{"id":161,"date":"2014-08-12T17:10:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T00:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2014-08-12T22:05:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T05:05:08","slug":"patrick-furey-lambasts-former-mayor-scotto-and-councilmember-sutherland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Furey Lambasts Former Mayor Scotto and Councilmember Sutherland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"p<\/a>Patrick Furey, the Current Vice-Chair of the Traffic Commission and son of Mayor Furey, expressed his displeasure with former Mayor Scotto and Councilmember Sutherland in remarks appearing on his public Facebook page.\u00a0 In those remarks, Furey claimed the pair suffered from sour grapes and that they were no longer considered his friends.\u00a0 His statement in full reads, \u201cSour grapes. Attacking the wonderful city employees that make Torrance such a great place to live. Attacking the working class. Honestly embarrassing – especially the remarks of two people I used to consider friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Scotto and Sutherland expressed concern in a recent Daily Breeze article about an agreement that was reached between the City and the Union representing approximately 500 City employees.\u00a0 According to the Staff Report, the agreement includes a $261K one time pay-out to Union members for back pay.\u00a0 The agreement also includes an accelerated pay increase on the back end of the deal in the amount of $185K.<\/p>\n

Scotto equated the payments to a signing bonus and commented that it was an indication that the \u201cunions are going to be running the show\u201d under the Furey administration.\u00a0 Sutherland claimed that the Union was trying to get more with the new Council and that they got it.\u00a0 He was also quoted as stating that the \u201cUnions have all the power.\u00a0 They did a lot of work to get these people elected and they put in a lot of money, a lot of effort.\u00a0 I hate to say it, but it paid off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patrick Furey was also critical of the local paper and author Nick Green.\u00a0 His remarks included the statement that the \u201cDaily Breeze is going belly up. Readership is down 50% from 2010. Bad writing, creating news rather than reporting it, extreme views that are out of touch. It’s no wonder whatever candidate they endorse tends to lose.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Daily Breeze had endorsed Tom Brewer for mayor in the past election and has printed several stories targeting the campaign tactics of Patrick in his role as the Campaign Manager for his father\u2019s successful mayoral bid.<\/p>\n

Mayor Furey has not publically commented on the Daily Breeze article.\u00a0 It should be fascinating to hear what he has to say about the subject, if anything, at the Council meeting tonight where the union agreement will be a hot topic along with an appointment to fill Furey\u2019s unexpired council term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patrick Furey, the Current Vice-Chair of the Traffic Commission and son of Mayor Furey, expressed his displeasure with former Mayor Scotto and Councilmember Sutherland in remarks appearing on his public Facebook page.\u00a0 In those remarks, Furey claimed the pair suffered from sour grapes and that they were no longer considered his friends.\u00a0 His statement in full reads, \u201cSour grapes. Attacking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WeYo-2B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}