Attention Fullerton residents:
You've eaten breakfast. You've eaten lunch. But before you eat dinner please make sure you've given the boot to three incumbent city councilmen who are facing a critical recall election today.
Why?
When the world was watching Fullerton in the wake of the July 2011, police killing of Kelly Thomas, the council majority–Dick Jones, Don Bankhead and Pat McKinley–strenuously refused to hold police department thugs accountable.
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To the outrage of Thomas' family and decent people everywhere, the trio tried to downplay the gruesome, unnecessary death.
They
even openly mocked Tony Bushala, the businessman/blogger–hell, the hero–who ignored police intimidation tactics to make sure California and the nation learned about this shocking case of police
brutality.
Now, in a shameless attempt to turn reality upside down, the
trio and their police union pals hope voters will believe that the bad
guy worthy of scorn in Fullerton is Bushala.
Reject that lie and stand for honest
policing by grabbing your friends, neighbors and
co-workers, going to your polling places and voting.
Why are you reading this sentence?
You should be heading out the door to deliver the well-deserved boot to Bankhead, Jones and McKinley.
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CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.