Uh-oh, Shawn "Ferret Face" Nelson is a member of Team Greer (aka OC's League of Corrupt Republican Thugs)

     The OC Reg’s “Total Buzz” posted today about new OC Supervisor Shawn Nelson (Nelson threatens Sidhu over pension talk). Nelson won the June primary (to replace Chris Norby), emphasizing pension reform.
     Then, just before he was sworn in as a Supe, he signed up for a super-duper county pension.
     This crafty move was detected by Nelson's wily critics, who wasted no time calling Nelson a hypocrite. So Nelson tried to undo the damage by exploiting a loophole, voiding his sign-up.
     But there was no unringing the bell: rival Harry Sidhu and other critics have been banging the drum of Nelsonian “hypocrisy” ever since.
     So what did Nelson do?
     It’s the worst case scenario. He thugged up. He hired Phil Greer:

     In a letter to Sidhu’s campaign consultant Chris Jones, Nelson’s attorney, Philip Greer, said Nelson has never been and is not currently a participant in the Orange County Employees Retirement System.
     . . .
     “Furthermore, in that you ... are now personally on notice as to the falsity of the claim, if you choose to pursue the above described course of action, Mr. Nelson will seek to hold each of you personally responsible and liable for said actions,” Greer wrote.
     But Jones said Sidhu’s campaign has never claimed Nelson is a current member of OCERS, and they aren’t planning to say anything of the sort.
     “We said he signed up for a pension,” Jones said. “We’re going to continue to say that and that he’s a hypocrite.”

The Reg notes the curious ubiquity of Mr. Greer:

     Greer is a Newport Beach attorney who has become a mainstay at the county Hall of Administration, representing a number of Orange County politicians, including county Treasurer-Tax Collector Chriss Street and four of the five current county supervisors.
     Supervisor John Moorlach is the only one who has not hired Greer.
     Greer is also representing Public Administrator/Public Guardian John S. Williams whose office has been maligned with accusations of mismanagement….

     Mr. Greer has a history of ethics lapses.
     But of course he does!
     This really stinks.