Murdock Brushes Back T-Rack Again on Misuse of Public Funds

By
Greg Diamond
– February 6, 2018Posted in: "The OC", Fresh Juice, tony rackauckas

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[Part two in what may be a very long series.]

Brett Murdock once again turned a slam-bang news story about DA Rancid Racky into a nice fact-based brushback pitch and fundraising appeal.  (That’s how to beat the guy.)  If Todd Spitzer also sent out a fundraising email scorching Tacky Racky by the noon hour today (Tuesday, Feb 6) linking to yesterday’s Voice of OC story on this egregious misuse of public funds by our seemingly self-proclaimed above-the-law OC District Attorney, someone please let me know, because I’d want to give him credit too.  (If not, I’d want to give him — I don’t know — coffee?  Cans of spinach?  Smelling salts?  Last rites?  Don’t go towards the light, Todd!)

Anyway, for now, I get to reuse a graphic, because Brett Murdock again seems to be the on-the-spot to tangle with Rule-Torquing Tony.  (Again, we don’t call him “T-Rack” here because that sounds endearing and we don’t want J. Lo and A-Rod throwing up inside their mouths.)  To the quotemobile — and note the link to the VOC!   Emphasis in orange is pretty obviously added.  (You knew that, right?)

Recently, the incumbent District Attorney benefitted from having his name on $5,800 worth of mailers paid for by your taxes. Though the organizers knew the event venue could only hold 50 people, the mailer went out to 16,000. Click here to read more details.

This misuse of tax-payer money is but the latest scandal marring Rackauckas’ tenure as District Attorney. It has never been more clear that we need new and honest leadership at the county level. I am the only candidate that will bring reform, but I need your help.

We can do this!

Your donation is essential to getting our message out to voters. The maximum contribution allowed for individuals is …

(We’ll stop there, because we’re not in the business of fundraising for Murdock or sending people to brettmurdock.com for free.  You’ll have to put the URL into your browser to find out how much you can donate.  Hint: it’s less than $5800.)

I just love the quick one-day turnaround on this tawdry tale from Voice of OC which again suggests the emergence of a nimble messaging machine  But to be fair, T-Rob does have a possible defense.  It may be that he knows that only about 1 out of every 320 people contacted would want to go to an event with him.

Even so, pay for your own publicity expenses out of your own campaign account, T. Rogue; OC’s taxpayers have better things to do with their own money.  Now who wants to contact the FPPC over this?  Or should we all do it?

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About Greg Diamond

Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that. Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too. He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.) His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)