Last night the Fullerton City Council voted to appoint Jan Flory to fill the seat formerly occupied by Mayor Silva. Ms. Flory will serve the remainder of the term, through November of 2020.
We’ll update this post with additional coverage as it’s reported by other outlets.
A trite definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
It was cute watching Jeez and Ahmad pretend they were open-mined throughout this waste of time and insult to applicants. What wasn’t cute was an indignant Zahra upbraiding a woman who very properly pointed out that all the municipal woes being addressed last night were actually CAUSED by Flory.
She has been terrible on Coyote Hills.
She has been terrible on police accountability.
She was so hostile and terrified of the Bushala uprising that she referred to Dick Jones, Don Bankhead, and Pat McKinley as “great statesmen.”
Her running mate that year was Rick Alvarez.
The only good thing about her was she spoke truth to Poseidon while on the OCWD board – better than Bruce does. Altho she kinda even fucked that up by promising the council she’d take whatever position they wanted, just to stay on the board.
At the time of the “uprising,” as Zenger surely remembers, I was defending her on FFFF from all of their anonymous attacks. I think that to some extent puerile and vicious anonymous attacks can drive their targets around the bend, at least temporarily. (I’d say the same of Sunny Park snapping and unwisely trying to take an anonymous attack against her into evidence, by the way.) I don’t know whether Flory might have been less effusive in her support for the old “Old Guard” if it were not from the tone and temper, beyond simply the message, of the FFFF attacks. It’s not an experiment that we can run. We may sometimes “go low” in our attacks on the corrupt forces in Anaheim and others, but at least it’s not anonymous. Trust me, having received vicious attacks from the named and the anonymous (in which I include pseudonymous), the latter is worse, and intentionally so. So I will hope that there is hope for Flory, though I expect that FFFF will treat her the same way and elicit the same response. Obviously, the attacks already failed to work on Zahra and … Jeez, did Zenger really call Jesus “Jeez”? (Does he really not know how it’s pronounced?)
His nickname is “Chewy.” I should have used that.
He is without a doubt the most clueless, inarticulate clown I have ever seen trying preside over a meeting. Fitzgerald keeps popping in to provide clarification. Should make even the most casual observer understand who is running the show.
That name is spelled “Chuy,” Daive.
Wazza? My bad. Guess I’ll stick to Jeez. I t works on so many levels, as in Jeez-us what an effing moron.
But he doesn’t *pronounce* his name “Jee-ziss” — it’s “Hey-Zeus.” If you’re going to use his name as spoken as the basis for a nickname, do with the Greek rather than the Nazarene.
Her animus toward Bilodeau and Sheldon prompted that Poseidon Adventure – as her personal animus prompts a lot of what she does. I can assure you that her definition of good government is almost polar to your own.
It was gag producing last night to watch her explain the importance of public input; completely unbelievable coming from someone who projects arrogance and disdain for anybody who disagrees with city staff. She actually attacked as liars those who properly pointed out that her budgets were not balanced. Nice, huh?
It’s funny to see personal animus yield months and months of gems of truth and good votes. Sad. But I believe you.
Maybe if they could all just hate each other…
Great picture—shows that nearly all of the crowd left the room prior to or during Flory’s oath of office, except for Fitzgerald’s appointment to Planning Commission Chris Gaarder, no doubt disappointed that he himself wasn’t chosen instead. Sorry Chris, the new majority needs to keep you on Planning to rubber stamp all of the new developments before the council has their chance to do so too.
Oh hey now.
I’m actually sitting next to Chris in that shot. Not to pass judgement on anyone else, but it sure feels like the right thing to do is stay for the medal ceremony after the race.
Looking forward to your write up.
Had I thought it an actual race I’d have remained, but I didn’t feel the need to further legitimize a charade.
They might just as well have had the swearing in before the meeting.
Fullerton never changes.
*We see a seat on the League of Cities for this prize calf. Bruce Whitaker to nominate her in a heartbeat.
Whitaker is about to lose his seat on the Orange County Water District board.
“Indiana Wants Me….but I can’t go back there!”…..great song!