Fullerton Publication Exclusion Confirmed
Last night the Fullerton City Council voted down a desperate attempt by “Drs.” Charles and Zahra to rescind a recently approved policy that excludes non-government publications on City premises – except for a spot in the Library.
As FFFF noted the other day the whole thing was a ginned-up reason to force another vote and to mobilize Fullerton Boohoo. The transparent pretext of “new information” fooled nobody, since it was obviously just cover for Shameless Charles to get right with her constituency and at the same time to subject the council majority to another round of uninformed harangues by Zahra’s mindless minions.
Somehow a content neutral policy of excluding news outlets from the City Hall lobby was construed as an all-out assault on the free press and freedom of speech, yadda yadda. The Fullerton Observers were outraged, of course.
At the end, the inevitable wind-up speeches were completely predictable. Charles went into a long and winding circumlocution meant to separate her from her previous voice in support of the policy.
Zahra, as usual, outdid himself in his insufferable, twattish way, nattering about freedom and admonishing staff and the City Attorney that they are paid by all Fullerton, not just the council majority, and that being legal doesn’t make something right. The irony of this bullshit was lost on Fullerton Boohoo, but not on me. This is the same little miscreant who voted time and time again to pursue a lawsuit by the City against FFFF, Joshua Ferguson, and David Curlee. Zahra’s lawsuit against FFFF was an attempt to punish people expressing a First Amendment protected right. The City lost that lawsuit, costing the people of Fullerton, the folks Zahra pretends to care so much about, upwards of a million dollars. That’s a lot of asphalt repair for your district, “Dr.” Zahra.
Zahra blamed FFFF for being behind an intricate plot to get the Observer out of City Hall, a compliment really, although whether deserved remains to be seen. The new paper FFFF publication, the Fullerton Tribune (I’ve seen the gallery proof), can’t be dispensed there, either.
The vote to rescind the policy failed 2-3 with Valencia, Jung, and Dunlap voting no.
At the end of the interminable yakking, Jung moved to “table” the issue, a parliamentary tactic of using a positive majority vote that makes it impossible for Charles and Zahra to resurrect the thing through some fabricated “new information” in two weeks or beyond. Hopefully, on future votes Jung will remember to do this the first time around, or better yet, make it clear that 2 council people can only agendize new items, not something they lost.
The motion to table passed 3-2, Charles and Zahra dissenting, evidence that still want to bring it up again.
Again, I was going to go last night, and then again I asked myself why?
I was going to get up and bash the Observer, but also why?
As soon as that old bat kicks the bucket, that thing is going away. No way little sister sticks around. It’s just a matter of time. No one actually reads any of it besides a handful of lost people. So what’s the point?
Amen!
I saw on live feed that Mommy Kennedy spoke. Didn’t see her useless offspring on camera advocating for Fullerton Fake News. Buffet hours conflict with the meeting?
Having to table something is a dumbass way to get rid of it. There were 3 votes to establish the policy. Done.
The policy was passed. This was revisiting it. So table is right thing to do.
Weird how delighted you all are not to have a berth at City Hall. It’s almost as if you never actually wanted one.
Haha. You lost. Again. Getting sick of all the losing?
Hoggerbottom has never won anything except some participation trophy for kiddie soccer.
Was the squishy and ever useless Eric Leavitt admonished at all for allowing this smoking turd to be placed on the agenda in the first place? Or does his incessant incompetence result in yet another pass from a weak sauce city council?
It’s a pass. No one has the honesty and a bit of courage to challenge Levitt. Except, of course Zahra, who did last night essentially accused staff of pandering to the majority. It’s not true but at least he called them on not looking out for the welfare of everybody.
Zahra did what exactly? He faked concern. Pandering to the majority? The majority was elected by their respective communities to represent them. So if there is a majority, the staff would be morons not to do as they direct.
“…being legal doesn’t make something right.”
Zahra: Staying in the country via marriage fraud is wrong AND illegal.
Same goes for hitting a woman and destroying a cell phone.
Oh, wait, that’s illegal and wrong.
Filing a false police report is wrong. And illegal.
Zahra lecturing anyone on right and wrong is amusing. What would the liar and fraud know about right?
The fake news Kennedy paper has 3 things on Dunlap, Jung, and Valencia in a day. They are working overtime.
I just went through 10 pages on their site. Of the “local news” they so proclaim to promote there, I’d say 80% was opinion, or stories laced with, or pretending to be something other than opinion, but all are actually opinion. 10% – 15% Kids, “Read Early”, Obituary or news not related to Fullerton whatsoever. IE war in Gaza, Don’t eat shellfish…..etc. and really only 5ish percent actual things that I would consider useful to someone who lives in Fullerton. More often than not, this 5% is still laced with slanted writing and one-sided thoughts that would lead most unknowing readers astray.
It’s basically just useless fire starter
If you remove the opinion based grievance stories and the auto feeds there’s not much left. Except hearing aid and mortuary ads and obituaries laudatory stuff written by family members.
No one with any sense would miss it.