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By English Major
A fence sitting, cardboard candidate? On June 5th you get to decide.
Perusing the latest yellowing Fullerton Observer I noticed how various candidates responded to the question “How Would You have Handled The Kelly Thomas Situation?”
First the Three Bald Tires, poster boys for utter leadership failure, were given the chance to reflect on their actions, or lack of same. They offered up the same old “we were told by our lawyer not to say anything” tripe. On his way out the saloon doors Doc Hee Haw managed to serve up this beaut: “I regret that some have acted to circumvent the constitutional laws of justice,” as if to reassure himself that the whole gol’dern commotion was the fault of some “lynch-type mob” and had nothing to do with his own incompetence and fat mouth.
The candidates were all pretty uniform in their responses with the glaring exception of Doug Chaffee, who spooned out this idiotic pabulum:
Read the rest of “No More MIA “Leadership.” No Doug Chaffee.”
*Tony; You are so mean. These people are all volunteer politicians without any background in the world of misrepresentation. They are literally “bagels in the woods”
without the cream cheese! Give these folks a break. Some of them just want to get out of the house and not have to clean under the toilet in the guest bedroom like their wives would want. Their garages are all a mess and they don’t want to call the Salvation Army and finally get rid of those 1950’s baseball cards that are worth nothing.
“Oh for a real Phil Rizzuto!”
What we have found is that you need to interview each candidate over a cup of coffee. Some you don’t even have to meet, because they are so far out in wilderness. Meet with these folks socially, informally and ask them how they feel about Fireman Pensions and Water Rates. It won’t take you long to get the message. Then do yourself a big favor. Either support the candidate you like – or don’t ever mention them again unless asked by some very stupid person.