I report, you decide. by BARRY LEVINSON
Barry Levinson
I report, you decide. By Barry Levinson.
It seems that Mayor Chaffee has a hard time doing anything right lately.
We had a somewhat heated by respectful discussion about an agenda item to approve a declaration passed by the US Congress about 7 years ago concerning the human rights violations by the Japanese Imperial Army during WWII as it related to the 200,000 Korean “Comfort Women” forced into sexual slavery.
Mayor Chaffee gave almost all of the speakers many of whom were either of Korean or Japanese heritages more than the normal 3 minutes to speak before them. It seemed that many of them went over their three minutes by 2, 3 or more minutes easily.
I personally thought it was perfectly okay to give these speakers this additional time. It was obviously a very personal and difficult subject to talk about and each and every speaker presented their opinions with much grace and dignity.
But then came the public comments for all those items not on the agenda. It should have been one of the first pieces of business but Mayor Chaffee moved the WWII issue in front of regular public comments.
As is frequently the case, significant portions of the public comments are critical of one or more members of the council. In this case, no additional time was granted to any of the speakers. Once again, Mayor Chaffee even when he is going to face the voters in November apparently can’t bring himself to conduct the meeting in a fair manner for everyone.
At one point, a speaker asked Mayor Chaffee if he has paid for all the volunteer signs that he gives out to those he believes are worthy of that honor. His answer to the speaker was that it was “none of his business”.
Councilperson Chaffee
Once again, Mayor Chaffee you find yourself on the wrong side sir. For it was you early on in this program who declared that you were paying for these signs and it would not cost the taxpayer’s a dime.
The ball started rolling on 7-24-14
Doug paid up 5 days after being called out- stringing the taxpayers along for a year and a half. I wonder if he would have ever paid it back if he was not asked to?
Now less than a year later you are telling us it is none of our business. It is no wonder that recently our fair city of Fullerton was ranked as one of the snobbiest cities throughout the country. I am now wondering how much Mayor Chaffee had to do with that dubious ranking.
I guess he only paid up because the heat was on? Since December of 2012 no payments reimbursing the taxpayers through July of 2014? What else does he have going on at city hall?
#1 by Bill Chaffee on August 25, 2014 - 6:21 pm
At the last council meeting I found it disturbing that Doug didn’t know that radio waves and microwaves are part of the electromagnetic spectrum and therefore forms of electromagnetic radiation. Did he forget his science or never get it in the first place?
#2 by Anonymous on August 25, 2014 - 11:15 pm
The feed was terrible. They need to clean the lenses or something. I have watched the meeting twice now. It was clear to me that Doug did not understand the science or the concerns being raised by members of the audience. He wasn’t even in the same solar system. It was too bad Flory and Fitzgerald were out to lunch on this one as well.
Mr. Levinson did a marvelous job grilling the ATT gal and calling her out on her lies.
#3 by Anonymous on August 26, 2014 - 10:14 am
And making her cry
#4 by David on August 26, 2014 - 12:05 pm
What was she crying about? Maybe she is feeling guilty that she is advocating bodily harm to the general public with these things. She just got a several thousand watt cell tower approved next to a school, homes, and on top of a health clinic without it going through the planning commission, without it going to council for discussion, instead ending up on the consent calender all with no contract, based on false assurances of safety and deceptively worded arguments. Tell her to go cry it out with the three stooges that voted for her to get her filthy commission. Sounds like Joe was right, She needs to go find another line of work.
#5 by Angie B on August 26, 2014 - 12:15 pm
Realizing the harm I was doing by selling wireless radiation to an innocent, unsuspecting community would make me cry. Denying and then realizing that I was contributing to the health demise of a whole population not once but over and over again for the sake of a paycheck would make me cry.
Maybe she is coming to that realization . . .
#6 by Anonymous on August 26, 2014 - 5:15 pm
Trust me … That is not why this poor woman was in tears.
#7 by Anonymous on August 27, 2014 - 6:23 am
Maybe she was crying from relief that she would get yet another commission from AT&T.
Since what she is selling and how it impacts the community’s health does not concern her, she must have been crying for joy!
More $$$$ in her pocket!!!!
#8 by perjury, libel, slander, defamation, filing a false police report on November 7, 2014 - 10:49 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-NlR54PqLw
#9 by vericosy vernacular on November 7, 2014 - 12:51 pm
https://www.facebook.com/chaffeeforcouncil/photos/a.742430282451168.1073741837.139655806061955/940336855993842/?type=3&theater
#10 by slander, falsification . . . on November 7, 2014 - 4:32 pm
If I were these guys, I’d really be sweating it. They know they slandered, lied and falsified.
#11 by Anonymous on November 8, 2014 - 10:09 pm
How do you know they lied? Prove it!