The hypocrisy is running thick as syrup over at O.C. Sheriff Mike Carona’s office. Matt Cunningham, the editor at Red County/OC Blog, posted the comments of some guy named Ryan (not El Trabuco) who writes for Carona’s blog, where he attacked Register editorial writer Steven Greenhut. Ryan was sore because Greenhut had previously ripped his union boss, AOCDS President Wayne Quint.
Ryan wrote that “Greenhut, had the opportunity yesterday to stand up and express his opinion to the Board and the public, but he chose instead to save it for the safe confines of his office.”
Give me a break! Carona and his goons don’t even let the public make comments on their blog posts! Talk about a bunch of sissies. They like to hurl attacks at their critics but they can’t take the heat themselves. What a bunch of babies!
Meanwhile, Cunningham (pictured at right) is such a shill for Carona that he posted this today, ” FPPC: “Insufficient Evidence” Of Campaign Violations By Carona In 2000. But over at the Register’s Total Buzz, the truth about this was an entirely different story, “Carona agrees to pay fine.” It turns out, despite Cunningham’s spinning for Carona, that the Sheriff “has agreed to pay a $15,000 fine for finance-reporting violations involving more than $100,000 paid to him by his campaign.”
Wow! Talk about reporting a story two different ways. I have no idea why Cunningham refuses to acknowledge what a bum Carona is. Take a look at the picture above, from the O.C. Weekly, which tells us that Carona is “sandwiched between Freddie Glusman and Gary Primm, as featured in an OC Weekly photo exclusive. Glusman is an alleged mob associate, while Primm owns a Nevada casino. Both are Carona campaign contributors, and the Sheriff awarded badges and guns to both as part of his Reserve Deputy program.”
In fact Cunningham never reported that Carona was recently thrown out of a major law enforcement association because of his connection to mobsters. He told me he was too busy to do so. Good grief! He is never too busy to rip O.C. Supervisor Janet Nguyen!
On that subject, I should note that Cunningham has accused me of being a shill for Supervisor Nguyen – even though no less than three of my co-bloggers here at the Orange Juice! have taken whacks at her in recent weeks. In fact, Cunningham screwed up the link to our site, on his blog, so that it sends his readers to Supervisor Nguyen’s campaign site instead of our blog. Pathetic. The move has backfired as our numbers have gone way up since Cunningham did this. And the numbers at the Liberal OC blog have skyrocketed as readers have gone there to find us. They even ascended to the number one ranking for political blogs in California this week.
God only knows how many readers Cunningham lost to Liberal OC over his ridiculous, childish campaign against our blog. Well, we have not responded in kind. You can still link to Red County/OC Blog here at the Orange Juice! We will never mess with our links. We respect our readers and understand that links are provided as a service to the blog community. Messing with them is a low blow. Shame on Cunningham for doing this to our link, and shame on him for ignoring the criminal acts of our Sheriff. No wonder so many local voters are going DTS. I couldn’t stand being in the same party as Carona and Cunningham either.
I cant believe that Carona gets away with making campaign donors Deputy Reserve Sherrrifs. How is this even remotely legal?
Youre right about Cunningham covering for this guy. Cunningham should be subject to some kind of journalistic deiscipline.
Cunningham OC Blog, and Carona are all jokes. God where is the FBI when you need them?
“The move has backfired as our numbers have gone way up since Cunningham did this. And the numbers at the Liberal OC blog have skyrocketed as readers have gone there to find us”
Art, I pointed this sitution out to you no less than four months ago. I offered that you should consider making your site adress more easier and faster to get to(short and simple) so that blog viewers would consider accessing oyur site first instead of the ocblog.
I’m also wondering if you can find out the hits-ratio to Janet campaign website before and after Matt’s big blounder. D’Oh
Again, I can’t stand Janet because of her race-baiting campaign tactics. Your argument that holds her campaign advisor responsible for the racist mailers holds no water because he is still her campign advisor.
Wouldn’t you expect someone who disagrees with those racist statement to stop associating with someone whose campaign strategy is playing the race card.
While I believe you when you say she portrays herself to you as a friend to Hispanics, I can’t help point out that the cover on the book doesn’t tell the real story.
Last week, you told me that Hispanics too also have this tribe mentality that plays out toward the Asians.
That maybe true but it seems to me that the negative feelings or comments about “chinos” has to revolve around the percieve attitudes, like those that deal with being “arrogant”, “stuck up” while as mentioned in the LA Times recent article, a leading publisher in a Vietnemese daily paper stated that many Vietnamese believe that Hispanics are “lazy”.
Moreover, try naming just one Hispanic politician or even Hispanic comunity activist that has came out with anti-Vietnamese mailers. But yet, you have no ill feelings with Janet’s campaign literture that spewed out the same stuff that Harold Martin is known to vomit out.
Then lets not forget that when considering running for a possibly open Assembly seat, Janet held a press conference on the steps of Garden Grove pushing the need to have INS agents full time at the Garden Grove jail. Of course this was political grandstanding, because that effort died as the possible Assembly seat closed. Unfortantely, this is wrong because it was less about a principle and more about political posturing at the expense of Hispanics by minute man types like Harold Martin.
It’s getting late, take it easy.
Jose
Poster 1,
Sad but true! Carona has made an absolute mockery of the Reserve program. I can only hope that his successor will stop this BS and go back to appointing qualified people to these posts, not sycophants with big wallets.
Jose,
You were right! Now that we have acquired the easy to remember URL, http://www.orangejuiceblog.com, we won’t need to rely on other sites for referrals. Our blog is going to really take off now!
As for Supervisor Nguyen, she knows that if she engages in ANY anti-Latino sentiment in her next campaign, I am gone. I am willing to excuse the problems from last year as being due to her consultant, but I won’t buy that argument twice. Nor will I expect anyone else to.
Well at least you finally admit that she did participate in latino bashing. Why does she get a free pass I wonder???? And her oponent’s only issue was piture of himself at the border and HE is the bad guy-lol. Ahhhh, I know because she promised you an appointment to a board…I see.
This sheriff is a PUTTS and everyone knows it. From the manipulation of statistics to the inept handling of the jail he has failed repeatedly.
Jack Sternman
In response to your rotuine comment tantrum at my blog, I asked you this:
If you’re so concerned about it [the LEIU incident], why didn’t you ask Mike Carona about this morning? You had him there face-to-face in front of a crowd of people and several cameras and he was taking questions. You were mum.
Your response:
I did not ask Carona about this at the Los Amigos meeting because it was not relevant to the meeting. I am not sure why he even showed up there.
it was pretty clear Carona had been scheduled to address the Los Amigos meeting prior to the inclusion of the AUHSD event on the agenda.
He was there talking about the OCDS’s relationship with ICE, and other attendees asked him questions about ICE. You’ve never shown yourself bound by relevance in your posts and comments — why should this morning have been any difference?
If you think Carona is a “full-blown creep” and feel so strongly about his faults, this morning was a perfect opportunity for you to publicly take him to task, or just ask him a simple question about the LEIU program. You just stayed in the back of the room and didn’t say a word. You certainly talk a good game, Art — but when the object of your obsession was right there in front of you, taking questions in front your peers — nothing.
And for criticisms of Janet from your co-bloggers, that is only evidence that they somewhat balance out that you’re an abject apologist for her — but doesn’t change the fact that you are an apologist, and an obsequious one at that.
Jubal,
Just admit it Cunningham, you’re still upset over the picture of you in the ballerina outfit. You even commented about how you didn’t think it looked like you, but it really did! Just man up and forget about it. Your typical juvenile response was to alter the blog link. WOW, that worked.
To Art and Anon@11:40 a.m.:
O-J’s site traffic for the last twelve months:
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s18ojuice&r=36
Basically static.
TheLiberalOC.com’s site traffic for the last 12 months:
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s20liberaloc&r=36
Increasing. Good for them.
Matt,
Thanks for making my point. We lost no readers when you removed our link. Liberal OC picked up a lot of readers as people visited them instead of Red County, in order to link to us.
Now regarding yesterday’s meeting, apparently Carona was there to speak about the ICE program. I could have asked about his mobster friends, but that was not part of the agenda. Amin David is a friend of mine and out of respect to him I refrained from embarrassing his corrupt guest.
There is a time and place for such questions and yesterday was not that time or place.
Thanks for making my point. We lost no readers when you removed our link.
You missed the point. One one of your 4th anniversary posts you link to a post from a year ago — and on that one you were bragging about how O-J was getting 500 visits a day. According to your stats, O-J is still hovering around there. You keep promising your traffic is “taking off,” but it never does. Maybe your co-bloggers should ask you why.
Amin David is a friend of mine and out of respect to him I refrained from embarrassing his corrupt guest.
Weak. Very weak. Art, respect and a sense of propriety aren’t in your make-up. So don’t hide behind Amin David. He has no problem publicly expressing his disagreement with people — he’s just able to do it like an adult.
And if you can’t stand to be in the same party as Carona (and me!), how can you stand to be in a meeting with people who invite Carona to speak and then embrace him afterwards? Not that you have a double standard or anything.