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The Wikipedia page containing a biography of former Anaheim Councilmember (and current candidate) Jordan Brandman, which was started by his followers in the lead-up to his failed 2016 campaign, went missing from that site sometime in the last few months. It’s no secret that Jordan and this site have not always been good buddies, but the notion that someone could vandalize his Wikipedia biography and get away with it is really hard to accept. (Some have speculated that it was Jordan’s team himself that took it down, wanting to hide the truth about him from the voting public, but OJB would never accept that sort of accusation of perverse political behavior without proof.)
Luckily, we have been reminded by our our readers that OJB itself contains an intact copy of his biography in our own archives! (Management sees to have forgotten about it, but sure enough — it is there, entitled
“Jordan Brandman Copied Wikipedia to ‘Earn’ $24,000 — Now Read His Wikipedia Entry Before You Vote!”
(The “featured image there has been re-employed as the “featured image” here, just to document what the previous post from two years ago (less five days) looked like.)
To save you the effort of clicking that link — and for further protection against these sorts of vandals — we’re also reprinting the entry here. To be fair to the other major candidate, we’re also linking to Wikipedia biographies of James Vanderbilt and Duane Roberts, neither of which entry has been vandalized. though we haven’t had time to read either. Don’t vandalize other people’s stuff, people!
Here’s the original surviving copy of the Jordan Brandman Wikepedia biography:
If what you see when you click the above link doesn’t look a lot like the 14 screenshots of the site you’ll find below, you might be able to get access to the version of the article that existed mid-morning on Monday Nov. 7 — the day before the election. The direct link to this version — which you should feel free to share! — is here.
(For those afraid to click, it says this: http://tinyurl.com/JordanBrandmanOnWikipedia).
Here are the screenshots of the content and the early editing history, showing who created it and edited it in its formative moments, for the sake of posterity. Because nobody’s getting in here and messing with it! Enjoy your reading — before you go to the polls!
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Jordan Brandman Wikipedia entry as of November 7, page 1.
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Jordan Brandman Wikipedia entry as of November 7, page 2.
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Jordan Brandman Wikipedia entry as of November 7, page 3.
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Jordan Brandman Wikipedia entry as of November 7, page 4.
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Jordan Brandman Wikipedia entry as of November 7, page 5.
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Jordan Brandman Wikipedia entry as of November 7, page 6.
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Jordan Brandman Wikipedia entry as of November 7, page 7.
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Jordan Brandman Wikipedia entry as of November 7, page 8.
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Jordan Brandman Wikipedia entry as of November 7, page 9.
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Jordan Brandman Wikipedia entry as of November 7, page 10.
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Jordan Brandman Wikipedia entry as of November 7, page 11.
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Jordan Brandman Wikipedia entry as of November 7, page 12.
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Jordan Brandman Wikipedia entry as of November 7, page 13.
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This “history page” documents the creation and early development of the Brandman article — apparently at the instigation of Brandman (or one of his allies) himself!
Jordan Brandman Wikipedia entry as of November 7, history page.
Happy reading! And remember — anyone can edit — but please edit truthfully and responsibly!
UPDATE! Here’s how Brandman wants his biography to be whitewashed!
Sure enough, as predicted, a vandal struck during a 26 minute spree between 10:09 and 10:35 p.m. local time.
The new Wikipedia account used to vandalize the existing Jordan Brandman page was named “Sic Semper Tyrannis” — the famous words said by John Wilkes Booth when he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Classy!
[The whitewashed version with changes appears on the earlier post at the link, but no fruits of vandalism should be included in this post. Otherwise the vandals win.]
A couple of more notes:
(1) A proper updated biography of Brandman should also report on where he works and who he associates with professionally. Here’s some information on THAT from a few months ago!
(2) If you look up at the graphic about showing who created the page, you’ll see that it’s someone using the name “bluedem988.” “988” would generally signify “September 1988.” Such a person would currently be 30 years old. So I had a flash of inspiration to look up “Danny Fierro” on a people search site to see if I could get his birthdate.
Sure enough: Danny Fierro, listed as living either in Anaheim or Cerritos, was born in 1988. This is the same Calderon Family operative who accused a female Democratic legislator of sexual harassment and seems to be the possible go-between between the funders of this week’s vicious lying attack on Dr. Jose Moreno and its sponsors in Nativo Lopez’s group. None of this is proven; all of it is suggestive (now even more so.)