Will There Be a District 3 Challenger For Shana Charles?
Right now it looks like Ms. Charles, the sanctimonious and self-important gasbag representing District 3 on the Fullerton City Council has no competition for re-election this November.
I suppose this is a testament to the apathy of the electorate because there should be at least one person willing to challenge the otiose uber-leftist whose constant stream of self-righteous and ignorant bullshit almost demands an opponent.
A visit to the City Clerk’s webpage listing candidate committees shows no one except Charles in the Third District.
This doesn’t mean that a non-committee candidate isn’t running, or that a potential opponent isn’t waiting to file the forms necessary to raise funds like a serious contender. But time is almost up. Candidates will be able to “pull papers” to run in just a few weeks. If they haven’t announced yet, at this late date, it seems unlikely.
Why?
Charles has taken lots positions that would undoubtedly be unpopular among responsible, taxpaying citizens outside the Fullerton Boohoo echo chamber. Let’s put aside her flip-flops on issues like the downtown noise regulations and the issue of private publications on city property. Instead, let’s focus on issues that would be pretty damaging to Charles once voters learn about them. They involve wasting money, or trying to. A lot of it.
First is her steadfast support of handing over $200,000 of public funds to support illegal aliens harassed by ICE. You can feel sympathy for people snagged by the ICE goons without wanting to use public funds to pay for their groceries.
Then there is the embarrassing matter of the so-called boutique hotel, where the Council approved massive entitlements on a property and then “sold” it for peanuts to build a massive and harebrained project on Santa Fe Avenue. The worst part was deeding over the property to a couple of inveterate con men who, after many years, haven’t turned a shovel of dirt on the site and never will. Providentially, that approval was Shana Charles’ very first vote.
How about the issue of her income from the marijuana lobby – gained via her husband’s effort to get Cannabis Kitty Jaramillo elected in the 2024 D4 election. Her tribe is always blathering about the evils of money in campaigns; Jaramillo got $60,000 of Washington DC lobbyist cash working for her and $4000 went right into the Charles family wallet. Would the residents of D3 like a dispensary on State College?
I don’t want to forget the disastrous Trail to Nowhere that cost $2.5 million and has virtually no use. FFFF predicted that over and over again, although it wasn’t hard for anybody to foresee. The last half dozen times I have driven down Richman at various hours, I have yet to see a single user. Charles was stupid enough to fall for all the bullshit peddled by staff; either that or she knew it was nonsense and didn’t care. Does it make a difference?
If there is a tax on the November ballot Charles will have to take a stand. Spinning won’t help. She won’t get her 13% general sales tax increase, but there could be two 6.5% special sales taxes to vote for, infrastructure and “public safety.” Opposing these would send a signal that she doesn’t care about fixing the budget deficit she helped create: just a couple years ago she bragged about hiring more people.
She has to run on the state of the City and that state isn’t good. She’s been there for four years with nothing to show for it except foolish positions and non-stop, rambling lectures.
I could go on, but really why bother?
Ugh.
Oh, well, maybe Fullerton can’t do any better than this.
I agree! It’s all about wearing the name tag.
Look around the county…Councils that move to Districts now just get wacko, narcissist, activist nobody’s looking to make a splash for their Facebook page to get friends.
They don’t actually care about the cities. Real talent is gone.
Um, Bankhead, McKinley, Flory, Doc HeeHaw, Sa, Wilson, Clesceri, Keller, Quirk, Jesus Quirk-Silva – all elected at large, and all nincompoops.
She might help herself by cutting out those 10 minute long updates that are nothing but an excuse to hear herself yammer.
The Observers are still peddling the Trail To Nowhere as a useful thing:
“In September 2025, the club helped rebuild Union Pacific Park and, three months later, the club attended the grand opening of the Union Pacific Trail, which leads from Independence Park to Union Pacific Park.”
It leads to Highland Avenue where it unceremoniously, dangerously and inexplicably STOPS.
To be fair the Observer doesn’t know where it ends because they’ve never actually walked it.
Sharon Kennedywas wondering why Phase 2 doesn’t connect to Phase 1 and hopes the City is working on it!
She’s just as dumb as her younger sister.
Why would she have to run on the current state of the city as the minority on the council? The current state of the city is on the shoulders of the majority in the numerous 3-2 votes.
Also, please quit with the anti-marijuana bs. Your boss, Tony, was all on board with MJ legalization until he was told he can’t have a monopoly on the industry in SE Fullerton. There’s no ideological opposition here. It’s just one guy trying to game the system for himself
Because she is on the City Council Tender Elijah. Also start exercising.
Young Elijah is starting to pack on the groceries, isn’t he? I wonder who’s paying.
Daddy.
Whether Sheena of the Bungle wins or not she will just be a windy irrelevance. Zahra will be gone and she’ll have nobody.
Still it would be great not to have her waste everybody’s time with her relentless bloviations.
One again Elijah can’t help but lie about the “3-2 majority” as if Zahra and Charles have been stalwart fiscal hawks and not just in the pockets of the hero unions voting to bankrupt Fullerton at every possible opportunity.
I sometimes wonder how they reward him for this incessant groveling.
Zahra has been around almost EIGHT years, but bear no responsibility for ANYTHING.
He’s one of those shysters who knows how to fool the less intelligent by saying what he knows they want to hear.
He only got himself re-elected by drumming up a fake Latino candidate and blowing through $120,000.
He also created a fake Latino looking family with a wife and ninos.
“Also, please quit with the anti-marijuana bs.”
Why? Dispensaries are a legitimate public policy issue, whatever your febrile conspiracy theories dream up.
Charles took $4000 from the dope lobby.
And by the way young Elijah, I’ve never heard you or the Kennedy Sisters bitch about Zahra putting the dope lobbyist Derek Smith on the Fiscal Sustainability Committee. Why is that?
No one cared that nobody would use the Trail to Nowhere. The point was to give the underserved “something nice” – that was the whole issue. Top down patronization of the Mexicans by City Hall. That Eglet was just a front to make it look like the communidad was all behind it.
Approving it was a supreme dereliction of duty to the public. And the ALL helped keep it alive despite the huge cost increase to the City. No wonder we’re broke.
They had to build a trail or sell the land. We all know who would have bought the land in an open auction as Bushala owns most of the adjacent property. God forbid that the City would give him an equal opportunity to compete with out of town developers.
Who told you they had to sell the land?
When you have fat rolls on your knees, you need a GLP-1 Rx stat!
She could try jogging on the Trail to Nowhere. It must be there for a reason I haven’t figured out.
Vegetables, stat.
The New Face of public health.
More Lego, less Grimace