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We broke the news here back in August, in our seminal and controversial piece “Disney’s Incest Problem,” that Disney and the OCEA had a secret gentleman’s agreement in this year’s Anaheim Council race – Disney would refrain from attacking OCEA’s boy John Leos, and OCEA would refrain from attacking Disney’s boy Jordan Brandman.
This was around the same time – could it have been exactly the same time? – as the obvious Faustian bargain OCEA made with the Pringle/resort forces where the union would get that sweetheart deal from the Council majority in return for their yanking funding and support away from the “Let the People Vote” initiative.
Such nauseating secret bargains are never quite proven, they’re known first by rumor and then confirmed by the results we all witness. We civilians only see the shadows of the miscreants flitting against the wall – inexplicably great deal passed, funding suddenly yanked without explanation, two controversial candidates passing unmolested by the moneyed forces, Brandman even receiving the Labor endorsement for Christ’s sake!
It’s never good for the little people when the most powerful forces make secret pacts with each other. The simple man on the street – for example you or I – mutters to himself, “Shades of Darkness at Noon,” before reminding himself that comparing Disney or OCEA to Stalin and Hitler is a bit of a stretch. But still visions dance through the man on the street’s head of the final scene in Orwell’s Animal Farm:
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
Well, the good news is those days are over – Disney has been busted, by clever internet detectives including Save Anaheim’s Jason Young and Think OC’s Cynthia Ward, funneling money through the fatuous Lucy Dunn’s OC Business Council, which in turn hands it over to a PAC run by Curt Pringle and Councilwoman Kris Murray named “Citizens For Anaheim’s Future” – who have in turn spent over 30 grand of laundered Disney money SO FAR sending out defamatory hit pieces on Leos and Kring. (It’ll probably turn out this is also the way uber-hack Matt Cunningham is getting paid to run HIS poisonous little Brandman-Lodge bloglet.)
And this arrangement has not escaped the notice of the OCEA, whose canny general manager Nick Berardino won’t confirm or deny to me the existence of the original truce, but mourns to me with crocodile tears, “We never WANTED to attack Jordan, but seeing Disney’s money trail left us no choice.” LOL. Now the natural order is restored, men can once again be men and pigs pigs. Let’s look at some of the fruits of the new hostilities, shall we?
First, this week’s Disney-Pringle attack on Lucille Kring. Remember, these folks still dream of getting in not only Jordan but lying cop Steven Albert Chavez Lodge, so they must attack BOTH the Mayor’s candidates, Leos and Kring. See if you can tell me what’s hysterically hypocritical about this one:
You got that, right? This piece, dinging Lucille for “generosity with taxpayer money” in previous decades, comes from the folks who famously gave away $158 MILLION of taxpayer money, this year, no strings attached, to ONE HOTEL DEVELOPER BUDDY OF THEIRS … and are pulling out all stops to retain the ability to keep doing the same. And they’re calling LUCILLE “generous with taxpayer money?” Irony coughs up blood. Also, how ’bout that quote from weaselly Pringle crony Reed Royalty, who’s been busting his ass of late TRYING HARD to divert $1.3 billion of your Measure M sales tax funds to build TOLL LANES on the 405? Great guardian of the public interest, him.
Anyway, are any of the charges on this flyer actually true? Cynthia Ward, with her great institutional memory of Anaheim, tries her hand at answering in OC Political comments:
“The items they blame Kring for were under two different Mayors, Tom Daly who the SOAR/Disney crowd is supporting, and Curt Pringle who sent the mailing. But they want the world to believe one Council member answering to two Mayors did this all by herself.
“…Just the first item I picked out, claiming Kring boosted utility rates, says it all. The mailing cites Res. 2007-183 approved on 10/23/2007. With the exception of Harry Sidhu, who felt the average increase of $6 per month was too high, the entire Council, INCLUDING MAYOR PRINGLE, approved that rate adjustment that they are now blaming Lucille for! It was first since 1993, in response to State mandates forcing us to buy more expensive electricity.
“AND….the Council was acting on the recommendation of their Public Utilities Commission, which included Commissioners Jordan Brandman and Kris Murray.In fact it looks like Murray voted for this increase on her first day as a Commissioner, despite not having attended the workshop outlining the need for increases at the earlier meeting. But let’s blame Lucille for that.
“I am trying to find time to track down some others, it is clear that [Disney/Pringle] is not a side voters can trust to tell the truth.”
The following Leos hit piece is just as full of shit:
Excuse me? THIS is coming from the crowd that, just last June, approved a contract between the Anaheim council and Anaheim general employees union “that promises, among other things, no layoffs, no outsourcing of city services, an end to furloughs and lump sum payouts totaling $2,200 to every employee who had previously taken furlough days” – an agreement that not only Mayor Tait, but supposed Union tool JOHN LEOS, called “excessive.”
It’s even worse, in at least two ways: this Council giveaway in June was done as part of a deal to torpedo the “Let The People Vote” movement – i.e. they made an unaffordable giveaway to their union employees in order to be allowed to continue making unaffordable giveaways to their corporate masters. On top of that, by far the largest, most excessive spending on union wages and benefits go to the police and fire unions, who are backing NOT the fiscally conservative Leos, but the DISNEY-PRINGLE CANDIDATES BRANDMAN AND LODGE!
John responds to this BS:
“I am a little surprised that corporate interests are opposing the only candidate who actually has experience with pension reform and restructuring retiree medical benefits,” said Leos. “This is the only pension reform Orange County has ever seen. Working alongside people such as those on the County Board of Supervisors, I worked to save taxpayers many millions of dollars.”John Leos is former U.S. Marine and a lifelong resident of Anaheim whose family has been in the city for nearly 100 years. This is his second campaign for Anaheim City Council, having placed third for two seats in 2010.
Well enough for now of Disney’s contributions to the discourse – Disney who, Cynthia claims, has never before engaged in such negative and deceptive campaigns, and is doing so against candidates who don’t really pose any particular threat to them (as Lorri Galloway has in the past) beyond simply running against their chosen, dependable, water boy. Let’s see what OCEA has put out, in response, so far, against said water boy:
And a great wailing like that of a stuck pig was heard across the town, as Jordan went whining to the man he considers to be Berardino’s boss, California Labor Federation head Art Pulaski, hoping that Nick and his OCEA will be somehow punished for daring to go after the golden Brandman:
This mailer blatantly attacks my integrity without any evidence and I refuted all accusations long before this mailer was sent (press release attached). I find this action by OCEA and its General Manager Nick Berardino who is also a Vice-President of the California Labor Federation very disturbing and ask for your immediate investigation and consideration of sanction against OCEA for violating long-standing practice to not attack fellow labor endorsed candidates in elections.
Wah, snivel. This character really thinks that his bosses, Disney and Pringle, can sneakily break their pledge to keep their mitts off Leos, and the other side won’t dare to do anything about it. It’s all of a piece with his general attitude that he’s above the rules, something he probably learned from his mentor Pringle, and exactly what’s gotten him into this investigation in the first place.
The investigation, which probably won’t yield any results before the election, is probably not the BEST way for OCEA to attack Jordan, I could suggest several better ones, but I’m sure they’ve got plenty more up their sleeves, and I’ll share it when I get it. But I do have a lot more to say about the investigation – it’s a lot more than the unauthorized using of an office, although that itself is illegal. But that deserves its own story. And in that story – TEASER – I’ll share what I learned yesterday from the OC’s King Homophobe Reverend Lou Sheldon about the time a couple years ago that Jordan came begging the bigot for his endorsement, claiming to be born again, and the reason Sheldon denied him!
Keep your eyes on the Orange Juice Blog, the county’s political Mosh Pit!
What an f’ed up mess!!
Confusing, eh, comrade? Up is down, black is white … one must keep one’s moral compass these days.
Man the VOC has taken a SHARP turn down Public Union Alley.
The thing is alleys are dirty and hidden.
Not quite the open highway they claimed to be.
That didn’t take long.
That’s a very confusing comment, nameless.
#1. This is the Orange Juice Blog, not the Voice of OC.
#2. We are talking about Anaheim. ANAHEIM, buddy. I didn’t have you pegged as part of the Pringle-Jerbal-Brandman crowd.
Maybe you missed a lot, this past year, in Anaheim. But to get you quickly up to speed, MANY Republicans – and non-Republicans – have decided, and I agree with them, that the unions are NOT the number one threat to democracy and the public treasury, at least in Anaheim. THAT would instead be the crony capitalism and unending corporate welfare typified by Pringle, Jerbal, and Brandman.
Take a few hours off, read this story first because I think you haven’t, then click on the Category “Anaheim,” and read some of our stuff since June. It’s fascinating. It will curl your hair.
(And if you want a good old-fashioned dose of public-union bashing, you’ll have to go to Jerbal’s new blog – his new paymaster is Curt Pringle and he’s shilling nonstop for Jordan Brandman. Your old friend Jerbal! Does that make you feel warm and fuzzy? I’ll e-mail you a link to his blog if you like, but I won’t print it here.)
Are you kidding nameless? VOC was founded by PUA Inc. – otherwise known as the OCEA.
Yeah but … why are we even talking about them? This is the Orange Juice. I wrote a big article here. It’s not about the Voice of OC.
Whatever happens in Anaheim, I hope that sniveling punk Jordan Brandman gets spanked by the voters instead of becoming a Master of the Universe.
Vern: do you ever bother to get your facts straight? Or do you just repeat as fact whatever rumor that fits your distorted, besotted world view? I don’t work for Curt. He’s not my paymaster. He has nothing to do with Anaheim Blog.
You are as pathetically reckless about facts and the truth as the day is long.
We’ll see soon enough how your pay is routed. Probably something like what’s described in the story. Or you could just tell us and not be coy. That would sure be uncharacteristically honest of you.
Or, you could try getting your facts straight for once, instead of reporting rumors or your over-active imagination as the truth.
God Damn I missed Matt Cunningham and his whole “Jubalesqe” prose.
The rock provides warm comfort and protection, but everyso often the worm must wiggle out to see whats’s above! It’s nature at it’s best.
Cunningham why don’t you back up your statements with facts. If Vern is reporting misinformation then tell us how.
” I don’t work for Curt. He’s not my paymaster. He has nothing to do with Anaheim Blog.”
I could imagine each of those statements being literally true, yet the thrust of Vern’s criticism still being valid. Not that I’m making any accusations myself, mind you.
I’d just like to hear from Matt that eventually we’ll know, though.
HUH??? No, we’re not going to find out from Matt. Matt will never tell us. We’ll find out because there’s people who are better detectives than me, who really want to know.
Notice how he couldn’t dispute anything in my article, even though I’m always “inaccurate about everything.”
I was accurate in my article when I said he “probably” gets paid through such a shell game as Disney has set up to send out these mailers. I was slapdash tossing out a comment mentioning Pringle to “nameless” – “nameless” who I can’t believe is putting himself on the same side as his old enemy Jerbal just because of his kneejerk antipathy to public unions.
Jerbal is certainly getting paid, he wouldn’t suddenly develop an interest in Anaheim and write about it for free like I do, and he’s obviously paid by somebody who has an interest in Brandman and Lodge winning, and paid by somebody he wants to keep secret. No Jerbal will not tell us, but we will know.
“Notice how he couldn’t dispute anything in my article, even though I’m always “inaccurate about everything.”
Vern, correcting your posts would literally be a full-time endeavor, and it isn’t my idea of worthy charitable activity.
But I’l give you a quick example from this post:
“…which in turn hands it over to a PAC run by Curt Pringle and Councilwoman Kris Murray named “Citizens For Anaheim’s Future”
Kris Murray does not run Citizens for Anaheim’s Future. I know you and Cynthia and others like to repeat this canard, but it isn’t true. Ms. Truth Teller, Cynthia Ward, that Kris Murray “ran it for years” – which is also untrue.
She was listed as an officer for a brief period for some reason on one filing in 2009 — before she was even a candidate for council — but she has not and does not run Citizens for Anaheim’s Future. Cynthia or you could figure this out if you’d bother to actually do soe homework. I know you’re too lazy, but what is Cynthia’s excuse for spreading a falsehood?
Maybe if you did some research instead of regurgitating what you hear from people who harbor ill-will toward me, Curt Pringle, Kris Murray and anyone else in your fantasy constellation, your posts might carry some credibilty.
I just did provide Vern with a correction in the comment you are replying to..
But parsing Vern’s long, unreadable posts and correcting the misinformation and falsities would be a full-time task that I don’t have time for. he and Cynthia Ward can spin their crazy conspiracy theories together.
“Unreadable” posts? Oh dear.
Matt, since most of us can read them easily, this sounds like a hint to be concerned about you. Are you really having problems comprehending Vern’s posts? That’s … that’s awful. People always said that you had a good mind — and now for this to happen….
Just hang in there, OK? Even if you don’t have medical insurance right now, Obamacare will be fully implemented in 2014 and you should be able to get the help you need. I just pray that the situation doesn’t deteriorate too much until then — say, to the point where you don’t even remember who’s paying you.
That’s actually quite well done. Nice job, Dr. D.
Low T. This year’s Asperger or restless leg syndrome.
“Low T” for the win!
Mr. Diamond, I owe you dinner. That was the best laugh I have had in AGES.
Why thank you, Cynthia. I have to say though, I think that my response to mitchell_young in this OC Weekly story (by Moxley, happily in top form) about Jay Chen receiving a racist phone call from a self-described Ed Royce supporter who called him a “Chinese f*cker,” was better. Young was apparently referring to Jay’s mailers, substantially fewer in number than Royce’s:
That one I’m proud of.
It really doesn’t take much to amuse you people.
This is just like the OJ of the Pedroza Era: three or four regulars complimenting each other with how clever and funny they are.
That wasn’t necessary.
Well, if it doesn’t take much, Matt, you seem to be the man for the job.
I think that our results speak for themselves — as does your presence here in the lead-up to the election.
What results, Greg? Like OCTA adopting Alternative 2? Oh wait – that didn’t happen, despite Vern shaking down the thunder from his keyboard.
Following that one closely, eh Pringle puppet? Hey, where’s your toll lanes on the 405? Don’t see ’em…
By “results,” I meant the stories we publish now as opposed to then, if that wasn’t obvious.
As for the 405 Toll Roads — before Vern and Quimby and I got involved, Alternative 3 was a done deal. Knocking it out in favor of Alternative 1 — and living to fight another day — was a huge victory against great odds. If and when you finally have one of those, you’ll see how satisfying it is.
Greg: Alternative 3 was never a done deal. This blog had no impact on the outcome.
Oh, well you made a declarative statement, so it must be true.
That or you don’t care about truth, only effects, which is how you’re usually represented.
How much impact do you think “your” blog will have on the Anaheim race, by the way? (Is that why you’re suddenly here?)
Greg: local blogs are not decisive in these races. They’re just not. The vast majority of voters are unaware of them. Take Fullerton for example. The recall there was a result of Bushala spending a huge amount of money to hire petition circulators, not the FFFF blog. Absent that money, there would have been no recall, no matter how furiously they blogged.
I have always recognized the limitations local blogs have in their ability to influence election outcomes.
Interesting. So then why are you blogging about Anaheim’s Council race?
(And everyone reading this shouts: “FOR MONEY!!!”)
Matt hurry quickly to the doctor while you are still receiving the Cadillac fully paid for health insurance from your wife’s poitical patronage do nothing job working for Bill Campbell!!! Those damn government employees raping the public!!! It really is a shame that the Voice of OC exposed the corruption about Board member’s political hacks being placed in management positions. Darn!!! She could have gone to the Health Care Agency and introduced your revolutionary toothbrush program.
Yep. The spirit of Art Pedroza stil reigns supreme at Orange Juice Blog.
This is like being called catty by an actual talking cat.
Matt – Who is paying you to produce your blog then? We all know Vern does his for free, as does Jason at Save Anaheim, and Cynthia over at Think for Yourself. Why hide it unless whomever is paying you is too afraid to be named?
Add to that the OCEA subsidizing the Voice Of OC and the Liberal OC……
Just to be fair.
In what way has OCEA ever funded or supported the liberal OC?
Yes, Vern runs this blog for free (I guess we’re assuming he makes no money on ads). How does that make what he writes true or untrue? According to your reasoning, his opinions have virtue because his blogging s “free.” Would they suddenly lose their virtue if George Soros mailed him a check for $200,000 and said “keep up the good work?”
Pedroza blogged for free (for most of his run here), and he lied in his posts all the time.
“and he lied in his posts all the time.”
And therein lies the difference.
Someone (who may or may not be full of it) tells me “confidentially” that your compensation for the site comes from (or at least through) Lewis. I’m agnostic on this. Please deny it for the record, if you’re so disposed.
John Lewis? That person is obviously confused. John Lewis, although I’ve criticized some of what he’s done in the past, is VERY close to Mayor Tom Tait, and is helping Tait’s candidates in this election. In other words, he’s on the opposite side of Jerbal.
Let’s stop bugging Matt to tell us anything honest, he’s just not going to do it. After the election, the paper trail will be clearer. And he’ll have moved on to his next dirty job.
Man, you guys really need to get better sources.
John Lewis and I have been good friends for more than 20 years. I learned the political ropes working for John in the early 1990s (which, incidentally, is the last tme I worked for John, contrary to what the denizens of the fevers swamps think). He is probably the best political consultant in the county, and I would never say anything against him.
Interesting response.
First of all, I’m right of course. Lewis is on the other side from Jerbal. I’m knee-deep in Anaheim and know what I’m talking about.
But why would Jerbal say “I would never say anything against him?” Who’s trying to get him to say anything bad about John Lewis? Are you thinking bad thoughts about John Lewis, Matt? You had better hit that confession booth, boy!
Oh for crying out loud, Vern. It’s not interesting. I was expressing my admiration and respect for a good friend who is maligned on this stupid blog on those occasions when he is mentioned. I disagree with the side he is working on in the Anaheim elections, but being friends, disagreement doesn’t interfere with friendship. Unlike too many people here and elsewhere in the blogosphere, normal people don’t approach politics as a blood sport in which you must personally destroy those who disagree with you.
And you couldn’t be knee-deep, Vern, when your knowledge is as shallow as a puddle
Hang on — that looks like a non-denial denial! I need to pick this apart.
“You need better sources.” Maybe — it came to me unsolicited. But that’s not actually a denial.
“Lewis and I have been good friends….” Not a denial.
“I learned the political ropes from him ….” Not a denial.
“Early 1990s is the last time I worked for John ….” Closer to a denial, but not a denial, because this blog wouldn’t necessarily represent employment as opposed to contract work, and of course the money for that could come from elsewhere and just be channeled through Lewis.
“Best political consultant in the county ….” Not a denial.
“I would never say anything against him.” HUH? This almost sounds like an admission! Does this mean “If he did it, I’d never tell you anyway?”
I tend to be convinced by Vern’s argument that Lewis wouldn’t act against Tait — but if that’s true, why can’t Matt just issue a better, unambiguous denial? Sooooo weird!
Interesting bit of misdirection from someone whose entire blog is an ongoing obsession with money, fundraising, and who’s funding the mailer of the day for/against whom.
Follow the money — unless you’re about to ask who Matt Cunningham is getting his from!
Lots of shit to sift through. But…
“Tell Jordan Brandman that breaking the law is no way to get elected.”
Now I’m no Brandman fan, of course, but the D.A. is reviewing the issue. Hyperbole would be putting it nice. I’m about as interested in that whole story as I am watching flies fuck.
I’m sure that you realize, GSR, that that last sentence begs the question.
Worth it for the George Carlin reference though.
The OCEA poured in hundreds of thousands to support Sidhu in 2010 without so much as a pip-squeak from The Jerb. Now all of a sudden OCEA is the Great Satan?
Somebody is Jerb’s “paymaster.” Or maybe Pringle’s just giving him free rent.
He’s desperate, after that whole First Five debacle, to prove that he’s some kind of “conservative.” And so he hollers extra hard about public employee unions, like some guy whose manliness is in question will holler about all the ass he’s gonna kick and all the women he’s gonna screw. And of course, more basically than that, he’s getting paid to trash John Leos.
Real conservatives don’t hate unions, they just see them as a necessary adversary requiring tough negotiation.
Sure, Vern. That’s exactly it. Have another swig and continue with your sidewalk psychoanalysis.
And its education reading a left-wiinger hold forth on what a “real conservative” is. Thanks for the laugh.
Tony,
You of all people should remember that OCEA did not spend a single dime in support of Harry Sidhu.
Okay, OCEA hit Nelson; the AOCDS supported Sidhu. Same difference.
SOAR; Anaheim Chamber; OCBC; OCTax. They’re all fronts for the Pringle Operation OC Plantation and I’m willing to make a substantial wager and give odds that one of them (or others) are taking care of The Jerb, or as he likes to call himself now, “long-time Anaheim watcher” to try to mask his real interest. If Brandman wins that blog will disappear.
Jerb himself said he was going to quit blogging because it didn’t pay. Prophetic?
This is why it’s remarkable that John Leos is endorsed by not only the OCEA (and Mayor Tait and the Register) but Shawn Nelson and Chris Norby. They’ve worked with him on the Board of Supes and respect him as someone who does NOT put the interests of a union over the interest of the public. Not to mention how much better they know he is than the opposition.
And I say, if Jordan loses, Matt’s blog will also disappear. Either way. It’s just a 2012 election season tool.
OMG. You really have been drinking if you believe all that.
Hmmm. In Bushala’s fertile imagination, I am controlled by Curt Pringle, who is supposedly my paymaster. (false, but inconvenient truths are lost in this fever swamp).
Bushala foots the whole bill to elect Travis Kiger to Fullerton City Council, but we’re suppposed to believe Kiger is a total free agent. Which may well be true, but we do get to see the double-standard at work.
This is the difference. Even if you disagree with Tony or OCEA politically you can not lump him in with Disney and the Pringle crowd. Tony and OCEA are upfront and identify their support for candidates. They don’t funnel money through mulitple PACs to hide. If OCEA sends out a hit piece it says OCEA right on it. Tony did not make max out contributions to candidates he opposes and then fund hit pieces against them. If you have a position then have the integrity to own it.
Okay. So are you being paid to run that “blog?”
If so, who is paying you?
Lets not forget Matt’s fawning and begging OCEA to contribute to his hit on Art Pedroza several years ago when he was running for office. Back then John Leos and OCEA were the good guys because Matt was being paid by them. What a hypocrite.
Wow: it took one phone call and a simple ask to get the OCEA to kick in for that anti-Pedroza mailer. No “fawning and begging” was necessary. It was easy raising money for that mail piece.
“Back then John Leos and OCEA were the good guys because Matt was being paid by them. What a hypocrite.”
Back then, I didn’t know who John Leos was. Pedroza ran for Santa Ana council in 2008. Leos didn’t run in Anaheim util 2010.
I haven’t describd OCEA as good guys. I have been written positively about the union when it has acted constructively, but I’ve never changed my views as to its nature and purpose.
Any more wrong statements you’d like to make?
Yes. Quit being a bitch and answer the question. Who writes your checks?
Note to whoever signed on as “Matt” while not being the Matt to whom your speaking: Don’t pull that if you want to see your posts exist here.
Ooooo. Judgment from Mr. Selective Outrage himself. That really hurts.
Fuckin’ right Vern!
Vern said: “Real conservatives don’t hate unions, they just see them as a necessary adversary requiring tough negotiation.”
And tough negotiation is not likely when public employee unions are permitted to make political contributions to their bosses.
Yes on Prop 32!
Yes on Costa Mesa Charter City!
Thank you junior.
I’m conservative you might say, I don’t “hate” the union- they were put in place to help the blue collar worker-ie miners, for better working conditons back in the day, and I certainly can’t and won’t scream about that.
Now the greedy union bosses for the teachers/police/public empolyees etc pull money out of people’s paychecks without even asking, just so they can use it to send to their favorite politicians for no other reason but to get some stupid bill passed or some favor done that will help the union and in turn that means more money in the union’s account to do what they want with – like give themselves bonuses.
A no on Prop 32 will encourage more of this, so it’s a big YES on 32. Who has a problem with that?
Matt – so when will you reveal who is paying you?
Matthew Cunningham? Paid to blog? How dare you question his life-long interest in Anaheim that he’s just coincidentally chosen to give voice to for the first time just a few months before a big-money election. Why, some of Matt’s best friends live in Anaheim! Or at least they’ve driven through here a few times on the way to somewhere else, or something.
Ha, just kidding — of course he’s a shill. I think that for the next election, the OCEA should pay him twice as much as whatever he’s getting from his current handlers, just for the sheer amusement value of watching him recant all of his previously-held beliefs as he jumps for a dollar bill on a string.
Biff, with apologies to the wife, I love you. You always say what I am thinking (which is why Matt thinks we are the same) only you manage to say it in a third of the space and better sentence structure. Well played, sir. May I borrow that if needed?
“just for the sheer amusement value of watching him recant all of his previously-held beliefs as he jumps for a dollar bill on a string.”
That image is going to be stuck in my head all day like the song you get playing over and over. But a lot more fun.
What I really want to know is where John Leos and Jordan Brandman stand, respectively, on the matter of giving out free government toothbrushes. Perhaps someone with an Anaheim-focused blog who has some prior experience in this area could find out the answer and let us all know.
I love the classic “Mickey Mouse” image. Great touch that. Pure genesis.