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November 4, 2010November 4, 2010OC Register

Fullerton Employee Arrested for Embezzling $35,000

The OC Register is reporting that the former risk manager for the city of Fullerton was arrested today and charged with running an embezzlement scheme and stealing over $35,00 of public funds.

Darryl Phillips, former Fullerton employee

According to the story, Phillips is accused of processing false injury claims filed against city workers on behalf of his friends. Phillips apparently had the authority to approve the claims and authorize payment himself. He has been charged with 10 felonies and is out on $50,000 bail.

Of course this type of thing won’t sit well with the local critics, especially in the awakened age of Bell. Questions abound. For instance, who hired this guy? What else did he steal? Who else is stealing? Why did he have the sole authority to pay fraudulent claims? And finally, was the arrest intentionally delayed until two days after the election, in order to protect the public image of former public employees, two of whom were running for office?

We’ll probably never know the answers to all of these burning questions, but that won’t stop us from asking.

November 4, 2010November 4, 2010Fullerton 2010

2010 Fullerton Election Results

by Travis59 Comments

Updated Thursday, 5:00 pm.

There are an unknown number of absentee ballots yet to be counted.

CITY OF FULLERTON Member, City Council, Full Term

	Vote Count	Percentage
* DON BANKHEAD	9,391	21.1%
DOUG CHAFFEE	8,068	18.1%
PAT MCKINLEY	8,038	18.1%
GREG SEBOURN	4,907	11.0%
BARRY LEVINSON	4,722	10.6%
MARTY BURBANK	4,305	9.7%
JESSE LA TOUR	3,678	8.3%
JOHNNIE ATKINSON	1,393	3.1%

CITY OF FULLERTON Member, City Council, Short Term

	Vote Count	Percentage
BRUCE WHITAKER	9,021	37.7%
ROLAND CHI	7,076	29.6%
AARON GREGG	5,552	23.2%
ANTHONY N. (TONY) FONTE	2,255	9.4%

FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

	Vote Count	Percentage
CHRIS THOMPSON	12,728	28.1%
JANNY CATLIN MEYER	12,252	27.1%
* BEVERLY BERRYMAN	10,992	24.3%
AARUNI THAKUR	9,257	20.5%

FULLERTON JOINT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

	Vote Count	Percentage
* ROBERT A. “BOB” SINGER	19,800	23.7%
* ROBERT N. “BOB” HATHAWAY	19,531	23.3%
* MARILYN BUCHI	19,115	22.8%
VICKI R. CALHOUN	15,594	18.6%
NADIA SANCHEZ	9,656	11.5%

M – Fullerton, Term Limits

	Vote Count	Percentage
Yes	21,252	79.8%
No	5,380	20.2%

View the complete results at the Orange County Registrar’s website. The next update is scheduled for 5:00 pm tomorrow.

November 3, 2010November 3, 2010Behind Closed Doors

The Lights Have Gone Out on Lucky Way

by The Fullerton Harpoon11 Comments

LuckyStrike — Jeez, it almost looked habitable...

Yes, the house is dark at 2215 Lucky Way, Anaheim, CA.

The neighbors will tell you that, yes, someone was living there. Once in awhile they would catch a glimpse of a squat little kid whose infrequent visitors called “Yo, Billy Dude!”

The grass looked green, so somebody was paying the water bill, alright. And there was that one party with loud speed metal blaring. Once in awhile a pale round face peered out from behind the red velvet drapery to surreptitiously survey the neighborhood.

Two cars used to be seen in the driveway. The same two cars. They never moved. But now the cars are gone and the house is dark.

Sunset has descended on Lucky Way.

November 3, 2010November 3, 2010About Us

12 Years is Enough!

by admin6 Comments

M – Fullerton, Term Limits

Completed Precincts: 101 of 101

	Vote Count	Percentage
Yes	19,774	79.8%
No	4,996	20.2%

November 2, 2010June 13, 2017Fullerton City Council Candidates

Against All Odds

by Mr. Peabody27 Comments

Here’s Fullerton Council candidate Jesse La Tour, standing on the corner of Chapman and Harbor yesterday pitching his handmade campaign for Fullerton City Council. Click and enjoy.

Well, that’s pretty damn cool if you ask me: a guy having fun standing up for himself. His ideas? Debatable. But you’ve gotta love the stripped down simplicity of the whole thing: no IEs, no union or repuglican support. This guy would be a hundred times better than the empty sack Bankhead or the hollow log McKinley.

So here’s to you JLT! Thanks for the effort.

November 2, 2010November 2, 2010Fullerton 2010

FACT’s Last Minute Voter Guide

by Travis9 Comments

Well it’s about time. The Fullerton Association of Concerned Taxpayers has a blog!

In fact, FACT just released their “Last Minute Voter Guide” to help us shovel through the great heap of 2010. It’s good to see new bloggers out there in Fullerton… and it’s even better when we get to call them our Friends.

November 1, 2010November 1, 2010About Us

More Accolades For FFFF!

by Jan Florys Dog25 Comments

Just yesterday Friends For Fullerton’s Future received yet another award. Our own Joe Sipowicz received perhaps the highest honor an OC blogger can receive: listing as a scary blogger by the creeps over at a blog called Liberal OC. Okay, #7 ain’t #1, but Jebus H. Crisco, not bad for a guy who’s only been a member of our team for only about a year!

The set of low-lifes at OC Liberal’s sole reason for existing is to parrot Obama press releases, extol the virtues of Larry Agran’s criminal Irvine cartel, and support Democratic cretins like Loretta Sanchez and Lori Galloway. Recognition by these people as scary is indisputably high praise, indeed.

Here’s the fun entry:

7. Joe Sipowicz, FFFF — Joe, if that is in fact your name… Joe, is an angry
young man who, from comments and blog posts that carry his name, we have
ascertained works in a gunshop somewhere in Fullerton. That in itself is
scary. And five times a day, we think Joe lights votive candles and kneels down
to worship at the alter of Shawn Nelson. Nelson signs up for the generous
pension; Joe says it’s OK because he never campaigned on what he’d do with his
own pension, only that of evil public employee unions. Harry Sidhu is cleared
by the DA on any wrongdoing, Joe insists Harry is a perjurer but doesn’t say
squat about his own admin’s possible perjurious votes in recent elections
because he hasn’t updated his voter reg forms. Want to send Joe over the edge?
Tell him Nelson is advocating for a 500% increase on taxes for bullet
purchases. “Oh Shawn, I am not worthy to worship you, but only say the word,
and I shall blog about it…..”

Of course that bit at the end making fun of the Catholic Mass will no doubt enrage their RC boyfriend Matthew J. Cunningham, but you have to take chances when you are a cutting edge reporter like OC Liberal’s Dan Cherminowski.

November 1, 2010November 1, 2010About Us

Pringle Gets Dangling Appendage in Wringer. Again.

by Grover Cleveland3 Comments

The LA Times is after poor Curt Pringle again. It seems he represents all sorts of people up and down the state who have major interest, one way or another, in the California High Speed Rail boondoggle.

Check out the Boy Scout response: Gosh, gee whiz, I didn’t know. Thanks for bringing that to my attention!

PringlePower — You are becoming very sleazy...

For a while now we have shared stories about the manifest sleazes of Anaheim’s Mayor-for-Hire, Pringle, the worst repuglican in the County, who has his dipstick stuck into just about every conceivable honey pot, and a man whose only political principles come with a price tag affixed.

We finally got sick of watching Herr Pay to Play shove his bogus pork and kickback laden High Speed Rail project into California. When our boss discovered a legislative opinion that both HSR Boardmembers Pringle and Richard Katz held “incompatible offices” he reported this fact to the Attorney General.

Only last week tales of unreported foreign trips by Pringle emerged once again. Although we had already shared that story, here, it seems that nobody in the HSR enterprise was keeping track of who was going where. The idea of shipping jobs overseas didn’t seem to bother Der Pringler. Well,what the Hell, France and Germany have unemployment problems, too, right? Even worse, it slipped out that the HSR’s army of consultants and camp followers were getting gifts, too. Lots of them, apparently.

Well, as they say, the fish rots from the head.

And now that the election is upon us and Pringle’s rancid days as an elected official and an OCTA board member are coming to an end, it’s time to do whatever we can to kick this creep off the HSR board and then to kill the greatest boondoggle in the history of California.

October 31, 2010November 3, 2010About Us

October 2010; Scary Month

by admin24 Comments

The month of October FFFF had 62,035 visitors and 109,820 page views. Why is that scary? It means that we have to top that again, and again, and well you get the picture.

October 31, 2010Fullerton 2010

The Hits Keep on Coming

by Travis32 Comments

Some new mailers came in this week. In addition to fresh copies of the Roland Chi and Aaron Gregg fliers that we saw earlier, our mailboxes were stuffed with: A brutal comparison of Pat McKinley’s pension to the city of Bell’s Robert Rizzo; a stop-the-unions slate, a comparison piece on Whitaker’s behalf, a large piece of cardboard put out by the Republican Party against Chaffee, and finally, a lame comparison piece that tries to make Roland Chi look special.

Enjoy, and click to enlarge.