I should bring my readers up-to-date on the Fullerton recall effort to unseat three city councilmen who incurred the wrath of many in the Fullerton community with their lame responses to the police beating death of Kelly Thomas, a mentally-ill homeless man last year.
All 3 men, Dick Jones, Pat McKinley and Don Bankhead were removed overwhelmingly.
Congratulations to Friends of Fullerton's Future, an organization that spearheaded the effort to clean up what obviously is a city plagued by poor leadership.
Unlike the recall against Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, which was a politically-motivated effort by the labor unions against a governor who is doing a good job, the Fullerton effort was warranted in my view. If anyone has any doubts, just watch a few videos of Dick ("Doc") Jones jabbering away at City Council meetings. The guy looks like something from the old Andy Griffith show.
Hopefully, that city can start putting the pieces together.
the fullerton recall of Jones, Bankhead and McKinley may be the recall heard round the world. Our town's recall proved the rights of the individual guaranteed under our Bill of Rights and our Constitution supercede the saying "you can't fight city hall".
ReplyDeletethe grass roots movement of Friends For Fullerton Future and Kelly's Army rebelled against the exploitive, lying, greedy city council members who treated their constituents with contempt while branding them their personal cash cows.
We fought city hall's corrupting influence and won decency for the good people of Fullerton.
If we could only recall that useless Rusty Kennedy and his OCHRC. That will require getting at least one more vote on the OC Board of Supervisors.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, maybe Kennedy can give his friend McKinley one of his "Rusty" awards.
And YOU are NOT politically motivated???
ReplyDeleteSeems to me both are warranted, and a slew of other recalls might do the country some good.
Hmmmmm--sounds to me like maybe these three mopes were fools and Walker is a pretty good man, which might explain why one recall was successful and the other not? Just cogitating.
ReplyDeletesiarlys jenkins, pat McKinley served on rusty kennedy's commission when he was police chief of fullerton from 1993 to 2008, the era of ground zero for the corruption of FPD according to vaious media sources and legal documents. and so the big question is why mckinley as Fullerton police chief and as Fullerton city council person and rusty kennedy never seemed to be aware that the FPd were systematically abusing the civil rights of the community. did kennedy and mckinley believe those legal settlements for FPD's victims were lies or minor civil rights abuses. here are a few of the civil rights the FPD abused: sexual molestation in squad cars of female detainees, perjury, false arrest, excessive force, theft, suspicious jail suicide and DAR smashed prior to jail suicide, and the eventual beating death of kelly thomas
ReplyDeletefullerton taxpayer, are you trying to convince ME that the "Fullerton 3" deserved to be recalled??? Because that's what I already said.
ReplyDeleteelwood... your maybe is just that... you don't know the man.