Ignatius - Rod Sinks and Geoff Paulsen Should Resign Since They Have Lost People's Trust

From: Ignatius Y. Ding
Date: Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 9:17 PM
Subject: Copy of Oral Communication Presented at the Council Meeting Tonight
To: Grace Schmidt CMC (City Clerk) <graces@cupertino.org>
Cc: Cupertino City-Council <citycouncil@cupertino.org>, Acting City Attorney Rocio Fierro <RocioF@cupertino.org>, Amy Chan (Acting) <manager@cupertino.org>

Ignatius Y. Ding, 41-year resident of Cupertino (5-min. Presentation)

Tonight, I am delivering a message from a group of 24 individuals here with me tonight:
We are here because, as you know, during the referendum signing period, Council man Rod Sinks & Planning Commissioner Geoff Paulsen authorized a message be distributed on a Sand Hill door hanger.

Without the proper disclosure (that is for identification purposes only), anyone reading it would assume that it was from the City Council directly. That amounts to abuse of power.

In addition to the authorizing developer’s deceptive campaign, both of you also authorized its
distribution and that distribution was done by paid thugs/disrupters. They were antagonistic and
demeaning.

They slandered and insulted our volunteers. They jeered at our residents. One of them made fun his Chinese accent, mocked when he started shaking, there were also incidents of body shaming two of the female residents. Some were bullied, publicly humiliated, intimidated, and physically harassed by shadowing too closely. Some were surrounded without a way out. You will hear from a few tonight.

We have witnesses and videos to prove if need be. We had to endure the constant bullying for 3 weeks in order to exercise our legal right to referendum. We hold you both personally responsible for its distributed and therefore their bullying.

Your authorization and approval of this type of activity from a Council member and from the Chair of our Planning Commission is an utter disgrace to the city of Cupertino.

The Sheriff told us he would report the incident to City Council and ordinance. I have no reason to believe he did not.
**In addition to that, we have this e-mail between you and Peter Pau (e.g. one dated 10/19/14)

The other item, that we’d like to bring to your attention, is the “tort claim” from Mr. Randy Hom -- where he accused you of wrongful termination because he’s voiced his disagreement with SB 35 as compliant. (Show the “Government Tort Claim” here)

Rod Sinks refused to establish objective standards on the Vallco parcels, resulting in the terrible SB-35 plan by Sand Hill Property.

Rod Sinks tried to eliminate the Library Commission at the request of Sand Hill Property who did not want a Better Cupertino participant on the Commission. He also tried to eliminate the Public Safety Commission.

Because of these offenses, the breath of public trust and your continuing collusion with the developer to orchestrate the suppression of the constitutional rights of the residents to submit Referendum petition to place the Vallco project for a public vote --- thereby you both have violate your oath to
= support and uphold the constitutions of California and the United States of America, we, the people, can't trust you. We formally request your resignation.

A (former) mayor, like Rod Sinks, needs to be an ethical, honest, leader. Even though the mayor doesn't really have any more power than any other council member, he or she is the spokesperson for the City. The rotation is not set in stone. Barry Chang was once denied the mayor position despite it being his turn because of his behavior.