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What is a Fire or Police Union Endorsement Really Worth ?

El Segundo Fire and Police Union bosses have unilaterally endorsed candidates:

• With the Worst public safety and spending records.

  In the last City Council election (2004), the El Segundo Fire and Police Union
  Bosses endorsed the candidates with the worst public safety records and failed to
  endorse the two candidates with outstanding public safety records – Jim
  Boulgarides, a firefighter and paramedic in another city and also an L.A. County
  Lifeguard – and former multi-term Mayor Carl Jacobson, who was instrumental in
  the successful relocation into El Segundo and modernization of our 911 emergency
  call/dispatch center and our public safety records management system.

  The Union bosses endorsed George Nakano for our State Assembly district in
  2002, even though Nakano voted only three days after the 9-11 Terrorist Attack
  to give official California driver licenses to Illegal Aliens, Identity Thieves, Drug
  Smugglers, and Terrorists using the identity of their choice (AB 60, 9/14/2001).
  Nakano voted for dangerous laws and bloated budgets that led to the Governor
  Davis recall.

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