What Does Fullerton’s Future Hold In Store For Dick Jones?
I don’t have the answer. Not yet anyway. But I know that the “I Can’t Believe It’s a Law Firm” of Jones and Mayer has been making bank on Fullerton for over 25 years as City Attorney. And I know that that the dismal legal counsel has impoverished the taxpayers of Fullerton plenty over the two and a half decades. I’m not going to recite the litany of legal failures we can lay at Jones’s doorstep – not yet anyway; we’ve already been doing that for years.
For reasons that escape Council watchers, Dick Jones somehow managed to escape getting the boot between 2020 and 2024, and I can’t think of anybody outside the Council who knows exactly why. Generally we can conclude that at least one member of the Whitaker, Dunlap, Jung triumvirate was protecting Jones and his minions, since it is incomprehensible that either Ahmad Zahra or Shana Charles would dump this chump.
Dick Jones is nothing if not a politician, playing the angles to keep at least three council persons happy at any one time, even alongside legal debacle after legal debacle. It’s worked through 4 different decades thanks to Fullerton being Fullerton. The Old Guard didn’t care and didn’t want to cause trouble; they were easy to push and persuade without too much trouble. The lamebrains like Leland Wilson and Mike Clesceri were afraid of their own shadows. Norby, I’m told, was just happy that the job was outsourced. The other dopes like Pam Keller, Sharon Quirk and Jesus Quirk-Silva could not have conceived of anybody holding Jones responsible for the legal advice he dispensed. For a fixer like Jennifer Fitzgerald he was the perfect running buddy, trying to accommodate anything she wanted.
Well, now Whitaker is gone, and if he was the fly in the ointment for the past 4 years, we may soon find out. Will Council newcomer Jamie Valencia take an independent stand and actually review Jones and Mayer’s record of failure? I sure hope so. It’s time that the City Attorney started giving out advice that avoids lawsuits instead of getting into them, with the result that he gets paid even more for failure.
I don’t know if Ms. Valencia reads this blog, but if so I sure hope she follows that link, above. She would find stories of Jones & Mayer’s incompetence, self-service, and ghastly legal decisions that have harassed Fullerton citizens, given away public resources and cost the taxpayers millions going back 25 years.
I’m sure Jonesy has already tried hard to wheedle himself into Valencia’s good graces, because that’s what he has always done. Will she go for it?
Hanging on to Fullerton should be a big deal to Jones and Mayer in terms of the future legal partnership. And I’m sure Jones figures that the loss of Fullerton could jeopardize his jobs in other cities like Westminster, La Habra, and Costa Mesa. True, Jones is 75 years old and may not even care anymore. Still, the firm must go on, and the junior partners such as the terrier-like Kim Barlow and the obnoxious hand-job lawyer, Gregory Palmer may still have a few years of legal bungling ahead of them.
Jones scammed a pension out of Westminster by falsifying timecards (a crime).
He has also been on the board of the California Domestic Water Co. that sells water and stock shares to his client – the City of La Habra. The CDWC has a “for profit” arm that pays big bonuses to its boardmembers, a total conflict of interest.
He’s a joiner, alright and casts his bread upon the local waters to look good. But we all knew he was improperly advising on the Florentine forgery scam even though he owned nearby property. Then he got behind the ridiculous legal argument/precedent dredged up by the idiot Joe Florentine.
He was busted on that Florentine shit and had to recuse himself when caught. Meanwhile he got behind that comical legal “precedent” on an unrelated matter. That was so bad you had to figure he was on the Crime Family’s payroll as a snitch/fixer.
Fitzgerald must have been behind all of that because Jones never got busted by Fitzflory, Silva, and Zahra.
Say it ain’t so Joe. You forgot a very spicy detail about Jones Mayer’s connection to the past election in District 4. Yes, Jamie Valenica won. Vivian Jaramillo, Linda Whitaker and Scott Markowitz did not. But it wasn’t without negative campaigning from Kimberly Hall Barlow’s son who was a paid doorknocker for the cannabis lobby and their $120,000 anti-Jamie Valencia efforts. Kimberly Hall Barlow is a listed partner of the Jones Mayer law firm, a firm “experience backed by integrity”. Wonder if they still feel that way with Vivian Jaramillo losing by over 50 votes. One could argue Barlow’s son talking down Jamie Valencia and Fred Jung didn’t resonate with voters in the district, where there were more lawns had Jung signs than Jaramillo.
Kitty posted that there are two knuckleheads on council. Who are they I wonder?
She’s not responsible for the behavior of her kid unless he’s not old enough to know better.
If she didn’t raise her son to have common sense and not shit where her family eats, Jones Mayer should be pink slipped immediately for stupidity.
I followed that link in the post. My God, Jones has been fucking up for decades – literally.
And he doesn’t work for the people of Fullerton. He works for the bureaucracy in City Hall.
The instances of him harassing citizens started way before the FFFF lawsuit, although that one probably cost of three quarters of a million bucks.
If RINO Nick decides to stop Dick’s taxpayer handout, I count 3 votes to fire him because no way Fred will support him and Jamie isn’t going to now.
Dunlap’s problem is not that he’s a RINO, per se, a term that no longer means much. He’s just not very courageous.
Fine. He’s a pussy.
They need to hire a full timer, like Gates in Hunt Beach, who will be proactive for the city.
Fullerton had one in the 90s – up until ’95 or so. The guy’s name was Fox. A real turd.
Zahra called Kim Barlow when he was arrested for a good defense attorney and got Democratic Party in house lawyer Lauren Johnson Norris. Charles is an idiot so not expecting much from her.
“Charles is an idiot so not expecting much from her.”
Nothing but damage if she ever gets another 2 votes again.
Dunlap can be her press agent.
She better not get 2 votes or we’re all doomed.
They said legal fees and losses would go down if the City Attorney was a private firm. Shitty attorneys are always more expensive.