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2016 MID NOVEMBER 2016 Text & Photos by Mike Ritto Allmedia@Sbcglobal.Net ELECTION RESULTS PAGE 3 & 8 COMMUNITY Fullerto♥ n bsCeALErNDAvR Peage 1r 4-15 O EAR FULLERTON’S ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWS • Est.1978 (printed on 20% recycled paper) • Y 38 #19 • MID NOVEMBER 2016 Submissions: [email protected] • Contact: (714) 525-6402 • Read Online at : www.fullertonobserver.com 6,860 Flags at Fullerton College The Veterans Resource Center at Fullerton College placed 6,860 flags, throughout the college’s quad to honor each US soldier who has died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. (See page 12 for list - ing of 39 more casualties.) Visit www.veterans.fullcoll.edu/ to learn more about the Veterans Resource Center. Accident on Glenwood Neighbors on W. Glenwood called police after hearing loud noises and wit - nessing a driver trying to maneuver his vehicle off a young tree in the causeway. The driver was finally successful and drove away with screeching noises and a flat tire. Police arrived and stopped the the vehicle about three houses from the crash site. The driver was Fullerton’s city manager. The sergeant on duty conducted a field sobriety test and determined that Mr. Felz had consumed alcohol but did not meet the criteria to be in violation of law. The vehicle was towed and police gave the city manager a ride home. 6,860 flags adorned Fullerton College Quad to honor each US soldier who has died in Iraq and Afghanistan . PHOTO LISA MCPHERSON An internal memo sent from Chief Hughes to council members explained the OVEMBER What Happened and Is it Over Yet? incident and was leaked to a local blog. N 8 Read the full story at www.voiceofoc.org. ELECTION by Vince Buck Our system makes it difficult for the By way of consolation, you are not majority to rule. OUTCOME alone. We all have to experience this new Enough. Local elections were more con - ventional (any comments must be tem - 7 and dangerous experiment in democratic . A 7 S D . Official results of the November 8th pered by the Registrar of Voters estimate 5 C I government together. D 1 U A E . election will be announced on that about one third of the ballots have N P There is little new to say about the T D O O E R R www.ocvote.com on or before December not been counted). At the moment it N T national election that has not been said G A O R T A S 31. Preliminary results (as of November appears that Fitzgerald, Whitaker and D I E many times in the national media, so my T E L N S M R 13) are listed below and updated at 5pm Silva have been elected. Silva’s election is L A comments are limited and you can come O P R T U P E on weekdays at www.ocvote,com. the only surprise. S F to the Fullerton Public Library on the P 16th at 7pm and hear four political scien - Jennifer Fitzgerald raised nearly •MEASURE II (District Voting) tists explain everything. (See listing for $200,000 (as of the last Observer, see page Yes - 53.2% (16,357) November 16 on page 13 for details.) 8 for updates), much of it from people or businesses who will have No - 46.8% (14,375) This will probably be a single term presidency but the next business with the city We got nearly either directly or indirect - four years will not be good and 150 mailings CITY C OUNCIL would not be even if Clinton ly. While this seems inap - Below are the three council had won. It will not be better of which 67 propriate, it is legal (and she is not alone in this, T candidates with the highest for Democrats in two years. were hit pieces. N The Republicans may pick up just the most effective at E number of votes. We were reduced L fundraising). Since she L enough Senate seats in 2018 (8) D A Runners up are on page 8 I to have a filibuster-proof Senate to voting for probably could have won C S 2 E without raising any S E liars, tax raisers, 0 R giving them absolute control of I E Jennifer Fitzgerald 4 R T the government. money, it would seem that V supporters of 6 R - 17.4% R this is the start of a war T E Donald Trump is right about E 5 V sexual perverts S (14,366) N chest for another race, 2 D one thing: the system is rigged. B E 5 or the person A probably Shawn Nelson’s - R O The Senate is rigged by the 4 Total Raised seat on the Board of O R who talked E 1 Constitution: the largest nine T $221,899 7 U H states which contain about 50% about Supervisors when he is T C ($15.44/per vote) of the population have only 18 termed out. N underpants I R senators. The remaining 41 Whitaker came in sec - O states get 82 which should be 25 years ago. ond, a reversal from last time, but he seemed to Bruce Whitaker troubling to anyone who have fewer endorsements 14.6% believes in one person one vote (even if than before and “only” $28,000 (again (11,994) they vote for an unsuitable candidate). The House is rigged by gerrymander - Observer figures, rounded). Larry Bennett had the second largest bundle of money, Total Raised ing. In 2012, for instance, the Democrats $54,000, and was expected (by me) to win $27,857 got 51% of the votes for members of the vacant seat. He had strong support ($2.32/per vote) Congress yet the Republicans got 32 more seats and majority control. (and money) from Fitzgerald as well as It has been estimated the Democrats endorsements from some Democrats. He 4 3 seemed like the ideal Chamber/ 8 Jesus Silva would have to get 10 million more votes N 2 R Establishment candidate. Fitzgerald did 9 1 13.7% than Republicans to control the House. O 5 E A 0 everything she could to drag him along, T V (11,313) This is the result of a successful effort by 7 C R R but her coattails were short. Perhaps she is X N Republicans to control state houses and E E O O more popular than her policies. His vote L S B T Total Raised legislatures after the last census, so that R L B count may have been reduced by the pres - O E $16,708 they could redraw the districts in a man - P U L ence of Susan Gapinski, another well con - O L ($1.48/per vote) ner favorable to them. F U nected Republican on the ballot. F We have always had gerrymandering, Continued on page 3 & 8 but it has never been so one-sided before. Continued on page 8 Page 2OBSERVER COMMUNITY OPINIONS CONTINUED ON PAGE 18 MID NOVEMBER 2016 The Unsaving of Fullerton OUT OF MY MIND Coyote Hills by Jon Dobrer © 2016 [email protected] (as read on the Fullerton Observer Observer Facebook page) WOW! Where has this gem (Jesse La The Fullerton Observer Community THIS CHANGE ELECTION Tour) been hiding? I’d love to have half of Newspaper, founded by Ralph and Natalie This was a change election that voted ployment. Silicon Valley celebrates driver - his writing ability. Thank you, Jesse, for Kennedy and a group of friends in 1978, is such a superb, eloquently written article. staffed by local citizen volunteers who create, against change and for nostalgia. While less cars, drones and delivery trucks but publish, and distribute the paper throughout the majority of popular votes may end up many working people are driving trucks, The sentiments within could not have our community. going to Hillary Clinton, the clear elec - delivering pizza, takeout Chinese and been expressed any better. Again, thank This venture is a not-for-profit one with toral majority went to Donald Trump. driving Uber and Lyft. They are fearful. A you. Helen Higgins, all ad and subscription revenues plowed back into maintaining and improving our inde - There are so many to blame, too many driverless car is not progress but disaster. Friends of Coyote Hills Board Member pendent, non-partisan, non-sectarian com - to single out. And let me be clear that no Well-paying work disappears, careers Fullerton munity newspaper. one factor did this. Everything played a almost cease to exist and are replaced by ED: See page 5 for the story. Our purpose is to inform Fullerton resi - part in this perfect storm that sank Hillary jobs, while jobs become projects. Pensions dents about the institutions and other socie - and buoyed up Donald. So let's look at are cut, renegotiated or actually rescinded. tal forces which most impact their lives, so Vets Battle VA & Rare that they may be empowered to participate some of the major factors that created the A robot will soon greet you at Wal-Mart in constructive ways to keep and make these wreckage and begat this flotsam and jet - and flip your burger at McDonalds. Self- Disease from War private and public entities serve all residents sam. service at grocery stores replaces workers I am contacting you in hopes of bring - in lawful, open, just, and socially-responsible We want to blame the pollsters and and voicemail replaces people while tech- ing a timely article to your attention. ways. pundits who got this so terribly wrong. support is outsourced. Might all be Tobin McDowell and Margie Mason of Through our extensive local calendar and other coverage, we seek to promote a sense We want to blame racists and misogynists inevitable but who will earn enough to the Associated Press have written an article of community and an appreciation for the who couldn't vote for a woman.
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