Why is Red-faced County blog editor Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham promoting Democratic Supervisorial candidate Tom Daly on his ostensibly Republican blog?
Jerbal ran this item today:
Daly’s moolah-raiser is on the blessed day itself: March 17, at McCormick & Schmick’s Grille at the Anaheim GardenWalk. Click here to see the invite. The host committee is an ideological and partisan cross-section of the county politerati. That isn’t surprising given Daly’s historic knack for pulling support from both sides of the aisle, an interesting manifestation of which is I will hear, in the space of a few days, Daly criticized on the Left as an anti-union DINO and on the Right as a pro-union liberal.
Has Jerbal forgotten that there is a conservative hero, Fullerton Councilman Shawn Nelson, running against Daly?
Here is a question for Jerbal – how would Daly have voted on today’s controversial de-funding of Planned Parenthood’s teen sex education program by the O.C. Supervisors? Hmmm….I wonder. Of course Jerbal waxed poetic about what Talibani Supervisor John Moorlach and his pals did, even though Daly likely would have been the one “no” vote.
Promoting Daly on a GOP blog is just plain nuts!
I wonder which turncoat Republicans will join Jerbal and his master John Lewis in supporting Daly?
Will it be the same hacks who backed the Measure M tax? Or who were involved in fighting Measure D?
We’ll be outing them here on the Orange Juice…
As if we all have not figured it out yet, Matt the Jerbal is a shill for Lewis to build support for Daly. As the typical shill he is tasked with making the support seem less than obvious. He doesn’t come right out and say “I support Daly”. Rather he quietly fails to include news that would look unfavorable to Daly or Lewis and then tries to sound as casual as possible when he just happens to be Johnny on the spot with positive info for Daly.
Matt the Jerbal is on the take. He has attempted to throw Juice readers off the scent by obfuscating the issues every chance he gets but the heat and scrutiny only intensify.
Matt the Jerbal thinks that unsuspecting republicans will read Red County and assume that what is printed there is the party line. “Oh, the republicans must actually have agreed that selling out principals to make John Lewis a buck is legit”. Ya right Jerbie.
Problem is the readers here caught on and have applied critical thinking to the why and how of the Jerbal and WE ARE NOT FALLING FOR IT.
Follow the money.
Is Jerbi trying to become Daly’s GOP wing “political consultant”? Jerb doesn’t do things on common principle -we know that. He’s told us that. He’s motivated by easy opportunities and lord knows his webiste can’t be his sole income. I say he has an economic or potentnial economic stake in anything he comes storming over to the OJ to defend or to pump.
Vixen,
The Jerboligical forecast suggests that it is less direct than a straight up pay check. Favor swapping, promises of future deals, clients that will have Daly agree to do what they want etc.
Lewis demands that the Jerbal play ball because he owes the team and if he wants to remain part of the consultant/lobbyist/slight of hand team he will do what is good for him.
We here at the Juice can now refer to it as “Team Jerbal”
You know, Hollis, I really don’t pay attention to him except that he keeps coming over here like a masher and leaves big steaming piles…. of crappy posts… all around OJ.
After reading his me-me-me rants, if I were to ever use a service of his, I’d be sure to get it up front, well before cutting any checks. He just seems like a desperate opportunist w/o scruples. If he shook your hand to seal a deal, would he secretely be crossing his fingers behind his back? He seems like that kind of guy.
Oh, and junior —
You are still on moderate. You probably already noticed that this am. Mommy has to run out and do important things right now. But if she comes back to your nonsensical, circular arguments, & petty attacks on this blog, she WILL delete them. Mommy also left a note for the sitter to do the same.
Remember, you have that nice Sunny D blog to post at and if you have on your very best behavior, you could play at the Red County, too.
Have a nice day, lovey….
It deal goes like this: Lewis is losing his puppet Norby on the Board. This is important because now with Norby and Campbell he is very close to having a majority who will approve whatever he is pimping*. He can’t control Nelson to whom he has already failed to make a sale in Fullerton. Thus, Daly. And he figures to assemble the old D team to close the deal.
So former Lewis employee Chris Jones is enlisted to “run” a high visibility campaign while Lewis is putting the deal together behind the curtain so he can keep some semblance of credibility with Baughs and Ed Royces of OC. Jerbal the Rodent, knee-jerk lackey that he is, goes along for the ride to run interference. He tells everyone that they are imagining things, wearing tin-foil hats – the usual crap that he does for whichever authority figure’s butt he is kissing.
Meanwhile, the union ex-goons Quint and Berardino, who would rather have Lucifer than Nelson on the BOS, will be counted on rally the troops (and will, too unless somebody more amenable can be found – like Galloway). The Fire boys are still pissed off about D and may try to stick it to Lewis/Quint, but we’ll have to wait on that.
With Daly out of his office that opens the way for Lewis to run another County-wide campaign – for Clerk – that his boy Norby will go for, and that will open up more jobs for the boys at the Clerk Recorders office. Forget the fact that Norby couldn’t manage a dogfight and is a technological illiterate; it’s not about good government, is it?
In the end, this is all about the machine that Lewis has built – and is still building – to control the BOS and use the County government as his own little cash cow – all real nice and legal like.
Will the GOP go along, or has Johnny overplayed his hand?
* Pedroza, please observe that if your buddy Bustamante had won the the 1st District seat Lewis would now have a majority of his tools on the BOS, right?
Old news, FLA.