really did steal them. His line of "I was going to give them back" is just plain bull. Cox is a pompous jerk who deserves to get either canned or suspended without pay for a long period of time.

I think there is some irony here that Scott always loves to talk about stupid people and scammers when he has just shown he is among their ranks. And don't get me started on the cronyism.

Scott Cox is a prankster! That's what he does! Is he obnoxious? Sure! Is he a tad "immature"? Sure! I personally think "maturity" is over rated!!  Getting old is mandatory - maturity is optional and I opted out!!!  You grow old.........you die!!!!

IF Chad Vegas is the "Christian" he proclaims to be he will forgive and move on. Any charges need to be dropped, Scott needs to do penance then the whole community needs to get back to the "real world"!

The "underlying" issue here is will the businesses who advertise on KERN demand a return of Scott Cox?  It is all about the MONEY.

Immaturity stops being overrated when you break the law. I'm sure Chad has forgiven Scott, but that doesn't mean he should get a pass from a legal standpoint.

Don't forget, at first he denied it.

His cronies at Fishlips and Green Frog will undoubtedly want him back because he never stops talking about them. His "show" is nothing but one long infomercial.

I'm opting for Scott getting the same treatment as any of you, or I, would get under the same circumstances.   No more, no less.

To use one of Scotts own saying, "that was incredibly stupid.

What's next Scott?  Toilet papering the house of someone you oppose?

Witbee, I'll agree there.  Between those two, Champs, and the go cart racing he didn't talk about much else..other than how good he was motocross racing that is.  I heard Danielle Sullivan and Bill Curtis on there this morning.  They were dumped from that time slot a while back.  No pride in broadcasting...you call, I come running just to get back on the air.

Guess that's show biz.  :-)

Everytime I have passed by one of Chad Vegas' signs I have either thought about or said out loud, "if it weren't for the fact that I'd probably get arrested, I'd like to spray paint LIAR and HYPOCRITE across those signs." It will be a very sad thing if he gets re-elected. I am sick of his personal agenda. I truly don't believe he has our children's best interest at heart.

Nancy,

They werent dumped per se, time slots just shifted. Giving scott an extra hour on the radio, and inga and extra hour. The reason is clearly for advertising dollars, since those two are there highest rated radio shows. Scott's show has excellent ratings for a local show, which is what makes him a big draw for advertisers. Also, he was rated bakersfields best radio show a few times.

I listen to him because listening to inga is impossible. She preaches on the radio while scott is much more humerous and clearly doesnt have an 'agenda' he promotes. LIstening to scott is great because its not always about politics and the same crap that keeps going on and that everyone else is talking about. It is definetly entertaining.

Im going to start the FREE SCOTT COX campaign.

I'm opting for Scott getting the same treatment as any of you, or I, would get under the same circumstances.   No more, no less.

Personally, I'd like his punishment to be removing all the signs still remaining after the election.  He could have folks call-in to his show if they spot any.

Ed1936, you don't pay attention very well, do you? Vegas reported this to the sheriff's department, not the BPD. It's written in the article and was mentioned on the news last evening. Now go back to your crossword puzzle.

I agree with Ed1936.  There is some bigger fish to fry that is done by thugs, that nothing is ever happening to them. Unlike these other creeps, Scott has done many honorable things in the community.  Look at all the graffiti that is constantly damaging property, and nothing is ever being done about that (as well as all the much bigger things too).  Scott's prank was probably going to be just a funny prank, but it was cut short.

(On April 5 a group home client took the group home van on a joy ride and plowed it through my landscaping and crashed it in the bedroom next door to my house, just missing my house.  The group home owners should have been at my front door immediately to fix and clean things up, but have done nothing.  I have had to research things out big time how to contact them.  They have avoided returning calls to me, and when I have talked to them got nowhere.  The house next to me still has a giant hole with just plywood in place.  It is devaluing my house from the blight I am sure.)

Anselmo..I said they were dumped from that time slot.  Scott is more popular but only with certain listeners, I just don't happen to be one who appreciates his over the top style.  It really doesn't matter to me who is on in the morning now since I no longer commute a half hour to work every day.

I used to enjoy Danielle and Bill during that commute and wasn't haappy when they took them off my drive time.  Well, I have to qualify that, I never really cared for her, she's to stiff and doesn't have a smooth delivery.

Bottom line is it doesn't matter who he is or why he did it....it was a really dumb thing to do and he needs at the very least, a fine and community service.  He does a lot for the community anyway so it wouldn't be too much to expect.  

If we allow Chad Vegas to retain his position we are more dumb than Scott Cox's prank

 FYI   The police didn't solve the crime...it was handed to them. A passer-by saw SC steal the signs from some one's yard, wrote down the license plate and forwarded the info. When the plates were run they came back to SC. So  no worry..no precious "policin' detective time" was wasted.

 FYI   The police didn't solve the crime...it was handed to them.

So if the witness gave the license plate number to the deputies investigating the theft, and they ran it and determined it belonged to Cox, and they then followed up and he admitted he had the signs in his garage, who solved it?

What difference does it make who it was that caused this issue. Should Scott Cox be any different than any one of us. If you or I would have been caputured we would be charged and not get a free pass. It also does not matter that the prank/crime was committed against Chad Vegas or any other person running for office. It was wrong. Let's let the system run its course.

Any one of his advertisers would not be happy if someone blocked their adverstisements for a number of days. For those that say it does not make a difference, that people who are going to vote for the candidate are not going to rely on a sign let me offer this... If this were to happen to any number of events that occur around town (Brews in the Village, Festival of Trees, Chez Noel, etc...) and their signs were taken as a prank it would not be dismissed so quickly. I dare say that those who are going to attend these events are going to regardless of any sign being in place.

Saying that "it's just Scott Cox" is no excuse.Yes, he has done so much for this community but that does not give him license to do something that is against the law. He should think about staying in the position he is in so that he can continue to do great and charitable things. That means understanding that actions come with consequences.

Does forgiving someone equal no consequences? I would say that Scott could be forgiven be he should still pay consequences.

No, forgiveness doesn't always mean no consequences, but it goes a long way in helping to bring reconciliation and some peace.  The  Bible says, "God is not mocked.  Whatever a man sows that shall he also reap."  Good seed sown returns a good harvest.  On the other side, bad seed sown brings a bad harvest.  Scott has done the right thing to apologize.  But he's already paying/harvesting the price for his dumb stunt, in public opinion and loss of wages/work.  Chad needs to meet with Scott, I think privately is best, to clear the air and not let the media and politics overplay this any more than they have.  It's always better to keep short accounts when offended.  And Chad knows what the Bible says to do about "enemies," "repentance," and "forgiveness."  With Scott Cox, you always need to consider the source, but this time he crossed the line between outrageous and "outlawful."

OK, on topic:  It's illegal to steal campaign signs.  If I stole Vegas's signs, you KNOW there'd be an uproar.   Cox should be arrested and pay the required penalty, whatever it is for multiple counts of that offense.  Not because I dislike Cox, but because the electoral process cannot tolerate a "porank" of this type.  Vegas legally placed the signs, and no one should remove them but him. 

Now, off topic:  Isn't it interesting that Chad said he couldn't attend the KHSD Board of Trustees Canddiate forum at Temple Beth El Tuesday night, ostensibly because he was "on a week's vacation with his family,"  but he was in town enough on Wednesday to comment on his stolen signs.    WHY DID HE SKIP THAT FORUM!?

Noticed a bunch of Rev. Chuck Cornyea's signs in the public R/W along Panorama and Manor.  I think that's a violation. 

SCOTT SHOULD APOLOGIZE, GET A SLAP ON THE WRIST, AND MAYBE HE COULD BUY VEGAS A MONTHS SUPPLY OF TISSUES.  WE HAVE REAL CRIMINAL ACTIVITY THAT NEEDS THE ATTENTION OF THE POLICE, WE HAVE A REAL NEED TO HAVE FOLKS ON THE RADIO TO HAVE A PERSONALITY THAT WILL KEEP YOU ENTERTAINED, AND IT WOULD BE GREAT IF SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS WEREN'T SUCH CRY BABIES. DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF PEOPLE, AND LET'S GET REAL, THIS IS SMALL STUFF CONSIDERING THE TROUBLE AMERICA IS EXPERIENCING.  AND THE PUBLICITY VEGAS IS GETTING-YOU COULD NOT BUY ENOUGH SIGNS.

this stunt just shows what a knuckled head this guy is ....  stealing some one else's property is not right .. regardless of the reason ... not the crime of the century, but not something to be admired at all  ... it hurts my ears to listen to his hysterics on the radio anyway, so no loss if he stays gone

bet his family is real proud of him 

But......but......... He's a NASCAR and Air Guitar fan, right?

Knucklehead? He should be so lucky!

OldBlue, You're absolutely right.

The sheriff’s department and the Bakersfield police do not solve any crimes--without a confession.

 SCOTT COX SIGHTING......

Time & Place: 3:52 PM at the corner of Stockdale Highway and Buena Vista Road

Activity: Setting up a VEGAS sign

Vehicle: White pick up truck ( Ohh where or where is the Hummer?)

He shouldn't be fired but he wouldn't be missed if fired.  I liked the "long infomerical" reference about his show that someone previously posted.  He's very talented and witty but he just droans on and on about his hang outs and other places that he's trying to promote.  Almost as annoying as Vegas is trying to deny that he doesn't have a right wing, Christian agenda with this Board position.  I wouln't mind seeing Imus return to Bakersfield if Cox is fired.

ed1936, every time you post a comment, you show your ignorance.....

  I wouln't mind seeing Imus return to Bakersfield if Cox is fired.

Trading a Dime Store Turkey Neck Pseudo-Cowboy for a Flapjawed Gay Impersonator? What kinda deal is that?

RALPH BAILEY WAS NOT CANNED WHEN HE WAS BUSTED (TWICE) FOR DRUNK DRIVING!!!

SCOTT HASN'T EVEN BEEN TO JAIL YET (AS FAR AS WE KNOW) EVEN THOUGH THE DA WILL TRY TO GRAB A HEADLINE AND PROSECUTE HIM.

RALPH WAS IN THE CLINK FOR A FULL 48 HOURS BEFORE HE MANAGED TO STUMBLE HOME.

RALPH IS STILL ON THE AIR ON KNZR...AND HE'S STILL A LOUDMOUTH LOCAL TALK SHOW "HOST".

DON'T BE HYPOCRITICAL WHEN IT COMES TO COX. 

Radio hosts are always doing stupid things and getting fired for it. I've never listened to Cox, but I saw him on the news last night. He basically said that he never thinks anything through.  I agree that he should face some charges or fines to prevent people from misplacing campaign signs in the future.

 FYI   The police didn't solve the crime...it was handed to them.

So if the witness gave the license plate number to the deputies investigating the theft, and they ran it and determined it belonged to Cox, and they then followed up and he admitted he had the signs in his garage, who solved it?

 I was just reiterating what you had said. So that must make us both ignorant =)

Nope ed1936, only one of us.....

Lying to your boss???   If he worked for me, he'd be unemployed yesterday.  

OldBlue56, big of you to admit that.

Regarding the Scott Cox sighting in the white pickup truck ...

posted by JustAThought on Sep 25, 2008 at 04:21 PM

 SCOTT COX SIGHTING......

Time & Place: 3:52 PM at the corner of Stockdale Highway and Buena Vista Road

Activity: Setting up a VEGAS sign

Vehicle: White pick up truck ( Ohh where or where is the Hummer?)

Hysterical!!! It was my understanding (and this could just be a bad source) that Cox never owned that Hummer, it was simply a "donor" car from a sponsor. Can you imagine how management at 3-Way reacted when the KCSOS called to inquire about who the registered owner was?

So, if it in fact true, he lost his Hummer.

Chico   pssst..................don't tell    OldBlue

The law was broken.  Taking something without the owner's permission is theft.  Plain and simple.  The total value determines whether or not it is a felony.  Involving a minor makes the crime more grievous.  Making excuses after the fact is a tactic used by practically all criminals.  Should Cox be allowed to "walk" from this will only prove what many Americans already suspect, there is a double standard in our country's legal system.  Don Imus was fired for his indiscretion, why not Cox.  If disciplinary is not taken by KERN management, I will definitely tune out that radio station and let the advertisers know about.

RE: panteraguy's comments:

 You said it plainly and truthfully. Well done! :)