Credit to a Democratic organization where it’s due!
On October 20, the Democratic Club of West Orange County passed this resolution, authored by the esteemed Pat Goodman, on a matter of some public concern:
This is your belated Weekend Open Thread (which may last until Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, who knows? Write about pretty much anything in any way that doesn’t send us into a banhammering frenzy!
About Greg Diamond
Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that.
Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too.
He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.)
His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
Here are a couple of comments from Stop Poseidon’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/StopPoseidon/
From Stop Poseidon itself:
From some nasty blogger:
*See, this is why Democrats have a tough time when dealing with their issues.
Invest in Poseidon and triple your money in three years. This is academic.
The bet is much simpler than Hedge Funds or Derivatives or any of those nonsensical
Investment tools. “Do you believe we will need more water in three years?” Yes or NO?
If yes, what kind of water do you want? Red, Brackish, heavy metals, that you cannot
feed your dog, fish tank or small baby? Or do you want to pay $10 dollars a gallon
for Bottled Water? Fairly straight forward questions…ya think?
It may be that people who invested in the firm begins Poseidon tripled their money in three years. The same is not true of the cities and citizenries who deal with them. Plus, I can’t figure out what you’re even talking about.
I pay $0.30 a gallon for bottled water. Maybe it’s more down where you are.
Elsewhere, Biden doesn’t invite Turkey, Azerbaijan or Hungary to his Democracy Summit 2021. https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017c-ec87-df97-a9ff-fcffee940000
Irvine is on an island unto itself and Democrats on the council are now on the wrong side of the party.
And US Supremes hear FBI Muslim spying case originating out of OC. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/08/us/supreme-court-fbi-muslims.html
Kamala kapitulates, koddles ADL.
https://m.jpost.com/international/kamala-harris-to-condemn-anti-jewish-demonization-of-israel-684290
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/30/politics/adl-kamala-harris-israel-funding/index.html
https://florida.adl.org/news/vice-president-biden-tells-adl-leaders-you-are-the-most-respected-organization-in-this-town/
https://www.jweekly.com/2014/11/27/the-adl-after-abe-foxman-is-it-even-possible/ (Biden loves Genocide deniers)
https://historica.fandom.com/wiki/Wilsonian_Armenia (Greg doesn’t know a damn thing about Armenia)
Well…
it IS an open thread.
Cuz Jews er Zionists don’t have purity tests.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/teacher-fired-jack-barrack-academy-zionism-20210603.html
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/business/2021/11/01/412161/houston-businessman-files-a-federal-lawsuit-over-a-state-wide-provision-prohibiting-government-contractors-from-boycotting-israel/
https://jewishcurrents.org/philanthropist-michael-leven-donated-to-canary-mission-blacklist
Not a good look for Israel.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AzerbaijaniJews/status/1457720357142425603
Eshoo>>>Bushala
https://m.facebook.com/RepAnnaEshoo/posts/10152595343684228
What are these references to “Bushala?”
He’s added Tony Bushala to his enemies list, presumably because he’s a friend of Vern’s and his name ends in “ala” and sounds like “Allah.” (I have no idea what Tony’s official religion is, let along his actual religious beliefs, if any.)
I’m teasing the name dropper. Nothing more. It was mere political chatter.
And again, on this blog, mentioning Tony is not “name-dropping,” he is just a fellow we know.
I had no idea he was a celebrity in certain quarters, like apparently yours.
Stop chattering.
Interested in what the CRT blather is about? It’s largely about not wanting students to learn what is discussed in this story.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/magazine/1619-project-us-history.html
Welcome to Shirvine.
https://mobile.twitter.com/FarrahNK/status/1458327547817586688 (Private individual throwing lunch for IPD, hmm???)
https://orangecountydemocrats.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr.Sabeti-and-Dr.Ghorbanian-Fundraiser-merged.pdf
https://m.facebook.com/daveminforsenate/posts/764574627355603
https://www.fppc.ca.gov/content/dam/fppc/documents/Stipulations/2019/November/9.%20Abraham%20Ghorbanian%20-%20Stip.pdf
Compare and contrast Irvine PD and FBI LA.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-25/fbi-assistant-director-gone-dodgers-playoff-tickets
One of the water board members is Joe Kerr. Joe Kerr is running for districts 5 Board of Supervisors. He voted for the desalination plant.
https://voiceofoc.org/2021/04/regulators-allow-controversial-desal-plant-to-run-in-huntington-beach-without-immediately-making-up-for-coastal-damage/
https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/santaana/press_room/announcements/news_archive.html
Joe Kerr’s webpage has no information at all about his support of desalination. He has mostly listed accomplishments before the year 2000. He has no positions listed on any meaningful subjects.
https://www.joekerroc.com/about
From his website: Joe’s history of community service includes having served as an advisor to the Board of the Orange County Foundation for Oncology, Children and Families (OCF-OCF).
When you search this charity in Charity Navigator it has a fail score
https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/953786863
Joe Kerr needs more scrutiny as a viable Democratic candidate.
The Democratic clubs need to think about this. Some Democratic clubs have already endorsed him.
Not a real good choice I agree.
And he won’t even take my calls, maybe because I cast doubt on his north-county residency when he tried to run for Supervisor UP HERE in 2018. And still I backed him in that primary as being better than Doug Chaffee. (Just what I need, another victorious politician who won’t take my calls.)
He wouldn’t listen to me about Poseidon back in April. He was put on that Board by Newsom to have Kris Murray’s back pushing through the boondoggle. KRIS MURRAY! He never said anything during those hearings either, except to try to iron out some procedural hurdles to make things go faster.
He doesn’t have a good chance in that heavily Republican district. If we ever have 4 Democrats and 1 Republican on the BoS, the Republican will probably be from the South County district.
And to make things grimmer, the OC GOP decided to back financial criminal and elder abuser Diane Harkey, over relatively honest Mission Viejo Mayor Greg Raths. I’m working on a story about that right now. Whether we support Kerr or not in November, or if a better candidate magically appears, we should try to make sure Raths beats Harkey in the June primary. What we don’t need is another corrupt and inhumane Supervisor. And a Resurgence of The Harkey.
With all due respect, it doesn’t make a nickel’s worth of difference which party a Supervisor is from. They all vote the same 98% of the time.
Yeah, I think that’s pretty much true. I’d think closer to 90%, but yeah.
I sure don’t see Joe Kerr standing up to the Sheriff Dept, which is our biggest problem with the Supervisors right now.
There are some reasons a Party might care about getting a Supervisor on. A good Supervisor could move on up to state Senator, and so can a shitty one. Of either Party.
Joe Kerr ran for Supervisor in 2018. IN THE 4TH DISTRICT. He faked two different addresses to do so, matching the criminality of Harry Sidhu. It’s called perjury.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/08/10/treaty-sevres-erdogan-turkey/
(Greg, it was the allied powers failing to enforce the Sevres Treaty and not a Soviet colonial regime’s mangling of border lines that has impacted Armenia and the history of numerous countries since 1920, you obviously were not a history teacher)
HAPPY VETERANS DAY to all OC veterans, and thank you for your service! Also, happy 246th birthday yesterday to the US Marine Corps. Also all of us are very proud and excited that the OC Veterans Cemetery is probably going to be in Anaheim Hills – something a lot of us including Cynthia Ward and Greg Diamond have been fighting for for a long time! My dad would like to be buried there.
Here’s today’s event in Anaheim, at 11 near the Central Library: https://www.facebook.com/cityofanaheim/posts/215647874013919
I couldn’t help but express the hope that Mayor Sidhu has the good taste not to stand on a HumVee bed dressed in an Air Force suit at today’s ceremony, like last time he was running! https://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2018/07/harry-sidhus-heroic-military-record-sarcasm/
Meanwhile, here’s for not only the Marines but all our homeless veterans:
I sure hop Ashleigh Aiken uses that this time. But she won’t.
I meant to write “I hop in vain.”
Worst, most frustrating pancake restaurant.
She doesn’t have the final say as to what does or doesn’t get said. IEs make their own decisions.
She could bring it up next time she makes a speech, or whenever she wants. Along with everything else bad and ridiculous Harry has done.
Some things are better done by other people besides the candidate.
Harry’s control over the Vets’ Cemetery gives him control over what vets can safely do to criticize him. The last thing Ashley needs is a bunch of vets eager to please Sidhu to sling arrows at her. That circumstance is not an accident.
You spit on yer weiner and go toobin.
Spitzer >>> Weiner >>> Toobin
NY >>> attorneys >>> ________
And he was never heard from again….