Sunday, June 1, 2014

Clint Paulson: Donate to Charities (not My Campaign)

Clint Andrew Paulson for Torrance City Council
Clint Paulson
The Daily Breeze columnist Nick Green published some thinly veiled attacks against some Torrance City Council candidates, mostly arbitrary as well as inappropriate.


Green identified Charlotte Svolos as a Republican, but neglected to do the same for John Paul Tabakian - and why did he neglect to mention the party affiliation of the other candidates, including Decline to State Clint Paulson?

Traffic Commissioner Milton Herring received more treatment than the other "long-shot" candidates, most likely in part because he was endorsed by the paper.

Because the Daily Breeze endorsed candidates because they were likely to win, as opposed to candidates whom the paper wanted to see win, one can surmise that Herring was endorsed because of his skin color as opposed to his policy proposals, which have not been particularly outstanding.

The treatment of Clint Paulson in the Nick Green piece also caught my attention, because of the candidates which the writer focused on, I have endorsed him (as well as Leilani Kimmel-Dagostino and Alex See):

Clint Paulson, an Air Force veteran and aerospace industry manager, proudly announced he would accept no campaign contributions, but that has translated into little visibility and likely little chance of winning election.

I chose to endorse Mr. Paulson because he took a hard-line, face-reality approach to the fiscal problems affecting the city of Torrance. He did not hold back his concerns, and he was not afraid to call out the sitting appointed incumbents running for a seat in their own right. When a city council member says that $800,000 in savings is noteworthy in the face of $400 million pension liabilities, that person is not fit for a full-term.

About Paulson, it is true that he is not taking any campaign donations, but he has opted to use his own money to set up signs and reach out to voters with mailers as well as personal visits. One charity, Family Promise of the South Bay, can be reached at familypromiseosb.org.

Here is a description of the charity's purpose:
From the Family Promise of the South Bay website
An estimated 6,788 people in the South Bay are homeless. 1 in 4 homeless people is a child. The families of homeless children are overwhelmed by the daily demands of seeking food, shelter, transportation and child care and the result of their struggle is that the children suffer.

It's hard to imagine, but hunger is affecting even residents in the South Bay!

Paulson's decision to rely on his own money and encourage investments in other charities brings out a controversy worth discussing - the obscene amount of money which politicians, PACS, and independent groups are spending on politics. All that money could build schools, hire teachers, fix roads, restructure crumbling infrastructure, and enforce welfare-to-work programs to improve men and women struggling to make ends meet in this anemic economy.

His well-place priorities signal another reason why I chose to endorse him for Torrance City Council.

16 comments:

  1. Arthur, you skin color comment on Milton Herring was uncalled for. You are sounding like the Kenyan in the White House and his left wing allies in Congress. I agree with you he hasn't done his homework on the pension issue but he is vastly superior to Heidi who thinks we have no pension problem which totally contradicts the article in the Wall Stree Journal of January 2014. It also disagrees with the assessment given the city council at practically every meeting by Mark Stephenson, who has done his homework on the issue. Alex See is just slightly better than Heidi but all the endorsements on his campaign mailers are from Democrats and Torrance insiders. We need to ask the question why are Democrats endorsing a Republican? Did they run out of left wing hacks like Tim Goodrich to endorse or is there something more sinister or nefarious afoot? Perhaps he is the vote the establishment needs to make no changes to the problems that plague Torrance or perhaps he is a supporter of Agenda 21? Have you educated the voters on Agenda 21? You know the plan to take us off the land and put the world's population into huge cities while at the same time reducing the world's population by over 6 billion. How much of Agenda 21 has been approved by our city council and how much more do they want to approve? Was Car-2-Go part of the Agenda 21 scheme? I guess you now have something to look into after June 3rd.

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  2. I am saddened by this rhetoric, Claude. Why are you engaging in personal attacks. If you do not agree with my endorsements, then do not vote for those candidates. Thanks for sharing. If you cannot resist making personal slights, then don't comment.

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  4. Why would someone "surmise that Herring was endorsed because of his skin color"?

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  5. Claude the Racist CPA and Art the Grocery Store Bagger: The REAL "Dumb & Dumber".

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  6. Using "grocery store bagger" as a perjorative. What an elitist 1-percenter attitude you have. Shame on you.

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  7. Not a "perjorative". But Art is a fired school teacher who fancies himself a "journalist" who "investigates" this or that and "endorses" candidates. HAHAHA!!!! Art is nothing more than a guy who works at a grocery store and has a blog. Don't be so sensitive,
    "Anonymous".

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    1. So now you've doubled-down to insult everyone who works at a grocery store. Shameful elitist.

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    2. No, zero, I'm insulting Art!

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    3. It wouldn't be an insult except that you hold grocery workrers on low regard. Shame on you.

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