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December 17, 2025December 17, 2025A Step in the Right Direction

Mayor Jung, Again, For 2026

Yes, Mayor Fred Jung will be Mayor Fred Jung again. It happened at the Fullerton City Council meeting last night.

The usual assortment of Fullerton Boohoo showed up at the meeting for their annual December moan-fest about how “Dr.” Ahmad Zahra should be Mayor of Fullerton because he is a combination of Albert Schweitzer, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Jesus H. Christ. And also District 5, where Zahra has never got 50% of the vote, is somehow “disenfranchised” because Zahra can’t revel in the lofty title. Sputter, wheeze, etc. Ironically, one Zahra advocate explained as a qualification how the unemployed and family-less Zahra was always at photo-op events.

Comically, many of Zahra’s ardent followers couldn’t pronounce his name right, referring to him as “Za-ha-rah,” thus suggesting they don’t even know him.

But somehow the show seemed pretty muted, and sort of perfunctory; maybe it was because Zahra wasn’t even at the meeting and this meant that his getting three votes wasn’t in the cards.

Zahra minions spoke about the policy of mayoral rotation made years ago by other city councils that must be adhered to, even though the City Attorney had said a council majority could set it aside anytime they want, making the policy meaningless.

What will 2026 have in store for this one…

The endlessly self-impressed gasbag Shana Charles said it was also her turn to be mayor, cuz she had just been Mayor Pro Tem, and ya know, policy. She is running for re-election next years and probably thought, delusionally, that she had a shot at the Title. She didn’t.

In the end Valencia nominated Fred Jung who was appointed Mayor; Nick Dunlap was nominated, and appointed Mayor Pro Tem.

No one within the boohoo tribe has ever bothered to honestly figure out why the council majority has steadfastly refused to appoint Zahra to be mayor. It’s chalked up to selfish personality issues on their part, but we know the real reason. No one whom Zahra hasn’t fooled with his phony immigrant schtick and faux sincerity wants to hear his long-winded, self-praising bloviation and his promotion of his “brand.” They resent his constant condescension toward them, his performance of moral superiority, and his hysterical, behind the scenes behavior.

The same applies to the majority’s opinion of Shana Charles, with her smug, incompetent, speechifying. She loves the sound of her own voice, alright, but nobody else loves the bi-monthy waste of time that just interminably drags out meetings. Even Nick Dunlap, who nominated Charles to be mayor Pro Tem a year ago, has evidently had enough of her tedious monologues.

Speaking of Dunlap, he did excel himself before the vote, noting that the same 40 people (it’s probably closer to 20) who show up at council meetings do not represent the public or the community and that he had been elected to represent everybody. Well done, there, Mr. Dunlap. They won’t get it, but need to be reminded once in a while.

So Fred Jung gets to use the title “Mayor” during his campaign for County Supervisor which is a help in the odd world of local politics where almost nobody is paying attention to real accomplishments or real failures.

December 14, 2025December 14, 2025Ahmad Zahra

Trail to Nowhere on Way to 105,000 annual users!

by Mr. Peabody60 Comments

Only 104,950 to go.

The Fullerton Observer has published a photo montage of the big ribbon cutting ceremony on Saturday. Almost all the principle creators of this “treasure,” were there, although I didn’t see any pictures of Councilmembers Nick Dunlap and Jamie Valencia who voted for it. But photo-op hound Ahmad Zahra was there, and so was Shana Charles, presumably talking up the virtues of public health; even Sharon Quirk showed up to celebrate the proud accomplishment and take credit for the $1,780,000 the State of California contributed to this achievement. About 50 people were there if you don’t count politicians and City employees.

Pure joy was experienced by all!

High on life. Future users will also be high.

But skeptics that we are here at FFFF, we sent out one of our white van boys after the morning hoopla was over. William Wallace captured the sprit of the trail on opening day – a pleasant Saturday afternoon. Perfect for recreation.

See what $2,300,000 (and more, I’m sure) gets you in the way of an urban intervention, Fullerton-style.

What did Shana have to say about the concertina wire?

Asphalt aroma is good for the lungs, they say…

Sandbags show grade bust with unlucky neighbor.

More nasty security wire. Is this trail safe? Don’t ask.

December 12, 2025December 13, 2025Boohooism

Grand Opening for Trail to Nowhere

by The Fullerton Harpoon48 Comments

It’s tomorrow, don’t be late for the Big Event. Let’s let Sanksa Kennedy of the Fullerton Observer spell it all out.

Why write about news when you can try to make your own! (Photo by Julie Leopo/Voice of OC)

The Grand Opening Ceremony will begin at 10 am at Independence Park, 801 West Valencia Drive, Fullerton. Be among the first to walk, bike, and enjoy this brand-new greenbelt trail connecting our neighborhoods with safe, beautiful, and sustainable pathways. This long-awaited project brings new trees, lighting, and enhanced recreation opportunities right to the heart of our community.

An initiative aimed at transforming an unsightly stretch along an old railroad spur into a vibrant community trail has faced multiple challenges and opposition from a few of the council members, even with $1.78 million in state funding backing it.

After significant community pressure, Council Member Dunlap ultimately changed his stance, voting in favor of the construction contract alongside fellow council members Zahra, Charles, and Valencia. In a not so surprising turn, Mayor Fred Jung stood alone in opposition to the project.

The Union Pacific Trail project stands as a testament to the community’s commitment to development, equity, and civic engagement. Residents are hopeful that this project will be the beginning of more green space for South Fullerton and will create a welcoming space for everyone.

Wow, that’s awful rosy, concluding as facts things that haven’t happened, and of course never will.

Saska is still promoting the same old lie that this boondoggle “connects neighborhoods.” It doesn’t even connect to Phase 1!

It’s a total waste of money, but it sure is short…

Poor Sanka doesn’t seem to grasp the nonsense of an unsightly stretch being the heart of “our community.” Not mentioned is the fact that the unsightly stretch is still there, like it always was and hoping that a silly (and expensive) trail will transform anything is just preposterous wishful thinking.

In Sinka’s tiny brain spending money equates to “equity” regardless of outcome – that’s already been decided by the two dozen drumbeaters for the Trail to Nowhere. She reminds us about the $1.8 million from the State as a reason this should have always been an easy call. She neglects to inform Observers that the City’s cost ballooned from $170,000 to $630,000; but hey it’s a testament, alright. A testament to stupidity and lousy stewardship of public money.

How many of the people who promoted this mess in rhapsodic terms will even be around in a year’s time to calculate the running costs, the graffiti, the crime, the lack of usage, the dead and dying vegetation? None, of course.

Tomorrow this utter waste of $2.3 million will have a hundred parents. In December 2026 it will be an orphan.

December 5, 2025December 5, 2025Boohooism

Who is Your Favorite Fullerton Public Commenter?

by The Fullerton Harpoon38 Comments

There is a conga line of eccentric bloviators who keep showing up at Fullerton City Council meetings to berate the so-called “council majority.” Some of them are quite abusive and accusatory. Some then try, or pretend to try, to get the objects of their disapprobation to do something for them. Any attaching tissue to reality seems to be non-existent.

Who is your favorite?

December 4, 2025December 4, 2025Ahmad Zahra

Zahra Agonistes & Observer Silence

by Grover Cleveland23 Comments

That Ahmad Zahra sure puts on a show for his cult followers. During Tuesday’s “council communications” he went on a pathetic 11 minute emotional roller coaster ride, a real self-pity party that was full of his special brand of histrionics – gestures, knowing nods, glances at who knows who, dramatic pauses, pained looks, and near-tears expressions.

Good Lord, what a valediction! Departing hero, victim, saint, champion of the downtrodden and upholder of truth and justice.

Of course it was a damn waste of everybody’s time. But when you’re a self-aggrandizing narcissist that’s the last thing to worry about. In fact, your speech is just the capper to a long conga line of oddball public commenters you have stirred up to attack your political enemies. And he still has a whole year to keep repeating the performance.

Meantime, the Kennedy Sisters who run the pretend news outlet Fullerton Observer still haven’t mentioned Zahra’s decision not to run for re-election. You would think Sanka and Sharon Kennedy would fall all over themselves to shower sickly sweet encomiums upon the object of their infatuation. But no. The proverbial deafening silence.

Zahra put out his statement over two weeks ago and there has been no mention on the Observer site of Zahra’s departure at the end of 2026. We know that the Observer operation is incompetent and completely biased, but this neglect has got to be deliberate. Why?

It’s been speculated, and with some justification, that the Sisters are waiting until the Democrat Machine can find and endorse a replacement for Zahra; and that once all the endorsements are locked up and any District 5 Dem rivals swept aside, all will be revealed and the anointed one revealed to hallelujahs and hosannas.

The anointing oil was greasy and left fingerprints, and didn’t take…

This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. What difference does it make to let Fullerton Boohoo know Zahra’s story – even the implications? That might even look like sort of real journalism.

But hey, these are the same dummies who aided and abetted Scott Markowitz in 2024. Maybe they really believe they need to keep the cat in the bag while they find another Cannabis Kitty Jaramillo to roll out.

December 2, 2025December 2, 2025A Manfro All Seasons

Public Property Lease Rates on Agenda; And the Reality of the Santa Fe Café

by Mr. Peabody52 Comments

The conversation at tonight’s Fullerton City Council meeting will turn to public property leases in Downtown Fullerton. A few years ago the Council raised rates. The jump was high – around 90% – but the City hadn’t increased rents for 10 years so the real increase over time was about 9% a year. Add the three succeeding years and it’s 7.7% per annum. That’s still high, but that’s what the Council approved, most notably the self-styled “pro business” Councilman, Ahmad Zahra.

The matter is now controversial because one restaurant occupying City space, Les Amis, run by the Montecristo clan, is using the 2022 rent hike as justification for their refusal to pay rent for years – dating back to 2011. They don’t bother explaining to their dupes all the years they stiffed their landlord (us) rent; and they never mention all the times they encroached on City property without permit or agreement. The City government bent way over backwards to accommodate Les Amis, who have shown very little gratitude for the latitude they were given for a decade and a half. Quite the contrary.

Apropos of the rent issue, one of the other complaints from the grand bruit Les Amis claque is that that one patio in particular pays no rent – the Santa Fe Café, run by Salma Bushala-Hamud.

Salma Bushala-Hamud, Fullerton small business owner and philanthropist.

First it should be mentioned that the patio in question is included in the Bushala Brothers, Inc.’s lease at the depot. Therefore it is reasonable to conclude that the area designated as 9 in the site plan is included in BBIs master lease with the City and is thus included in the entire lease. Here’s the leasehold plan:

Even if this weren’t the case, BBI has obviously decided to let the public occupy shade covered tables and chairs even if they don’t patronize the café. All you have to do is look at the people sitting in the area. Almost none of them are café patrons.

This policy is indicated by an actual sign that lets the public know they can sit there, gratis, a decent and civilized gesture.

But back to the meeting. I hope the item starts out with a reminder from Mayor Jung and the City Attorney to the predictably frothed up Les Amis amigos who show up all the facts of the situation; to relate the years of skipped rent, the tens of thousands in overdue amounts, and the illegal encroachments; to let them know they’re being played by the Noaccounts of Montecristo and the rank-and-file of Ahmad Zahra’s Fullerton Boohoo stooges who demand a victim-of-the-week to weep for.

November 26, 2025November 29, 2025Boohooism

Shana Charles Lies. And Cries.

by Mr. Peabody26 Comments

At the last Fullerton City Council meeting Councilwoman Shana Charles put the Les Amis as victim narrative on display again. Here’s what she said:

First, Pilgrim Café was not on the now-mercifully defunct Walk on Wilshire. Neither was Les Amis, of course. Those were just a couple of casual lies to remind everyone of her great success – WoW – instead of what it really was: an expensive, stupid, feel good, boohoo urban intervention that impeded traffic and hurt small businesses on Wilshire Avenue.

That led her into the revelation of a “coming soon” restaurant sign on the building where Les Amis is housed! Poor, delicate Shana was devastated – almost near tears at any moment, it seemed – at the likelihood that Les Amis was suddenly going to be something else not run by the Noaccounts of Montecristo because of course “that food was (past tense!) their heart and their culture.” Oh! The humanity!

The unspoken theme of this little speech (and parroted constantly by the Kennedy Sisters) was that Fullerton’s City Council, and especially the evil Mayor Fred Jung, is intent on destroying all good things in Fullerton. No explanation given or needed.

Of course distraught Shana again felt no moral compulsion to relate the truth: that Les Amis‘ patio on public property was cleared out because they serially refused to pay rent to the City, and kept encroaching without legal permits. Really another lie by omission.

But let’s not not share our pseudo-intellectual windbag councilwoman’s lament. Jinan Montecristo, who owns the building, simply rented out the empty front part to some sort of Italo-something restaurant, and it is now open. If Charles had actually taken the time to trudge herself around the corner she might have learned that Les Amis was indeed, still open; and that a tenant was moving into the heretofore empty front of the building.

Not paying your bills is the best way to become a Sharon Quirk Woman of the Year!

But that would have spoiled the ongoing narrative that demands weeping for a downtrodden victim and a wicked council majority who was somehow personally responsible for the shameful and wanton destruction of the Les Amis rented patio.

You know, looking at that picture above, a couple questions spring to mind.

Is that new restaurant paying rent to the City for the area where their tables and chairs and umbrellas are now located? We know the Noaccounts of Montecristo were using it illegally for free; did poor, downtrodden Jinan relate to her new tenants that they needed a permit and a lease with the City? Hmm. I wonder.

And as a second thought, I wonder if anybody bothered to get construction permits for any new interior remodeling for stuff like plumbing, HVAC and electrical work.

November 22, 2025November 22, 2025Ahmad Zahra

We Get Mail. Fullerton Observer Ethics

by The Fullerton Harpoon67 Comments

FFFF received communication from an individual named Dr. Aaron Moore who had attempted to post a comment on the Fullerton Observer about the Les Amis Saga.

A couple days ago, I wanted to make a thoughtful yet truthful comment on the Les Amis stolen sidewalk that the city smartly put back together and reclaimed its own property, and I had a feeling that the Fullerton Observer sisters would not publish my comment…

Here’s what I said (Grey box). They did not post my comment which I thought was rather fair, and paints a more clear picture for everyone. Other comments made by the uninformed that castigated the City were published, of course.

P.S. my comment is still not published.

Here is Dr. Moore’s comment:

So here’s a comment absolutely following the supposed Observer rule of engaging in “civil discussion” that is refused publication. Why? Because the true story doesn’t fit the narrative woven by Ahmad Zahra, the Kennedy Sisters and Delicate Sprig Elijah Manassero that the owners of Les Amis were actually victims of something or other, instead of the reality: they were serial rent dodgers and squatters for years and years and years.

Off you go. We’ll hear nothing of the kind…

But the truth? Can’t have that. It gets in the way of the fictional story. It’s too awkward and so off to the corn field goes the truth.

Forget about unethical “journalism.” We’re talking about some serious mental and moral deficiency here.

November 17, 2025November 17, 2025Ahmad Zahra

Ad Hoc Tuah Part Five-ah. And No Laughing Matter

by Disillusioned Ex-Hippy32 Comments

Right after the City Council votes to ban nitrous oxide in Fullerton, they will discuss the creation of an ad hoc (that’s Latin, darlin’) committee of two councilmembers to work with staff to develop sales tax ballot measure language. It’s item #20 on your scorecard.

The tax idea was floated by an earlier ad hoc committee, the so-called Sustainable Budget Committee, or something suchlike. That committee ultimately decided to recommend to limit the parameters of the tax to two different special half-cent sales taxes, one for infrastructure and one for our old friend “public safety.” It was probably reasoned that they would get more support than a general sales tax, but they need a two-thirds vote of approval for a special tax – a tough nut to crack.

Of course, a General Tax increase only needs a 50%+1 threshold to pass. But you need a council super- majority – 4 votes – for that to get on a ballot, and that seems highly unlikely.

It’s been painful to watch this drawn out Kabuki and it seems as it if will go on at least until the deadline for getting on next year’s ballot. Fortunately there is little chance that Mayor Fred Jung will let the obnoxious and incompetent spendthrift “doctors” Ahmad Zahra and Shana Charles anywhere near this language-developing process.

We have all seen the way that these government-written ballot measures twist language and logic to try to fool the public to approve them. The examples are so plentiful they hardly need enumerating. Remember the ill-fated Measure S in Fullerton? Hoo Boy was that some seriously misleading bullshit. Hopefully, Jung can require a simple and honest text without the usual treacle.

My cynical side wonders how much of the infrastructure tax language will actually include funding for the cops and financial bailout for the idiotic firefighter-union-members-as-ambulance-drivers decision, or FEMA FFD expansion grant nonsense. Anyway you cut it you want those well-funded unions on board for the inevitable campaign PR campaign.

Fullerton Boohoo and the Kennedy Sisters will be crying out loudly that the fix is in by their new bogeyman – the evil Bushala Bloc – and that any ballot measure language will be crafted to fail without the steady guidance of our in-house council “intellectuals.” Tender young sprout Elijah will demand TRANSPARENCY. They may even still squawk about the need for a General Sales Tax increase, after all. But I think that Good Ship Lollipop has sailed.

Has that ship sailed? I wonder.

November 12, 2025November 12, 2025Ahmad Zahra

Young Elijah Misses Nap, Throws Tantrum

by Disillusioned Ex-Hippy11 Comments

Sweet flower Elijah Manassero has just lost his temper. Did he miss his midday nap? Does he have a full diaper? Who can say? What I do know is that he has scribbled another of his diatribes for the Fullerton Observer Sisters, piling on their desperate narrative that the owners of Les Amis are victims of some sort of conspiracy in City Hall.

The City finally removed Les Amis stuff from City property a few weeks ago after the aforesaid business spent a decade and a half dodging rent, stalling, trying to weasel out of signed agreements and of course, encroaching onto public space without permit or agreement on several occasions.

The defenders of the indefensible are trying to ignore all the facts of the Les Amis history of scofflawry, and pretend that the substantial 2022 rent increases by the City were insufferable, and hence non-payment justified. And anything that happened before this gossamer pretext is wished into Fullerton Boohoo’s collective cornfield.

Tender fleur Elijah calls his article a “history,” but conveniently omits most of Les Amis‘ real histoire, and like a typical Observer reporter shares unsubstantiated conversations related to him by Ms. Jinan Montecristo – the alleged victim in all this – as gospel. Young pup Elijah mentions nothing before 2022, of course, and even Les Amis recent spotty history of non-payment goes unmentioned.

Fragile and fresh Elijah has tried to speak with nobody inside of City Hall to get the true litany of Les Amis bad behavior. That would be uncomfortable. He accepts as true what he has been told by the noaccounts of Montecristo without reservation. Did he get any facts from Mayor Fred Jung about the removal of the Les Amis detritus? Nope. Might he have been told that the upcoming discussion of lease rates in the future has nothing to do with lease obligations in the past and due now? Of course. Did he he inquire about the fact that maybe the removal of the stuff happened at 6:30 am so as not to block the adjacent alleyway during business hours? No. That would interfere with the conspiracy narrative.

Since the young fleur Manassero visits and cites this blog all the time, he knows very well that his mentor and manipulator, Ahmad Zahra, voted to implement the 2022 rates; and he knows that the Montecristo clan said nothing about it at the June 21, 2022 public hearing. He has obviously decided that these facts aren’t necessary to convey his nonsensical narrative. Why clutter up your prosaic propaganda with embarrassing information?

And why should Fullerton expect anything resembling honesty, integrity, or basic journalistic ethics from The Fullerton Observers and its proprietors – the Kennedy Sister, Sharon and Sitka.