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He was Trump’s role model (via Roy Cohn), sure — but the Cunningblog would surely have let Joe McCarthy post his attacks there anonymously. (Vice pays!) “No shame?” That’ll cost extra!
It’s been a while since we served just desserts upon the Cunningblog — I stopped reading it in the long-ago pre-Covid era — but Vern has put up a comment in response to a question by Ryan; as I’ve decided make what was going to be this week’s Weekend Open Thread into a story that will be shared, that left me without a theme — and so I’m escalating the situation. (The comment at the Cunningblog was about someone telling Dr. Jose Moreno to “go back to Sinaloa”; I couldn’t find the comment there, so maybe Jerbal figured out it was a loser.)
UPDATE: Here is the comment from someone calling themselves “No More MORENO” which reads “This small man needs to go back to sinaloa or oxnard. Such a shame for district 3. Cannot wait until his radical socialist mentality is gone from publuc service.” It’s still there a week later – Matt sees no problem with his commenter telling Jose to go back to Mexico.
First, it’s anonymous attack time of the election cycle– actually, anytime is, but it gets worse at this point, when there’s money to be made from it — so let’s get to it. Here’s a list of bullet points from comment in the Cunningblog from a thousand monkeys who managed to come up with something sounding a whole lot like our own dearly ejected “kenlaysnotdead,” who in his various forms was absolutely consumed with the sex life of a certain Latino pol, along with my comments in italics:
- We are EATING our own
Really, if we’re eating people, they’re pretty sure not to be “our own.” (Can’t answer for Jerbal.)
- + Vern attacks Yesenia Rojas …
Yesenia has become a big promoter of “Complicit Steve” Faessel. Many of us are sad about it, but it’s not an attack.
- … and exclaims “She doesn’t even live on Anna Drive anymore”!
“Exclaims”? Do we have a volume control now? No, he just pointed out that she moved out of the community of which she was once an integral part — one imagines probably with some help.
- GOOD FOR HER. He goes on to attack her as a big mouth and attention grabber.
Uh … no. Disguised identity = easier to lie.
- Nelson goes on to BASH other Democrat activists with thinly veiled RACIST statements
Uh, no racist statements, veiled or otherwise. Liar.
- “His ‘Hero’ in Huntington Beach, Victor Valladares, has been shleping himself as a Data Analysis Expert, albeit one with a GED and no real FORMAL education.”
Moron misspelled and misused “shlepping” — and yes, he has real formal education, ugly liar.
- Victor was photographed at Long Beach GAY PRIDE with six transexual sex workers, two of
whom are incarcerated for KNOWINGLY infecting customers with HIV.
RACIST lying moron couldn’t back the last half this sentence if his life depended on it. Yes Cunningham allows it.
- “Ryan started a war with his colleague Ricardo Toro, a known Anaheim left wing activist.”
Former colleague. And more like a skirmish.
- Vern again used RACE BAITING as a weapon.
No idea what bigoted liar is talking about.
- Really? The guy who injects RACE into his speeches at City Council ALL THE TIME. … “I am the WHITE MAN from Anna Drive” SIMPLY DISGUSTING.
Vern likes to call attention to Anna Drive, his and Donna’s home and the site of at least one gruesome police shooting. By describing himself as “the white man …” he calls attention to its Latino character as a reason for the sometimes violent police presence.
- “Greg Diamond who accuses Yesenia Rojas of siding with her preferred candidate because
he helped her get out of legal trouble.
There’s no “accusation.” I can’t speak about any private information from when I represented her, but it’s well known that she was sentenced to probation — and it’s also well-known that people on probation are subject to control and abuse by those who could termination their probation. I theorized that if Faessel eased her difficulty with Anaheim’s prosecutor — remember that Anaheim’s City Attorney prosecutes misdemeanors, and I believe that either or both Vern or I wrote about this sickening political prosecution at the time — then she’s likely feel substantial gratitude to him. Given that she had been planning to run against him, this would be the slightly less ugly side of using the power of office for political gain … but again, it’s just a hypothesis. Hence my not having “knowledge” that it happened — just that it is plausible and would made sense of her conversion.
- “Keep in mind Diamond was her lawyer for a time. This is a disgusting display of RACISM and BIGOTRY by Diamond.”
Uh, wut? Again, I can’t comment on details, but here’s what’s publicly known: I took over her representation shortly before an early hearing at North Court. The hearing went well. I then found her a very qualified criminal defense attorney — that’s not my area of practice — and transferred the case to her. I put in the time pro bono, out of respect for her, and I don’t regret it at all. Racism and bigotry? Smile when you say that, podner — if you do actually have a face.
- “[My] close DPOC colleagues [told me] “JUST GO AWAY GREG” because of his famous defiant contrarian self serving views.”
No, my close colleagues stuck by me — enough to prevent my expulsion, after which then-Chair Fran Sdao simply ignored Roberts Rules and booted me anyway. The fight was over my endorsing Todd Spitzer for District Attorney, partly because he was the only way to get rid of Tony Rackauckas and partially to help Democratic Sheriff’s candidate Duke Nguyen, who was running against awful Republican Don Barnes — who was endorsed by Lou Correa and Tom Daly, with the DPOC doing practically nothing substantial to support him. I’ll own “defiant’ and “contrarian” in an organization that hates accountability and salvers to mollify the Republican-supporting Building Trades.
- I am given to understand that Disney security has floated TRO (temporary Restraining Order) against Vern, Donna, The Robbins and others based on Robbins statement to “Blow That place up”. Now there’s a candidate statement (if she can raise or steal the $600.)
I don’t know whether that is entirely, or only mostly, a lie. (Did the TRO float? Usually they don’t take this long to launch. Did anyone named Robbins actually say anything of the kind?) When I say that I’d love to see them try, I mean only that I’d love to join a legal team opposing them. But this is probably a lie.
- A congressional staffer posted on Facebook: “Dude this a**hole understands nothing about Latino’s and vote buying” chiming in on Liz Gracion’s comment. to which a reply saying “Yeah well Vern, can get some rent money and maybe some free stuff for his work, but he is NOT an Anna Drive guy, Never was, never will be” The post was immediately deleted.
Doesn’t identify the staffer, comment disappeared — yeah, this is really compelling. And “a congressional staffer” is not necessarily high praise when Lou Correa represents Anaheim. But it’s probably all a lie.
The slime will flow freely from the Cunningblog and its sister publications for the next three months. Consider how ugly these cowardly anonymous character assassins are when you vote. This is your Weekend Open Thread — talk about that or whatever else you’d like within reasonable bounds of decency and discretion.
Still can’t believe someone is paying for that site.
Wonder if it’s sponsors are proud they’re funding telling an elected official to go back to Mexico.
Almost like that should have consequences.
Nice job, Greg.
Thanks — you should read the one I posted at about 6 am though; that’s the one I thought you would love.
The Sinaloa comment IS still there, I thought I put up a link to it. Matt sees nothing wrong with telling Jose to go back to Mexico. Here you go: https://www.anaheimblog.net/2020/08/11/moreno-telegraphs-rationalizations-for-opposing-covid-19-recovery-plan-tonight/#comment-21920
I was gonna ignore that long Mardahl comment, there’s just too much that’s false, fanciful and nonsensical in it, apparently more than you even realize.
But I do believe the part where he says there was briefly a FB comment insulting me (so briefly that I didn’t see it) from a “Congressional staffer” who pretends to know Anna Drive – that would be Claudio, who I’m pretty sure is a drinking-and-anonymous-commenting buddy of Mardahl’s. Claudio also used to have a couple of friends on Anna Drive 5 or 6 years ago – family of his wife’s actually – and he’d spread around nasty rumors about me, like that I was only in the neighborhood and with Donna in order to get a share of her settlement from the city, LOL.
Well, Claudio hasn’t been around here in years, and I’m good friends with everyone on the street, so it’s funny to hear him say I’ll “never be a real Anna Drive guy.”
Interesting that Claudio’s FB comment got deleted so quick – that could only have been done by Yesenia (or Claudio himself.)
THE WHITE MAN OF ANNA DRIVE.
I tried his search and it didn’t show. Go ahead and insert it if you want.
I don’t know why you would try his search. It’s right here.
https://www.anaheimblog.net/2020/08/11/moreno-telegraphs-rationalizations-for-opposing-covid-19-recovery-plan-tonight/#comment-21920
I guess I’ll add it into the story if that’s what you want me to do.
*What to t look forward to this week: “The New Republican Playbook – Labeling, name calling and accusations of wrong doing by everyone that ever wore a Democratic Badge.
“Don’t Let the Socialist Cabal get you!” “George Soros is the Anti-Christ!” “Michael Moore is a complete nutcase!” “Joe Biden is old and suffering from Alzheimers!” “Kamala Harris is an Evil Bitch!” “The Democrats hate our country!” “Any Republican Turn-coat should be shot on sight!” “We are the greatest country on Earth!” Ah, shucks we could go on and on, but this will sort of cover the synopsis the Republican Convention. Now you don’t have to watch it, all you have to do is get your MAGA Hat, T-Shirt, Trumpy Bear and Trump Forever Collectibles and wait! November 3rd, will tell the tale and we will be casting our vote for Biden/Harris. The rest of you can do whatever you want. We sure wish we still had our Commander Cody De-Coder Ring and our Ovaltine T-shirt from 1957…..plus all those great baseball collector cards that included Mickey, Yogi and all the other great Yankees players….ah, but the Ted Williams card was secretly our favorite. Ttrump?Pence? Who says living in the past isn’t fun?
If, like me, you thought something you have heard (and seen) all around smelled too much like Bull S**t, turns out you were right –
Why should all that “inconvenient”, “infected” CA$H disappear and be replaced with “just tap an app” on your smartphone ? Check out “Social Credit System” on Wikipedia ( From the SAME happy folks who gave us the “Bat Soup virus ” !!
You all better be wearin’ those masks ( and whatever else we tell you ) now ! ,
Meanwhile, in other news, here’s something form CNN:
“A billboard of Breonna Taylor was vandalized with red paint on Tuesday in her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine put up 26 billboards around the city earlier this month demanding that the Louisville police officers involved in her death be arrested and charged. Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT, was shot multiple times in March by police who were executing a no-knock warrant at her apartment.”
([Photo, I presume, by: Lucas Aulbach/Courier Journal/USA Today Network)”
Of course, the billboard is only MORE attention-getting and disturbing with the bloody-looking addition.
Well, it looks like the only thing to be said about Gov. Newsom on the topic of transparency and accountability is that he is becoming sadly consistent. After winning office without so much as submitting a Candidate Statement,
http://vigarchive.sos.ca.gov/2018/general/candidates/governor-candidate-statements.htm
followed by recent news that he received his 8-acre $3.7 M mansion from a cousin through an LLC to dodge transfer taxes (while also declining other required state reporting on the transaction AND OTHER PRIOR TRANSACTIONS ) ,
https://www.aitnews24.com/amp/gavin-newsoms-3-7-million-estate-was-gifted-to-him-in-2019-3-months-later-he-got-a-2-7-million-tax-free-cash-out/
comes news from State Sen. John Moorlach (Thank God SOMEBODY is still awake !) that our great state is unique above the other 49 in NOT submitting its CAFR (Consolidated Annual Financial Report) the legally required Standard for government Agencies…… (wait for it)…..THE REPORT DUE FOR 2019 !!!
https://moorlachupdate.com/2020/06/08/moorlach-update-cafr-50-where-are-you-june-8-2020/
Perhaps will we see a Legislative proposal to replace the State Motto , “Eureka !” or “I have found it !” with something along the lines of ” What are YOU lookin’ at ? Move along ! Nothing to see here !” ??
Has Newsom (or the Controller, or whoever else is responsible for filing the CAFR) been asked about the CAFR? If so, what did they say?
While I encourage candidates to file statements when they are not cost-prohibitive, Newsom really didn’t need one to beat John Cox. You can criticize him for hubris, I guess, but hubris isn’t really a problem when you win by about 24 points.
Visiting the site for the real estate and reporting scams made my computer start whirring very fast, so I didn’t spend a lot of time there. A lot seems to turn on whether he was a member of the LLC. If you think that you and “Write Winger,” which I think was the name of the poster, think that you have to goods on Newsom here then by all means file an FCC report. If what he did was illegal in any way, I’m happy to see him punished. If what he did was merely unseemly, well, we already know that he’s rich, and it would not be the most unseemly thing he’s ever done in his life.
(Yes, this is still our active WOT. Next weekend’s will be about how your computers are melting.)
So — whaddaya think of this?
One element often used in Comedy is Irony.
Except in this case the element is not Iron, but Lead. Not very funny either.
*In other news….we might mention the major coup that Arte Moreno made with the City of Anaheim. Those Colonists…..geez…..they finally took the short money the Affordable Housing and a new lease on life and took the $150 million….which they are going to need very soon….due to the extreme downturn in the economy. Go Angels! Congrats to Arte and his team of proven Business Professionals…..The Trumpster should take notice, he might learn something….but then…..probably not!
It was simple, just buy a council and mayor. Make the public scared you’re going to leave if you don’t get exactly what you want. But we’ll see what the judge says Monday the 14th!