Wagnerian drama: a pact with the Devil
Yesterday, we learned that former OC GOP chair Tom Fuentes is endorsing Don Wagner for the 70th Assembly District race. (Both are on the SOCCCD board of trustees.)
Today, Matt Cunningham of the OC Red County blog notes that, last night, the Orange County Young Republicans (OCYR) also endorsed Wagner.
Or so said Republican crony Adam Probolsky on his FaceBook page (he’s one of my “friends”).
I checked the OCYR site and, sure enough, the youthful goosessteppers (check out their pics!) held an event last night (at the “Club House” in South Coast Plaza). Their guest speaker was OC DA and corrupt rat bastard from Hades Tony Rackaucas, a close associate of Tom Fuentes. The Tonester has occasionally visited SOCCCD events over the years. Photo ops, you know.
Probolsky, you’ll recall, was Tom Fuentes’ busy little helper during the period of the latter’s curiously scripted appointment to the SOCCCD board of trustees in the summer of 2000, when Steve Frogue resigned. Since then, he has also been close to IVC’s Foundation (his bro has been close to Saddleback’s), and he has been very involved—ubiquitous, one might say—in Irvine and OC politics.
Mathur, Christina Shea, Anthony Kuo
As IVC President, Raghu Mathur, following the example set by his mentor Tom “let’s go to the spa” Fuentes (curiously, the two had met months before Frogue's resignation!), courted Republican youth (Mathur has served as advisor to campus Republicans), one of whom was the IVC ASG President Anthony Kuo. (It was during young Kuo’s tenure that Mathur’s boy Rodney Poindexter was inexplicably selected as ASG’s “Administrator of the Year”—at about the time that Rod went apeshit and had to be escorted off campus for the safety of all concerned.)
Later, as I recall, Kuo was a fixture in the county GOP scene as a member (and leader, I think) of the OCYR. More recently, he has worked for Christina Shea and other prominent Repubs. He's also been on the IVC Foundation board, natch.
It’s Fuentesland, Jake.
Fuentes and Wagner: very staunch
Tom's friends are just what you'd expect.
9 comments:
Well, Wagner has wanted bigger fish to fry than the minnows blackened at tedious Board meetings. He also probably wishes to disconnect himself from some board members and perhaps the chancellor.
I sense, in observing him, that he is not a happy camper here and probably elsewhere.
You gotta admit that Don's facial hair just keeps getting better and better. He's going after that "I'm a rascal " look - not bad at all.
The two guys on the bottom looks like they're in a Gilbert and Sullivan light opera.
Carona and Jaramillo? Yeah, I can see 'em singin' tunes from Pirates.
I love that picture of Mathur with his huge gut hanging out, kinda like he's "schwing'ing", but not realizing it. Good stuff.
Don better make sure all the mikes are turned off...
yeah Don might join the line-up of politicians done in by goodlooking blondes...
I took a look at the YR website, and it was surprisingly civilized. The constant deification of Reagan does get wearisome, though.
Yes, Don is the new man.
At least he'll be gone from the board.
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