What do you call elected officials that ignore when an official presentation by their own city attorney’s office is false? You call them Mayor Doug Chaffee, Council members Bruce Whitaker, Jennifer Fitzgerald, Greg Sebourn and Jesus Silva.
Question: Why would a proven lie about which sex offenders are covered (all sex offenders in California’s Jessica’s Law vs. only Child Sex Offenders in the former Fullerton City Ordinance, No. 3149) be allowed to stand without not one person on the Fullerton City Council dais acknowledging the falsehood presented by City Attorney James Touchstone? Touchstone erroneously stated that Ordinance No. 3149 covered all sex offenders, which is a blatant falsehood. Why would they not correct the record when Joe Imbriano, Diane Hickey and myself pointed it out to them at council real time, prior to making a decision to rescind that ordinance based largely on that proven falsehood?
Bruce Whitaker
CHARACTER COUNTS as I proclaimed in the above video and not one person on the dais including the City Attorney Dick Jones, nor our Interim Police Chief acknowledged the egregious error. When an egregious error from our city attorney in an official presentation to council is brought to the attention of our city leaders, and they ignore correcting it, one could easily conclude that the error was in fact intentional. The fact that not one of the council members responded to us leads one to believe their was collusion on this issue, a clear Brown Act violation. So Dick Jones our City Attorney not only ignored the fact that his partner in his law firm Jones and Mayer misinformed the public with his false presentation and then Jones refused to acknowledge that error but also apparently ignored a very likely Brown Act violation.
Their actions potentially made our kids less safe by siding with a formerly convicted sex offender who filed lawsuits against 17 municipalities in California. The fact that our law was much more specific on who it impacted and covered was something that our city wanted not only to desperately ignore but to attempt to fool the public as well in the process. These are the actions of morally bankrupt elected and appointed officials and they should be roundly condemned for their scurrilous actions.
If you remember one thing come next election day, it is the above charade carried out by our City of Fullerton government at the expense of our children’s safety. With the knowledge what are entire city council did above, I know all of you will do the right thing and kick their corrupt, morally bankrupt backsides out of office permanently.
I report, you decide.
By Barry Levinson
#1 by Barry Levinson on January 11, 2018 - 10:24 am
On a typical evening, there are less than 30 to 50 citizens showing up for a council meeting who do not have an agenda item specifically related to them. Good luck getting 400 to 500 volunteering part-time to police the city on a regular basis. We are currently in a period where citizen involvement in government affairs is at an all-time low.