City Gadfly Getting More Attention: What Do You Think?

Barry Allen, who publishes a weekly newsletter and website called Vanguardians, may have played a role in the still-unraveling investigation of John Drayman’s . Allen filed a complaint with the city months ago, and has continued to speak out against Drayman and the city's reported misuse of funds that were intended to build affordable housing developments in Glendale. The FBI is

Glendale News-Press columnist Ron Kaye dedicated an entire column to Allen and a recent Vanguardian meeting on Sunday.

“At a time when so few people are really informed, the news media is declining and government too often does the public business in private, the gadflies who haunt City Council meetings and demand information from officials have an important role to play,” wrote Kaye.

“Their 'facts' don’t always stand up to scrutiny and they tend to leap to conclusions that support their dark vision of government.

“But if you’re sitting on the sidelines and hardly paying attention while services are being cut and fees are rising in these hard times, know you have left your city in the hands of people elected by a few thousand votes and to a handful of 'little guys' to hold them accountable," wrote Kaye.

This is Kaye’s opinion. But, what do you think?