Thursday, May 13, 2010

Outrage. Or not.

.....THINK OF IT. Here’s a guy who can’t string three words together, who claims to be a “fiscal conservative,” and so, with the help of Crony Man, he takes some dopey County job, pumps it (and his salary) up with big promises of savings and efficiency and untold staunchitude, and then he screws it up and runs it totally into the ground. When the sh*t hits the fan at the Board of Supes, he, first, dons clown pants, and then immediately hires the designated Republican Rat Bastard mouthpiece (who happens to be the Supes’ Rat Bastard mouthpiece too), and after a little song and dance and seltzer down your pants, Johnny Boy is right back to pullin’ down the big bucks while somehow always bein’ out of town on important business for “the district.”
.....—Yeah, Johnny, but, um, aren’t you claiming to be at work for some of that deadly-dire, duty-driven district gallivanting?
.....OK, so we’ve published copies of ACTUAL DOCUMENTS from the County and EQUALLY ACTUAL DOCUMENTS from the SOCCCD that seem to show that Public Administrator/Guardian (and SOCCCD trustee) John Williams has claimed—in timesheets that he has signed—numerous full days of work at his Santa Ana office on days when, according to SOCCCD records, he was, well, seriously elsewhere—in places like freakin’ Orlando, Florida.

No defenders?
.....Naturally, people have contacted us to express their disgust with, or cynicism about, or suicidal tendencies concerning, this disturbing Williamsific paper trail.
.....But NO ONE has defended PE Boy in any way.
.....I kept waiting for something. I thought for sure somebody’d say, “Hey, maybe he took his County work to Orlando! Yeah, he attended important conference panels about "trusteeship" and then ran back to his room to work on his corpse issues—and like that, back and forth, for several days! What a patriot! What about that!?”
.....Or maybe: “How do we know you didn’t fabricate those records, Blog Boy!”
.....Something!
.....But no. Nothing.
.....* * *
.....Today, a friend called and informed me that, recently, Williams was interviewed for that goofy TV station in Laguna Woods Village (formerly Leisure World). The wily friend gave the producer a heads up and so he (or a talking head) came prepared to ask Williams about the indicators of Williams’ curious apparent dual whereabouts.
.....I’m told that Williams flatly denied everything. Don’t know the details.
.....Does anybody get the Fogey Channel? Check it out. Tell us what he said. And, more importantly, what did his hair look like?
.....* * *
.....As you know, we’ve contacted the county about this business, and supposedly they’re on the case. We have little faith in ‘em. It was like pulling teeth to get any information at all about their alleged inquiry. We’ve heard not a thing from those people. Dang!
.....But wait a minute! If (notice the “if”) Williams falsely claimed to be doing work at the County that he did not do—well, that’s fraud, right? That’s hundreds of dollars (maybe thousands) of taxpayer loot going to pay a guy who, it seems, was in fact sunning his ass in the Lap Dance state, getting his toenails polished.
.....A minor clerical error you say? Nope. We’re talking multiple timesheets here.
.....And not only that! Williams was sunning said ass and polishing said tootsies on the taxpayers’ dime! In my entire life, I’ve never spent the kind of money that Williams routinely spends at his far-away districtular getaways. It’s strictly deluxe, man.

Where’s the outrage?
.....I woulda thought people would go apeshit over this. I mean, I know how it is. People don’t seem to react much to, oh, unconstitutional actions by government officials or, say, idiotic, expensive, and utterly counter-productive projects (SLOs), or, say, powerful people ruining people’s careers because they’re deluded and narcissistic rat bastards from Hell.
.....“Yeah, whatever,” they say.
.....But when a guy takes a solitary dime out of the public kitty, we’ll that’s a different matter entirely! Good Lord!! Hang ‘im by the yardarm! Leave his carcass to twist and stink in the sun!
.....But not this time.
.....Well, no matter. We’ve got some people on the case—I mean people beyond those squirrelly bozos down at the County. So we’ll see.
.....And if that doesn’t work, we’ll finally go for the ol’ full-court press. Trust me. We haven’t done that yet.

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

John has a bad back - remember he retired on a disability pension - that's why he needs those fancy hotels. Give him a break.

Anonymous said...

Wasn't he a bailiff? Not that that's real work, as they get paid to sit in court and read the paper.

Anonymous said...

If he had done anything wrong the Board of Supervisors or the Board of Trustees would have said so.

Anonymous said...

7:36, you might want to read the two OC Grand Jury reports on Williams.

Anonymous said...

He was exonerated.

Anonymous said...

You might also want to look at the Board of Supevisors November 18th vote to take away 3/4 of his job description, though it failed by a 3-2 vote, 2 of the supes votes for it - the other 3 have the same attorney as Williams and were duped, which I don't think will happen again. The CEO, who oversees the whole County recommended the action due to his inability to get the job done.

Anonymous said...

7:36. 7:46: please explain the timesheet/travel record discrepancies. Why did he claim 8 hours in Santa Ana on days that he was elsewhere, e.g., Florida?

Anonymous said...

A man of Williams' stature doesn't file his own paperwork - someone else did it for him and made what is a minor clerical error.

Anonymous said...

Williams personally signed each timesheet. SEE.

Anonymous said...

But he's a busy man. He trusted his staff to report his whereabouts accurately.

Anonymous said...

What does "reporting his whereabouts" have to do with perjured timesheets?

Anonymous said...

John has two very important jobs that require a lot.

Anonymous said...

When you say a man of John's "stature," I have to think you are talking about his rather large size, because his position does not hold any real status. If that IS what you think -- that he is a man of great status -- then you're maybe a little easily impressed.

Anonymous said...

I'm just saying that someone must of filled out the sheets for him. That's all. Happens all the time. Then he signs them. Big whoop.

Anonymous said...

Is "big whoop" an alias for John Williams? That's awesome.

Anonymous said...

Oh yeah, someone else's fault. Not like he's responsible for reading what he signs, especially when it comes to money.

Asshole.

Anonymous said...

I wonder if he signs the time sheets using his nickname, "big whoop?"

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