Impeachment’s faces were very telling
with his article. He did all of the classic things a defense attorney does when he knows his client is guilty and has no real defense. He attacked the messenger (the prosecutors), minimized the crimes and blamed others for the crook’s behavior.
The big thing he said was that the prosecution of Duncan the younger was politically motivated. Baloney. There is a huge amount of evidence that shows Duncan the younger was stealing money and using it for lots of fun stuff for himself, his wife, family and various girlfriends.
And the dad claims his son didn’t know about 90% of the charges that were made? Good God, does he think we’re that stupid? from previous audits about the way Lemon Grove runs its business licensing function. He suggested the billing and collection fees functions be kept separate and that the person responsible for administering the business licenses should not be handling the incoming payments.
Fankhanel said keeping the job tasks to one person could create an opportunity for revenues to be received but not recorded by the city. The city responded by saying it has instituted several management oversight methods that reduce the risk of fraud and errors. come and gone as we survive on borrowed money. There is no better example than here in California where we continue to approve ballot measures with noble-sounding names like “Save Proposition 13,” accompanied by disingenuous ballot arguments whose authors’ actual purpose is to eviscerate the protections afforded by the landmark 1978 proposition.
Wondering if viewers of the House impeachment proceeding saw it this way?
On one side, angry old white men yelling. I was not sure if they were trying to get our attention or if they have hearing problems. They also kept repeating 63 million as if in some way that number was greater than 66 million. Do we need remedial math courses for House Republicans?
On the other side, I saw men and many women of every color of the rainbow saying something about “No one is above the law.” I am an angry old man, just wondering what others saw.
During the audit discussion, the City Council also voted on what do with an $804,924 General Fund surplus it had. By city law, General Fund surpluses are divided in half, with 50 percent automatically transferred to the reserve fund and the other half earmarked for use at City Council discretion for onetime expenditures.
The council unanimously voted to put the other half of the surplus into the city’s trust fund that will pay for future public pension obligations.
After the audit report, the council also authorized the transfer of $550,899 from its Sanitation District to the same trust fund. The Sanitation District recently received the money from the San Diego Metropolitan Wastewater Department as a refund for treatment charges it overpaid the city of San Diego during fiscal year 2016-17.
karen.pearlman @sduniontribune.com