Democratic Supervisorial candidate Tom Daly apparently forgot to buy up the obvious URLs for his campaign for the 4th District seat being vacated by termed out Supervisor Chris Norby.
Today Red County editor Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham had a total cow when he realized that the URLs were bought up by our pal Tony Bushala, the editor of the Friends for Fullerton’s Future blog.
Jerbal went on to cite some obscure code about cybersquatting, which is what you call it when someone buys up an URL and then sits on it so the candidate cannot use it.
But Bushala isn’t sitting on it. He is using it to make a point. When you click on the URL, which is http://www.tomdalyforsupervisor.com/, you get an image of a sign that says that Daly is a career p0litician. That, quite simply, is the truth – and it is protected free speech.
What is it about Republicans like Jerbal that pits them against the First Amendment time and again?
Just last week the law firm that defended Jerbal’s friend, former (and since disgraced and indicted) O.C. Sheriff Mike Carona, sent us and Bushala nasty letters after we reported what Ch. 2/9 reporter Dave Lopez reported about a fundraiser, Desiree Mouzoon, who worked for both Carona as well as Mike Duvall, the pervy legislator who had to quit when we all found out about his secret liaisons with lobbyists. Mouzoon also works now as a fundraiser for Jerbal’s friend Linda Ackerman, who is challenging Norby for the 72nd Assembly District seat that Duvall used to fill.
Political free speech is protected! Ironically, Jerbal stepped on it a couple years ago when he posted the names of molestation victims on a website defending John Urell, a Catholic Monsignor who protected priests who molested children. That sort of free speech is not protected and Jerbal got his behind kicked on John and Ken’s popular radio show on KFI. And our friends at the OC Weekly lit into him too.
You have to wonder why Jerbal is promoting Democrats like Daly on his ostensibly Republican blog…how much is he getting paid to shill for Daly?
That is the way it works in the cyberspace age. Last campaign I worked on we had a session listing all the URLs we would need to purchase to protect and promote our campaign.
May not be nice but if you do not buy them your opponent or someone who doesn’t like you will, we missed a couple we would have liked to have also. No reason to go off the deep end goes it is part of the game.
Matt Cunningham outed sex-abuse victims.
How can you read anything on the Red Klownty anyways? Its basically bought blogging, that’s it.
Matt will say whatever you pay him to about whatever subject–this is how he makes his money. It doesn’t matter if it right or wrong, or something he stands for, if you pay him he will blog it. Look carefully and you can see who is paying him…and often.
If Matt is backing Daly, will Daly be backing Matt’s wife, Laura Cunningham, for Clerk-Recorder? I wonder if they have a little deal worked out in advance…
Matt is a true SHILL!