The recall effort against Poway City Councilwoman Betty Rexford is gaining significant momentum. Most anyone who knows or hears of the Betty shenanigans is quite incensed that an elected official would use the power of office to push the city into going after her neighbors.
But, new information makes some of that seem to pale in comparison. The latest just received from recall organizer Steve Vaus…
During the 2003 Cedar Fire Betty Rexford had her own personal fire protection, Courtesy of Poway Fire Dept.
The deeper I dig into the hundreds and hundreds of pages of sworn testimony in the Betty Rexford case, the uglier it gets.
But my most recent discovery takes the cake – according to sworn testimony in the recently settled Federal lawsuit against Betty Rexford and the City of Poway . . .
during the 2003 Cedar Fire, though fire equipment and personnel were spread thin as wildfires raged from the San Bernardino area south to San Diego – and despite the fact that according to published reports Poway Fire Chief Mark Sanchez was left with only 15 firefighters to protect the city’s 49,000 residents – somehow the city was able to spare a fire truck and crew to sit in front of the home of City Councilmember Betty Rexford.
According to the testimony given under oath, the firefighters said they were only there because their boss said they had to be there – and the firefighters weren’t happy about it. The sworn testimony is contained in the deposition of Rexford’s longtime neighbor Robert Heimpel. You can read that testimony here.
Of course, Rexford and the City of Poway recently settled a lawsuit that accused Rexford of abusing her power as a City Councilmember by pressuring city employees to delay and/or deny her neighbors’ attempts to build homes. The settlement cost the taxpayers of Poway over $495,000.00
It was bad enough that her behavior with the neighbors cost the city nearly half a million dollars. Then she refused the unprecedented and unanimous request for her resignation by her fellow councilmembers. Now, we learn that one of the special privileges Rexford enjoyed as an elected representative in Poway was personal fire protection while the nearby homes of hundreds of families less privileged than her, burned to the ground. The thread, through all of this, is that Betty Rexford’s sense of entitlement and arrogance is breathtaking. Every single day, with every new stone I turn over in this mess, I become more convinced she needs to go.
Please use the link at the bottom of this email to forward this information to your Poway friends and neighbors. Encourage them to visit RecallRexford and use the link on that site (in the lower right) to tell Betty how they feel and demand her immediate resignation.
Meanwhile, don’t ever hesitate to contact me if you have any ideas, information or questions.
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It’s safe to say that more than a few of her neighbors — like maybe the entire city — might be tad upset to know that fire services were diminished in the areas where they were most needed, so as to ensure the protection of Rexford’s home. Apalling, utterly.