I know the topic of appointing a replacement candidate to the Fullerton City Council is upsetting to many. Applications are now available and the window to submit is short.
If you or someone you know would be a good fit to advocate for the changes we need in Fullerton, please apply.
We only get better because someone makes the case for change. This is our opportunity to lean in and move the needle in a positive direction.
I’ll be working on my application this weekend. I hope you will, too.
Here’s a copy of the city’s release, along with a link to the application.
The Fullerton City Council is accepting applications for an at-large vacancy on the City Council through December 2020. Applicants must be registered to vote in Fullerton, complete an application and essay and submit a Statement of Economic Interest.
The schedule for the appointment process is as follows:
January 16, 2019 – Applications available
January 23, 2019 – Application deadline (5:00 p.m.)
January 24, 2019 – January 29, 2019 Special Meeting Agenda posted
January 29, 2019 – Special City Council meeting to make appointment.
The application may be found here.
Publicizing this is awfully damned sporting of you, Ryan!
I would love the job, but if the council finds someone better, great.
O, Ryan. The fix is in. The DPOC is pushing Flory. The new guy is showing the backbone of a chocolate eclair.
DPOC even has an opinion other than “whoever Jesus Silva wants is ok?” I doubt it.
And that is their exactly their opinion. It is also exactly the person this Fitzgerald person wants. Hmm. What a happy congruence of interest.
I’m trying to parse your statement: are you under the impression that DPOC and Fitzgerald both want to appoint Jesus Silva to the opening? I ask because that makes no sense: he’s already on the Council. I think that you are saying that Jesus and Fitzgerald both want the same person, by whom you probably mean Jan Flory.
As is usual in these matters, to the extent that “DPOC has an opinion” at all, it would generally be to defer to the judgment of the officeholders within the party. DPOC as an institution has no opinion on Flory, and I’d bet that more than half of the people there don’t even know who she is. So your original statement that “The fix us in. The DPOC is pushing Flory” is incorrect. So far as I know, the DPOC isn’t pushing anybody, and is just deferring to Jesus S.
I’f you’re right about all that, and that Zahra has no backbone, though, then *it doesn’t even matter* what DPOC might want, because, unless I’m mistaken, Silva + Zahra + Fitzpringle = a majority, and if would be one if the DPOC had other views. So your bringing DPOC into the discussion as who “fixed” the appointment is just weird.
Personally, I’d be happy with Ryan on the Council. Flory does have the advantage of being very good on the Water Board to which I’d hope she’d return. (Ryan would be as well, but he’d be far less likely to be appointed to it even if appointed to Council.)
Try again without the parsing.
Fitzgerald desperately wants Flory. For some reason (you should ask him) Silva wants Flory. Hence the DPOC wants Flory – not because she is Flory qua Flory, but because she is a registered Democrat (never mind she is a cop toady and a staff rubber stamp). LeTourneau and others have been pressuring Zahra to go with Flory and not because it has anything to do with fixing Fullerton’s problems since Flory is at the center of that mess since 1994.
Flory’s last statement about the Poseidon was that she’d go for it if the Council wanted. Her only value there is not trusting Bilodeau and Sheldon which anybody smarter than a can of Spam would do.
If Silva wants to go left, Fullerton has good liberal types who would be a million times better than Flory.
Jeff lobbying Zahra is news to me. He just wants a Democrat, I presume. You say that there are liberal types magnitudes better than Flory — name some! If you mean Jane Rands (whom I’d welcome), refer again to the party’s institutional desire for another Democrat. (Which is pretty much the same as the Republican Party’s institutional desire for a Republican, except that for Dems this would be a takeover, therefore newsworthy.)
I’m interested in knowing what liberal Democrats you have in mind. (Or even moderate ones.). Also, why no recall of Fitzpringle?
I didn’t say liberal Democrat. I said liberal types. But of course my question was purely rhetorical.
Flory is not only a Democrat, she is a reliable yes vote on a utility or sales tax, or to help sweep up any other uncomfortable truths that might otherwise get out.
As to the DPOC collectively, let’s say if an officer like North OC VC LeTourneau is pushing for somebody in North OCs largest city, it’s fair to say it’s a position of some kind, even if nobody voted on it. That’s not weird that’s just true.
It’s actually been fun to watch the DPOC collection of unpleasant personalities have at each other, now that people are beginning to pay attention. Hardly any different than the OCGOP Central Committee.
good luck ryan.
I dint care who gets appointed as long as they are anti-poseidon.
Well I DO care. And the criteria needs to be a bit more robust than that one issue or else Fullerton will end up with someone like Flory.
*Anyone that volunteers for this job….is obviously the wrong person to take it.
*As Davey Crockett said: “I’m no politician!”
Whatever happened to democracy?
Can we have an election please?
Why yes we can. But we just have to wait until November.
And why November?
Because the idiot City Attorney failed to tell the City Council that in in order to have an election in March, they would have to call for the election in December.
So what’s the big deal? Just have an election in November.
Oh no! That’s too late. The City Council would not be able to make any important decisions with only 4 members. You know those kind of big decisions like whether the City Council should usurp Fullerton Voters’ right to elect their City Council can’t be done with only 4 council members can can they?
Oh but yes they did.
*OK…..so you are right….settle down. Let’s get back to the important things in life
like the results of the two football games yesterday. The Lambs beat the Saints with a disputed call. The Patriots beat the Chiefs with a disputed call. Both games included Sudden Death Overtime. Hilarious. We will take the Pats over the lovely Lambs in Super-Duper Bowl. Can’t wait to see all the commercials. A million bucks a minute they say. Anyway, We will take the Pats by two. As far as the Fullerton City Council is concerned: We always like the Bean Hut over the Hillside Drive in. Whatever happened to the Fullerton Tribune? Now that was a great little paper! And…Who is the latest Chief of Police?
*Whatever happened to the Fullerton Tribune? Now that was a great little paper!
It died 35 years ago. Please try to catch up.
*Really? They printed my first article when we were in High School in 1958. Nice folks…sorry to hear they are gone! Probably went on to a better place!