We could all use a bit of a mental break on this soggy Sunday — so here we go!
Chumley with Mark Newgent, who forced him to pay a lot of money from a still-unknown source.
Various of his love objects appear between them.
Some anonymous commenter — of course! — in Chumleytown opined that Melahat doesn’t get enough credit for busting open Anaheim corruption with her instant offer of cooperation after she was caught by the FBI. Chumley replied “Exactly.” A short conversation ensued.
See if you can find the flaw in the following act of PR professionalism. (My emphasis added.)
LogicBomb1320
AUGUST 16, 2023 AT 10:46 PM
Yes, we should all be so grateful to the admitted criminal who outed another criminal in an attempt to save her own skin.Dan Chmielewski
- I’ll remind you, initially the FBI dismissed her charges with prejudice. Rarely do they reinstate charges. Meanwhile, I’m still waiting on any news about an FBI investigation in Irvine beyond the fact they interviewed the city manager. But make no mistake, the Anaheim Cabal fell because of Melahat’s work with the FBI.
Mike Tardif
Melahat is an admitted felon. She will be sentenced in October and will be going to prison. She is not a “warrior for justice” as you would have us believe. She is another greedy criminal political operative. And the FBI did NOT “dismiss her charges with prejudice.” The FBI cannot do that. You pulled that one out of your … hat ..
AUGUST 20, 2023 AT 2:57 PM
Go back and read the original case stories. They did dismiss the case then refiled
Now let’s go through this again, adding what is logically implied if he is telling the truth.
LOGIC BOMB: Yes, we should all be so grateful to the admitted criminal who outed another criminal in an attempt to save her own skin.
[In other words: she may have been ONE instrument of the Cabal’s downfall (so far as it goes), but she does not deserve any credit or admiration for acting in her own desperate self interest.]
CHUMLEY: I’ll remind you, initially the FBI dismissed her charges with prejudice. Rarely do they reinstate charges. Meanwhile, I’m still waiting on any news about an FBI investigation in Irvine beyond the fact they interviewed the city manager. But make no mistake, the Anaheim Cabal fell because of Melahat’s work with the FBI
[In other words, she can’t be that culpable because the FBI didn’t charge her, and they rarely reverse themselves. And this is relevant to the question of her deserving credit, or I wouldn’t mention it here. If they had recharged her, for example, I’d have no reason to mention this, yet here I am doing it!]
TARDIF: Melahat is an admitted felon. She will be sentenced in October and will be going to prison. She is not a “warrior for justice” as you would have us believe. She is another greedy criminal political operative. And the FBI did NOT “dismiss her charges with prejudice.” The FBI cannot do that You pulled that one out of your … hat ..
[In other words: she did the crime and she will do the time. She was acting out of pure self-interest, not some admirable moral regret or desire for social change. And … you don’t understand what the FBI does.]
CHUMLEY: Go back and read the original case stories. They did dismiss the case then refiled.
[In other words, they did so dismiss the case! (Or, rather, the charging information, which is not a “case.”) But this is one of those rare instances where they reversed themselves and refiled. So when I mentioned their having dismissed the charges with hers with prejudice, inviting you to infer that she was not such a bad actor, that was misleading — because she was bad enough for them to refile them. So you should ignore that earlier comment, which I am not explicitly correcting. If you’re wondering it I mentioned their dismissing it in the first place, it’s … it’s because … it’s because Vern Nelson has multiple drunk driving convictions and Greg Diamond was kicked out of DPOC twice and doesn’t have much money! Q.E.D.!]
One of Chumley’s favorite go-to terms is “a signed confession.” This is his “signed confession” that, in a cause he favors, he will bullshit you shamelessly. It’s part of what he views as being a “PR professional.” Maybe he can apply for Mike Lyster’s job if and when it opens! He’d be a great fluffer for the Cabal!
Such is Dan.
How ’bout that Matt Cunningham?
Weeks after the JL Report’s release, after about a hundred pieces in the Voice, Times and Register, after mini-spasms toward reform on Council, and the Sidhu Plea Deal, he’s finally managed to write his first Anaheim piece in a month – a pretty factual piece on the plea deal, but he just had to include this tear-jerking and revealing cri-de-couer:
“The blast radius from his arrest and that of former Anaheim Chamber of Commerce President Todd Ament has been reverberating in Anaheim politics ever since, and continues inflicting damage to any number of individuals and organizations that were not involved in their actions.”
Then halfway through his Sidhu piece he moves to trash the totally unrelated JL Report, and has a lot more fun. Half of what he says about the report is actually true, I hate to admit. But when challenged by a commenter to name off the Report’s mistakes, he gets carried away and makes some of his own.
For example. Cristina Talley did not claim that she was fired “because she was Latina” – that was me, and I only mentioned her race in passing. And Tait is not to blame for two city managers leaving – he obviously didn’t control the Council till 2017 when they canned the useless lump Paul Emery and hired the sturdy Zapata.
But don’t we feel bad about Sidhu’s blast radius incommoding the sweet Cunningham family! Bullshit they did not have anything to do with the crimes of those years.
Let’s remember that, even with as long as they were allotted, the JL Report was ultimately rushed in the end. They had far more to process than they had expected and a Council that by and large wanted them to fail.
Having done lots of legal filings that end up rushed at the end — not just my own, but back with my firm in New York — and read many times as more, I can tell you that what gives way in the end is not the substance but the form: some deficits in proofreading and some in relatively minor fact checking of the type we’re noticing here (which can include things like some names and dates,the latter affecting the chronology. This is mitigated if you have enough time or enough people or enough canned material that can be recycled from previous works • but JL had too little of the first two and there was no boilerplate to help them with the last.
There’s an old maxim that the first 90% of a project takes 90% of the work, and the last 10% takes the other 90% of the work. That’s pretty much true, But that means that rushed projects are still 98-99% properly done — but we tend to noice what’s wrong far more easily than what’s right.
I think that maybe I’ll put up the whole report after all, once things settle diwn a bit, and we readers can collaboratively put in the effort to do that last 1-2% of polishing. Then Jerb won’t be so well-equipped to carp at it.
If you do something “with prejudice” that’s not good.
I wonder if Jerb is thinking of his beloved. And himself.
I wonder if he can name a single innocent bystander.
As long as so much of this “report” is being described as based on rumor, innuendo and gossip it is curious that Ashliegh Aitken announces a run for mayor, against Sidhu. Subsequently her campaign consultant turns states evidence against Sidhu, leading to a leaked affidavit accusing Harry Sidhu of graft, leading to his resignation and withdrawal from the race
She TROUNCES the fill in and then the shit hits the fan. An “investigation” ensues to the tune of $1.5 M which DOESN’T even I cude interviews with her, THE SITTING MAYOR, her Father (who was TWICE involved intimately with Stadium negotiations) the ANGELS Melehat herself.
Add to that the narrative is being painted by a single outlet the Voice Of OC blog, which her Father is a director.
Just a little bit sticky.
Oh- PS put that blowhard lawyer dude Niechbulke or whatever on the lawyers. Now that’s a sticky wicket. What is the connection to the representing attorneys in all of this and you start to belive the conspiracy bullshit you guys peddle, just for the wrong team.
“There ain’t no winners in the game…..”
“As long as it’s being DESCRIBED” as that? By whom? Circular logic much?
Let’s see what other comments you’ve posted, Master Speller…
That’s it. I’m posting the whole thing. And we’re going to put in our copy edits, too, along with perhaps some bracketed corrections].
Not having the report available without a link and easy searching it making it too easy for these trolls to lie about it.
In a post on Dave Min’s latest endorsement,
Dan’s “Liberal OC” has finally found its sweet spot, and five-member readership.
I had been looking for this!
Chumley takes an anonymous commenter (and a frequent denizen of our trash bin, for exploring similar themes, but with a broader range of characters) who usually uses the name “Rimlikker” but here was autocorrected or something to “Rimlicker,” a person who makes spurious accusations about oral-anal contact between Vern and Donna — and his retort to the commenter whose comment he leaves up is “you spelled Rimlikker wrong”?
Anyone know how to get in touch with the Orange County Press Association so that we can show them what’s going on in their former “OC Blog of the Year”?
It’s really funny to see Dan C. calling someone, ANYONE, a “mean-spirited prick.”
That’s Neshanian, when he compared Dom Jones’ hair to Krusty the Klown’s, which was kind of mean but kind of funny. But after all, it’s not hair that she was born with, but hair that she created – the “Technicolor Weave.”
So THAT’s what it takes to be a mean-spirited prick, in Dan’s estimation.