BY BARRY LEVINSON
FULLERTON CIVIC LEADER AND ACTIVIST BARRY LEVINSON
THE TRUTH
IT IS WHAT I TRULY BELIEVE IN. WELL IN THE CASE OF STATE SENATOR CANDIDATE JOSHUA FERGUSON’S RESPONSE UNDER THE FFFF ARTICLE “THE WHITAKER RECORD” HE TOLD THE TRUTH. I BELIEVE ALL PEOPLE SHOULD GET CREDIT FOR THEIR TRUTHFUL STATEMENTS MADE ON THE RECORD. HERE ARE HIS COMMENTS, WHICH I TOTALLY AGREE WITH.
The Whitaker Record
August 3, 2017 Joe Sipowicz Comments(25)
Joshua Ferguson (comment)
“Okay, I’ll bite.
You’re mad because you can’t get a good wine so what do you do?
Apparently you sit on the sidelines and complain that you can’t get good wine as it gets worse and worse each year. I’d rather try and make wine. That’s EXACTLY why Napa is world renowned for wine. Delusional people set out to make a change.
You can consider me delusional all you want but I’d rather be delusional than a defeatist.
I would have never thrown my name in and would have eagerly supported Whitaker if I thought he’d fight. But he won’t and he hasn’t.
We have serious allegations of police misconduct & obstruction of justice in the Felz case alone. Whitaker is Mayor. What has he done to get to the bottom of it?
Be precise about the actions in this case. I’ll award bonus points for source citations.
As a reminder the former police chief allegedly obstructed justice on his way out of the door. The DA allegedly ignored it owing to political favors.
Do we need to put a ribbon on the tee before the bat is swung? We can’t swing it for the council. The whole council is complicit in this corruption but the Mayor has the power to put things on the Agenda. He doesn’t. I see a new higher paid chief from a problematic department. That’s it. Where’s the oversight? Reform? Investigation? Anything?
Oh I know. Despite the council being 3-2 (R) he doesn’t think he can accomplish anything so its better to do nothing.
Put it on record. Put reform and an investigation on the agenda and make the opposition take a pro-cover-up position. Make them make the pro-corruption vote. Do something. Be the voice you ran to be and fight for us and if you won’t don’t be surprised if allies get fed up and try to use their own voices you seem intent on ignoring.
Newman is being recalled because he lied to voters and opted to rob us blind. I’m not about to vote for somebody else who will sit silently owing to a minority position while we still get robbed.
I’ve had enough of (R)s who say they’d do the right thing if only they had power. Fight for the right thing or you’ll never get the chance.”
That concludes Mr. Ferguson’s remarks. As I stated in my title of this article, I give people credit for telling the truth in a public forum. Ferguson has been supportive of Mayor Bruce Whitaker and an ally in the past. The fact that he was willing to look at Whitaker’s public performance to judge whether he is worthy of Ferguson’s support is admirable. Two fellow conservatives Sean Paden and David Curlee, still in my opinion see Mayor Whitaker thru rose color glasses.
Click the photo to understand more about Bruce’s sycophant Paden.
Paden goes out of his way to support him no matter what the facts state. Blind allegiance in politics is extremely dangerous.
The big question is whether I would vote for Ferguson. There are a few issues that I would need to hear more from him on. I have seen him in a few instances, in my humble opinion, put saving taxpayer dollars ahead of the overall benefit to the community. I am a fiscal conservative and hate to see any taxpayer monies wasted but government has a role and sometimes monies need to be in fact spent for the benefit of the overall community.
In conclusion, my answer as of August 3, 2017 is that I would give his candidacy serious consideration. It is early and we may not know the names of all candidates who will throw their hats into the ring.
But the bottom line, I appreciate very much Ferguson’s above comments concerning Bruce Whitaker and see it as his taking an independent second look at a former ally. It takes a certain amount of courage to distance yourself from someone you used to support wholeheartedly.
Finally, as Ferguson said above…”Okay, I’ll bite.” ` I am glad he did.
BARRY LEVINSON
#1 by Barry Levinson on August 4, 2017 - 11:13 am
If only those that were the odds on favorite chose to run we would have no choices at all.
I suggest those criticizing Ferguson based on the odds of him winning, try critiquing him based on his positions instead.
Whenever someone runs on the issues, we all win for all too often the leading candidates just blow smoke at the electorate.
#2 by Joe Imbriano on August 4, 2017 - 11:27 am
His odds mean nothing. His positions mean everything and his actions speak louder than odds or positions. He has ignored the most serious of the issues in terms of who would be most impacted by them. As far as Hughes, he needs to go to jail. I have never seen him publicly utter a word about that or publicly asking for anything to be done about it. Barry, you and I went to the police station how many times trying to get justice served? How many times did we raise the issue here on this site and visit the gestapo headquarters? Josh has written a paragraph on it and I hope he will do something about now that he appears to have woken up. Perhaps he can go back and demand that they do something about the stairs after he dropped that issue like a hot brick and perhaps drag David Curlee with him who dropped the Brea Dam issue like a hot brick too. Maybe Josh can wake all of them up and get them to finally do what the residents here need and that is legitimately and effectively advocate for the greater good of this community. Barry you set the best example to follow and perhaps finally they will see the need to no longer be afraid and do what is right and tell the truth.
#3 by Anonymous on August 4, 2017 - 11:34 am
You’re the best, Joe.
Everyone else sucks and should burn in hell.
Hail King Joe!
#4 by Anonymous on August 4, 2017 - 11:40 am
Going to the police station is ineffective. That’s why nobody else is doing it.
#5 by Joe Imbriano on August 4, 2017 - 11:56 am
Remaining silent is ineffective but politically safe and that is why everyone is doing it. I am grateful for Joshua’s statement. I look forward to Joshua working to seek justice for the good people of Fullerton. I am however, concerned that he appears to lack the fortitude to deal with the larger issues that he still makes fun of. Maybe retractions are in order including but not limited to one over his statement regarding his clearly valuing the cost of defending a potential lawsuit regarding the repeal of the sex offender ordinance over the safety of Fullerton’s children.
Barry, Zonya, Diane and I all proved right in front of a room full of Tony’s tools and Whitaker’s sycophants that Touchstone was lying through his teeth and the council voted to protect pedophiles. Not a word out of any of them including Joshua. That is either a serious character flaw or a symptom of being morally bankrupt. In my opinion, people that refuse to stand up for the children are evil and people that make fun of people who stand up for children are even worse.
#6 by Anonymous on August 4, 2017 - 3:23 pm
You are such a whiney bitch.
No one listens to me! Why? Whhhhhhy? They must be morally bankrupt!
Or, maybe, you’ve gone off on so many mindless rants that everyone tunes out whenever you start filming your vain self.
Or, maybe, no one wants to be associated with anything you have to say.
Who knows, but one thing is for sure. Not supporting you does not equate with moral bankruptcy. It equates with you being toxic and ignoring the impact your reputation has on the causes you support.
Maybe if you weren’t intent on having everyone worshiping you and your camera, you’d have more people support you. But you won’t. You can’t.
#7 by Joe Imbriano on August 4, 2017 - 5:25 pm
I told you to go back to FFFF and pack Tony’s bong and help Travis with his broken axles. This rubber room is not for you. For the rest of you, you know there is no excusing the silence on the issues. These arguments are pathetic. You simply just call people crazy and it makes it all go away. That is brilliant. Turn your backs on reality because you have personal problems with the messenger. That is really a sign of reaching puberty. Last time I checked, everyone got 3 minutes unless Tony’s tools cut it down to 2 like they did on Tuesday, so no one is stopping all you brave hearts from dealing with reality and stepping right up and speaking truth. Oh but since Joe did, that means we don’t have to because no one will listen because we are saying the same things he is? People who sit through meeting after meeting who for years ignore and mock the demise of children are the definition of morally bankrupt. You can’t go any lower but then again, considering the years of silence and mocking from some of the community pillars and political operatives, nothing would surprise me anymore. Just leave the site if you are so unhappy with the administrator. Go back to FFFF and cover some of the issues of our time like the 300 dollar hotel bills.
#8 by Anonymous on August 10, 2017 - 11:47 am
Bushala always was and always is going to be all about Bushala-and development. He and his group deserve zero respect from anyone. They know not the meaning of the word integrity. From their vile comments to their lies
#9 by Anonymous on August 4, 2017 - 6:11 pm
You are a child anonymous. What is a shamefully flailing attempt to abdicate your civic responsibilities.
Joe is a hero. He is a brilliant guy with an uncanny ability to figure things out. He is the classic iconoclast and one of the most effective political activists that I have ever met.
He is tenacious, and he has more integrity and guts than you could ever understand. That is why you and so many others cannot stand him because he pulls back the curtain in broad daylight exposing all the corruption. That part must be real painful for some of you.
#10 by Anonymous on August 4, 2017 - 4:16 pm
There is no excuse for their silence, nor their cowardice. Lies and defamation precede them. They are juveniles in thought and infantile in action. They are who they choose to be. They are the majority.
#11 by Anonymous on August 7, 2017 - 10:01 pm
Sure and so are Phony Bushala’s pair of 300-pound sacks Seaborn and Whitaker up on the council. They haven’t uttered a word about how Hughes should be charged with a crime. Now there is real half a million dollar reform for you. Come to think of it, we haven’t heard boo from Phony Bushala’s bull pen either. Come to think of it, we haven’t heard anything from Phony Bushala at all about anything except him crawling out from under a rock to speak out against the competition for his planned downtown entertainment venue.
#12 by Anonymous on August 8, 2017 - 10:21 pm
complaining about the slide bar?