Mayor Ferre Desires Less Time For Public Campaign.

Grand Terrace Mayor Maryetta Ferry responded to the news that Walt Stanckiewitz has filed papers with the State to form a committee in support of running for GT Mayor. She thinks he has acted prematurely. Grand Terrace Politics "Traditionally" is active between Aug and November.

Traditionally the shortened campaign calendar has effectively been supportive of the Incumbents and those supported by the City Manager and the Good Old Boy "Friends" of the Council class in Grand Terrace. Maryetta Ferre has nothing to gain from an extended campaign calender.

In past years she has not attended public debates, or sat for extensive interviews. She has relied on name recognition and hold over loyalties from her years as a school principal. She has been the recipient of support from Real Estate faction of Grand Terrace, including donations and management of her past campaigns. Her performance as Mayor has included cutting off public input on important issues in Grand Terrace. She and the Ex City Manager set the City Council Agenda. When a member of the public approached the Council and Mayor with a well prepared presentation on the AES Proposed Power Plant that citizen was never allowed on the Agenda thus being limited to 3 minutes of Public Speaking. Where as AES was given an open ended time limit for their presentation. When other citizens wanted more time to speak or get on the agenda she would not see to it the agenda included CITIZEN Initiated Items for consideration.

The result is that ALL PUBLIC SPEAKING at a City Council Meeting Ruled over by the Mayor Ferre was your comments were DULY Noted and Not Answered, Not Put on and Agenda, and well quite simply ignored as just noise from the Peons of the GT Riff and Raff. The Public according to Mayor Ferre is the ill informed, ill mannered, and ignorant.

Yet, she and other council members are now claiming they did not know about the Criminal Investigation against Steve Berry, or Steve Berry working as a lobbyist in Loma Linda, or that Tom Schwab halted that investigation, or that Tom Schwab was using RDA money as a "Loan" to the City. Or that the "Loan" was never to be repaid to the RDA... This Mayor Ferre is the nature of your Mayorship, and Council Member participation. Your desire to have a short campaign season is your means of retaining the status and title you so desperately desire to maintain for yourself.

The Citizens also need to ask themselves if you don't think YOU have a Conflict, how you can support the DA's Prosecution of Jim Miller. WHEN YOU TOO VOTED on the same Consent Calendar without warning Jim Miller at the FIRST VOTE you in your Omnipotence could see a conflict of interest in his voting while in your purity, you have none.

Mayor Ferre, spare GT , don't run for re-election. It is time for you to retire and enjoy your double dipping retirement from the School District and the City. Perhaps this will keep the DA's Office away from your door step in the future. You persist in voting on the Consent Calender making payments to the Water Company where your husband is a board member and recieves a stipend and other perks and privilages. If this DA doesn't take action, the next DA might.

If Mayor Ferre does run, Walt Stanchiewitz or anyone else will need to start early to over come the Political Machine that backs Ferre and the status quo of Big Debt, Big Developers, and an elitist attitude to "Friends of the Council". You know the ones who get invited to Parties paid for by the City or (Taxpayers) when the dirty public is not invited.

Walt Stanckiewitz will need legal aid, and a clear statement of reform to the practices and methods used by the City Council and City Government if he were elected as Mayor. Control of the Agenda is one of the most important factors that he would have as Mayor. We have seen Ferre and Schwab abuse this power of the Agenda. It is time for this to change.