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9/18/17 – Political discourse in the City of Banning has just reached an all new low. Critics of Banning councilwoman Debbie Franklin must now be concerned that they are dragged into court and sued for criticizing her, because it may make her feel “threatened”. Be forewarned, this draconian sociopath will play the “victim” card if you challenge her. Just ask Banning citizen and Planning Commissioner David Ellis.

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FRANKLIN ABUSES COURT SYSTEM FOR HER PERSONAL VENDETTA AGAINST OUTSPOKEN CRITIC

As a long term critic of Franklin, David Ellis has repeatedly exposed Franklin for her countless misdeeds. Among those were Franklin being blamed for causing a death because she failed to obtain proper permits for a party she held in a City owned building (see story). Ellis also publicly criticized Franklin for running bogus, unregistered charities which caused the FBI to pay her a visit, and for lying about a conversation she said she had with a Caltrans director, when in fact that conversation never took place (see video).

At city council meetings, Ellis also publicly exposed Franklin’s casual attitude about practically bankrupting the Banning water utility by recklessly spending $ 17M on a police station, and her approval of a $ 200,000 employee gym charged to the electric ratepayers, all the while being fully aware the next rate hike is right around the corner.

Franklin also came under fire from Ellis for being funded by wealthy developers. Ellis accused Franklin of allowing these developers to overturn the General Plan, so they can inundate Banning with “stack and pack” high density housing.

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LYING DEBBIE FRANKLIN PULLS THE “VICTIM CARD”, BUT THE JUDGE DOES NOT BUY IT

We all know Banning is a small city. Ellis lives less than a mile from Franklin and drives by her house daily when he takes his grand children to daycare. One day he noticed that Franklin had not one, but two brand new cars sitting in her driveway. This made him wonder how she could possibly afford such an expense.

So Ellis decided to stop and take a closer look, not realizing that Franklin sat in one of her new cars. There was no altercation of any kind and Ellis left shortly thereafter. The incident, however, was a welcome opportunity for Franklin to play the “victim card” and file for a Restraining Order against her long term critic David Ellis.

In order to substantiate her case, Franklin used examples of Ellis’ political speech at City council meetings as evidence of “harassment”. Franklin also made the claim that Police Chief Alex Diaz involved himself in a City Hall parking lot incident, however, Diaz was unable to recall any such occurrence. For more details on Franklin’s fabricated claims click here, for Ellis’ response click here.

Unfortunately for Franklin, the judge did not buy even a single one of her claims. Neither David Ellis, nor his attorney, had to say a single word in their defense. At the beginning, when Franklin tried to introduce testimony about her “background”, the judge immediately dismissed it as irrelevant.

Franklin then spent another 5 minutes inconclusively testifying about “feeling threatened” by Ellis, but was unable to identify a specific threat that Ellis had allegedly made against her.

At that point the judge had heard enough and entered a ruling in Ellis’ favor. While doing so, the judge specifically found that David Ellis did not break any laws. In essence, the judge’s ruling declared Franklin’s entire “case” to be inconclusive, and therewith bogus from the get go.

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PURE TYRANNY :  “COMMISSAR” FRANKLIN ORDERS DETENTION OF DISSIDENT AT WRCOG MEETING

In 2017 Debbie Franklin took over the chair of WRCOG, the Western Riverside Council Of Governments. To understand the structure of WRCOG, one needs to understand history. WRCOG is an unelected, undemocratic government body which was modeled after the communist “Commissar” system of the former Soviet Union, (click here to learn more about the Soviet Union’s “Council of People’s Commissars”).

Just like these Soviet “Commissars”, WRCOG board members each represent a different region. Also like their Soviet counterparts, all members are appointed, yet make policy decisions that affect everyone.

These appointees have no mandate from the voters to participate in WRCOG, which makes the organization unconstitutional. Participating in an unelected and therefore authoritarian government body not only violates a participants’ oath of office, but may even cross the line of committing treason against the Republic.

But of course constitutional issues like these would never enter Debbie Franklin’s mind – not only is she much too pea-brained for such thoughts, but – more importantly – too obsessed with holding raw, unchecked power that is outside of the control of voters.

So when she recently presided over the August WRCOG meeting, ”Commissar” Franklin had a political dissident detained. She did so in retaliation, because the dissident complained about WRCOG’s draconian policy, which allows members of the public to comment for only 2 minutes. We all know that nobody can make a coherent point in just two minutes, which is why speakers in Banning are allowed to speak for a much more reasonable 5 minutes.

Instead of feeling sympathetic towards the public and supporting a much needed policy review in respect to speaker times, “Commissar” Franklin immediately ordered the detention and removal of the dissident.

Please watch for yourself :

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CONCLUSION

Debbie Franklin has unmasked herself as a draconian tyrant. She has run completely amok and has all the markings of an oppressive dictator. She persecutes her political enemies and has political dissenters detained.

This appalling sociopath is on an enormous power trip. She won’t stop at anything to stifle public discourse and crush anyone who dares to call her out.

As Thomas Jefferson once said : “When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”

How much longer will we allow Debbie Franklin to torment us ?

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