Yesterday I wrote a post about the hackery going on at the Red Clownty blog, where former editor Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham has been working overtime shilling for troubled GOP Assemblywoman Diane Harkey. Today a friend of mine found a clip from the OC Weekly, dating back to 2006, which proves that Jerbal has been paid to hack for Harkey for some time:
“Cunningham backs Harkey too, though he has failed to inform his readers of his financial interest in her campaign. Documents show Harkey’s campaign paid $1,050 to BlogAtomic, Cunningham’s blog consulting business, on Jan. 17. He hasn’t disclosed that payment in any of his subsequent posts on the senate race, all of them pro-Harkey, and he certainly hasn’t disclosed the payment on OC Blog, where he has been even more vociferous in support of Harkey.”
Guess who else supported Harkey?
Harkey has the backing of the party’s political operatives, men like Cunningham and Jubal, whose love of Harkey is overshadowed by a hatred of Harman they can trace back to 2000, when he beat Republican Party insider Jim Righeimer for the Huntington Beach Assembly seat. Harkey is supported as well by virtually every politician whose off-camera activities make the Weekly such a lively, sexy read. There’s Mike Schroeder, the most powerful man in the county, managing, as he does, the campaigns of the two most powerful law-enforcement agents in OC—our embattled (sexy) sheriff and our DA. There’s Sheriff Mike Carona himself, a man whose name ought very quickly to become associated with the stink of political death—and, sure, sex; Costa Mesa City Councilman Gary Monahan and Mayor Alan Mansoor, who’d like local cops to pester anyone with brown skin for their papers; Huntington Beach resident Jim Silva, maybe the dumbest man in politics but a reliable insider; fellow HB resident Scott Baugh, head of the county’s Republican Party; and HB Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.
Talk about a rogue’s gallery of GOP hacks and putrid insiders!
“Documents show Harkey’s campaign paid $1,050 to BlogAtomic, Cunningham’s blog consulting business”.
I bet that money was some poor old ladies life savings; that went to Mr. Harkey, that went to Mrs. Harkey, that went to Jerbal “Cunning” Ham in order to write (trick) the Red Clownty readers (all twelve of them).
This is real bad. Oh Mr. Jurball, you have some splaining to do.
Since Jerbie banned me from Red Clownty’s blob, I’ll bet that if anyone questions the Jerb on RC, your comment will disappear, and you too will get banned.
$1,050? How do I break into the blogo-shill business?
When is Scott Baugh (lobbyist) and the rest of the Republican party going to wake up and confront the demon among them, lobbyists? Way too many of these guys (Jerbal is the minor league player here)come out and publicly back issues or candidates only to later be outed as paid advocates.
True believers in a cause or a candidate dont need to be paid for support. Lobbyists such as the Jerb should never be accepted as having an opinion on any political issue because one never can tell when their “support” is merely paid for.