This post is a story about the City of Orange. Why is it relevant to Fullerton? Because the antagonist of the tale is none other than Matthew J. Cunningham who loves to pontificate about all things freedom-friendly, posing as he does as a champion of business and free enterprise, and property rights, yada yada yada; a typical OC repuglican, in fact: we all know now that Cunningham was pulling down a hefty six-figure income for many years from the ultra-liberal Children and Families Commission.
Cunningham’s loud brayings on all things conservative maybe even helped him get appointed to the Orange Planning Commission by Orange Councilman Jon Dumitru. But, alas, talk is cheap. Here’s Cunningham voting to shoot down a proposal for a cafe owner to have a live music until (gasp) midnight. Watch Mr. Friend of Freedom in action:
It also transpires that Cunningham and his wife have been lobbying in Orange, too. And that doesn’t look very good for somebody making discretionary decisions on behalf of the public of a city.
He can’t understand the decibel thing.
It’s not rocket science.
Talk about a RINO! How about letting a guy run a business without Big Brother City Gov. telling him what kind of music he can allow inside? I also think his Modified Mohawk distracts from his message.
So because he doesn’t support letting a property owner do whatever he wants with his property, he is a RINO? Have you ever heard of zoning laws or other land use regulations? It’s supposed to help with the orderly development of a city to allow maximum possible use of the land subject to reasonable restrictions. Hence, the regulations that prevent an industrial use from being located next door to a residential use exposing it to hazards. The snippet (meant only to yet again attack Mr. Cunningham) doesn’t answer many questions, such as were noise studies conducted to ensure that city-mandated decibel levels were not going to be exceeded? What are the neighboring uses and what is the potential for disruption of those uses? Was there an alternative time curfew on live music that would satisfy all involved? Etc. I presume these were discussed, but have no way of knowing since that wasn’t the real aim of this post. Supporting reasonable restrictions on land use does not make you a RINO. Done right, it makes you a responsible planner and citizen, conservative or liberal.
I am shocked that the award winning journalists at the Liberal OC have not written a single word about this. Matt Cunningham is the “right-wing noise machine” and Dan is said to be “challenging” it.
Perhaps Dan can get an exclusive from Matt the next time he is having cocktails with him at “Suite C”.
Until then I guess we can count on more attacks on Santa Ana Democrats, Art Pedroza and myself.
Newbie sounds like a city staffer or city councilmember who has attended too many League of Cities meetings at Tax Payers expense! Too many Republicans drink from the same bowl of sell out Big Government kool-Aid.
oldbie.
Sorry to take the wind out of your sails but Newbie is not a staffer or elected official.
He surely has not attended any League of Cities events
old,
I have no idea what your non-sequitor has to do with my post (which you obviously did not bother to read), but I will confirm what Larry said. I am an ardent supporter of limited government, particularly corralling the out-of-control pensions and other benefits public employees are collecting these days. I also can say I have never met Mr. Cunningham, lest you think I am a plant. My point was that zoning and other land use laws exist so that we do not have day care centers located next to hazardous material manufacturers. When done right, good planning makes for a nice place to live. It is possible, and I have no idea from the snippet what his reasons are, that Mr. Cunningham had real concerns about the noise levels coming from the cafe and their impact on neighbors at that time of night. However, enforcing reasonable restrictions on businesses and residents does not make you a RINO.
I have to agree, Jubal does not seem like such a jerk in this video as I expected. He’s right that trumpets and saxes are considered acoustic, and doors open and close all night. And are we gonna start making some instruments legal, some not? Without any context, I don’t know how close residences are to this place, or if there were compromises available re. decibel levels or staying open till 10 instead of 12.
And as DKM Fan observed on FFFF, he does look a lot less gay now without that pornstache.
Sean,
You can add Dan’s oppulant workplace to the list now too that he BAILED on Santa Ana, and went back to Irvine to work in his wifes spare bedroom!
I have a hard time believing these guys are that sucessful if they can’t even afford rent!
“he does look a lot less gay now without that pornstache”
I’m still trying to figure out how you comb a patch of hair with so many right angles? Thanks be to Bosley!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS70P3YInMo
Notice the “dressed down” look. The tie is removed from the suit indicating the working citizen performing his civic duty after a tough day as a private sector exec.
But the guy’s go no day job.
In Matt’s defense, the pictures of him sporting the goatee are dated………But, must of us understood that look was out in 1999……NOT 2009!
oh yeah that’s right goatee, sorry.
It’s Bill Hunt who has now grown a pornstache. You should see him over on Art’s site, providing security for old Arpaio. He looks creepy as shit.