[Editor’s Note: Community activist Jamie Wallace responds below to the following post-election comments from reader Nadine Province regarding new City Councilman Göran Eriksson: “While Göran Eriksson is ‘setting the record straight,’ and — since you brought it up — would he confirm he is a ‘fellow Democrat’? He declined declaring an affiliation during his City Council bid, and he supported a Republican presidential candidate in the current race.”]
Geez, I get tired of unfounded allegations. If anyone bothered to investigate or ask, Göran Eriksson is registered as DS or Decline to State, which, by the way, was Daniel Lee’s registration until shortly before the Culver City Democratic Club forum.
Something which Mr. Lee mentioned during the forum. So I am basing that knowledge on his own words. Why would anyone depend solely on a turn of phrase or a comment by a reporter as “truth?”
As for the “supported a Republican,” again, if someone wanted to know, they could have asked Göran.
He will explain that he wanted to find out what Carly Fiorina had to say at a particular lunch/conference regarding environmental matters. He wanted to make his own decisions about how she portrayed her positions.
The only way to attend that lunch was to pay for it. Presumably the proceeds went to her campaign. But that is a far stretch from supporting.
Could we stop with innuendo and unfounded allegations and get back to investigation and information, please?
For what it is worth, Göran organized a pickup of his campaign signs so that they could be recycled.
The project was suspended today due in part to the voracious wind, and secondly the finding that many people already had removed their signs from their yards.
If anyone again had bothered to investigate, they would have discovered that Göran actually walks the environmental sustainability walk.
Ms. Wallace may be contacted at ccbackpacksforkids@gmail.com
I do apologize, I have misstated a fact and must correct it. Goran went to a breakfast meeting that Carly Fiorina was hosting about 3 years ago when she was running for Senate. Ergo she was not a Republican presidential candidate, and still, cosmically speaking, what does it matter and what intrinsically does it say about Goran Eriksson?
Thank you Jaime. Wouldn’t it be nice if people were honest and fair instead of vicious and calculating all done to win an election or to preserve private use of a public street – to name a few recent incidents? Just a thought.
It may not matter to you, Jamie, but it matters to me. I think a candidate’s political affiliation, however he/she may “couch” it informs their decisions.
And regarding the “environmental walk” –http://lovelivinginculvercity.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-post-where-actions-speak-louder.html?view=sidebar
Readers: Love living in culver city is one persons POV. That person is Paulette Greenberg whose husband represents her and other Farragut neighbors in suing Culver City to stop a Traffic study on their block on Farragut.
Hi! I stand corrected, per Jamie Wallace: In 2013, Mr. Eriksson paid $200 for “a lunch” with Carly Fiorina during her senate bid, to ask her a question.
Wallace corrects that he did not contribute to her run for Republican presidential campaign, but, says Wallace, “he wanted to find out what Carly Fiorina had to say at a particular lunch/conference regarding environmental matters. He wanted to make his own decisions about how she portrayed her positions.”
Again, I stand corrected, and I wish I had $200 to spend to vet a candidate. Or, maybe I would just look at her voting history. From 2010, for example: http://www.ecovote.org/blog/carly-joins-dirty-dozen….or even further back, in 2009, in The Wall Street Journal, where she is quoted as saying “We must take advantage of every source of energy,” she emphasizes, and forthrightly tackles a taboo subject in a state that has restricted off-shore drilling since the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill.”
Fiorina also says cleaner technologies such as nuclear power should be encouraged. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703499404574558302616877092
And also, in 2010, three years before the $200 lunch, this article cites her endorsement of the global-warming denier Jim Inhofe and her support of “clean coal technology”:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/03/16/205651/flashback-carly-fiorina-said-cap-and-trade-will-both-create-jobs-and-lower-the-cost-of-energy/
Lastly, she ran ads which mocked Barbara Boxer’s assertion that “One of the very important national security threats we face right now is climate change.”
“Regarding environmental matters,” Fiorina had been very clear of her position, several years before the $200 lunch.
Jamie, thank you for all the positive advocacy and service to our community and especially for the children; from Backpacks for Kids, to so much more. You’re truly an inspiration and a leader!