Jamey Brooks

Martin Farrell thinks Jamey wants to ask for things he has no right to see, like all the city contracts, including our consultants contracts. To me, any elected official should immediately get aquainted with these contracts. Jamey asking for them at his first Council Meeting was his obligation. But our wonderful paper has to slam him for doing his job from the beginning. I'll tell 'ya, the media has lost contact with reality and just pushes their agenda. It makes me sick! Jamey takes responsibilty and gets blasted for it? I guess Martin is so used to the irresponsible spending of the past, that he is having trouble adjusting to change. Jamey deserves praise for doing as he campaigned, it's such a rarity.

My lawsuit against former HOA and Social Club

For those who haven't heard what this is about, here is a quick history of events. On Nov. 19, 2007 El Dorado's HOA had over $9,300 that they took from the preceeding HOA that raised all of the money. The bank allowed them to transfer this money because the older HOA was not active.The newer HOA gave that money ($7,500+ that was left after spending some) to the Social Club, claiming they were legally disolving the HOA. Raul Torres was on both "Boards" and was instrumental to the taking of this money. This was done in secret by a small group of individuals. On April 1, 2008 a new HOA was formed. This HOA now represents 169 dues paying residents. The Board of this new HOA decided not to sue the old HOA and Social Club for this misappropriated money. I took it upon myself to sue them. My lawyer said I had a 50/50 chance of winning. I and Gayle Washburn felt differently. I played up my lawyers guess and spead that around as my feeling. I knew they didn't owe ME the money, but I wanted to put up a fight so they would not get away with taking this money with no resistance. I can't imagine any court in America that would award me $7,500 personally for something like this. At best I should get $30.33, my share of the original $9,300 divided by the 302 space in the park. Well, I lost my claim, as I expected, but made a big impact on the defendants. They totally lost their cool and spent about $2,000 to defend against a case they could win without saying a word. Charles Richardson, the Social Club president, was their lead person in this defense. He had a lawyer as a witness (about $1,000) and paid for 9 subpeonas and a professional proccess server (only 1 witness ever spoke, the lawyer). Charles was shaking like a leaf at the courthouse, his cockiness was in retreat. The judge slapped him down early on by telling him to let the court handlle things and that he would not be calling witnesses like he thought. Charles thought he was running the show, like always, and got shot down right away! When the trial was over his followers congratulated him and slapped him on the back. They had no clue that they just wasted $2,000 on a case they had in the bag from the outset. This group still thinks they won?! They are now down to $5,500 of that money instead of $7,500 and that's a win? hehe

Is Martin Farrell from Earth?

Ok, I'm a week behind on reading. I just read Martin's "Realities" rant about Jamey. Is Jamey just supposed to sit there and nod his head every so often or did we elect him to get a grip on the situation? Martin prefers the former. Get over it Martin, Steve is no longer in charge of the money spending machine. There really is a way to spend money without giving it to everybody who wants it. It's ok to turn down a project because we can't afford it. We don't have the unlimited revenue to match the unlimited spending of the last City Council. They spent $100 million! This is a small relatively poor town, give me a break! A million $ for a skate park on the wrong side of 126? Dumb! $26 million to treat chloride? Dumber! Tens of millions extra spent on a sewer plant? Dumbest! This city needs accountability more than ever and Martin wants us to close our eyes and just nod our heads. I say, Jamey and Gayle are just what the doctor ordered for this ailing city! By the way, on the Realities page Martin has an editorial ripping Obama, but on that same Internet page is an ad for a company selling "Super Obama" t-shirts. Martin's opinion sells for very little.

We have our town back!

Last night the choke hold on our fine town was released as the old guard was shoved to the side. I feel how easy it is to breathe again. Jamie, Patti and Gayle challenged the old ways and shook the Council Hall. They made it clear that it was going to be hard to spend our hard earned dollars! No spending $200,000 on a running track with 90 degree turns (90 degrees???). This track is a perfect example of how things WERE done. Not even a little common sense, just spend away. Jamie put City Management on notice that their actions will be under a microscope. Job descriptions of all managers, all city contracts and on and on. Tom Ristau was stopped so fast he went through the windshield. I left before the Roy Payne incident. I have it that Roy Payne's contract was also going to be looked at. Steve and Laurie protested wildly, I understand. It looks like there is something to hide, otherwise why should they care. Maybe they should have taken better care of OUR money! This is not the same City Hall today.

Fillmore Middle School

There have been widely spread conflicting reports about what is going on at the Fillmore Middle School. Neither one has been confirmed by this reporter.
Story one.
Since the rising tide of support for Gayle Washburn and Jamey Brooks, the old guard at City Hall has secretly been moving all of their dirt to the Fillmore Middle School and created huge mountains. I find this hard to believe as there must be more somewhere else. However, it is easy to spread dirt throughout all parts of Fillmore and get away with it.
Story two.
Several camels were seen walking about the sand dunes at Fillmore Middle School. Rumor has it that the old guard at City Hall has brought in the Taliban to take back our town. In what might be related to this, our 7-11 now has 240 employees. Reports also say that a mosque is being built just west of McDonalds and will be the new home of the Taliban- Fillmore Chapter.

El Dorado Fundraiser

On November 29th the HOA had a fundraiser for it's Block Captain program. This program needed funds to buy equipment for emergency response. Many of the Block Captains are CERT graduates and will be among the first to help others in the park in case of a disaster. To do that effectively, they need the proper equipment. The Fire Department gave us a basic list of equipment that we need to get started. We estimated the cost of everything on the list at $1,500. Thanks to the generosity of El Dorado's residents, many of the businesses in town and all of the volunteers who helped with the fundraiser, we had a net profit of $1,118! WOW! This will bring the program close to it's goal. I want to thank everyone for the help. God Bless You All.

Obama Claim is Circulating

Below is part of an interseting email I received. What do you think?

Former Deputy Attorney General Philip Berg filed a lawsuit addressing the citizenship status of Barack Obama before the Democratic National Convention and copied Democratic Chairman Howard Dean. It should have alerted them that there was a possible problem before they selected their nominee. But that problem was ignored. Other lawsuits filed before Nov. 4 were also ignored, placing us in what could be a constitutional crisis.
The good news is the real election hasn't taken place yet. The Electoral College doesn't meet until Dec. 15. That gives us less than a month to find the answers to the looming questions regarding whether Barack Obama meets the constitutional requirements for the office of president.
The courts don't seem to be in any hurry to take up their responsibility as guardians of the Constitution, so now Congress must step in. You see, members of Congress are sworn to uphold the Constitution, and when they vote in January to confirm (or reject) the vote of the Electoral College, they can't very well do that unless they know for certain that the basic constitutional requirements for office have been met.
An ad running this week in the Washington Times Weekly asks three questions America needs to know: "Was Barack Obama really born in Kenya?" "Is he really a citizen of Indonesia?" And, "Does the Constitution still matter?"
As I wrote about last week, there are many reasons to doubt whether Barack Obama meets the requirements for the office of president. First, there's that pesky tape from Sarah Obama, Barack's grandmother, where she says, "I was in the delivery room in (Mombosa) Kenya when he was born Aug. 4, 1961." Secondly, there's the matter of U.S. law. If only one parent was an American citizen, as in Obama's case, the law at the time of Obama's birth required one parent to have been an American citizen for at least 10 years – five of which had to have happened after the age of 14. Since Obama's mother was only 18 at the time of Obama's birth, he would not qualify as an American citizen if his grandmother is right about him being born abroad.
Thirdly, there's no original birth certificate – just a "certification of live birth" posted on a website experts say is forged and altered. Fourthly, there's the issue of Indonesian citizenship, which is a prerequisite to attending school there. Add to that the fact that Obama's stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, is listed as his father on his Indonesian school records. If he had U.S. citizenship, according to Indonesian law, he would have lost it when he attended school there or if he was adopted by his stepfather as his records indicate.
As the ad proclaims, "The Constitution matters" and is still worth defending. All we are asking is that Congress takes their oath to defend it seriously. If Obama can prove he meets the basic but essential constitutional requirements, fine, he'll serve legally. But if he cannot provide simple proof, then he cannot. We're not asking for the world here, just the original birth certificate that each of us delivers when getting a passport, driver's license or Social Security card. If we can't tell the clerk at the post office to check out the digital photo of a certificate posted online, neither should the guy running for president. Members of Congress: If you have taken an oath to defend the Constitution, now's the time to keep it.