The three amigos must go! And the City Attorney. They will sell your city out!

Support Gary Taylor and Maggie Clark...get on the good, the responsible side. People who know good people know this.

Wow, so now eating free appetizers at Denny's qualifies one as a "community activist." I had no idea.

They keep saying the city paid the settlement, but it wasn't the city: it was the Joint Powers Authority that provides insurance to the city. And the only reason the Joint Powers Authority had to make such a large settlement was because Gary Taylor kept leaking information and talking about the allegations at pretty much every city council meeting he could. Heck, why would the opposing attorney have settled for less, when they had their biggest booster talking up their case every two weeks?

The simple fact is that Jean Hall and her ilk lost out at the ballot box. And, now, rather than the "healing" they say they wanted when they were in the majority, they're pursuing the politics of personal destruction. I only hope the voters of Rosemead are smart enough to see that the people asking for Nunez to resign don't care about the city, don't care about sexual harrassment, and don't care about the truth. It's all about political power--after thirty-plus years, they've lost it, and they want it back.

Dear Anonymous,

"Wow, so now eating free appetizers at Denny's qualifies one as a 'community activist.' I had no idea."

Haha. But I chose to refer to her as a community activist because she is regularly at the council meetings, participates in protests, and her name is listed as the organizer of a political action committee. And, yes, she is a regluar at these Rosemead Partners meetings, where appetizers like nachos are ordered.

Thanks for the post!
Jennifer

Who is paying for those nachos? If you're going to meetings where a paid consultant (not paid by the "community activists," but by an out of state corporation) is buying you nachos and writing checks to cover post cards and mailers, that's not community activism.

Gary Taylor is the only person, maybe Maggie Clark, that is doing the right thing. There is no leaking; it is his civic duty to care for the employees and residents of Rosemead. You are not an attorney.

A "large" settlement? Quit using your adjectives to make it look like this is a big settlement for the wrong reason. John Nunez brought this upon the city, not Ms Malone or Gary Taylor.

So quit blaming others and face the truth.... John Nunez is wrong and so is whoever supports him.

Power? Wow, being a City Council member in Rosemead is power? Look who is interested in gaining power? Who is moving up the political ladder for more power, it is the three amigos. Stop them here and you won't end up with poor decisions and future representatives or state senators who don't know what it means to represent a citizen. Ask yourselves this one question, "Who on the city council is looking for more power?"

Pravda can't seem to get over her infatuation with Gary Taylor. Who's looking for more power? Who's been spending thousands of dollars on her reelection bid for the past six months? Who's been leaking information to further his own agenda?

I may not be a lawyer, but neither is Gary Taylor and neither (I suspect) are you.

People who are elected to office take an oath to follow the constitution and the laws of the state and nation. There's no exception or escape clause for, "Unless it's politically advantageous of me to ignore certain laws."

Oh please tell me who has been spending money on Pravda? And why would that be bad? While your at it, who wasted money to support the three amigos?

Leaking information? Why not tell the truth, flip it to the other side, who has been trying to keep information from the residents of Rosemead about a hostile work environment? What if that were you being sexually harassed and people said it never happened?

The truth is Gary Taylor is looking out for the best interests for the residents of Rosemead. That is the end of the story.

The rest you make up in your mind is called an opinion. Facts are out there in front of you with any public comment made by any of the council members.

Who do you support? It is a common question throughout any political race. What is wrong with Pravda respecting Gary Taylor? You call it "infatuation", truth be told, you don't support Pravda or Gary Taylor so you have to make up things. Use harmful words to try to get support. These two people use the truth…. and as the saying goes, you can’t handle the truth.

Look to the truth. And you to can become a respected individual

The truth, my dear Pravda, is that we are a nation of laws. When people start deciding which laws to obey and which to ignore, that's called anarchy.

The 'best intersts of the residents of the city of Rosemead' is that the laws be obeyed. If someone has a problem with John Nunez's behavior, there's a law that covers that. The law says you need to either tell him to stop, or tell human resources. If the behavior continues, THEN he and/or the city is liable and you can nail them for multi-million dollars.

The process is not secret. It's right there, in the employee handbook.

But if you never say anything to either Nunez or HR, then you've got no case. No reasonable person can conclude that sexual harassment has occurred. End result: You lose your case.

But then along comes Gary Taylor, running his mouth off, knowing that no one can contradict him without also breaking the law. And *that's* supposed to be courage? That's supposed to be integrity? That's supposed to earn him respect? Puh-leeze.

It's not Gary Taylor's job to cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle a non-case that only got as far as it did because he kept blabbing about it in open session. And, incidentally, it's not his job to "cover up" anything, either. It IS his job to let the legal process go to work, and to keep his mouth shut so as to neither bias the case for nor against the city. Show me he can follow a law even if it is not to his political advantage and I'll respect him.

This is not on topic, but I've been wondering why the reference to "Pravda."

Then I looked it up online, and found this on Wikipedia: "Pravda," Russian for "The Truth" (Правда) was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991.

The Pravda newspaper was started in 1912 in Vienna, Austria, and it did not arrive in Moscow until 1918. During the Cold War, Pravda was well-known in the West for its pronouncements as the official voice of Soviet Communism.