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Lately we have been treated to a small band of “activists” at City Council meetings behaving poorly, insulting folks, catcalling and loudly showing their displeasure. This is rude behavior for grown-ups, and there is something else going on: demanding that you get your way and that oppositional forces must be bad, evil, in fact. It goes beyond politics and enters the realm of child psychology.

The latest example is an “opinion” essay appearing in the Kennedy Sisters’ Fullerton Observer. It was supposedly written by a person named Kevin Curriston, under the sensational headline “City Council steamrolls constituent views.”

As an aside, FFFF has encountered Mr. Curriston previously, although his identity was a mystery. In fact, some of us assumed he was a homeless individual rounded up by Sitkas Kennedy to support the Trail to Nowhere.

I replicate Curriston’s editorial below, wherein he attempts to justify the theme of his headline.

I attended and spoke at the Fullerton City Council meeting on December 16,  2025. On the agenda was the question of whether to adhere to the custom of a fair rotation of mayoral selection, or to continue allowing council members to nominate and elect someone by simple majority vote.

About 75 citizens showed up to speak, all but one pushing for a fair rotation of the mayor and advocating for Ahmad Zahra or the current Mayor Pro Tem, Dr. Shana Charles, both for their continued presence in community events and caring, responsive attitudes.

Fred Jung was personally ostracized and insulted every which way to Friday, and accused of not even making eye contact with his detractors when they addressed him.  It was pointed out that he wanted to retain the position of Fullerton Mayor on his resume simply for his objective of running in 2026 for Orange County Supervisor. If we have anything to do with it, and can overcome a well-bankrolled political machine, that won’t happen.

Councilman Nick Dunlap spoke at the end and said the same thing: 40 people who show up to every City Council meeting to protest do not represent the voters of Fullerton.  He did not support rotating representation of all districts in Fullerton.  It was one town, with one set of interests.

Councilwoman Jamie Valencia nominated Fred Jung, and Valencia, Nick Dunlap, and Fred Jung re-voted for Jung as Mayor, shutting out Mayor Pro Temp Shana Charles completely in favor of Dunlap as Mayor Pro Tem. This will be the 4th time he’s been mayor in 6 years.  It is not a level playing field in any way!

Fullerton City Council has become Fred Jung’s well-oiled political machine that does not care about constituent concerns or views – only about their own cronyism and career ambitions.  It was pointed out that neighboring Buena Park adheres to a mayoral rotation policy, and mayoral elections in the City Council are done in minutes.  Fullerton is attracting attention all across the county for its contentious decision-making, totally steamrolling the will of its constituents.

An editorial is all about opinion, and the opinions presented in this statement perfectly parallel those of Fullerton Boohoo, Militant Division, and can be seen in the drama, emotion, and exaggeration of a typical child. We can forget about the misstatement of facts other than to observe the inflation of numbers and time are concomitant with the infantile imagination.

Here we see the usual conflation of what someone wants with what is righteous and proper. That’s not so unusual in political presentation. But the next step is more pernicious; the assumption that what you want is what everybody wants and just as importantly, what everybody needs. We’ve seen it over and over again when the small cluster of agitators at City Council meetings profess to speak “for the people,” on issues of which the vast majority of Fullerton’s citizens and taxpayers are unaware. This is the self-centered thinking of a center-of-the-universe child, and a particularly irresponsible mindset for adults making big, expensive decisions. Yet, this is the essence of the Fullerton Childish perspective.

Curriston reminds us that Fullerton Childish is offended by Nick Dunlap’s rational observation that 40 people do not constitute “voters” and that getting elected means representing everybody. This attitude is vilified by Fullerton Childish because it often means the pet projects of their darlings, Ahmad Zahra and Shana Charles are subject to at least a little scrutiny.

It doesn’t seem to occur to poor Kevin that maybe he should consider why a majority of his colleagues refuse to make Zahra Mayor. Like his immigration fraud, his battery and vandalism case, his filing a false police report against a councilmember, his going to Sacramento behind the Council’s back, his persistent and colorful recreation of the truth, and even his latest pretense of being “out of the state” for some mythical employment.

Ultimately, the mayor rotation fantasy isn’t really about fairness or democracy or any other abstraction for Fullerton Childish. It’s about the denial of the gratification that validation that your worldview provides. Whining and crying about unfairness. Truth is neither here nor there; rational examination of facts is not an option. Opposition is evil. If it can’t be found, it must be concocted.

Five days have passed since “Dr.” Ahmad Zahra, the Syrian immigrant fraud announced he would not run for re-election to the Fullerton City Council.

Crickets from the Fullerton Observer, whose sisters Sanka and Sharon have republished every utterance of Zahra, and who published his plagiarized articles without apology, have said nothing.

They’ve published a dozen other articles – even one about some woman on Dorothy Lane who has become addicted to putting blow-up figures in her front yard. But not a solitary word about their Hero quitting in 2026.

How come?

Many people are saying it’s because Fullerton Boohoo doesn’t have a District 5 replacement plan yet, and the Observer crowd doesn’t want any surprise ordinary citizens running in next year’s election, so they’re keeping it quiet.

This doesn’t make a lot of sense since very few people in D5 read the Observer. However, common sense is a rare commodity in the precincts of Fullerton Boohoo.

Still, it could be true – that they are getting all the usual OC Dem endorsements in place for the first term school board member Vanessa Estrella, the candidate created for Sharon Quirk and her husband Jesus Quirk-Silva, and only plan to talk about Zahra leaving when she has a party central endorsed replacement in place. Then there’s the worthless politician endorsements to line up: you know, Lou Correa, Josh Newman, the Quirks, Tony Umberg (I forget his first name), the unions, etc., etc.; the ones that ushered Cannabis Kitty over the goal line – in second place. Oops.

In any case, there already is a candidate in running, a man who has already run a close campaign, and who would have won in 2022 except that the Usual Crowd of Dems created a fake Latino candidate by the name of Tony Castro, whom nobody has seen since 2022.

If they do run this Estrella person next year they might rerun the phony Latino dude scam of 2022; or, they might try the phony white guy candidate strategy they rolled out in 2024. They might do both. But 2026 isn’t 2024. Markowitz got pinched by the DA for perjury, and his handlers have cause for pause.

That includes Ajay Mojan the dirty little bastard involved in each earlier scam. And it certainly includes the Dems who collected Scott Markowitz’s signatures for him. Was that Aaruni Thakur? Was it Andre Charles, husband of the otiose windbag, Shana Charles? The self-righteous Diane Vena knows, and so does her confessor, Sharon Kennedy – of the Fullerton Observer.

There may be a reluctance for this rogues gallery to keep creating phony candidates to push their own ideologues, now that every candidate will be subjugated to a decency smell test.

Yesterday my FFFF colleague Disillusioned Ex-Hippy wrote a post about some nonsense written in the Fullerton Observer by the young and lively Elijah Manassero. It was about the mean and corrupt City of Fullerton victimizing and abusing the restaurant, Les Amis. So I went to the website to see how ridiculous it really was. Tender bud Elijah didn’t disappoint. What a load of bullshit.

The best part really needs to be highlighted for its sheer stupidity. And by best, I mean funniest. Get this:

Outdoor dining is rarely a profit center. It brings extra costs for staff, heaters, maintenance, and, in Les Amis’ case, live musicians. Restaurants maintain patios to beautify downtown, attract foot traffic, and create a sense of community. “Our patio is our thank you to the community,” Montecristo said.

Why, Les Amis is a veritable charity! According to Mrs. Jinan Montecristo, proprietor, their patio didn’t make them any money. Really, it was there as a gift from her to us. And when someone makes you a present of something you don’t charge them rent for the space where their good and kindly philanthropy is going on. In fact, I’m surprised the saucy young stem Elijah didn’t suggest that the taxpayers should have been paying Les Amis all along for their sacrifices for the community!

And remember this: Sharon Quirk doesn’t hand out Woman of the Year trophies like party favors for party givers. Oh, wait.

We can forgive tender Elijah for misusing the term “profit center” because he is probably studying sociology and left wing political thought in some diploma mill, somewhere. Still, the idea that restaurants operate outdoor patios as a gift to their communities is so profoundly stupid as to make us suspect young sprout Manassero’s sincerity about any of this.

It’s hard to believe that even he really believes the nonsense he wrote, or even supposes he can sell this tripe to the readers of the Fullerton Observer. Still, he wrote it and they published it; so maybe they really are that oblivious to reality.

Anyhow, if you believe this crapola then you must also believe that the City actually did Les Amis a favor by removing their illegal squatting accoutrements. After all, if your thing is a money loser why be in business, big or small?

Back in June, 2022 the Fullerton City Council voted to raise rents on public property in downtown Fullerton. These spaces are used by adjacent restaurants as outdoor patios. One of the the “yes” votes was none other than “Doctor” Ahmad Zahra, the Damascene Dissimulator.

The rent increases were big, almost doubling the cost to restaurant tenants. Here’s the old and the approved rates, and the incremental difference, from the June 21, 2022 agenda item:

The resolution to establish the new rate structure passed on a 3-1 vote. And Zahra, one of the three votes is now the self-styled “pro-small business” councilman, and is regarded as one of the ringmasters of the Poor Les Amis Club.

Les Amis, you ask? Yes, the restaurant that went years without paying rent and illegally occupied public property, and that recently had its patio stuff removed from public property at public expense.

A cynic might argue that the big rent increase meant nothing to the rent dodgers at Les Amis since they weren’t going to pay their rent anyhow – just like they been stalling the City for years. Neither Jinan Montecristo, owner of Les Amis, nor her youthful cub, Oliver, even showed up to complain about the new fees.

Here’s the point of this story: this rent increase is now being used by Les Amis and its loyal amis to justify the Montecristos not paying anything in rent for years, even at the old rates, and of squatting on public property without permits or agreements.

I know! Let’s let the harpy-like elder Kennedy Sister, Sharon, another sudden small business sword and shield, share the strategy in a comment on the Fullerton Observer blog:

Sharon K

November 7, 2025 at 7:36 am

Why was Les Amis patio torn down by the city before the public meeting scheduled for Dec 2 at which the fairness of outdoor dining fees will be discussed? What was the urgency? Who directed that to happen?

Asking an unintelligent question is an excellent way of avoiding an intelligent answer, especially on a blog where rejection and censorship of truth-tellers eliminates the embarrassing predicament of honest correction.

I wonder how they’ll feel when they learn the that the huge amount of back rent incurred by The Noaccounts of Montecristo is based on the action of their hero, Ahmad Zahra,

FFFF is a little late with this news, but better late than….never mind.

Fullerton’s Mayor, Fred Jung, running for County Supervisor and formerly a registered Democrat, has re-registered as a No Party Preference voter. In other words – an independent.

I see this as a pretty smart move. The Democrat Party leadership in OC – made up of grifters and deadbeats who actually promote useless barnacles like Shana Charles and Ahmad Zahra – had already piled on to the Connor Traut bandwagon.

Jung’s record in Fullerton has been one of generally rejecting the usual liberal Democrat sentimental “who cares if it works so long as it’s expensive” agenda for one of practicality and a modicum of accountability, a stance that put him at odds with the Fullerton Observer/Boohoo criers and moaners and alarmists. As an independent he has the opportunity to connect with the ever-growing independent vote, as well as commonsense Democrats and even some Republicans.

Meantime, another candidate, Democrat Rosie Espinoza from La Habra has put a bunch of money into her campaign account – $150K, it is said. Espinoza is the Mayor and has been on the La Habra City Council for 25 years. This is bad news for fellow La Habran Tim Shaw, a former la Habra councilmember who only had $20K on hand at the end of June and, only scrapped up five grand to lend himself. Now he has to share La Habra name recognition.

If Espinoza decides to actually spend that dough it’s also bad news for nebbish Connor Traut – the Holy Anointed Democrat in the race.

Of course Espinoza, who must be a septuagenarian by now has run for the Supervisor job two or three times already and nose dived.

Says the 4 year old as he spins around and waves his arms frantically for attention.

And so our new acquaintance, lively young fleur Elijah Manassero presented himself after the last city council meeting in another of those pre-written emails to the Fullerton City Council.

Earlier that evening the Council passed a new ordinance making bar owners responsible for the cacophony that emanates from their establishments. At the meeting, tender Elijah, pretending to be a big supporter of small businesses, claimed that the majority of the bar owners were already in non-compliance with the new regulations.

Of course they are are. They’re in non-compliance with the old regulations, too. That’s whole point of putting a stop to the amplified music free-for-all. Sweet Elijah’s conclusion to his “argument” is that bar owners shouldn’t be held responsible because of their…irresponsibility.

But back to the fragile sprig Manassero’s email. The comfy chair he was sitting in in the council chambers was still warm when he hit the send button for his missive to the council. Get a load of this:

Where to start picking apart this nonsense? You choose. But do linger over the part where the precious rosebud claims credit for media coverage of the issue thanks to his “platform,” whatever that may be.

FFFF has learned that despite a City ban on unauthorized publications on City-owned premises, the Fullerton Observer still had a distribution rack at the Wings Café at the Fullerton Airport.

Not anymore, we’ve heard.

It appears that somebody has decided to enforce the ban, and perhaps lease language forbidding this sort of display/dissemination.

While some may mourn the removal of a partisan, bumbling, and innuendo-filled excuse for news, the FFFF Executive Board of Governors do not. After all, our news publication – an honest, educative, and entertaining was blocked from public premises last spring.

A few days ago Mr. Peabody brought up the case of Oliver Montecristo and his mom, Jinan, both of who popped up over the summer crying foul. Why? Because the City had the audacity to charge them “excessive” rent on the space outside their restaurant in downtown Fullerton.

Oliver has taken to insulting Mayor Jung and councilmembers Dunlap and Valencia for their persecution of “Les Amis” and perforce, their anti-small business bias.

At first I couldn’t figure out what the deal was. Fullerton Boohoo, led by the Kennedy Sisters certainly climbed on the bandwagon quickly shedding tears, so they said. The sweet young rosebud, Elijah Manassero thought he knew a good thing when he saw it, to attack Fred Jung in order to help out Connor Traut. The narrative was great: Jung beats down the little man. News at 11.

The tender sprig even came up with a fun graphic: Les Amis bound like Prometheus by red, well, yellow tape.

The problem for Jinan and her cub Oliver’s narrative is that they have been determinedly dodging rent due to the City for 15 years while they were also squatting on public property without agreements or permits in place.

Isn’t that a terrible look for anybody, let alone people who get up in public and attack their landlords? And why oh why had the City allowed these scofflaws to stay in business on our property and to continue to grab more public real estate without permission?

Questions.

Then a commenter suggested a cozy relationship between 5th District Councilman Ahmad Zahra and the restaurant located in his district. Hmm. A little checking revealed Zahra political fundraisers held at…Les Amis. What a coincidence. Here are a couple of images from a Zahra campaign fundraiser:

Zahra once held a “Pride Celebration” fundraiser of some kind at Les Amis that featured Robert Garcia – another fellow grifter, just like himself.

It looks like Zahra may well have persuaded impressionable Oliver to start making a nuisance of himself. Doc Zahra has certainly pitched the “Les Amis as victims” to young Elijah who has taken up the cause with liveliness.

It appears that Les Amis has become a hub of local Democrat activity on misappropriated property. And look who the most recent beneficiary:

Makes you wonder about the integrity of all concerned.

Unfortunately, this ploy of Zahra/Traut, whose ultimate goal is to attack Jung, has backfired badly. The ugly truth about Les Amis is now out of the bag and the good folk of Fullerton are entitled to know exactly when they’re going to get paid for the property Les Amis is squatting on.

Downtown Fullerton, tucked in the heart of North Orange County, is a lively crossroads where the buzz of nightlife meets the calm of residential living. Unfortunately, not all of us are college kids eager to party till sunrise and sleep through the aftermath. Some of us — like my family and me — actually need a decent night’s rest to function. Our neighborhood is a quirky blend of bars, restaurants, and single-family homes — charming on paper, but in practice, the nonstop thump of amplified music quickly drowns out the appeal. 

The amplified music is constantly disrupting our sleep, even on weeknights when rest is necessary for school and work. This inconvenience is impossible to get used to and negatively impacts our focus, energy, and frankly our wallets thanks to the obscene amount of caffeine it takes to stay functional.

In 2023, then Councilwoman Shanna Charles stepped forward with a practical solution: a curfew on outdoor amplified music. During the week, a 10 PM cutoff would provide much-needed respite, while an 11 PM cutoff on weekends would strike a balance between nightlife and residential needs. After the curfew, bars can continue to play music inside at any volume, preserving the lively atmosphere for patrons without disturbing nearby residents.

As residents, my family and I wholeheartedly support councilwoman Charles’ proposal as we believe that this act would create harmony in the diversity of Fullerton. The proposal recognizes that while nightlife and entertainment are vital to the city’s character and economy, so too are the families, students, and professionals who call this place home. By supporting this initiative, we’re not trying to quiet the city’s energy — we’re simply asking for a balance that lets Fullerton thrive without keeping its residents awake all night.

Let’s come together in support of Councilwoman Charles’s initiative to foster a community where residents and businesses can flourish side by side. Downtown Fullerton deserves a future where its lively spirit and the everyday comfort of its people exist in balance.