Schwab as Council Member or Mayor

What kind of ego drives a man like Tom Schwab to think he should run for City Council or the Mayor of Grand Terrace. Here is a short list of what he has done to and for Grand Terrace while he was City Manager that would justify his defeat in such an effort.

1) Miss use of RDA FUNDS Millions of dollars were improperly taken from RDA Funds to be spent by the City General Fund. His own words, it was a loan to the City that he had no intention of paying back. In some circles this would be called fraud and embezzlement.

2) He hired Steve Berry.

3) He did not inform the City Council that Steve Berry was under investigation for embezzlement or that He Tom Schwab stopped that investigation going forward to the District Attorney's Office.

4) He has entangled Grand Terrace with financially detrimental contracts.

5) He is known as a horsetrading not a good firm management by contract.

6) He prefers to let contracts to his friends or selected developers and not have open competitive bids.

7) He has demonstrated a use of codes and eminent domain to the benefit of his own desires and those of his developer friends against the land and property owners and current business owners and operators.

8) He has demonstrated he is unable to run a government in GT without being dependent on Debt Funding.

9) He has already received a House, a Car and a retirement from the City of Grand Terrace. Does he need continued city paid Medical Insurance and transportation stipend and meeting stipend.

Yes he knows where all the skeletons are buried in City Hall. But, he would he is the one who put most of them there. Even the nare do well Steve Berry, was in many ways just a dumb dupe fall guy for Tom Schwab's set ups. It was not until Tom's illness that the Student of Schwab went rogue. Berry's actions were the same as Schwab, it is just that Schwab knows how to have others be out front to take the fall.

Schwab should not be given a seat on the City Council. He should be given a seat in the court room right next to Steve Berry. Their actions are by far more criminal than those of the Duped Council Members they led around like animals with rings in their noses.