The taxpayer funded State of the City videos, as they appear on Jennifer Fitzgerald’s campaign website.
The “Economic Development” segment of the taxpayer funded State of the City video, as it appears on Jennifer Fitzgerald’s campaign website.
Matthew Leslie
Jennifer Fitzgerald’s super slick, professional re-election campaign website features something that should surprise and anger voters. Scroll down past the billboard sized images of the candidate to find prominently displayed the five-part “State of the City” video. Separated into subjects like “Quality of Life,” and “Economic Development,” the video was presented in April as a regular part of an annual fundraiser for the local Chamber of Commerce. The video is also available on the City of Fullerton’s website, because the city pays for it, and it isn’t cheap.
2016 State of the City video as it appears on the City of Fullerton’s website.
The 2016 State of the City video was produced by Pipeline Digital Media of Fullerton. (You may have seen Pipeline’s Todd Huffman on the evening of August 2nd shilling for the awful district elections Map # 8A, supported by Jennifer Fitzgerald.) The City of Fullerton’s check register shows two 2016 payments to Pipeline Digital Media in the amounts of $ 9,600.00 and $ 15,700.00, as well as three other payments to the company in 2015. One cannot ascertain from the check registers provided which of these two payments might have been made for the State of the City video, but a Public Records Request filing should provide that answer.
The State of the City, produced by Pipeline Digital Media.
What is certain is that Jennifer Fitzgerald’s campaign didn’t pay for the video, because it isn’t listed on her Form 460 campaign filings. If someone else paid for it, it should be listed as an in-kind donation to her campaign. No such in-kind donation appears on her 460 filings either, so we can only assume that Mayor Jennifer Fitzgerald is appropriating an expensive, taxpayer funded video meant to promote the city for her own personal political campaign. Is it realistic to think that no one at city hall has noticed?
City of Fullerton check register showing a $ 9,600.00 payment to Pipeline Digital Media on March 11. 2016.
City of Fullerton check register showing a $ 15,700.00 payment to Pipeline Digital Media on May 13, 2016.
fullertonrag.com 
Besides flouting the requirements of the Fair Political Practices Commission by not reporting the contribution or expenditure, Fitzgerald has likely violated CA Goverment Code Section 8314 which states that it is “unlawful” for a local elected to “use public resources for a campaign activity, not authorized by law.”
So unless council passed some new city ordinance late at night on the consent calendar when no one was paying attention, she pretty much pulled a major boner.
LikeLike
So if you’re right it seems Fullerton’s “mayor” like it seems every professional politician is a liar, a flagrant law breaker and also a thief. I hope you’re wrong, but…
LikeLike
Matt,
What’s even MORE telling, is that video’s producer, Pipeline Digital, was also the same company that produced Jennifer Fitzgerald’s campaign video when she was initially elected to the Fullerton City Council.in 2012.
http://pdmtv.com/2012/12/jennifer-fitzgerald-for-fullerton-city-council-campaign-2012/
LikeLike
Oh ain’t that just peachy.
Nice find.
LikeLike
There’s an answer to this corruption, but not an easy answer, vote the evil out. Unfortunately whoever we vote in will likely be just as corrupt and evil as this one appears to be, if not when elected, soon after. It’s the nature of the beast, a professional politician.
LikeLike
Needs to be reported to the CFPPC immediately!
LikeLike
Has been, to no avail. The FPPC’s position was that since the video appears on the city’s website, it is equally available to any candidate, and, therefore, Jennifer Fitzgerald’s use of it does not constitute a violation of campaign rules (!).
LikeLike