FULLERTON CIVIC LEADER AND ACTIVIST BARRY LEVINSON
COUNTING THE MANY WAYS THAT COUNCIL MEMBER WHITAKER HAS FAILED THE GOOD PEOPLE OF FULLERTON AS FOLLOWS:
- Bruce Whitaker voted to place Ma’Ayn Johnson, a S.C.A.G senior planner to our Fullerton Planning Committee. S.C.A.G, the Southern California Association of Governments, has been pushing for high-rise, high-density development and the elimination of the automobile as agents of the United Nations Agenda 21 for decades. S.C.A.G is the largest unelected, taxpayer funded, governmental agency in the country and so-called limited government, Bruce Whitaker voted for her to be on our Fullerton Planning Commission
Question: Why did Bruce Whitaker support a S.C.A.G. employee and Agenda 21 advocate, which goes against everything he has been pontificating to his loyal supporters for years and years? May I remind Bruce Whitaker that the American colonies went to war with Britain because of Taxation Without Representation? Yet Bruce Whitaker votes for Ma’Ayn Johnson, when there were 16 other qualified candidates for that very same position.
- Bruce Whitaker voted to make Jennifer Fitzgerald our Mayor almost guaranteeing her to be reelected with the help of the title Mayor on the ballot.
- Bruce Whitaker voted for the absolute worst redistricting map, which I call the high-density, high-rise developers and downtown nightclub owners’ map. It is the only map presented to the council that basically disenfranchises the good people who live in and around the downtown area of Fullerton. Rather than being in primarily one district, Popoff’s map divides our downtown residents into five small pieces attached to other neighborhoods throughout Fullerton. This is taxation without adequate representation. Jeremy Popoff, the owner of the Downtown Fullerton Slidebar and a $1,500 contributor to Bruce Whitaker’s past campaigns, wrote this map. Is this a coincidence or not?
- Bruce Whitaker refused to respond verbally or in writing to my extremely well documented analysis of a 4 to 5 million-dollar finding concerning the Fullerton Golf Course. I am a trained auditor with an MBA and work experience with Ernst and Young, a worldwide CPA firm as well as 12 years as an Internal auditor at the Corporate Headquarters of Northrop Grumman Corporation. A total of over 30 years of accounting and auditing experience ignored by the Council member who appointed me to the Parks and Recreation Committee not once but twice.
Yet to my astonishment, a short time after he chose not to deal with my very large, extremely well documenting and supported finding, he asks for the establishment of an Audit Committee for our City. Of course his motion got no support and it died immediately. Was this by design? Was Bruce Whitaker being a hypocrite? I will let the readers make up their own minds.
I do know this for sure. Bruce Whitaker has a lot of explaining to do but unfortunately for him he is way more than a day late and a dollar short!
Bruce Whitaker: Image vs. Reality
The carefully cultivated image of a man who cares about the people he represents, who believes in transparency in government, who believes in his fiduciary responsibility to the people.
We have now come to learn that the image is so, so different than reality. Anyone objective enough to absorb the facts presented here and elsewhere, now knows that the reality falls far short from the carefully cultivated image.
The very unprofessional and very discourteous way he handled the termination of me from the P and R committee and the fact that he ignored a 4 to 5 million-dollar problem brought to his attention by the same appointee, myself among many other things, shows him lacking in the basics, necessary to continue to represent the people of Fullerton. What happened to his pledge to carry out his fiduciary responsibility to the people of Fullerton?
We the people of Fullerton want to know why you voted for the most corrupt redistricting map available, Map 8A not once but twice and voted to make Jennifer Fitzgerald Mayor?
Bruce voted to make this woman mayor as he never goes after Nelson’s sacred cow and Pringle lobbyist up on the dais Fitzgerald
There is absolutely no good reason why Council member Whitaker ignored the Fullerton Golf Course issue. But the reason he removed me is simple. I was apparently getting in the way of the city doing its corrupt, phony deals. I am referring to deals such as the DCCSP, College Town, the Summit House lease extension, and the Revised DCCSP (which would have also removed Polly’s Pies from its current long-time address and basically removed one of the few shopping centers in the eastern part of Fullerton). The Agenda item to extend an existing Summit House Restaurant lease deal, which already could extend to the year 2041 was another back room deal by our city council. The Summit House not the city already controlled options with the exact same terms to the year 2041. In other words the Summit House was in the driver seat until the year 2041 or 26 years from the date of this agenda item. But the Summit House wanted more and our totally inept or corrupt city council and city manager (you take your pick for it has to be one or the other), wanted to give them two additional 10-year lease extensions with the exact same terms all the way to October 2061.
This meant that the city intentionally bypassed the Park and Recreation Committee for this important agenda issue. I was the only speaker to point out how the city manager and the city council wrongly bypassed the Park and Recreation Committee. Based on my bringing this failure by the city to the attention of all that night, it resulted in it supposedly going back to our committee. Guess what, a little over a month later I learned that the agenda item was withdrawn by the Summit House Restaurant owner.
Hugo Curiel -I bet the Summit House item was deferred to prevent disclosure of the cushy lease arrangement Parkinson has with the City.
Mr. Parkinson this land is your land this land is my land
Question: Would any reasonable businessman accept extending a lease with the same current terms for the next 46 years? Why didn’t Bruce Whitaker inform me as his appointee to the Park and Recreation Committee that this agenda item had been wrongly bypassed by the city?
Free dinners for life for the complicit lackeys, well almost.
Was Bruce Whitaker part of this plan to bypass the P and R Committee? If not, why did he not contact me when he received his council member agenda package. The agenda package clearly stated that the lease extension was recommended by the Park and Recreation Department and not the Park and Recreation Committee, which is the normal procedure.
A few will claim that this is just a personal vendetta against the good council member because he removed me from my volunteer position at the Parks and Recreation Committee.
This is not personal but it is very painful to me and more importantly to many others who believed and trusted Bruce Whitaker to represent us honestly based on his many years of his pontificating fiscally conservative values and limited government solutions. He let all of us down. He had such a golden opportunity to make a real difference in our City and instead over the past year he decided to place politics and his own ambition in front of the needs of the people he swore to represent.
He told me about a year ago that he was planning to run for Shawn Nelson’s OC Supervisory seat when it became available, which will be no later than when term limits apply for Nelson in 2018. It would seem all his poor and unexplainable decisions might have been based on his selfish political ambitions instead of standing up for the good people of Fullerton. This turning his back on his most loyal supporters can’t and should not be rewarded with his reelection. He chose his future political career outside of Fullerton over us. You have let us down big time Council member Bruce Whitaker and hopefully now you will have to pay a political price for your bad, very selfish and self-serving choices.
#1 by Fullerton - The Most Corrupt City in California on May 24, 2017 - 10:00 pm
For the entire council led by Mayor Bruce Whitaker to repeal a law (Ordinance 3149, the Child Sex Offender Residency Restriction Act), whose sole purpose is to make it less likely that pedophiles will have access to our kids where they regularly gather is so grotesque on its face. But to do this based on a proven false presentation by Fullerton City Attorney James Touchstone demonstrates a complete lack of decency, integrity and honesty by the entire City Council, the City Attorney and the Fullerton Police Chief and a callous disregard for the safety of all our children in Fullerton. (I sure hope Mr. Touchstone is not married with children for I can’t imagine what his wife would think of his deplorable actions.) Mr. Touchstone stated that I was wrong and that Ordinance 3149 covered all Sex Offenders not only Child Sex Offenders. The significance of this is that no California Court has adjudicated or even commented on the restriction of only child sex offenders and The City Attorney’s Office should have known this from the beginning and certainly were reminded of it by Mr. Levinson and others. Yet the entire City Council, the City Attorney, the City Manager and the City Police Chief all allowed James Touchstone’s false statements in an official presentation for the City of Fullerton to go uncorrected!
As elected/appointed officials you can not sink any lower than this. What kind of human beings would choose this course of action against the children of our community? This by itself is an offense that more than merits a recall against all five of them starting with our Appointed Mayor Bruce Whitaker.