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Attached are the two letters, one sent by the Ken Weir recallers, the other sent by Weir.
I fact-checked both, but the post was eaten. Rar. So let me just say, the recallers use "detractors" incorrectly, and the idea of this being a "well-planned conspiracy" makes me giggle....
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I live and work in Sue Benham's ward, so I didn't get a letter from Ken Weir this weekend. Anybody get one? I'd love to see a copy.
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So, how's it going?
I asked Will Winn that late yesterday afternoon, and he said he's gotten just a few reports from the weekend's signature-gathering. He was pessimistic, at that point, about getting enough signatures to make it in time for November.
Then, apparently, he hit the sidewalks...
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Bakersfield City Councilman Ken Weir responded to my questions about the recall proponents. I didn't ask him about Hillside or Johnson; those have been beaten to death, and will continue to be. Here's his response:
James –
You have selected four people out of the hundreds of telephone...
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City Clerk Pam McCarthy has rejected the Ken Weir recall petition due to what she called "minor typographical issues." She said they're minor enough that the proponents can pick the petition up tomorrow morning, open whatever word processor they used and get a version back to her...
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The people who want Ken Weir to not be a city councilman anymore have their reasons. Ken Weir has answers. I took a look at both and started digging around, and learned a lot.
Like, all about accountants' ethics. And the history of the Hillside Ordinance (which mostly happened before my time)....
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Bakersfield City Councilman Ken Weir lent his support to the local Prop 98 rally Thursday. Afterward, I e-mailed him some questions. He responded Friday afternoon. I'd already written my story, so I didn't add him in, but here's what he said.
(By the way, off the top of my head I don't believe a...
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Jacquie Sullivan, Harold Hanson and Sue Benham will all run for re-election this fall.
We already knew about Sullivan, who is the only city council candidate with a declared challenger so far.
Hanson told me two weeks ago that he plans to run for one last term.
There were rumors Benham was...
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The Kern County Young Republicans heard from, and then passed a resolution in support of, Bakersfield City Councilman Ken Weir.
Weir spoke to the group at its meeting Monday.
“He was apologetic in the way it was handled, as he has been publicly," said Ryan Leggio, chairman of the...
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Bakersfield City Councilman Ken Weir yesterday submitted his official response to the proponents' statement of why he should be recalled. Recall organizer Will Winn has now come up with a response to the response:
The residents of the Third Ward are being given a tremendous opportunity in this...
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I was pleased to hear today that Mr. Weir has been served recall papers. I have been disappointed in times past of people who are not willing to leave their computer desk and actually DO what they believe needs to be done.
Our public officials must act in a public sphere. No hiding...
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Ken Weir went on KGET this week to talk more about why Russell Johnson has to go.
The summary:
“Mr. Johnson is not accountable to anyone at the city, he’s not independent due to his employment relationship, and he doesn’t respect private property rights.”
I'm not sure...
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(Formerly titled "The money trail from The Canyons to Ken Weir")
"They know that I have not received any contributions from General Holdings or other investors in the Canyons Project," City Councilman Ken Weir said Wednesday.
Turns out, not so much.
Weir received $250 from...
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One of the arguments that's been used by people on the side of Ken Weir in the Planning Commission Conflagration of 2008 (Part One) has been that Russell Johnson works for Mike Maggard, and that's a conflict.
It's legally not a conflict of interest, but it does raise the question of smell test....
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In case you, like David Couch, would like to do a point-by-point rebuttal of Ken Weir's statement Wednesday, here's the official transcript prepared by the city clerk's office.
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In 2004, when schools in the Bakersfield City School District were crashing into mandated program improvement and stacking up like cars in the Bakersfield fog, trustee Ken Weir came up with a proposal to pull them out of the No Child Left Behind pile-up. In all seriousness,...
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We've recorded just the audio of Ken Weir's remarks and put it in a file, which you can listen to here.
We went with audio-only, because we figured the video isn't that great in this case — it's just him talking. And going with YouTube we'd have to break it into two pieces, because it's...
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KGET had Ken Weir on again this morning.
"I think Mr. Johnson and I differ significantly on a number of policies," he said.
He was asked directly for an example, but did not provide one.
I guess he was on KNZR again this afternoon, too, but I missed that. Anyone hear it?
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KGET-TV had Ken Weir and Russell Johnson on TV this morning.
Weir says there's a "new philosophy" on the council. He doesn't articulate what it is or how Johnson doesn't fit it. He says it's not about the Canyons, but hasn't said what it's about.
Here's the dialogue between me and...
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The mayor candidates will be on Quality of Life next week, 9 a.m. Tuesday on 89.1 FM. The interviews will be pre-recorded, individual interviews, unfortunately. Probably the fact that the studios are in Fresno and they were dealing with four people is why.
Meanwhile, I've heard Ken Weir will be...
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Most members of the Bakersfield City Council won't say how they're planning to vote on Ken Weir's proposal to remove Russell Johnson from the planning commission.
I'm putting Weir down in the for column — it's his proposal. Sullivan has said she's for, Benham has said she's against....
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Bakosphere is consumed by politics near and far this Tuesday morning.
Our city reporter researches what it would take to recall councilman Ken Weir, as reports of a recall plan gain momentum.
Californian columnist Lois Henry writes it's time to recall Weir in her latest column.
Meanwhile, a...
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I just talked to political consultant Stan Harper, who said he'd been asked by some folks — he wouldn't say who — to look into what it would take to recall Councilman Ken Weir. He said he heard that there was a meeting Sunday night at a home in the Third Ward. He said 40 people...
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Have you ever noticed the FEAR of citizens? I don't know what they fear, but it seems like people sure have a problem with voicing their opinion and getting involved in politics. I sit here online occasionally and see what people have to say about politics. I read today about...
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Remember how Ken Weir wanted to change the planning commission so he could get rid of Russell Johnson? He wasn't willing to wait a year, so he introduced a proposal to speed things up.
Well, apparently he's not willing to wait for that process either.
Johnson tells me Councilman Zack Scrivner...
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We're not sure if we're more impressed by the lengths reporter Steve Swenson went to get his story yesterday or the fact he shot a 39 on the front nine at Sundale that afternoon.
But it's not all hard news. Continuing in a long tradition of outstanding photo interns, Coco Walters produced an...
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Bakersfield City Councilman Ken Weir wants to appoint a planning commissioner, and he doesn't want to wait until next year to do it.
Weir introduced a proposal to alter the way planning commissioners are appointed at last night's council meeting. It would allow for commissioners to be removed by...
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As we compiled the figures from the latest filings, we noticed that a few elected officials owe a lot of money to Republican consultant Mark Abernathy's firm, Western Pacific Research.
Assemblywoman Jean Fuller owes the most, $103,228. She actually paid down about $60,000 in the previous six...
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Does televising government meetings hurt public participation?
Bakersfield City Councilman Ken Weir thinks so.
At a meeting of the Bakersfield City Council’s Planning and Development Committee Thursday, Weir said he would prefer that meetings of a proposed city-county task force on...
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Has anyone seen any ads in the newspaper, or anywhere else for that matter, calling for volunteers to sign up to be considered for the seat vacated by Ken Weir on the Bakersfield City School Board?
If the board is going to follow Option One of the process outlined by the Education...
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