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When Irvine’s Mike Levin suddenly jumped into the race against horrible 49th district Republican Darrell Issa, challenging Democratic Oceanside Marine Colonel Doug Applegate who’d almost beat Issa in 2016, it raised the eyebrows of all those who expected the Colonel to be the only Democratic candidate in 2018.
The promotion of Levin’s candidacy by Orange County Dems considered as republicans-lite, such as the “Liberal OC” blog, made this challenge even more questionable. In November I posted a comment about this connection: “Somewhere I read that the public relations firm owned by Dan Chmielewski represents technology companies such as…. One of these companies, CleanTechOC, was founded by Mike Levin. Dan C is supporting Levin’s run for Congress. Has he disclosed this business connection?”
In February I added: “I guess that the until recently undisclosed Dan C and Levin business relationship has not been an issue. I discovered this relationship in a fairly easy manner, clicking in a link forwarded to me in which a relative of Dan C listed some of his business history, which included Levin. Dan C went nuclear, claiming that I was using some weird cyberspace techniques to snoop into his business practices.”
Chmielewski started calling me names, especially when I questioned his political positions. I ignored him. Other characters in his blog also started to target me. One of them, who uses the fictitious name “David Vasquez,” accused me of harassing his family. I ignored him as well, but he kept repeating this absurd accusation. At the same time, Dan C increased his attacks, endlessly repeating his misreading of how I got the link mentioned above. He keeps saying that I claim that it was sent to me by one of his relatives… I sent him a copy of where I got the link.
When “Vasquez” repeated his accusation, I wrote again to Dan asking him to delete it. He ignored my request and doubled down calling me names, insisting that I’d never e-mailed him. Vern, whom I had cc’d in my e-mails to Dan, gave me his phone number. I made the mistake of calling Chmielewski yesterday.
I again asked Dan to take down the “Vasquez” accusation, and to stop repeating his intentionally distorted reading of how I got the link to his business connections. He yelled at me, repeated his abusive words, and among his diatribes he also repeated the Issa-invented slanders about Applegate’s former marriage.
He then sent me several text messages. A few of them :
“Read what you wrote. You lied about this. No relative of mine sent you anything”
“You wrote a “relative of Dan C”. No one in my family writes for a living except my wife and she has never written about my business. No e-mail about my business. No email from you ever. You are liar. I can sue you for defamation even if I’m a public figure. Knowingly with false intent to defame”
“You are a dishonest piece of shit” “You’re a goddamn liar” “You have no backbone to speak of. You can’t take responsibility for stuff you wrote. Weak.Pathetic.” “I’m calling a lawyer. I have a case”
This guy sounds like President Trump, doesn’t he?! Paul Lucas has frequently warned us about Dan C’s bully personality. Dan may have forgotten that we have our own in-house lawyer. Fake Vasquez modified his statement to “Someone, claiming to be him, came to my door and asked about me and my background.” Well, this is the link that was originally sent to me.
Let me wrap up this unpleasant tale with this video reminder of Applegate’s candidacy:
Yeah, he’s just such a hothead he frequently doesn’t read closely. You never claimed his “relative” (wife) forwarded you anything.
And then admit a mistake? Dan? HA!
Back in 6th Grade some kid tore a button off of fat, dopey Roger Denton’s shirt. Roger began to cry and threatened to sue the perpetrator.
Dan Chmielewski threatening to sue anyone for defamation is the funniest thing I’ve read all week.
So what you’re saying is that:
is in some meaningful way different than what he denies being true, to wit, that:
Well, Ricardo, that distinction would only make sense if Dan’s wife had done something like list her husband’s clients on some published conflict of interest statement of her that you could have found WITHOUT her having sent it to you directly? And what are the odds that something like THAT could happen, given that “she has never written about [his] business”? Perhaps the Truth will Dawn on him soon.
I suppose that next you’ll be claiming than “Chile is part of Latin America” when any world map will show that it is clearly part of SOUTH America! He can successfully sue you over that just as successfully as he can successfully sue you over this. (And I’ll bet that he won’t — perhaps can’t — read that previous sentence carefully enough to get its implication either.)
This is why he surrounds himself with fictional characters who peddle lies for political gain: they don’t contradict him. It’s a lot like what Trump does with his Cabinet officials and other top appointees. At any rate, I’m sorry that you’ve been ensnared in the LibOC defamation drift net, but you can consider it a badge of honor. Unfortunately, it’s one of those badges that attaches to your shirt with a cheap and faulty small safety pin, so that you will occasionally encounter a little prick.
Thanks Greg for addressing Dan C’s bluffing. Not disclosing his “pro-bono” work for Levin, for somebody who claims to be a “journalist” and championing Levin’s run, was no bueno.
Dan C in his comment about my post does not say anything to refute my beef with him regarding his “journalistic ethics”: I didn’t say that the link was sent to me by one of his relatives.
His, and his characters, response confirm their lower levels of uncivil discourse to avoid content discussions. What Levin and Applegate represent is what is worthwhile to discuss
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See this post http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2017/10/doug-applegates-campaign-manager-on-the-silence-of-mike-levins-resume/
As far as fake Vasquez/OCDem, making fun of my last name is what a redneck would do. They’re coming across as a modern version of mini-Goebbels. Dan C boasting that I was asking him to stop, as he kept texting me, shows the nature of this bunch.
No wonder he is no longer the communications director for the Dems, or whatever his title was. At least the DPOC ad in his blog is gone. My apologies to my repubican friends by characterizing Dan C group as republican-lites. They are in the realm of Trump world.
Looks like Ricardo got “Bitch Slapped” at the LOC.
Hard to argue with that!
Uh… Maybe bitch-slap is in the eye of the beholder, but I believe it went the other way.
My guess is that you’d find it hard to argue with pretty much anything
Dan Chmielewski isn’t liberal or conservative. He has a pathology not a politics.