According to The OC Register, here, the outside “independent” investigative company hired by the City to look into the actions of the cops that beat Kelly Thomas to death last July has delivered its report on the incident. Unfortunately, nobody gets to see the report authored by Mr. Michael Gennaco except Acting Chief Dan […]
Chronic Failure
Who Opposes The Recall and Supports Doug Chaffee?
This guy. That’s who. That would be former Redevelopment Director and big Fullerton pension recipient Gary Chalupsky. Some may remember Chalupsky for his long string of embarrassing boondoggles and Redevelopment expenditures of questionable legality – like building the Muckenthaler amphitheater which is not even in a Redevelopment project area. Just type in “Redevelopment” in our […]
No More MIA “Leadership.” No Doug Chaffee.
Perusing the latest yellowing Fullerton Observer I noticed how various candidates responded to the question “How Would You have Handled The Kelly Thomas Situation?” First the Three Bald Tires, poster boys for utter leadership failure, were given the chance to reflect on their actions, or lack of same. They offered up the same old “we […]
The Lost Generation
Ah, dear me. I was just waiting for a last gasp from the old, die-hard liberals in Fullerton to oppose the political colonic flush Fullerton needs so badly; they didn’t disappoint. Check out this lame ad placed in the Fullerton Observer: Predictable. We’ve already dispensed with the “recalls are for malfeasance” nonsense, here. Ironically, some […]
The Daryl Gates Legacy
Did former Fullerton Police Chief Pat McKinley bring LAPD Chief Daryl Gates’ unique style of policing to Fullerton? This lady (Jean Thaxton), who worked for the LAPD under Gates and alongside his protege, Pat McKinley sure seems to think so. And we know that McKinley admires Gates as his friend and mentor. Her son was […]
Play It Again, Dick
One might ask the question, “How in the world did Fullerton get stuck with not one, but two Dick Jones”? This spectacle of Doc HeeHaw sharing his consternated confusion over the illegal water tax boils down to this: his lawyer, Attorney Dick tells him it is illegal and should be got rid of (15 years […]
Jerk McPension Opposes “Knee Jerk” Effort To Kill Illegal Tax
No surprise punches from Pat McPension, as he disagrees with Bruce Whataker about what to do with the money that is taken from us via an illegal tax on water. Mr. McPension has become quite fond of this tax since it went to pay his own bloated salary and pension over the years. McPension wants […]
We Get Mail: Fence Sitting Cardboard Candidate?
I found this communication in our in-box yesterday: An Open Letter to Doug Chaffee April 23, 2012 Dear Mr. Chaffee: I support the recall effort and will vote in favor of removing all three councilmen on June 5th. I support the statements made on the Notice of Intent to Recall, and I believe any candidate […]
Paying a Fee to Pay Your Taxes?
Even the heartless IRS wouldn’t try to pull something this repugnant. A frustrated local business owner sent me this copy of his annual Fullerton tax renewal in which a $25.00 tax payment was accompanied with a $20.00 “processing charge.” You read that right. It’s an 80% surcharge for the city’s Herculean effort to cash […]
Larry Bennett Owes You A Month’s Worth of Water
Several months ago Anti-recall lackey Larry Bennett challenged you to find the illegal tax on water on your monthly bill. It was pretty disingenuous even for a slimmer like Larry. FFFF pointed out that the illegal tax wasn’t listed on the bill, which of course is one of the reasons it is illegal! On Tuesday […]
Larry Bennett Likes Paying Illegal Taxes; Doesn’t Like Public Comments
Poor Larry Bennett. As spokeshole and Chief Liar for the moribund Recall No campaign he is upset that folks are disrespecting his Heroes on the council. But get this: Larry doesn’t want his water rates reduced! He likes the illegal 10% tax and even wants to keep it because he somehow believes this will keep […]
The Power to Recall: Unambiguous, Indivisible
The opponents of the Fullerton Recall, just like their predecessors in 1994, keep yammering about the “proper” use of the recall process. According to these worthy folks, the power of recall is only to be exercised in cases where an office holder has perpetrated malfeasance in office. Their argument is self-serving. And wrong. Here is […]
County Melt Down, Part II
Last summer I did a post on the disastrous leadership at the County, and how I hoped the Supervisors would perform a certain kind of cranial extraction and take care of business. Of course that was months ago, and the disasters keep mounting due to the indifference of the antiquated and exhausted CEO, Thomas Mauk. […]
Acting Chief Still Acting Like Predecessors
When FPD Acting Chief Dan Hughes was handed the keys to the front door, wishful thinkers proclaimed the dawn of a new day for a department reeling from humiliating self-inflicted wounds. His supporters claimed that Dan, for some mysterious reason, was going to bring decency and reform to a department whose members had, within the […]
Sharon’s Having A Party!
FFFF’s anonymous news clipping service just forwarded this announcement from the Quirk for State Assembly campaign that Loretta Sanchez is hosting a fundraiser for her. Since it’s at Sanchez “home” I can understand the need for secrecy. Still, given the fact that Loretta’s home used to be in high-toned Palos Verdes as she represented the […]
Don Bankhead’s Gears Slipping; Elevator Not Reaching Top Floor
Here is an interesting clip of Councilman Don Bankhead from the last meeting opining on the subject of new elevators being added to the existing elevator bridge at the Fullerton train station. See if you can figure out what he’s talking about. Poor Don seems to think this is a brand new elevator bridge at […]
Water Rate Study Ad Hoc Committee Calls On Council to Rescind Water Tax
Last night the Water Rate Study Ad Hoc Committee voted unanimously to recommend to the Fullerton City Council that the “in-lieu” franchise fee, or “water tax” as it has become known as, should be suspended indefinitely. Another motion was made to recommend an audit of the Water Fund. The motion failed 5-5. Some members stated […]
Fullerton Is Not For Sale? Yeah, Right!
Here’s a fun image of the house of an anti-recaller who seems to want people to believe that Fullerton is not for sale. Whose abode is it? Why none other than Mr. Jim Blake, Fullerton’s Metropolitan Water District (MWD) Representative for Life, who was recently busted by a local news watchdog for his high living […]
The Rancid Lieutenancy of Andrew Goodrich
For some months now trolls have been bragging about the impending promotion of FPD Sergeant Andrew Goodrich to lieutenant, presumably because such a promotion meant that all the half-truths and outright lies peddled to the public by the cops’ otiose Public Information Officer proved the inefficacy and futility of the protests by those who thought […]
More Mayhem In Doc Heehaw’s Crazy Wild West Show!!
Last fall anti-recallers wanted folks to believe that everything in Fullerton’s great and it was just a wholesome family town. Of course the facts are that City Councilmembers Bankhead, Jones and McKinley have turned downtown Fullerton into an all night free for all of drugged-up, boozing, fighting, defecating thugs from who knows where. And of […]
