A Friday blast from the past that has even more relevance today with the taxpayers even further behind the eight ball several years later. The last council meeting offered the potential for the city to get behind openness and transparency in municipal labor negotiations. What happened?
Look gang, all balloons pop. The question on this one is who is gonna be around to see it, hear it, feel it,face it and worst of all, pay for it. Looks like the joke’s on you and your kids and the establishment hacks have the taxpayers roped and this particular one fit to be tied. Buddy boy Blankhead didn’t look to happy as it may have been way past his bedtime. He can sleep all he wants now that he can really stretch it out. So what is so wrong with a concerned citizen taking some of his own valuable time and expending a lot of his effort pointing out that the sky is really falling?
Have things only gotten worse under the Flurry, the Ritzgerald (is she a RHINO?), and the dog and pony show Chaffee controlled council? Has the hole for the taxpayers gotten deeper? What about C.O.I.N? Will the Tommy’s truck be back on Tuesday nights? Great questions. Shall I elaborate on what our gracious leaders have chosen to bequeath us and our children with through the leaded, smoked looking glass?
Stay tuned.
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#1 by Barry Levinson on October 20, 2016 - 7:19 am
I just watched the above video of me laying out the severity of our unfunded pension and retiree health care costs way back in February 2011. If you were a regular attendee of council meetings during that time, you would have noticed when Don Bankhead was not Mayor how often he would dose off in the middle of a meeting.
His condescending attitude and words were in full display in the above video clip, showing his total lack of interest in a problem that he greatly made much worse when he voted for the 90% pension after 30 years of service at 50 years of age or older back in 2002. At that time this financial genius stated confidently that this huge RETROACTIVE RAISE IN PENSION BENEFITS WOULD NOT COST THE TAXPAYER A DIME!! He was only off by hundreds of millions of dollars.
What an arrogant “public servant”. The good people of Fullerton put him on our council for I believe at least 24 years. Yes this Rip Van Winkle with a bad attitude was on our city council for over 2 decades. Is there any wonder why are city today is in such incredibly bad shape?
Unfortunately, the overall quality, integrity and transparency of our current city council has improved very little if at all since then in my humble opinion. How many decades of bad city council leadership will the good people of Fullerton continue to tolerate going forward? Time is running out!