Let’s Play WHEEL OF REPLACEMENT CANDIDATES!
UPDATE 1/14/2019
This item is back on the agenda for tomorrow. You gotta spin it to win it!
With Jesús Silva big win in Fullerton’s District 3, Fullerton is abuzz with potential names for who the Council might pick as a replacement.
So, who’s it going to be? Here’s some gossip for you to discuss. Feel free to nominate your own darlings for consideration on the WHEEL . . . OF . . . CANDIDATES!
Updated 11/27 with reader suggestions
Free Play– Current Councilman (odds 1:1)
Greg Sebourn
Seems like the easiest option. Someone familiar with the current issues and has existing relationships with city staff and council, and isn’t eligible to run in District 1, 2, or 4 in 2020. Let the voters spin again in 2020.
Lose a Turn– Leave it Open (Odds 1.5:1)
If three votes can’t be found to put a warm body in a cold chair, Council could choose to leave the vacancy open. The vacancy could last through 2020 or until a Special Election gets called.
Bonus Round– Former Members of Council (odds 2:1)
Still can’t come up with an answer to the riddle? Bring back some former contestants for another crack at solving the puzzle.
Jan Flory, Fullerton City Council (twice)
Chris Norby, Assemblyman, Supervisor, Fullerton City Council
Shawn Nelson, Supervisor, Fullerton City Council
Leland Wilson, Fullerton City Council + Fox Theater Point Person
Pam Keller, Fullerton City Council, Ex-Fullerton Collaborative
Buy A Vowel– Current and Former Fullerton Officials (odds 3:1)
Get some help with those neighboring consonants from people who’ve helped reveal a simple phrase to Council before.
Chris Meyer (Former City Manager)
Joe Felz (Former City Manager)
Wolfgang Knabe (Retiring Fire Chief)
Pete Beard (not a former employee, but Fullerton’s current Metropolitan Water District Representative)
Paul Dudley (Former Dev Services Director)
Ed Royce (No way in hell, but hey, we’re listing everyone on the wheel)
Luxury Resort Vacation– A Bar Owner (Odds 7:1)
Relax and let all your troubles float away as you blissfully drift from lane to lane down Commonwealth Avenue…
Tony Florentine
Jeremy Popoff
Toss Up– Former Candidates (odds 9.5:1)
Just like an Olympian disqualified by a post race drug test, let the title go to the runner-up!
Paulette Marshal-Chaffee
Vicky Calhoun
Larry Bennett
Jane Rands
Jose Trinidad Castaneda III
Kitty Jaramillo
Joe Imbriano
Mystery Wedges– Other Notables(odds 10:1)
Marty Burbank (Infrastructure Review Commission)
Nick Dunlap (Chair, Planning Commission)
Christopher Gaarder (Vice-Chair, Planning Commission)
Patrick McNelly (Infrastructure, Energy, and Water Ad-Hoc Commissions)
Arnel Dino (Infrastructure and Water Ad-Hoc Commissions)
Rusty Kennedy
Tony Package
Gretchen Cox (Parks, Energy, and Water Ad-Hoc Commissions)
Erik Wehn (Parks Commission)
Kathleen Shanfield (Planning Commission)
Kevin Pendergraft (Planning Comission)
Ryan Cantor (Planning and Library Commissions)
BANKRUPT— Anyone Associated with FFFF (odds 100:1)
Sure would put is in a pickle. What would we live for? Criticize ourselves?
The inevitable self-loathing may morally bankrupt us, if it doesn’t destroy us first.
Appointing a sitting council member who just lost an election would be some 3rd world corrupt political bullshit. Nobody is that stupid.
Actually it would be the simplest solution.
Simple with the appearance of major corruption. Good enough for Fullerton.
Greg Sebourn is the only person on city council to ever give a crap about our district and he does not live anywhere near it!! If he was living and running in district 4 he would have won by a landslide!! Since I don’t think the Sebourn family is interested in carpetbagging unlike the Chaffee family, I definitely hope the seat goes to Mr. Sebourn!!!
Agreed
We need Greg Sebourn ‼️
Greg gets my vote above all options
Chris Meyer is the obvious choice. But they’ll have to increase the Council meeting catering budget.
I heard Ed Royce is available 🙂
I’m tanned, rested and ready.
I nominate Erik Wehn
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Tis no man. Tis a Lizard in disguise!
Anyone on the Planning Commission, or Parks & Rec, Library Board, etc. who might have a shot at the title?
Larry Bennett for the job! Nothing like an empty suit to fill an empty chair!
Joe Embryo can do this. Just repeat: the Earth is flat, the Earth is flat.
Jose Trinidad Castaneda III has a terrible attorney.
Somebody put this idiot on the parks commission. I had to sit through a meeting once with no end of stupid and irrelevant questions regarding items. He just wanted to appear engaged. It was more annoying than pathetic. He and his lawyer deserve each other.
What, no love for Paul Dudley? These public spaces aren’t going to give themselves away.
LOL, yes Ol’ beady Eyes could be the choice of Jesus and FitzPringle. Would the new guy go along?
Let each city committee, or commissions pick their top brass and throw those names in a hat.
Have an open interview in public at the Council chambers for all interested residents to watch and participate in.
Names are drawn from a hat one by one for an open and transparent interview.
If one person gets three out of 4 City Council members votes, we have a winner!
All of the interviews would be done in public.
I can tell you now, Anonymouse, what happens in public is irrelevant. The wheeling’s and dealing’s to appoint the replacement councilperson has already begun…BAM!!!
There are several stars on the Planning Commission.
Kathleen Shanfield could get 2 – maybe 3 votes.
Kevin Pendergraph might have a little juice.
Ryan Cantor could take home the gold. He’s smart, principled and very likeable guy.
It CAN’T be Chris Myer. He’s automatically disqualified because he has a HUGE conflict of interest.
We’ll update the post with Commissioner titles under “Mystery Wedges” and include other name suggestions in the blog post.
Popoff could stand up for the unrepresented douchebag vote.
Those douchebags are extremely well represented.
Can’t we just have the special election and let Fullerton voters decide?
See “Lose a turn” above.
The city ran out of money and so democracy has been suspended until further notice.
How could I have forgotten Julie Sa? She brings a real outsiders perspective.
If she’s still alive. I heard she was governor of some province in North Korea before the present regime took over.
Of course it’s always been hard to know where she really lived.
Speaking of Julie Sa, who remembers the mysterious Korean grocery magnate, Ellis Cha?
I don’t remember Ellis Cha, but all this talk reminds me that maybe it’s time to give Roland Chi another look.
Bad Chi – Food Poisoner!
I remember that boob Ellis Cha. Not the sharpest tool in the shed, and certainly dumber than a sack of doorknobs, but he sure fooled many people in power in Fullerton, enough to put him on the RDRC.
Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!
Which one?
Hamel can do it. I hear she has a lot of free time now….
Can they appoint Paulette on the same day she gets a slap on the wrist from the DA?
Nobody is gonna touch that creepy old lady with a ten-foot pole.