Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, October 9, 2009, 11:46 AM
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Victor Frost
Original post made on Oct 10, 2009
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, October 9, 2009, 11:46 AM
Comments (13)
Posted by Eliot
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 10, 2009 at 11:46 pm
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 10, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Frost is 61 years old.
Has he ever had a job?
I think the answer is, no.
Posted by A Protester
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 10, 2009 at 11:55 pm
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 10, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Give your protest vote to Victor Frost.
Posted by qq
a resident of Barron Park
on Oct 11, 2009 at 4:56 am
a resident of Barron Park
on Oct 11, 2009 at 4:56 am
If Mr. Frost is the constitutional candidate, I vote for him.
qq
Posted by leigh
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Oct 11, 2009 at 8:20 am
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Oct 11, 2009 at 8:20 am
Frost is been verbally abusive to people. He curses and yells racial remarks to a black man.
If this is who you want to work for the city, then cast your vote!
Posted by guess
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Oct 11, 2009 at 10:51 am
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Oct 11, 2009 at 10:51 am
I put the over/under at 23 votes for Mr. Frost.
Posted by Sam
a resident of Downtown North
on Oct 11, 2009 at 3:30 pm
a resident of Downtown North
on Oct 11, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Okay, here are a few questions about Victor Frost that I'd really like answered.
If Frost has lived in Palo Alto since childhood, what has he been doing for the last 50 odd years? Did he attend Walter Hays, Jordan and Paly? Did he play sports in high school? Was he a Boy Scout? Has he ever worked or had any sort of job? As a child did he have friends? As an adult dose he have friends? Did he always want to be a panhandler? Dose he have anything good to say the people who gave him an apartment? How was he able to buy a car, did all the money come from panhandling? How did he pay for the TV? Judging by his girth has he ever missed a meal?
How dose Victor Frost see himself? Dose he consider himself an inspiration? Dose he feel that by living his life as he dose he is doing a service to society? Does he see himself as some sort of Harvey Milk of the homeless, not that he is homeless? Dose he have any sense of shame? How would he define the word "failure"? How would he define the word "success"?
How dose he see those of us who work for our living, our food and our shelter? Dose he see us as fools because we take care of ourselves and out children?
What advice would he give to a child? Would he tell a child to work hard to make something of him or herself? Or would he tell the child to get a pan and a cardboard sign?
What would Victor Frost claim as his greatest accomplishment? Is life really just about begging off others?
Victor, would you care to answer?
Posted by VoxPop
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 11, 2009 at 5:09 pm
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 11, 2009 at 5:09 pm
"Dose?"
Posted by Ken
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 12, 2009 at 6:15 am
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 12, 2009 at 6:15 am
"In India, they chop off your hand for that."
Really? Would anyone from India care to comment?
Posted by Sick of Frost
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 13, 2009 at 7:12 am
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 13, 2009 at 7:12 am
Doesn't he live in Redwood City? He should run in his own town, or give up his low income apartment to someone who will actually use it.
Posted by Norm
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 13, 2009 at 2:30 pm
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 13, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Now that the City and DA have decided that sitting on Mr. Frost was an unattractive option, the quest to hang him based on residency has been abandoned.
As I asserted in August (2 months ago, give or take a day), the best challenge if you want Frost barred from office (i.e. fear he might win) or are just generally annoyed by him (as soooo many are, even most unhoused folks), the best gambit for making his live miserable is the Fair Political Practices Commission auditing him. (fppc.ca.gov or 1-866-ASK-FPPC.) He would need to show his records from the past 4 years regarding anything regard campaign income or expenses, and show that there was no co-mingling of funds or use of campaign funds for personal expenses.
If you can�t convince (with all the respect they are due) a desk-bound bureaucrat to do an audit, you aren�t going to get law enforcement to ride Frost like �an Indian spotted pony on the lone prairie� and disrupt his behavior.
[Portion removed by Palo Alto Online staff.]
BTW ---If you really want a bit of Frost history, got to favorite search engine and plug in "Palo Alto Historical", go to the associations site, click "Photographic Collection" and search "Frost".
Who knew in 1992 he was a panhandler?
Posted by anonymous
a resident of another community
on Oct 13, 2009 at 5:39 pm
a resident of another community
on Oct 13, 2009 at 5:39 pm
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Posted by Somebody
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 15, 2009 at 5:43 am
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 15, 2009 at 5:43 am
[Post removed by Palo Alto Online staff.]
Posted by Eliot
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 15, 2009 at 8:20 am
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 15, 2009 at 8:20 am
It is as clear as an Indian spotted pony on the lone prairie that there is something very wrong with Victor Frost. Call me old-fashioned but I still say that a man should work for his bread, not beg for it. It’s called self reliance and self respect.
Are we expected to find Frost somehow nobel because he spends the money he scrounges from others on vodka rather than on crack? Are we to admire him because he claims a telephone pole as his home rather than the Redwood City apartment that he has been given? Is Frost an example of frugality because he drives a 1988 Honda rather than a 2009 BMW?
But Victor Frost is right about one thing. This should be a national story. However Victor is not the hero here and neither are the people who egg him on. The man has no shame.
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