Former '60s activist looks to unite California Coastal Commission

Modesto Bee ^ | 12/14/02 | Laura Wides

[hoosierskypilot]

SAN FRANCISCO(AP) - When members of the California Coastal Commission unanimously elected Michael Reilly as their chairman this week, they called him a moderate consensus-builder who could unite the divided panel.

But Reilly wasn't always seen that way.

He recalls outrunning police dogs during student protests at the University of California, Berkeley, during the height of the 1960s free speech movement.

Eventually, the son of an Army officer and a homemaker decided he could achieve more by reforming the system than fighting it.

That belief led Reilly to nearly three decades of public service - including a stint running Sonoma County's drug rehabilitation program, a seat on the county's Board of Supervisors and his latest post as head of the body charged with protecting the state's 1,100-mile coastline.

[hoosierskypilot]

Only in CA would a former commie be considered a moderate.

[Fish out of Water]

As long as he is a former Commie he might be a moderate, look at the change in David Horowitz. Now as is likely his current positions are extreme whacko then you might be right only in California.

[x1stcav]

I have alwyas found it strange that some people would refer to political/beuracratic Comm-symp, Marxist, private property expropiators as being in 'public service'. I lived out there in the 70's when the Coastal Commission got rolling. Among their other 'public service' success stories was preventing a fellow who was going to build a $1,000,000 (a fairly large sum at the time) house overlooking the ocean from putting a sauna in as it wasn't energy efficient.

How the country as a whole looked the other way when these b*st*rds of the left took over large parts of our society and government in the 60's and 70's is beyond me. A favorite part of my day is reading whenever another one of them goes to meet the Creator they so fervently deny.

[shrinkermd]

Being a "peace activist" and a "public activist" is the same thing--a striving for power over others. The 60s generation liberals now run things in California. The disaster is just beginning.

[Lancey Howard]

Only in CA would a former commie be considered a moderate.

My first thought exactly.
I never heard of this guy before, but if he is called a "moderate" in San Francisco, then he is most definitely a scumbag.