Vince Hernandez Has No Ideas For Manteca

The race is on and already we are getting more than an ear full of what the current city council incumbents will continue to do for our city and that's more of the same.  The only ideas they now have are 'how do we spin this in such a way that we appear different in our ideas?'

I'm not convinced and neither are the citizens of Manteca.  Vince ran a campaign on 'Heal our City'.  He now runs a campaign on 'Keep our Manteca Pride.'  What pride?  Let's see what we can come up with the pride.

Vince Hernandez is proud of:

1.  The highest taxes in the county more than any other city.

2.  Too many empty new office and business and retail spaces and he wants more of them.

3.  Proud that he got an expensive lighted covered port costing hundreds of thousands of dollars that could have went to the city police department for public safety.

4.  Proud of the fact that our city streets are so full of holes, and so is our budget and financial accounts from reckless spending.

5.  Wants to allow the owners of downtown to make the decisions for how to spend out tax dollars on their properties and not the voters such as how Anderson and Behling want to do.

6.  Continues to allow Lathrop to use our city animal shelter when they should build their own.

7.  Has no clue on public safety and how it operates.

8.  Believes that having a surplus of office space and buildings and waiting it out hoping for an economic recovery.  This is actually helping the recovery of the developers that give money into his campaign.

Clearly we have no ideas here.  It's all more of the same and we can't afford to have more of this.  We need new ideas on the board and we need new blood to usher it in.  John Harris and Vince Hernandez no longer are effective in Manteca and should be voted out of office.  Our economy and position is not good and our taxes are too high and money is recklessly being spent with no regard to the citizens.

Mayoral Candidate Ben Cantu Attacks Councilwoman Debby Moorhead

It's no secret!  The political attacks are now a reality in the race for Mayor of Manteca.  Here's the clincher I found out about the Manteca Bulletin having mentioned that Samuel Anderson is the one that takes it to the floor like an ultimate fighter.  But first, here's a little something from Dennis Wyatt in his first sentence of this article: "Get ready for one of the most polite - and possibly closest - races for mayor Manteca has ever seen."

Dennis Wyatt continues to say, "Regardless of how the race is handicapped at this stage, one thing is for sure: This will be a race involving manners and not throat cutting although Anderson has a reputation for being more than strident."  You can read it all right here. 

"Weatherford, Cantu, and Moorhead are all sincere when they say they respect each other. In fact, they are all members of the same service club - the Manteca Noon Kiwanis. They have disagreed in the past without wielding an ax to bury in the other guy’s back. In other words, they are cordial and don’t throw a fit when they don’t get their way nor do they resort to personal attacks."

Is that so, Dennis?  Really?  Are you SURE???

Huh, well...let's see what we have here.  Could it be, oh, yes, yes, that's who he is...Ben Cantu!  What?  A political ad in the Big Bopper Shopper?  Yes, you can view it here.  Better yet, let me show you the ad.

Wow!  This is really amazing!  What was it that Dennis Wyatt said about 'Weatherford, Cantu, and Moorhead'?  Oh, yes...they "respect each other."  And let's not forget they are all members of the Kiwanis.  Oh, and they don't wield an ax in each others back.  Really?  "Nor do they result to personal attacks."

What does this ad say?  Well, it says "Ms. Moorhead" two times in the same paragraph.  She has "fallen in line", and is lacking...in safety, leadership, focus, response, being fiscal and has NO CULTURE.  Could it be he's pissed off about her running for mayor?  Who cares!  Debby is running because it's going to give Willie the advantage of splitting the votes.

So, Dennis Wyatt says that Samuel Anderson needs to tone it down, keep it straight and ethical and "Regardless of how the race is handicapped at this stage, one thing is for sure: This will be a race involving manners and not throat cutting."  Dennis goes on to say, "Cantu has been shaping up as a formidable candidate as he has been running a low-key campaign."  LMAO!!!

"There is one thing that can totally upset the apple cart of anyone’s version of conventional wisdom and that’s Samuel Anderson."  I agree!  Either way, his running in the race to be on the council is a good decision this year.  I think he'll get it.  He has my vote.  

KEEP RUNNING THOSE ADS BEN...AND DEBBY, YOU NEED TO FIGHT BACK...COME ON, SHOW YOUR LOVE, CUT HIS THROAT!

Manteca Bulletin Playing Tricks Again by Favoring Special Candidates

It's no secret that Dennis Wyatt has used the position he holds as Managing Editor of the Manteca Bulletin to push his agenda or more specifically, his favorites for city council.

Every time there is an election the Manteca Bulletin starts granting more coverage to the candidates that are either the incumbents or those belonging to the good'ole boys club, more specifically, Kiwanis.

Dennis Wyatt stated in a June 26 article that he is giving a space to candidates in order to explain their platforms.  We have yet to see Dennis follow through.

Dennis quotes: "That is what is prompting an ongoing series that starts on today’s front page of having candidates discuss specific issues.

The first subject matter was at the suggestion of Manteca mayor candidate Ben Cantu who wanted to share his ideas about what he believes needs to be done downtown.

That led to a decision to invite all candidates to share their thoughts as to what they would try to do - or wouldn’t do - with specific issues if they are elected in November."

So far, he has given Ben Cantu, Willie Weatherford and Debby Moorhead in three consequtive articles a chance to speak about 'downtown'.

Then Dennis says: "So far we’ve made contact with three of the five mayor candidates to listen to their visions and plans for downtown and have messages into the other two. They will not necessarily run altogether or consecutively. The same offer will be extended to council candidates as well."

This has not happened.  In fact, after contacting Samuel Anderson and Richard Behling, they say no contact has been made to them.  Mr. Anderson stated that once he heard about this article, he contacted the MB just to make sure they had his information updated.  However, no contact has been made yet.

This is an outright lie and it appears that Dennis Wyatt hopes this will go away.  I'm going to make sure the truth is going to be put out front because we have not heard from Anderson, Behling or Perry on this topic.  Dennis is playing favorites again and this is a shame.  The citizens of Manteca deserve better and he should not be printing material that is a lie when in fact he did not contact these candidates regarding this topic.