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Councilman Fulton to seek re-election
Ventura incumbent announces early to begin his fundraising campaign
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Ventura Councilman Bill Fulton announced Thursday that he will seek re-election this fall, saying he would continue to push for new businesses, additional public safety and a "greener" community.
Although the candidate-nomination period for the Nov. 6 council election doesn't open until July 16, Fulton said he wanted to get an early start raising money and support a strategy that worked for him in 2003.
"We've accomplished a lot, but there is a great deal more to do," the author and urban planning analyst said on his Internet blog, where he unveiled his intentions. "We have begun to raise the bar' in every area of life in Ventura but we are not done."
Fulton and fellow incumbent Christy Weir have filed notices with the City Clerk's Office allowing their campaigns to start collecting money. Weir, however, has not publicly stated she will run for a second four-year term.
The third incumbent up for re-election, Mayor Carl Morehouse, has not filed a notice and remains undecided.
Three others have expressed interest: perennial candidate and government watchdog Brian Lee Rencher, local attorney A. Kimble Ouerbacker III and Lou Cunningham, director of facilities of the Oxnard Union High School District, who chairs Ventura's Mobile Home Rent Review Board.
Candidates must be Ventura residents and registered voters, and submit signatures of at least 20 other registered voters to qualify for the ballot. The filing period runs from July 16 to Aug. 10.
Fulton said that in 2003, he announced his candidacy six months early, which helped him raise nearly $30,000.
For his platform this year, Fulton said additional public safety personnel are needed and new tax revenues should be generated through new business. He wants the city to become more "green," or environmentally progressive, including reducing toxins in stormwater runoff flowing into the ocean.
Fulton is president of Solimar Research Group, a Ventura-based urban-planning research and publishing firm, and a senior scholar at the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at USC.
Posted by siberiantrio on June 1, 2007 at 9:52 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Please, please, please do NOT re-elect Bill Fulton. This man has nothing but his own personal agenda for Ventura. Review his blog somtime. He's nothing but a narcissitic moron. This man is an author, not a politican, and has no place making decisions for the city of Ventura. Keep in mind Bill Fulton is backing 100% the Hertel-Cabrillo housing developments being established on the East Side of the city, (and the Victoria Avenue Corridor Plan), which has brought nothing but HUGE displeasure from the community.
And I certainly hope Christy Weir does not campaign for re-election. She has little to no experience what-so-ever. Does anyone happen to remember the newspaper article sometime ago where a developer, for some years, was trying to get approval for 50-something condominiums on the East side of Ventura? Christy Weir pitched a fit, (yes this is what she did), stating the lots where too small and needed revision. I didn't know the Deputy Mayor was an architect!? Wait...she's not. She was the only councilmember that had an issue with this developer's proposal.
Neither of these people have deserved, nor earned, their place on the City Council. Please do Ventura a favor and get them out now, before they come up with some other bass-ackwards plan.
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