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 I Love Fullerton on February 5, 2015 - 9:16 am
Now we see Ms Jennifer Fitzgerald as the “taxpayer” representative for the newly minted Fullerton JUHSD Oversight Bond Issue Committee.
How many tax dollars did Ms. Fitzgerald save us on the newly constructed boondoggle ARTC (Anaheim Regional Transportation Center costing only 194 million dollars). You see according to several sources, Curt Pringle and Associates (she is VP of such consultant/lobbying group) were key drivers in getting this built. It is supposed to service up to 10,000 people a day but currently only 900 people pass through its doors. It is built for high speed trains which will probably never materialize since there is no firm date or money for it to be built anywhere in Southern California. Hooray for Jennifer Fitzgerald the tax warrior or is she a Fullerton council member or is she really just the VP of Curt Pringle and Associates. Where do you think she gets her bread buttered?
#2 by FitzPringle on February 5, 2015 - 9:48 am
There are so many conflict of interest points with Jennifer Fitzgerald serving her master, Pringle & Associates, that I don’t know how she can cast votes on behalf of Fullerton residents. She will have to recuse herself from a tremendous amount of issues that the council votes on, especially as related to Downtown Core & Corridor development. Or, is this why those decision points were handed off to the city manager? That’s how it is rigged?
#3 by Mark Powell on February 5, 2015 - 12:12 pm
If Fullerton residents want to get a glimpse of their future with Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion,
youhttp://www.bennettforfullerton.com/endorsements/
I suggest that they head down Katella Avenue (the yellow brick road of corporate largess) in Anaheim, and as they near the Emerald City (Anaheim Regional Transportation Center), they wave goodbye to their children’s heavily mortgaged future that they’ll be paying for for many. many, many, years to come.
#4 by amateur night on February 5, 2015 - 12:32 pm
190 million dollars that make Curt Pringle hollah, that make Fitzpringle jingle as she works on gettin’ her groove on and that stripe in her hair back. Yikes!
#5 by Barry Levinson on February 5, 2015 - 4:13 pm
Mark you also need to head down Katella Avenue going west from the 57 freeway and look at all those 4 or 5 story mixed use buildings changing forever the landscape and note that the Fullerton Downtown Core and Corridor Special Project will be that area on steroids, i.e. 7 and 8 story buildings with literally no improvement in the roads. And the most egregious and undemocratic part of it all is that if approved by our council, it will only require our city manager’s approval for all that development going forward. What was that commercial tagline? – “because we are looking out for you” – not our city council and city government.
#6 by Mark Powell on February 5, 2015 - 7:49 pm
my bad Barry…I forgot the developers,banks, and real estate agents that will stand to benefit at the expense of the residents who already endure the absolutely worse road infrastructure of any Southern California city that I can think of.