He’s Baaack
Who says “nobody” reads the FFFF blog? Well, they do in City Hall, obviously.
It turns out that “Dr.” Ahmad Zahra’s campaign committee maybe wasn’t terminated after all. It’s now back on the active list on the City Clerk’s website! Looks like the “new crew” did another oopsy.
And that’s terrific news for those of us who were looking forward to next year’s Fullerton City Council election in District 5.
See, Mr. Zahra faces all sorts of challenges of his own creation, and he has voluntarily made enemies where he ought not to have. Here’s a partial list of Zahra’s transgressions – stuff that his blind followers love to ignore, but issues that may resonate with the electorate at large.
- In the 1990s gay immigrant Zahra committed marriage fraud by marrying an American woman (a federal felony), so he could stay in the United States and pave the way for eventual citizenship.
- In 2020 Zahra was charged with assault and battery and vandalism against a woman, “M. Farias.” He claimed exoneration, which was a lie. He has shown no evidence.
- In 2020 and 2021 Zahra committed plagiarism by taking articles written by somebody else and having them published in the Fullerton Observer under his own name.
- In October of 2022 Zahra filed a false police report to the FPD claiming that his colleague, Fred Jung assaulted him (or some such thing). The report was rejected.
- In 2020 Zahra tried to raise taxes on his “underserved” peeps during the Covid pandemic.
- When he was first elected in 2019 he proclaimed the need for an election to fill the vacancy left by Jesus Quirk-Silva; a month later he voted to appoint the execrable Jan Flory in exchange for a well-paying appointment to the Orange County Water District, his only identified source of income.
- In 2022, Zahra and the OC Democrat party created a phony Latino candidate, Tony Castro, to draw votes away from his Latino opponent.
- Zahra is currently being investigated by the California Fair Political Practices Commission for numerous violations of campaign rules regarding unreported campaign payments that may have been illegal payments…to himself.
- In 2021 Zahra tried to convert the UP Park into a private, for profit event center, an illegal move that would have landed the City in multiple lawsuits.
- Zahra voted to pursue the disastrous lawsuit against David Curlee, Joshua Ferguson, and FFFF that cost the City the better part of a million bucks.
- Etc., etc., etc.
If he stays in the race, Zahra would go up against Oscar Valadez, the guy who would have beat him last time around, except for Castro, and who’s returning to the fray in 2026. Then there’s his biggest antagonist, Tony Bushala, who seems to want to make it his business to rid the city of this con artist. Mr. Bushala has the means and the motive to do so.
In 2022 Zahra spent well over $100,000 to squeak out a tainted victory. Right now he has less than six grand in his committee account. While we may expect the OC Dems to enlist another candidate to draw votes from Zahra opponents (the Scott Marowitz Experience may frighten them off), it’s hard to see a path forward for the disingenuous doctor from Damascus.
Thank you, God!
All bullshit smears and nothing about governance except… tax raises? Haha
Jung, Dunlap, Whitaker, and now Valencia. A majority for 5 years. Why is your majority unable to fix their budget or our roads? Maybe that’s the question you should be asking
Why didn’t Zahra fix the budget and roads while he was in office, moron?
Smears? So you deny any of this happened? Really?
I guess Dr. Zod will have to spend another $100,000 to just to lose his $800 a month job.
Either that or dig up another Tony Castro. Wait. Make that three Tony Castros.
Exactly. All the crimes and malfeasance and misfeasance on this list have been well documented.
Maybe because they were stuck with horrible budget crises created by “The Budget is Balanced” Fitzflory, Quirk-Silva, and of course, Zahra himself.
So you are sayin the gay Zahra DIDN’T marry a woman in Arkansas?
“We liked each other but it didn’t work out.”
Haha. Is right.
JRH to enter the chat and reprimand anyone who questions how Z became a citizen in 3…2…1
“Because the govt doesn’t have a problem with it.”
The cops didn’t know the guy was a bank robber, so they had no problem with him.
This blog is saying he committed a felony but also not mentioning the fact that he went through their process, was never accused or convicted of a felony and in fact was instead granted citizenship.
He went though “their process” based on a phony marriage to a…woman.
Therefore his citizenship was based on a felony.
Lots of people are never caught committing crimes. Does that make them innocent? Jesus H., you are one dumbass.
I robbed a bank but was never caught. Therefore I am not a bank robber!
QED
A process where an agent would be expected to question the circumstances of his citizenship application. Possible sham marriages are regularly scrutinized.
But you know better because? Because you want something on Zahra for political reasons. You have no information that an immigration official wouldn’t have had at the time other than him coming out as gay. Which doesn’t prove shit.
Oh gee.
It’s obvious the “process” failed. That doesn’t make Zahra innocent, does it?
“I’ve always known I was gay” Zahra married a hard-luck woman (in Arkansas!) then departed for California leaving his new bride in Arkansas with whatever money he paid her off with to commit a crime.
And I’ll bet she did it more than once.
You’re a fool. But we’ll see what the voters think.
He’s a citizen. Short of you dickheads getting it revoked given a crime you cannot prove because of evidence you do not have anday not exist, you should shut the fuck up and respect the process.
Haha. Poor Hooger is all agitated! We all know what he did. So will D5 voters.
Maybe ICE will scoop up this turd and mail it back to Syria.
Here’s an idea. Let’s let a real prosecutor ask Zahra about his history. If he’s telling the truth, the truth shall set him free.
Hey jackhole! Just because Ahmad went through “a process” doesn’t mean he didn’t commit a crime. It just means he did what he had to do to avoid criminal prosecution. Basically, he said “uncle” to Johnny Law and did community service.
It doesn’t mean he did either. You’re just assuming it based on facts the government would have known at the time, and still granted citizenship.
As to community service… what are you talking about? Another guess / assumption as the basis of a serious accusation? Accusation isn’t even the word for what you people do.
The the government never makes a mistake. Therefore it has endorsed immigrant, gay Zahra’s marriage to an American woman and his immediate abandonment of his “wife” as a legitimate exercise in immigration.
It’s all legit, in the Hoogie brain. But we’ll see what the voters in D5 think, won’t we.
The government makes mistakes every day. We are watching the most incompetent government in modern us history at the moment.
My point is Zahra is a citizen. Just like we respect the verdict of a jury or a birth certificate we should respect his naturalization.
People deserve finality in a process like that. They make a lot of decisions following it.
People who commit a crime and con a legal process deserve finality and respect.
You really want to go with that?
You’re portraying as fact that which you cannot prove fucko. Are you really that dense? Yes, yes you are.
He’s a citizen and you’re trying to counter it with information the government knew at the time.
That is your problem and short of denaturalization you cannot overcome it.
You just want something to be true for political purposes
Zahra says he has always known he was gay. Fact.
Zahra came to the USA from a non-gay loving culture.
Zahra married an American woman. Fact.
Zahra left his new wife in Arkansas and went to California. Fact.
Zahra got a green card courtesy of his “marriage.” Fact.
Zahra got divorced from his “wife” after the appropriate time frame. Fact.
You’re referring to a whole ‘nother crime. Zod never got caught for marriage fraud, which is why Hooger wants us to think it passes the smell test.
Not even ‘booger believes that load of bullshit.
Or, he didn’t commit marriage fraud which is the natural presumption given he is a citizen and you are trying to counter it with information the government would have been well aware of and vetted by the same process used for everyone else.
My “natural presumption” is to consider facts and their most likely meaning. It’s called reasoning. But you do you, “Fucko.”
Your diversionary opinion doesn’t matter. The voters will be informed, and you can weep.
As a Zahra running dog will you be volunteering and contributing to his re-election campaing (if there is one)?
“As a Zahra running dog will you be volunteering and contributing to his re-election campaing”
I’m not in District 5, and I do not know him or work for him.
I’m just a Fullerton resident disgusted by the political messaging of this blog.
And the blog seems real disgusted with your slavish devotion to sophistry to try to divert attention from obvious facts and reasonable conclusions drawn therefrom:
Zahra, a gay immigrant goes to Arkansas (why did he go there?) and marries an American woman whom he leaves behind to follow his filmmaking dream. He gets to stay in the US because he has obtained a Green Card. After his timely divorce he gets citizenship and marries a man.
Yes, he gets to be a citizen based on his ILLEGALLY obtained permanent residency in the States.
The idea that the government was informed of this phony marriage and somehow didn’t care is ludicrous. Just like you.
How do you know the government would have been “well aware of it.” The government is rarely well aware of anything.
Zod is a fraud.
They would have been aware of the marriage if marriage to a US citizen was the basis of his application for citizenship.
Which was granted. If that was the basis of his application, what else was the trained immigration official evaluating?
Why doesn’t Zahra release his file and we can all see for ourselves, John?
Poor Johnnie Numbnuts is getting desperate licking the goo off Zod’s soiled boots.
It’s the natural presumption if your head is shoved up your ass. The Observer credo: if you can’t stick your head up your ass stick it in the hole in the ground.
He was granted citizenship.
Either it was on the basis of his marriage to a US citizen or it wasn’t.
If it wasn’t, then what’s your point.
If it was, it is pretty much the only thing officials were evaluating.
And your claim is that they just missed looking into it.
That is ridiculous on its face. Far more likely is that they did look into it, using their expertise and training, and decided in his favor. And they are the experts, while you are not.
You’re just armchair quarterbacking it years after the fact, without any training or knowledge.
He can just release his file and we can all see for ourselves, John.
But he won’t.
And you’ll say he doesn’t have to.
Because you are a ball licker.
Johnnie’s getting desperate licking Zod’s dirty boots.
Zahra is a POS.
How about the time Zahra left the council meeting for a cop event photo op, then reappearing citing the event as if he hadn’t been there.
Head to big toe, Dr. Zod’s so fraud.
Kneel before Zod!!!
Zahra
Self righteous and SELF SERVING.
He needs to GO !
I’d like to know if the immigrant fraud has applied for unemployment benefits or other goodies from the taxpayers.
Um, his employment record seems a little spotty.
I will spend every last dollar of my inheritance to make sure Zahra is defeated and disappears from Fullerton forever.
News flash. Tony doesn’t need an inheritance. He rich beyond the wildest imagination of the chronically unemployed Zahra.
If Tony Bushala doesn’t stop Zahra perhaps AIDS will.
Homophobic nazi asshole. Go fuck a couch.
Bushala isn’t a destitute vagrant sucking off taxpayer teets like Zahra the fraud. Tony works for a living.
I spent every last dollar buying a marriage to Michelle Salmon in Arkansas so that when I got to West Hollywood I had to sleep in my car.
My father had a friend who lived in Little Rock so that’s where I went.
I met Michelle at a John Waters film festival.
Says Elijah Manassero, the son of a wealthy industrialist turned Puerto Rican NGO. Kinda hypocritical boy.
Wish I got community service for my felony or resigned from school board because I committed a felony like my pal Aaruni Thakur.
Aaruni, Ahmad, both get A’s in fraud.