Ryan Hagen, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/24/2010 03:09:50 PM PDT
GRAND TERRACE – Sally McGuire and Darcy McNaboe did not break conflict-of-interest laws by serving with the Chamber of Commerce while running for city office, the state Fair Political Practices Commission has determined.
Sylvia Robles, who is running against McNaboe for a City Council seat, alleged in part that by appearing in the chamber newsletter, they violated a section of the Political Reform Act that generally forbids taxpayer-funded mass mailings from referencing officials affiliated with the publication.
In a letter sent Oct. 19, the FPPC dismissed this and Robles’ other charges in part because McGuire and McNaboe are not elected officials.
McGuire, a mayoral candidate, is president of the chamber. McNaboe sits on its board of directors.
The newsletter, supported through ads and occasional profits from community events, recently received a mail permit separate from the city’s, according to Wayne Whipple, secretary and treasurer. The chamber’s contract shows that the city pays $10,320 a year to support other chamber activities.
McNaboe said the letter was good news for the city and its volunteers.
“We should be rewarding our community volunteers,” she wrote in an e-mail. “We should be discussing issues with each other, not creating an environment where people are reluctant to contribute their time and energy by filing complaints without having all of the relevant facts.”
Robles said the letter missed the core of her complaint and that she will clarify that in follow-up complaints she plans to file.
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Sylvia Robles is Grand Terrace’s version of Christine O’Donnell–a real nutcase. How much is she costing taxpayers with her frivolous FPPC complaints? Taxpayers should demand that Robles repay the money she’s wasting!
Robles is NO nutcase.
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Sylvia Robles has advanced degrees from REAL Universities. She has a long work record that is in the field of the very financial problems GT is in need of help with. Jack Daniels has been drinking to much of his own body fluids to know anything about Sylvia Robles.
She may well be the best qualified candidate of the lot, given her education and work history.
What Jack and his friends, Wilson, Schwab, McNaboe, McGuire, Sternberg and Loder Fear is that a person with brains and training and an eye for detail will get elected. That includes all the past City Council Members and past Acting Mayors, and the Current Mayor who fear that the dirt is discovered under the Rugs of City Hall.
Teamed with Betsy Adams and a City Council Free of Schwab’s Control’s of exposure the clean up may be swift and less trama for the City and Citizens. However, uncomfortable it is to the self identified “Old Guard”.
Oh the FPPC missed the point of the complaint The point was the City of Grand Terrace should not Pay the Chamber of Commerce to distribute political materials. McNaboe and McGuire, and Bea Cortes are often highlighted in the Blue Mt. Outlook. The point of view of the complaint needs to be clarified to the FPPC
I agree with Daniels. Robles is completely wacked out.