Editor:
With the current situation at local nursing homes in Eureka becoming a polarization of issues all over this country (“The Case of the Missing $5 Million,” Oct. 13), we need to focus our funds on what’s important: the People.
Too much money is being spent on selling one’s self, a reward for a vandalized sign of $1,000?! Why is it acceptable to offer a reward for childish pranks but not one for the majorly impacting closure of local skilled nursing facilities? I know what’s more important to my candidates here in Eureka. While Austin Allison was out trying to bring attention to a huge crisis in our community, John Fullerton was putting out an APB for yard signs in which he may or may not involve the police.
To have the wherewithal to stand up for the old and less fortunate at 25 and not 63, speaks volumes. If Austin Allison is standing up for our senior citizens when he is far from retirement and John Fullerton is out getting local celebs to do radio advertisements for him, I can deduce whose priorities are in order.
Tiva Insolo, Eureka
Editor:
The Times-Standard supports John Fullerton; this is not surprising, the T-S is a corporation. Austin Allison supports the people and they support him; Austin is supported by unions and teachers, entrepreneurs and nurses, the “middle class.” He supports a union that helped bring living wages to employees at St Joseph and he is not afraid to tackle large moneyed interests! He has the creativity to help Eureka lift its people off the bottom.
Austin Allison is a progressive that will break out of the old boy network and join Bernie as he gets the down ballot Democratic votes to be chair of the Budget Committee! Forward, Progressives!
Pat Kanzler, Eur
This article appears in An American Genocide.
I’ve already voted for John Fullerton. My vote for responsible leadership for Eureka.
That’s what they said about Eureka’s mayor who invited lawsuits with his “Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast” and handed the police chief a quarter million dollars to leave within a year of his contract renewal!
Like the mayor, Fullerton is a lifelong republican activist trying his best to convince the public otherwise.
“Responsible leadership” would have been Fullerton organizing the community against closing three Eureka elementary schools while he “lead” the school board.
Ted Nissan, I did vote & argued for months against closing Jefferson School but lost on a 2-3 vote.
However I did successfully stopped Grant School from closing and eventually got Lincoln & Winship schools reopened.
However Worthington School fell victim to declining enrollment and did have to be closed. Declining enrollment due to fewer children in Eureka and due to new Charter Schools that opened.
Once again, I have not been involved in partisan politics in almost 15 years.
“Voting and arguing” are not “leadership” Mr. Fullerton.
Furthermore, few members of this community are MORE partisan than you. Why try to obscure your lifelong affiliation, contributions, and involvement in local republican campaigns and your republican friends who comprise the near-unanimous list of your endorsements?
Your deception is also not leadership.
What kind of “leadership” would participate in an obviously partisan event dubbed as a “non-partisan Block Party” attended by all the local republican activists held at Sequoia Park, organized by fellow-republican operative Susie Owsley who has your yard sign on her empty rental on H Street, (just before Campton)?
No one paying attention in this small town is fooled by such dishonesty.
Jefferson School, (like Grant), were fully attended.
However, Jefferson is in the poorer neighborhood and you did nothing to organize that community to effectively stop its closure, nor anything to hold local charter schools to account for cherry-picking their students, nor any efforts to get the bonds issued to avoid ANY closures. As we subsequently learned, the Jefferson community was willing and able to organize, they only lacked competent leadership and a sincere and knowledgeable advocate at a crucial moment.
That wasn’t you.
Worthington school “fell victim” to a lack of leadership, a consistent theme in your history. Even your campaign materials fail to provide a solitary example of leadership they claim you possess.
Yes, Mr. Fullerton, your kind of “leadership” is what qualifies you for a spot on the planning commission in a city that rejected its only known volunteer with an actual advanced degree in planning, (Xandra Mann).
NO ONE will be surprised to hear the cries of “unfair”, “corrupt”, and “rigged” by you and your partisan friends when the tables are turned and liberals begin enjoying the same “entitlement” to serving majority appointments to “non-partisan” offices appointed by a “non-partisan” mayor.