Mayor Pat Morris endorses Jim Mulvihill

No surprise felt here in the periphery. Mayor Morris is wise. No less could reasonably be expected from him.

Its becoming more and more obvious what the Mayor is up to. He's trying to oust from the council those who don't think like he does! I like Jim Mulvihill - he's a smart man and a very nice guy, but he's Pat's Patsy!

Why is it that when someone takes a step in life to want to make a difference in their world that they are perceived to be someone's patsy? Jim Mulvihill has been involved in community activities for years, and now he feels he could better serve the city as a councilperson?

I liked what Ms. Tillman said at the first debate, that it was her time. Maybe it's Jim Mulvihill's time, this time. And he shouldn't be criticized for running before and not winning the election. If at first you don't succeed, you try, try again. If you fall, you pick yourself up, wipe the dust off of you, and keep on moving forward.

For people to think that the current elected officials are there to stay is living on fantasy island. What's going to happen when these people die, we will have to choose someone else then. Who says that we have to wait for that to happen?

Why don't you put yourselves in the candidates' positions and see what you have to put up with to get where you want to be--to make a difference, to save the world, whatever.

Dena,

All my anti-cloning friends and I agree: Cloning is WRONG!
But beautiful people like you make it tempting!
Then again, is it nature, or is it nurture that formed your thoughts?
Or, could it be that people that think and reason with such beauty, like you do, have come to that state of being through dedicated introspection and the pondering of points others are oblivious to?
Truly Your Friend, And Honored To Say That, Your Neighbor,
Susana Atanasova ~ Noting the sudden silence from the Penman people in the blog in the wake of these newest embarrassing discoveries of long-time ineptitude at Parks & Rec.; violations in reporting requirements; and, much more... Jim Penman: He doesn't notice up to $25,000 contracts year after year, for 20 years... He values membership at the country club at $12.50 a month... PLEASE, VOTE FOR MARIANNE! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

Susana, some of us WORK and can't spend all day on a blog like you do. It seems like it is your LIFE. Silence from Penman's people? Penman's supporters know this is a witch hunt and know what is truth and what is fiction. Read the latest blog on CLUBGATE. So many will fall on this one, IF and only IF what Penman did was illegal. And more of Morris/Milligan supporters are part of that same embarrassing discoveries. The only difference?...Penman is the ONLY one that even reported anything. He was told it worth nothing because it was revocable at any time, as long as he paid his way, which he DID. The rest of Morris's elbow-rubbers reported NOTHING!!!!! What part of secrecy don;t you understand.

I'm sorry the lifestyle chosen by you and yours doesn't afford you the opportunity to do as you seem to wish you could ~ this IS America, and you're only as encumbered as you chose to be ~ try listening to Dr. Laura on KFI 640AM, tomorrow at your noon lunch break ~ she is FULL of suggestions for us women to put home & hearth before the accumulation of wealth for distributing to the whole sector of the economy focused on the female wage, starting with institutionalized parenting, AKA daycare... by the way, I am only at SBNow Blog for a bit each day and post about the same number of posts as you ~ my typing speed, after over 30+ years of use and the advent of PCs is lightening fast, so, what may take YOU "all day", takes me a couple of minutes.
That said, the public officials with FPPC reporting duties that are tainted by Clubgate, thanks to Penman's decade + of calling the membership that allowed him so much access that he became "a fixture at the club", a $12.50 monthly insignificance, are not being excused. And, they, unlike Penman, aren't running for office, yet again, under the banner of being a holier than thou watchdog, tough on crime, when in reality he's been committing them for years and years.

Please see read the following link and see if you can learn / accept some realities and st:

http://www.redcountysb.com/rcsb/2007/10/attorney-tim-pr.html

It is penned by a 41st Congressional candidate with a long family history of intimate familiarity with SB City Attorney details.

To read it all, you need to visit the link above, but, here's a snippet to get you going:

Does Jim Penman adhere to these ethical cannons? Let's look at what he does:

1. He regularly endorses and/or opposes City Council candidates, blatantly politicizing his office.

2. He funneled thousands of dollars into the campaigns of select City Council candidates, including contributions to Wendy McCammack and Betty Dean Anderson.

3. In his campaign for mayor just 18 months ago, Penman gave thousands of dollars of campaign work to McCammack's business. McCammack then loaned thousands of dollars to the city attorney's mayoral campaign. These ties clearly compromise the independence required of a city attorney.

4. By speaking during the "public comments" portion of the agenda, Penman has made the televised City Council meetings a political platform and political advertisement to sponsor his political agenda, once again compromising the independence required of an effective city attorney.

5. His lack of respect and civility toward others at City Hall is well known and documented. In an article published in The Sun newspaper in 2005, the former executive director of the San Bernardino Development Agency, Gary Van Osdel, spoke of his seven years within City Hall:

"Anyone who regularly watches our City Council meetings has observed Penman's temper as he rises, yelling and red-faced to challenge those, on or off the council, who disagree with him. Penman saves most of his red-faced screaming tirades for department heads and other elected officials in meetings closed to the public .... At times, Penman's outbursts are so extreme as to shut down operation of city government .... These threats of lawsuits and investigations against those who disagree with Penman or who act contrary to his wishes are legendary within City Hall. Penman's "my way or the highway" approach is contrary to our democratic principles and has never been an effective management technique in business or government."

This behavior, these political entanglements, these ethical compromises, and these financial dealings are clearly improper and violate the City Attorney's Code of Ethics. The reason for the City Attorneys Code of Ethics is clear: City government can function properly only when it is served by a nonpolitical, unbiased and uncompromised legal adviser.

Those who despair of the longstanding dysfunction in San Bernardino city government need look no further than the current city attorney's violations of a fundamental Code of Ethics to find its root cause.

Jim is involved in the community - that means he attends board meetings. However being a Neighborhood Association President, when was the last time he held a meeting for his area? Not in recent memory - a couple of years at least. THIS is being involved in the community? He hasn't been at a Neighborhood Association President's meeting lately either. (And I haven't seen your smiling face there lately Dena)
Carolyn Tilman didn't get involved in the Neighborhood Association until she started her candidacy......

While I don't agree with everything that Wendy McCammack and Chas Kelley think at least THEY are involved in their communities.....they ARE at meetings, they are sitting up at the dias at council meetings demanding improvements for their areas. NOT all the currently seated councilpersons are as active......

And it's sad that Jim learned of the Mayor's endorsement this way.......

but not surprising!

We all knew that the Morris camp was "pulling" for Jim to beat Wendy. The endorsement hadn't been announced previously because it wasn't politically expedient to do so YET.

I guess someone slipped.......

You talk ethics but be friends with people you accuse of doing bad? You are no friend and you have no idea what you talk about. How can you judge anything when you do this?

You are hypocrite!

This is too rich! Fly on The Wall, double posting, then, switching over to Your Neighbor to call herself a hypocrite! Sally Field, is that you? Acting out your old role as Sybil? Has the stress of the fire storm surrounding us sent your over the edge you've been teetering on?
I'm sure there are some fine misguided folks rooting for Penman somewhere ~ I was one myself, God forgive me my naïveté! The fact remains, the person switch-hitting against herself ostensibly at the behest of her running-scared and desperate candidate Penman - faced with regrouping after yet another lost election, gearing up for an anticipated FPPC morass caused by his "fair market value" of $150 for annual Arrowhead Country Club memberships and, hopelessly trying to find something, anything, wrong with Marianne Milligan ~ the ONLY candidate with widely acclaimed municipal attorneys supporting her... yes, Penman is a lost cause. He is broken beyond repair. Time for a replacement.
San Bernardino is yearning to SOAR, (pun intended for the charter school) ~ NOT limp along, tethered to the Penman Pillory Post.

I am sorry - I didn't mean Fly on the Wall.....I was talking about you Susana - you are the hypocrite!

You say you are a friend and you stab in the back.

Your posts are unintelligible. It must be rubbing off on me. Ewwww!