On January 20th, a 4-1 majority of the Fullerton City Council perpetrated a strange act of self-mutilation, with Shawn Nelson dissenting. It decided to revoke its policy of selecting people to serve on commissions and committees. Instead of individual councilpersons being able to choose direct appointments, they returned to the old system whereby a couple of councilpersons and a commission member conduct interviews and make recommendations for approval by the entire City Council.
So effectively a majority of the City Council chose to disempower itself by abdicating the ability to choose their own direct representatives on commissions.
Now why would politicians give up direct appointment for the diluted old groupthink process?
Yikes, that’s gonna hurt in the morning.
No pain, no gain!