Santa Fe Depot Lease Amended. Fullerton BooHoo Faux Outraged
Last night the Fullerton City Council voted 3-2 to amend the lease at the historic train station between the City and Bushala Brother, Inc. (BBI). Jung, Dunlap, and Valencia voted yes. Charles and Zahra no. The later tried to obfuscate and stall, but to no avail.
The Fullerton Observer and its brand new “writers” – political flacks Sweet Young Elijah Manassero and Steve Sherry tried their gosh darndest to mobilize a wave Observer troops to oppose the deal. In the end only a small ripple washed up on the sand to repeat the bullshit talking points they had been fed by Zahra and the Kennedy Sisters.
Comically, some of the self-appointed experts on commercial real estate were the near-homeless council regulars.
Mayor Jung did a good job upfront of clarifying some of the misinformation being peddled, to Zahra’s obvious annoyance.
Staff did an okay good job defending their negotiations against the disingenuous questioning of Ahmad Zahra who kept trying to compare the depot with completely different agreements on completely different properties. Zahra had been challenged for his (in)ability to be impartial and then showed to everybody that he was not impartial at all.
Sheena Charles wanted to talk to the Bushalas about the fact that no restaurant had ever appeared on the loading dock; she made the mistake of engaging George Bushala, Jr. in a conversation that ended in a comical overtalk exchange that left this viewer gasping for air.
According to Bushala, City staff had been causing problems for decades and had been using delaying tactics for years; and of course there was the obvious problem of the piece of loading dock not in the original lease is physically connected to the Bushala portion of the dock – a deterrent to development.
Dr. Sheena went to great lengths to act out her pretend astonishment. She bemoaned the lack of a “Trevor’s at the Tracks” like they have in San Juan Capistrano (I was immediately reminded of the idiot lefties who periodically demand the City bring a Trader Joe’s into town). She also wanted to know why the wealthy Bushalas (she is just a poor renter, she reminded everybody) wouldn’t give back a piece of gross sales as a sort of philanthropic gesture, I guess.
Mr. Bushala casually suggested her ignorance and confusion demonstrated: “that’s why you do what you do, and I do what I do.”
In the end Zahra pulled his usual “I have questions” that are nothing other than self-righteous speechifying – even interrupting Jung as the latter made a motion to approve the item. After a substitute motion by Sheena and Zahra to keep yakking it up failed, the original motion was approved and the deal was done.
Charles made a fool of herself last night. I have no idea why either Bushala talked to her.
Sheena thought George was Tony’s Lawyer.
Help! I am being abused by my children! They’ve stolen my money and won’t even allow me to have a cell phone. Please call Adult Protective Services!
First of all, let me commend Zahra for last night’s performance. Truly riveting stuff. If this city council gig doesn’t work out, there’s always a future in one-woman theater. I laughed, I cried, I checked my watch…several times.
Which brings me to my point: the time limit. Remember that? I think it’s time we lock that in.
While we’re on the topic of wasted time, enter Shana Charles, whose performance could only be described as “supporting cast in a production no one asked for.” She spent the evening co-signing Zahra’s every breath like a hype person who forgot she had a voice of her own. And when she did speak? We all wished she hadn’t. It added nothing and clarified less.
We all appreciate passion and thorough discourse. But when a single comment rivals the runtime of a Scorsese film…we might be overachieving.
So in the spirit of efficiency, and to spare us all from future dramatic trilogies, I respectfully ask that we seek to apply time limits for council comments. We can all still make our points, just…a little faster.
Thank you. I yield the rest of my nonexistent time.
Oscar, Oscar!
My son Elijah has been weeping since last night.
Over the past month he spent 788 hours on all things Bushala. He is now realizing he needs to take time off to eat and bathe himself. And sleep too, don’t forget about sleep.
Can he take care of me as well? I am sick of taking care of myself.
You think too highly of your son.
he were smart, he would’ve realized that by now, but that’s a if.
We all know the answer to that and deep down, you must also know this to be true.
You think too highly of your son.
If he were smart, he would’ve realized that by now, but that’s a big if.
We all know that answer and deep down, you must also know it to be true.
For all sweet baby Elijah’s get people in the seats efforts, hardly anybody showed up.
The opposition was led by the dumpy bearded guy, his wife, and the ever-present Curtis Gamble. Exemplars of commercial real estate expertise.
Oh, yeah, and that clown in the mask who is always bitching about kids not having sidewalks to get to school.
Charles and Zahra are the perfect example of what happens when dumbass ideologues make decisions.
Losing gets old and the observer crew, Karen Karen Lloreda, Saskia Kennedy, Elijah Manassero, steve sherry, are all back in their holes. Night night dummies.
I believe her name is Skasia.
Where is all the cocky talkback in the comment section here from the boohoos? Crickets…you have to hate losing more than you like winning. Pick better candidates and choose better issues to fight for.
They could not have picked a dumber battle. So much embarrassment over a chunk of concrete.
The boohoos were driven by misinformation and by their hatred of Tony Bushala due to the Trail of Tears and the Wank on Wilshire.
I noticed the Elijah Manassero character brought up the WOW again, followed predictably by the masked up bandit part time contact lens solution peddler Anjali Tapadia. FFFF should invest in finding out all of the “patients” who were conned by her crappy care. Yelp reviews are easy digestible.
She may not be a bad eye doctor. When it comes to public policy in Fullerton she’s a damn imbecile.
The Bushalas bought their lease extension via their extensive campaign contributions to certain council members. This blog loves to puff up the Bushalas as if they are some sort of benevolent savior of Fullerton. In reality they’re greedy slumlords and always have been.
Aw, boohoo away. You lost.
Keep fluffing the Bushala clan, you cuck.
Haha. Loser.
No, they had leverage due to their big investment at the outset in 1992. You’re just jealous of Tony’s intelligence and deal making ability. But you stick with the unemployed Zahra, Kennedy Sisters and their ilk.
You set a very low bar for intelligence. It’s old man Bushala who’s always been the brains of the family. The idiot kids rode daddy’s coattails.
The proof is right in front of you. BBI got that lease not dad.
Amid the lawsuit in walks the abused father to city council meeting .. must admit he looks really good … and the Foolerton Obserer is a biased newspaper who uplifts Curtis Gamble every chance they get for unknown reasons as Curtis Gamble is nothing but a snake oil salesman who advocates for himself and is living like a king at a homeless shelter after being given the opportunity of a lifetime of a almost free apartment at the city lights he was only on the hook for 50 dollars a month and refused to pay it so the so called homeless advocate got eviction papers filed in north Court and was tossed right to the streets such an example for the homeless he advocates for