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ORANGE COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY ENDORSES GREG SEBOURN FOR FULLERTON CITY COUNCIL
Fullerton - With a 2/3 margin, the Orange County Republican Party's Central Committee voted to give Greg Sebourn the Party's endorsement. The vote came after a 5-0 recommendation from the Endorsement Committee just two weeks ago.
"The Orange County Republican Party stood up and spoke. Clearly they want to further advance the Party's platform which speaks of limited government, lower taxes, and the power of the entrepreneur," says endorsed council candidate Greg Sebourn. "The Party has recognized that being a Republican In Name Only, or RINO, does nothing to advance the conservative movement. RINOs are what have turned off so many good conservatives from the Republican Party."
The endorsement comes just days after Sebourn received endorsements from the California Republican Assembly (Fullerton), the North Orange County Conservative Coalition, and the Fullerton Tea Party. Greg Sebourn is also endorsed by Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, Assemblyman Chris Norby, and Supervisor Shawn Nelson.
Greg Sebourn has distinguished himself from the other 4-year candidates with his early promises to not take the City's pension and medical benefits, to close down the Fullerton Redevelopment Agency, and reform the City's broken and unfunded pension system.
If you would like to meet Greg Sebourn, please attend the grand opening of his new campaign headquarters, Tuesday, September 28, 5:30PM, at 511 S. Harbor Blvd., Fullerton 92832. The headquarters is being shared with Assemblyman Chris Norby, Bruce Whitaker (candidate for the 2-year seat), and Chris Thompson (candidate for the Fullerton School Board) all of whom will be on hand.
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More information about Greg can be found on the campaign website at http://www.gregsebourn.com/
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Why not just redeveloped the redevelopment agency into a small entity that identifies areas in need and looks for private entities interested in funding such projects? No free stadiums or other boon doggles with tax breaks and tax payer subsidies and no funding beyond exploration.
ReplyDeleteRedevelopment in and of itself is not the problem. You just seem to have a bad model in place.
Anon,
ReplyDeleteYou do not need to have an autonomous agency (that has the authority to issue/sell tax bonds without voter approval) to identify areas in need and look for private entities to invest. Redevelopment agencies, by their very nature, are intrusive upon property rights. They also pick which investors and developers can do which projects in the Redevelopment district or zone. That goes against the spirit of a free market based on capitalism and risk. It is not the business of City Hall to use tax revenue as leverage for a redevelopment project.
The City has a chamber of commerce whose mission is, "To advance human progress through an economic, political and social system based on individual freedom, incentive, initiative, opportunity, and responsibility." It is this body which is probably better suited to help develop the economic interests in our city.
Lastly, let me leave you with the words of Thomas Jefferson just as they were written to declare or independence from the King of England:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Although those words are 234 years old, they ring true to this day.