The Pilferin’ Paulette Slime Trail

There is something special about overweening political ambition. It gives off a distinct odor and that smell isn’t appealing. It affects people of all ages but is particularly redolent among the youthful and the elderly. Kids may be excused, somewhat, for giving olfactory offense, being callow and everything. In time they may even grow up to be employed members of society. But in the old the stink is unforgivable.

And so we come once again to the shallow, desperate and almost comical campaign by Paulette Marshall for the North Orange County Community College Board.

You may remember purple Joker suit-wearin’ “Pilferin’ Paulette from such hits as being busted for stealing campaign signs while running as a fake Fullerton D5 carpetbagger; or her running fruitless and expensive scampaigns for the County Board of Education; or her getting a stooge to sue Tim Shaw to make way for her own election on that Board, a failing gambit that cost fellow Dems their only incumbent on the OCBOE.

FFFF also knows this aged miscreant as the photobombing publicity hound who pops up in almost every picture taken in Fullerton. Her equally loathsome husband, Doug “Bud” Chaffee made her his “ambassador” to the County’s 4th District, a move concocted to keep getting her mug in civic group pictures.

Anyhow, Paulette has never let a moral code restrict her political ambition and she is at it again. Her campaign website features, among a litany of images, some where she is seen posing as a philanthropist sponsor of some kind.

See anything wrong?

Yep, Pilferin’ Paulette makes it appear that she is already on the NOCCCD Board, not that she is a mere candidate. And I’ll bet the farm those sponsorships and her little self-congratulatory signs were paid by by her own political campaign.

If you think about it, this is a sort of theft, too – stealing the public trust, in a way.

I’m not going to pretend that the choices are good. Another candidate is the almost militantly stupid and inarticulate Jesus Quirk-Silva, whose political ambition to jump from his at-large incumbency, created the return of Jan Flory.

Both of these awful choices seem to suggest that the NOCCCD incumbent, Jeffry Brown may be the best choice, given the options. He’s never stolen anything like Mrs. Chaffee, or skipped out on a teacher job to work for a politcal lobbyist like The Jesus.