Cameron Hamilton and Brian Ward Bypassed for Leadership Roles Porterville Recorder describes swearing in ceremony for new Council Congratulations to new Mayor Gurrola and Vice Mayor McCracken. Let's let the rejection of the most divisive members of Council, who once may have been ...Read More
[caption id="attachment_1024" align="alignright" width="290"] Dorothea Lange, Porterville, near the scene of Patrotic Cake, 2012[/caption] In which we attend City Council so you don't have to - but we wish you did! Curious that both Brian Ward and Greg Shelton were not at ...Read More
Local citizen offended by pending non-Christian invocation at City Council, affirms "Porterville is a Christian City" Yesterday I read in the Recorder that 17 cities will start their council meetings with a reading from Hindu Sand Script. This shocked me. Here ...Read More
...but I am not too shy to tell them some of the reasons: See article here Why didn’t people vote, especially when the city council made headlines more than once in the past year for antics better left to a vaudeville show ...Read More
Earlier, I described the conditions at a polling place in a Church in Porterville today. Later upon returning home to write these news stories, I decided to find the document that I was told I could find online: the "Elections Official Digest", ...Read More
[update 8:30 PM: See Hamilton's respnse and whine about being exposed in the screenshot. Click on the screenshot to enlarge] My questions, Cameron Hamilton's answers, and my initial analysis of his answers, on the eve of the first re-election ballot for Cameron ...Read More
Below are the questions I asked and answers from Cameron Hamilton I posed him on the recorderonline facebook page on the eve of his election. My analysis will be in the next post.... 1 - Do you agree you voted in 2003 ...Read More
Today on facebook I posted a series of questions to Cameron Hamilton, one of two driving forces behind the anti-gay and only in Porterville Council Resolution in favor of Prop 8. Hamilton is up for re-election tomorrow, and ducked my ...Read More
How is it that Porterville's economic development is hurt by its Council's flip-flop between 2003 and 2008 on the advisability of the protection of Rights of citizens from government intervention? Part 1: Here is the article that describes the 2003 public hearing ...Read More
Statistics take "millions of dollars" and "years to analyze" says Library staff in begging off the task I just attended an interesting local board meeting where every local problem, and they are legion, was touched upon or hinted at in an ...Read More
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed two gay rights bills, one honoring late activist Harvey Milk and another recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states. In the last of hundreds of bill actions taken before midnight Sunday, Schwarzenegger approved the two bills ...Read More
Local Tulare County Professor Professor Robin McGehee is co-Director of the event, streaming now. Porterville City Council, watch what you have wrought! RT @unitethefight: Coverage of National Equality March has started on C-SPAN!! http://ow.ly/tPlt #NEM C-SPAN Live Stream - C-SPAN C-SPAN offers gavel ...Read More