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Gee, what a surprise. This kind of thing has been going on in the Mayor's office for years, since Valles at least. Mr.. Nick Gonzales has been spending most of him paid city time campaigning for Marianne at the behest of the Mayor. Again, what a surprise.

Julie Frazier-Mathews, no doubt.
Well, we all are human and therefore prone to error.
My paper delivery family won’t be here for over an hour, yet, so this may all be a moot point.
Nevertheless, if it IS Julie, and it is not a HUGE gaff, I say reprimand and go forth from there. Julie is an admirable asset to City of San Bernardino, from what I have both heard and experienced directly in interactions with her.
In fact, it was Julie that provided long-awaited professionalism and competency in the position of Human Relations Commission Coordinator at our most recent meeting, mentioned elsewhere in SBNow Blog. And, without going into unnecessary details, it was Julie that was direct supervisor over a recently improved situation long-awaited by City Hall active people. Julie, under Chief of Staff Jim Morris, oversees the cordial, attentive and capable staff Mayor Pat Morris has installed in City Hall’s 6th floor mayoral offices. The lack of any complaints being shared about Julie, or the staff Julie supervises ~ and the pruning of problematic staff from positions antagonistic rather than conducive toward attaining the goals of The City, thereby maintaining the high level of productivity and amicable atmosphere where progress thrives, are all testaments to Julie’s fine performance.
I’m not saying look the other way, or disregard what’s happened. I’m saying no more flunk a straight A student that bombs on one test than tank a fine employee who is found in error once.
I last saw Julie while visiting with Mayoral Liaison Nick Gonzalez, waiting with other commissioners in the mayoral lobby for a quorum to assemble before Monday’s Fine Arts Commission meeting. Julie was poised, professional, busy, polite and competent. It would be my pleasure to encounter her during my next 6th floor visit, regardless of the faux pas made.
Remember, we all make mistakes.
Your Friend & Neighbor Supporting Local Community & Personal Betterment,
Voting for Milligan & Clark, and supporting Van Johnson, Mulvihill & Kelley in one month,
Susana Atanasova

Now that the paper's here and my suspicions have been confirmed, I'd like us to move along to the next person I feel requires inspection: Jim Penman
At the SBNow Blog thread located at:
http://www.insidesocal.com/sb/sbnow/2007/10/joseph_turners_candidate_debat.html#comments
There is a post identified thusly,
Jim Penman
City Attorney
City of San Bernardino

Posted by: Jim Penman | October 3, 2007 08:42 AM

and another identified thusly,
Jim Penman
City Attorney
City of San Bernardino

Posted by: Jim Penman | October 3, 2007 04:54 PM

Was this candidate's weekday 8-5 online session for self-promotion of acts repeatedly refuted as not meritous of accreditation to him
but rather repeatedly responded to as being nationally recognized accomplishments of the former ACA engaged in this online volley with San Bernardino City Attorney and candidate for Office of City Attorney Jim Penman accomplished with city materials and services, or, was Jim Penman engaged in this activity on a non-municipal server, with non-municipal equipment?
If the former: shame-shame!
If the latter: shame-shame!
Neither seems an acceptable activity for a San Bernardino City Attorney / candidate for Office of City Attorney.

Your Friend & Neighbor Wanting The Rules Applied Fairly To All,
Susana Atanasova

Breaking the law is breaking the law. Just like legal and illegal immigration. This is far different from a straight A student flunking a test. Wake up, S.A., Mr. Penman's personnel records are open to the public...unlike Ms. Milligan's. His campaign office is where he does ALL of his campaigning. But, frankly, when misinformation is being presented to the public about factual or infactual happenings in the City Attorney's office I would think you would want the TRUTH, no matter from where it was disseminated. By the way, wasn't it the Mayor's office who asked you, Ms. Atanasova, to be removed from the Human Relations Commission? You need to go back on your meds, quick, and get a job or something.

He who is without sin, cast the first stone. I can guarantee and double guarantee you, that everyone who has an email address in city hall has written some message that had nothing to do with city business. The protocol is, there is a commendation/recommendation form that is filled out documenting what took place. The first event may be a verbal written, which is retained in the department for a six-month period, after which if the same issue has not reoccurred, then the verbal is removed, making it a moot point. But you can be assured there are many verbal written warnings that are filed in city personnel files--human resources staff don't pay much attention, just file away. So what is the big deal here? Someone gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar--can we find better things to talk about? There is definitely someone out there who doesn't like Julie. I think The Sun should focus on more important things than backbiting and talebearing.

First, a little housekeeping, for the benefit of anyone new to politics, perhaps ill-informed after reading the disingenuous comments of anonymous posters in this and other threads:

San Bernardino City Attorney James F. “Jim Penman is an elected official, the details of his life are more transparent than those of a private citizen.

San Bernardino Deputy Code Compliance Departmental Head (under G. Baude) Marianne Milligan is a municipal employee and private citizen afforded the same rights to privacy as you, me and all others NOT elected to office, she is also a CANDIDATE for public office, prepared to live her life under the microscope of elected officials upon election as SAN BERNARDINO CITY ATTORNEY MARIANNE MILLIGAN, which will include the revelations of items by ANYONE holding office as San Bernardino City Attorney.

These revelations are a matter of course, not anything “extra”; they are required by law. Were they not, I, for one, wonder how forthcoming Jim Penman would be. I notice he has not answered any questions directed toward him in SBNow Blog, but DID find time, between 8AM – 5AM, on a non-holiday weekday, to volley posts with a former employee calling him out for attempting to take credit for her accomplishments. Please see the former employee’s post here:

http://www.insidesocal.com/sb/sbnow/2007/10/crime_stats_tell_puzzling_tale.html#comment-625383

and follow San Bernardino City Attorney Jim Penman’s response and volleys from 8:42AM to 4:54PM here:

http://www.insidesocal.com/sb/sbnow/2007/10/joseph_turners_candidate_debat.html#comment-626437

Our city attorney is found blogging on a weekday, from 8-5 and nothing is made of it. An office worker adds some imprudent text to an otherwise proper e-mail regarding an undeclared and now officially proclaimed as dropped tentative look into the possibility of perhaps one day running for public office in a neighboring city and two columns are devoted to it. That, to my eyes, is part of what I see wrong with the picture. More needs to be made of the impropriety of our city’s current attorney blogging 8-5, right here (see links above for proofs), on a non-holiday weekday. In the words of SBNow’s overseer, Robert Rogers, “Penman also offered cryptic reports of "other rumors" that "we've been hearing" in recent weeks ...
Editors at the Sun ultimately opted to nix Penman's opportunity to land a few blows to the Mayor, who was lain prostrate Friday by the Sun's irrefutable evidence of wrongdoing in his administration”. Please see: http://www.insidesocal.com/sb/sbnow/2007/10/morris_administration_official.html#comments

where that text and more will be found buried after the reposting of the article and more.

One wonders, are the rumors “cryptic” because they refer to Penman himself? And, would he prefer I capitalize that “h”?

THIS is a FINE example of a campaign-related issue. I hope to see it explored here and elsewhere.

Your Friend & Neighbor,

Susana Atanasova

To the person who consistently prefers to remain hidden behind anonymity regardless the content of the comment and any other interested visitors to SBNow Blog,
As a confirmed Objectivist (Wednesday is the 50th anniversary of Atlas Shrugged!) Please see: http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_ayn_rand_exhibit
I agree: A=A / “Breaking the law is breaking the law”. I further agree the “TRUTH” is always welcome.
May I suggest you “wake up” and learn that the vast majority of Jim Penman’s campaigning, in fact, is done in the field, NOT at the campaign office, where you mistakenly claim he does “ALL of his campaigning”? You are equally mistakenly in your implication that the mayor’s office does not support my efforts toward Local Community Betterment. In fact, the entire City of San Bernardino STRONGLY supports my many local community efforts. This statement is undeniably proven by the provision of stage & sound system, bottled water, 50+ work release workers, Port-A-Potties and more for my SBVYBP, c. 1991’s grant-funded project. This, my largest of many projects this month, is providing sponsor-logo-embellished tee shirts to numerous volunteers planting 150 15-gallon trees in the final five contiguous blocks of Mt. View median (60), 4 city parks (62) and 3 city libraries (28). My project is placing San Bernardino in the annals of history through the largest one-day urban tree planting in history. Please see: www.UnitedVoices.org
Lest you suppose my support end at the city’s limits, please see my project listed in 2nd place on San Bernardino County 5th District Supervisor Josie Gonzales’ Homepage at the following link: http://www.sbcounty.gov/gonzales . You may also view the San Bernardino County page Supervisor Gonzales has dedicated to my project at: http://www.sbcounty.gov/gonzales/pdf/20070910_bosd5_yard_beautification.pdf . Supervisor Gonzales is an ardent supporter of the betterment of our communities and therefore supportive of my tireless life-long efforts, including those of this month, as well as those of several years where she serves as Chair while I serve as an advisory board member.
Lest you suppose my support end at the county’s limits, please note that Honorable California 62nd Assemblymember Wilmer Amina Carter supports my Local Community Betterment efforts, of which she is most exquisitely aware. Assemblymember Carter has graciously “adopted” my project’s Paul Villasenor Branch Library project site for the crucial first 24-36 months, the ultimate term dependent upon the pace by which the trees thrive.
Perhaps, I will see you at either the congressional, or the White House event in the near future? Do you have your invitations? I have mine. If not, perhaps I will see you in San Francisco. Are you invited to the State level induction of an entity you created? I am.
Those reading this and knowing me know, rather than attempt to demean and belittle, I am attempting to show you the error of your ways, so that you may then begin investing more productively this portion of your life’s time so blatantly and patently invested erroneously in ineffectually trying to tear me down. Above all else, I encourage you to be productive with your life’s time. Please, embrace the reality that your obsessive stalking of me is but thinly veiled by the use of multiple aliases; contributes nothing of value; and, could best be replaced with productive pursuits.
Your petty obsession provoking your compulsive posting of these repeated and futile attempts toward disparaging me only serves to demonstrate your bilious demeanor and vacuous ramblings while affording me numerous opportunities to share the spectacular GOOD things I do in San Bernardino with the full support and assistance of Mayor Morris, Staff, The City of San Bernardino, et al. For the former, I pity you most sincerely. For the latter, I thank you most wholeheartedly ~ I am not prone to boasting and your posts afford me an opportunity to share my accomplishments with the readers of SBNow Blog.
Your Neighbor & Friend ~ Hoping Newcomers To The Blog Won't Be Dissuaded, Or Intimidated Into Silence, By Your Posts,
Susana Atanasova

Is this going to become the Susana Atanasova blog? I really don't need a list of her "accomplishments". Everyone that works or volunteers with community groups has "run across" her and is fully aware of what and who she is.....Please climb down from your soap box, save your pity for yourself, and get a life!

I agree with the "Berdoo Resident". Susana, don't forget your THESAURUS when climbing off your soap box.

You would do better addressing your comments to the person peppering the blog with alias after alias to use the cover of apparently limitless anonymity to fling baseless innuendo after admittedly coming up empty-handed in "armchair investigation" reports.
A review of the posts in all areas of this blog reveals that I contribute factual information and links relative to the topics of discussion.
Only on those occasions where my life's work is disparaged do I rise with bonafide evidence in defense of it. In this instance, it was due to the 100% false statement that Mayor Morris, who fully supports my projects and the betterment of ALL of San Bernardino, was behind my resignation from the Human Relations Commission.
Frankly, as a public official, there are any number of venues for this poor soul to turn to for "help", if not with the long-enduring obsession of me, then with these perceived and always fully refuted allegations against me.
Several candidates and elected officials have posted in this blog using their real names. Why is it none of them, even perhaps the ones I am not supporting in this election, do not post in agreement to this person's ugly posts? Why do you suppose a quick, “That’s right, Susana needs to go!” is nowhere to be heard or seen from anyone with a name behind it and some position of authority? Because it isn’t so.
I’m not egotistical by any means, and have even admitted to that in another area of the blog. None of us are perfect, we know that, don’t we? I strongly support freedom of speech and understand fully that to have that solid foundation, we must put up with the occasional termite, like the ill person preferring to remain anonymous here. That I can type at a fast clip and, after a lifetime of public speaking and other services know a word or two, is not deprecatory in my eyes. Neither is the preference of others to post without checking spelling, grammar, punctuation, facts and etcetera. We all have our own unique purpose and imprint in this lifetime, this is mine: I am a good-hearted, well-intentioned person devoted to local community and personal betterment, interested in local politics, actively embodying my motto that to do yourself a favor you should volunteer and finding great pleasure in writing, reading and teaching others always. Hopefully, that settles it, but somehow I doubt it.
In closing, please give our government a little more credit. Were I not fit to serve, I would not have over half a decade of unblemished, increasingly responsible and uninterrupted service to our city, in addition to the lifetime of, as you allude to, dedicated efforts with community betterment groups (Local Community Betterment being the focus of my life's energies). By the way, I began as a rank and file member and have progressed to ever more responsible positions through my proven and impressive track record for achieving results over a lifetime of giving, not taking. ANYONE reading this can accomplish this with dedicated effort toward others, too.
These endeavors are "my life" and I attend to them well, as evidenced my decades of uninterrupted service toward the betterment of our community and me rising through the ranks with time and effort being a consequence of my accomplishments, not being an accomplishment in and of itself.
Now, if there are any issues relative to political discourse beyond those I await replies from in other areas of the blog, I look forward to reading them when next I visit ~ Oh! And please, when next you happen to be visiting a venue where I am presenting, please approach me with your concerns face to face, everyone else does ~ it’s called effective communication. Try it. It works.