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| Written by Donna Worley | |
| Saturday, 15 December 2007 | |
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It is a blessing to have lived in so many different cities in California, the epitome of the land of opportunity. The year 2007 has brought me to Patterson, where I plan to teach school and hope to retire.  Donna Worley Patterson has a great history and special potential. Along with its rural atmosphere, there is an air of sophistication I have often experienced in larger cities. Already, I love this town. There is one aspect, however, that saddens me. This city’s governing ways are downright poor. The people deserve better, and I would like to see them get it. We each have a civic duty to do what we can to make things better, because our community gives so much back to us. Recognizing this, I have served as a grassroots activist for more than 30 years in every community where I lived to protect and enhance our environment, boost economic opportunity and to make government more responsive to the people. To hold Patterson politicians more accountable to the public, I recently filed for two election petitions to be placed on our ballot. This will give our neighbors the opportunity to decide their own fates and help ensure that the quality of our political leadership matches up to the quality of our residents. A term limits initiative that puts a cap on terms for Patterson’s mayor and City Council is essential for our government to work as it should. Almost every politician in our state, and even the president of the United States, is subject to term limits. And, no doubt, if people had a chance to vote on it, the Congress would be, too. People support term limits all across America because, in their hearts, they know our government is not working as it should. And we instinctively know this is also true in Patterson. A second initiative would allow the government to issue no more than 200 building permits per year. By my estimate from population statistics, California grew at a rate of 1.2 percent in 2005, while Patterson grew by a whopping 19 percent. The growth rate here must decrease to maintain our way of life. While city politicians claim they want to preserve the rural aspect of our town and ensure that we do not become like Los Angeles or even Modesto, our present rate of growth (with 899 residential building permits issued in 2005) is astounding. Let’s rent or sell some of these empty houses before we build more! The responsibility for this does not fall with the people, but with our City Council for clearly not looking out for the interests of our community and our family, friends and neighbors who live here. Can anyone substantiate our Patterson leaders’ claims that they are doing everything they can to promote our economy, create jobs and attract new business to this city, when Patterson has been under investigation by the Stanislaus County Grand Jury for the “misplacement” of at least $8.3 million in building permit fees? I challenge our City Council to come forward with an apology to this town and to present its residents with a plan for reorganization — a forward-thinking agenda that will guarantee against future misappropriations. Instead of attacking me, these folks should focus their efforts and concern on cleaning up the system. That’s one of the great things about living in the United States — anybody can get involved at the grassroots level and stand up for their rights to challenge a failed system. What my critics are really saying is that not everyone should be allowed to participate in the process, just those who agree with their point of view. There are those in this community who talk about reform and changing the ways things are done in this town. But it seems to me that these same people have a vested interest in the status quo. Our town needs revitalization. At the least, we the people deserve the opportunity to decide. The Patterson Term Limits Ordinance initiative and the City of Patterson Growth Management Initiative will allow us to do that. Community activist Donna Worley can be reached at 892-1559 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it She also keeps a blog on her proposed initiatives at www.reformpatterson.com
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Gee I find your comments to be rather interesting considering that you are claiming to have been an activist in every city that you have lived in for the last 30 years....
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tell us ms. worley....when were you a resident of the city of Rialto? for those of you that are unaware, this woman went to a city council meeting in Rialto acting like a resident and went before the council with threats and phony accusations!! This was done on august 8, 2007.....go to the forums under RE: west park opposition and you will find the video link to that drama...it's posted by someone named Andrew to help you find it.... i find it very peculiar that some one who claims to have been living here for the last 6 months can be living in Burbank at the same time...a councilman read her complete Burbank address in that video and she didn't deny it....he also discovered and revealed that she was hired by a big company to make these statements and she was known to do this sort of thing for a living.... she herself stated on a radio show in november that she has lived here for 6 months....so hmmmmm....if she is claiming to be a resident of Rialto on August 8, and then appears on a radio show at the end of november claiming to be a resident of patterson for 6 months...well heck, you do the math folks!!... oh by the way, on that same radio show; Ms. Worley was soliciting her services to anyone that wanted to hire her to go to their city and do the same kind of work.... Beware people, beware.... report abuse
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In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk
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Sound familiar? What if someone discovers your secret dream, that one great wish you would do anything for? And what if that someone suddenly makes your dream come true--before you learn the price you have to pay? report abuse
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I hear you Diane, I hope people realize that these initives are brought on by the West Park project and that this is going to prove to be "too high of a price to pay"....
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It is so clear from Ms. Worley's comments, she is completely clueless about the West Side. She can't even get her facts straight. What is also interesting is that her new website looks very similar to the Truth About Patterson website. Seems this person has one large agenda.
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It's obvious that she was sent here to do the bidding of "he who can't be named" or, like Diane says the "Demonic Proprietor". None of this kinda cra* was happening before that puppetmaster reared his ugly project. Which brings me to this....What's up with the glamour shot? Good Gawd my wife almost choked on her starbucks muffin when she saw it.
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There is alot more to this ol'gal then meets the eye. report abuse
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 written by Apricot_Boy , December 18, 2007
Wonder if she was part of the failed Hillwood project in SoCal?
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http://www.calpilots.org/html/...?sid=1741 report abuse
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Hillwood has a higher caliber employee as evidenced throughout the RFP process. What I've seen from their competition could be described as "fringe". You can add a word before that if that helps you out any.
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Seems to me you have an odd insight to this subject, that article was distributed by West Park a couple of months ago, not really mainstream media grabs here. What's your story? On a mission to deflect the problems inherent with West Parks proposal? report abuse
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check this out. some interesting reading
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http://cbs13.com/local/stanisl...2095.html report abuse
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