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ELECTION ALERT!!!
Will El Segundo voters allow the fire and police Union bosses, outside special interests, and Eric Busch to BUY this election and a seat on our City Council?
El Segundo Voter Information for the April 8, 2008 City Election
The El Segundo, California city election is this Tuesday, April 8, 2008.
Please - email and telephone everyone you know who lives in El Segundo
and ask them to visit this web site
and to read
Mike's election flyer before they vote. Some people do not check their email for
several days, so be sure to call them as well. Thank you!
View the
El Segundo Firefighters Union "Senior Scare" Letter
(dated April 9, 2004) sent to El Segundo Senior Citizens, threatening hospital closure and "the posibility of our paramedics not being available when you need them" if the City Council candidates they endorsed are not elected. The endoresements are given based on salary and benefit increases and politics, not public safety considerations.
Learn about the candidates, and who are the best and the worst for public safety,
spending, and integrity, by visting the El Segundo Public Safety Project home page.
Also,
read or download the sample ballot (PDF file),
find your El Segundo voting poll location,
and use the address of your voting poll to find it on a map of El Segundo provided by Google Maps.
If you cannot find your voting poll location, vote at any poll, or at the City Clerk's office at 350 Main Street, and ask to vote on a "provisional ballot". This is your right, and your request cannot be refused. Your ballot is verified against the voter registration rolls, absentee ballot requests, and to ensure that you are not voting more than once.
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Union bosses
and well-funded outside special interests are trying to take over small
town El Segundo for at least the next four years
Former City Councilmember
Mike Robbins fights against big city-style political machine in small town
El Segundo
"El Segundo Fire and Police Union bosses unilaterally
endorsed candidates
with the worst public safety, spending, and integrity
records."
In the last City Council election (2004), the police and fire Union bosses endorsed the three candidates supported with tens of thousands of dollars from outside special interests, including developers, a trash hauler, someone who tried to obtain a large city contract without competition, and others who may have expected something in return. One of these candidates was Eric Busch.
Busch has received large contributions from someone who tried to rig the competition for a large city contract and have it awarded to a less qualified bidder at nearly twice the price ($120,000 versus $65,000 for a Golf Course construction management contract). Busch was so arrogant that he continued to take the money from this person after he was confronted with this relationship.
The $50,000 plus election campaign with many $1,000 to $6,000 contributions was highly unusual for small town El Segundo. Campaigns used to cost less than $5,000 and a lot of shoe leather. Although the Union bosses and outside special interests out-spent the independent candidates by as much as ten to one, they won only one of three council seats - Eric Busch.
Michael D. Robbins, 4/2/2008
Founder, El Segundo Public Safety Project
Former El Segundo City Councilmember (1992-1996)
Read all about it and
see more pages, documents, and images posted throughout the week!
DOCUMENTS
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Read
Mike's
Flyer - It was distributed city-wide on Sunday, April 6, 2008 |
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Click here to see the
pictures of the campaign signs
with Fire Union President Kevin Rehm's cellular phone number (310-422-9411) on them
as the sign placement and maintenance coordinator.
His phone number sticker is on all the signs for Eric Busch, Sandra Jacobs,
and Bill Fisher (4/13/2004 City Election).
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All images and photographs
are copyright © 2004 and 2008 by Michael D. Robbins.
Permission is granted to
download, reprint, and distribute the flyers in complete and unaltered
form.
Contact us for additional reproduction or distribution rights. |
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