Fullerton Boohoo Sings the Blues
No, it’s not a musical recording. Not exactly. There’s no music, but there’s a lot of singing sad songs and lamentations.
It seems that what’s left of Fullerton’s Old Guard liberals and a scattering of younger adherents to no-fault government are having a real hard time grasping the reality of the Fullerton City Council’s new commonsense majority. These lefties don’t ask a lot of intelligent questions. They believe in empty abstractions and are happy to regurgitate whatever nonsense is spoon fed to them by the likes of Ahmad Zahra. They are appalled by councilpersons Jung, Valencia and Dunlap who have the audacity to question the go along, get along status quo of unaccountable government.
The meeting on Tuesday, March 4th was a total disaster for the so-called “progressives”
FFFF has chronicled some of the defeats the boohoos have suffered at that meeting. We noted that the nomination of the angry, pro-dope Vivian Jaramillo to the Planning Commission went down in flames.
We noted that the idea of exploring charter city status for Fullerton was moved along, despite the all the silly fears of those gathered together by Zahra to oppose the concept.
What we didn’t cover was the introduction of measures to keep people from camping in public places and the protection of public facilities. It’s about time the City decided to end its attraction to vagrants who pose a public safety risk. Those votes were 3-2, of course, with Zahra and Charles siding with the immigrant homeless instead of their homed constituents.
Other issues were agendized, too. There was the topic of a letter opposing an AQMDs ban on gas appliances. Seeing the practical problems of the policy, the majority decided to oppose the measure. The vote was the same 3-2. Since there’s nothing a liberal likes more than following the mandates of completely opaque government agencies, Zahra and Charles were compelled to vote no, citing “public health.”
The following entertaining interchange took place (according to the Fullerton Observer Kennedy Sisters with their usual additions):
Mayor Jung without asking for council comments, said “I will move the item” – but Councilmember Zahra said he had some questions.
Councilmember Zahra made some clarifications, “For those who mentioned this was overreach from the state – this is not from the state. The governing body [SCAQMD] is multiple cities in Southern California, a regional body of members from LA, Orange and San Bernardino counties.” He said the letter merely states that we are supporting this – or not supporting this. So nothing is being imposed here locally whether it [the letter] goes out in the negative or positive. The actual SCQAMD meeting where this will be decided happens on May 2 – so anyone passionate about it can attend that meeting,” he said.
Mayor Jung “Is there a question somewhere in there?”
Councilmember Zahra passing over Jung’s unnecessary interruption went on to say – “The clean air rules are for manufacturer’s not residents and the rules transition gradually. So no one is going to come and take your gas stove. If we are looking at this from a public health view – he said we do have high air pollution in Orange County – those are facts. I think we should stay out of this discussion for now, or – in my opinion – we should support public health. So I am not in favor of sending this letter out.”
First, Mayor Jung was actually following Robert’s Rules of Order, in which motions drive discussion, not the other way around. But Zahra had questions, right? Questions? No, that was a lie. he wanted to make yet another campaign speech, and he did. Jung, quite reasonably, lost his patience with the usual Zahra pontification, and asked where the questions were. The “interruption” was not unnecessary since Zahra had already interrupted a legitimate motion; Jung’s was appropriate response to Zahra’s out-of-order speechifying, which Jung did allow to continue.
Naturally, Zahra lied once again, trying to make the SCAQMD look like a sovereign local agency, when in fact it gets its diktats from Sacramento, via the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the Governor, and the Legislature.
Finally, there was a traffic issue, the topic being the signalization of the Euclid/Valley View intersection. Staff supported this, but only by using some sort of grant money, meaning it’s not a priority; the guesstimate for the cost would swallow up the City’s total traffic signalization budget for a year. As a side note, there’s already a signal at the Hiltscher Trail crossing – just a few hundred feet to the north.
Zahra and Charles really wanted to throw half a mil at the problem and move on.
However, in the end the council chose to turn the item back to the Traffic and Circulation Commission for more review and more public outreach. For some reason Zahra pushed for “closure” on this issue, probably just out of spite, and to make the council majority look bad in front of the audience. But since they had no dopey, liberal ideal that could be used to manipulate anybody Zahra and Charles went along with sending the thing back to the TCC.
Those Kennedy Girls sure like to add snide little commentaries to their “reporting.”
“snide little commentaries”
Compared to what? FFFFFFFFFS
Zahra and Charles just seem to be lacking in common sense. They both to talk nonstop but it’s just buzz words and abstractions. When it comes to practicality they’re completely useless.
I find it ironic that the council is motivated to get homeless people off the sidewalks (and rightfully so), but is only too happy to look the other way when it’s a restaurant brazenly that squats on the northeast corner of Harbor and Chapman.
Gordon, maybe you should know more about the sordid history of the quid pro quo relationship between the prior restaurant owners and the retired Planning Dept Director Paul Dudley. Maybe then you will realize that the then and current City Attorney Jones has his own interest at stake should the truth ever get presented to the current council.
That’s correct. In 2002 Dudley was the bad actor in this, letting the Florentine Mob turn outdoor dining into a permanent structure and then defending his fuck-up. Incompetence? Corruption? Both?
There’s a reason for the symbiosis between people like Dudley and people like Jan Flory.
You are correct in tagging Jones. He was there to bless the original fuck-up and he was there to oversee the useless contract with Marovic. In the middle he condoned Joe Florentine’s falsification of documents and was engaging in real estate transactions a few hundred feet away.
There is no AQMD ban on gas appliances any time soon. It’s a phase-out. A ban would be, no one can buy them, no one can install them. What’s happening now applies to new construction. Eventually you won’t be able to buy new gas appliances in California. But AFAIK no one will be forced to upgrade.
Induction stoves are an excellent technology. Safer, better internal air quality due to no gas pollution leaking in your home, and lower carbon footprint. Boils water almost instantly. And yes we have solar so I’m burning very little natural gas indirectly.
Are you speaking English? You lost me at AQMD.
It’s OK, I wasn’t talking to you.
Boo meet hoo.
Baghdad Bob is back
Yet you have enough gas to spew on blogs.
You are an insufferable moron, Hogerhuis.
“But AFAIK no one will be forced to upgrade”
From Feb 2025 edition of the proposed Rule 1111
Any Residential Fan-Type Central Furnace prior to the applicable Table 2 compliance date, except for Mobile Home Furnaces for Existing Buildings . . .
From the Table 2: Existing January 1, 2029
Date is the same for Rule 1121. Once the existing appliance breaks and if a repair isn’t viable, residents are FORCED to upgrade because SALES AND INSTALLATIONS ARE BANNED. There’s no fucking phase out you dipshit.
This is the same shit you do over and over. You run your mouth, YOU’RE WRONG, you say nothing about it, then when you see someone else make a claim, you demand insane amount of information and dismiss it out of hand.
You pulled the same shit last week when you said Fullerton could just elect a strong mayor or adopt RCV WITHOUT a charter, which isn’t possible.
Go spend more time with your kids and less time permanently embarrassing their last name on the internet.
That’s because he’s an angry elf/manatee.
It gets worse….If you have to pull a permit to perform some other improvement on your home or business they want any existing gas appliances to be replaced with electric units before a permit for your planned improvements will be issued.
Fullerton Joint High School District Board of Trustees Lauren Klatzer lives in one of the ten homes who wanted the traffic signal. Spend half a million dollars for ten homes. That would have been OKed in Fullerton Past. Thank you three councilmembers for voting no. Klatzer also opposed charter city because of course she did. She is a boohoo.
Lauren Klatsker, a Fullerton Joint Union High School District Trustee, said though she was a very engaged resident she was just hearing about the proposed change now and was worried about all the residents who were not as engaged not hearing about this at all. She pointed out that becoming a charter city required a vote of the public and questioned council’s lack of transparency and its responsibility to educate residents on the consequences of changing to a charter system or remaining a general law city. “The public needs to be aware…and council members have an obligation to engage the public who put them in these chairs – and to the democratic processes that we teach our children – so they can make informed decisions about their city,” she said.
She was washing hands. Unfortunately the wrong hands.
Hi Lauren, I understand your concern about residents being unaware of the proposed change. However, the city council’s agenda is routinely posted on the Thursday or Friday prior to every city council meeting. As an engaged community member, I would expect you to be familiar with this process. Out of curiosity, how many days’ notice does FJUHSD provide to residents for their upcoming agenda items?
Just another educrat-loving boohoo rustled up by Zahra. However I have to wonder if her public opposition to the charter study wasn’t based on a deal for a half-mil signal near her house.
That would explain showing up for the charter issue for no discernable reason.
“She is a boohoo.”
Well, duh!
I want to thank me…for leaving Syria where my father was in bed with Assad and gave me a life of privilege. I want to thank myself…for leaving Syria where there voting matters so much, it reminded me to appoint Jan Flory after lying to the public I would support a special election. I want to thank I…for giving false hope to Mexican moms who now believe I am their voice even though I’m not Mexican and don’t speak Spanish and wasn’t raised in the neighborhood. I want to thank me, myself and I for fooling them all. God bless the U S of A!
I overcame bullying from a local developer and his cronies, who are homophobic, even though I was married to a white woman in Arkansas before I was ever “married” to a Latino dude. I went high when Islamophobic men on my council tried to keep me down even though I’ve been photographed drinking wine and eating during Ramadan. Oh, and I would be thrown out off a roof or stoned in my country for being gay. I did so much to change Fullerton when as far as anyone can credit, I’ve plagiarized an article in a local paper blog from a water district employee, stormed out of council meetings when I lost a Mayor Pro Tem vote, thrown a temper tantrum when I lost another Mayor Pro Tem vote, and cried on que and camera when I lost yet another Mayor Pro Tem vote. Yet I am the holy redeemer for the dumb, the uninformed, and the liberal elite. Happy Easter…oh, wait…I’m supposed to be Muslim.
“Yet I am the holy redeemer for the dumb, the uninformed, and the liberal elite.”
Jesus H. Zahra. Messiah!
I will not be outdone! I’m doctor Shana Charles, professor of some liberal amateur art, self proclaimed urban dictionary planner, five or six degrees of Kevin Bacon University, and someone whose self righteousness is almost as high as my self confidence is low. And I want to thank all the people…the barely over 2000 people who voted for me. That’s a mandate! I would know because I’m a public health professor who wanted elementary school students at home for 2 years during COVID because that’s healthy. I am Mayor Pro Tem, which means I am a pro-fessional feel gooder.
That Anjali Tapadila certainly is a self-righteous, angry little elf. In 40 years, if she really applies herself, she can be another Karen (Lloreda).
Anjali would have to run for something other than a community know it all that no one in the community asked your stupid opinion lady lady. Then like Karen, she would need to be recalled and move out of Fullerton to South Pasadena in shame. Feeling important is important. Ask Ahmad.
Don’t forget the bus driver representative, who is also living at a homeless shelter because he didn’t pay rent for over a year. Or the genius who thinks car dealerships solve budget issues who wears a mask like he’s Antifa. Ask Buena Park if it solves their fiscal hole Einstein. ZJ sounds like a gay porn actor’s nickname homie.
You know what doesn’t solve financial problems? Cops shooting civilians.