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Gustavo Arellano, the libertarian-ish useful tool of opponents of rival OC Latino activists whom I’ve come to call “Buquer Ti Oashington” for his “up by your bootstraps” advice to his followers, has been bouncing around our comments section recently slamming people for their endorsements in the Anaheim City Council election that took place almost exactly three years ago this Friday. Let’s return to those times and get a sense of what was being said at the time. I’m going to quote the relevant portion of Buquer Ti’s — uh, Gustavo’s — argument in full, both to kindly preserve its context for his benefit and to pull it apart. The indented material is from Gustavo; the non-indented commentary is mine:
There is no municipal election that will grab more attention this year than Anaheim. This is the city, after all, that burned this past summer, whose officers have been shooting unarmed men for nearly a decade now, who’s currently facing a bullshit ACLU lawsuit demanding ward elections for the city council in the name of diversity and now has a pedophile-priest protector apologist smearing opponents of Dark Lord (and former mayor) Curt Pringle, who wants a dirty cop elected to City Council…where where we? Oh, yeah: THE MOUSE IS A LOUSE!
Wait, that’s a different issue.
(Sorry, I have to interrupt here: do you see that link about “a bullshit ACLU lawsuit demanding ward elections for the city council”? If I had sided with Kris Murray back when it mattered most, I don’t think I’d want to talk about the 2012 Anaheim elections at all! But Gustavo just counts on people having a short memory.)
Anyhoo, the races!
(San Ramon’s photo, used above, appeared here.)
CITY COUNCIL
This is the one that will determine the future of Anaheim, and probably the last one run in a non-ward race, and I think it’s perfectly emblematic of everything that’s wrong with Anaheim–essentially, it’s a race of clowns save for one amazing candidate that will probably not win because everyone is against him for selfish reasons.
“Will determine the future of Anaheim!” Sounds like a pretty important race if the stakes are that high, huh? A time, in fact, to figure out how one can get the best result possible, with so much hanging in the balance! Keep reading to be surprised (or not).
But first, the idiots: the presumed front-runners are current Anaheim Union High School District Trustee Jordan Brandman and former councilwoman Lucille Kring. Brandman is little more than a slimy weenie–he’s the ultimate teacher’s pet of OC politics, someone who sucks up to Democrats and Republicans alike, and the worst ones, at that: Democratic Party of Orange County chair Frank Barbaro for the Dems, and Pringle for the GOP. He’s probably going to get one of the council seats and immediately be a weenie, trying to appear to appease everyone but really just using the seat to bolt to state assembly once his mentor, former mayor Tom Daly (whom we once named one of the weakest people in Orange County–like mentor, like ward!), finishes his presumptive term (he’s running this year).
Pretty comprehensive slam there! Of course, he was wrong about Brandman trying to appease everyone. Still, Gustavo seems alarmed enough to be motivated to block him.
All you need to know about Brandman is that he’s willing to be associated with Steve Lodge, the dirty SanTana cop who decided to be Mexican this election and will thusly appear on the ballot as Steve Chavez Lodge. It seems Anaheim voters have picked him out for who he is–a douchebag carpetbagger–and his campaign signs have been defaced like no other local candidate since Tan Nguyen.
Again, it’s pretty clear that Gustavo really doesn’t want this pair to win.
Lucille Kring, on the other hand, is opposed to Brandman and the Pringle machine. I remember talking to her back when I was a cub reporter, and she struck me than as level-minded. That was before I discovered she’s a Know Nothing who once supported the reprehensible Lupe Moreno–really, Lucille? Her main opponent for the second seat, John Leos, is part-Mexi and says all the right things, but he’s a Republican, which means we must question his sanity.
So Gustavo likes the fact that Kring was opposed to the “Pringle machine” — this would have been the place to say otherwise, if he wanted to — but doesn’t like the fact that she’s anti-immigrant. Tom Tait surely didn’t like the latter either, but he calculated the odds and decided to endorse Kring — who immediately betrayed him by, once on Council, turning into Steve Lodge without the ability to beat people to a pulp. This was so totally audacious a betrayal that Tait didn’t expect it; it follows that others less in the know should not be held to a higher standard.
As for Leos: he “says all the right things” but “he’s a Republican” — like Tait and many other prominent Pringle critics — so … he might be crazy? OK — but as you read those paragraphs don’t you get the sense that Gustavo had a preference between the Brandman/Lodge ticket and Kring and Leos? If so, wouldn’t someone who wanted to keep the former off of City Council support Kring and Leos even if (at least in Kring’s case) it was apprehensively and grudgingly?
As for the rest of the candidates? No one knows who Linda Linder, Jennifer Rivera, or Rudy Gaona is, and Brian Chuchua, while a nice guy, has no chance. And then we’re left with the only city council candidate in all of OC that is truly awesome: Duane Roberts.
Note that one has two protest votes for City Council, if one wanted to cast them, so Chuchua’s having “no chance” shouldn’t have mattered. Or rather, it would matter only if it got into the way of a good story. What constitutes a good story about Anaheim for Gustavo? If you had to pick one word, wouldn’t it be: “Gigante”?
Roberts is a longtime Anaheim activist, and the one person who will blast everyone and anyone in the name of political truth. Los Amigos despises him because he once outed their carpetbagging efforts to get a Latino elected to the Anaheim City School District and opposed their pathetic shilling for Mexican multinational Gigante. Republicans hate him for his long campaigns against Pringle and all the other losers the GOP has inflicted on OC over the years. Cops hate him because he’s been monitoring their brutalizing ways for years.
So who supports Duane? Anyone who wants the one honest man in Orange County–he’s a pinche Unitarian Universalist, for chrissakes. He’s proof-positive that calls for diversity in council chambers are bullshit, because said Latino yaktivists would rather want a vendido than this mensch. Although this paper doesn’t officially endorse, I will personally tell all 500 or so of my cousins who live in Anaheim to vote for Duane. He’ll probably lose, because OC can never vote the right people in office, but any young folks looking to apprentice under a master of raising hell should–it worked for me!
Wow — doesn’t that seem like a real cop-out, if the stakes are so high? Was there any reasonable alternative? Let’s see what Vern said in his endorsements:
The defining struggle this year in Anaheim, is much different – will Orange County’s largest city break free of its complete political control by local corporate interests – Disney, the resorts and developers, and above all ex-Mayor / master lobbyist / puppeteer Curt Pringle. And that means cutting down the Pringle-ites’ current three-member council majority to two. And that essentially comes down to, what we always say, DEFEATING JORDAN BRANDMAN. Keeping Pringle candidate Jordan Brandman off the Council.
Otherwise none of Mayor Tait’s reforms will move forward this year: “Letting the people vote” on future corporate subsidies; Moving to district-style elections and settling the ACLU suit; and forming a citizens’ oversight committee to keep the police in line. So, like I said in my last Anaheim article, Democrats and progressives who want to vote for the candidates who most reflect their values should NOT vote for “Democrat” Brandman, but for Duane Roberts and John Leos; while if you want to be more pragmatic and pick the two candidates who are MOST LIKELY to beat Brandman, you should go for the Mayor’s choice: Leos and Lucille Kring.
Sounds pretty reasonable. Vern supported Leos (even over his good friend Brian Chuchua), for both pragmatists and protest voters, in hopes of keeping Brandman off of City Council. As (to his credit) did Gustavo, Vern also supported Tait — who, despite being Republican, was not accused of being possibly insane, something that Gustavo apparently thought could only apply to Latino Republicans. (Nice!) For protest voters, Vern also supported Roberts — but for people who really cared about electing a Council intent on endorsing the Mayor’s policies, he reluctantly went with Kring as his choice for a second candidate.
For this, Gustavo calls Vern a “fanboy.”
I call Gustavo a pinche pendejo, because with the future of Anaheim on the line he was not really inclined to support the Mayor’s candidate over the former Mayor’s candidate. Instead, he chose to pretend that he could rise above it all and not take a stand — despite that the stakes were obviously high and the choice was obviously clear.
Well — at least he may have helped bring in enough votes to put Roberts over the top, right? Let’s check those results for evidence of Gustavo’s power and influence!
JORDAN BRANDMAN | 26,332 | 19.3% |
LUCILLE KRING | 25,464 | 18.7% |
JOHN LEOS | 19,051 | 14.0% |
JENNIFER RIVERA | 14,091 | 10.3% |
STEVEN ALBERT CHAVEZ LODGE | 13,834 | 10.1% |
LINDA LINDER | 13,456 | 9.9% |
BRIAN NEIL CHUCHUA | 9,534 | 7.0% |
RODOLFO “RUDY” GAONA | 7,703 | 5.6% |
DUANE ROBERTS | 6,914 | 5.1% |
… Or maybe not.
Look — politics sometimes involves making some disturbing choices. (This is especially when the most prominent Latino writer in the County spends his time crapping all over the very sorts of Latino political figures that — in most other places — help to raise up good people who may run for Council. Who celebrates, do you think, when Gustavo pisses all over Los Amigos?) When the time to make those decisions comes, someone like Vern will suck it up and take a stand — even if with some compunctions and regrets. Gustavo won’t — and didn’t.
Sitting on the sidelines is not actually something to be proud of. And attacking someone else because he didn’t — because he wanted to support the tactical decisions of a reformist Mayor — that’s just pinche insane. Much, much worse than anything that happened a decade earlier regarding Gigante — the only thing Gustavo chooses to remember, because it was the only time he did take a stand and lost.
This pissing match between you and Gustavo has been fucking lame for a long time.
Well look who always starts it tho, I didnt say anything rude to him in this story or thread. His Stink City story was great.
Of course he always starts it. He’s as interested in protecting his public image as Supervisor Spitzer is.
Do not delete the comments on the other post, please. If we wants to wrestle us into the mud, he had better expect it to leave a lasting stain.
When I responded to Paul, I didn’t realize this was on a new piece of yours, and I thought Paul was addressing me.
If you want to immortalize the garbage Gustavo left on my Oak View post, PLEASE copy and paste it over here, by SIX. I don’t want it polluting and confusing things on THAT story.
Bloviator: Again with your bloviatory bloviations that do nothing but bloviate. Public image? Influence? Only bloviators like yourself care about that. I’m fine with my words and deeds, which bloviators like yourself can’t help but bloviate about to bloviatatory heights. Keep on bloviating!
You are indeed “fine with your words and deeds.” That’s the problem. Journalism, you may remember, is ideally about trying to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” Well, you’re a bit too comfortable pretending that you can try to rise above it all when people are literally dying, future generations are being robbed, and reform of each OC political party is the only likely means of improving anything. There’s more to life than shtick and stirring old pots. And there are better interests to pursue than your own ability to evade criticism.
The notion that you don’t care about your public image doesn’t even require refutation. Come on, dude.
“Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” Funny. Gustavo used that expression to describe what he thinks the Weekly tries to do, when I caught up with him a couple weeks ago. Of course neither of us made that up, it was Finley Peter Dunne over a century ago. But I hadn’t heard him say that before, and I DID make that THIS blog’s motto in my first post here when I inherited the Orange Juice from Pedroza five and a half years ago:
http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2010/04/humbled/
Gustavo wrote the first comment to that post: “Vern: Congrats. Please continue what OJ is best at—hounding liberal and conservative fat cows; scabrous political coverage; no-holds-barred fights. In other words, continue being the Weekly’s spiritual bastard child of the blogosphere!”
So when I heard him use that expression the other day, I idly wondered if he’d gotten it from me. Probably not; and he’d never admit if he did. But in any case, we should all be getting back to that now – comforting the afflicted, etc etc etc.
See below.
Paul, have I somehow given you the impression that I’m interested in taking deportment advice from you? Don’t read it. Better yet, write us something worth reading.
what is deportment? Actually never mind, Im not interested in flaming things. You make the decision to go back n forth with Gustavo of you want.
It’s a word. If you’re reading this, you can go to Google and type in “define deportment” (or pretty much any other real word) and it will. We live in an age of wonder, Paul!
P.S. Behavior as related to manners.
Bloviator: Who gave you permission to use my photograph?
It’s part of the original story, Poseur. It falls under a Fair Use exception to provide context for criticism. Want to sue me?
I have now credited you, though.
Oh. My. God.
I’m with Paul. Let’s move on.
I’m not much one for unilateral disarmament — especially against cowards.
You should be.
I don’t think Gustavo is trying to oppress the poor or enrich himself through the bastardization of government and public assets.
I don’t think we need to like political allies, but insisting that we at least not actively try to not get along . . . that’s reasonable.
Like it or not, you’re on the same page for the biggest local issues on the table at the moment. Let’s act like it.
Ryan, my friend — part of your reaction probably comes from being a Republican. Republicans are, I hope you’ll pardon my saying, by and large not going to be the political or economic salvation of Latinos and the poor generally in Anaheim. (When they are, like Tait, I support them in their policies and I use my discretion when it comes to addressing them in elections.) Like it or not, what will help them most in Anaheim is a strong, aggressive, PROGRESSIVE and HONEST RATHER THAN SELF-SERVING Democratic Party. (In other parts of the County, the Democratic Party is essentially irrelevant, and there the fight becomes how to get the same figures into control of the Republican Party. “Progressive,” remember, was originally a Republican term — and is still used for many of the Republicans, like Teddy Roosevelt, beloved most.) He has NOT, by and large, been helpful when it comes to moving both parties in a progressive (as opposed to retrogressive/feudalist, not as opposed to to “conservative” direction.)
I don’t actually dislike Gustavo or Gabriel and I respect their positions on many policy issues, with which I generally agree. But policy isn’t everything. There’s also electoral politics. And people with good values who punt when it comes to electoral politics make the situation worse. There was every reason for Gustavo to support Leos in the previous race — even if only so that he’d beat Kring and Lodge for the second seat — but he chose not to do so. Why? Because — as he ably demonstrates with respect to Vern — supporting an imperfect but nevertheless respectable candidate carries with it a risk of being held to account for their later weaknesses. And Gustavo seems phobic about that — which is why he’ll generally only support “people of principle” who are certain to lose. It evades responsibility — and he clearly wants and enjoys having a position of influence within the Latino community.
“Being on the same page” means working hard and smart to elect people — of any or no party, as the opportunities present themselves, who will honestly consider good policy. Sometimes the best that can be done is to cast a protest vote — I’ve been one three time in the past four years, so I’m not opposed to it — but often (as in Anaheim 2012) one CAN do better. But if one is going to slag the communities out of which better candidates will come — and yes, that includes Los Amigos, in which I’m only sporadically active — then one is working against such ends.
If he hadn’t been slagging Vern for what, on re-inspection, was a recommendation directly only at those who didn’t prefer a protest vote, I probably would not have gone back to find his article. But he has been, and it’s been utter bullshit. This is about our inducing each other to use what power we have to do our jobs better. Vern and I try induce him to take brave and informed stances to push honest and ethical ends. He tries to induce us to shut up and not criticize him — despite that he’s a public figure with a big megaphone. If you have ideas as to how to bridge that impasse, I’m happy to hear them.
Ryan: I’m totally with you. But it’s this shit blog that’s obsessed with me—you can look at all the posts Vern, Ricardo, and the Bloviator have devoted to me over the years as proof. Hell, just in the past week, Ricardo and the Bloviator devoted one screed each, Vern couldn’t help but to drag me into his post despite me having nothing to do with the story. Hell, the past three Orange Shit posts have referenced me one way or another. I’ll confess to having fun commenting on the Bloviator’s bloviations—but in my defense, I comment all across the Weekly blogs and get paid to do so. What’s the Three Pendejos’ excuse?
Hey moron, you had written two decent pieces on the Oak View issue, which I referenced approvingly, as any courteous writer would. Now bugger off, weenie.
Godamnit, Vern . . .
Gustavo,
You use the power of being an editor of a major local media to reinforce an interpretation of events that, in my view, does not help to change the conditions maintaining the power of Pringle and his machine.
As you have the right to your views, I have the right as a reader of your views, and most importantly as a member of the community impacted by the policies of the people who have controlled the city affairs, to disagree with you on this issue.
I am sick and tired of you being a bully, of calling people “pendejos” , putting people down, because of disagreement on certain issues. It is not cute or funny, it is abusive. I hope that we will meet face to face one day, so we can clarify our positions and see whether you will apologize or call me pendejo again.
You know, Ricardo, you presented my own thoughts better than I did, as well as more succinctly. Thank you for that.
Yes, it’s about bullying. I’ve been told by people for years that one should suck up to Gustavo to get good treatment from the Weekly, and certainly don’t antagonize someone who, as the saying goes, “buys ink by the barrel. That sort of bullying bothers me more than this sort of juvenile abusiveness: it makes cowards of so many people. That WHY, in my opinion, he continues to hold grudges, for example against Amin David and Dr. Jose Moreno — as a warning to others who might consider crossing him.
Well, to hell with that. My apologies to those like Paul and Ryan … hmmm, “Paul Ryan”? … who don’t like to see this sort of thing here. It’s not an “unhealthy obsession” to stand up to bullying and to the implicit “bribery and extortion” threat of staying on the good side of the major writers — it’s just damn good societal hygiene.
The only real qualification for the job of dissident is to not really give a shit about the consequences. (One would think that Duane would have taught Gustavo that lesson as well.) I cleared that bar long ago. If anyone doesn’t like to see it, please skip these sorts of posts.
“The only real qualification for the job of dissident is to not really give a shit about the consequences.”
I agree.
However, there’s a big difference between rallying to affect change and basking in the lonely hermitage of ideological purity.
Fullerton is about to deflower democracy to give away the last range of open space in North Orange County to Chevron, Anaheim sits on the precipice on yet another nine figure giveaway to build a streetcar subsidy to Disney, Santa Ana is pushing forward another ToT giveaway, all while our District Attorney’s office continues to find new and creative ways to castrate our freedoms guaranteed by the 5th Amendment.
I think debating which blogger deserves to be in the corner most can take a back seat for a few weeks.
Just sayin’.
Speaking of Coyote Hills, Ryan, you wrote the masterpiece on that a few years ago. Can you make a sequel?
The DA abuse thing you’re referring to – is that the brand new, top-secret, gag-ordered, gang injunction he wants to slap on the latino neighborhoods of Placentia?
We should write about all these things and we probably will.
Vern, working on it. Just need time, which is sadly short.
Ryan,
First, a correction: that should have been “… the *personal* consequences.” Obviously, a dissident cares about the broader consequences.
As for the rest:
If I see Gustavo wasting his talents and influence on ancient wrongs and futile responses in his own forum, while coming here and blasting Vern for noting (to the extent he did) that he had been an apologist for Epting, I’m going to take him on. This is where I do it. If you’d make a different decision and not defend your friend and comrade, that’s fine.
I’m focusing much more on Anaheim now than last go-round because that’s where most of my work and political activity has largely been directed for the past 2-1/2 years. One writes about what finds of interest and, hopefully, has expertise. I’m interested in the topics you mention, but I don’t have the expertise I once could have. I wish I had as much time as I did a few years ago, but I have a lot of active cases now, so at least I’m neglecting Fullerton for a good reason.
Let’s list them:
(1) I’d love for you — or others, it shouldn’t always have to be you — to come forth and write about what’s happening with Coyote Hills. I’m surprised to hear that they’re “on the verge” of a giveaway.
(2) Before reading Adam’s post today about the subcommittee report not making it to the agenda, I believed that we were on top of what was happening with the streetcar (which mainly has been its deterioration.) I can fill you in on details offline.
(3) As for Santa Ana and another ToT giveaway: I haven’t been following it. I thought that now Santa Ana was sex scandals 24/7. Anyone out there want to take this on?
(4) I’m aware of the gang injunction gambit in Placentia — what I’m not clear on is why Racky’s previous smackdown by the California Supreme Court wouldn’t apply to this as well — but that story would take more time than I can devote right now. Reporting on that topic has to be airtight, because the demagogues on the other side can wave bloody shirts all day long while arguing that anyone who doesn’t agree that the strongest anti-gang measures possible are needed — sometimes accompanied by an implicit “and to hell with the U.S. Constitution. Without having good evidence as to whether the DA’s office can provide a legally justifiable reason for this policy that would likely survive court scrutiny, critics are just walking into a land mine — which is exactly how the OCDA’s office wants it.
I wish that I had the time and the resources to check it out, but I don’t. I presume that the ACLU will be interested, though, as it’s a good source of funding for them.
Really….with all that is happening in Anaheim, you have time for this. I would suggest a better use of resources would be to examine, research and try and attack the photo you featured. It is RIPE with threatening gang propaganda. And on the days of a simmering fued comming a boil (Pancho and ValleyBoy) a out to be released this month. Most are preparing for a violent if not deadly holiday season.
Instead you appoint your efforts on a teenage spat.
Make no mistake: Anaheim is a WARZONE and we need to identify the true enemy and it’s NOT bloggers, reporters or even politicans. It’s serious criminal gangs. Like the one who killed Ximeina.
Perhaps Gustavo and I can agree that while lots of places have problems with gangs — and with police and prosecutorial misconduct in response to them — Anaheim seems to be almost unique in alienating its future existing and new sources of income for literally one or two generations.
And that will, of course, make the future problems of violence worse, if you care to craft policy to address events that far into the future.
What in God’s name is your point?
Mine is plain: Criminal street gamgs have taken over much of “working class” Anaheim. No amount of “future income” will change that until the crime problem is solved. After prop 47 passed (and we are in it’s infancy) County data suggests that sexual assaultshave increased 400% in some neighborhoods. Drug arrests notably dripped. But violent crime is prevelant.
Long term all of what you talk about is important. But I am afraid you do not understand the dramaticeffect of HANG culture holds in Anaheim. There are GENERATIONS of violent street criminals influincing policy there. This not as simple as you portend. Socialologists tell us that in order to change you must stop the gangs. Look to Santa Ana in 1992.
Doesn’t matter, you seem far more about “YOU” than Anaheim and it’s real life afflictions.
PS – Gustavo dyes his hair!!!!
PPS – YOU seemed to have otherwise ruined a noble attempt at rooting out a bad seed from Nelson’s original article. Nice spin. We will certainly remember your peice….NOT.
Sorry, but the website address you used gives me caution. I don’t think that someone writes this sort of thing from your domain. So if you’re faking that, you might be faking much.
To be fair, though, let’s ask our guest Gustavo to comment on your thesis. (By which I don’t mean on hair dye.)
[Note: This comment thread was originally on another post, from which Vern (understandably) wanted it deleted. As it directly inspired this post, however, it is worth preserving and is more appropriate here:]
Gustavo Arellano, Posted November 2, 2015 at 8:45 PM
Vern: You accusing me of fanboying someone is hilarious considering you’re the most notorious fanboy of pathetic losers there is. You’ll declare any cretin your pal and alright if they so much as look at you, Speaking of, how is Lucille Kring nowadays, anyways?
Greg Diamond, Posted November 3, 2015 at 12:50 PM
Lucille Kring is disappointing for anyone who believed what she said on the 2012 campaign trail. How is Jordan Brandman? Oh, wait — you didn’t become a critic until AFTER it was safe — hell, not until after your failure to do so was CONSPICUOUS!
The ONLY good thing that I have gotten out of the above pollution of cyberspace is that I am so lucky to have children and grandchildren, and Sappy the wonder dog, to love in my remaining years on this wretched planet, and that there are other things to write during that time.
Oh, I was referring to the original post and all that came out of it, just to be clear. I’m done. Going back to watching the Arrow kick some ass and shoot people with his green arrows.
Greg, why dont you try to make your blog posts no less than half the size of your usual offerings so in the least you wont be called a bloviator anymore.
Paul, the purpose of the label “bloviator” is to try to keep people from listening to what I have to say about Gustavo’s agenda of self-promotion. I could write five words and he would still use the term. It’s not about me, it’s about him.
I think you should test that theory. Write something really short. See what happens
Chill, Paul.
OK — posted.
Bloviator: The only reason you have that bloviating title is because you bloviate. If you had written short like, say, any non-bloviator on the planet, you would’ve never gotten your Bloviator title. But keep thinking you ain’t a bloviator, Bloviator!
Your use of the word bloviator strikes me as bloviatory.
You’re confusing “bloviation” and “prolixity.”
You do a fine job yourself of keeping people from reading your articles.
I’m beginning to think that that is not your real name.
I don’t disagree with Greg that Gustavo is a nasty character who thinks insults are the highest form of argument. But this post is ridiculous. Who cares?
And Greg, for the love of Pete, stop being so darn long-winded.
Half of that post was quoting Gustavo’s 2012 article. The other half was criticism.
It matters in the lead up to next year’s elections, during which Gustavo — committed above all to trashing the traditional civil rights leaders in Anaheim whom he sees as rivals, because Gigante — is likely to make it harder to find and promote candidates to take on the interests that he claims to despise. Refusing to be part of the solution — and obviously, for all his good points, Duane Roberts is not the solution — makes him part of the problem. So who should care? Everyone who cares about Anaheim.
OK I am in. Dammit Greg, how is slamming Gustavo more important than any of the other highly relevant issues you just said you don’t have time to write about? PRIORITIES my friend. Focus, focus, focus.
I don’t care that you don’t like Gustavo, he often pisses me off too, expanding my vocabulary by making me use brand new words invented for the occasion, but I know his heart is good and he does give a damn about Anaheim, which puts him above 3 of our elected leaders right now. That means if resources are limited you save the arrows for the 3 elected leaders who DO dictate the future of Anaheim instead of squandering them on the alt weekly editor whose influence on Anaheim’s outcome is limited at best. (before Cunningham runs a headline “Lady Ward proposes bow hunting the Council majority” I am NOT advocating for violence, simply using a word picture, get a grip)
Greg, beloved-crazy-older-brother-I-don’t-let-babysit-my-kids…QUIT wasting air space, and the limited time you have available, both billable and blog-able, going after the circle jerk of the blogosphere. The posts on other bloggers as though that is news (whether done by Chumley or Bear-Burner or US) significantly contributes to the dumbing down of the internet, and there are important things to do with those ones and zeros you are frittering away over someone whose Council endorsements mean exactly squat.
By the way, we all do have a choice regarding whether we will read the inter-blog mudslinging, and it is a sad day when I choose to skip something written by Greg, the guy I think is brilliant when not letting his personal passions and animosities dictate his focus, but I guess that is what I need to do for a while when I see the names of other bloggers in the headlines. It doesn’t matter whether everything you say is true, it is not helpful. When we are distracted by our inbred family feuds, the ones cheering loudest are the ones relieved that we are not focused on THEM.
Or in Mom-speak, don’t make me come down there.
OK, I am not in.
It’s good to see this silliness coming to a halt. I am reminded (and disappointed) that the seemingly legitimate sites are increasingly a cesspool, Adam allowing Beelzebub AKA LFOLDTIMER and Arturo Lomeli back to the swamp makes me believe all of this “debate” is a waste of time.