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If Wednesday night’s City Council meeting is any indication, Russell Johnson will keep his job as planning commissioner. So he should. By most accounts, Johnson has served ably; many say his service has been exemplary. City Councilman Ken Weir’s call to remove Johnson from the commission, while allowed under the council’s appointment criteria, was ill conceived and poorly timed. It also stirred up considerable community angst, not to mention the overkill media coverage. But before we haul out the tar and feathers, let’s consider, for a moment, how selective we are in our outrage. The dismissal earlier this month of Bakersfield Sen. Roy Ashburn from the Senate’s Rules Committee raised nary an eyebrow in these parts, even though the move was widely perceived as retribution for Ashburn’s early refusal to back Modesto Republican Dave Cogdill for minority leader. Cogdill, who replaced Ashburn with Rancho Cucamonga Republican Jim Battin, basically...
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