I know to some this message will be very painful, to some infuriating, and to others music to their ears as fodder for political talking points and hit pieces. Believe me, it pains me to have had to have come to this. For four years I have painfully watched all of this and other disturbing developments unfold that at first I couldn’t believe, that I then didn’t want to believe and then finally that I could no longer ignore. I must admit that when I first entered the political scene years back, I had the utmost respect for Bruce Whitaker and had admired his demeanor and his positions. That respect is long gone.
Many may not fully understand my motivations for writing this article, many will accuse me of attacking one of our own. Bruce is nowhere near one of our own as you will soon see. Others may be rejoicing at the apparent division. Ladies and gentlemen, my modus operandi has always been to tell it like it is and let the chips fall where they may because the truth will stand on its own.
The Nelson line up for the fall season
VOTING THE RIGHT WAY MOST OF THE TIME IS NOT ENOUGH WHEN YOU ARE OUTNUMBERED EVERY TIME. THE BALANCE OF POWER HAS BEEN UNCHALLENGED FOR 4 YEARS NOW. LOOK WHERE FULLERTON IS. ONCE A SCAM GETS TO THE COUNCIL, TRYING TO STOP IT THERE IS LIKE TRYING TO PERFORM CPR ON A CADAVER. THESE SCAMS AND GIOVEAWAYS AT CITY HALL HAVE TO BE PUBLICLY AND VEHEMENTLY OPPOSED IN THE EARLY STAGES. LEADERS SOUND THE ALARM, NOT WAIT UNTIL THE CADAVER IS IN FRONT OF YOU TO DO MOUTH TO MOUTH ON.
FLORY, FITZGERALD AND CHAFFEE ARE OPEN BOOKS AND STAND FOR UNION GIVEAWAYS, DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES AND MORE EXPANSION OF GOVERNMENT. WE KNOW WHO AND WHAT THEY ARE. GREG IS MORPHING INTO THEM AS WE SPEAK.
SO WHO HEAVILY FINANCED BRUCE’S CAMPAIGN IN 2012 TO THE TUNE OF ALMOST $40,000? WAS IT NONE OTHER THAN TONY BUSHALA? WHY HAS TONY BUSHALA BEEN TOTALLY SILENT ON ALL THIS HORRIFIC OUT OF CONTROL DEVELOPMENT IN FULLERTON? IS BRUCE PLAYING SOME SORT OF A GAME ON THE RESIDENTS?
IT IS THE DUTY OF TRUE CONSERVATIVES TO EXPOSE THE PHONIES LIKE FITZGERALD, OUT THE PHONIES LIKE FITZGERALD AND STAND UP FOR THE RESIDENTS. LETTING FITZGERALD OFF THE HOOK FOR 4 YEARS IS INEXCUSABLE. LOOK WHERE WE ARE. HIS BOSS NELSON IS SUPPORTING BOTH BRUCE AND FITZGERALD IN 2016-WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU?
Instead of Bruce doing everything in his power to tip the balance on the council and expose his boss Nelson’s sacred cow Fitzgerald WHO HAPPENS TO BE THE DECIDING VOTE EVERY TIME, he goes along to get along, ignores vital issues, remains totally silent on others, and pontificates only when it makes no difference when it is far too late when his vote means nothing. This has allowed Fitzgerald to be the deciding vote that screws Fullerton over every time. Bruce’s silence and absence of resistance and opposition to the fact that we have a lobbyist as our mayor is mind boggling unless you understand how the game is played. He plays it safe with the bosses, pontificates when it is too little too late, means nothing, has no impact, and ensures that the agendas move along with a semblance of conservative opposition. He has and continues to allow her to remain on the council in spite of her built in conflict of interest, her horrible voting record, and then votes to give her the mayor title on the ballot. WATCH WHO ENDORSES BRUCE AND JENNIFER WHO HAVE OPPOSITE VOTING RECORDS. IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW PHONY AND RIGGED THIS WHOLE THING IS. Enough insanity folks.
You see going along to get along has resulted in Fullerton being so far gone that it will not be recognizable very, very soon. Our problems as a community are huge and the solutions require a major sea change in politics. Fullerton is awash in red ink, greed, corruption and cronyism. Fullerton is full of busted up roads, screwed up zoning, massive development, out of control traffic, a corrupt police department, out of control spending and of course politicians that keep all this going. We need to end the status quo, remove the status quo’s henchmen and women and expose those who ostensibly come in peace, seem to be on our side and betray us in clever ways that only those who are really paying attention would ever notice.
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When there was a major fiscal issue brought to Councilman Bruce Whitaker by his appointee to the Park and Recreation Committee, Mr. Levinson, Bruce Whitaker was totally silent. He never uttered a word in his capacity as a city councilman about the 4 to 5 million dollars being squandered by the city of Fullerton on the Fullerton Golf Course contract over 20 years as shown by Mr. Levinson in great detail. Mr. Whitaker totally ignored Mr. Levinson on this critical issue.
Equally disturbing, on another occasion, Fullerton Park and Recreation commissioner Barry Levinson was totally unaware that the Summit House Restaurant 25-year extension was to be incorrectly brought before the city council because Joe Felz decided to bypass the Parks and Recreation Department first even though the Summit House sits on Fullerton publicly owned parkland. It still had 16 years left on its sweetheart lease and they wanted to sneak through another 25 year extension behind everyone’s back.
This land is your land this land is my land
Councilmember Whitaker had at least 72-hour advance knowledge that this was on the city council agenda as a CONSENT ITEM and yet according to Mr. Levinson, Mr. Whitaker never contacted him and apprised him of this situation. Why not? Why the silence? Why did Bruce Whitaker not immediately discuss this critical issue with his appointee on the Park and Recreation Commission, Barry Levinson?
Barry Levinson
As Mr. Levinson and I were in attendance at that meeting, Barry pointed out at that council meeting that it was totally improper for the city to fail to bring this agenda item to the Park and Recreation Committee first and even more unconscionable that it was then put on the city council agenda as a CONSENT ITEM. No one vetted this agenda item but the city nevertheless the city wanted to very quietly and surreptitiously pass it without any discussion. Even after Mr. Levinson stopped this in its tracks, Mr. Whitaker, who appointed Mr. Levinson remained totally silent on the issue. Apparently Council member Whitaker does not want to disturb the establishment order in Fullerton. This attempted hijacking of public property was directed back to the Park and Recreation Committee for first consideration. Mr. Levinson learned later from Hugo Curiel, Director of Parks and Recreation at a subsequent Parks and Recreation Committee meeting that the owner of the Summit House rescinded his request for the 25-year extension that would have taken the lease arrangement through 2060.
back room deal gone bad thanks to Barry
Barry, the one honest committee member was the lone voice who pulled the consent item on the city council agenda and pointed out the obvious before it was about to be approved 5 to 0 by a phony, corrupt city council without any discussion. Once again the city council and of course the city manager was attempting to do a huge financial favor for one of its special interest friends while at the same time screwing the Fullerton public. Did I mention that the Summit House was built with Fullerton Redevelopment money? Redevelopment was supposed to be used to fix “blighted areas”. Since when is parkland on one of the prettiest vistas in all of Northern Orange County next to million dollar neighborhoods considered blighted?
As Barry Levinson continued to do his job as a commissioner speaking out on various issues that directly and adversely affect the community at large, and doing so as an appointee of Bruce Whitaker , the climate at these public meetings got so bad that Mr. Levinson was shut down and not allowed to conclude his remarks after speaking only a few minutes during the communications period of the meeting. This is the part of the meeting on the agenda for Commissioners to speak on any item or topic that falls within the purview of the Park and Recreation Commission and Department.
going along to get along-Fitzgerald appointee Cox
In response to this egregious behavior, Mr. Levinson contacted formally in writing all council members including Mr. Whitaker and again Mr. Whitaker chose to remain totally silent. Bruce not only failed to defend Mr. Levinson’s doing his job, his right to speak in an open meeting, and carrying out his duties as Bruce’s appointee, he totally ignored him once again.
On June 23, 2016 Mr. Whitaker offered up some insight into his failure to ask for an investigation into what I believe to be a criminal attempt to get Mr. Levinson charged with a bogus misdemeanor crime in order to have him removed from his position as the Chair of The Park and Recreation Commission. “On an objective City Council, I could have obtained a majority vote to launch an outside investigation. No chance to do so in this case where perhaps a majority participated in the collusive effort to remove him.”
First it does not explain the fact that according to Commissioner Levinson that on two separate occasions that Councilman Whitaker told Barry that if anybody from the public requests of the council an investigation into this incident, that Bruce would so attempt to get it agendized. Three different Fullerton citizens including Mr. Levinson and myself did just that yet Bruce to this day remains silent on this issue.
Second, Bruce boasts of supporting Barry when most on the council were in Bruce’s words “collusively trying to remove him from the committee”. Ironically, it was Bruce Whitaker himself who, without any advanced warning to Mr. Levinson, did the exact same thing without giving a single solitary reason for his unusual move in terminating Mr. Levinson from the Park and Recreation Commission.
Lastly, Bruce has stated above and on many other occasions that his refusal to bring something important forward at council is due to the lack of votes Bruce has on the council. If that is the reason for his silence why does he always pontificate on specific agenda items which are before the council that really should be voted down when he knows it will be passed by his fellow council members?
I will answer my own question. It is because we can count on Bruce only when there is an issue guaranteed to pass in the council to then and only then speak out and feign courage as the lonely voice of reason. You rarely speak out in front of an issue to change the outcome for the better but rather speak only after the bad outcome is assured. Leadership demands speaking out often to rally support and affect change? You are more like a funeral director, talking about what could have been after the fight or the body has already been lost. How pathetic and more importantly deceitful that this has been Bruce’s modus operandi for 6 years!
Bruce voted to make this woman mayor as he never goes after Nelson’s sacred cow and Pringle lobbyist up on the dais Fitzgerald
Six years and what are his accomplishments…. voting to appoint Jennifer Fitzgerald as Mayor in an election year no less so her name will appear on the ballot as MAYOR making her defeat much more difficult…voting for a totally phony districting Map for Fullerton, Map 8A, which basically destroys downtown as a separate neighborhood and fireworks.
What are just a few of your incredible failures?
Never demanding or much less asking Jennifer Fitzgerald to disclose her client list from Curt Pringle and Associates, a very large lobbyist and public relations firm with ties to many Southern California government entities. This list is necessary for her to disclose for it is the only way to ensure that she does not have a conflict of interest while representing the people of Fullerton. I have formally asked for this in writing and verbally during public comment periods which Bruce has done no such thing.
Voting to appoint Jennifer Fitzgerald Mayor of Fullerton in her compromised position as V.P of Curt Pringle and Associates with no transparency on her part.
Voting to appoint Ma’Ayn Johnson to the Planning Commission when she has a built-in conflict of interest as a senior planner for the unelected Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). She recently stated that the population growth of Fullerton is inevitable and we need to plan for it. The facts are that significant growth is only inevitable if the Planning Commission and the City Council continue to vote for zoning changes that allow for high-rise development in a city with little open land except for West Coyote Hills. She and her allies on SCAG push for this high-rise Agenda 21 Growth consistently making her biased as a commissioner. Bruce has refused to agendize her removal from the planning commission and remains silent on this issue.
Never asking for an investigation into an apparent criminal conspiracy lead by the FPD and the City council against Mr. Levinson. His poor excuse for being silent was that he did not have the votes. Question: Why does he normally pontificate on the loosing end of so, so many agenda items? Why even show up for work with that attitude?
Refusing to agendize an investigation by Michael Genacco into the attempted framing of Barry Levinson even after several residents including myself had specifically publicly asked him to do so. This was a prime example of how a concerted effort by city officials could have led to falsely imprisoning of innocent men.
Totally ignoring Mr. Levinson’s very detailed and well supported analysis of how the City of Fullerton is in the process of wasting 4 to 5 million dollars over a 20-year period starting in December 2010 by their actions to voluntarily change their agreement with American Golf Corporation to run the Fullerton Golf Course. At the same time Bruce was pushing for an audit committee on the council he was continuing to ignore his own appointee Barry Levinson on the Park and Rec commission who is an internal auditor by profession! Bruce wants an audit committee and ignores this?
Voting to disenfranchise the people of downtown Fullerton with a vote for Map 8A.
When Bruce had the votes to make a difference after the recall election he chose to put his political capital into legalizing Safe and Sane Fireworks at the direction of Shawn Nelson. By doing so he squandered a golden opportunity to make real changes in Fullerton.
Failure to respond to my request to make a motion to agendize a change in selling city of Fullerton property from the current closed door, sole source negotiations to mandating every sale must be done on an open and competitive basis.
Failure to give any reasons for his dismissal of Mr. Levinson from the Park and Recreation Committee nor any warning whatsoever that he was dissatisfied with Mr. Levinson’s performance.
No wonder the City of Fullerton government continues to be such a total mess. No one on that council has the integrity and courage to consistently do the right thing. Without character or courage on the dais we the people of Fullerton are at the mercy of a very broken city government.
Mr. Whitaker has a ton of explaining to do to both Mr. Levinson and to the good people of Fullerton. It is so sad to realize that Mr. Whitaker has been the consummate politician when we the people of Fullerton desperately needed a statesmen and a leader which he so cleverly portends to be when in my opinion, nothing could be further from the truth. 
Leaders lead, leaders rally the troops, leaders sound the alarm, leaders warn others of impending situations that are harmful to the community.
I guess the bar has been so low for so long in this town that Bruce actually believes he is what he claims to be. You know that a great voting record means nothing when Bruce is making sure that it will continue to mean nothing by giving corruption a pass, maintaining the establishment balance of power on the dais all the while aiding and abetting the re-election of Fitzgerald.
November will be very interesting to say the least folks especially if Fullerton really opens her eyes. Time will tell and don’t accept any wooden nickels in the meantime ladies and gentlemen. There are far too many in the political mix in this town that need to turned in to the counterfeit office.
#1 by The Omen on August 23, 2016 - 1:06 pm
Listen up you guys. You are all a bunch of fucktards. You actually think Whitaker is some sort of statesman? Remember when the star of Fullerton’s Kabuki political theater, career politician Bruce Whitaker wanted to form an audit committee? Remember who was not invited to play in the sandbox?
I’m no fan of Levinson but let me tell you why he didn’t want Levinson on that committee and why he fired his big loudmouthed ass. Levinson is a ballsy smart guy and with full access to the city’s CAFRS, Levinson’s trained eyes in the right company would have found enough shit on these clowns to make Bell look like a fucking lemonade stand. Where the fuck do you think all the money has been going for decades as the roads and pipes are all fucked up? Do you know how many people have had a gag order on them at city hall?
Do you know why they will do everything in their power to keep Imbriano a hundred miles away from the real sets of books and closed sessions? Have you seen what Joe is capable of? He is fucking batshit crazy when it comes to exposing things. Its no wonder Whitaker is walking around with a set of depends on his fat ass trying to set up a defensive line for a wishbone play.
Bruce has been playing ball for years with these fucks. This was a great article but it was way too easy on this greasy guy. You don’t know the half of this shit.
Bruce knew about all the shit and then some. Yeah an audit committee would never pass the council so instead he handed a little glimpse of the tricky dick accounting to disheveled Sean Paden and his numbers guy Curlee. Bruce had them play around with the Brea Dam figures just long enough for them to fuck it all up and let Flory dickslapp Sean and Curlee around enough so they would go home with their tails between their legs for good. Now they both have forgotten about the whole thing that Bruce buried alive and now its time for smiley faces and bullshit for November. Sean Paden and Ryan Cantor are the two crutches for the housewife that they want you to fall in love with.
Cluelessness is her main attribute making her safe from Joe’s vitriol. I highly doubt Imbriano will be able to control himself long enough to lay off of her. That is why Bruce is working with the bosses to run her. She is perfectly establishment certified safe.
Gapinsky will try to siphon votes away from Joe because they are scared to death of the remote possibility, yes remote, that he could get enough people behind him to actually get elected. Is it likely? Perhaps not. Is it possible? Perhaps it is and that will be a fucking shit show to die for as he would blow open the decades of shit buried behind those walls. Bruce lined up his tools to throw this woman into the ring who is that same woman who with her fucking xenophobic mommy, helped install Fitzgerald 4 years ago.
You actually think Bruce Whitaker is some sort of a hero? Barry Levinson and Alfredo Gutierrez almost went to jail for nothing and Barry eventually got shit canned because Bruce didn’t want to deal with what Levinson kept screaming about. You know the millions of dollars and the backroom deals, the ones Red White and Blue Pat’s daughter has no clue about?
The original plan was to run Sean but Sean doesn’t have the balls or the bucks to go after Imbriano so Bruce put Sean Paden in charge of Shuff’s daughter’s campaign to ramrod a total politcal no show that will follow his orders. Gapisnky has never uttered a word at city hall and is clueless on the issues. Bruce, Sean, and Cantor are her handlers.
Shuff just got her daughter the Royce endorsement for all the favors she has done for Royce over the years. Fitzgerald gets the Royce endorsement for all the developer connections she brings to Pringle, Bruce gets the Royce endorsement for his hands off of Fitzgerald for four years. Bennett gets the Royce support for getting in the way of real reform.
Gapinsky’s mommy is endorsing Fitzgerald so that tells you everything you need to know. Royce is endorsing Bruce, Gapisnksy, Bennet and Fitzgerald. That tells you all that Fullerton is fucked and that tells everyone why these jerkoffs and their stooges want Joe nowhere Fullerton near city hall.
The truth here is that Joe needs to run for Congress and throw Royce the fuck out. He should just bypass all these fucking morons and send Royce to Guantanemo for a long vacation.
#2 by Donna on August 23, 2016 - 3:12 pm
Your mother needs to wash your mouth out with soap. Couldn’t you have said all that without all the expletives? Really? Come on.
#3 by TRUTH on August 25, 2016 - 10:25 am
Yeah, but The Omen is right on the money!!!
#4 by Fullerton Lover on September 3, 2016 - 12:38 pm
Although I find Ed “Rolls” Royce as appealing and good for the people of Fullerton as a hemorrhoid, he’s actually a Representative and not a Congressman.
His competition in the November of 2016 election is Brea’s former Mayor, Brett Murdock.
#5 by Fullerton Lover on September 3, 2016 - 3:58 pm
It seems wrong to refer to the Fullerton city council race as “non-partisan”, when we know that these particular women, Shuff and Gapinsky, are actually part of the Repuglican establishment.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/fullerton-593812-republican-support.html
#6 by Danny Boy on August 23, 2016 - 11:09 pm
Lol awesome. You should read this at the next council meeting.
#7 by Anonymous on August 25, 2016 - 9:33 am
Money says he does it.
#8 by Anonymous on August 23, 2016 - 11:11 pm
Holy smokes.
#9 by streets on August 24, 2016 - 2:23 pm
WTF? Who wrote this?
#10 by Anonymous on August 29, 2016 - 9:12 pm
Susie Shuff Gapinski
August 24 at 10:13pm
From her FP page
“If anyone reads a Fullerton Blog, that i wont dignify with naming in it’s entirety, and comes across a comment by “the omen” just know that almost all of what was written about me is untrue.
“And much of what is written about others is untrue as well, which makes me question the validity of all of it. I heard that politics is nasty, but come-on. The writer couldn’t even do simple fact checks, and they call me clueless. I raised a US Marine, I am a Union Ironworker, my skin is thick. If anybody has any questions about me just ask. Or even e mail me at gapinski4fullerton@gmail.com. If anything, I am tickled as pink as my tool belt that someone put so much thought into me.”
#11 by 33 degrees of separation on August 30, 2016 - 11:15 pm
Given the absurdities of all the players identified in the local scene, one has to wonder if Fullerton is even capable of identifying qualified leaders to elect. Notwithstanding a massive crisis or another tragedy, the people left to themselves will most likely continue to follow the same idiotic paths that will lead them back right where they started.
#12 by Fullerton resident on September 1, 2016 - 3:15 pm
That’s exactly right.
#13 by Fullerton Lover on September 3, 2016 - 11:15 am
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/fullerton-593812-republican-support.html
#14 by Fullerton Lover on September 4, 2016 - 8:48 pm
Fullerton voters should wonder if Sue Gapinski shares her mom and dad’s passion for racism?
http://www.smartvoter.org/2012/06/05/ca/or/vote/shuff_p/bio.html
“My family is involved in maintaining the sovereignty of the U.S. My husband has been involved in working to protect the U.S.-Mexico border from invasion by drug and people smugglers since 2005, and I am an activist against illegal immigration.”
I mean she did say in her own words that her “family” was involved in securing our borders since 2005 right?
#15 by Susan Gapinski on September 5, 2016 - 8:13 am
Fullerton lover,
I too love Fullerton, which is why I am running for city council. If you would like to talk to me I would be happy to talk to you. I won’t get in a back-and-forth with someone who is anonymous. There seems to be a lot of assumptions being made about me
You can e mail me your number at gapinski4fullerton@gmail.com, or message me on my Facebook page Susan Gapinski for Fullerton City Council. I look forward to hearing from you.
#16 by Joe Imbriano on September 5, 2016 - 11:35 am
Welcome. There seem to be many questions unanswered and here is a great place to start. Maybe you could start with the person that put you up to this whole thing and all the issues raised here that you call lies. I am waiting.
#17 by Susan Gapinski on September 5, 2016 - 4:29 pm
make an effort to contact me before you imply anything else about me. Stop making connections where there are none. I am not going to get in a conversation where most of the participants are not even willing to use their names. I hope I am clear about this.
#18 by Joe Imbriano on September 5, 2016 - 5:32 pm
Susan you have stated —
“If anyone reads a Fullerton Blog, that i wont dignify with naming in it’s entirety, and comes across a comment by “the omen” just know that almost all of what was written about me is untrue. And much of what is written about others is untrue as well, which makes me question the validity of all of it. I heard that politics is nasty, but come-on. The writer couldn’t even do simple fact checks, and they call me clueless. I raised a US Marine, I am a Union Ironworker, my skin is thick. If anybody has any questions about me just ask. Or even e mail me at gapinski4fullerton@gmail.com. If anything, I am tickled as pink as my tool belt that someone put so much thought into me.
You have implied that the website is full of lies-well that is a copout and you know it.
Please elaborate. We are waiting. Oh and according to your logic unless you know who the audience is, you will not answer questions? Are you for real? You mom is playing both sides of the fence with Fitzgerald so as to not upset Royce-fact-and a sad one at that. Please tell us about all these lies on this site.
#19 by Susan Gapinski on September 5, 2016 - 6:02 pm
My mom is not running, you seem to be running against her. If you care about the truth then contact me. I am not going to respond to all of the things said or implied about me here. Make of it what you will. Good evening.
#20 by Joe Imbriano on September 5, 2016 - 6:13 pm
Susan, what has been said about you here is very minimal. Your mom got you the Royce endorsement and she is supporting Fitzgerald. Bruce is the subject of much criticism and he has recruited you and endorsed you. You called me a liar and please be more specific. This site gets plenty of attention and it is a public forum. Please elaborate.
#21 by Susan Gapinski on September 5, 2016 - 6:32 pm
Your right it is minimal, and I will leave it at that.
#22 by Fullerton Lover on September 5, 2016 - 11:49 am
I was wondering exactly why it is that your family is spending so much time maintaining the sovereignty of the U.S./Mexican border?
Fullerton has 30-40 percent Hispanic voters, and I think that they’re entitled to know that your family spends an inordinate amount of time on immigration issues, BEFORE they cast their votes in November’s election.
How would other Fullerton voters be informed if you and I were to share a private conversation on the phone or over Facebook?
That’s why we have this forum.
#23 by Fullerton Lover on September 5, 2016 - 1:48 pm
Active in the anti-illegal immigration effort since 1991 and worked 11 months in 1994 to get Proposition 187 passed.
“That proposition was about stopping benefits to illegal aliens + it passed by nearly 60 percent but was sabotaged by a Carter-appointed judge and Gov. Gray Davis”
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/fullerton-593812-republican-support.html
I think that Fullerton voters should be asking themselves if they believe that you would equally represent the interests of those residents who happen to be of the Democratic party, which just happens to now be the majority of residents in Fullerton?
#24 by Susan Gapinski on September 5, 2016 - 4:05 pm
Fullerton lover,
I am a Union Ironworker. You are making connections where there are none to be made. I am not my mother. I wanted to speak to whomever is posting false things about me. If they were interested in the truth they would have contacted me, but it seems like they prefer to make false allegations and make connections where there are none. If you choose to continue to post things that are not true, then that is on you. Thank you, and best of luck to you Joe.
#25 by Fullerton Lover on September 5, 2016 - 5:55 pm
FY to Susan Gapinski…
This is a political blog and you are now running for political office. Questions won’t always be from people that you know. The information that I’ve posted have been articles that you yourself or your own Mother have posted for public consumption, so I’m a little fuzzy on how you think that I’m posting information that is not true.
If the information that your family is publishing isn’t true, feel free to refute same with a post of your own that shows everyone I’m a liar.
p.s. What was the “special prize’ that your members such as Janny Meyer or Jennifer Fitzgerald eligible to win if they answered your question about what was in the illegal-immigrant activist tool kit?
My money was on a pinata.
#26 by Fullerton Lover on September 5, 2016 - 4:37 pm
…one other question I’m dying to know is exactly what was the “special prize” that you gave new members of your group for correctly answering the question you posed for them about who can tell me what is on the activist tool-kit and what we as the blican women can do?”
Fullerton Republican Women Federated
February 24, 2014 ·
President’s message
By: Susie Gapinski
Every family has their favorite season; some like the heat of summer or the crispness of fall or the warmth of winter, but the fourth season, my favorite, comes around every two years and that is election season! It is a time for togetherness for my family, walking precincts, registering voters, stuffing envelopes, making phone calls; it doesn’t get much better than that. I am getting excited just thinking about it. You might be wondering why I am talking about it now, so early in the year, I’ll tell you why, it will be here sooner than you think and we need to be prepared. I liken it to a party, I liken everything to a party, the more prepared for the party the better it turns out, and turn out is what we are all about…voter turnout that is!
Last month’s program was very sobering. The issue of illegal immigration is not going away anytime soon, and after hearing Susan Tully from the Federation for American Immigration Reform talk it has become even more evident that we need to keep our elected officials feet to the flames, so to speak. F.A.I.R. has a very informative website that I suggest you visit, www. fairus.org. The website has a link called the “activist tool-kit” for those who are concerned about illegal immigration but do not know what to do about it. Much of the activist tool-kit contains actions that can be done from the comfort of your own home. How great is that! I will have a special prize for anyone who can tell me what is on the activist tool-kit and what we as a club can do.
One thing that I am proud of, being a federated woman, is the support the federation gives us. It is even in out bylaws: “Article II-object 2. To increase the effectiveness of women in the cause of good government.” (OCFRW bylaws, Dec.1 2012). This is evident in our own club seeing as we have a city council member, school board members, and central committee members in our club. That is pretty impressive if you ask me.
#27 by Susan Gapinski on September 5, 2016 - 5:48 pm
The prize was probably a plant or something like that. I also had a meeting about common core where we invited Dr. Pletka and Robert Hammond OCBOE to discuss the pros and cons of common core. That one was insightful as well. We bring programs to our members to educate them about issues. Please keep your eye out for meeting notices, non members are welcome.
#28 by Fullerton Lover on September 5, 2016 - 10:15 pm
That membership in your organization brings up another question.
How is it that you can have a club whose membership is limited to women?
I thought that that was illegal to exclude people by gender in a public organization?
#29 by Danny Boy on September 6, 2016 - 12:24 pm
We have membership clubs by race? What’s the difference.
#30 by Figure it out, Gapinski on September 7, 2016 - 9:05 pm
From: Denis Ian
Our schools are in a terrible tilt, and they’re about to topple on our children.
At the moment, the rarest word in all of education is “kids”. And the most ignored phrase in this giant jungle of jargon is “common sense”.
Long-revered pedagogical precepts have been blue-penciled by classroom-allergic theorists leveraged by profiteers who see public schools as the next sustainable profit-producing motherlode. And the political class … put into office by all of us … has mocked our vote and deserted our children in a flash of cash.
Never has American education been in such a moment of willful destruction of revered pedagogical principles. Never before have the wishes and concerns of those most vested in public schools been so summarily dismissed by bureaucratic double-speak and political bunk.
Beyond the view of the current skirmishes now underway across an array of states, is an emerging reality that … in a very short while … this reform will have razed an American institution to a mound of rubble.
And in its place … for as far as the eye can see … will stand drive-thru learning centers offering kiosk-educations from a B. F. Skinner touch-screen that will supply the finger-pointer with all they need to succeed in a life of rich monotony.
That’s what your now titling schools are going to look like. And that is your kid’s purgatory. Dante would have had devilish fun imagining the distinct horror levels of academic hell that await children in their most crucial years. The recent past showcases the scary future.
Kindergarten has already been invaded by classroom magistrates who see nothing wrong at all in shoving 70 month-olds into a rush-hour of academic traffic … because some basement gnome alleges it’s the ideal moment to vaccinate them with “grit” and “rigor”. And these academic tykes have no need for recess or songs or giggles … because those would be indicators of unseriousness. And education is, above all else, extra-serious business. Even for cherubs still ill-at-ease tying their own sneakers.
The elementary years seem destined to be the Tablet Years. The Mario Bros. Educational Principles will rule the day as students win points and pile up Magic No. 2 Pencils as they are prompted from one level to the next. Competency based education will erase all of those annoying human variables and every learner who reaches Level Six will see their names glitter in on-screen pixie dust. And an 8 X 10 screen-shot of that conquering moment will become the new diploma.
By the time they arrive at middle school they’ll be thoroughly “Skinnered” … and on-screen accountability and specially-tapered curriculum designs will suffocate all of those aggravating teenage twitches and quirks. Schools will … above all else … homogenize this stage of maturity so that no nail stands up … and individuality is presented as antithetical narcissism that is thoroughly unacceptable. Creativity will be assessed as a day-dreaming activity … time consuming musing more symptomatic of a sloth than of genius.
High school will become the sorting years … the Divergent Time … when, at long last, the future of every young adult will become crystal clear. Youngsters will be endlessly nudged in this or that career pathway … justified by the overwhelming mounds of data that can be Hansel and Greteled all the way back to the days when joy was first run out of their very brand-new lives.
And at every level, parents will lose more and more control of their children. They will be less and less invited by school authorities to take part in the joy-remembering rites of passage we all associate with growing up. And that is all by design because the very last thing these new educational absolutists want is any mother or father acting as though they have any regency at all over their own child’s education.
Orwell yourself beyond the moment and come to terms with what awaits us all on the horizon of touch-screen education and data-driven assessments. Huxley yourself into the world of tomorrow when your children will have been programmed and plugged into lifetime situations based not on their passions but on some algorithmic prescription burped out by some electronic ouija mother-board.
If you are doubting of this, examine what the last half-decade has wrought. In the blink of an eye, schools have been systematically transformed, alarmed parents tattooed as adversaries, and politicians have morphed into carnival barkers for every profiteer determined to get their slice of the Big Education pie.
And all the while, half-a-generation has already endured this child-abusing, educational malpractice … as they are guinea-pigged into blazing trails in the brave new world of scholastic madness.
And that is the great tilt. What are you going to do about it?
And if you decide to do nothing … then stand ready to watch their lives topple into misery in this brave new world.
Denis Ian
#31 by Susan Gapinski on September 5, 2016 - 5:55 pm
The prize was probably a plant or something like that. We also had a program about common core where we invited Dr. Pletka, FSD Superintendent, and Robert Hammond from the OCBOE to discuss common core from 2 perspectives. Please keep an eye out for meeting notices, we try to provide informative programs and non members are welcome.
#32 by Anonymous on September 7, 2016 - 7:50 pm
“The website has a link called the “activist tool-kit” for those who are concerned about illegal immigration but do not know what to do about it.”
If that is the case, why did you accept an endorsement from Rep. Ed Royce, who now has a solid grade of “F” from NumbersUSA, which tracks the voting record of elected officials on illegal immigration.
Take a look, Ms. Gapinski:https://www.numbersusa.com/content/my/congress/113/gradescoresheet/
Question to you: Because you accepted Ed Royce’s endorsement, can it be assumed that you share the same stance on illegal immigration?
In response to #155:
“The website has a link called the “activist tool-kit” for those who are concerned about illegal immigration but do not know what to do about it.”
If that is the case, why did you accept an endorsement from Rep. Ed Royce, who now has a solid grade of “F” from NumbersUSA, which tracks the voting record of elected officials on illegal immigration.
Take a look, Ms. Gapinski: https://www.numbersusa.com/content/my/congress/113/gradescoresheet/
Question to Ms. Gapinski: Because you accepted Ed Royce’s endorsement, can it be assumed that you share the same stance on illegal immigration? Or, do you disagree with Ed Royce on this matter?
“One thing that I am proud of, being a federated woman, . . . . This is evident in our own club seeing as we have a city council member, school board members, and central committee members in our club. That is pretty impressive if you ask me.”
So, the common thread, that of being a particular gender and for which no one has any control over, being a woman puts you in the same category as Jennifer Fitzgerald, Janny Meyer, Bev Berryman, Hilda Sugarman, Lynn Thornily, Barbara Kilponen & Marilyn Buchi. These women have all gone out of their way to irradiate children and teachers in Fullerton. Hilda Sugarman has even stated that she wants kids to have these wireless devices 24/7! They have all turned their backs on the kids. Parents’ Voice founder, MJ Noor, has stated that wireless in schools is “extremely dangerous.”
Then, there is Jennifer Fitzgerald. You must be uninformed or okay with selling off the city of Fullerton to developers, you must be okay with someone that votes to give raises to the union and creating a $ 2.5 M budget deficit over two years. You must be okay with a woman who votes to locate a homeless shelter in close proximity to a school and residential apartments. I could go on for quite awhile, but I won’t.
Ms. Gapinski, I guess we know what you are for since you support these individuals that are doing to harm, not only to the Fullerton children but also to the residents.
And, you are so proud, because you are a federated “woman.” Something you had no control over, nothing you earned, nothing you worked to attain. Simply, you are a woman.
#33 by Fullerton Lover on September 7, 2016 - 10:00 pm
I think it’s important to hold Ms. Gapinski’s “feet to the fire” (her term, not mine) on why she is espousing all of her Fullerton Republican Women’s group members like Janny Meyer, or Jennifer Fitzgerald, to try and win prizes by learning to become activists from a group (F.A.I.R.) whose founder is a white nationalist zero population growth eugenics advocate?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_for_American_Immigration_Reform
#34 by Joe Imbriano on September 7, 2016 - 10:08 pm
Because Gapinksi and her coffee clutch has been ignoring what I have laid out for years-Yes these women have all ignored all of this for years and years and years. Since you bring up eugenics well. I have for years at council, school board meetings, tens of thousands of fliers on windhsheilds, I have stood on the sidewalks in front of schools getting the police called on me over and over, roamed the halls in Sacramento, rallied lobbied and yes they have officially all turned their backs on the children. And they call me names? How about those apples? No pun intended-read this and weep because it is irrefutable evidence that the entire corrupt morally bankrupt establishment in Fullerton is gonna have all over their face as it becomes reality for tens of thousands of school children– https://thefullertoninformer.com/apple-666-project-inkwell-and-agenda-21-an-expose-with-an-all-star-cast/
#35 by Anonymous on September 8, 2016 - 3:03 pm
You love Fullerton so much that you never or almost never even attend a city council or a planning meeting, let alone going on the record speaking out in front of these city bodies.
I am always just a little suspicious when someone has so little direct involvement and then decides to run. Is it not true that you were recruited to run by Bruce Whitaker and that is why you were one of the last candidates to take out and file your papers to run for office. I also heard that Congressman Ed Royce has endorsed you. I have not heard one thing about any of your positions or qualification for office yet Ed Royce apparently does not need to know those very important items. I guess being Pat Shuff’s daughter is all Congressman Shuff needed to know. This proves that in the world of dirty politics, it is not what you know but “who you know” that counts.