Matthew Leslie
9:09. Following over an hour of public comment, the council are speaking one by one about which map to adopt.
Greg Sebourn offered an insightful comparison between all four of the district maps. He supports Map 8A.
Jan Flory resented people for implying that she and other council members are in the pockets of the bar owners. She supports Map 8A.
Bruce Whitaker is offering thoughtful comments, appreciates Map 10A, and likes Map 11. Could support, 2B, 11, or 8A.
Doug Chaffee sympathizes with the bar owners because he thinks they’ve been unfairly maligned; downtown is a “city within a city.” Says Map 10A is the one he would pick, but he doesn’t think it would pass. Says that 2B wouldn’t pass in the elections. Says 8A has the best chance of passing. Wants to tweak it, wants to fix the weird split in the northeast (see my earlier story). Says he isn’t running again. Says that just to get it done, he will support 8A.
Jennifer Fitzgerald says we meet in the downtown. Cites political parties participating from outside of the city. Says the council agreed to a process, not a guaranteed outcome. Cites a bunch of statistics about Asians getting elected to provide cover for the fact that 8A is the only one with no majority Asian Citizen Voting Age Population. Says 8A keeps us unified in purpose but necessarily divided communities of interest. Cites Pasadena model. Supports 8A, says it has the best chance of passing. Moves to select 8A.
Passed unanimously. All members of the Fulleron City Council just sold out Fullerton’s downtown residents. None deserves re-election.
Vote against District Elections in November and let the district mapping process go to a judge instead.
“All members of the Fulleron City Council just sold out Fullerton’s downtown residents. None deserves re-election.
Vote against District Elections in November and let the district mapping process go to a judge instead.”
I agree 100%. I’m sickened by all five but that’s nothing new. Whitaker was once half decent but became just another political hack. We went through a recall and fought hard to better our city. For this batch of self serving yahoos? What a joke. Vote no on this and on re-elections.
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They’re all political hacks, no better that those that were recalled after Kelly Thomas. Corruption unfortunately seems to be the nature of the beast.
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It would be prudent for Fullerton residents to review the enclosed archives of the Friends For Fullerton’s Future blog, in order to truly understand who and what interests that Jennifer Fitzgerald truly serves.
http://www.fullertonsfuture.org/2012/who-is-jennifer-cowen-fitzgerald-and-why-doesnt-she-like-ffff/
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FFFF left her alone for most of the 2012 election.
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I wonder if Jennifer Fitzgerald’s alliance with O.C. Supervisor Shawn Nelson had anything to do with that?
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Don’t think so. Probably election strategy.
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Point well taken, however.
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You don’t think that Jennifer Fitzgerald is trying to gerrymander the district election boundaries in the manner that Slidebar Cafe owner Jeremy Popoff prefers has anything to do with Jeremy donating $500 to Jennifer’s campaign for city council in 2012 do you?
(page 7 0f 13)
http://docs.cityoffullerton.com/weblink/1/doc/509606/Page1.aspx
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Note that Slidebar “CEO” Jeremy Popoff also kicked in another $250 to Jennifer Fitzgerald’s campaign chest, AFTER the 2012 election had been decided…
http://docs.cityoffullerton.com/WebLink/1/doc/521640/Page1.aspx
(page 4 of 10)
…and then another $1,000 in 2015 for the 2016 city council election.
(page 6 of 17)
You’ll also see Anthony Florentine’s name on all of Jennifer Fitzgerald campaign contributions as well, so for Jennifer to feign indignation at being beholden to the downtown bar owners is hypocritical and laughable at best.
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