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• Fargo-led City Council approves $300,000 expenditure for Corian feline cages, while $58 MILLION DOLLAR budget looms New!
• Sacramento city council approves $650,000 expenditure to count trees while police and fire departments slash staff and cut budgets 8% New!
• Federal probe reveals City of Sacramento employees participating in shady golf tournaments
• Feds allege blackmarket salvage operation at Sacramento City Utilities department
• Fargo breaks foot, gets Sacramento Police Department detective as full time chauffeur
• Fargo fined $2,000 for failing to disclose identity of person who purchased her home
• City can’t figure out what happened to $1.3 MILLION worth of water meters
• Eight years and 15,000 homes later, city leaders say North Natomas plan has fallen well short of vision
• Fargo loses support of city council members
• Lawsuit alleges Fargo and Downtown Sacramento Partnership conspired illegally and violated Brown Act
• Sacramento city shortfall projected to mushroom to $200 million in five years
• Sacramento area business leaders blame Fargo for misleading statements and budget crisis
• Sacramento police department association says no thanks to Fargo endorsement
• Since 2001 millions of dollars in tax supplements collected for North Natomas Financial Fund AWOL
  then ..
  In 2008 Fargo tells flummoxed residents they shouldn’t focus on the fund
  
• Fargo and City Council Alleged to Have Held Illegal, Secret Meetings
• Fargo passes buck and tells interviewer key to crime reduction is more neighborhood watch programs
• Fargo and council cronies call for continued building in Natomas, despite Federal “AE” flood designation
• Former city manager Bob Thomas, terminated without explanation in clandestine city council meeting
  Jimmy Yee at the time: “”I always thought he did a hell of a job, who’s going to run the city? The mayor certainly isn’t.”
• Fargo creates Diversity Day in 2005
  then..
  she blames diversity for high crime in 2008
• Fargo on hand to celebrate Kevin Johnson’s philanthropy
• 500 city jobs to be slashed because of budget shortfall

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• FUN WITH FLIP FLOPPING FARGO: “I think there has been a shift in public concern,” Fargo said of her recent embrace of more anti-crime strategies after saying in the earlier primary campaign that her constituents hadn’t brought up crime as an issue. “Frankly, I think it’s partly changed with the people because Johnson kept talking about crime. I don’t think it’s helped to tell people to be afraid like this is Oakland.” -22JUL08 (Fargo needed residents to tell her the city was the second most violent in the state and STILL thinks the only reason there is a “problem” is because KJ scared people!!”)
• “Fargo and other city officials now say they made some mistakes in designing Natomas. In retrospect, Fargo said, the city should have required developers to spread out the affordable housing, rather than building apartment complexes, many of them grouped near one another.” Bee article about Natomas crime problems
• “Green light for downtown sounds cool, and when we talk about green today we are talking about green for the planet and green for your wallets and green lights for GO! I WANT TO ASK YOU TO HELP MAKE THIS ***THE*** AGENDA FOR SACRAMENTO.” -Heather Fargo opening statement at her 2008 State of Downtown address.
• “”Check out the image galleries on Mayor Heather Fargo’s portion of the City of Sacramento’s web site: The Mayor in Alaska, The Mayor in Dublin, The Mayor in Japan, The Mayor in Jerusalem, The Mayor in China… the only one that is missing is THE MAYOR IN SACRAMENTO” - Joe
• “This one embarrasses me, because I feel like I ought to have caught it…but when you’re the only council person looking at the plans, and they’re coming so fast …” Fargo taking responsibility for flubbing the train wreck Walk Mart shopping center disaster here
• “If it can’t be on the cover of a national magazine as a model, I don’t know why we’d want to do more..” Fargo in a cit council meeting with her colleagues implying North Natomas was already ugly enough.. here
• I have a consensus-building style.. my style is more common to women than men.’ -Heather Fargo explaining her leadership style to a journalist in May, 2008. Ed. note: Say what?
• “Fargo had difficulty coming up with performance measures for herself in her new term, saying it’s hard to put benchmarks on what she does.” -Bee story 2/08. Ed. note: I thought she triaged emails all day?
  
• “Except for the current budget situation, the city is in good shape,” Fargo said.
  
• “In recent years, the city appears to have become overly dependant on tax revenues from development in Natomas.” -Inside East Sacramento, May 2008
• “We do have a lot of immigrants..” -Fargo’s explanation of Sac’s soaring crime rate. Ed note: I think she was referring to local government, and meant to say, “We have a lot of ignorants..”
  
• “My sense is that we are tracking at about the same pace as other cities, that’s what I have been told by the police department.” Fargo’s official response when asked what she knows about crime in Sacramento. Ed. note: What police department was she talking to?
  
• “That is STUPID…Public safety has been an issue that I have taken on since I was a council member” -Fargo’s response to Kevin Johnson’s assertion that she is out of touch with crime severity in Sacramento.
• “Running a city is more like doing your math homework than playing basketball..” -Fargo
  
• “Spending was consistent with revenue” - Heather Fargo explaining how the city came up $58 million in the red.
• “People are currently focused on disaster and flood preparation, … They are focused in a way that I think we need to use to help them be prepared.” -Fuzzy Fargo drivel about the dire levee situation. Ed. note: I have not received a single official word from the City about disaster preparation.
  
• “With new urban plazas and residences, with new shops, with offices it’s going to be wonderful and today kind of like a dream come true” -Fargo dreaming about transforming Sac into Portland
• “Fargo says she is an expert at connecting people, but the only things I have observed her connecting successfully are trans-continental flights.” - js

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Light Bulbs or Dim Bulb?
Fargo missed 135 days of work and 16 city council meetings in the past two years not ill, but TRAVELING! Guess what her environmental recommendations were in her State of the Downtown address on greening the city after traveling 124,000 miles over two years in search of smog killing solutions? I quote Bee Article “Fargo advised citizens to walk more and get rid of incandescent light bulbs.” Doh! Graham Brownstein, executive director of the Environmental Council of Sacramento said, “She seemed so completely detached about the reality of the scope of challenges we face with global warming, that it was almost beyond comprehension. That’s all she learned from those conferences? Light bulbs?”

Flip-Flopper or Schizophrenic?
Our esteemed mayor has a degree in Environmental Planning and Management, yet she cites her greatest mayoral accomplishment as adding 5.5 MILLION SQUARE FEET of brick, mortar and stucco to the Sacramento landscape.

State of Natomas - The REAL State of Natomas Address
Here’s the state of Natomas: plagued by excessive crime, too much section 8 housing, too many warehouses in the middle of town, high school in the middle of town and loitering kids roaming strip mall and parking lot with never any cops around, 80-100mph motorcycles racing up and down Del Paso Rd., nothing for kids to do, Fargo and council will not support a rec center, parks left unfinished, weeds all over the place, abandoned housing projects like the Natomas Meadows now board’d up and surrounded by chain link fence in the middle of town, no pedestrian walk ways, not enough bike access…..

Why Sac Crime is on the Rise
Blaming the real estate debacle for the up-tick in violent crime is a slippery slope with little merit. Crime has been increasing steadily in the area for a decade (long before the housing market crash). In Sac alone crime has increased 50% since Heather Fargo took office 8 yrs ago. She attributes the city’s heavy crime to the fact that we “have a lot of immigrants,” but experts would not agree with that discriminatory “logic” either. Furthermore, in spite of the economy’s twists and turns, Los Angeles crime has declined for about a decade now, as has Fresno and other cites. So why is Sac area crime on the rise? Many believe it is because our city leaders have focused our resources (human and capital) on development instead of infrastructure (which includes public safety). In other words, public safety has been deprioritized in recent years. Now more than ever, we need to shift our collective focus from development back to public safety. We need new leaders to do that. -joesacramento.com