Fred Jung – Friends For Fullerton's Future

July 24, 2026July 24, 2026Ahmad Zahra

No Tax Increase in 2026

On Tuesday the City Council, on a 3-2 vote rejected a proposed half cent per dollar sales tax increase to be placed on the November ballot. The revenue was supposed to go to street repair (75%) and the rest to “infrastructure” which, of course, could mean almost anything.

For reasons only explained by Fullerton’s institutional lack of ability to get on to something and get it done – one way or another – the thing was agendized for the last possible meeting to get in on the ballot.

The public speakers were generally ignorant of any details and as full of useless commentary as usual. Some orange hair dyed geezer gabbled on about how sales tax used to be 4% and was now 7.75% in Fullerton – a damning indictment of incompetent leadership. This poor old dolt is obviously uninterested in why the sales tax has increased to pay the enormous salaries and pensions of public employees. He also decided to compare Fullerton’s streets with new cities in south Orange County.

Otiose Satkia Kennedy on the job…citizen journalist!

Sinkhole Kennedy of the Fullerton Observer Sisters team who pretends to be a journalist got up to speak. I have no idea what she said.

A slumpy Kitty Jaramillo showed up and stood proud of her advocacy for marijuana dispensaries, an advocacy that earned her the great soubriquet “Cannabis Kitty.” She still hasn’t come clean about what she knew when team Jaramillo created the phoney and perjurious scampaign of Scott Markowitz.

No one really knew how to deal with the issue intelligently, but one thing was obvious: the nay voters – “Dr.” Ahmad Zahra, Nick Dunlap, and Jamie Valencia – all made reference to “building trust” before a forwarding a tax increase. This is funny. The reference, of course, was to the misallocation of millions of bucks, causing the reserve funds to diminish by the same amount. It was really just accounting errors by staff that shouldn’t have happened, but did, and for which the City got some bad local press. The council had no real responsibility for the goof, big as it was, and certainly had less responsibility for it than for the boondoggles like the Boutique Hotel and the Trail to Nowhere that it routinely approves.

Zahra’s sudden lack of trust in his own City apparatus to implement and audit the proceeds from the sales tax increase was completely disingenuous. After almost 8 years of approving many unbalanced budgets, had Zahra realized his Come to Jesus Moment? Of course not. None of his long oration rang true, except as it was true to his form: dissimulating petulance personified. He wanted a 1 cent tax back in 2020, but now the faith of the taxpayers has been shaken. All bullshit. The fact is he still wanted a 1 cent general sales tax but knew he couldn’t get the votes to put it on the ballot. His argument that this proposal might harm future sales tax proposals was sheer nonsense.

Fortunately, Zahra’s career in political theater will over in four months, and he can go back to whatever scam he did to earn his crust.

The yes voters on the question were Charles and Jung. The former was a big drumbeater for ballotizing the tax, described the practical need, and she was assured by the “safeguards” built in. A sideways mention about Zahra letting personalities get in the way of exigency was met with a Zahra denial that nobody can have taken seriously.

Mayor Fred Jung said little, except that now, at this point he was willing to support any kind of tax, a sort of depressing, defeatist statement.

Anyway, the thing failed, and that’s that. At least for now.

July 22, 2026July 22, 2026Ahmad Zahra

Tuesday’s TEFRA Tank

by Mr. Peabody16 Comments

The scheme to rubber stamp a deal that would have cost the City and local agencies a million bucks a year in property tax revnue was voted down 3-2 last night.

On Sunday I shared the news of the agenda item returning to the council after being continued in June. Let me reiterate.

TEFRA stands for Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act, and authorization permits a little-known statewide housing agency to issue bonds that will provide $180,000,000 for an unknown non-profit entity to buy and remodel two huge apartment complexes over by Cal State Fullerton. The projects will subsequently be restricted to low and medium income renters.

Of course the kickers were that the projects were going to be eventually removed from the property tax rolls by the County Assessor and that the 395 now-restricted units would not even count toward the 13,000 new unit quota demanded by the State of California based on numbers cooked up in their social engineering lab by SCAG – the Southern California Associations of Governments.

The whole thing was obviously being presented by a completely biased staff led by the ever-egregious Sunaya Thomas. All you had to do was pick up on the tenor of the staff report.

Well, naturally the two socialists on the council were big supporters, as predicted. It was all about subsidizing the so-called “missing middle” a comparatively new term concocted by sociologists to identify a new group of underserved (subsidized) people like teachers and nurses and Shana Charles’ pals, the impoverished Associate Professors at CSUF. Charles bemoaned the latter’s rough life in the slums and tent cities. Okay, I made that up but you get the picture.

The lack of logic from Charles – and her fellow traveler the Dodgy Doctor from Damascus, Ahmad Zahra – peddled crap so illogical I would be remiss if I didn’t share it.

Charles claimed that this plan would remove existing overcrowding in the existing apartments. She didn’t say how; presumably locked in lower rents would mean less crowding as fewer residents were needed to make the monthly nut. Huh? What would keep future tenants from from reducing whatever the cost is by jamming into apartment units? She didn’t think about the outcome of her assertion: if the crowding were lessened, where the hell would those people go? The street? Her position was that the already badly bungled could suck up the property tax loss.

“Dr.” Zahra made an even stupider claim: that these subsidized public housing projects would boost the sales taxes, the local economy and hence the city budget! What the everlasting fuck? Did this idiot want us to believe that none of the current residents in the “market rate” apartments contribute to the Fullerton economy?

A very-much awake Chris Norby in a contemplative mood…

Fortunately, wiser heads chimed in. Earlier, former Councilman Chris Norby showed up to lay it out to the Council. The projects will provide no property tax but demand all of the usual services, plus more; and that the so-called “preservation” of units described by staff was nonsense. But of course the tender young Marxist Elijah Manassero was there to promote government subsidized housing, possibly hoping to move out of his dad’s house someday.

Nobody bothered to ask if these complexes were already effectively affordable, and were already being used by folks who work and go shopping in the area. Staff didn’t say, another indicator of the lack of professional objectivity from our under-compensated employees.

Nick Dunlap, to his credit, demonstrated the appropriate annoyance at the nonsense, skewering the weepy idiocy presented by Zahra and Charles. He immediately moved a substitute motion to can the idea right after a motion to approve was made by Zahra and Charles. It was seconded by Jamie Valencia, and the in the vote, Mayor Fred Jung provided the deciding vote to pull the plug.

I would hope that this is the last time we’ll see this sort of thing, but the old adage “it’s never over ’till staff says it is” is always a Fullerton factor.

July 15, 2026July 15, 2026About Us

Fullerton Throws Itself a Pity Party

by The Fullerton Harpoon25 Comments

Last night the Fullerton City Council held a special meeting. They called it a budget workshop, but it sure turned into a lachrymose affair. The weepy speechifying seemed more than a little rehearsed.

The meeting itself was more or less a rehash of previous meetings. Of course it should have been scheduled for July 7th but that would have interfered with the “community” budget sessions that week which staff claimed had 30 attendees; the survey that went out elicited about 70 responses. 100 out of 150,000 people. They had to admit that statistically, the responses didn’t mean much.

In an almost miraculous turn of events, staff cut the earlier projected deficit all the way down to $3.8 million. How, you ask? By eliminated vacant positions and jockeying some funds around.

Staff presented three scenarios: A, B, and C, in least to most draconian order, all draconian, of course. Option C basically kept the reserve funds around $16,000,000 by not using them in the next three years. None of the options involved laying anybody off or negotiating pay cuts with the unions. Keep that in mind, because the weepy handwringing that followed would make you think personal catastrophes had occurred.

Department by department got up to sing the blues to a receptive council. Goddamn, you’d think we were in the Mississippi Delta. The upshot was that nary a single department head had the grit to proclaim they’d get it done no matter what. No, that would be bad form.

I learned a couple of interesting facts. A police corporal – a corporal, mind you – costs $300,000 per year; and an Associate Planner is currently subsidized by the General Fund to the tune of $70,000 a year. While there’s nothing inherently wrong with the latter, the amount is shocking. It either means that Planning fees would not be sufficiently recovering costs, or that someone was projected to be costing the public an awful lot for general, non-billable time in City Hall.

I would be remiss indeed if I didn’t mention the good offices of consultant Grant Thornton, who, by means of a change order, presented a completely useless report whose “conclusions” were a summary of perfectly obvious statements. It was maddening to watch the consultant read off the Power Point slides, verbatim. I wonder how much that cost.

Public comments were highlighted by an extremely angry woman named Jody Vallejo, Chris Norby (who again touted the services of the Sheriff’s Department and the sale of surplus property), and a call in from the funny little boy-man Dominic Moonbeam

Won’t look you in the eye while you’re trashing him…

Then to the Council. Mayor Fred Jung read an odd and uncharacteristically long oration in which he took personal responsibility for the City’s budget situation and yet defended some of his more dubious votes and noted that Placentia’s privatizing their paramedics did them no good since they too, were having a budget crisis, a very strange and illogical statement. He offered that the unanticipated ICE intrusion into Fullerton was somehow responsible for some contribution to Fullerton’s financial woes, but gave nothing to support that claim. Overall, I couldn’t really figure out what in the world he was trying to communicate, although if I heard rightly he did seem to suggest at one point that a general sales tax was needed.

Shana Charles and Ahmad Zahra blathered on and on. I had to leave off to get a couple of frosty beverages. I did get back in time to watch “Dr.” Zahra compete with Jung to take responsibility for the situation, and that was pretty entertaining.

Fortunately, Jamie Valencia had little say other than to point out the relation between budget problems and municipal credit ratings; she emotionally and awkwardly read a prepared statement about the crisis, but reminded attendees that she’s only been around for a year and a half.

Nick Dunlap concluded the speechifying with a soliloquy that included the claim that somebody in the Sheriff Department confided to him that contracting with Fullerton for police services wouldn’t work and that the City would owe the Federal government an untold fortune if the Fullerton Airport were redeveloped. I think both these claims need to be substantiated.

As usual everybody sang the praises of “economic development,” the talismanic chant of those who are either extremely ignorant, extremely cynical, or extremely desperate. Just because it’s been an unproven bureaucratic activity in the past is no reason to doubt its efficacy in the future; it must be protected, even nurtured! No one said anything about proving that economic development even pays for itself. Don’t ask, don’t tell.

Needless to say, everyone also sang the praises of “police and fire” the ruthless and untouchable combination of unions that makes or breaks candidates and whose member suck up 70% of the General Fund.

The three-hour weep-fest ended in the usual way a morass of confusion out of which the City Manager, Eddie Manfo is supposed to make a final agenda item that will lead to an approval of the budget, now two weeks late. He pleaded for some direction about how to come back but got none. Oh, well. Eddie’s services cost us at least $400,000, a year, even more than a police corporal, so he ought to be able figure out something plausible.

In the end Manfro asked if it would be okay if the budget decision were made in August. Nobody said no. Then they all stood up and went home.

July 6, 2026Boohooism

Fullerton Observer and Kennedy Sisters Sink to New Low

by Grover Cleveland20 Comments

The Kennedy Sisters weed out comments and commenters on their blog that undermine their own partisan narratives. They have no problem, apparently, in letting stand crap that attacks the objects of their hatred. Fred Jung is accused of “unsavory” business practices, romantic infidelities? Really?

The following has been snipped to share the sort of “journalism” that takes place in the hallowed precincts of the Fullerton Observer:

AmyJuly 1, 2026 at 12:25 pmI think it’s clear what Jung stands for. Not through his inscrutable persona or his public statements, but from his actions on the dais: he stands for Jung, and Jung alone. He seeks power, connections, money. He seeks to climb the ladder politically and somewhat professionally. I believe he deliberately obscures his real job and income source because to do so would reveal more than he would like and invite scrutiny into what could be unsavory business practices. It is clear that he does not stand for the people and that his intentions are not for – and are often diametrically opposed to – the good of the people who elected him to power.
- Matt LeslieJuly 3, 2026 at 9:26 am My earlier reply to Amy’s comment above hasn’t been published, so I’ll try again. Amy, what evidence can you present to justify your belief that Fred Jung has engaged in possible “unsavory business practices?” I think this malicious online speculation about Mr. Jung’s private businesses reflects a certain frustration with the recent audit that found no fraud in the city’s budget on the part of Mayor Jung (or anyone else), despite Jung’s detractors displaying PAC sponsored signs and banners that baselessly suggested otherwise.
FK + TKJuly 4, 2026 at 3:58 pmI’m sure it didn’t help that he was dating Tammy Kim, an Itvine City Councilwoman who was charge with 11 felony counts. He was married the whole time. I agree with the other commenter that the article lacks real metrics, but I agree with the Author, Jung is in politics for Jung.
- RobJuly 5, 2026 at 10:54 amWhat a tired trope. Blaming Tammy Kim means you don’t know what you’re talking about, or you’re too lazy to make a real argument. It also lets him off the hook way too easily. If that were true, I suspect Jung would not have lost so badly. She still has formidable relationships with the Democratic Party and labor, and has helped campaigns across OC for years. Jung lost because of Jung. His campaign, his decisions, his record, his baggage.
- Matt LeslieJuly 5, 2026 at 11:21 pmWow, now an accusation of personal improprieties from a completely anonymous commenter. Is this what the Observer now allows on its site?

I wonder if the this garbage is okay with the guard old and new, of Fullerton Boohoo, who believe the Fullerton Observer is actually an objective journalistic endeavor, but woi, in reality, will believe almost anything.

June 27, 2026June 30, 2026Ahmad Zahra

Taking Out the Trash, Redux

by The Fullerton Harpoon47 Comments

On Tuesday the Fullerton City Council is going to address the topic of selecting the next solid waste hauler. This is a big deal, with a lot of money involved.

Last time, we saw the can kicked, as usual, when the council decided that six finalists would be permitted to sharpen their proverbial pencils and make final and best offers, en route to a final selection.

And so they did. I won’t bore the Friends with the various details of proposals because in the end each is offering different rates, services, and feel good community involvement, the last item a useless PR gesture that somebody in City Hall thought merited points in their selection calculations.

But two RFP respondents offered something else. Big loans to the City’s General Fund that would be recovered over many years via augmented rates.

EDCO has sweetened the pot by offering a $15,000,000 one time payment to the City to be recovered by a differential in the annual Consumer Price Index that is applied to fees.

Republic, the current hauler, is offering a $10,000,000 one time payment they are charmingly calling a “Community Enhancing Payment” which sounds better than “City of Fullerton Bailout.”

Obviously these two cash offer proposals would present the City Council immediate, if only very temporary, relief from the impending budget reserve liquidation, and will attract attention for that. The other positive political result could be the elimination of a November 2026 ballot tax question – a problem in getting on the ballot, and passage by the voters. However, the underlying structural budget deficit would remain and would need to be addressed, anyway, and immediately.

The formulas increasing the CPI scales would really be amount to a hidden tax on waste producing customers in Fullerton, and the City would be in the effective position of incurring debt leveraged on hauling fee increases. I presume the offerors and the City have investigated the legality of this.

Of the two proposers, EDCO was previously ranked first by a narrow margin, while Republic was in last place. The City’s relationship with Republic really soured during negotiations for SB 1383 when Republic did the old bait-and-switcheroo so there’s that to consider.

Meantime CR&R is promising $4,000,000 upfront to pay for road improvements – no strings attached – however there are always strings attached and in this case recovery of the 4 mil will certainly be reflected in rates higher than other proposers.

Is the upfront payment concept viable? I think so. It would buy some time for the City. But somebody would have to pay the piper, and somebody is still going to have to make the budget cuts required to balance a budget and no one has shown any appetite for this bitter menu. Appointing a useless committee to study things has been a waste of time. Almost.

One of the committee members did suggest the very thing that EDCO, Republic and CR&R are offering demonstrating that at least somebody was thinking of alternatives.

My guess is that “Dr.” Ahmad Zahra and Shana Charles will not support this big payment option, seeing great liberal virtue in imposing a 13% sales tax increase like the ill-fated measure M of 2020. On the other hand, that passage is a risky business and they need 4 votes to make it even get on the ballot. Nick Dunlap probably would not vote for putting a tax on the ballot, or going with the upfront payment plan. But his vote might not be needed. The waste contract only needs 3 votes. Where are Jung and Valencia? I guess we’ll find out Tuesday.

June 24, 2026June 24, 2026Ahmad Zahra

Hey, Where’s Our Charter?

by The Desert Rat8 Comments

Today, one of our commenters, “Union Avenue,” wondered what happened to the idea of Fullerton becoming a Charter City.

13 months ago the Fullerton City Council voted 3-2 to start studying the idea of Charter City status for Fullerton, a move away from what it is now – a General Law City.

Then something almost odd happened. The issue disappeared completely. No discussion. Nothing.

This isn’t the first time in Fullerton something just vanished. We can all remember the $1,000,000 so-called Core and Corridors Specific Plan vaporized completely without a rearward glance.

Why did this go away? I don’t know, but I suspect that three councilmembers who voted for it lost interest or maybe decided it wasn’t worth the trouble, political or otherwise.

“Dr.” Ahmad Zahra and Shana Charles stirred up his usual claque to clamor against it, citing Fred Jung’s vaulting ambition, but failing to explain how, exactly, a charter would deliver an evil outcome.

I think it’s time to resurrect this idea, even though no one seems to want to chat about it. A lot of good could come from it. Despite the cries of horror from the Kennedy Sisters and their ilk, a new municipal organization could be created, with a strong, city-wide elected Mayor holding executive power and the accountability for it.

The “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” argument now seems absurd. The City is a breaking mess. The infrastructure is a disgrace and the finances seem to have been handed over to cluster of chimps. Things are not working. One only has to look at the budget disaster and the basic accounting errors to know it. Who knows what the proverbial “deep dive” into Fullerton’s personnel, purchasing, asset management and risk management might reveal?

When things don’t work, and haven’t worked for a long, time it sure looks a lot like an invitation to change.

But change is hard for everyone, especially when lots of people are involved in the making of it.

June 22, 2026June 22, 2026A Manfro All Seasons

The Dog Ate My Homework

by The Fullerton Harpoon44 Comments

Fullerton is supposed to have its budgets wrapped up by the end of June. That’s when fiscal years end and new ones begin. It’s in the Municipal Code.

But not this year. So a resolution was needed to keep the gears of government grinding in Fullerton at current levels so that “essential services” be maintained. At the June 16th meeting the City Council passed the appropriate resolution authorizing the continuation of the process into July. Here’s the casual explanation of what’s going on::

“Staff continues to evaluate revenue projections, expenditure estimates including cost containment and deficit reduction strategies, capital improvement requirements, reserve levels, organizational needs and other fiscal considerations as part of the FY 2026-27 budget development process.”

Permit me to translate the double talk: “a complete absence of leadership has stalled the process and nobody in City Hall has the remotest idea how to deal with the massive, impending budget shortfall except by taxation.”

We have seen over the past year the revitalization of the footling Budget Sustainability Committee that accomplished exactly nothing. Zero. Zip. Well, not quite nothing, because its members reflected the positions of those that appointed them. Dunlap’s appointee voted against all tax proposals offered up. Jung and Valencia’s appointees supported a half-cent special infrastructure tax, but not a general sales tax. Zahra and Charles’ appointees rejected a special sales tax and pushed for the one cent general sales tax.

One committee member suggested privatizing the Water Utility; another suggested borrowing from the deep pockets of the new (or old) waste hauler. Another idea was creating a business district to pay for the Downtown Fullerton deficit. Innovative concepts for a City on the edge of insolvency that got no traction. T he committee how disastrous budget cuts would be to the public, especially to the hallowed halls of “public safety” that sucks up the lion’s share of the budget. Service levels, donchaknow.

I don’t recall anybody discussing mandatory salary reductions. Maybe I missed it.

Which leaves the City with no viable tax path forward even getting one on the November ballot. Other revenue generating ideas went nowhere, including selling off real estate, particularly that where Water Fund activities are going on. Other ideas, such as selling the boutique hotel site aren’t practical because Council and staff and City Attorney have led to humiliation and fraud on the property and has seen it tied up in dispute.

Even as Fullerton’s “leaders” fiddled away their time, new information about huge accounting errors revealed the situation was even more dire than previously imagined.

It would be dereliction not to remind Friends that our illustrious City Council actually agreed to hire a bunch of ambulance drivers on credit and a dozen new “firefighters” at the behest of the their union even as the budget crisis loomed on the near horizon.

June 14, 2026June 14, 2026About Us

Boutique Hotel Remains in Limbo; But Johnny and Larry Have Been Busy

by Mr. Peabody24 Comments

Warning: Conceptual only, not to be taken seriously!

The City of Fullerton’s foray into boutique hostelry remains a big mystery to the public, partly because the public doesn’t know much, if anything about it; but mostly because the City staff doesn’t know what to do with their boondoggle and the people who voted for it – business experts Shana Charles and “Dr.” Ahmad Zahra certainly aren’t talking. Come to think of it, neither are the two councilmembers who voted against it – Fred Jung and Nick Dunlap.

Zahra’s Fullerton Transparency claque and the Fullerton Sisters are silent as the proverbial tomb.

The facts of this disaster hardly require another distasteful regurgitation, so I won’t do it, except to remind Friends that the City deeded over part of the Transportation Center parking facility to TA/Westpark for a pittance, given that they also change the entitlements making it worth 10 times what they sold it for. TA Partners is Johnny Lu and Larry Liu a couple of Chinese con men who had already pleaded guilty to fraud in LA County and who were in the process of going belly up on a huge loan in Irvine.

You may remember that the original grant deed that was recorded by Johnny and Larry was different than the one they recorded later, and the property description in the second recorded deed fraudulently includes the east end of the Depot loading dock now under leasehold by the Bushala Brothers, Inc., whose clock is ticking on their agreement. What a fiasco.

And it may be getting worse. That seems hard to imagine since the property was handed over three and a half years ago and nothing has happened. The hotel and attached mega apartment is supposed to be complete by October 21, 2026. My recollection is that the hotel and the attached mega apartment was supposed to be done only a few months from now. How many legally required milestones have been missed remains a part of the Big Sleep.

Meanwhile Johnny and Larry are said to have taken out a loan against their Fullerton real estate. I guess someone was willing to bet on the come, or just as likely, wasn’t – ahem – fully informed. Which deed was used to describe the lender’s collateral? Must have been the most recent one that includes the loading dock.

If some new loan fraud took place we can add that to the legal entanglements between TA Partners and the family of the original brainstormer, Craig Hostert, now unfortunately deceased. The agreement with the City should have excluded TA from creating debt on the property with permission from the City. But Fullerton, being Fullerton.

This comical boondoggle is now well over 7 years old and still there are no signs of official communication about the state of this mess, let alone resolution. Is staff trying to find a replacement to keep the embarrassment alive and save face for the disaster? Who knows?

June 2, 2026Boohooism

ABC

by The Fullerton Harpoon53 Comments

Anyone But Connor. Connor Traut, that is, the nebbish, desperate political carpetbagger, hack and descendant/acolyte of the corrupt Anaheim Cabal gang.

His mentor was the unspeakable Jordan Brandman, another young political climber who never held a job in his life that wasn’t handed to him.

Here’s the thing: vote for Jung, Espinosa or Shaw, if you vote at all. North Orange County has the ability today to be rid of the Connor Traut Experience once and for all. If by some chance this “establishment” Democrat gets elected we won’t be rid of his incessant political adventures for another 40 years as he bobs back and forth between Sacramento and the County Hall of Administration – making sure there is no government accountability every slimy step of the way.

Here’s a thought, Connor: get out of politics, get a real job that you earned, if you can, and support your family making a contribution to society. Don’t end up like your mentor, Jordan Brandman.

May 26, 2026May 26, 2026Ahmad Zahra

The People Have A Meeting

by Mr. Peabody20 Comments

Last week “the People” held their own meeting in front of City Hall since the Fullerton City Council meeting had been cancelled for lack of a quorum.

Who were “the People?” Nobody was saying before the event, except that the organizers were springing for limited pizza.

The turnout, predictably, was a couple dozen of the usual agitators at City Council meetings – a combination of Fullerton Boohoo, Fullerton Self-righteous, Fullerton Angry and Fullerton Nuts.

The ostensible theme of the get together was to bitch about the usual stuff, including transparency, which was funny because Sanka Kennedy of the Fullerton Observer who advertised this event, didn’t even bother to say who was putting on what turned out to be an overtly political event, whose principal purpose was to attack Mayor Fred Jung and promote Connor Traut in advance of the upcoming Supervisorial primary election.

It turns out the shindig was the work of Fullerton Forward, a political action committee cooked by council annoyance Steven Sherry, one of those underemployed political cling-ons looking to make his way in a cold, cruel political world. He was the one who sprang for the dozen pizzas, apparently.

O, the sparkling rhetoric from Crazy Air-punching Tim Johnson. Little Angry Bird, Dancing Ms. Green Card, Professor Curtis Gamble, Tender Young Elijah, Oliver the No-account of Montecristo, and other luminaries! Stika Kennedy, erstwhile “journalist” addressed the gaggle, too, showing again her failure to distinguish journalism from partisan politics.

Then, at last, to the mawkish business of “appointing” the “People’s Mayor.” Angry Johnson had already prepared certificate of accomplishment for the Dodgy Doctor from Damascus, Ahmad Zahra! What a surprise!!

The People’s Mayor contemplating his political future…and then free pizza for dinner!

The entire affair was an unwitting foray into comic opera, so at least some entertainment value was produced.

Questions about whether such an overtly political event on public property is legal and whether Fullerton Forward had permits or insurance to put on this affair are being raised by concerned citizens (see what I did there, Observers?).