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Young Steve Perez, a Liberal OC contributor until last night, can sure be an irritating guy, but his latest move is a gutsy one – he’s just been booted off that blog for using his space there to ridicule their lawsuit against us. (In retrospect, it seems like he’s been trying to get thrown off that blog for a while.)
No biggie. Steve already has his own blog, the Political Dish (thepoliticaldish.com) where you can read the offending story. Let’s give him a little traffic now; I’ll just give you a little teaser and then please click to read the rest. You may titter, you may chortle, and toward the end you may even smirk and snort with disdain at the tomfoolery of Dan, Chris, and the gang over at That Bluish Blog…
A “Foolish” Lawsuit in Review
A decent amount of time has passed to where I now can comfortably poke fun at the lawsuit pitting (mostly) Dan Chmielewski via theliberaloc.com against Art Pedroza and what was formally his orangejuiceblog.com. I think it’d be fair to say that every stage of this lawsuit has astonished the political community. From its beginnings to its somewhat pitifully sad end.
Now, there’s more people involved in this than you may know about… some named in the lawsuit, and others not named. Let me just say, since I think it’s important to note this…that Art Pedroza has made many, many enemies. His enemies list crosses party lines, the thing is one of the most bipartisan efforts in the county. And Art’s enemies circled around the man like swarm of angry insects. I would’ve said that they circled around him like sharks… but come on, we’re talking mostly about ineffectual liberals here.
When I attended Drinking Liberally on a regular basis, the conversation would always turn to Art, and I’d either physically move to engage differant people in conversation, or, in my exasperation tell those engaging in this obsession to “stop talking about Art Pedroza! Who cares?!?”. It was like watching groups of children from the same neighborhood plot against each other.
Read the rest here…
(It’s true, that last bit in that excerpt above; I met two people in recent months who are friendly with Dan and Chris, and they both said that for months they’d talk nonstop about nothing but Art Pedroza, this blog, and their suit against us, and that they would beg them to stop it, and try anything to change the subject. I began to have the realization – their lawsuit was hurting THEM – spiritually and mentally – more than it was hurting US.
Best of luck to Steve and his new blog!
His last post about Lori Galloway on the FibOC was one of the best written pieces I ever read there. I had to make sure that I wasn’t seeing things.
http://www.theliberaloc.com/2010/12/06/lorri-galloway-spent-no-time-lingering-leaves-4th-district-before-midterm/comment-page-1/#comment-65543
The comment thread on the Lori Galloway piece is quite amusing. Looks like the Larry Agran bootlicker…sorry I meant Dan had one of the best foot in the mouth lines on it
“Dan Chmielewski on December 7, 2010 at 12:29 pm
And Cynthia, you forget, I was inside her home on Center Street. It’s journalistically inaccurate to describe that well-decorated home as “camping out.” If she wasn’t there a lot, she works, she was running for office and was active an an Anaheim City Council member.
This obsession with carpetbagging as a political sin is ridiculus.”
Someone named fuskewagy had a real good comeback for him.
“fuskewagy on December 9, 2010 at 1:38 pm
http://www.theliberaloc.com/2010/03/22/carpetbagging-steven-choi-from-princely-to-pauper/
“This obsession with carpetbagging as a political sin is ridiculus.”
As ridiculous as this piece that you and Long Beach boy wrote?”
The rest of the comment thread is quite comical
The LOC crowd are total phonies.
Begining with the fact that Chris LIVES in Los Angeles County.
In defense, Dan wrote effusively about his and Chris’s connection to Santa Ana. When it turns out he runs his “Botique PR firm” out of his garage! Some would call them disingenuous, I call them LIARS.
It’s now been relocated to an unused bedroom in the Canyon View area of Irvine
I was shocked that those fine fellows at the LiberalOC would delete a post because it may paint a picture that they don’t want the public to see.
I emailed Chris and Dan to ask them if the LiberalOC had engaged in censorship given that they claim that they would never do such a thing.
Here is Prevatt’s response:
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: clp @chrisprevatt.com
Date: Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: No censorship at LibOC?
To: Sean Mill
Fuck off ass hole.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
And what ever happened to Francisco J. Barragan here on Orange Juice?
Pot meet Kettle.
I don’t ever remember Francisco J. Barragan getting kicked off this blog for something he wrote. In fact I believe he is still able to write posts on the OJ to this day.
Steve Perez and myself were both booted off the Liberal OC because Dan and Chris did not like what we were writing.
Not the same Gabe.
I couldn’t find a certain post he wrote about crime and Santa Ana. It seemed to “disappear” after the N2 elections.
Hmmm
It’s being updated. I never lost it.
Was he kicked off the blog Gabe?
He is free to post his Amezcua propaganda now Gabe. The voters didn’t buy those lies either.
Pop in that Book of Eli DVD and return to the good book:
“first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.”
Wouldn’t the trashing of a post you worked hard on and spent time writing make you want to leave too?
Patience, Gabo. I’m meeting with Paco tomorrow.
Hey what do you OJ readers think, should we invite on Steven?
I commend Steve for speaking his mind, but his attacks against Dreamers were worse than the attacks of some Republicans. He worships Loretta too much…
This guy is just a hateful piece of shit. He thinks because hes worked on campaigns that hes the shit. i remember the things he wrote about the dream team and the orange county labor federation. what kind of democrat is he really? hes just a mean petty wuss idiot. Bad addition to OJ
Admirable — getting to the point so quickly and succinctly.
LOL. And those tools have the audacity to talk about being “classy.”
Priceless!
Yes. Anyone willing to take on Chimielewski or knock him down several notches is alright in my book.
Anyway, now onto lumping the Liberal OC. Steve’s last post on the Dalati campaign is still up. What isn’t? A link to his new blog at the bottom where it used to be.
Tsk, tsk, tsk!
So yeah, Vern, mini-correction. Perez had his new blog up before this mess and was cross-listing his posts until…
Fixed. Gracias
Note to Chris Prevatt:
ASSHOLE is one word!
Man, if he was blogging here, Vern would be all over this kind of grammatical atrocity!
Sheesh, what other blogs let pass for journalism. From an editor no less!
Fawke you GF haha
u just jealous because at least Guy Fawkes ha ha
Making an enemy of Steve Perez is making an enemy with with a child, a vindictive, petty, spoiled child with far too much time on his hands and nothing to lose or gain. Poor move Dan. And watch yourself Art, you are next.
If they’d publish my post, I might tell the Liberal OC Blog this:
Your recent post about Richard Nixon is interesting. But he has been dead for 16 years. He left office in discrace 36 years ago! MOVE ON.
Repeatedly over the past year your BLOG an excellent vehicle for progressive politics has focused on a petty personal vendetta. It has led many, like me to believe that you are NOT AT ALL INTERESTED in any type of Democratic agenda.
Rather, the owner likes to publish pictures of himself with political figures, brag about his attendance at events, even openly discuss his weight loss surgery and childrens accomplishments! All good stuff if he were publishing a Christmas newsletter!
I have read how you blindly support certain canidates (Lorri Galloway) and completely ignore others.
I have read how yoregularly post messages on your “friends” Facebook accounts, Friends who happen to be FAR RIGHT WING bloggers themselves??
You openly converse with the “Latino Outreach Director” against GAY MARRIAGE, yet you guys proclaim a “equal marriage stance? Please explain this.
You BLOG about Santa Ana politics, but you don’t live here, but you say you work here??? You work at home in Irvine, and your editor is employed by the County and lives in Los Angeles?? Whats the answer there?
Most recently, you claimed that “carpetbagging” was OK, but not if you’re Steven Choi???
I find the liberal OC to be a great example of whats wrong with politics in OC: Wannabee big mouths, on both sides who can type a mean game but NEVER:
1) put their money where their mouth is.
2) Stand up against injustice.
3) isn’t willing to sell out for a Ducks Ticket or a free dinner at Dan Tanna’s……(atta boy)
Hows that for a call out FAT ASS!
Watch it tonyserra! Stalker Dan might park his car in front of your house and peek in your window to see if your kitchen is as fabulous as the one at Lori Galloway’s “residence.”
Some people call it trespassing, Stalker Dan calls it journalism.
tonyserra, right on man, I like the way you think!
BTW, those fucks at the LIBOC are a bunch of phonies. Don’t waste your time thinking about them, they’re irrelevant cowards who have no influence.
PS: They (FAT ASS and Co,) get off when you talk about them, so if you can diss them forever, poof.
Fan –
As tempted as I am to ignore them, they have torn a page out of Art’s book. Making me respond.
The difference is in Pedroza’s case we debated public policy, in the LOC’s world we talk about Dawn C’s weight and Prevatt’s residency.
I have to wonder where Matt Cunningham stands on this, and what is his relationship with Dan? How can Pro-gay and Anti-gay folks allign? Art was way more powerful than we ever gave him credit for………OR these guys are hollow sellouts……….
I’ll leave it to you decide which?