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Well a big hat tip goes to Dan at The Liberal OC, who had an exclusive story today on the recall of one of our least favorite people in the world, Tustin Mayor Toll-Road Jerry Amante.
It seems that over the years Jerry has irritated a lot of people in the City of Trees (Yes, that’s Tustin’s motto). Well, irritated is probably too mild a word. He has savaged people verbally, reserving some of his harshest criticism for ordinary citizens who dare to disagree with him or his gang during public comments.
Jerry has also been amazingly vicious when he talks to Council Member Deborah Gavello, showing an incredible contempt for the voters of Tustin who elected her.
So now, according to our sources, there is a core group of dozens of volunteers who are ready to do the hard work of gathering signatures on a recall petition, joined by a cast of hundreds. Some of them have been emboldened by the shenanigans in Costa Mesa, fearing that Tustin may be next on the list of cities to be pillaged and looted by Scott Baugh and his minions.
There will be lots of news on this later, but Orange Juice has an exclusive feature for our readers – a Toll Road Jerry coloring contest. Take this black and white picture and see if you can capture Jerry’s beet-like complexion when he is about to burst. Extra points for rivulets of sweat and creativity as you decide how dirty to make his hand.
Above we see Jerry in his favorite haunt, collecting tolls on the 73, where he has voted for an incredible number of tax, er toll increases during his tenure on the toll road board, TRJ is most well known for his monumental defeat by surfers and hippies, when TCA tried to push one more money-losing toll road through South County. Jerry had the overwhelming backing of the Orange County political establishment, but got whipped by the rabble. So we don’t have suggestions as to how to color the toll booth. What color is abject defeat by underwhelming forces?
It’s a contest. Use your imagination. Color the picture, using the medium of your choice, then scan your entries and submit them to Vern. I’m sure he will by by sometime to tell you how. First prize is a wonderful week’s stay in Tustin. Second prize is a two week vacation in that lovely town. Just kidding. We don’t know what the prizes will be yet.
Mayor Quimby,
A “big hat tip” from the OJ blog to the LOC blog ?? … Really ??
What is next – peace in the Middle East?
I had this line, but I’m saving it if I ever need to say something about Matt Cunningham,
“I didn’t want to cut and paste press releases when they had already done such a fine job with their scissors and the white library paste they hadn’t finished eating.”
REally, Mayor, in all propriety several blog eras should pass before we give any big hat tip to those pissy miscreants – as far as I know we (and our godfather Art) are still suffering under legal assault from them… for very petty reasons.
Oh and Vern asked me to remind some of his regulars to print the cartoon onto paper before coloring it. Do not draw directly onto your monitor.
I find quite amusing to see Danny C. frothing at the mouth over Jerry Amante. It wasn’t that long ago that they had a mad crush on him for attacking Steven Choi and Art Pedroza.
The guy is a classic small town repuglican. As OCTA chair he was the perfect puppet for the Kurt Pringle money machine. A recall will really bring out the ‘pug money from plantation bosses like Pringle and Lucy Dunn.
Bill Huston, Tustin City Manager for nearly 30 years, retired last year. City Council launched a recruitment that produced over 50 applicants. After screening, interviews and reference checks, they hired a new City Manager, David Biggs, City of Redondo Beach Assistant City Manager, who started in mid October last fall. Then, on March 1 the local press reports that the Council has let this new fellow go. Only the vaguest of reasons was given – something like the Council found the relationship with Biggs to be unsatisfactory. Within two weeks it was announced former City Manager Huston is back.
Something is amiss here – either Mayor Amante and the Council succeeded in picking a turkey out of a field of over 50 applicants, or there is another reason or reasons for this debacle. Perhaps a recall movement will uncover the facts and share them with the rest of us?
“He has savaged people verbally, reserving some of his harshest criticism for ordinary citizens who dare to disagree with him or his gang during public comments”
Now I know who Supervisor Nelson’s role model is. Nelson viciously verbally attacked a senior citizen a couple of weeks ago after he told the BOS to look into something like nuclear fusion energy (for the 3-4 time during the meeting). It is Supervisor Nelson’s job to sit their and listen to their constituents, however, Nelson was bored and told the guy to quit wasting their time. Keep in mind this elderly gentleman is one of the few people who always speak out at meetings (usually about the same thing). What a schmuck!
@been around.
There are a lot of stories that might come out about what really happens in Tustin, but one thing you know for sure is that they won’t be printed in the Register. Their cub reporter who covers Tustin is typical of what they hire now – inexperienced, underpaid, and lazy. She only publishes the stuff that she gets from Tustin’s $100,000 a year public information officer.
What do I win, what do I win????