Cindee Topar in Solving Our City’s Top Problems 101
Cindee Topar at a City Council meeting.
Photo copyright © 2012 by Michael D. Robbins.
LALCV PAC MONEY
While much maligned Chevron has contributed little or no money or in-kind contributions to El Segundo City Council candidates for at least the last two decades, the big campaign money in El Segundo has come from the El Segundo Firefighters Association (the fire labor union), the El Segundo Police Officers’ Association (the police labor union), and an out-of-town extremist environmental organization, the Los Angeles League of Conservation Voters (LALCV).
The LALCV is so extreme that its president, Mitchell Schwartz, claimed we have less than ten years to prevent human extinction due to “greenhouse emissions” in his alarmist message on page 4 of the October 2009 LALCV newsletter:
“Today, we are again faced with the threat of extinction. Noah was given 120 years to build his ark …
Today, we have much less time to save the world from disastrous consequences … we have a decade or less to bring emissions down to a level where we can avoid the worst possible outcomes.
We at LALCV, and those of you who belong to other environmental organizations, or who live their lives in a sustainable manner, are modern day Noahs. But whereas Noah was unsuccessful in his efforts … our work is bearing fruit.”
Note that much of the “global warming” hysteria and “scientist consensus” has been debunked. Key research that formed the basis for “global warming” hysteria has been found to be fraudulent. If anything, the scientific evidence shows that climate and temperature depend largely on solar output which varies in cycles over time, and the earth may actually be cooling.
If you are interested, see the London Daily Mail news article, Forget global warming – it’s Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again.
Cindee Topar has taken thousands of dollars in campaign support from the radical LALCV. Although the name may sound innocuous, their agenda and the candidates they support are quite extreme, and they divert and squander taxpayer money for their own private agenda purposes.
The LALCV is a political action committee (PAC). They do not plant any trees, clean up any parks or beaches, or do any other hands-on conservation-related work. Their sole purpose for existing is to get candidates who subscribe to their extremist political agenda elected to public offices.
An internet search found that LALCV promotes an agenda ranging from banning plastic bags — to increasing taxes and trash collection fees to pay for more of their environmental programs — to “Toilet to Tap”.
“Toilet to Tap” would have recycled Hyperion sewage coming out of our kitchen and bathroom taps if a majority on City Council were to successfully promote it. I don’t think we need that, and I don’t think we are ready for that.
Although “Toilet to Tap” isn’t even on our city’s radar screen, neither was a plastic bag ban until Cindee Topar urged the City Council to implement it. If Cindee Topar and Scott Houston are elected to City Council, there will be a three-vote majority to implement a wide array of LALCV programs. I hope I am wrong, but what if I am right? Can we afford to take the chance?
Cindee Topar and Scott Houston are currently endorsed by LALCV.
According to the LALCV.org web site, the LALCV has endorsed and possibly also funded and provided expensive campaign mailers for the the following candidates in the specified El Segundo City Council elections:
- Cindee Topar (2012)
- Scott Houston (2012)
- Scott Houston (2010)
- Bill Fisher (2010)
- Eric Busch (2004 and 2008)
- Jim Boulgarides (2004)
In fact, Mayor Eric Busch has a testimonial up on the LALCV.org web site stating:
“LALCV is recognized as a leader in the sustainability arena. They also screen candidates carefully before they issue an endorsement. … LALCV was instrumental in both my elections to City Council.”
Councilman Bill Fisher also has a testimonial up on the LALCV.org web site stating:
“Los Angeles League of Conservation Voters challenges elected officials and those that that would run for office to question their support of the environment, recycling and sustainability. By their endorsement process they provide an important and vital service by challenging our elected officials to continue this important work. I am proud to have their endorsement and applaud all that have gained it. Thank you LALCV for doing what you do.”
Cindee Topar took thousands of dollars in cash and other campaign support from LALCV
The campaign support Topar took from the LALCV included large cash contributions and three expensive campaign mailers when Topar ran for El Segundo City Council in 2008.
LALCV has contributed or promised to contribute $750 to Topar for her 2012 El Segundo City Council campaign, which Topar used for her campaign mailer that arrived about March 30, 2012.
The third LALCV campaign mailer sent for Topar in 2008 was a large full-color card stock campaign mailer that claimed in large bold letters, “Thanks to CINDEE TOPAR, El Segundo has cleaner air, healthier water and more open space.” You can see the front side of that campaign mailer below.
Third LALCV campaign mailer for Cindee Topar in her 2008 campaign for El Segundo City Council.
The LALCV has a rigorous vetting process for its endorsements
For all races, the LALCV Board of Directors uses a rigorous four-step vetting process in making its campaign endorsements to ensure they only support candidates who will actively pursue their radical agenda. The vetting process includes a detailed questionnaire and in-person interview, followed by an evaluation and recommendation by an endorsement team, then finally, a vote of the full Board.
In some cases, the Board will also elect to financially support a candidate or ballot initiative along with its endorsement. Only the most extreme candidates running in races where the LALCV has a reasonable chance of influencing the election outcome get both the LALCV endorsement and the financial support.
Video Transcript:
SOLVING OUR CITY’S TOP PROBLEMS 101
featuring CINDEE TOPAR
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The following excerpt from the 2/1/11 El Segundo City Council Meeting shows that Cindee TOPAR is OUT OF TOUCH with our TOP PRIORITIES.
Of all our City’s Problems – Massive Budget Deficits, Unsustainable City Union Contracts, potential Loss of our Fire Department, . . .
. . . what keeps Cindee Topar awake at night?
Watch Cindee in action, and see how she tackles our City’s top priority problem.
( Watch the video and you will be surprised! )
(February 1, 2011 El Segundo City Council Meeting)
Public Communications:
“My name is Cindee Topar, I’m at 634 Lomita Street, and on January 25th, in a unanimous decision, the city of Santa Monica passed one of the most aggressive bans on plastic bags initiative. It will go into effect September 2011 and it will ban all grocery store bags, pharmacies and retailers from distributing the one-use plastic bags. Exceptions are made in restaurants where they have carry-out food, carry-out drinks, they will be able to use them, bags. Stores can sell paper bags provided they are 40% recycled paper at a price of ten cents each.
“On Tuesday, November 16, the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors adopted the prohibition on the purchase and use of the single bags, and at the same meeting an environmental impact report for the proposed ordinances to ban the plastic carry-out bags was certified.
“On tonight Calabasas will be voting on this ordinance at their city council meeting to decide if they’re going to ban the bags.
“I would like to propose that El Segundo consider implementing this ordinance.
“I received about 150 reusable bags to distribute so I was hoping if we did do this ordinance, I could get something at the Farmers Market and I could distribute bags free of charge to people to start getting themselves used to trying to use these reusable bags and ban this. They’re just an environmental mess out there, and at Ralphs, I think I was there for about 15 minutes counting, and within 15 minutes they used 220 plastic bags. And I thought that’s was one day within 15 minutes, so I can’t even imagine the amount of those plastic bags that are getting used in a lifetime over the years. So, I feel this is a good thing for us, for our town, it’s a good thing for the environment, and I would hope that our council could look into implementing this.”
Cindee Topar lacks the analytical ability to do a cost-versus-benefits analysis rather than a simple one-sided analysis.
Cindee Topar wants to emulate Santa Monica to solve El Segundo’s problems.
What other Santa Monica “solutions” does Cindee Topar plan for El Segundo?
Higher Taxes? Rent Control? Gun Control? Homeless Camps?
What else does Cindee Topar want to tax, ban, and “control”?
Your . . . Lightbulbs? Toilets? Lawnmowers? Firearms? Your FREEDOM?
Cindee Topar is OUT OF TOUCH with our City’s Top Problems
Cindee Topar was Campaign Manager for a FIRE UNION MEMBER
Topar is an official in a MILITANT UNION that TARGETS the CUSTOMERS
Scott Houston is IN LOCK-STEP with the FIRE & POLICE UNIONS
Marie Fellhauer is a POLICE UNION MEMBER in Los Angeles
Cindee Topar and Marie Fellhauer endorsed (2010) Scott Houston
Please vote for Fiscal Responsibility, Transparency, and Control by Voters, . . .
. . . NOT Control by FIRE & POLICE UNIONS . . .
. . . that have been LOOTING the PUBLIC TREASURY . . .
. . . of the City they are Sworn to Protect.
Please VOTE FOR Carl Jacobson, David Atkinson, & Dave Burns
Please VOTE FOR Lisa Wood for City Clerk for more Transparency
Election Day in El Segundo is April 10, 2012
CHECK BACK FREQUENTLY for MORE INFO . . .
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