Derek Smith and the Budget Sustainability Committee
The Fullerton Boohoo claque has made a big deal about how Tony Bushala is unfit to be on the ad hoc Budget Sustainability Committee. His disqualification? He is involved in politics. He is a “rent seeker” in the words of Tender Young Elijah Manisserro, who remarkably is not ashamed at being a dedicated Marxist in the 21st Century. Bushala has a conflict of interest, these people keep bleating.
Tony’s real offense is that he has money and is willing to spend it to keep aggressive imbeciles like Cannabis Kitty Jaramillo from getting into office; and for that he has gained the animus of the Damascus Dodger, Ahmad Zahra and his small collection of sycophants.
But Mr. Bushala is not the point of this post. Rather it is another member of the Committee, one Derek Smith.
Mr. Smith is Ahmad Zahra’s personal appointee to the group, and has a lot of interest in Fullerton’s budget. Why? Because he is the political lobbyist for the local union that represents marijuana dispensary employees. He is part of a coalition that has been trying to get these places legalized in Fullerton for years. Their point man is Ahmad Zahra who doesn’t seem to see a contradiction between dope use and his alleged Muslim convictions.
In the the 2024 District 4 election Smith’s union funded a political action committee dedicated to electing Cannabis Kitty. He funded it to the tune of $60,000 which included a $4,000 payment to Andre Charles, husband of councilmember Shana Charles. How come? To elect the pro-cannabis candidate who would re-instate the old dope law repealed in 2021.
That’s a lot of political activity, activity that has received zero scrutiny by the Fullerton Observer Sisters, Sharon and Sickia. Come to think of it, the delicate rose petal Elijah Manissero has never mentioned it either. How’s that for hypocritical “transparency?”
Moreover, Brother Smith is not an accountant, or a business owner, or a entrepreneur. Instead, he is a dedicated union functionary, virtually the last person I would want on a municipal budget sustainability committee. The apex of Smith’s business experience has been blowing through $60,000 of his members’ dues on Jaramillo. Did he know about the fraudulent Scott Markowitz campaign? I wonder.
Applying the rhetoric and logic of Fullerton’s boohoos would immediately disqualify Derek Smith from the Budget Sustainability Committee. Will anybody apply it? I wonder.
In the meantime Ahmad Zahra the eager messiah of marijuana in Fullerton has once again raised the topic. The issue isn’t dead as far as the dope lobby is concerned.
All good points. There is no end to the Observer Sister’s hypocrisy. But I believe aren’t even smart enough to see it. Like sister, like sister.
Elijah is not a Marxist. Derek Smith hasn’t worked for UFCW in a while. This was not a topic that anyone raised at the last meeting, besides Josh Ferguson.
This blog will do anything to excuse Bushala’s blatant cronyism. Why? Because he owns this blog! Hilarious
He got fired from the union? Probably because he blew all that money on the useless Jaramillo. With all that money she STILL couldn’t win a district election!!
P.S. Yes, Tender Elijah, you are a Marxist. Of course no one raised the topic. That’s Fullerton boohoo for you. Throwing bricks in a glass house.
Elijah is not a Marxist. The 26 year old “student” is an anti-Capitalist.
He’s 26? Jesus H. I figured him for 18 or 19. What is an anti-Capitalist? Not a lot of choices. A Mercantilist? That doesn’t sound right. I think we can go with Communist or Radical Socialist.
Tender Young Elijah Manisserro is dedicated to Marxism because he, and all the other Fullerton Boohoo, are addicted to power and things that do not work. They are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness dyslexics.
They are certainly addicted to vague generalities and abstractions. Whether these work or not is neither here nor there.
It looks like sweet young Elijah is competing with that Steven Sherry for the heart and soul of Zahra’s Fullerton Boohoo Youth Cult.
I vote Steve Sherry. At least he has the balls to stand up to Dunlap.
He has the balls to stand up to Dunlap?
Seriously bro? Like the dude is some menacing figure dominating Fullerton politics?
What a jackass comment to leave on a blog.
Perhaps Zahra will have a lobbying job waiting for him when his council term expires.
Not a chance. Zahra has no real friends.
Imagine being so stupid you dont know what marxism is and just label anyone you dont like as marxist just because you think its a scary word.
No wonder there isnt a single person that takes this blog seriously.
As if Democrats are somehow actually Marxists…What they really are is a party of (mostly) socially liberal corporatist apologists for military and empire.
Isn’t Daddy a rent seeker, tender Elijah?
Anyone who has studied and understands history knows that Marxism is not scary, but it is harmful. In a recent Gen Z survey, forty percent agreed with the statement that murder is acceptable to achieve a political goal. Weak-minded and soft people are easy to persuade.
Why are you equating murder in the pursuit of political goals with Marxism, specifically?
Ever hear of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot? There’s an easy 100,000,000 murders right there.
Yes, they aren’t named Marx. Whatever Marxism is, philosophically, Lenin et al ruined it for the 20th century.
Ever heard of Hitler? Hirohito? Mussolini? They weren’t Marxists.
Haha. Young Elijah tries to educate the educated with his irrelevant whataboutism. The subject tender lad is your vacant-witted socialism. You who have never worked a hard job – or probably any job – in your sweet, fragile life.
I’m not Elijah anyone and I’ve worked hard jobs.
You are Elijah and you are an entitled cream puff.
They weren’t capitalist either, bright boy.
So? My point was that thinking it was ok to kill for political purposes is not limited to (so called) Marxists (actually Leninists).
Get ready Comrade Elijah. May Day is only 30 hours away!!
Hell yes, Mayday! It’s a grand American tradition. You can celebrate corporate capitalist day any other day of the year.
It was adopted by the Second International in 1889, becoming a key communist holiday in the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba, often featuring large military parades to display state power.
Hear! Hear! Elijah and his ilk are history illiterates.
The ignorance is oceanic.
Workers of the world unite behind young Elijah. No, he’s never worked at anything except being a minor self-righteous irritant, but he’s a leader of men.
Workers of the U.S. unite to end wars and the war economy!
A (entitled) child shall lead them.
But here you are, posting. Who is the greater fool Elijah?
If there is any doubt about the green stain on Derek Smith nasty little paws, and the lengths he would to go to connect himself to greasy fixers please read Duane Roberts extensive and impressive investigation of Smith and his union’s relationship with the crooked Anaheim Chamber under Todd Ament and Laura Cunningham and his curious $140,000 PAC trying to help the current Mayor, Ashleigh Aitken.
https://anaheiminvestigator.com/2023/05/09/strange-bedfellows-ufcw-local-324s-alliance-with-the-anaheim-chamber-of-commerce-to-legalize-cannabis/
Thank you. That’s a good read. I’ll do a post.
The Dodgy Damascus Doctor strikes again.
So Smith was up to his bung hole in Harry Sidhu.
Posted cringe on main. You sound like a man who hasn’t gotten laid in decades. Maybe Tony bushala will give you some if you ask nicely.
Up late young, incoherent stud? At the doctor’s crib?