by Michael D. Robbins
Directory, Public Safety Project
El Segundo, California
PublicSafetyProject.org
– WORKING DRAFT –
April 13, 2004 El Segundo City Election
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Union bosses and well-funded outside special interests are trying to take over small town El Segundo for at least the next four years
Former City Councilmember Mike Robbins fights against big city-style political machine in small town El Segundo
“El Segundo Fire and Police Union bosses unilaterally endorsed candidates with the worst public safety and spending records.”
“The $50,000 plus election campaign with many $1,000 to $6,000 contributions is highly unusual for small town El Segundo.
“Campaigns used to cost less than $5,000 and a lot of shoe leather. We are at risk of having all future Mayors and Councilmembers selected before the election by Union bosses and outside special interests. We may lose our Democratic elections.”
Michael D. Robbins, 4/9/2004
Founder, El Segundo Public Safety Project
Former El Segundo City Councilmember (1992-1996)
Read all about it and see more pages, documents, and images posted throughout the week!
DOCUMENTS
Read Mike’s Flyer – It was distributed city-wide on Saturday, April 10, 2004
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Print and Distribute Mike’s flyer (38 KB PDF file, 2 pages, B&W)
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The El Segundo Public Safety Project
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We will have major updates every few hours today, April 10, 2004,
and Sunday, including supporting documents and links.
SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION
GEORGE NAKANO ENDORSEMENT DOCUMENTATION:
George Nakano voted for AB 60 (by Cedillo) just three days after the 9-11 Terrorist attack in 2001. AB 60 would have provided official California Driver Licenses for Illegal Aliens, Drug Smugglers, Identity Thieves, and Terrorists for the identity of their choice. In spite of this unconscionable soft-on-crime and soft-on-terrorism vote, the El Segundo Police and Fire Union Bosses endorsed George Nakano in 2002 for re-election to the State Assembly from the 53rd Assembly District, which includes El Segundo.
Nakano also supported dangerous soft-on-crime laws and polices opposed by more than 80% of rank and file police officers (nationwide polls by the National Association of Chiefs of Police). Poll questions and data are on file.
- Assembly Bill 60 Document Page for 2001-2002 Session (HTML)
- Final enrolled version of AB 60 sent to Gov. Gray Davis (HTML)
- Final enrolled version of AB 60 sent to Gov. Gray Davis (PDF)
- The roll call vote giving final approval to AB 60, on 9-14-2001, listing George Nakano as voting in favor (MOTION: AB 60 Cedillo Concurrence in Senate Amendments) (HTML)
- George Nakano 2002 Campaign Mailer (entire panel, low-resolution) listing the El Segundo Police Officers Association and the El Segundo Firefighters Association as endorsements for his candidacy (JPG)
- George Nakano 2002 Campaign Mailer (higher resolution detail collage) listing the El Segundo Police Officers Association and the El Segundo Firefighters Association as endorsements for his candidacy (JPG)
George Nakano 2002 Campaign Mailer (entire panel, low-resolution) listing the El Segundo Police Officers Association and the El Segundo Firefighters Association as endorsements for his candidacy.
George Nakano 2002 Campaign Mailer (higher resolution detail collage) listing the El Segundo Police Officers Association and the El Segundo Firefighters Association as endorsements for his candidacy.
"Im a Republican and I support George Nakano. When it comes to some people, I look beyond the partisanship and see leadership. George and I have worked together for the better part of the last 20 years. His support for the South Bay and our local economy has never wavered. I'm proud to add my name to the long list of Nakano fans . I urge you to support George Nakano and send him back to the State Legislature where he will work for all of us." RAY FREW Past President, Torrance Chamber of Commerce RE-ELECT GEORGE NAKANO ASSEMBLY 2002 Supported by: _______________________________________________ * El Segundo Firefighters Association * El Segundo Police Officers Association * Hermosa Beach Firefighters Association * Los Angeles City Firefighters Association * Los Angeles County Firefighters Association * Los Angeles County Lifeguards Association * Redondo Beach Firefighters Association * Torrance Firefighters Association * Torrance Police Officers Association * Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs (ALADS) * California Association of Highway Patrolmen * California Correctional Peace Officers Association * California Organization of Police and Sheriffs (COPS) * California Professional Firefighters * California State Firefighters Association * CDF Firefighters * Crime Victims United of California * Los Angeles Police Protective League * Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC) * State Coalition of Probation Organizations Paid for by Nakano 2002 * P.O. Box 11262, Torrance, CA, 90510 * FPPC ID # 1237198 PRSRT STD US POSTAGE PAID TORRANCE, CA PERMIT 1783
WIDESPREAD POLITICAL CORRUPTION AMONG FIREFIGHTER AND POLICE UNIONS
George Nakano voted for AB 60 (by Cedillo) just three days after the 9-11 Terrorist attack in 2001. AB 60 would have provided official California Driver Licenses for Illegal Aliens, Drug Smugglers, Identity Thieves, and Terrorsts using the identity of their choice.
In spite of this unconscionable soft-on-crime and soft-on-terrorism vote, the following firefighter, police, and prison guard unions and labor organizations endorsed George Nakano in 2002 for re-election to the State Assembly from the 53rd Assembly District, which includes El Segundo, California.
Nakano also supported dangerous soft-on-crime laws and polices opposed by more than 80% of rank and file police officers (nationwide polls by the National Association of Chiefs of Police). Poll questions and data are on file.
- El Segundo Firefighters Association
- El Segundo Police Officers Association
- Hermosa Beach Firefighters Association
- Los Angeles City Firefighters Association
- Los Angeles County Firefighters Association
- Los Angeles County Lifeguards Association
- Redondo Beach Firefighters Association
- Torrance Firefighters Association
- Torrance Police Officers Association
- Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs (ALADS)
- California Association of Highway Patrolmen
- California Correctional Peace Officers Association
- California Organization of Police and Sheriffs (COPS)
- California Professional Firefighters
- California State Firefighters Association
- CDF Firefighters
- Crime Victims United of California
- Los Angeles Police Protective League
- Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC)
- State Coalition of Probation Organizations
BOB PINZLER DOOR-HANGER CAMPAIGN LITERATURE ON FILE:
The El Segundo Police and Fire Union Bosses endorsed Bob Pinzler, a Redondo Beach City Councilmember, and the endorsements appeared on his door-hanger. The door-hanger was a long and narrow piece of campaign literature (on file).
Bob Pinzler also supported dangerous soft-on-crime laws and polices opposed by more than 80% of rank and file police officers (nationwide polls by the National Association of Chiefs of Police). Poll questions and data are on file.
There appears to be a historical pattern of the different South Bay city police and fire Union bosses swapping campaign endorsements for each other’s candidates.
LARGE CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS:
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For information or to support the
El Segundo Public Safety Project, contact:
Mike Robbins
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El Segundo, CA 90245
310-322-7244
El Segundo Fire and Police Union Campaign Mailer (4/13/2004 City Election)
El Segundo Fire and Police Union Campaign Mailer (4/13/2004 City Election)
The El Segundo Public Safety Project
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El Segundo Police and Fire Union Campaign Mailer
sent before the 4/13/04 City Council Election
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El Segundo Police and Fire Union Polical Campaign Mailer Sent before the 4/13/04 City Council Election
The El Segundo Police and Fire Union Bosses sent out this polical campaign mailer before the 4/13/04 city election, endorsing the city council candidates with the worst public safety records as
“The Best Choice for Public Safety”.
They did not even meet and talk with, or allow their members to meet and talk with a candidate with a real, outstanding public safety record:
Former El Segundo Mayor Carl Jacobson, who was instrumental in starting the process to replace El Segundo’s obsolete 911 Emergency Dispatch Center and Radio and Computer Equipment with a modern facility and modern equipment.
http://www.Jacobson-ES.com/
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What Do El Segundo Firefighters and Police Officers Have in Common?
P.O. Box 55
El Segundo, CA 90245
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Firefighters – Police Officers – Paramedics
Support
Busch – Jacobs – Fisher
The Best Choice For Public Safety
On April 13th Support
Eric Busch – Sandra Jacobs – Bill Fisher
Paid for by the El Segundo Firefighters Association PO Box 55 El Segundo, CA ID # 1231824
In the 2004 El Segundo city election, the El Segundo Firefighters’ Association (the fire union) and the El Segundo Police Officers’ Association (the police union) supported a slate of three candidates for three City Council seats up for election. The slate consisted of Eric K. Busch, Sandra Jacobs, and Bill Fisher.
Firefighters’ union president Kevin Rehm was very active in the 2004 election. One of his responsibilities was to be the campaign sign placement and maintenance coordinator for all three candidates in the fire and police union slate.
Rehm arranged for double, triple, and even quadruple sets of campaign signs for all three candidates to be put on individual properties, even if the property was not a corner property. At least two sets of campaign signs were put out per property, with one set on each property line, to create the false appearance that twice as many voting households were supporting the fire and police union candidates.
The cost of all those extra campaign signs was not an issue, because the fire and police unions had loads of money to spend on the campaigns. Their union members were paid many times more than highly skilled private sector professionals with one or more university degrees and many years of experience.
Here are some photos of the multiple sets of Eric Busch, Sandra Jacobs, and Bill Fisher campaign signs placed on the same properties by firefighter union members:
Photo showing three sets of campaign signs for Eric Busch (white), Sandra Jacobs (pink to attract the female voters), and Bill Fisher (yellow), all crowded on the same property.
Photo copyright © 2004 by Michael D. Robbins.
Photo showing two sets of campaign signs for Eric Busch (white), Sandra Jacobs (pink to attract the female voters), and Bill Fisher (yellow), all on the same property, with one set at the property line to create the false appearance that two different families are supporting the fire and police union slate of three candidates.
Photo copyright © 2004 by Michael D. Robbins.
All the campaign signs for Eric Busch, Sandra Jacobs, and Bill Fisher had a sticker with Rehm’s cellular phone number (310-422-9411) as the campaign sign placement and maintenance coordinator contact number. You can do an internet search for that phone number and you find that Kevin Rehm rents out three lakefront homes that he appears to own, and office space in an eight-story office building that he also appears to own.
It appeared that Rehm was performing campaign management and coordination activities using his cell phone during paid work hours from the fire station, during the many hours of paid free time firefighters have while waiting for an emergency call.
The campaign sign stickers read as follows:
This sign has been placed with the permission of the owner. If you have any problems with this sign please call: (310) 422-9411 We will fix the problem ASAP. Thank you!
Photo showing upper right corner of a white Eric Busch campaign sign with Kevin Rehm’s phone number sticker on the sign.
Photo copyright © 2004 by Michael D. Robbins.
Photo showing upper right corner of a pink Sandra Jacobs campaign sign with Kevin Rehm’s phone number sticker on the sign.
Photo copyright © 2004 by Michael D. Robbins.
Photo showing upper right corner of a yellow Bill Fisher campaign sign with Kevin Rehm’s phone number sticker on the sign.
Photo copyright © 2004 by Michael D. Robbins.
ELECTION ALERT!!!
Will El Segundo voters allow the fire and police Union bosses, outside special interests, and Eric Busch to BUY this election and a seat on our City Council?
El Segundo Voter Information for the April 8, 2008 City Election
The El Segundo, California city election is this Tuesday, April 8, 2008.
Please – email and telephone everyone you know who lives in El Segundo and ask them to visit this web site and to read Mike’s election flyer before they vote. Some people do not check their email for several days, so be sure to call them as well. Thank you!
View the El Segundo Firefighters Union “Senior Scare” Letter (dated April 9, 2004) sent to El Segundo Senior Citizens, threatening hospital closure and “the possibility of our paramedics not being available when you need them” if the City Council candidates they endorsed are not elected. The endorsements are given based on salary and benefit increases and politics, not public safety considerations.
Learn about the candidates, and who are the best and the worst for public safety, spending, and integrity, by visiting the El Segundo Public Safety Project home page.
Also, read or download the sample ballot (PDF file), find your El Segundo voting poll location, and use the address of your voting poll to find it on a map of El Segundo provided by Google Maps.
If you cannot find your voting poll location, vote at any poll, or at the City Clerk’s office at 350 Main Street, and ask to vote on a “provisional ballot”. This is your right, and your request cannot be refused. Your ballot is verified against the voter registration rolls, absentee ballot requests, and to ensure that you are not voting more than once.
April 8, 2008 El Segundo City Election
Union bosses and well-funded outside special interests are trying to take over small town El Segundo for at least the next four years
Former City Councilmember Mike Robbins fights against big city-style political machine in small town El Segundo
“El Segundo Fire and Police Union bosses unilaterally endorsed candidates with the worst public safety, spending, and integrity records.”
In the last City Council election (2004), the police and fire Union bosses endorsed the three candidates supported with tens of thousands of dollars from outside special interests, including developers, a trash hauler, someone who tried to obtain a large city contract without competition, and others who may have expected something in return. One of these candidates was Eric Busch.
Busch has received large contributions from someone who tried to rig the competition for a large city contract and have it awarded to a less qualified bidder at nearly twice the price ($120,000 versus $65,000 for a Golf Course construction management contract). Busch was so arrogant that he continued to take the money from this person after he was confronted with this relationship.
The $50,000 plus election campaign with many $1,000 to $6,000 contributions was highly unusual for small town El Segundo. Campaigns used to cost less than $5,000 and a lot of shoe leather. Although the Union bosses and outside special interests out-spent the independent candidates by as much as ten to one, they won only one of three council seats – Eric Busch.
Michael D. Robbins, 4/2/2008
Founder, El Segundo Public Safety Project
Former El Segundo City Councilmember (1992-1996)
Read all about it and see more pages, documents, and images posted throughout the week!
I posted the following message on the old Public Safety Project web site on Saturday, April 10, 2004 7:27 am.
BREAKING NEWS:
Saturday, April 10, 2004 7:27 am:
FIRE UNION BOSS’S SENIOR SCARE LETTER
Firefighter Union bosses use scare tactics against El Segundo senior citizens.
They sent a letter on Union letterhead dated 4/9/04, signed by all three fire Union bosses, to El Segundo seniors threatening that if they don’t vote for Eric Busch, Sandy Jacobs, and Bill Fisher for City Council, hospitals may be closed and there may not be emergency service in El Segundo when needed!
Click on the letter to the left to see a larger readable image of the complete letter (150 KB).
Click on the envelope below to see the text of the letter.
The Fire Union bosses who signed the letter are:
Kevin Rehm, President
Breck Slover, 1st Vice President
John Bilbee, 2nd Vice President
El Segundo Firefighters’ Association
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL SIZE SCAN of the El Segundo Firefighters Union “Senior Scare” Letter (dated April 9, 2004) sent to El Segundo Senior Citizens, threatening hospital closure and “the possibility of our paramedics not being available when you need them” if the City Council candidates they endorsed are not elected. The endorsements are given based on salary and benefit increases and politics, not public safety considerations. They sent a letter on Union letterhead dated 4/9/04, signed by all three fire Union bosses, to El Segundo seniors threatening that if they don’t vote for Eric Busch, Sandy Jacobs, and Bill Fisher for City Council, hospitals may be closed and there may not be emergency service in El Segundo when needed!
Click on the letter to the left to see a larger readable image of the complete letter (150 KB).
Click on the envelope below to see the text of the letter.
The Fire Union bosses who signed the letter are:
Kevin Rehm, President
Breck Slover, 1st Vice President
John Bilbee, 2nd Vice President
El Segundo Firefighters’ Association
The envelope that the Senior Scare Letter was sent in is shown below. Notice how the envelope was imprinted with same official-looking Fire Union logo as was imprinted on the letterhead, which appears to be a counterfeit fireman’s badge. The envelope was also imprinted with the Fire Union’s return address.
CLICK HERE! Click here for the Firefighters Union “Senior Scare Letter” sent to senior citizen voters threatening them with “the possibility of our paramedics not being available when you need them” if the three candidates they endorsed were not elected! CLICK HERE!
For the Firefighters Union “Senior Scare Letter”
threatening senior citizen voters with
“the possibility of our paramedics not being available
when you need them” if the three candidates
they endorsed were not elected!
An analysis and the text of the Senior Scare Letter
SENIOR SCARE LETTER ANALYSIS AND TEXT
Saturday, April 10, 2004 11:21 am:
Firefighter Union bosses used scare tactics against El Segundo senior citizens, threatening that hospitals may close if their candidates are not elected.
In fact, hospitals will not close if their special-interest candidates are not elected. However, if they are elected, residents could be forced to pay hospital transport fees to fund the huge fire department pay increases.
They sent a letter on Fire Union letterhead dated 4/9/04, signed by all three Union bosses, to El Segundo seniors threatening that if they don’t vote for Eric Busch, Sandy Jacobs, and Bill Fisher for City Council, hospitals may be closed and there may not be emergency service in El Segundo when needed!
They stated, “That equates to the possibility of our paramedics not being available when you need them.”
In fact, the opposite is true. Hospitals are more likely to close and local emergencies services become unavailable BECAUSE OF the Fire Union bosses endorsements. They drain the city’s treasury through noncompetitive excessive compensation provided by those they endorsed, leaving less money available to support needed emergency services.
And they support candidates who encourage massive illegal immigration with incentives including official State Driver Licenses and free College Tuition. Massive illegal immigration over-burdens hospitals with patients who show up at emergency rooms for basic health care and don’t pay the bill.
As one example, the Police and Fire Union bosses endorsed and supported George Nakano for State Assembly in 2002, although he voted only two days after the 9-11 Terrorist attack in 2001 to give official California Driver Licenses to illegal aliens. This bill, AB 60, served only one purpose: to give legal identity documents to millions of illegal aliens in California, as well as drug smuuglers, identity thieves, and terrorists.
The DMV Driver Handbook that is issued for study before you take the written driving exam states very clearly up front:
- The Califorina Driver License is the official identification document for the state of California; and
- Foreigners visiting California can drive legally using their driver license from their native country.
Thus, the Union bosses are the real threat to availability of hospitals and emergency services in El Segundo, and there is no justification for their dangerous endorsements.
Below is the actual text of their “Senior Scare Letter”.
You may also download a .doc, .rtf, or .txt version of this file:
WORD 6 VERSION
RTF VERSION
PLAIN TEXT VERSION
TEXT OF THE SENIOR SCARE LETTER:
The following text of the El Segundo Firefighters’ Union “Senior Scare Letter” is provided as a service by the El Segundo Public Safety Project, PublicSafetyProject.org.
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[ red fire association logo ] El Segundo Firefighters’ Association
Kevin Rehm, President
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April 9, 2004
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El Segundo CA 90245-XXXX
Dear XXXXXXXXXXXX,
Please join your El Segundo firefighters and paramedics in support of Eric Busch, Sandra Jacobs and Bill Fisher for the El Segundo City Council. Eric Busch, Sandra Jacobs and Bill Fisher are the only three candidates who have demonstrated the leadership, determination and foresight to address the pressing emergency care issues that face our community.
To that end, a serious new challenge recently emerged: Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital is now in danger of closing, which places our entire trauma care hospital system in jeopardy.
Loosing a vital piece of our healthcare system would have a devastating impact on the citizens of El Segundo. The closure of even one hospital will overload other emergency care facilities causing the delays we are now experiencing to be even longer. That equates to the possibility of our paramedics not being available when you need them.
As El Segundo’s firefighters and paramedics, we cannot stand by and let this happen.
That is one of the many reasons why we have come forward and chosen to endorse Eric Busch, Sandra Jacobs and Bill Fisher. Eric, Sandra and Bill have the natural leadership skills and determination to work hard and stop the closure of these hospitals. But more importantly, they have a plan of action to do so:
1) Work with all levels of government to vigorously fight the closure of Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital.
2) Increase your paramedic services and the availability of paramedics when you need them most.
3) Implement this system at no additional costs for taxpayers.
Eric Busch, Sandra Jacobs and Bill Fisher clearly understand what needs to happen in the future to keep you safe. That is why every single member of the El Segundo Firefighters’ and Paramedics’ Association endorses Eric Busch, Sandra Jacobs and Bill Fisher for City Council.
We respectfully ask you to join us — the future of El Segundo’s emergency care depends on it.
Sincerely,
[ signature ] [ signature ]
Kevin Rehm, President [ red fire association logo ] Breck Slover, 1st Vice President
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John Bibee, 2nd Vice President
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January 28th 2004:
Tenet announced plans to sell or close more than 27 hospitals in the United States, 19 in the Southern California region, 15 in Los Angeles County! There are no guarantees that all of these hospitals will sell and/or stay open. Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital and its Emergency Room on the list.
For more info:
http://www.somh.org
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EMERGENCY CARE NEWS UPDATE
“… [T]here will be six million more residents in Los Angeles by the year 2025, a dramatic increase that will require 66% more acute care beds beyond what now exist in Los Angeles.”
Source: Solucient Studies 2002
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Envelope:
[ Black Logo ] EL SEGUNDO [ PRESORTED STD USA Postage Stamp ]
FIREFIGHTERS’ ASSOCIATION
P.O. Box 3401
El Segundo, CA 90245-8401
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El Segundo Police Officers' Association (ESPOA) Exposed