Tag: Dan Brotman

This featured image is from a 2024 City Council meeting. Recently a 2026 candidate forum was added to the Glendale City Clerk’s website which contained illegal description that many recognized as favoritism for a political faction. City Clerk, Suzie Abajian was admonished for this at the April, 14, 2026 City…

Glendale Councilmember, Dan Brotman, posted a video on Instagram and introduced the subject of Verdugo Wash concerns with his best Mr. Rogers imitation. “Hi, my name is Dan Brotman. And this is Mr. Bonsai.” With some relaxing music in the background (to put us in a ‘mellow mood’) he let’s…

At the March 31, 2026 City Council meeting, Susan Wolfson called out Dan Brotman for his misogynistic and inflammatory comments at the “No Kings” rally in Glendale (linked below). Brotman was unable to resist shooting back at Wolfson, using a lie of omission in his cheap attempt to humiliate her…

Glendale Council member, Dan Brotman, and his commission appointee sidekick, Alek Bartrosouf, often try to portray themselves as running “grassroots” campaigns. Unfortunately, this catchphrase has become nothing more than a political sales pitch easily debunked by the politicians’ own social media. By definition: A grassroots movement is a social or…

A tipster using an email dedicated EXCLUSIVELY for making Public Record Requests to the City Clerk’s office has informed us that their email address was shared with City Council candidate, Alek Bartrosouf.The individual was shocked when they received an unsolicited campaign email at the email address from Alek Bartrosouf, with…

Glendale City Council member, Dan Brotman suffered more fallout over his manipulative and abuse campaign misinformation speech given at the “No Kings” rally last weekend. At the March 31, 2026, Glendale City Council meeting several public speakers made comments about his offensive rhetoric toward election candidate competitors which included inappropriate…

Dan Brotman is doubling down on his disrespect for women for the cause of his political slate. At the March 31, 2026 Glendale City Council meeting, Susan Wolfson addressed the council about Dan Brotman’s ugly comments belittling candidate Beth Brooks days earlier at “No Kings” rally at City Hall. Brotman…

After a poor performance at Thursday’s Northwest Glendale Homeowners Association City Council Candidate Forum, an angry Dan Brotman lashed out at his candidate competition with a string of name calling. Brotman, who praised identity politics in his “No Kings” rally speech, failed to see the irony as he belittled a…

Every Glendale voter who opposes the HIGH-density housing bill SB 79, should reject Elen Asatryan and Dan Brotman in the June 2, 2026 Glendale municipal election. Each supports SB 79. The attached image is Brotman and Asatryan pictured with California State Senator Sasha Renée Pérez who was among those who…

Below is a letter to City Council regarding the timeline and cost to restore Glendale’s Brand Blvd. after a 4-1 decision was made to restore a poorly planned and ill-conceived bike lane project. The project, brought to City Council by councilmember Dan Brotman, has already cost the city $1.4 million….

The nomination period for the upcoming June 7, 2022 Glendale Municipal Election is open from February 14 to March 11, 2022 at 5:00 PM. During the nomination period, we will be watching Glendale’s list of candidates who pull papers to run for office, as well as updating those whose papers…

At this time several campaign committees have been created for our next Glendale election. Four are for City Council, and one if for College Board Area 4. They are: Anita Quinonez Gabrielian for Glendale City Council 2022Ara Najarian for City Council 2022Brotman for City Council 2022Davis for College Board Area…

Glendale City Council August 24, 2021 Action Items: a. Community Development, re: Introduction of an Ordinance to Revoke and Reinstate Title 5 of the Glendale Municipal Code to Update Business Regulations and Business License Procedures — Council voted unanimously to clean up it’s business license code. It includes a streamlined…

Mr. Mohill, In recent months you’ve published several of my comments in your newsletter. I would appreciate if you make clear to your readers your practice of copying my comments from the Nextdoor social media platform. You tend to represent comments made on social media as having been sent to…

For the second straight week since the street racing collision that claimed three innocent lives in Burbank on August 3, 2021 occurred, the subject of reckless driving and street racing came up at Glendale City Council on August 17, 2021. Many who drive on Glenoaks Blvd. in Glendale (and Burbank)…

At the February 16, 2021 City Council Meeting, Councilmember Dan Brotman made comments directly to the viewing public regarding motives behind the ‘Winegate’ fiasco orchestrated by Ara Najarian. This video includes his statement directed to the citizens of Glendale. Mr. Brotman informs us that some with commercial developer interests are…

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This is a clip of the full second motion of ‘winegate,’ where Ara Najarian walks the thin line between defaming someone and defamation, at the February 16, 2021 City Council meeting. Council rejected it in a 2 abstain (Brotman, Devine): 1 no (Kassakhian): 2 yes (Najarian, Agajanian) vote. Mr. Najarian…

Outlook Newspapers’ Glendale News-Press had especially good coverage of Ara Najarian’s failed over-reactive attempt to to create a scandal designed to impair the Design Review Board. Recall that Ara Najarian made a point of mentioning (threatening) media coverage at the City Council meeting. “More than two hours of discussing what…

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