Never Got Our Day In Court
Now that the Governor’s decision to put the kibosh on Redevelopment in California has been upheld by the State Supreme Court, our lawsuit to stop the illegal expansion of Fullerton’s Redevelopment project area is becoming something of a moot point.
Too bad, because we really wanted the City to try to defend its ridiculous findings of blight in front of a judge.
Well, we’re not going to forget that the bogus attempt was made, and made hard by Fullerton’s Redevelopment junkies – Bankhead, Jones and McKinley. These guys are absolutely hooked on government creating dimwitted master plans, buying into stupid boondoggles and handing out taxpayer subsidies and freebies to their pals and campaign contributors.
In the coming months we will be sure to remind Fullerton citizens of the City’s history of expensive Redevelopment failures and the part played in these disasters by our “esteemed” City Council.
Ouch.
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Off to bigger and better things Tony..
Can you sue the City to recover legal fees?
Are you some sort of pedophile Tony?
WHY the HELL would you post such a disgusting picture of a child?
Watch it Mr. FPD GED. You’re projecting.
I have to agree with the OP to a certain extent. It is a creepy photo to say the least.
Redevelopment parasites are creepy.
And profiling, which you are no good at, GED pig.
Rent a sense of humor and before you start with the libelous gossip, I’d be careful-you wooley mammoth lover
Coffman is that you?
The kid has a really cute butt I like how it’s just hanging there looks so innocent I am not ashamed to say that
No shame at all, Mr. Rincon.
Don’t you dare compare me to that rapist scumbag. I have supported the recall, gathered signatures and attended the rallies in front of the Police station.
I have given my all so I take great offense to be compared to the likes of garbage and filth like Rincon who should be sitting in prison for a few decades.
What have you done other than post snarky little comments?
Yeah, sure. I smell bacon.
Squeal for me little piggy! Squeal!
Harold J. AKA Col Klink-Save the dramatics.
Oh and just a bit of trivia, I noticed you zoomed in and posted only about the butt of that little boy pictured. how come?
Merijoe he has a flawless cute little butt. nothing is wrong with saying that. It is an open forum.
THen why get so hostile with my remark, comparing you with Rincon? Huh?
I am still waiting Wrong Guy or are you going to continue posting snarky comments about me under different aliases like a man child?
I commend you on all your efforts with the recall and the rallies you attended, as have I.
Your entire comment was absurd, IMO, especially talking about a little kids cute butt. You were out of order! Sorry if truth hurts.
I AGREE, THAT SHIT IS DISGUSTING TAKE IT DOWN!!!! WTF
You really know how to add to a conversation, I think we’re past that SU-and what’s with the all cap thing? You aren’t yelling at anyone are you?
pedo
My my that little fella has me worn out. I do believe I have what you would call a hand cramp.
You don’t think the RDAs or CRA or affected cities are going to fight? Hold off on your lawyers.
I believe the Great Park took a big hit, and those assholes have plenty of cash.
Durfee, the Great OC Park needed to take a hit.. I’ve been there and can say that I’m not impressed..
Since I’ve been in OC for 5 years the Great OC Park project was all I heard about-I’ve seen it, it still looks like dead, burnt out vacant lot to me to this day, and maybe on purpose?
It’s been posted about so much on the community websites and in local newspapers.
I say, Dog and Pony to show-uhhhhh, effort -Im going to say to keep the funds pouring in.
No one is. But it’s Larry Agran’s baby and he’s the slimiest politician in Orange County.
The GP as the City of Irvine envisions it will never be built, but it succeeds because it’s not an airport.
To No. 22 Durfee.
You are absolutely right the RDA’s will fight..
I’m not really sure it’s moot…. Those Brontosauras’s under the direction of that genius city attorney, may go forward anyway, just like they ran all over prop 218 and continued with the water tax for 15 years.
They have an entitlement problem and they feel they can give the finger to anyone and do what they want.
That’s because they are playing with OUR money. If it was coming out of their own pockets they’d be much more careful following the law/
True. They won’t be funded anymore, but they have plenty of Community Chest to draw from don’t they? and I can see them being greedy as they see $$ (instead of donuts and pizza) dancing in their heads at the end of the project.
Hey merijoe…Nothing like the clowns taking away our right to vote.. Just like Congress.. Slip it in at the back of another bill they know will pass.. Sadly, this happens all too much.. Hurry everyone, turn on your TV’s, the new season of American Idol is coming on..
As in the words of Immortal Technique
“It is like MK-ULTRA, controlling your brain
Suggestive thinking, causing your perspective to change
They want to rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto
The 4th branch of the government, want us to settle
A bandana full of glittering, generality
Fighting for freedom & fighting terror, but what´s reality?
Read about the history of the place that we live in
And stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children
The 4th branch of the government AKA the media
Seems to now have a retirement plan for ex-military officials
As if their opinion was at all unbiased
A machine shouldn´t speak for men
So shut the f*ck up you mindless drone!
And you know it is serious
When these same media outfits are spending millions of dollars on a PR campaign
To try to convince you they are fair & balanced
When they are some of the most ignorant, & racist people
Giving that type of mentality a safe haven
We act like we share in the spoils of war that they do
We die in wars, we do not get the contracts to make money off em afterwards!
We do not get weapons contracts, nigga!
We do not get cheap labor for our companies,
We´re cheap labor,
Turn off the news & read,
Read… read… read…”
Nope it’s over unless they get the Leg. to re-open the door. But property tax skimming isn’t an option anymore. So what else is there. No more debt without a vote.
Now that redevelopment in Fullerton is dead can we return to the good ‘ol days when the Bushalas were Fullerton’s most notorious slum lords? I want to see Bushala-owned flop houses packed to the rafters with poor, exploited immigrants. Oh, and it wouldn’t be a Bushala property without an enormous backlog of building and safety and code enforcement violations too! Just keeping it real up in the battlefield!
Anonymous, go ahead and hide behind it.. We all know you are looking in the mirror every time you comment on this blog..
Good Lord, Anonymous and his/her pack of gossiping hens are indeed, playing those movies in their minds again and spewing out the critiques.
Laughable and hateful at the same time. Become a standup.
Reality Is!
Figures.
Good ol’ Anonymous, trying to keep it real, hiding behind that overused moniker.
Such guts you have, Wonder Boy!
Reality Is, McKinley sucks!
Well, here you go Harold J.
This was your comment earlier: The kid has a really cute butt I like how it’s just hanging there looks so innocent I am not ashamed to say that.
THAT, my friend was an extremely perverted, pedophilic-like remark and I called you on it.
Get over it “sicko”! Better yet, get over yourself!
Well Harold J., I’m waiting…
Off topic: So when did they close the skatepark in Independence Park? I just went over there with the boys and it’s all fenced off. 🙁
This was on the City of Fullerton web-site:
Skate Park is Temporarily Closed
As of March 3, the Skate Park at Independence Park is temporarily closed for potential repairs, to address several safety concerns, and for consideration of future plans for the facility. These items include graffiti removal, potential fencing replacements, and resolution of numerous liability and other insurance issues related to activities at the facility. Skate Park will be closed until further notice, and options will be presented to the City Parks and Recreation Commission in the next several months. No specific date for that meeting has been scheduled.
Citizens wishing to be notified of when the Skate Park item will be brought to the Parks and Recreation Commission are asked to contact the Fullerton Parks and Recreation Department at (714) 738-6575 or at parks@ci.fullerton.ca.us
Thanks. From the looks of it they are not doing anything; there’s graffiti everywhere. Sucks, I wanted to go skating with my kids, and they aren’t good enough to justify the Vans park. I will jot that phone number down and bust ’em up tomorrow. Thanks again!
Note that the skateboard park has been closed “temporarily” since March of 2010, which is nearing two years now. When I inquired as to why with the city coucil, I was told that many other parks on the southwestside of Fullerton have been padlocked rather than patrolled by Fullerton police officers.
This was the impetus of the video that was taken at the KT protest, was to show our City manager Joe Felz, that we have the resources of five patrol cars, and eight police officers, to issue a solitary ticket to a motorists honking in support of a civic and civil protest, and yet we don’t have enough officers to patrol our parks so my children can play in them???
Besides all of that, if you look at the city website, you’ll see that the southwest areas of Fullerton which have the greatest density of children, also have the fewest amount of park acreage. The majority of parks in Fullerton are on the north side of town, and I’ve yet to see one of them padlocked or inaccessable.
It’s this sort of mis-management, and upside down thinking throughout the city agencies, that makes me want to recall all of these guys that much quicker.
It’s always the children that pay the price. Instead of the FPD putting all there efforts into DTF, they should be patrolling the parks in west Fullerton. So the small ones can play.
VW-this skatepark is open today 11-9 http://www.etniesskatepark.com/
and its a nice one, if you dont mind driving out to Lake Forest
For the record, while I like the copy in this post, I do not like the accompanying photo. Clearly it is only intended as a joke to demonstrate a failed effort, but I believe the image may be unnecessarily offensive to at least a few and there are plenty of other available images to demonstrate the same message. But, it’s an open-format blog and we’re not going to agree on these things all of the time.
I liked the image and the posted article together
The comments for the admin to take down the picture reminds me of our government.. This is the admins blog.. Let it rest or leave…
I agree. Admin, let’s take it down please.
I meant that I agree with Chris Thompson
I also think that it should be taken down. There are thousands of other pictures out there to choose from but this one makes us look bad.
The photo in the post makes my skin crawl (its the whole positioning that just bothers the hell out of me).
OMG, no it does not make anyone look bad.
Look at the bottom too.
http://www.motifake.com/facebookview.php?id=146145
HAHA
Dr. Herbert Jones (No. 21now) comment in reference to the picture is completely obscene… It makes me agree with taking the picture down.
an obscene reference can be made out of anything. pull yourself together.
Thank you. Also, pull your mind out of the gutter.
Why is this so offensivel to some?
My mind isn’t in the gutter. A previous comment thread above mentioned the hint of pedophilia and I had an internal “Ouch / Ewww” moment. It made me look at the picture in a different perspective combined with some other comments and opinions. I really can see both sides to wanting to take it down vs. keeping it for the humor in it.
Too much thought to a dang picture. Its a picture meant to be humorous.
The story posted is the real issue.
And good old coach Sandusky was only teaching boys how to properly shower. 🙂
And taking photos of nude children is “art” …officer. 🙂
…riiight *wink*
Irritating people want everyone to be irritated, distractive, disinformative, it was funny in a sad frightening way, dont feed the BUTTS. Move on.
I agree. Look at how many people get outraged over a guy touching some chick’s boobs …its really not a big deal when you think about it.
It’s only flesh and skin. Get over it and move on.
amazing how the pea-brained can get distracted by one FPD troll.
Amazing how the anonymous can sling out unnecessary insults at a commenter who is respectfully expressing their opinion. Several people have expressed that they would want to take the picture down. I just happen to agree with them. No need to “pull myself together.” I also don’t think it’s out of line for people to have the other opinion. Slinging insults just makes you look bad anonymous. Perhaps you’re a troll!
http://www.motifake.com/facebookview.php?id=132190
I just laughed out loud at that one!
The problem with this photo… it may be innocent enouph if it was your kid and this was an funny accident and the picture was in your family album .However, it is not known if this child was posed in this way to make this poster. That could be construed as abusive in more than one way. In this case the child would be abused to be photographed this way and probably would be an unwilling participant that not like the idea that this would be used for the general public lauphs or whatever.
excuse the link it was from another post.
HORRAY FOR FREE SPEECH, BUT I DONT WANNA SEE NO LITTLE KID IN HIS TIGHTIE WHITE’ES. BUT HEY IF YOUR INTO THAT KINDA STUFF, HOPE THE BIG BAD GOV. TAKES YOUR COMPUTER!!!!
SICK FUCKS
Coppertone tanning lotion for years had a logo with a little dog pulling down the pants and exposing a little girls butt………
Worked for them and what’s wrong with this little guys pants being caught on the fence?
“Evil is the violation of, or intent to violate, some moral code. Evil is usually seen as the dualistic opposite of good. Definitions of evil vary, as does the analysis of its root motives and causes, however evil is commonly associated with conscious and deliberate wrongdoing, discrimination designed to harm others, humiliation of people designed to diminish their psychological well-being and dignity, destructiveness, and acts of unnecessary or indiscriminate violence.” -Wikipedia
What concerns me is how unintelligent they portray themselves to be. Personally I wouldnt mess with the Feds, State authorities, News media, or the public.
I don’t consider myself a prude on any level, but I completely agree with Chris, so many other options could have been used. And yes, I have a sense of humor…much more twisted than than norm, IMO. I am not offended, but I do think that the message gets lost and it just isn’t that funny.
I am glad there doesn’t need to be a day in court and the greedy redev days are coming to a close.
And Re: the Great Park, itneeds to be renamed “the Not so Great Park”. Talk about a boondoggle.
Admins gonna do what theyre gonna do.
Irritating people want everyone to be irritated, distractive, disinformative, it was funny in a sad frightening way, dont feed the BUTTS. Move on.
SUCCESS!!
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http://www.motifake.com/culos-landscaping-bush-butt-culos-wytch-demotivational-posters-139818.html
Now, that is funny!!!!!!
I’ve been really hesitant to ask this question (or these questions) for fear of nasty reprisals but I genuinely interested in what is the worst aspect of redevelopment in Fullerton.
Architecture is my career and I wonder often as I read the blogs on this site if it’s the way Fullerton officials carried out their redevelopment program that is so upsetting, or if redevelopment in and of itself is a failure period.
If the city hired Architecture firms that were more responsive to citizens needs, and gave the people of Fullerton better designs at a reasonable cost would redevelopment in Fullerton have been better?
They are making the city very very Bankrupt, and not just financially. They are lining many peoples pockets.
What really CONCERNS me is the way, Labor Unions, Far Left, Government Representatives, European style Socialists, and a President thats left of Hugo Chavez, Is how they SO SO WILLINGLY DESTROY. The US Steel Industry for example, they complied and are still dying. Greece a Country with out of control debt and turmoil. The city of Bell, Fullerton and California. Numerous buisnesses and industries. Fullerton use to have the biggest corporation in the world.
The biggest threat to the USAs national security is the national debt, according to the Administrations Secretary of Defense.
The trouble they create really really, hurts the poor and unfortunate, the ones they profess to be the champion for.
“The problem with Liberals and Socialists is that the eventually run out of other peoples money.”
I like Liberal ideas, BUT THEY GOTTA WORK!!!! not line a few peoples pockets.
With so many football fields here in Fullerton, we should host a bowl game. We could call it “Fulleron Recall Bowl”.
The Jurassic Bowl
Lol. Or in other words a meeting of the Fullerton City Council.
I like your name better…..But I guess we only play Brit football on our fields….since we don’t have a college team to play american football. So sad…..
The jersey has two tyrannosaurus’s battling
Make that 3 battling tyrannosaurus’s
CT-I placed this yesterday on another post,at the risk of sounding obnoxious – it bears repeating as it fits your question, I think,
so forgive me for repeating.
From a couple days ago LA Times – love this quote (kinda says it all):
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chairman Zev Yaroslavsky said redevelopment over the years
“evolved into a honey pot that was tapped to underwrite billions of dollars worth of commercial and other for-profit projects.”
The projects “had nothing to do with reversing blight, but everything to do with subsidizing private real estate ventures that otherwise made no economic sense,” Yaroslavsky said.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/29/local/la-me-redevelopment-20111230
That makes a lot of sense to me. In your opinion do you think there could be a way to rework it into a local type of “spot” redevelopment with more community over sight (including financial oversight) or do you think redevelopment could never work. I also read that redevelopment funds somehow got funneled into police unions and bloated pensions. Is that correct or am I confused?
In my humble opinion, in its day, the redevelopment agency was probably meant for good, but now, years later, its a legalized criminal way to extort and steal money-the only way redevelopment could ever work, is if tax dollars were capped at a certain amt (a small amt too) and the rest was done by private donors without strings attached, maybe a tax cut.
Since government and $$=greed, and tax dollars =lotto to them, yaa, I would guess that unions and pensions among other depts in government, are parttaking in the money grab. sure
Its funny when you start turning on your own…always happens.
I personally enjoy it more when our amiga Merijoe gives YOU a hard time : )… and I think that that’s half of the attraction for us all on this blog.
All kidding aside, I hope that you and your family had a really nice Christmas, and that you have a very safe and prosperous New Years.
LOL ol’ admin guy already deleted my simple little post that you replied too. So sad. Booo LOL
You sure seem to have a lot of trouble with the simple technology of this blog. No one else seems to be having trouble posting comments. 🙂
The California Supreme Court finally saw municipal power grabs of private property and tax dollars as illegal and made cities’ redevelopment agencies history.
But for those who wax nostalgic for the good old days of Fullerton’s redevelopment agency, they may warm their hearts and hands at the redevelopment agency’s legacy to us, “Heritage Walk”, an affordable housing development located near Richman Park in Fullerton.
In 2010 the Fullerton Redevelopment Agency agreed to pay the private developer, the Olson Company, to build thirty-four houses so persons with moderate to low incomes could afford to buy these houses. This development is called “Heritage Walk”.
Now, The Kennedy Commission, named after Ralph Kennedy, the father of Orange County Human Relations Commission CEO Rusty Kennedy, defines moderate to low-income as less than eighty percent of Orange County’s median income. Orange County’s median income in 2009 was approximately $71,000 a year. Only families earning less than $56,000 a year would qualify to buy Heritage Walk houses.
However, Heritage Walk housing development allows persons with annual incomes greater than a $100,000 to buy their low-income affordable houses.
The Kennedy Commission asserts affordable housing for low to moderate income earners is essential because most of these low-income earners can’t afford to pay the average Orange County $1,594 a month rent for housing.
Heritage Walk says its potential buyers may be expected to pay from $2,762 to $2,984 a month for the privilege of living in “affordable” housing built with our tax dollars.
Who will miss the use of tax dollars to fund private construction of affordable housing? Those who earn between $72,000 to $111,000 a year or those who will no longer be allowed to use public monies for private construction ventures?
But this is conjecture to be pondered by the good people of Fullerton.
Admin wrote: “…our lawsuit to stop the illegal expansion of Fullerton’s Redevelopment project area is becoming something of a moot point.”
One thing I’ve noticed, wait just a little while and everything important on FFF becomes a moot point.
Put this stick in your EyeNeverSayNo;
FFFF’s lawsuit:
Stopped an illegal expansion of redevelopment into East and West Fullerton
Stopped government expansion
Stopped property tax increment theft
Stopped specific plan after specific plan
Stopped RDRC
…
Stopped inside developer sweet heart deals
You mean like your assine comments? right?
No, like that inflammatory FFF stuff all last summer and fall about the “do-nothing DA” and the supposed massive cover-up in the murder by Fullerton police of Kelly Thomas.
What did it end up that the “do-nothing” DA was actually doing all that time? It turned out his office was conducting a thorough and complete investigation and gathering all the facts before bringing all but unprecedented MURDER CHARGES against the uniformed officer most responsible for the Thomas’ violent death.
In a single fell swoop, one dramatic press conference by T-Rack, all of FFF’s copious amount of verbiage on the Thomas matter was rendered moot.
And now recent history repeats itself. With a single stroke of Gov. Brown’s pen, all of FFF’s self-important but ultimately irrelevant anti-redevelopment rantings were also rendered moot.
Rather amusing actually. lol
He did nothing. He filed a couple of BS charges that will be dismissed because the case he presented has so many holes.
The whole intent was to appease the public NOW and law enforcement LATER. Its a win/win situation for him.
Thanks to the continued pressure by groups like FFFF and others the DA did something it never has done-it would have been “moot” if there was no angry outcry by “FFFF” and others who care.
(and let me put on my big surprise face that you actually know what moot means)
Dont forget the Feds crawling all up there.
State too.
Tony was on CNN, wait till the mainstream media rolls along.
I thought the State (AG) declined to get involved.
You mean after the recall?
Damn right. Without FFFF that expansion would have been in place 2 years ago with bond sales an corporate welfare galore!
Stalling that until the Leg delivered the death blow was a monumental victory.
In fact I guess I do a post on that, later!
How about who won the court of public opinion.
The “court of public opinion?” In the Thomas matter? Oh please.
If you were to poll a thousand random Orange County-ians, what do you think the percentage would be that have even heard of FFF? One percent? Two?
Well they sure have heard of Kelly Thomas and the murder in fulleron, everywhere in the world, guess where that leads people to ? derrrrrrrrrr
You are seriously delusional in your self-importance if you think a significant number of people “everywhere in the world” heard about Kelly Thomas and found the story compelling enough to get on the Web and google their way to FFF.
The fact is Ron Thomas is most responsible for whatever pressure the DA felt leading up to his filing of charges, not Tony Bushala, and the length of the wait for the investigation to be completed was normal and similar to other cases, so there really isn’t any evidence that the DA needed to be pressured anyway, except in the tin-foil clad heads of the average FFF-er.
FFFF pressured Ron Thomas to release the picture, and did.
Camera “Most powerful weapon known to man!”
The truth hurts, and listen Eye, out of curiousity, are you always this stupid or are you just making a special effort today?
“ASS SUMPTION”
Its a city blog, mentioned on the local media, and I did see Tony on C.N.N., wait till the mainstream media rolls along.
FFFF Trolls below
http://www.motifake.com/79371
You keep suggesting that CNN isnt “mainstream” …why?
It is but it is not “The mainstream media”
difference being many most or all of said.
“Surrender from the Dark Side”
Timely surrender on the high seas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Wynn
“Peace is a state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility, peace also suggests the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, prosperity in matters of social or economic welfare, the establishment of equality, and a working political order that serves the true interests of all. In international relations, peacetime is not only the absence of war or conflict, but also the presence of cultural and economic understanding and unity.”
-Wikipedia
“serves the true interest of all” WOW SOMEDAY in Fullerton.
The dark irony of hostility in the world is it’s commonly in the name of religion.
pontificate to rant rave and otherwise try to convince someone of your own point without caring if they are listening or not.
“Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities.”
-rough transcription of Winston Churchill
How did the topic of religion even enter into this?
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There’s nothing wrong with the photo, just the evil doers intention behind the evil, snarky comments about said photo.