Update on Election Filings

When I posted the 2006 election filings, I intended to point out some of the details contained in the reports. Those details reveal a few things.

1. Roger Campbell made $13,463 working for the "Friends of Fillmore" on the last election.
2. The PAC's are funded by special interest groups. There are no local contributions.
3. The Friends of Fillmore collected $20,824!
4. The Citizens for a Safer Fillmore report has not been completed so we don't know how their money was spent and how much they collected.
5. Neither PAC has reported the spending for the telephone "survey" that was done early in the election period to gather marketing data for the preparation of the flyers.

It's sad to think that people within this community are working so hard and spending so much money so that special interests and self enrichment trump the overall benefit to the community.

I assume that they are worried about not being able to develop their property. There's nothing wrong with building wealth. We would all probably take advantage of an opportunity to do so. But I hope that we could be creative and select projects that might provide more benefit to the City and its residents. Building houses in the river bed, taking our world's finest prime agricultural soil out of production forever and requiring us to live with the traffic, air quality and other issues that reduce our quality of life are exploitations that end up costing us more than any benefit of those kinds of developments. How about some redevelopment of existing blight? Where is our high end "executive" housing(ranchette type)? I'll discuss the "growth" myth at a later date.

And the next time you hear a smear against Patti Walker or myself going around town, remember that doing so produces a big payoff for Roger Campbell. He'll make a lot of money in the next election cycle.

I personally barely know Mr. Campbell and have only spoken with him on one or two occasions. I've heard stories...but if you know me, you know that I take everything with a grain of salt until I do my own research and always hope for the best from people.

I question the appropriateness(is that a word) of his presence at City Hall with staff and council members. If he wrote those flyers what is he telling them?