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More Murrieta Council and Initiative C D E posts
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
- All I see for the most part in this discussion is a biased former councilmember along with the current council's close biased allies. They are afraid their status quo will change. They defend outrageous compensations. Here is an example of the current council's arrogance. Councilman Rick Gibbs thinks those that are for C D E are "jealous." This is from this week's candidate forum. City Council Member Lashes Out At Private Citizen Bob Kowell knows he’s not the most popular person at Murrieta City Hall. His Murrieta Initiatives C, D, and E has drawn sharp criticism from the members of the city council. Rick Gibbs is an entrenched city council member, and former mayor, of Murrieta. Mr. Gibbs was one of the eight candidates present at the Murrieta City Council Candidate’s Forum at The Colony at California Oaks on Tuesday night. The audience was stunned when Rick launched into a personal attack against Bob Kowell during the forum, pointing Mr. Kowell out in the second row, proclaiming that Kowell’s initiatives were the result of jealousy over incomes, and anger that candidates of the past who supported Mr. Kowell’s initiatives did not win their elections. As the drama unfolded, some people in the audience sat stunned, while others actually applauded Rick Gibbs’ unethical attack. Mr. Kowell simply sat there, refusing to take the bait, and allowed Mr. Gibbs to continue his personal attack against him without retaliating. Rick Gibbs did not seem to realize what he had done wrong, and at the end of the forum brushed by Douglas V. Gibbs, a candidate that supports Kowell’s initiatives, without even a word, or a handshake, as Douglas extended his hand. Outraged by Rick Gibbs’ behavior, Douglas V. Gibbs called Rick’s actions unethical, and uncalled for. “City Council members,” said Douglas, “are supposed to be serving the citizens of the city, not verbally attacking them. Frankly, I was surprised about what I witnessed. Rick Gibbs claims to be a stalwart member of the community, yet verbally attacked Mr. Kowell without provocation.” When the forum ended, Rick Gibbs vanished quickly. “If city council members are supposed to serve the people of the city,” Douglas Gibbs added later, “Rick Gibbs failed to serve as an example of service by attacking Bob Kowell. It is one thing to be against the initiatives, but it is another to personally attack someone verbally in front of all those people. Surely, the code of ethics he swore to uphold would not condone such actions.” Douglas Gibbs also said he thinks Rick’s anger is rooted in not only his opposition to Murrieta Initiatives C, D, and E, but also in past disputes he has had with Mr. Kowell. Bob Kowell indicated that he did not feel threatened by Rick Gibbs’ actions, but that Rick’s outburst was not consistent with the kind of behavior a city council member is supposed to portray.
Colony Forum and Rick Gibbs
City Council Member Lashes Out At Private Citizen
Bob Kowell knows he’s not the most popular person at Murrieta City Hall. His Murrieta Initiatives C, D, and E has drawn sharp criticism from the members of the city council.
Rick Gibbs is an entrenched city council member, and former mayor, of Murrieta. Mr. Gibbs was one of the eight candidates present at the Murrieta City Council Candidate’s Forum at The Colony at California Oaks on Tuesday night.
The audience was stunned when Rick launched into a personal attack against Bob Kowell during the forum, pointing Mr. Kowell out in the second row, proclaiming that Kowell’s initiatives were the result of jealousy over incomes, and anger that candidates of the past who supported Mr. Kowell’s initiatives did not win their elections.
As the drama unfolded, some people in the audience sat stunned, while others actually applauded Rick Gibbs’ unethical attack. Mr. Kowell simply sat there, refusing to take the bait, and allowed Mr. Gibbs to continue his personal attack against him without retaliating.
Rick Gibbs did not seem to realize what he had done wrong, and at the end of the forum brushed by Douglas V. Gibbs, a candidate that supports Kowell’s initiatives, without even a word, or a handshake, as Douglas extended his hand.
Outraged by Rick Gibbs’ behavior, Douglas V. Gibbs called Rick’s actions unethical, and uncalled for. “City Council members,” said Douglas, “are supposed to be serving the citizens of the city, not verbally attacking them. Frankly, I was surprised about what I witnessed. Rick Gibbs claims to be a stalwart member of the community, yet verbally attacked Mr. Kowell without provocation.”
When the forum ended, Rick Gibbs vanished quickly.
“If city council members are supposed to serve the people of the city,” Douglas Gibbs added later, “Rick Gibbs failed to serve as an example of service by attacking Bob Kowell. It is one thing to be against the initiatives, but it is another to personally attack someone verbally in front of all those people. Surely, the code of ethics he swore to uphold would not condone such actions.”
Douglas Gibbs also said he thinks Rick’s anger is rooted in not only his opposition to Murrieta Initiatives C, D, and E, but also in past disputes he has had with Mr. Kowell.
Bob Kowell indicated that he did not feel threatened by Rick Gibbs’ actions, but that Rick’s outburst was not consistent with the kind of behavior a city council member is supposed to portray.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
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T WT NBT..all your facts do is demonstrate that you and your cohorts support the ripoff of Murrietans with out of line salaries. Murrietan's are smart and will see through the council's bias and the coordinated bias of their close supporters. All the reasons to vote against C D E don't hold water... here are a few lame positions from the opposition: a non vote has more power than a vote... really? so we shouldn't vote? Limited government is conservatism in socialist clothing. uh so big expensive government is socialism in conservative clothing....I get it! Oh this one is even better! Public safety is at stake! We ill become a less safe city if MANAGEMENT gets paid less. REALLY? So all the rest of MPD will stop doing their jobs or quit because their bosses get their pay cut? PATHETIC! Vote YES ON C D E and do not fall for the propoganda of the biased council and their power hungry close supporters.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/murrieta/article_a8fd18a0-c4f7-50d3-abb8-eff126fbde56.html?mode=comments
This makes complete sense and is why you should vote YES ON C D E. Of course the police union will endorse those that back up their high salaries and benefits. Of course they would prefer Alan Long a fire captain of union firefighters over Gary Thomasian. If we support leaders who support inflated public employee salaries and benefits then we deserve what we have now...the highest taxes. We cannot allow public employee salaries and benefits to continue to grow unchecked. We cannot allow extreme council benefits. We cannot allow arrogance on our council by entrenched incumbents. There is a coordinated effort on this blog by the council and it's close social clique to defend the council's power and high public salaries paid to the city manager and those managers whose salaries are tied to it. Should we listen to the biased opinion of these people or should we use common sense knowing these people are over-compensated and over-benefited and vote accordingly to set limits. Limit council perks. Limit the high city manager salary. Limit incumbents to 2 terms. VOTE YES C D E
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