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So. Much. Going on. Have a look:
- Some anonymous Dr. Jose Moreno supporter has no fear of Disney’s lawyers! But the last half of the video, the part without the iconic screen crawl, presumably originated from a different source — and it’s pretty sweet. (Link is to a Facebook post; if anyone finds a non-FB source, please post the URL in comments!)
- In other Anaheim-related news, if you missed this story on Southern California Public Radio about the exciting advent of district elections, you should definitely check it out. Both Jordan Brandman and Lushille Kring were asked for interviews and, probably wisely, both chickened out.
- Some of you may recall Ling-Ling Chang’s out of control foul-mouthed diatribe from the dais from when she was still a lowly water commissioner. (Go to the source, if not.) Well, someone has gone and used their Hollywood technology to perform some video magic. I can’t get it to load here, but go to LingLingLies.com, which prominently features research and writing from this here blog, and Control-F your way down to “Bad Temperament.” (Or go through the whole site for more glory.
- Ling-Ling’s opponent Josh Newman has picked up a couple more big endorsements: Attorney General Kamala Harris and some skinny big-eared guy named Barack Hussein Obama.
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BARACK OBAMA ENDORSES JOSH NEWMAN FOR CALIFORNIA’S 29TH SENATE DISTRICT
Support Underscores Crucial Nature of This Race
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Derek Humphrey
Cell: (951) 805-4167
October 31, 2016WASHINGTON D.C. —Today Barack Obama endorsed Josh Newman in his race for California’s 29th Senate District. Newman is among a select group of state legislative candidates from around the country to be endorsed by Obama. The 29th District encompasses portions of Orange, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino Counties.
This contest has caught national attention due to Newman’s unique personal story and advocacy for local veterans.
“We are thrilled that Barack Obama is endorsing our candidates in some of the most competitive races across the country,” said Jessica Post, Executive Director of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. “His endorsement highlights how crucial state legislative elections are to building on the progress the President has achieved and to continuing to move our nation forward.”
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- There are apparently big red signs in Irvine directing voters to this wild and shaky site, “GaidoGrowth.com” — in which Flip-Floppy Dick Ackerman announces to voters, with the help of a talented cartoonist, that as a Councilmember and Planning Commissioner Mayoral candidate Mary Ann Gaido voted for 50,000 new houses in Irvine — in six votes — over the course of a couple of decades …. What? THIS IS AN PITCH PAID FOR BY THE DEVELOPERS SUPPORTING DON WAGNER, WHO HAVE DONE MUCH MORE THAN THAT AND WANTED EVEN MORE THAN THEY GOT! We have a great new entry here in the “we think that voters are stupid enough to believe anything we throw at them” sweepstakes! But I have an idea — Don Wagner, will you please step forward and condemn all of these six votes — and the many proposals like them that have been put forth by developers? And promise to step down if you’re elected and it turns out that you actually do support developers, ok? CRIMINY!
- Also in Irvine: one of the donors to Dishonest Dave Gilliard’s dishonestly named California Homeowners Association PAC (CAHOA) is a new (created in April) entity named “Evil Khan Group LLC”, which ponied up $5000 to the Dishonest One. Here’s its info from the Secretary of State’s “Business Search” site:
Entity Number | Date Filed | Status | Entity Name | Agent for Service of Process |
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201610610048 | 04/14/2016 | ACTIVE | EVIL KHAN GROUP, LLC | RANDOLPH TAYLOR |
Entity Name: | EVIL KHAN GROUP, LLC |
Entity Number: | 201610610048 |
Date Filed: | 04/14/2016 |
Status: | ACTIVE |
Jurisdiction: | CALIFORNIA |
Entity Address: | 1 HIDDEN HILLS CIRCLE |
Entity City, State, Zip: | POMONA CA 91766 |
Agent for Service of Process: | RANDOLPH TAYLOR |
Agent Address: | 1 HIDDEN HILLS CIRCLE |
Agent City, State, Zip: | POMONA CA 91766 |
- Anyone know a Randolph Taylor from Pomona? We’d like to find out who the “Evil Khan” is.
- Our article from October 1, 2015, entitled “Brett Murdock to Challenge Ed Royce for Congress: Democrats Get the Guy They Wanted,” just hit 3000 all-time hits yesterday, which is pretty good for our doughty little blog, especially given that he haven’t really promoted it at all since it got 550 hits when it came out. People are interested in that race; it’s been in our Top 10 Daily in some time. Maybe that explains why there are so many tired old Ed Royce signs out in the 39th Congressional district — ones that can pretty much be undermined a fell swoop with one of Murdock’s “22 Years is Enough!” or “NO Trump | NO Royce” signs. Ed’s losing this race would be hilarious, and Murdock certainly is working hard enough to make that possible. (This was, by the way, the race that Sukhee Kang should have undertaken. I’d have voted for him over Royce, despite everything.)
- Murdock has a web ad out too. Between him and Josh Newman, we up here are the royalty of the signs!
- “Subsidy Steve” Lodge has a mailer out from the California Women’s Leadership Association (a front group, judging from its funding, for the usual gang of reprobates) in which the first pledge he makes is to “Address the Increasing Problem of Homelessness”! THIS IS THE GUY WHO WENT FREAKING OUT ONLINE ABOUT SANTA ANA’S NEW HOMELESS SERVICES AT THE BUS SHELTER! Damn, now I gotta find my notes of our face-off on Facebook. He was like Lucille Kring on PCP. Soon, I hope, soon….
By the way, here’s more or less how Lodge’s name appears on that flyer:
Steve
CHAVEZ LODGE
If Steve Lodge has learned nothing else over the past decade, it’s that he cannot win an election using either the actual name OR THE ACTUAL ISSUE POSITIONS of the real Steve Lodge. The contempt for voters is … REMARKABLE! Or maybe he’s figured out that it’s harder for us to make a joke about “Subsidy Chavez” than “Subsidy Steve.” (Of course, it’s not a joke!)
There’s more, got to stop for now. Add your tasty bits in comments.
I have serious concerns about our future of Irvine. Mostly, this is due to the fact that our municipal affairs have been grossly mismanaged by a local government – Council and their appointed planning commission are completely uneducated and incompetent, and other times simply hard-hearted. Either case is frankly unacceptable.
To state the matter simply, we have too many people in Irvine based on the current numbers and are well master planned community, which is well beyond the plan. This community was very well planned, with established numbers for residents and quantities of services to accommodate them, but somewhere along the way we’ve deviated from that wise pre-laid course. There are far more people living here than was ever originally planned, and what’s worse, it seems that no one has bothered to budget for the services needed by this larger population. Our schools are too few and not equipped to handle the multitudes of children they are being asked to educate, and our commercial sector is unable to keep up with the demands of so many customers. The burden on our infrastructure is showing the LACK planning. One would expect that we’ve at least had the presence of mind to stop this recklessness, to moderate the number of new homes being built in Irvine until we have a plan to accommodate the citizens, catch up with our economy, get the planners – planning, but we can’t even get that right. Our planning commission consists no engineers, architects, builders, or lawyers to understand the contracts put in front of them, just friends of the Council and their home developers. They are being permitted to build in massive numbers, making an already bad problem even worse. Of course, by now our economy is so lopsided that land values are astronomical (good for home owners), so virtually no one earning less than $97,000 per year can afford to live here. Except that many such people already do, and they are being forced into poverty – especially our elderly “at risk” of losing their place to live with their cost of living rising beyond their means. No wonder: we made plans to have 200,000 residents in this city. Tomorrow we will have over 300,000, and the number is still rising.
That’s why I was so concerned to discover that state representative Don Wagner, a Republican and candidate for Mayor of Irvine, is already made plans to run for Attorney General in 2018. Let me repeat that to make it clearer: he’s running for Mayor of Irvine this year, and he’s already filed for an AG campaign eighteen months later. I have nothing against future career plans, but I do expect focus from our elected representatives. Is he even taking his bid for mayor seriously? It certainly doesn’t seem like it. Having already lost recent races for higher office, he has now “retreated” to the mayoral race, where he still has his eye on bigger prizes.
As for his policies, the ONLY thing he claims is that he will be appointing a czar to reduce new traffic congestion. He has over $1 million in donations from developers already, and somehow I don’t think they ponied up that money. These developers, by the way, are infamous for making “side deals” with politicians to allow them to keep building, and the houses they put up are so expensive that no one in Irvine can afford them. At this point, they are often purchased by wealthy foreigners who hold them as long-term investments.
We have suffered serious consequences because of our runaway housing boom. Not only are schools overburdened and elderly people experiencing a deteriorating quality of life, but crime is on the rise, and our police force is ill-equipped to handle it. In other words, the current state of affairs is unbearable, and we need to get serious about making it better. Certainly not, as I fear people like Don Wagner might do, making it worse!
We get to elect a leader in 7 days who sees the full promise of this city and the full potential of everyone in it. A leader who is committed and to a city government that reflects all of you.
Katherine Daigle, candidate, Mayor for Irvine
NO TRUMPERS!
Any interest in addressing the merits of her statement, Ryan? I think that it sounds pretty good.
Sure!
“We get to elect a leader in 7 days who sees the full promise of this city and the full potential of everyone in it.”
Anyone who believes the full potential of a Trump Presidency isn’t a giant unmitigated disaster isn’t fit to organize a sock drawer, let alone a city.
Sorry, not sorry.
Ryan, I was referring to local elections “city” and yes I am voting for Trump. And yes my sock drawer is a “disaster”.
I . . . .
bet it’s deplorable.
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Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I’ll be here all week.
Ryan – yeah it probably is deplorable, my friend.
I believe that Young Kim supports Trump. Just sayin’.
I haven’t seen her promoting him on her feed, but shoot me a screenshot and I’ll think about it
SQS had been trying to get her to distance herself from Trump, and she kept silence for the longest time…
I think she FINALLY criticized him a little when that bragging-about-groping scandal came out a month ago.
I don’t care about “criticism.” The pertinent questions are:
(1) Is she voting for him?
(2) Is she encouraging others to vote for him?
(3) Is she formally endorsing him?
Any of those is a problem.
Maybe Sharon should come out with “Sexual Molesters LOVE Young Kim” signs as a retort to the “Lobbyists Love” signs.