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 - 1:27 pm
When someone fails to step up and do the right thing at council meetings it is of course disappointing.
But I do try to be an optimist and therefore in those areas where Joshua Ferguson did not speak out at council; or in the case of the Hillcrest staircase, made a strong case for action but has not followed thru on the issue. I have hope that he will one day soon agree with me on at least some of these important issues like the child sex offender ordinance that was repealed by a unanimous city council vote based on factually incorrect information provided by Mr. Touchstone representing the City Attorney’s office. No one worth a grain of salt should allow our government leaders to get away with lying to us in order to get their agenda passed and in this case get a good strong law repealed.
The losers are our children.
#2 by Anonymous on August 4, 2017 - 2:29 pm
Everyones children