As everyone knows, OC Republicans are very forgiving.
People went apeshit. He resigned.
Naturally, he’s a Tea Partier, and those Tea people really like ‘im, watermelon or not. And so now, a year and a half after the watermelon brouhaha, he’s decided to run for Los Al City Council.
Well, that’s not special. What’s special, according to Mickadeit, is the GOP Central Committee’s decision to endorse this dolt.
Inexplicably, the Central Committee's endorsements panel voted a few weeks ago to recommend [Grose] get the full party endorsement.I don’t understand Mickadeit’s question. Since when do these people care how stupid their candidates are?
This was the group that rejected incumbent Orange Mayor Carolyn Cavecche for endorsement in part because she once gave a donation to a (conservative) Democratic school trustee who was a friend. So: Send out a racist cartoon about a (Democratic) president of the United States, we forgive you within 18 months. Give a Democrat a political donation, and even four years isn't enough time to develop adequate contrition.
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…"Forgive me for my prior incident and allow me to move forward," [Grose] implored a packed tent at the Irvine Hyatt.
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In the end, it was all but unknowable who voted how. Chairman Scott Baugh declared Grose had gotten enough ayes that a head count of the roughly 60 committee members wasn't necessary to ensure the required two-thirds majority.
Racism and forgiveness issues aside, I don't know why someone didn't posit this simple premise: Maybe Grose is just too stupid to be entrusted with public office.
2. I HAVE A DREAM. That brings me to the unseemly topic of John Williams, SOCCCD trustee and OC Public Administrator/Guardian. Amazingly, OC GOP Cronyville seems still to support Mr. Williams, despite his increasingly visible and lurid incompetence, dishonesty, and willingness to join in unsavory machinations with the likes of corrupt OC DA (and “friend o’ Fuentes”) Tony Rackaucas.
Today, cops arrested eight of those notorious rat bastards of the benighted City of Bell (aka “Dumbbell”), and, as I smiled, I thought of Orlando Boy. Maybe someday Bailiff Boy will be perp-walked out of his office, into the sunlight, with rotten fruit flying at his fat and berugged melon. I live for such things. I do.
3. HIS NAME MEANS "GOD LOVE." Rebel Girl reminded me today that one of the key reporters in the Bell story (see) is none other than Jeff Gottlieb, a journalist who was all over our own SOCCCD/IVC scandals ten years ago. (See here and here.)
4. OUR PROUD COUNTY HISTORY. Speaking of rat bastards, did you see that marvelous retrospective in the OC Register today? (Notorious public officials in Orange County history.) All of your favorite Republicans (and a couple of clueless Dems) are represented, including:
Orange County Supervisor Robert Battin (D)
Orange County Supervisor Ralph Diedrich (D)
Orange County Supervisor Philip L. Anthony (R)
Orange County Supervisor Don Roth (R)
U.S. Rep. Richard T. Hanna, (D)
U.S. Rep. Andrew Hinshaw (R)
Budget director for Newport-Mesa Unified School District Stephen Aldrich Wagner
Brea Mayor Ron Isles (R)
Huntington Beach Mayor Pamela Houchen (R)
Orange County Treasurer Robert L. Citron (D)
Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo
Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona (R)
Assemblyman Mike Duvall (R)
I wrote a comment: “Why no mention of Chriss Street?” Nobody noticed. I almost asked about John Williams, but I figured that, to be among this company, the Brown Boy needs to be indicted or something first.
5. WAR IS A RACKET, SAID THE DECORATED MARINE. There’s a post on the Orange Juice Blog that I highly recommend:
“War is A Racket” by Marine Major General Smedley Butler Two Time Medal of Honor
Who would believe that this decorated Marine officer could give such a speech in 1935! Some excerpts:
I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.I wrote a lengthy comment, but, again, nobody noticed. I’m a philosopher, and we’re used to absurdity and meaninglessness. Really.
There isn’t a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its “finger men” to point out enemies, its “muscle men” to destroy enemies, its “brain men” to plan war preparations, and a “Big Boss” Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I managed to remind people of VPI Dennis White’s infamous “ban” on war talk in the classroom. Newbies, that happened in early 2003. Really.
That’s right. I’m reminding people of that dark episode. And I’ll do it again and again until certain administrators cease to be so fucking clueless.
We’re a college, goddamit!
6. BUT WHAT IF IT'S TRUE? The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the U of Florida “has fired a professor after finding he made inappropriate comments in the classroom and behaved inappropriately toward female students…. The professor, Timothy Taylor, who taught in the department of food and resource economics, reportedly offended students by telling a class on contemporary issues in agribusiness management that Latin American women dress more provocatively than U.S. women.”
Maybe he was drooling and leering when he said it. Otherwise, I don’t get it.
Chancellor's welcome at UCI: