Filippi
Sandra Emerson, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/06/2012 07:11:38 AM PDT
Updated: 10/06/2012 11:56:46 PM PDT
An L.A. County Fair vendor employee is accusing Upland Councilman and mayoral candidate Gino Filippi of pushing him following a dispute over the price of a hat.
Randy Garcia of Upland, the booth manager of Hat Zone, said he is seeking an apology from Filippi, whom he accuses of harassing his two female employees before getting into a physical altercation on Sept. 7.
Filippi, a member of the L.A. County Fair Association, said the accusations are false.
“I was told he would come back and apologize the next day,” said Garcia. “I still haven’t gotten an apology to this day.”
No charges were filed and no police report was taken, but Pomona police Capt. Michael Ellis confirmed that Filippi was part of a group involved in a disturbance at the Fair.
“Officers were hailed out there by the vendor. At the time, no one desired a report or prosecution or anything like that,” he said. “The group left on their own, the Fair was closing and they just left.”
Ellis said it was not reported to the officer that Filippi had become physical with the vendor.
“There was an argument and both parties were spoken to,” he said. “There was no indication that Filippi was involved in a battery or anything like that.”
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Curiouser and curiouser. I wonder if Gino skated due to his fair “position” and his political “position”? Tsk tsk.
Gangster activity such as that is one of the reasons I haven’t been to the fair in eons.
On the Dole… Are you consumed with Mr. Filippi? Really? Read the quote from the Pomona Police.
“Ellis said it was not reported to the officer that Filippi had become physical with the vendor.
“There was an argument and both parties were spoken to,” he said. “There was no indication that Filippi was involved in a battery or anything like that.””
Everything you need to know right there. If they did not report Gino has having done anything then, isn’t it curious that it is coming so much later? Is RM’s people behind this? Tempest in a tea pot? Does the tea pot even exist? Hmmm…
Obsessed with Gino? Hardly. What bothers me is the obsession with electing anyone but Upland’s current Bumbler in Chief. On it’s face it isn’t a bad idea. Though, sadly, Gino seems to be the front runner. However, it’s obvious something DID happen that night at the fair or the cops wouldn’t have been called. So there must be a tea pot. I also think there are some questions that need answers. Are we to believe Gino’s version? Is it the truth? Or only the truth as he believes it? Ala Bill Clinton’s, I never had sex with that woman. Who was with Gino that night? Was Bumbler Ray there orchestrating the entire episode? Or his henchmen? As most call his “friends”. I doubt that but good for them for finding it or getting it dumped in their laps. Did Gino or his “friends” use their “office”, as it were, to go merrily snickering off into the night? There were a couple of other things mentioned in the Daily Bulletin article that were left out here. Why? Questions. Questions. Questions. As for the mayoral election the adage, be careful what you wish for, comes to mind.
Do On the Dole, why are you indicting Filippi before you know ANYTHING? I thinkthe poster above you was making the point that the fact nothing was said about anything getting physical when the cops showed up is EXTREMELY tellng. That is usually when someone would say something.
Yes, many questions thought. And they should be asked/answered.
I would love to see Gino In a Physical Altercation!
I’ll bring the pillow’s!
Hey now! I may not be a toughguy, but pillows? I’m a lover not a fighter!
Gadfly David Allen’s latest has Gino saying it wasn’t him though he knows who it was but isn’t saying just yet. At least apparently publicly. Mr. Garcia, on the other hand, still says it was Gino and he wants that apology. Either Mr. Garcia is totally mistaken or Gino is stonewalling. There are still some questions seeking answers here. To think otherwise would be wrong. After last night the whole affair got even more curious.
Dole is stalking Gino!
Funny. However, I’m stalking the truth. Not Gino. If the truth is it was someone else, fine, who was it? Why not just come clean and say who it was? Or is the stonewall an effort to buy time in order to find someone willing to take the hit? Or why protect someone if it only makes you look like you’re stonewalling due to the upcoming election? All the never ending foibles of San Berdoo County politics only make us seem more and more like Chicago west with each passing day. Has the green San Bernardino County air turned all of the pols into thugs, gangsters, bagmen, and assorted fools? Ah well, more questions I guess.
Come on Gino fess up! Who’s pillow was it?
So this is what I found with a google, how did he make it on the city council?
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/upland-ca/TCDV4CTJGP5J3SUNB/p2
Has anyone GOOGLED him add drug test after his name, it makes for great reading.
Just googled him and drug test. All references come from comments posted by random haters. Didn’t George W and Clinton have to deal with drug aligations of what they did in thier younger years? Didn’t Gino also fight a bear up on Mt. Baldy in high school?
“I did not have sex with that woman” Clinton. Good comparison. Enough said.
“I did not have sex with that woman” Clinton. Good comparision. Enough said.
haha this is crap! I know the guy personally. He wouldn’t hurt a fly!