The Steven Sherry Experience
Fullerton Boohoo comes in all shapes and sizes, but its members share one thing in common: a desperate drive to support Democrat Party candidates. Fullerton Forward, the brain child of someone called Steven Sherry is no exception. “Building a Better Future for All Fullertonians” is Sherry’s slogan #1. Slogan #2 is about “values”:
But you can forget the high-minded rhetoric. Fullerton Forward is really about helping the sort of candidates who pretend to profess this credo – brain-dead Democrats – the tax ’em then help ’em out via government ilk. These were the same sort of hypocrites who cooked up all the bullshit pretexts to keep Jesus Quirk-Silva on the City Council a few years back.
We met Fullerton Forward a few weeks ago as Sherry orchestrated a comical People’s Council meeting with limited pizza. The Fullerton Observer wouldn’t say who was behind the get together that attracted the cream of Fullerton Crazy’s crop, and that appointed immigration fraud “Dr.” Ahmad Zahra as the People’s Mayor.
According to the Fullerton Forward website, an individual named Linda Gardner is on the group’s 3 person “advisory council” whatever that title may mean. Here’s her bio:
Linda “…has been active in local and state politics for many years, serving as President of Democrats of North Orange County for six years and continuing to be an active member. Linda has actively worked on campaigns for California Governor, Senate and Assembly as well as Fullerton City Council and major propositions and recalls.
Linda is currently a Delegate for the California Democratic Party. She is passionate about positive change for the future of Fullerton.”
Sherry a former Democrat lobbyist, boasts about himself:
For over a decade, he has also worked in political campaigns, founding his own consulting firm, NewWave Strategies, in 2020. Through his firm, Steven has raised millions for clients nationwide and built highly effective, resourceful advertising campaigns.
Most of this is undoubtedly made up, and after you finish this post you may think the same thing.
This guy looks an awful lot like the under-employed Andre Charles, husband of the insufferable hot air bag Shana whose employment history is sketchy, at best.
Anyhow, Fullerton Forward has finally submitted the necessary Form 460 required of political action committees after the June primary. This document is instructive for lots of reasons.
First, we can see several of Fullerton’s cyphers who contributed – like the failed Cannabis Kitty Jaramillo, who sued the City so she could get elected; and our old friend, the pathetic election fraud participant, Diane Vena, who endorsed Jaramillo then signed the nominating papers of the phony candidate/confessed perjurer Scott Markowitz. We see you angry liitle eye doctor Anjali Tapadia; and you too, developer shake down artist Elizabeth Hansberg; Aha, over there, indignant front parlor antique, Karen Lloreda, recalled from the Dana Point City Council, and come to Fullerton to roost in the municipal rafters.
Sherry raised almost $17K, which looks okay. But wait. There are only two main contributors:
As we will see, one is frequent Council irritant Helen Higgins, and the other is some dude named Joel Maus, which means “mouse” in English. I have no idea what his motivation is. Maybe he’ll drop by to tell us. He’s the $5K “small business” moneybags.
Like Andre Charles, Mr. Sherry seems to believe that personally doing well by doing good is his life’s path. How’s that? you ask.
Because according to the Form 460 Schedule E, Sherry paid himself almost $6000 for the campaign he ran against Fred Jung in the primary, a campaign that only lasted a couple months. I won’t even share the percentages of Sherry’s cost versus the totals he spent and raised, because the Form 460 Schedule E totals don’t add up to the total expenditures listed on the Form 460 top summary.
The best part of Sherry’s activities, with his name almost obscured, was this remarkable payment he made to himself: $4560.80 for “fundraising.” WTF?
I love the amount this honest and transparent political action committee paid to scofflaw Mario Marovic for holding their fundraiser at “Madero 1899,” even as his fake Irish pub across the street still illegally squats on the Commonwealth sidewalk. Did the dummy Sherry list the cost of the Big Fundraising Party twice, somehow? If so, the numbers still wouldn’t add up to the summary page, so it hardly matters.
Naturally, Sherry paid his tribute to the Democrat Party of OC – $500 on April 27th – confirming the purely partisan nature of his new plaything.
By the way, I’m informed that Sherry’s self-serve creation is also now the object of an FPPC complaint, dealing with illegal campaign campaign sign disclosure rules.
Finally, we are we really to believe somebody who spent a lot to raise a little, and who, as treasurer and “Executive Director” of a PAC can’t seem to add, has “raised millions for nationwide clients?” Yeah, sure, Steve, whatever you say.
Almost half the money raised came from only two donors. If I were on that “Advisory Council” I’d be asking some serious questions of Mr. Sherry. Of course that won’t happen.
The guy made a job for himself. That’s entrepreneurial!
This cluster will undoubtedly gather behind that Maldonado kid – another Brandman-Traut climber.
I hope that $ 5,000 donor is happy knowing that his contribution didn’t even cover all of the salary for someone who raised only $ 16,000 overall. That kind of spending in the non-profit world would be a huge red flag to prospective donors.
I don’t know if that Sherry “FND” money was to recover an outlay. It’s bad either way.
Note that the filing date of the 460 was May 21, but it didn’t appear on the city website, the only online place it would be found, until AFTER the June 2 election, leaving voters clueless about what this PAC is and who is funding it.
The PAC was created a year ago. I wonder if any reportable activity took place. Somebody is right about the signs. The font on the disclosure was way too small.
And didn’t list a major donor. I don’t know what the threshold is, but one donor responsible for nearly a third of contributions seems major enough to me.
Good to see a small part of Fullerton Boohoo chip in to the Steven Sherry Experience. But where is Maldondo, where is Tender Young Elijah, where is Oliver, the No-account of Montecristo? Where is Jensen Hallstrom, where is “Z” and where are the Kennedy Sisters? Where is our old friend Curtis Gamble. Where is Ms. Canadian Green Card Benefits recipient?
Those young bucks don’t have any money. I notice Sherry didn’t kick in anything although one of his “Advisory Council” did, and so a relation of another.
What’s the deal with using MAGAspeak to call the Democratic Party the “Democrat Party?” Democratic candidates are Democrats. Why don’t you call the Republican Party the “Republic Party?”
They call themselves Democrats. Hence the name Democrat Party. Nobody calls himself a Republic, dummy.
Of course they don’t, because the party is called The Republican Party. The formal name of the major opposition is The Democratic Party. One wouldn’t call oneself a Democratic because it’s grammatically incorrect
This “Democrat Party” misnomer seems to have originated in brain dead right wing talk/hate radio.
It looks like Sherry spent $14,000 if you add up the individual Schedule E pages. Something is terribly amiss.
Unless I’m mistaken, the second 410 form showing the date they qualified with the Sec of State was filed with the city way back in March of this year, but also just appeared on the last week on the city’s website. What the hell is going on in the City Clerk’s office?
Yea, it’s a mess, even though it seems to have been filed by a professional outfit in Lakeskde. Watch for hastily amended filings, but you’ll. Have to go to the city clerk office in person to see them unless you want to wait a few months for them to be uploaded to the city website.