Campaign ’24 Fact Check: $12 Million Budget Deficit is Not "Financial Solvency"

Campaign ’24 Fact Check:

Mayor Welch’s Campaign Lie Hides 

Huge Deficit 

She Replaces Budget Hole Reality with 

Personal Fiscal Acumen Fiction

Telling voters she's "fighting for the people", we're left wondering what people the Mayor is talking about?  

Take a look at any of the expensive election flyers hitting your mailbox from Mayor Courtney Welch and your take away will be that she’s personally responsible for and a capable financial steward of the people’s money at City Hall.  What she’s not telling us this election season is Emeryville is in dire fiscal straights, saddled with a $12 million budget deficit this year, the worst in Emeryville history.  Mum's the word on this now but we think it will be quietly announced after the election. 

City Hall’s financial problem is walloping and growing.  The deficit, at $12 million, amounts to almost $1000 in red ink for every Emeryville resident.  Not only does the Mayor hide the sea of red ink from voters, she flips the script:  “Mayor Welch has a proven track record of delivering results for Emeryville families” , she says in her campaign flyers.  And then she lists as her top achievement that she is “Maintaining a financially solvent city”.

Never mind that the Mayor is pandering to a fake demographic, families (of which Emeryville has the lowest percentage of any city in the East Bay), the bragging about her financial acumen against a massive deficit done on her watch, is Orwellian manipulation meant to deceive the voters.  This is a lie.

From a Courtney Welch Mailed Campaign Flyer
Our hornswoggling Mayor tells voters how great a job she has done with the budget.

The Tattler gives this a 
"Pants on Fire".

Campaign '24 Fact Check: It's Not Possible to Re-Elect Sukhdeep Kaur

Campaign '24 Fact Check:

How Can She Be "Re-Elected" when Sukhdeep Kaur Was Not Elected In The First Place?

It's all over her campaign website.  Council member Sukhdeep Kaur wants Emeryville voters to "re-elect" her.  But how can we re-elect her when she never won an election in the first place?  Council member Kaur just made that up.  Perhaps it makes her seem more than what she is.  Maybe that's why she is telling us this fib.  

We'll never know why she is spreading this disinformation because Council member Kaur doesn't believe in answering questions from her constituents.  She likes the perks of being an elected official but she doesn't like the accountability part.  That's a thing now in Emeryville.  Starting with John Bauters and now Courtney Welch and Sukhdeep too.  They're not accountable to the people.  Council member Kaur likes to imagine that she was elected by the people of Emeryville but she doesn't want to be accountable to the people of Emeryville.

Sukhdeep Kaur is running for election to the City Council, not re-election.  For the record, the actual fact is Ms Kaur was appointed to the Emeryville City Council in February 2023 by then Mayor Bauters.  She replaced Ally Medina who quit her position in December 2022 before her term was finished.  Sukhdeep Kaur did run for election to the City Council in November 2022 and SHE LOST.  Ms Kaur came in fourth out of five candidates running for two seats.

Council member Kaur: Stop misinforming the people of Emeryville.
You were never elected to the Emeryville City Council, got it?

The Tattler gives this a
'Pants on Fire'