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[Ed. Note: Our transom is apparently going to be really busy these four two years!]
Voters sputtered in shock: “Our new Mayor’s an Ass-clown?”
They descended en masse into Neal Kelley’s shop:
“Let’s recount or challenge! We MUST make this stop!”
“People canvassed,” they begged, “and they fought for each vote!
“But nothing exceeded the checks Disney wrote.
“Anaheim’s Mayor of Kindness, who watched funds with caution,
“Has now been replaced by high bidder at auction.”
“He brings with him cronies with iron-clad wills
“To whack at piñatas filled with dollars bills.
“They’ll undo our labors, our years of hard work,
“With a snake-oil salesman and carpetbag jerk.”
“One cannot trust Brandman! His heart can’t be smaller!
“He defamed our James in his search for top dollar!
“We’ve watch this live-action Pinocchio’s nose
“As he’s lied into office promising Trader Joe’s.”
“And Trevor O’Neill — to the light he’ll be drawn
“When we wakes up and sees they’re all Curt Pringle’s spawn.
“Aided by a hate blogger who smirks as he pokes,
“The online version of a child’s fart jokes.”
“They’ll pillage, they’ll plunder, they’ll spend all our taxes
“(‘Til even Lucille will wish for Tom backsies!)
“In decades hereafter young children will rue
“The pro-Disney pillaging under Sidhu.”
“It won’t take 4 years for the Mayor’s seat to open
“When greed takes out Harry like a runner dopin’
“He’ll fall to temptation — those dollars from tourists —
“Then recall election (post-action by jurists.)”
“The glimmer of hope, however pequeño:
“With a 15-point lead, we kept Doctor Moreno!
“(Whose motions he’ll second, said Brandman to voters …
“Though always in private, quite far from take-noters.)”
“The news ain’t all bad, for there is a good word:
“Mr. Mayor! Mr. Mayor!” shall no longer be heard
“From the blonde robot gasbag who headed their faction
“Now jobless; soon friendless; career has lost traction.”
“We’ll stop them from putting our town into hock!
“We’ll fight off their kickbacks, pleading sticker shock!
“It’s no time for whiners, let’s stand and deliver!
“(Their brand new majority has cause to shiver.)”
“We’ll shame them in public with words they’ve inspired
“You needn’t send cash, just three minutes required!
“Our voices will raise, it’s our legal right!
“We’ll call for accounting if it takes all night!”
“We’ll stay at our labors, we’ll dig up their dirts!
“They can’t hide behind Carrie Nocella’s skirts!”
Then they heard there won’t be recounting of votes.
So they left the office and they cleared their throats!
“Come Gadflies! Come Activists! Pains-in-their-asses!
“They may have their titles, but we have the masses!
“We’ll rise to the challenge and all will be fine
“We’ll pound down their doors if they step out of line!
“We won’t ask Big Brother to lend us his bats
“We needn’t re-register as Democrats.
“Reformers, united, we’ll do what is needed
“We’ll thrive as if our ballot drive had succeeded!”
“They won’t drag our neighborhoods back where they’ve been
“For there’s lots more of US … and far fewer of THEM!”
“Our homes’ truest values derive from “the ‘hood”:
“It’s Anaheim’s PEOPLE that make this place good!”
So as Tom packs his wetsuit and Julie’s bikinis —
(Laguna vacations for smores, beers. and weenies) —
The people will chant as they drive out of sight
“We ain’t giving in: We will stay here and FIGHT!”
*Should have known the Republicans were going to have a bad Mid-Term Election when on election night they had their “Victory Celebration” at a local restaurant in Newport Beach rather than in a hotel ball room…eh? We here the whole party will soon be meeting at the Galley Cafe once a month for breakfast and they have to bring their own!
Was it the Gulfstream?
*Yeah, think so….didn’t go…
*OK, the word is out….Marshall Duffield has taken the Council Seat from Tom Stoakes…because they are swearing Duffield in tonight! Guess those late Provisional
Ballots got counted after all?
*I heard Duffield is requesting a recount. Will you keep on top of that for us?
That makes no sense: as I reported here, Duffield won by 36 votes, after becoming the only more conservative candidate to make up lots of ground during the counting of provisional ballots. (This was one of the reasons for my dramatic daily updates; it was not only Ashleigh and Sunny Park.) In that concluding week or so, I noted that this might be due to transient surfers supporting him. I also noted, or intended to, that Stoaks was the only candidate in OC for whom I thought a recount would make sense. (Janet is just wasting her money in the race against Umberg.) Is it possible that Stoaks is the one pursuing a recount?
Miswrote. Yes, it’s Stoaks requesting the recount.
Or so the goofy Peotter writes in today’s e-mail which I’m somehow on his list still…
And I don’t call these sleazy clowns “conservative.”
Duffield was one of the members pushing a backdoor hire of Shawn Nelson as City Manager. Guess who was brokering that sleazy deal? Do you really need to guess? Your old pal Dave Ellis. Or so I’ve been informed.
CM of Newport?
That’s right.
https://voiceofoc.org/2018/07/newport-beach-interviews-city-manager-finalists-apparently-including-supervisor-shawn-nelson/
*Maybe Jim Righeimer can come over to NB along with Shawn……nah, Shawn is going over with Toddy Boy to the DA’s Office as the Operations Mgr. Stoakes needed to watch those last Provisional and Absentee Ballots that arrive three week late. We know, no one believe us….but the truth is…..Stuff Happens! Anyway, Grace is the new City Mgr. in NB and she is very nice……we like her and her team. The rhetorical question is of course:Can a naive might get paid off candidate…..overturn an incumbent with Dave Ellis running his re-election campaign with McCafferty and Company pumping up the dollar value of each added vote?