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Fantasy? – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Carol James

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Mike

Fantasy?

It’s interesting to read Marie Fellhauer’s election materials that arrive every few days. She takes credit for “successfully negotiating a tax resolution with the refinery” and “successfully negotiated agreement with Wiseburn School District…for the world-class pool facility” except she wasn’t a negotiator on either.

Oh, and she’s “fighting to get our fair share of the property tax levy”. Exactly who is she fighting? Is she winning or losing? Why haven’t we heard anything about this for the last four years?

Speaking of the last four years, all of a sudden, she’s the senior citizens’ best friend…my friend who lives at Park Vista says in four years Marie has never attended any events at Park Vista until the very last board meeting before the election. She brought her baby and husband. Coincidence? My friend said to tell her the residents may be senior but they’re not stupid.

Also, why are her big donations coming from out of town businesses and people? Shouldn’t the ‘Local Girl’ get local donations?

– Carol James

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Posted in California, Doug Willmore's Great Chevron Shakedown, El Segundo, El Segundo Election Coverage, El Segundo Herald Letters, El Segundo News, El Segundo Tax and Fee Increases, Elections, Letters to the Editor, Political Corruption, Politics | Tagged April 2016 El Segundo General Municipal Election, Carol James, Chevron, Chevron Shakedown, City of El Segundo, El Segundo, Marie Fellhauer, oil refinery, property tax, senior citizens, Wiseburn | Comments Off

Gouging Hotels – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Kip Haggerty

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Mike

Gouging Hotels

To my dismay, I see the City Council has come back to us yet again with the immoral proposition of gouging hotel customers for the crime of not being us. The argument in favor is based on the bromide “every one else is doing it.” Anything higher than the sales tax rate is just plain wrong and I hope we have the collective wisdom to vote it down again. Instead of gouging visitors, we could always vote out the incumbents to keep any one from accumulating two terms and their associated health insurance for life benefit. This could save substantial funds for lifetime health care insurance of “retired” council members.

– Kip Haggerty

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Posted in California, Economy and Economics, El Segundo, El Segundo Election Coverage, El Segundo Herald Letters, El Segundo Hotel Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT), El Segundo Measure B TOT Tax Hike, El Segundo News, El Segundo Tax and Fee Increases, Elections, Fraud Waste and Abuse, Government Employee Compensation and Pensions, Letters to the Editor, Politics, Tax Policy and Issues | Tagged April 2016 El Segundo General Municipal Election, City of El Segundo, El Segundo, El Segundo Herald, El Segundo Measure B, Hotel Transient Occupancy Tax, Kip Haggerty, Letter to the Editor, Letter to the El Segundo Herald, Measure B, tax hikes, TOT, Transient Occupancy Tax | Comments Off

Entitlement Versus Affordability – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by David Burns

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Mike

Entitlement Versus Affordability

There’s been frequent talk about what El Segundo residents “deserve” when it comes to funding public safety services. The discussion should really be about what we can afford. Residents got what they deserved in past budgets that funded public safety services from 2000 through 2009. Police and Fire enjoyed annual pay raises in the range of 5% to 9+% annually from 2000 through 2009. They received a public benefit of enhanced pensions that saw city costs rise by ten’s of millions of dollars over a decade. By getting what our past City Council’s felt our public safety officials were entitled to or “deserved” nearly bankrupted our city. City Hall’s past culture of entitlement nearly cost us our independent fire department and paramedic ambulance services. El Segundo had a platinum spending culture, unfortunately, our budget couldn’t sustain such entitlements or costs.

That’s the hard lesson residents and elected officials must remember. The City Council has taken a lot of hits for maintaining fiscal responsibility and balanced budget accountability, resulting in a barrage of disrespect from the public safety unions displaying unprofessionalism by name calling and disrespecting city leadership. This must end.

The new City Council must remember the lessons of the past. If Measure B passes, we must look to the future of what El Segundo can afford. What El Segundo deserves is quality public safety services, living within our means, maintaining services that are affordable, and ensuring that public safety is provided with quality equipment, resources, and training.

– David Burns

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Posted in California, Economy and Economics, El Segundo, El Segundo Election Coverage, El Segundo Herald Letters, El Segundo Hotel Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT), El Segundo Measure B TOT Tax Hike, El Segundo News, El Segundo Tax and Fee Increases, Elections, Firefighter and Police Union Compensation and Pensions, Firefighter Union Corruption, Fraud Waste and Abuse, Government Employee Compensation and Pensions, Letters to the Editor, Police Union Corruption, Political Corruption, Politics, Tax Policy and Issues, Union Corruption | Tagged April 2016 El Segundo General Municipal Election, bankruptcy, City of El Segundo, David Burns, El Segundo, El Segundo 2016 Measure B Tax Hike, El Segundo Measure B, Measure B | Comments Off

Eight Reasons to Vote Out the Incumbents – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Mike Robbins

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Mike

Eight Reasons to Vote Out the Incumbents

1.) Marie Fellhauer and Dave Atkinson voted for at least twelve tax hikes.

2.) They voted to charge residents more than $1,850 for each fire department paramedic ambulance transport to the hospital, even though taxes pay for that.

3.) They voted to lease out the driving range for up to 50 years, at CenterCal’s option, without a competitive bid, for much less money than it’s worth, to build a huge TopGolf sports bar with an enlarged driving range as an accessory. The lease will take land away from the golf course, restaurant, and pro-shop; eliminate hole #1; and reduce the yardage, difficulty, and possibly safety of the golf course.

4.) They used falsified financial data to misrepresent that the golf course is losing money to justify their sweetheart deal.

5.) They voted to remove more competent and honest Carl Jacobson from the Mayor’s office and make Bill Fisher mayor, in the middle of Jacobson’s term without justification.

6.) They and two police union members ambushed then City Council candidate Mike
Dugan in 2014, rudely disrupting his Meet the Candidate night at the Moose Lodge. They kept interrupting him, made false accusations, and wouldn’t let him talk.

7.) Fellhauer tried to eliminate City Council Member (but not City Clerk and Treasurer) benefits, to discourage candidates from running against her. She gets lavish benefits from LAPD.

8.) A Fellhauer camp political operative repeatedly pressured challenger Don Brann to stop running against her for City Council.

– Mike Robbins

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Posted in California, El Segundo, El Segundo Election Coverage, El Segundo Hotel Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT), El Segundo Measure B TOT Tax Hike, El Segundo News, Measure A - 5 New Taxes and 6 Tax Inceases | Tagged April 2016 El Segundo General Municipal Election, benefits, Bill Fisher, Carl Jacobson, CenterCal, city council, City of El Segundo, Dave Atkinson, David Atkinson, driving range, El Segundo, El Segundo Herald, El Segundo Measure B, El Segundo Police Managers Association, El Segundo Police Officers, golf course, incumbents, LAPD, Letter to the Editor, Letter to the El Segundo Herald, Marie Fellhauer, mayor, Measure B, Michael D. Robbins, Mike Robbins, police union, The Lakes at El Segundo, TopGolf, union | Comments Off

Election Quiz – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Debbie Hayman

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Mike

Election Quiz

BName the council candidate(s) in the questions.

1. Which two council candidates removed a mayor without a legitimate reason?

2. Which two council candidates wanted senior citizens to pay for dial-a-ride, but not
others using it?

3. Which council candidate walked out of the meeting because he couldn’t work with other members?

4. Which council candidate attended a meet and greet of another candidate, causes problems by calling him a liar and other things, which caused people to leave?

5. Which council candidate interrupted a senior citizen during public communications and condemned her using of work “Mayberry” in describing El Segundo?

6. Which council candidate during a recent meet the candidates night by League of Women Voters, had to be warned twice by arbitrator regarding remarks about one of the others?

The answer to these questions is Dave Atkinson and Marie Fellhauer. Time for a change, Brann, Pirsztuk, and Boyles.

– Debbie Hayman

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Posted in California, El Segundo, El Segundo Election Coverage, El Segundo Herald Letters, El Segundo News, Elections, Letters to the Editor, Politics | Tagged candidate, Carol Pirsztuk, city council, city council meeting, City of El Segundo, Dave Atkinson, David Atkinson, Debbie Hayman, dial-a-ride, Don Brann, Drew Boyles, El Segundo, League of Women Voters, Letter to the Editor, Letter to the El Segundo Herald, LWV, Marie Fellhauer, Mayberry, senior citizens | Comments Off

Strange Election – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Marianne Fong

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Mike

Strange Election

The police and fire unions are endorsing and campaigning for the three challenger candidates because they want incumbents Marie Fellhauer and Dave Atkinson off the City Council. This makes for a strange election, because Fellhauer and Atkinson should be off the City Council, and challengers Carol Pirsztuk and Don Brann should be elected. The unions usually endorse the worst tax-and-spend candidates.

We must judge the incumbent City Council candidates by their voting record, especially when they had a majority with Bill Fisher and ran amok, not by their campaign rhetoric, false accomplishments, and campaign promises.

Fellhauer and Atkinson have been tax-and-spend politicians. They voted for at least a dozen tax hikes, on residents and businesses, and fee increases, to pay for excessive police and fire union raises handed out by their allies Eric Busch and Bill Fisher.

They played a financial shell game to claim they balanced the City budget. They spent down the City’s Reserve Account, and borrowed large sums from the Equipment Replacement Fund, which is used to save up money over the years to pay for everything from new computers to new police cars and fire engines.

Fellhauer and Atkinson continued the Chevron Shakedown started by Busch and Fisher, and effectively extorted an additional $8.5 million average per year for 15 years from Chevron, without justification.

They are talking like conservatives, and padding their campaign literature, taking credit for accomplishments of the current fiscally conservative majority. Fellhauer is even quoting Ronald Reagan in this masquerade.

– Marianne Fong

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Posted in California, Doug Willmore's Great Chevron Shakedown, Economy and Economics, El Segundo, El Segundo Election Coverage, El Segundo Herald Letters, El Segundo News, El Segundo Tax and Fee Increases, Elections, Firefighter and Police Union Compensation and Pensions, Firefighter Union Corruption, Fraud Waste and Abuse, Government Employee Compensation and Pensions, Letters to the Editor, Police Union Corruption, Political Corruption, Politics, Tax Policy and Issues, Union Corruption | Tagged April 2016 El Segundo General Municipal Election, Carol Pirsztuk, Chevron, Chevron Shakedown, city government, City of El Segundo, Dave Atkinson, David Atkinson, Don Brann, El Segundo Firefighters, El Segundo Firefighters Association, El Segundo Police Officers, El Segundo Police Officers Union, ESFA, ESPOA, firefighters union, Marianne Fong, Marie Fellhauer, police union, Ronald Reagan, tax hikes, union | Comments Off

No more Tantrums and Disrespect – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Sue Capo

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Mike

No more Tantrums and Disrespect

Voters, now is our chance to remove the two rude, mean-spirited Council members and get five professionals to represent us.

Imagine council meetings where Dave Atkinson doesn’t storm off the dais using curse words when he doesn’t get his way. Or a meeting where Marie Fellhauer and Dave don’t roll their eyes and tell speakers they are wrong, or liars, during public comments. Seriously, would you let your kids behave that way?

Let’s not forget the time Dave and Marie ambushed Mike Dugan during his campaign event at the Moose Lodge two years ago. This behavior wouldn’t be accepted at El Segundo Middle School.

Time to be an example and tell our children why candidates’ character counts.

I know who I won’t be voting for.

– Sue Capo

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Posted in California, El Segundo, El Segundo Election Coverage, El Segundo Herald Letters, El Segundo News, Elections, Letters to the Editor, Politics | Tagged April 2016 El Segundo General Municipal Election, city council, City of El Segundo, Dave Atkinson, David Atkinson, El Segundo, Marie Fellhauer, Mike Dugan, Moose Lodge, Sue Capo | Comments Off

No on Measure B – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Jerry Wellfonder

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Mike

No on Measure B

Read the Argument Against Measure B and Rebuttal to the Argument in Favor of Measure B in the Sample Ballot. You can view or download it at the City website, ElSegundo.org.

Vote “No” on Measure B, the Bait-and-Switch tax hike. The City lured hotels here with a Business Attraction Program and lower hotel Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT). Now after the hotels are built, the City is trying to raise their TOT tax by 50%, from 8% to 12%. This tax, paid by customers, will increase room prices and reduce sales. The TOT is only 10% in adjacent Manhattan Beach.

Measure B will destroy El Segundo’s longestablished reputation as a fair and stable business-friendly city. We may ultimately lose more tax revenue than we will gain, by discouraging businesses from coming and expanding here.

The hotel operators, Councilman Mike Dugan, and former Council Members Mike Robbins, Jane Friedkin and Dick Switz all oppose Measure B.

Government must learn to live within its means. This cycle of handing out big pay raises to the safety unions and management, and raising taxes to pay for it, has increased both the funded and unfunded CalPERS pension liabilities. It has got to stop. Each pay raise increases the pension liabilities. El Segundo’s unfunded CalPERS pension liability – about $106,500,000 – must be paid over many years, as employees retire, over their remaining lifetime, which will average about 25 to 35 years per retiree.

Vote “No” on Measure B to stop this vicious cycle.

– Jerry Wellfonder
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Posted in California, Economy and Economics, El Segundo, El Segundo Election Coverage, El Segundo Herald Letters, El Segundo Hotel Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT), El Segundo News, El Segundo Tax and Fee Increases, Elections, Firefighter and Police Union Compensation and Pensions, Firefighter Union Corruption, Fraud Waste and Abuse, Government Employee Compensation and Pensions, Letters to the Editor, Police Union Corruption, Political Corruption, Politics, Union Corruption | Tagged April 2016 El Segundo General Municipal Election, City of El Segundo, El Segundo Firefighters, El Segundo Firefighters Association, El Segundo Herald, El Segundo Measure B, El Segundo Police Officers, El Segundo Police Officers Association, El Segundo Police Officers Union, ESFA, ESPOA, Hotel Transient Occupancy Tax, hotels, Jerry Wellfonder, Letter to the Editor, Letter to the El Segundo Herald, Measure B, tax hikes, TOT | Comments Off

The Notorious Measure B – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Edward Ryan

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Mike

The Notorious Measure B

By now the USPS has brought us all a slick, full-color mailing which tells us to vote approval for the notorious Measure B. What a surprise: it is paid for by the cops’ and firemen’s PAC’s. Once again I urge my fellow residents to vote “No” and reject the 50% increase in the obnoxious TOT. We don’t need more taxes, we need fiscal responsibility. See you at the polls.

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Posted in California, El Segundo, El Segundo Election Coverage, El Segundo Herald Letters, El Segundo Hotel Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT), El Segundo News, El Segundo Tax and Fee Increases, Elections, Firefighter and Police Union Compensation and Pensions, Firefighter Union Corruption, Fraud Waste and Abuse, Government Employee Compensation and Pensions, Letters to the Editor, Police Union Corruption, Political Corruption, Politics, Tax Policy and Issues, Union Corruption | Tagged April 2016 El Segundo City Election, City of El Segundo, Edward Ryan, El Segundo Firefighters, El Segundo Firefighters Association, El Segundo Firefighters Union, El Segundo Police Officers, El Segundo Police Officers Association, El Segundo Police Officers Union, ESPOA, fire union, firefigfhters union, firefighters association, firefighters union, firefighters union corruption, Hotel Transient Occupancy Tax, hotels, Letter to the Editor, Letter to the El Segundo Herald, Measure B, police association, police officers association, police officers union, police union, police union corruption, tax hikes, TOT, Transient Occupancy Tax, union corruption, unions | Comments Off

Too Big and Seriously Ugly – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Marlene Henneberg

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Mike

Too Big and Seriously Ugly

How pleased I was to read Mr. Fisher’s letter to your editor! I have been wondering for years, if there were any rules at all, in this city, regarding the appearance of these humongous houses going up. Not only are they way too big for their lots, but many are seriously ugly. They stick out like sore thumbs in this city.

To claim we need more spec houses is outrageous. That we should not have any control over the appearance of a new house being built leaves me nearly speechless. Councilwoman Fellhauer certainly just lost my vote. Please read Drew Boyles’ statement, which promises to protect El Segundo’s small town charm. Now that is something a 50 year resident can get behind.

– Marlene Henneberg

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Posted in California, El Segundo, El Segundo Election Coverage, El Segundo Herald Letters, El Segundo News, Elections, Letters to the Editor, Politics | Tagged April 2016 El Segundo General Municipal Election, city council, City of El Segundo, development, Drew Boyles, Fisher, houses, Marie Fellhauer, Marlene Henneberg | Comments Off

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