Remember the political campaign that got started by a bankruptcy lawyer pretending his vocation was “Fullerton Parent” and who was endorsed by a gaggle of political crooks, liars and bagmen?
Well, it appears the crooked campaign of Andrew Cho got itself in trouble by heisting images from the Friends of Coyote Hills website in order to strike an environmentally friendly posture.
The funny thing about this is the obvious attempt to cover ground lost to Cho’s opponent, Fred Jung, on the open space issue. Cho has been repeatedly hit by Fullerton Taxpayers For Reform as a puppet of overdevelopment lobbyist Jennifer Fitzgerald, our departing Mayor-for-Hire who has her fingerprints all over every apartment prison block built in Fullerton over the past 8 years.
Rudy says thumbs up, way up, to suckers, who are born every minute.
The idiots who run FSD agreed to pay some chucklehead named Rudy Ruetigger $2000 as a motivational speaker at an August management retreat. We reported about that, here.
Ruetigger, a shameless self-promoter actually talked somebody into making a fictional movie account of his pathetic football efforts at Notre Dame.
The luck of the Irish was about to run out...
Despite immediate ridicule, the FSD stuck to their guns.
What sort of lessons were learned by FSD management at this retreat? Maybe Superintendent Mitch Hovey or one of the pathetic Trustees who voted for this will travesty will stop by and enlighten us.
Over the years we’ve learned that boldfaced spin and self-serving regurgitation of misinformation is a regular indulgence for those union mouthpieces over at the Liberal OC. Like most, we quickly grew tired trying to make sense of the noise emerging from the OCEA’s propaganda machine and so we’ve learned to ignore it. But every once in a while someone new comes along and gets sucked right into the blue vortex.
A few weeks ago, Chris Prevatt wrote this blurb supposedly “Busting the Myths” about how public employee pensions don’t cost us hardly anything and the real problem is… well something somewhere else. He backed that up with the audacious claim that public employee compensation only sucks up about 10% of California’s budget, a dubious statement which was then re-quoted by OCEA booster Nick Berardino in this letter to the OC Register.
Well somehow our perplexed new Friends over at UnionWatch.com stumbled upon Prevatt’s steaming pile and decided to break down this mythbuster’s logic. In a lengthy post based on conservative figures and some elementary math, the unnamed blogger discovered that the LiberalOC was off the mark by a factor of six. In fact, conservative calculations pinned public employee compensation at about 67% of California’s budget, far more than Prevatt’s 10%, putting public employees right back at the top of the lineup as a primary suspects in the case of California’s budget woes.
So nobody really knows if it was Prevatt or Berardino who initiated the transmission of this blatant error, but it doesn’t really matter. It served their purposes for a few moments and a couple of union adherents probably sucked it up and will continue to pass the falsehoods along. At least now the rest of us know better.
Last month FFFF published a post about how sweet, fresh Elijah Manassero scribbled an article for the Fullerton Observer attacking Mayor Fred Jung for misusing Fullerton’s city seal. A little later we noted with some amusement that the young sapling Manassero posted his string of attacks on the council majority and the Bushala family on a subReddit that swiped…Fullerton’s city seal!
Well, it appears that somebody, somewhere took notice of the problem. Sometime in the past week the subReddit page quit using the city seal and replaced it with this image.
Hmm. Now that looks sort of familiar. Oops!
Turns out the newly adopted image of r/Fullerton is a protected trademark, registered by the City with the United State Patent and Trademark Office over 20 years ago! Ouch.
Now that’s not very good is it? More bad behavior by r/Fullerton and hypocrisy from their frequent contributor, youthful Elijah.
I don’t think that the dainty fleur Elijah cares much about the sort of legal niceties involved with intellectual property theft, and probably knows even less about this sort of thing than he does about commercial leases (BTW, has fresh young Elijah sought legal recourse about the Bushala depot lease like he said he would, or was that just the loud screeching of a baby paper tiger?).
Remember. It’s not a lie…if you believe it.
The irony of a self-righteous purveyor of prevarication getting tangled up in this sort of embarrassment is palpable. However, Fullerton Boohoo characters are not known for the kind of self-introspection needed to understand irony. After all, they celebrate the deadbeat Ahmad Zahra’s brainy outpourings, despite his getting busted for plagiarism – another kind of intellectual theft.
In 2018 Ahmad Zahra, the immigration fraud and woman batterer and plagiarist popped up out of nowhere, an unknown, and got himself elected the D5 councilman in a split race.
Is he returning to that anonymous swamp from whence he emerged?
His candidate committee for re-election in 2026 is now listed on the City Clerk’s inactive committee page. I don’t know how or why it is there instead of on the active committee page. Could it be that the Deadbeat Damascene Doctor is giving up on Fullerton politics? Maybe the Kennedy Sisters will let us know.
Zahra’s political departure, if true, is a pleasant thought.
How dare you question my story!
For almost seven years we’ve been putting up with his lies, his manipulations, his machinations and his saccharine, high handed sanctimony. He has been so unpopular with a majority of his colleagues that they have continually denied him the mayorship, something he has obviously coveted so as to burnish his political reputation. Good job, too. He filed a false police report against one of them and has denigrated them in his frequent moods of high dudgeon.
It’s possible that Zahra sees no political future, given the gay man’s phony Green Card marriage to an Arkansas woman has been discovered and would obviously play a prominent part in a 2026 campaign. He spent well over $100,000 to keep his $800 per month gig in 2022 and only won because OC Dem Central created a fake Latino candidate to siphon votes away from Oscar Valadez. And this was before the marriage fraud was discovered. Thin ice, indeed.
Bushala says stop!
Zahra also knows that his malevolence directed at the Bushala family is reciprocated, and that Tony Bushala has the means and the motive to finally get rid of this creep. The fact that Mr. Valadez says he is running again must be a problem for the Middle Eastern man of medicine.
Fullerton Boohoo has clasped the prevaricating fraud to its collective bosom, believing all the tripe he dishes out to them. This won’t help him stay elected.
Soon we will find out if Zahra is leaving, going back to his “day job” (whatever that job may be) full time. Or maybe we will learn that a clerical error by the “new crew” has been made, assigning his committee to the inactive list.
A few weeks ago, the Fullerton Observer’s eager young cub reporter, Elijah Manassero, wrote an article about some misuse of the official Fullerton city seal by a “private company” with ties to Mayor Fred Jung.
The company in question is a Korean-American showroom of some kind on Harbor Boulevard that promotes the Fullerton-Seongnam City Sister City relationship. The offending sign had been changed by the time young Elijah wrote his “story.”
Tender Elijah’s sensibilities are offended by sign already removed…
That seemed like a real stretch to create news as the Observer is always doing because performing real journalism is too darn challenging for the Kennedy Sisters.
But wait for it.
On the internet chat site reddit, there is a “subreddit” called r/Fullerton. And guess what? r/Fullerton features our City seal right there on its banner, and done so, apparently, for years.
And that’s not all of course.
Oh, no. Busted again.
Guess who religiously cross posts his own anti-Jung, anti-Bushala, anti-Dunlap propaganda on reddit, not to mention the self-righteous crapola he writes for the Fullerton Observer? That’s right. Sweet young Elijah Manassero who is so alarmed by “unauthorized” use of Fullerton’s city seal.
Just when you might have felt safe from the re-emergence of the bumbling, incoherent former Fullerton City Councilman, Jesus Quirk-Silva, you might be horrified to learn his political thirst for office hasn’t been quenched. It appears that Quirk-Silva wants to be on the North Orange County Community College Board of Trustees. Observe:
So about a month ago JQS filed the form 501 – the statement filed when you intend to be a candidate.
The OC Dems will no doubt get behind the guy who knows nothing about college except that he somehow graduated from one despite the obvious intellectual deficit. This will be the same agglomeration of Dems who tried mightily to create a council district for the sole purpose of keeping Mr. Quirk-Silva in a council seat.
If somebody wanted to they could make reference to Quirk-Silva’s votes on the Fullerton City Council – like his embarrassing, comical, and sadly disastrous flip-flop on the boutique hotel disaster, although that isn’t likely.
It never says no…
These community college trustee elections rarely cause much of a dust up because no one really cares who the nodding birds are. The most recent addition to this crew is a guy named Mark Lopez, an unethical bozo who tried to be on the Anaheim School Board at the same time and who got kicked off the latter.
Official current pic of Jeffrey Brown. From thirty years ago.
Meantime, I should note there is an incumbent for the job, Jeffrey Brown who has been on the Board for well over twenty years and may be one of those people who love their little sinecure and will fight to keep it.
And that’s where I put the sign in the back of the car…
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention a rumor circulating that the seat is now coveted by none other than Paulette Marshal. Yes, the same person whose lawsuit against Tim Shaw caused the Dems to lose their only seat on the OC Board of Education; who tried and failed as a candidate for that job twice, pretending to be a teacher; and who was previously busted for stealing campaign signs from private property during a phony carpetbagging scheme to get on the Fullerton City Council in 2018.
Oh, Paulette, you’ve done it again…
She may look like death warmed over, but her political ambition may not be dead.
Pilferin’ Paulette hard at work…
It would be safe to say that nobody wants Pilferin’ Paulette around anymore, hovering in the background like the chorus in a Greek tragedy. But this miscreant has shown she’s willing to sink a big chunk of her kid’s inheritance into getting a political office – any political office. Well, nobody except Paulette, and her senile, corrupt husband, County Supervisor Doug “Bud” Chaffee.
One of the curiosities that emerged from the Bushala depot lease hearing at Tuesday’s Fullerton City Council meeting was a letter from the Bushalas’ lawyer demanding Councilman Ahmad Zahra to recuse himself. Why? Because he is biased against them, as indicated by numerous derogatory comments about their supposed negative influence on the Council majority. Here’s the letter, sent to Zahra on Tuesday afternoon.
At the outset of the meeting Zahra innocently claimed his impartiality and lack of animosity to the Bushalas, a claim that his past behavior has shown to be false, and that his behavior that very night was to belie. Anyone watching the charter city hearing, and watching Zahra’s ten minute meltdown, knows this.
Zahra began to question staff about all sorts of details in the existing and proposed lease amendment; about staff’s procedures in negotiating, etc. a strategy never before displayed by Zahra when it came to dozens and dozens of previous lease agreements he approved on the nod.
Zahra’s behavior didn’t escape the notice of two public commenters who took him to task for his blatant bias, observing that he never before showed much, if any interest in the details of lease agreements set before him, most of which were passed on the consent calendar.
That can’t be good…
Later, Zahra felt the need to defend himself. The subsequent speech explained his constant attention to details and outlined his incredible diligence looking out for the welfare of the “people.” Mayor Jung felt constrained to point out the disastrous “boutique hotel” vote of Zahra and Charles, in which conmen were essentially the beneficiaries of a massive gift of public funds – obviously no due diligence had been performed by either Charles or Zahra before they voted for the boondoggle.
“Tam. Smell that smell…
My own favorite Zahra dereliction was the proposed “fish farm” in which a closed public park was to be illegally converted into a private event center with a fish tank in the middle. Remember? The unsolicited proposer had no money to pay rent or even possessory interest tax, and no collateral to get a loan; there was no parking; instead of thinking about the impact on the neighbors, Zahra even dragged up some of his toadies to gargle about trees and green space, not noise and lack of parking. All the details would be figured out later, said Zahra. The Big Idea, not the details were what was important.
Yep. You read that right. As reported in the Voice of OC last month, DA Todd Spitzer and his former bad cop Shawn Nelson were popped for retaliating against Tracy Miller, one of the Deputy DAs. It seems that Spitzer hired his best bud Gary LoGalbo at the DAs shop who proceeded to sexually harass a bunch of women; Miller said she was targeted by Spitzer and Nelson for whistleblowing. This is the frat boy kind of garbage so common in the workplace.
A jury believed Ms. Miller and awarded her three million bucks. That’s a lot of scratch. And many other suits are till outstanding.
Shawn Nelson, Todd Spitzer, and Joe Sipowicz have one thing in common. None of us will have to pay a dime of that award. Nelson and Spitzer are protected by the typical indemnification that goes with public employment. And I live in Lincoln County, Nevada.
But OC residents will pay plenty. About a dollar for every person in the county; about $150,000 for very man woman and child in Fullerton. So Sorry.
For Spitzer the case is just another in a long line of employee related legal suits dating back his days as a County Supervisor. He’s been busted for racial profiling and recently lost a $2,000,000 case for retaliating against a DA investigator. Ouch. He’s costing OC a helluva lot more than he’s worth.
Well fed on your dollar…
The equally morally egregious Nelson once a Fullerton Councilman, used to be a hardcore Spitzer enemy until he saw him as a was to become a judge – a long standing wet dream job. But he was never going to get it without help – an official job with the DAs office. So Nelson endorsed Spitzer over Rackauckas in 2018 and in return got the job as Spitzer’s in-house enforcer. He also got an undeserved job title (he was formerly a defense lawyer) and a free pass to a judgeship via an election against a nobody. The Bar Association described him as “unqualified.”
Spitzer’s response was a non-apology of the “I’m sorry my well-intentioned actions were misinterpreted” type. Nelson, as a judge didn’t have to say anything, hiding behind the “He can’t comment” as parroted by some court flunky to the media.
