Our Fullerton City Council Accepted Totally False Information from A Presentation Given By Our City Attorney Office To Be Used Specifically To Repeal a Law A Year Ago February (Ordinance No 3149) That Helped To Protect Our Children From Disgusting Child Sex Offenders! It Does Not Get Any More Vile And Disgusting Than That Piece of Information!
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. It covered CHILD SEX OFFENDERS ONLY! At that time there had been no California court that ruled against residence restrictions for only child sex offenders. Why would they not correct the record when I pointed it out to them at council real time, prior to making a decision to rescind that ordinance based largely on that proven falsehood?
I say specifically to BRUCE WHITAKER our Mayor at the Time (and now running for the State Senate) and Council member Doug Chaffee (now running for Orange County Supervisor), CHARACTER COUNTS. Not one person on the dais including the City Attorney Dick Jones, nor our Interim Police Chief acknowledged the egregious error/lie. 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 me 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, James Touchstone 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 our 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.
This is only one of many reasons to NOT VOTE for phony BRUCE WHITAKER for State Senate and to NOT VOTE for phony DOUG CHAFFEE for Orange Country Supervisor. Do not vote for these two poor excuses for elected representatives, when they knowingly accepted false information to vote for pedophiles and against the safety of all of our children.
I think my readership from outside Southern California must be in total shock to find out that our Fullerton City Council on a 5 to 0 vote, sided with convicted child sex offenders over the protection of our children. The Fullerton Law which my wife Susan and I pushed for in 2010 gave penalties to a state wide referendum known as Jessica’s Law passed in 2006 with over 70% of the vote that restricted all Sex Offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or park. The law I championed and got passed in 2010 did the same with penalties but only for CHILD SEX OFFENDERS. Now two of them that repealed this very good law, want to be rewarded with promotions: Bruce Whitaker running for State Senate and Doug Chaffee running for Orange County Supervisor. Chaffee told us repeatedly that he will not run again for City Council and being in his mid 70’s almost all of us assumed that meant his retirement from politics. Now we learn his wife is running for the 5th District Seat for Fullerton City council even though she has lived in the 2nd District for the last 15 to 20 years. Send a very clear and loud message that Bruce Whitaker and Doug Chaffee need to be removed from elected office as soon as possible and do not deserve promotions. They are all looking for more power, hundred thousand dollar plus paychecks for part-time work and huge pensions to boot. All for supporting the rights of convicted pedophiles over the safety of our children.
I report, you decide.
By Barry Levinson
#1 by Anonymous on May 14, 2018 - 6:11 am
There’s another reason to not vote for Bruce: he is such a poor judge of character he actually appointed Barry to the Parks & Rec Committee. Granted, he later regretted that decision and fired him, but wow, what an idiot.