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I wonder if Kelley supported Turner during his school board election. I have nothing to substantiate it but, my bet is that he did. Kelley is just running from anything that might sully his "pristine" career on the dais. I'm sure that it is Turner's style not his viewpoints that scares the Reep3 on the council. What they fail to realize is that their attempts are thinly veiled. They have all been at the same functions, pressing the flesh, strategizing, intimating. I have been at these meetings, I have seen them together, maybe not McCammack, she's usually too busy hanging out at DJ's with Jim. Now, if Turner gets elected, we will see how many of them change their tune.

Jim Mulvilhill, a certified urban planner from Cal State San Bernardino campus, is the expert assistance this city needs on board, not just once in awhile, when a study is commissioned, but day in & day out. The learned people of “Wendy’s Ward”, say yes, it has become her ward: Just try talking to the people north of the cross-town freeway with Penman signs in their yards! “Oh, we’re not VOTING for him, we just don’t want problems from Wendy”, they say.
It’s unfortunate because they seem to have lost all hope, these people in some of the nicest homes in town, with what some suppose to be the nicest lives, quaking in terror and cluttering their manicured yards like the victims they have allowed themselves to become. If only those who do not want Penman would invest a moment to pull over and get out to speak to these poor, terrorized neighbors they could begin to see it isn’t just 1 or 2 or 3 neighbors knocking on their door, but many more ~ and all with the same message: The signs you have in your yard to block the vindictiveness of the ones you fear are precisely part of why they are able to remain in power: People see the signs in your yards and extrapolate that if people like YOU think that’s the right choice, it must be so. Be brave! Take down the barriers to the better life you, like us all, want. Take down the lying signs.
Wendy McCammack has been groomed to her current status as lock-step terrorist with and by Jim Penman himself. It is true, they are more than Frick & Frack at DJs and other spots, including meetings out in the community. More because they are so joined at the hip that when one says, “Frick San Bernardino”, the other replies with an echoed, “Frick San Bernardino”, rather than the expected “Frack…”.
Back in the day, Wendy seemed to really be in office for all the real reasons. Then, the office seemed to get into Wendy.
Her business turned on the autopilot and her husband turned on the Pay Per View. Wendy took to carousing with Penman and his influences more than rubbed off on her, they eventually obliterated any vestige of the beautiful person she once was. For the sake of her children, husband, business, self and city, I hope she is defeated and allowed to begin the arduous process of reclaiming her lost life (and soul).

Did anyone listen to Kelley's spot on the SBSun website? Holy Cow, can this guy answer a question without some crazy 5 minute anecdote about himself or his kids? Does he know how to be direct at all? The entire thing sounded like wishy-washy political garbage. Maybe his "handler should tell him to answer the questions that are asked of him. Do yourself a favor Mr Kelley, be a public servant, not a politician.

Hometown Boy,
It’s a lot easier to sit at a keyboard and type out armchair quarterbacking of a person’s public speaking behind the protected cover of an alias than to actually step up to the microphone and speak for the record.
Public speaking is feared more than death by some and feared by as much as 3 of 4 Americans. Please note: The fear of public speaking is called glossophobia (or, informally, "stage fright"). It is believed to be the single most common phobia — affecting as much as 75% of the population. Fear of oration is ranked even above that of death. As Jerry Seinfeld observes, "The average person at a funeral would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy." These statements and more on the topic are available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_speaking
In Councilman Chas Kelley’s defense, I find that him demonstrating his family is in his thoughts is admirable. “Family First”, after all. Appearances may lead some to suppose otherwise. I am referring to the way, noted in my posts elsewhere in SBNow Blog, Chas Kelley has been observed by me attending neighborhood meetings outside his ward this election year, thereby with no self-interest. And, to be clear, that I have witnessed him at meetings all over for many years now. In other words, Councilman Chas Kelley has been observed by me, and all the others present at these meetings outside his ward and elsewhere, to be acting exactly as a public servant, and in no way has been observed to be acting as a politician.
Frankly, Chas Kelley is not my councilperson. Yet, I stand in support of the blemish-free record I have personally witnessed regarding him over the years. But that we could all have councilpersons so attentive and actively participating in the concerns of our community! It’s rare to encounter an elected official so active and so free of any whiff of impropriety.
That he has been quoted indicating his frustration toward our federal government’s failure to effectively address the issues sought to be remedied through municipal action by Joseph Turner in years past is no more criminal than that of any other American bemoaning the irresponsible actions of our national leaders swayed by the deep pockets of the influential meat-packing, agricultural and construction industries.
Chas Kelley is a fine public servant, serving his constituency well. One would hope that the Democratic Party would recognize that and let this nonpartisan office alone. Instead, they confusedly double-endorsed his opponents. Whatever.
RE-ELECT CHAS KELLEY TO SAN BERNARDINO CITY COUNCIL!
Your Friend & Neighbor,
Susana Atanasova