Why would the voters of Anaheim want to vote for you Harry? You were ready to run from Anaheim and the people that supported you to bigger and better things or what you call the American Dream.
I have watched what you have done for Anaheim the crime rate is up, the roads are in need of repair, the city is being over build,
Harry thanks for all of that in the past four years.
Instead of running for the US Senate and not winning, you should have been thinking about the residents of Anaheim what you could have and should have done for them. Not your wonderful American Dream slogan that you always use by the way people are really sick of hearing you say that.
There is more to Anaheim than the resort area there are people who want to have a voice in how there communities from the hills to west Anaheim are being developed traffic, crime, road repair the list of concerns go on and on. You have been part of Pringles puppet show; you have helped take the voice away from the residents of Anaheim. The residents are only important to you when it comes to election time.

Debbie, who do you like or thinking of voting for Anaheim City Council. I like Kostas "Gus" Roditis' ballot statement and call him on the phone. He seems like a pretty good guy. I will probably vote for him. I don't care for Lorri or Harry. They are horrible. I haven't made a decision on who will get my second vote if anyone does.

This is from the Orange County Taypayers Association, and they specifically state that they don't endorse Political Candidates. So who is lying Harry Sidhu or OCTax.

Orange County Taxpayers Association

30205 Hillside Terrace

San Juan Capistrano CA 92675-1542

phone (949) 240-6226

fax (949) 240-030

www.octax.org
To contact us:
OCTax advocates positions on ballot measures, legislation, and other public policy issues of interest to taxpayers.

OCTax does not endorse political candidates or make political campaign contributions. OCTax is registered under Section 501(c)(4) of the IRS code as a tax-exempt "civic league . . . for the promotion of community welfare." Your annual investment may qualify as a deductible corporate subscription (business

Debbie..Sorry that you feel that way about Harry..Remember their are others on the council. Harry has been a fighter for all of Anaheim, he is for more police and fire, balancing the budget, which now becomes a major item in our city as the nations economy grows weaker..We do need experience at this time on our City council and Harry has this, plus more..

Orange County Taxpayers Association Political Action Committee - OC Tax PAC, sponsored by the Orange County Taxpayers Association, has endorsed and supports Anaheim City Councilman Harry Sidhu. See this link on California Secretary of State's website:
http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1288619&view=contributions

Harry has had four year to balance the budget, Harry has had four years to increase Fire and Police, Harry has had four years to serve the residents of Anaheim the first chance he had he ran for what he calls the American Dream he ran for the Senate fully willing to leave the residents of Anaheim in the dust. Where was Harry before he ran for office when needy children needs Christmas gifts, Easter Baskets, where was Harry during the Anaheim Hills 911 event? Where was Harry when Anaheim Hills held all those community meets? It’s like the old saying Where’s Waldo? Anaheim needs new blood new idea’s, Anaheim needs to be given back to the people not the Pringle political machine. You asked who I would vote for it would be John K and Gus R they had no political ties to Pringle. Galloway needs to go, Sidhu needs to go and Eastman is being supported by Pringle along with Sidhu. Remember last election he supported Galloway because he wants her votes on the council. This election could be one of the most important elections that this country has had. What's most important is that your voice be heard, that your vote be counted, that you stand up for what you believe in. It's not a time to sit back and do nothing. Many of us receive emails on McCain, Obama every day, our State, County and Local governments are sending out mailer telling you why you should vote for them, just remember the one with the most money usually win an election why you ask? Money from people who want to see some person get elected for personal gain developers, Political Action Committees, Corporations, Companies, Independent expenditures if you really think that they support any candidate with wanting nothing in return than you're not living in the real world. A candidate can't make promises to these people, groups or organizations but what they can say is that they will look at the issues with an open mind and is just what they want to hear.
Look at what a current State, County, or Local elected official has done to make your community a safer place to live, What rights have they taken away from you the voter, Is your voice being heard? Have you just given up and said the heck with it? Well NOW is the time to let not your voice be heard but you Vote Be Counted. Each day elected officials vote on issues that effect your life, your income, and your community. You the voter elected them to represent you are they do that? How would you change things if you were elected? Find a candidate that believe what you believe, don't be afraid to call your elected official tell them you want to meet with them before you vote, this maybe the only time they will take your calls. Call your local candidates tell them you want to meet with them over issues that you feel are important, don't just believe those mailers, they are written to make you believe whatever they think is important to the voters, they are written by someone else NOT the Candidate, Big political Groups, Independent expenditures, special interest groups. Endorsements take a hard look at them was an enforcement given because they believe that candidate is the best or because there party, special interest, or someone who will vote there way, said this is the person we want elected. Again they're not spending there money for no reason they will want something in return.
Get out the vote, get involved, be informed and be on guard.

Ya but Harry never said that he was endorsed by the Orange County Taxpayers Association PAC. He said the Orange County Taxpayers Association. Which is illegal since they are a 501(c)(4). Harry's flyer breaks FPPC laws and is illegal.

I don't know where you, live but there has been good amount of mail pieces sent...

Harry just does not have the sophistication to run a city the size of Anaheim.

Lorri Galloway has out shined him in insight on every issue the city has faced

Any Republican in Anaheim worth their salt knows that Sidhu is who we need re-elected to our city council. OC GOP, Lincoln Club, OC Young Republicans, CRA - Anaheim, NOT TO MENTION ASSEMBLYWOMAN MIMI WALTERS, HERSELF, yes, that's right - MIMI WALTERS, and every other major Republican representative around here, ALL SUPPORT SIDHU for Re-Election. And, that's saying something worth listening to rather than the meaningless rants of the "few" above.

CAL REPUBLICAN, how can you possibly suggest Lorri Galloway for re-election? She has done more to create high-density human anthills in the flatlands than any other Councilmember, while Anaheim has less greenspace per resident than New York City! Her recent mailer claiming to be the choice for Republicans (say WHAT? she is a Democrat) has managed to completely piss off the party all the way to Sacramento. The lift quote from Curt is at least 2 years old, she misled the public into believing Curt still supports her, because she certainly cannot get his endorsement now. She is so full of it, and the people of Anaheim know it! The most shocking name on that flyer was Matt Cunningham. How about it, Jubal? Did you really endorse that liberal phony when your own blog refused to consider any candidate but Republicans?!

Matt, did you didn't did you? Than again Matt you are on the Eli Home List of donors.

Lorri claims he did.....

http://noongallowayanaheim.blogspot.com/2008/10/mailer-misleads-with-ancient-news.html

Matt's really not going to answer us, is he?

No one is listening to you colony. you are a SOAR hack recruited by Disney to spread lies. I am not sure if you believe the lies or just want to feel important. What I do know is you are VERY OUT OF TOUCH. Lorri will be the highest vote getter. She has, by far, the biggest base of support, including many prominent republicans. They probably support her because she does not listen to whack jobs like you when they threaten her.

Its called leadership. Lorri has it, Sidhu does not. You should go away and, I don't know, find some beat up house, fix it up and call it a monument.

CIAO

I wasn't addressing you Cal Republican, I was addressing Matt Cunningham, whose name appeared on a Lorri Galloway mailer claiming he endorsed her. But your other suggestion for how I should spend my time sounds interesting, I'll look into it.

Cynthia Ward you are a fanatic....

Cynthia:

I just saw these comments. Yes, I have endorsed Lorri.

Matt, thanks for the courtesy of a reply. We shall have to (respectfully) agree to disagree on your choice. But I was shocked to see it. Galloway is deceiving people by running old kudos and endorsements from people who no longer support her. Is she that desperate for re-election that she will essentially lie to get there? Why would a man of integrity such as yourself lend his upstanding and respected name to someone who plays those kinds of games? I thought better of you, we have had our differences, but I have always respected you, and what you have done for the Republican Party. I especially appreciate what you have done with this blog, giving us all a voice. Even the psychopaths, and “fanatics”. I am just crushed that you of all people have fallen for it.

Cal Republican, you are a Galloway shill who follows me on the blogs, poking at me with personal attacks far outside political discourse, and trying to goad me into losing my temper. It’s kind of creepy. Either talk to me about the issues or get a life.

Colony,

You are the liar Ms. Ward, Galloway's piece was in no way inaccurate. Curt said what he said, it can not be taken back. You lied on your blog.

The high density housing argument is bogus. She only supports responsible housing. See Triangle, Platinum.

I really wish I understood your obsessions with Lorri Galloway.

However, you and your crazies on that fanatic blog are only increasing Lorri's name ID, to her benefit.

And you follow me, refer to our post history!

Speaking of Galloway, if you look at her campaign statements it appears that she is funneling money from the Eli home.
Despicable.

I agree with Colony Rabble regarding Lori Galloway. She has consistently refused to listen to the residents of Anaheim. Especially regarding the Resort District. View the City Council meetings on line. It's her way or the highway! While I will probably support Harry Sidhu, there is also another great candidate running Gail Eastman. I admit I have not reviewed if this blog has done a piece on her I think Gail is the best choice for our city. While I am prejudice because I've known her and her husband for years she has numerous attributes including her volunteer work within the city for several years, i.e. Paint Your Heart Out Program, her generousity in helping others, including the residents that need help obtaining information from our city agencies, or have a problem with their home that a particular city agency may not be handling appropriately, she unhesitatingly jumps in with the information to help, along with explaining the pros and cons of the problem, and sets them in the right direction. She has also written a children's book, which is now being used in our elementary schools for 3rd graders. I could go on about her many attributes and the standard fair on her flyers, but I will say she had no intentions of running for Anaheim City Council until her friends began encouraging her a few years ago. She has no intentions of running for a higher office in the State, as her concerns are for the residents of Anaheim, and wanting them to become more involved in the needs of the City.

As for Cal Republican it saddens me that you relish in putting down people rather then have an adult discourse.

Lorri Galloway is just plain bad for the City. My obsession, as Cal calls it, stems not from a hatred for Galloway so much as a love of Anaheim. Galloway’s policies are destroying quality of life in the flatlands, while those in the hills who are not impacted continue to sing her praises. Come live down here for a while and see if you feel the same. Watch your single-family homes overtaken by 3 story apartments, underparked and subsidized by our tax dollars, and tell me you are still a fan. Come live down here and beg for a sit-down restaurant, only to be told that our demographics don’t pencil out, knowing that Anaheim’s income demographics continue to drop because of Galloway’s policies.

Lorri’s mailer attempts to send a message to the uninformed voter that Curt Pringle supports her candidacy. Was she unable to come up with anything more recent that she has been praised for, she has to dig up ancient history? She burned her bridges for the last 2 years, claiming that she did not need the conservative base of Pringle and his supporters, then realized she will never get elected with only the support of those she panders to (the Union members who do not even live in Anaheim) so goes back to lift a 2 year old quote from the Mayor whose leadership she openly rejected. Yeah, that’s someone I want in office. Give me straight talking Gail Eastman any day of the week.

I admit I did make the mistake of engaging Cal, in the naïve hope that perhaps we could debate the issues. Once again Cal cannot seem to think beyond personal insults, so I will disengage again, and return to fixing up my beat up old house as suggested. Gimme a shout when you are out of Kool Aid and want to actually talk about the issues, instead of name calling.

There is an effort promoted by Disney and the Mayor (who desperately wants control back on the council) to smear Galloway.

They will use anything: Class Warfare (see, Rabble, Colony), Untrue Smears, and Racism.

A small group in central Anaheim hates her for not bowing to their every wish. (They are in denial about the state of Anaheim and its economic realities.) This small minority in the "Colony" are now being used by the Disney lobby machine to spread lies about Galloway and support a candidate who would only serve as an extra vote for the Mayor and Disney.

Cynthia Ward and her girlfriends have used this blog as nothing but a trash talk arena on Galloway and they should be ashamed for speaking ill of someone who has helped so many. Lorri Galloway is a great leader. The proof is in her wide range of endorsements that include prominent republican, police, fire, and even prominent democrats.

People like Colony Rabble have a jealousy fueled bitterness that manifests into a hatred of the hills and its candidates. Lorri did not make the flatlands what they are today. The irony here is that their beloved Disney and the resort area did.

How could people so informed be so misguided. It is truly shocking.

Calrepublican: Can you please provide us with a bullet-point list of Galloway's leadership accomplishments on the Council over the past couple of years? ("Founded blah blah", "Cut blah blah by 20%", and so forth.)

Please don't just go on about Disney/SunCal/SOAR -- I really am interested in finding out what she's done for Anaheim beyond taking the pro-SunCal/anti-Disney side in the SunCal dispute.

You keep saying that she's a "great leader", but empty assertions don't equal truth. As an Anaheim homeowner, I haven't been seeing it. Please show the rest of us what you see ...

Off the top of my head,

She was behind ACE, a program to remove graffiti

Spear headed the opening of the Family Justice Center

Opposed the Platinum Triangle Expansion Development Plan, the one that is now grounded on the basis of over crowding and poor planning

Invested infrastructure dollars into West Anaheim in the form of park and road maintenance

Approved the hiring of additional police officers, putting more officers in our neighborhoods and decreasing response times.

Endorsed and approved the addition of 3 new fire stations, opening of the west Anaheim Fire in 2007 was the first in 20 years

This is a decent list some of it from her website, you should check it out! www.lorrigalloway.com

Thank you Cal, at last we can discuss the issues like reasoned adults and move beyond the petty name-calling.

Galloway supported ACE, but only AFTER one of her first votes on City Council was to gut Code Enforcement, recreating it as the warmer fuzzier “Community Preservation”, and removing criminal penalties for repeated Code Violations. Had she not done that, there would be no need for ACE. Isn’t that a little like setting a fire and then being the hero for putting it out?

I will actually give her points for the AFJC. I am a huge fan of the Center, and while I suspect that it was already in the works before she jumped on board, I will give her kudos for being a driving force behind getting it opened. Now see, I can be be open minded and reasonable.

When Lorri Galloway opposed the Platinum Triangle expansion, it was not based on crowding and poor planning as you put it. If you go back and review the City Council meeting of December 2007, Lorri Galloway’s only objection to the Platinum Triangle is that it lacked affordable housing subsidies. By the way, affordable housing actually creates density bonuses, so she opposed the project because it was not DENSE ENOUGH!

The West Anaheim infrastructure projects such as roads, and the new stations, were on line before Lorri Galloway was elected to City Council, she is taking a bow for projects she did not initiate. Sorry.

Additional Police officers were planned for by the Chief, not by Galloway, and were in large part simply pulled from other areas such as community policing and school based police. Again, Galloway is taking a bow for projects she did not create.

In the meantime, under Galloway’s policies, which she proudly promotes on the City’s website, density in my neighborhood (Anaheim Colony) has increased dramatically, with no mitigation for these human anthills. We have no additional park space to offer recreation for the children who are moving into these taxpayer subsidized projects. Early in Galloway’s career, she got upset with some Colony residents who opposed a high-density project in the area. She stated right there on the dais that she would do all in her power to put more of these projects into the Colony area. Since that time, we have had multiple high-density subsidized projects dropped into our area. In the meantime, where are the affordable projects in Anaheim Hills? Lorri ‘s argument on the Platinum Triangle was that there will be housekeepers and janitors and gardeners needed to maintain the Triangle, where will the live? Well where do Anaheim Hills gardeners and nannies and janitors live? Why is Lorri not building affordable projects in her own back yard? That’s not leadership, it is finding a dumping ground in the flatlands as far from her own home as possible.

Now another candidate’s signs are being covered by Galloway signs, that is just not the mature adult campaign I want to see waged in Anaheim.

But again Cal, thanks for discussing the issues instead of name-calling, I will debate you any day of the week as long as we can keep the personal attacks out of it. You have repeatedly called me a liar, but not once listed what I have lied about. Not cool. Come to the table with information.

http://noongallowayanaheim.blogspot.com/

She stated right there on the dais that she would do all in her power to put more of these projects into the Colony area.

For me, that pretty much sums up what's wrong with Lorri Galloway. When faced with opposition, a true leader would work to achieve consensus. But from the council meetings I've watched, being questioned just makes Lorri dig in harder (and get whiny -- seeing her make her pouty and petulant I-know-best-and-am-hurt-that-you'd-suggest-otherwise responses is, frankly, just embarrassing behavior from a representative of my city).

Calrepublican: Thanks for the additional information. However, with the exception of the Family Justice Center, your list brings to mind the time I spent interviewing potential new-college-hires for my employer. Most of these kids had worked on nothing but group projects, and they talked expansively about them -- "we did this", "our project was" -- but you could bring a fair number of them crashing back to earth by asking "okay, I understand what your group did, but now tell me what YOU did in these projects".

"Endorsing" and "approving" various projects isn't language that suggests active leadership to me. Rather, it tells me that Lorri showed up and did the job we elected her for (voting on things) -- and now she wants to claim her mere presence as a special triumph. Sure, voting for apple-pie stuff like more fire and police or better roads is good -- but what sane councilperson is going to take a stand AGAINST any of those things?

This just in from Curt Pringle:

I am pleased today to announce my endorsement of Gail Eastman for Anaheim City Council. As an Anaheim Planning Commission and co-chair of SOAR, Gail Eastman has already proven that she is a great leader for Anaheim. She was a key leader in the fight to protect the Anaheim Resort, proving her commitment to protecting Anaheim’s fiscal security. She has been an outstanding leader on the Planning Commission, proving her commitment to property rights. She cares passionately for Anaheim, its people, and its community. She embodies public service and is just what we need on the City Council.

Her election to the City Council will give her even greater opportunity to keep Anaheim moving forward, to make neighborhoods a priority, to protect public safety, to provide freedom and opportunity for our residents and businesses, and to bring jobs and prosperity to our city.

Joining with my previous endorsement of Councilman Harry Sidhu for re-election, I am proud to recommend to Anaheim voters that by electing these two candidates to the two Council seats on the ballot this November, we can keep making the kinds of positive changes and progress that will continue to make Anaheim a great city where people can make their dreams come true.

Curt Pringle

___________________________________

Curt Pringle

Curt Pringle & Assoc., LLC

2400 E. Katella, #350

Anaheim, CA 92805

(714) 939-9070

visit our website at www.curtpringle.com

No joke, Curt Pringle endorses Gail Eastman. He needs a puppet. Citizens for Anaheim's Future is a Pringle project with his developer friends to get Gail elected. Pringle doesn't care one bit for the citizens of Anaheim. He only cares about the resort area. I would take anyone over Gail, she is the worse. We need fresh blood in Anaheim. I will be voting for my top choice, Roditis and most likely John K.

Only two more years of Pringle. Thank God he will be termed out. Maybe he could move to Garden Grove again once he is termed out and take Harry and Gail with him. Carpet Bagger.

Well, it has been sometime since I chimed in, but I had to set the record straight. Lorri has done nothing in West Anaheim to take credit for. The police station, Sinkin Lincoln, senior housing, the youth center and the AIDS home were all planned well before she or Pringle came into office. Now, I will say that the fire station was pushed at Twila Reid Park due to the urgency by Bob Hernandez. We here in WA knew that a station was desperately needed for years, but we had hoped the city would find land other than using our scarce parkland. So, Lorri, do not try to take bows for any work here in WA other than making sure that along with downtown, we were inundated with more apartments. Take credit for that and she needs her head examined!
If she wants to make a point of road work being accomplished, she better check the back log of council meetings where most of these projects were planned and many have yet to be even started due to a change in priorities from this present council. Lorri, you time is over and you need to move on. You were used as a puppet and you had your few minutes int he limelight. Now do us a favor and leave us with an opportunity to regain the safety and beauty that we once were afforded here.

One last thought on the subject.....

please ignore the typing/spelling, as I am not a typist and this is being completed in a hurry)

Hey Cal, can you please tell me where Lorri is getting the money to buy advertisements on the billboards? Sort of funny, that a candidate uses the one avenue that our council and communities have been trying for years to get rid of...billboards!!!! Now, that is responsibility at its best.

Haven't had an opportunity for several weeks to read this blog, but it appears not to have moved much. CalRepublican is still supporting Lorri and fighting with others that do not share his viewpoint. If I remember right, democracy is having the ability to share our own points of view without ridicule. The other thing that I noticed is that your support of Lorri has not grown in support. Does that give you a clue?

Judi stop slandering Galloway. Just cause she does not support the Colony's radical agents, at the expense of everyone else in the city, does not make her what you say. You and you friends are selfish ladies ignorant of the reality that is Anaheim. Just be happy you have you historic district.

Judi is not from the Colony. Dislike for Lorri is city-wide.

And nobody has slandered your poor Lorri. Slander is untrue. And if these statments were untrue (which they are not) they would technically be libel. See below.

slander

A type of defamation. Slander is an untruthful oral (spoken) statement about a person that harms the person's reputation or standing in the community. Because slander is a tort (a civil wrong), the injured person can bring a lawsuit against the person who made the false statement. If the statement is made via broadcast media -- for example, over the radio or on TV -- it is considered libel, rather than slander, because the statement has the potential to reach a very wide audience.

Lorri has unprecedented city-wide support. You are your soar SOAR folk only had initial sucess because you were LYING.

Colony,

If you are going to sink so low, please leave it at your trash talk forum. You are tearing Anaheim apart.

I beg you to come off the cliff and return to sanity.

Yeah, that $5,987.16 Galloway had on hand at the end of her reporting period sure looks like the war-chest of someone with “unprecedented city-wide support”.

She has grass-roots support like nothing you have seen. She is not paying people to put up her signs. So who is?

Now, she does not have Disney money like your stoog Eastman, but hey what they give to her now, they will get back in the form of 120,000,000 dollar subsidy.

Stay tuned lil rabble and see what your meddling would cost the tax payer in the off chance, the candidate for hire wins.

CalRepublican, as Colony has stated and many of you already know, I am not or ever have been from the downtown area. I will accept the cudos for trying for over twelve years to get all areas of
Anaheim residents to become one and respect each other's fights and victories, as we are all Anaheim!

You sound as if you have a huge axe to grind. Take a chill and when you can tell us what and where you have worked to make Anaheim a better place to live, then and only then can you know the real damage that Lorri has done to us. Take the blinders off and ask her to open her books. Oh,yea...that something the city asked from her years ago and to date, I do not think that she has ever complied. I want an honest representation and mister...Lorri is not in that category!

Sort of a mystery when Lorri herself has never answered any of these complaints other than to ignore or file suit. Get a clue!

Thanks to folk like you, Galloway has been forced to open her books many times. You get a clue! Lorri is clean. Your hate for her is ambiguous and meaningless. Get a clue!