Linda Ackerman has launched a horrible hit piece on Supervisor Chris Norby. She is spreading lies about harassment that have been roundly debunked.
How sad that Ackerman cannot go after Norby on the issues. Her husband Dick was a compromising worm in the State Senate – so she cannot run on that record. And Linda apparently didn’t finish college and is not the businesswoman she claims to be. For several years her job has been to squeeze lobbyists for campaign contributions for her hubby and his pals.
What really irks me is that Red County editor Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham is not coming to Norby’s defense, even though he claims to be Norby’s friend. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
So it fell upon Red County’s Allan Bartlett to defend Norby in a post that is sure to be deleted by Jerbal and Red County publisher Chip Hanlon. Here are a few excerpts:
- We are barely a week past the filing deadline and already the slime storm from Linda Ackerman has started. Granted we knew this was coming, but that doesn’t mean we can’t question the ethics of a flier like this. This is a desperate flier from a desperate campaign.
- Obviously her campaign has made the calculation that they are not going to talk about the issues that matter to 72nd district voters and instead are going for a scorched earth campaign. I believe this flier and others that are sure to get mailed will have blowback to them. Voters are so turned off right now about the Legislature that they’re apt to blame Linda Ackerman for being part of the problem.
- So again I get that this campaign was going to be the mother of all negative campaigns recently here in OC, but I hope that it backfires big time on Linda Ackerman. I am proud to stand with Tom McClintock and Chris Norby in this battle for who will represent us up in Sacramento.
Click here to see the entire hit piece by the Hackermans, on Norby.
The irony of all this is that the Hackermans created Mike Duvall, the pervy Assemblyman who resigned from the 72nd Assembly District after he got caught talking about sex with lobbyists by an open microphone, in the Assembly chambers. Dick recruited Duvall – and I find it hard to believe that Dick didn’t know about Duvall’s pervy nature.
Art, I got one of those yesterday. What’s interesting is that it was paid for by the Ackermans themselves – not by an IE. A lot of people suspected the dirty work was going to be performed by outsiders so Linda Ackerman could keep her hands clean. Guess not.
I’m a GOP Councilperson in a South County city and you all have discovered what I have known for years and that is there are two faces of the O.C. GOP. One is the “Leader” with the rah rah, down with the liberals red meat speaches for the blue haired ladies who man the GOP both at the fair. The OTHER face, the real face, is the anything for a buck political buck crew led by the likes of Jubal, Baugh, Pringle, Schroader, Fleishman, and Proballsky. I’ve seen them burn a guy at the stake for having a campaign sign in his yard for some “moderate” Republican and then turn around five minutes later and cut a big fat money making deal and help a hard core liberal stay in office. It’s all about money with those guys. I’m lucky that I don’t need them to get re-elected to my office and I get the GOP endorsement each election anyway.
My sources tell me that Linda was a true love child in the 1960’s who liked to spread the love around and men will be stepping forward to confirm. And Dick, like so many Republicans in Sacramento liked to sow his wild oats when and where he could. Those who play with fire often get burned.
Has anyone seen any polling data? It would be tragic to loose this opportunity to have Norby in the state assembly.
Matt Cunningham outed sex-abuse victims.
“Matt Cunningham outed sex-abuse victims.”
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I have a suggestion for you, you need to add more to your post to clarify the message. For those who know about the situation, you’re not telling them anything new. And for those not familiar with the case, you’re not telling them anything. I read your same message about 5 times and had no idea what the hell you were talking about. Only when I asked that is was explained to me.
Yeah, what Jerbalman did was unforgivable. You; however, need to change your message to make things clear.