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Broken by the Fullerton Rag:
According to Attorney Kevin L. Shenkman, representing former city council candidate Vivian “Kitty” Jaramillo in her lawsuit against the City of Fullerton, a measure to establish district elections for the Fullerton City Council will be put before the Fullerton electorate in 2016. Although the City of Fullerton does not seem to have released any details about the settlement, Mr. Shenkman was happy to discuss the agreement during a presentation on the subject of district elections sponsored by the political action committee Neighbors United for Fullerton (NUFF) on Monday night.
The ballot measure will reportedly preserve a five member city council, each of whom will be elected exclusively within single districts in which they reside. Pre-established district boundaries will be part of the measure as it will appear on the ballot. If approved, elections by district are expected to begin in 2018, although it remains unclear which districts would be the first in play during that election…
Read more at the Fullerton Rag, “The Voice of Some People!”
“Lines will be drawn…”
Except for Bruce Whitaker I can’t remember a Fullerton Councilmember from south of Commonwealth Ave. in the past 35 years.
Apart from him the only council member I recall even being south of Chapman was Norby, and only just.
Leland is south of Chapman, isn’t he?
I believe Leland Wilson lived a block or two north of Commonwealth when he was on the Council. Come to think of it, I don’t know where Clesceri lived. Easily overlooked.
Julie Sa had a fake residence in the apartment at Chapman and Euclid.
I remember the controversy about her residence. So, in reality, no Korean-American resident of Fullerton was ever elected to the council?
This is some serious institutional knowledge.
Well, opinion and speculation removed obviously. That the three of you are conversing on city council candidates over twenty years or so is impressive.
I remember when Jan Flory inquired into her citizenship status, back in1992.
Sa was Chinese/Korean, the creation of Charles Kim, husband to our current Assembywoman. She couldn’t communicate in English. Everyone tried to be her friend, including me. It was a complete waste of time. The City Manager always got the last shot.
There’s the problem for district elections in cities under 300,000.
Is the candidate pool really going to sponsor real choices? It’s not like the pay for these jobs justifies the effort. Well, assuming one doesn’t use the position as a mechanism to getting paid elsewhere . ..
*Who does the Fullerton Tribune endorse? That always used to make it an easy proposition.
Well you have to first look at what you’ve got and ask if it can be better.
Does Fullerton need districts? The discussion started back in the Great Recall of 1994. The city is comparatively compact (unlike Anaheim) yet there is no doubt the hill folk, both Dems and Republicans began dominating the council in 1980 when the Ackerman-LeQuire tribe threw out the liberals.
I think this probably reflected a parallel development in the service clubs, Chamber of Commerce, etc. so that the key mechanisms to get known and elected were in the hands of a smaller and comparatively wealthier segment of the town.
I wonder what Ralph Kennedy would say.
*Not really, the candidates just need to reside in the district they want to represent. If you get Tiny Tim in one district and Weird Al Yankevich in the other……no big deal…. Candidates move…..into the District to get elected. You can always hope that Lenny Bruce will move into your district, but it doesn’t matter because everyone in the city gets to vote for all the districts. The real problem is the Fire Dept. and PD who pour lots of money into all the districts, walk precincts and make sure whoever is elected will support their annual raises and pension benefits.
Ryan, good point. Will there be enough good candidates in any given district?
*Fullerton needs Districts! Good, divide the pie and go down the road. How many Council members for a town of 139,000 divided by seven – equals about 20,000 citizens
for each District. Not a difficult process to split the city up based upon that. Seven contiguous districts. Now the biggie: Do they elect a Mayor or stay with insider trading?
A new broom sweeps clean…they say.