Why new Mayor Greg Sebourn is such a huge disappointment to many who voted to re-elect him to the Fullerton City Council?
I REPORT, YOU DECIDE-By Barry Levinson
A week ago I posted an article on The Fullerton Informer website entitled “Fullerton Police Chief Dan Hughes — yet another look (Originally posted June 9, 2014; Edited with a few additional comments on January 14, 2015 including new P.S.), by BARRY LEVINSON
https://thefullertoninformer.com/#sthash.xb43kL8z.dpuf
It concerned Fullerton’s Police Chief Dan Hughes.
That post dealt with getting answers to important questions that the chief has been silent on for far too long. Mayor Sebourn immediately removed that shared post and now he has changed his settings to not allow me to post at all on his Facebook page.
Greg Seabourn
I am saddened that questions that he should be demanding Dan Hughes answer are apparently questions that he does not want to be associated with at all. I have been a Fullerton activist for limited government, civil liberties, safety especially for all our children and open and transparent government for the past 5 years. I also endorsed Greg for reelection. Yet despite all this he followed the council majority crowd by attempting to lynch me at an October 2014 council meeting (I believe they call that a piling on penalty in football) without knowing the facts or asking for the city video which proved all alleged misdemeanor charges hoisted against me by our Police Chief Dan Hughes to be completely bogus. However, there has been no public apology or even a simple mea culpa from our new Mayor. It is now way overdue Mayor Sebourn and I will graciously accept it, if you decide to do the right thing.
https://thefullertoninformer.com/the-lynching/
Now as Mayor one of his first pieces of business in this new-year was
to reassert a 30-minute limit for public comments at the front end of
city council meetings.
As someone, who has regularly attended the Fullerton city council meetings for the past 5 years, I can attest that many meetings had public comments lasting much more than 30 minutes. In fact after the Kelly Thomas brutal death by members of the FPD, public comments many times ran one to two hours and beyond. This is one of the few ways the public has the opportunity to ask questions and to attempt to hold all our public officials accountable in a public forum.
It is my understanding that at the start of each new council, the Mayor can set the meeting criteria including the length of each public comment speaker as well as the limit if any for all public comments. Yet instead of speaking out as the public’s representative and stating how important it is to allow the public the ability to speak before council you thought it necessary to ride rough shot over the public and their rights.
Shame on you Mayor Sebourn for setting rules that
will help limit free speech and the exchange of ideas during our
council meetings.
I recently recalled that former Mayor Chaffee seeing a large group of speakers waiting to speak before the council attempted to reduce each person’s time from 3 minutes down to 2 minutes to try to keep the total time within 30 minutes. I also recall that the remaining four council members all voted him down.
4 more years of this Greg?
Greg Sebourn is the same Mayor who at a recent Fullerton California Republican Assembly meeting lectured about the importance of knowing and supporting the Republican Party platform. I must have missed the part that states it is the Republican Party’s goal to limit our free speech before our elected officials. Mayor you talked the talk at that CRA meeting but you certainly did not practice it at the last Fullerton City Council meeting.
Mayor Sebourn, Conservative Republicans do not limit free speech but rather welcome and celebrate it.
P.S.
I am sure it was not only conservatives that were very unhappy with the Mayor’s need to greatly limit our free speech I hope all of you make your opinions known to Mayor Sebourn at our next council meeting.
Sincerely,
Barry Levinson
#1 by Really? on February 2, 2015 - 8:40 am
Wiley Drake?
In the early months after Kelly Thomas was killed, old Wiley was a fixture at Fullerton council meetings and a few of the protests outside the police station. Then, as soon as the TV cameras disappeared, so did Wiley.
#2 by Joe Imbriano on February 2, 2015 - 8:51 am
Tell us where was white christian Jennifer Fitzgerald and her evangelical white christian pastoral staff over at the EV FREE big tent? How about white christian Dan Hugh’s moral guideposts over at Friend’s church in Yorba Linda? Where were they? I didn’t see them. I sat in the pews over at EV FREE for several years and they NEVER MENTIONED the brutal murder much less spoke out against it. Why?
Were they too busy counting all of that money that they suck out out of the local economy tax free for a few hours of work on Sundays? The only thing they did was have the congregants WASH POLICE CARS and bring lunch to the overpaid city hall staff who was completely silent on the whole thing as well. In the meantime, they have $50 million dollar parking structure lit up like a Christmas tree every night that you can’t even ride a stinkin skate board in much less let someone sleep in when its raining.
What about white lutheran christian ex police chief who hired em all- Pat McKinley and his ecumenical honcho up on the hill at St Pauls? Where were they? Were they praying it would all just go away?
Were the EV Free money changers worried that they may lose the bankroll from the city hall crowd and the police that show up to get their consciences appeased and their ears tickled? EV Free will pack the council chambers for real estate development issues but NEVER FOR MORAL ONES!
An innocent mentally ill man was brutally murdered by a street gang with badges ON CAMERA all because he didn’t want to play doctor with a couple of deranged cops and THEY GOT AWAY WITH IT.
THE SILENCE IN PULPITS IS DEAFENING THAT IS EXCEPT FOR WILEY’S.
Folks, keep your wallets home on Sundays. If you want to serve the Lord with your money-give to people who need it, not to people who trick you into thinking that that is where it is going.
#3 by Anonymous on February 2, 2015 - 11:21 am
And your point is?