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."
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.
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