Wed 31 Mar 2010
Finally, The Signal reports on a story that was reported here last week on The Beacon and at SCV Talk. As usual there is a real bias to the Signal story favoring the City. There is no mention as to why the City spends money on ad campaigns that have no sustainability, instead we get just the usual spoon-fed answers to softball questions. Wouldn’t it be a more responsible use of City tax dollars to set up a youth oriented campaign that continues year over year regardless of who the Mayor is? But then again, they would not be able to promote an incumbent leading into an election year!! This is not election dirty tricks like Ferry uses regularly, these are ligitmate questions that need to be asked. (Posted with permission from The Signal) A local activist has filed a complaint against Santa Clarita City Councilman Frank Ferry, saying his “Mayor Dude” campaign last year was a misuse of public funds. City officials say there was nothing wrong with the Web-based effort to get youth involved in government, and the timing of the complaint is suspect.
“‘Mayor Dude’ served primarily to promote Mr. Ferry and provided little or no substantive benefit to the constituents of Santa Clarita,” McFarland wrote in his complaint to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Public Integrity Division.
Joe Byrne, an attorney for Santa Clarita, said the city doesn’t think “Mayor Dude” violated fair-elections law. “The city doesn’t see a problem with the program,” Byrne said. “It serves a valuable purpose. It’s not about promoting (Ferry), it’s about educating the youth.”
Read more here: ‘Mayor Dude’ under fire
March 31st, 2010 at 9:50 am
Frank Ferry complaining about “dirty campaigning? hahahahahahahahaha, good one, Frank. Frank Ferry is the kind of slimy politician that just gets dirtier and slimier as the years go by. When Frank threatened David Gauny at City Council, Frank should have been forcibly removed from his seat. If a speaker threatened Frank at City Council you can be sure that speaker would have been ejected from Council. But it’s OK when a Councilman threatens one of US? It’s OK for Frank to STEAL coaches and players from our schools? This is a perfect example of why we need term limits, to get rid of garbage like Frank Ferry.
So finally our worthless paper does this watered-down article, AFTER the absentee ballots have been out for some time. My bet is Littlejohn and Premako couldn’t ignore all the criticism about their lack of integrity and fairness, but don’t worry you two, this article came late enough to have little or no impact at all with voters, just the way you planned it.
But notice that Littlejohn and Premako got that disgusting editorial about the fabricated hit pieces they THOUGHT “might” be coming in the mail and that lying hit piece of an editorial slimed all the challengers just before the absentee ballots went out, and THEY MADE IT ALL UP! That was the worst case of yellow journalism I have ever seen. THE SIGNAL SUCKS!
Frank Ferry is an educator, and he lives a life that is totally unethical. Shame on Alemany High School for keeping Slimy Frank as their principal.
Yep, I heartily agree – NO INCUMBENTS. Term limits, term limits, TERM LIMITS!
All the challengers in this election should send a complaint to Morris Co. about the all the dishonesty and yellow journalism that has become all too common at the Signal.