Bruce Whitaker shamefully and cowardly removed Barry Levinson from his long term position on the Fullerton Parks and Recreation Commission without any formal written notice and without any reason given. Bruce has shown his hand and I believe Dan Hughes once again has too. Was Bruce in on this possible set up of Levinson gone bad with the FPD? Who knows but one thing is for sure, the way Bruce Whitaker handled this issue certainly provided an opportunity for a game of FPD “gotcha” that almost played out when no one was looking on a Monday night while everyone was home watching the ball game.
This speech by Barry Levinson is probably what got Bruce’s bosses up in arms. We all know that Nelson, Fitzgerald, and Bennett are as tight as a pipe wrench on a busted city water main. We know that Nelson and Bruce have been two peas in a pod for years with Bruce squandering all of the political capital of the recall on firework stands under Nelson’s direction. We all know Bruce has never publicly gone after Fitzgerald’s voting record or her blatant conflict of interest as a lobbyist for Pringle as she holds her next fundraiser at Pringle and associates office but Barry has. Bruce even voted for her to be mayor making it even more difficult to throw her out in November. Nice going Bruce. We all know Barry Levinson stands up for the residents of Fullerton and has selflessly given of himself for years with NO CONNECTIONS to the establishment and has foiled more of their plans to rip off the taxpayers and ruin Fullerton with the developers than anyone in Fullerton. He has been more effective than anyone up on the dais and they know it.
Barry Levinson
Well Barry showed up for the Monday June 13, 2016 Park and Recreation commission meeting for the first time in over 5 years as a citizen instead of a commissioner and sat in the audience. Seated in the audience in the back of the totally empty room in the south aisle were seated not one, not two but three Fullerton Police officers. Yes there were a supervisor and two patrol officers. Why were they there after hours on overtime on a Monday evening in an empty room?
Was Mike Chocek waiting for Barry to make a move so these three can make theirs?
So why were the microphones turned off for the better part of the meeting? The clerk was there typing away and running the computer. Why? What was scheduled to go down?
Was Mike Chocek waiting to present information that was never asked for, waiting to answer questions that were never asked or waiting for just another opportunity to set up Barry Levinson?
I believe the plan was to go down like this. Barry was given no formal written notice that he was removed from the commission. The three officers, including a supervisor, were to wait for Barry to take his seat up on the dais, wait for him to be asked to step down, and then upon the slightest inclination of his questioning or refusal, was to be arrested by these three officers. There is no other reason for not one not two but three officers to be there.
does this face look familiar? Here he is in the video below.
In this video, Veth Mam, a citizen was arrested and framed by the Fullerton police while recording the event. The DA brought the charges even when presented with video evidence refuting the lies of the Fullerton Police officers at the scene. Yes they lied on their police report alleging Veth Mam jumped the cop and started chocking him when in fact the officer grabbed and abused a totally innocent man filming a detainment. After jail time, attorney’s fees and a trial, Veth Mam was acquitted of all charges. He later sued and got nothing.
Barry and I had discussions prior to this meeting and knew that something was brewing considering how underhanded city officials have acted in the past. Our plan was to continue being citizen activists like we have all along. The meeting went on and the officers were never introduced, called upon for questions or even mentioned.
So at the end of the meeting, hours later on a Monday night, I took it upon myself to question this blatant waste of taxpayer resources and ask them personally why they were there, all three of them. As it turns out, Hugo Curiel invited them and I believe it was probably on the orders of Dan Hughes and on behalf of Joe Felz who Hugo repeatedly refers to as “the Boss”. Hugo was obviously the most unsettled I have ever seen him. He couldn’t sit still for most of the meeting, noticeably extremely uncomfortable and nervous. I believe his demeanor indicated that this was not going to be a normal evening. It was also a dead giveaway as Alice Loya kept smirking and smiling as acted as if she was the only one in the buffet line at the Bellagio.
Hugo Curiel and Alice Loya. Ms.Loya was apparently able to see through Travertine walls and an elevator shaft the night of the attempted framing of Levinson back in 2014.
So why all the cops with a supervisor just to sit in an empty room for hours in silence? Lying in wait to seize the moment for their boss Danny Boy, intimidation or for information? Well these three models of public service had jack shit for information folks. Listen up. Hugo invited them.
So when I asked them why they were there, they told me it had to do with the homeless issue at Pacific Drive Park. Funny not one staffer or commissioner had a question for the three of them who were probably all on overtime. How many officers does it take to answer staff questions? So as a member of the public, I proceeded to ask these officers questions about the issues at the park as they were supposedly there to answer questions about the park. They of course had no information about the park or anything related to crime or problems associated with the park that Felz wants to fence off and take away from the public possibly to sell it off to Grace Ministries along with the Hunt Library.
Commissioner Silva looks on as truth is being told
Yes sell off public property like the Hunt Library behind our backs to fund the out of control pensions and salaries for people like this.
So tell me how many officers does it take to answer questions of present information to a commission on issues regarding homelessness at a park that sat for hours in an empty room after hours that were never mentioned, introduced or called upon?
How many police officers are required to set up, frame and arrest Barry Levinson? Why do we need Mike Chocek, a supervisor and two patrol officers to sit for hours in a meeting in an empty room on a Monday night and never open their fly traps or answer any questions even when called upon by me after the meeting?
How many officers does it take to set up, frame and arrest Barry Levinson?
How many officers does it take to set up , frame and arrest Barry Levinson?
Why would the FPD’s Dan Hughes want Barry Levinson in jail? Dan Hughes hates Barry Levinson because Barry Levinson is a threat. He exposes corruption that Dan Hughes is involved in. How about “the Boss” Joe Felz?
How about “the Boss” Joe Felz?
Now you tell me after watching this video how the city council including Bruce Whitaker could have done anything but demand a full investigation into what went down with what appears to be the attempted framing of Barry Levinson. After Bruce delivered this speech, he was never the same man up on the dais, never mentioning this issue again and remaining silent on many serious issues that followed even though he promised Barry and I that he would. Obviously he got a talking to and it worked.
Don’t let the flag fool you. Stanford is an empty suit too.
BARRY HAS BEEN CALLING OUT CORRUPTION IN THIS TOWN FOR YEARS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
Dan Hughes told Bruce Whitaker that he “HATES THE GUY” referring to Barry Levinson
Dan Hughes calls Barry Levinson “CRAZY AND UNSTABLE” at a city council meeting
Dan Hughes claims he can be objective while he hates Barry Levinson and personally runs the investigation, personally interviews the witnesses and writes the report himself and personally submits the complaint to the DA for prosecution but he can be objective right?
Barry was a former chairperson and two time appointee to the Fullerton Parks and Recreation commission. He was put there to do his job by Bruce Whitaker over 5 years ago. Here is just another example of Bruce Whitaker’s appointee Barry Levinson doing his job and for months, the person that put him there, Bruce Whitaker, has totally ignored what Barry has brought forward! So what does Barry get for doing his job? He gets fired by the one who holds himself out as a statesman on the council, Bruce Whitaker. Whatever happened to the audit committee Bruce was crying for? Barry repeatedly hands up the goods on a silver platter and gets set up like a bowling pin. City hall needs an enema like nobody’s business folks.
Ladies and gentlemen, like many of you, Barry and I will never rest until this town is cleaned up and you have our word on that.
Watch who you vote for in November and watch your backs with the FPD-anyone could be next. That is why you will see my name on the Ballot and I won’t take a dime or an endorsement from any of the establishment thugs that are still trying to ruin this town for their own selfish gain and political ambition. Fullerton is worth fighting for because it is our town folks. Lets make sure they never forget that. It is our town, yours and mine. Stay vigilant Fullerton.
#1 by Ashamed Fullerton Resident on June 16, 2016 - 10:34 pm
Thanks in part to Mr. Imbriano and Mr. Levinson, we now know that Bruce Whitaker is just another phony politician following orders from other phony and corrupt politicians. In so doing, he just committed political suicide.
How can he ignore huge problems in city government raised over and over by Mr. Levinson and say that he is representing the people of Fullerton? If he ever refers to himself ever again as a statesman, he should be laughed off the dais.
He set in motion the opportunity for the FPD to order 3 police officers to an almost totally empty council chamber for obviously nefarious reasons. This is much more than dirty politics. It is criminal behavior by those in power in Fullerton. Yes it certainly appears that our Police Chief still hates that guy named Mr. Levinson and is corrupt and dishonest enough to do anything underhanded to hurt Mr. Levinson. Police Chief Hughes and City Manager Felz and all their willing helpers need to be brought up on criminal conspiracy charges.
As far as Mr. Whitaker is concerned, I do not think he will recover from the mess he has made for himself. Furthermore, the people of Fullerton should never forget that he threw an honest, hard working appointee under the bus.
I am a firm believer that what goes around comes around or to put it another way…you will reap what you sow.
All the Emperors….Shawn Nelson, Jennifer Fitzgerald, Larry Bennett, Dan Hughes, Joe Felz and Bruce Whitaker have no clothes and unfortunately have no integrity or honesty either.
Mr. Whitaker has lost all credibility and he is the one who should be stepping down from the council.
No one should be fired for doing their job well and telling the truth.
#2 by Fullerton Lover on June 16, 2016 - 11:24 pm
I couldn’t agree more.
Well said.
#3 by Reality Is..... on June 17, 2016 - 4:23 pm
Wrong. What Bruce did with this move is guarantee his election again. You guys think backwards. Supporting crazy people doesn’t win you anything. And being against public safety guarantees failure.
#4 by Fullerton Lover on June 17, 2016 - 8:39 pm
I believe that Bruce has alienated the folks on the south side who originally got him elected, and that they’ll find another candidate who will listen to them who is NOT Bruce Whitaker, who seems more interested in supporting the Fullerton oil and real estate lobby…who last time I checked, don’t have too many voters in Fullerton.
http://docs.cityoffullerton.com/weblink/Browse.aspx?dbid=1
#5 by Reality Is..... on June 17, 2016 - 10:42 pm
what exactly has he done to alienate his previous voters?
#6 by Fullerton Lover on June 18, 2016 - 9:41 am
Just take a look around the south side of Fullerton, hundreds of new built homes stacked on top of each other, as well the additional traffic congestion that comes with them, roads so poor that you can’t go faster than 35 miles an hour on them without blowing out a tires, alignment, and your suspension, and parks which are largely ignored or locked up altogether because they’re still too toxic, libraries that close over night because the police can’t keep the surrounding area safe for children to visit the library, drunks from downtown spilling into the nearby bedroom communities, where they actually have driven into residents houses and killed occupants, knifing and sexually assaults and DUI’s are all so commonplace downtown now, that they rarely make the news, and knowing that our downtown area used to actually be “dry” at one time and was quite civil without the alcohol being poured down a bunch of gullible and impressionable college age kids, , and then ask yourself if you were raising your children in Fullerton, would you really want to leave them with the shit hole that Fullerton has become in the last few years?
#7 by Reality Is..... on June 18, 2016 - 4:05 pm
Oh man. Look around So Cal. Visit Santa Ana sometime. What you describe has nothing to do with just Fullerton. Homeless problem has no answers anymore. We the voters voted in Prop 47 and that is the final straw in breaking California’s back. No more punishments. No more jail time. No more sobriety. We reap what we sow. LOL love blaming the police though. What do you expect the police to do? We changed the laws so now the cops at the most, can just issue tickets. Public property is just that. Homeless, transients, drunks. addicts, can all hang out all they want now. Every city the same. So yea, you can try to blame that on Brucey but that has nothing to do with Bruce. If you want to start change in this state, you need to get Prop 47 overturned. Without that, we are stuck dealing with the increasing homeless and transient problem across this state that is increasing by the day.
#8 by Fullerton Lover on June 18, 2016 - 6:20 pm
I never said any thing about the homeless in Fullerton?
Nice story though.
#9 by Reality Is..... on June 19, 2016 - 9:33 am
Yes you did. Keeping the libraries safe for the children, drunks all over the place. That’s the homeless. You think its the Fullerton citizens? Go visit the area sometime.
#10 by Reality Is..... on June 17, 2016 - 4:24 pm
Bruce and Travis used to think alike. Bruce saw what being anti public safety got Travis. A swift kick in the ass quickly. Bruce doesn’t want to be like Travis. Or like Tony B. So the best way to not be like Travis and Tony B, was to kick Barry out the door. Winning.
#11 by Fullerton Lover on June 17, 2016 - 10:05 pm
Didn’t you ever wonder why this “John Wilson Phelps” would give city councilwoman Jan Flory $10,000 to get elected to the city council in 2012, and then only give $500 to Jennifer Fitzgerald, as well as bankroll the three city councilman who were recalled in 2012?
Details to follow…
http://docs.cityoffullerton.com/weblink/1/doc/520319/Page1.aspx
#12 by Reality Is..... on June 17, 2016 - 10:44 pm
Please tell us why so I don’t have to research it. Giving $500 to each candidate is a normal move. Some people like to support politics and don’t want to endorse a candidate so they just contribute to them all. I know that’s common in public safety unions and politics now. That way they support them all equally which keeps them in good graces no matter what after the election. Back in the old days they would endorse someone, and then have a strained relationship with someone that pulled off an odd win.
#13 by Anonymous on June 17, 2016 - 10:57 pm
Hi, have you ever heard of the term “non sequiter?”
#14 by Reality Is..... on June 18, 2016 - 7:08 am
No.