Mojaher (no longer running), Yazdani, Starke, GO!!!!
Vern intro: Our friend Alex Mojaher, the progressive who ran for State Senator in the March primary against our other friend Senator Josh Newman and a bunch of Republicans, WAS gonna run next for Irvine Council district 2, in that city’s exciting first district elections – but now he has a new priority and we applaud him. There is at least one other great Democratic candidate in Irvine’s district 2 race, and this should help OJ favorite Jeff Starke.
So here is Alex’ press release from yesterday, followed by a new article demolishing ANOTHER Democratic Irv-D2 candidate, who is an apparent protege of Farrah and Melahat. Here’s Alex, who I forgot to mention is also a fine singer:
To my friends, supporters, and fellow Democrats –
Last week, I was deeply moved by President Biden’s courageous and patriotic decision to not seek re-election and give way to the extraordinary and historic candidacy of Kamala Harris. This had a profound impact on me. Many of you may not know, but I worked for a year on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, and sat on the floor of the Javits Center in New York City on Election Night with my heart in my hands.
It is clear to me that we must do everything in our power to prevent a second Donald Trump presidency and to protect our country from authoritarianism. Everything is on the line. Reproductive freedoms and LGBTQ+ rights are on the line. The communities I have been fighting for sicne I was a teenager are on the line. Our very democracy is on the line.
Which is why I have decided to suspend my campaign for Irvine City Council and to devote the next four months to electing our first female president. I have been invited to join Unite Here in Arizona, a crucial swing state, and will be working to organize and mobilize volunteers to join the ground game in that state.
We have many candidates running in District 2. It’s a crowded field. At present, the risk that Democrats split the vote and usher in a City Councilmember who does not reflect our values is too great, and while I am eager and had hoped to serve my hometown on the Council dais, I also recognize that this race is not where I am needed right now.
To those who believe in and have supported me, thank you for trusting me to be your voice, know that I will always continue to look for ways to serve, and will even consider a future City Council run. But for now, I plan to travel to Arizona throughout the months of August, September, and October to devote my energy to this presidential race, and I hope you will join me in working to elect Democrats up and down the ballot this November, and to deliver to President Harris a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives.
With gratitude,
Alex Mojaher.
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So we say thank you, Alex, for your service – I would go to Arizona this fall too if I could – to help not only Kamala but the great Senate candidate Ruben Gallego whom we really need, to beat the loony Kari Lake and help us get back the Senate. Alex is right – there are too many Democrats running for Irvine District 2 – the worthy Jeff Starke, the well-funded William Go, and Parrisa Yazdani*, who seems to be (and apparently behaves like) an acolyte of Farrah Khan and Melahat Raifei. Our friends at Irvine Watchdog just published a devastating expose of Yazdani, of which we reprint, here, just the beginning:
*update – turns out Yazdani is NOT a Democrat, but DTS
Mayor Farrah Khan’s newest Planning Commission appointee and endorsed candidate for Irvine City Council, Parrisa Yazdani, had $900,000 in State and Federal back taxes and fines forgiven through Chapter 7 Bankruptcy on April 12, 2024. Yazdani, an active Great Park resident since 2018, is also defending allegations of fraud and embezzlement by a small business loan creditor. According to publicly available records, Yazdani’s tax delinquencies began accruing as far back as 2011.
Yazdani’s Petition lists various types of unsecured personal debt including $23,715 owed to Bloomingdales, $22,157 to a Wells Fargo credit card, $17,396 to Nordstrom, and $40,000 in attorney fees to Brea based attorney, Evan L. Ginsburg, Esq.
Yazdani reaffirmed a car lease in order to retain use (and continue payments) on a $62,000 BMW X7 M50, and listed her Great Park residence, valued at $1.3 million, as exempt primary residence real estate. Based on the Bankruptcy Petition, Yazdani claimed less than $40 cumulatively held in any personal checking or savings bank accounts. She also listed income deriving primarily from hairdressing.
Although her Bankruptcy case was successful in relieving her $1.8 million dollar personal debt, presently, there is an ongoing dispute with business loan company, Kapitus Servicing, Inc. (Plaintiff). The Plaintiff sued Yazdani by way of an “adversary proceeding” within the Bankruptcy case. In Bankruptcy Court, an “adversary proceeding” is sometimes referred to as the case within the case. If successful, the Court may allow Plaintiff to proceed with collection efforts on the business loan and damages amounting to roughly $172,000. Although rare, a creditor in a bankruptcy case can initiate adversary proceedings usually based on allegations of fraud to collect on a debt which would have otherwise been discharged or uncollectable.
Based on the creditor’s court Complaint, the Plaintiff alleges that in 2020 and 2021 Yazdani submitted business loan applications with them, representing herself to be the sole owner and operator of Quality Roofing of Colorado, LLC (Company), a roofing company based in Colorado. They further allege Yazdani made other misrepresentations in the loan application to procure the loan proceeds. For instance, Plaintiff claims that within the first month payment came due, the Company defaulted. There are also allegations that Yazdani misrepresented that she was the sole owner and operator of the Company, that in 2023 she transferred 100 percent of the business to her father for $10, that she represented she had no unpaid tax obligations when, in fact, she did, and other allegedly false representations. Ultimately, the Plaintiff alleged Yazdani committed fraud, embezzlement, larceny, and misappropriation of funds. On page 14 of the Complaint, Plaintiff writes, “…Defendant’s debt to Plaintiff is one for money obtained by fraud or defalcation while acting in a fiduciary capacity or embezzlement, and is nondischargeable.” Yazdani filed an Answer to the Complaint, denying allegations of impropriety. This case is currently pending and awaiting trial…
Read much more on Yazdani at Irvine Watchdog…
I don’t think Alex’s ego could handle losing another election.
The real story is how does Farrah Khan afford rent for the $1 mil+ Irvine home she resides in with $10k/yr income as Irvine mayor?
Are you surprised a Farrah related candidate appears so shady??
No, I am not surprised a Farrah-related candidate is shady. The glory is in the details though!
Jeffrey Starke leaves much to be desired. Meh.
What does Jeffrey leave to be desired?
Are you supporting anybody? Probably not, you hate everybody. Except for Jerry Brown. And Larry Agran.
“Meh”? “Much to be desired”?
Vern, I think that we’re witnessing one of the rare instances of Eric “praising with faint damnation”!
Vern,
Yazdani is not a Democrat and she never sought the Democrat clubs endorsements in Irvine and OC. Yazdani’s personal finances are horrific (back taxes for almost 10 years) and she should not be overseeing the city’s finances.
Vern,
Have you seen Mr. Starke speak publicly?
https://irvinewatchdog.org/city-hall/city-council/democrats-of-greater-irvines-city-council-candidate-forum-where-do-the-candidates-stand-on-the-issues/
Yazdani likes to live large on other people’s money.
That’s a wretched candidate.
When is that Melehat creature going to jail?
Soonest re Melahat is December.
Go may be running in wrong district.
Tammy Shin er Kim had some tax lien issues in her recent past. And she has multiple identities.
And, the DPOC has no shame and will endorse racist candidates like Farrah Khan and those that normalize and enable Farrah Khan like Tammy Kim (even when their largest sanctioned club in Irvine refused to endorse either Tammy or Larry)
Now that Newsom may be out of the Presidential aspirations game, I can imagine that any day she will be ordered to jail will be the day after her sentence is commuted by the Governor to “time almost served.”
Now Dan has discovered this Yazdani story, in his back yard, 3 days after Irvine Watchdog printed it, and the day after I “cross-post” it. Then Dan proceeds to bellyache about DTS Yazdani or Republican Gang Chen having a good chance winning because there are THREE Democrats in the race.
I guess he never got Alex’ press-release, which Alex sent out two days ago and I reprinted, above, yesterday. -[I should mention Dan has been OBSCENELY and gratuitously rude to Alex, which Alex didn’t want me to mention.] But it’s two Democrats now – Starke and William Go.
My Irvine friends don’t like Go. I quote: “William Go seems disingenuous. He’s a corporate dem at best and even right wing leaning at worst. DPOC just endorsed him because Tammy supports him and he raised a lot of money from the AAPI community. He use to work for Broadcom now does commercial real estate. I distrust his motivations for running for council. Personality wise, just a bland personality but non-combative. He can be pleasant but also seems like a pushover. He will be Tammy’s puppet, he is weak on policy…
“Oh and he leans in hard with identity politics. ‘I’m Asian, vote for me. Especially Asians. I’ll represent Asians.’ Etc. etc.”
The DPOC’s choice though! First thing they ask a candidate is about their funding and how long they’ve had a “D” attached to their name.
Starke for 2, Jing Sun for 3, Ayn Craciun for 4. Hard to choose between Larry and Tammy for Mayor, both have good and bad points. Tammy’s my pal though. And it’s time for new(er) blood.
*Good luck to Alex, Kari Lake is definitely right up there with Dog and Goat Killer Kristi Noam, and Cat Lady Hater and George Santos Eye Make-up hero J. D. Vance. Alex
will have his work cut out for him, but perhaps just remembering the Trump Chronicles
might be helpful We predicate our comments on pure speculation, perhaps they could call it “Fake News”:
The Trump Chronicles
D,J. Trump was born June 14th, 1946 in the Year of the Dog. He had a handsome
brother who his mother loved. Trump was a mean little kid and a bully. He was so
bad his father sent him to Military School to get some better habits. Trump was
immediately picked on and turned out by other kids in Military School. He learned
the art of the lie from top to bottom. When he returned from Military School his
brother was under tremendous pressure from a mean spirited demanding father
and abusive mother. D.J. was abused by both his parents, but particularly his
mother. He innate hate for women was set in stone. His brother became an alcoholic
and died from stress. That left Trump as the only remaining son….who resembled the
“Fredo” character in the “Godfather”. He lost his first two million dollars that his Dad
gave him, so his Dad had to give him more to fund he Slumload activities in New York.
which targeted black folks and immigrants. Although, D.J. own Dad was a German
Jewish person, who married a Scottish immigrant. This set the tone for D.J.’s Life.
After the death of his Father he attempted to take over the World Football League, and did enough to kill it, because no one wanted him as the leader of it. Then he learned the Art of the Steal…..through borrowing, borrowing and borrowing, lying about the values of the properties, leveraging that borrowing into borrowing enough that he had to finally
declare bankruptcy six times. In 1987 D.J. created the Trump Shuttle, a short haul
airline which operated from 1987 to 1992….that too eventually failed, as he tried a
hostile takeover of American Airlines in 1989 for $7.5 Billion dollars that he didn’t have.
The crash of his personal helicopter with 10 of his prime financial advisors on it, put a end to his takeover ambitions. Trump Towers followed, along with Trump University, along with his key relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, his marriage to Ivana 1970-1990 and then to Marla Maples in 1993-1999 and the Melenia 2005 to present. D.J. before he
became President was best buds with Vlade Putin and Bibi Netanyahu. The Chronicle
of Donald j Trump continues………we will not burden you with the history since 2016..but there will be more to come…no doubt.
WHAAAAAT???!!!!!
I think that if Odious Fred Trump were Jewish, we’d have heard a lot more about it before now. Where’d you find this nugget?
*Don’t overthink the Winshipian poetry.
*Alex, one more thing…..D.J. is a Germaphobe, he never touches anyone. He wears
gloves whenever he can and you will never see him walking the halls of Congress touching anyone.
I like Jeff Starke. He is much better on policy than Go. As for Yazdani, Farrah needs to explain herself. Endorsing her for city council and recently making her a Commissioner is beyond the pale. Is Farrah trolling us at this point? Or simply taking marching orders from Patrick Strader?
If Melahat’s going to walk, and especially if she could implicate Farrah (legitimately or not) if she wanted to, then it may be the best tactical choice. Completely dishonorable, but now that she lost the Supes race does she even care about that?
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Sierra Club Angeles Chapter considers Farrah Khan honorable and recognizes her for Outstanding Public Service in Support of the Environment.
https://www.instagram.com/mayorofirvine/p/C-hKBKXxo8x/?img_index=1
What exactly has she done for the environment. Almost every initiative taken by her has gone nowhere. DEI committee, Innovation Council, etc.
The Sierra Club has no problem recognizing lying racists.
She has other assets.
Yeah, but their value may be artificially inflated.
Vern makes a big deal out of Yazdani’s tax delinquency. But he not only turned a blind eye to Hari Lal’s tax delinquency in 2022, but walked precincts for that shady character KNOWING Lal owed hundreds of thousands in delinquent property taxes! This is one of the reasons it’s hard to take you seriously, Vern.
I reposted something about Yazdani’s delinquency from an Irvine site. I don’t think I even gave an opinion, but she is running against two good candidates.
Hari was the only candidate running against Anaheim klepto Natalie Meeks. And as I remember I pressured him to take care of his tax delinquency once I learned about it.
That is all.
Wasn’t Lal’s tax situation being litigated at the time?
Something like that. Course that dude was always litigating everything.
Litigation was his excuse for not paying? Then why did he pay every cent of the delinquent taxes once it became public, if he had a legit legal case?
Thanks for your answer, Vern, and admitting your view of a candidate’s ethics is completely situational. Since this Yazdani is running against candidates you like, HER tax issues are a problem.
Ah, complain to Irvine Watchdog. It’s their story.
Is this Melahat?
The disingenuousness is pretty obvious.
Which election is coming up: Yazdani’s or Lal’s? Doesn’t matter; let’s not vote for either of them this year!
Nothing you say here requires anonymity. Why won’t you own this position instead of wearing a hood?
I wonder if Melahat’s parole conditions preclude her from advocating for candidates. A propos of nothing, of course.
Vern, you pal Tammy shin er Kim has a financial history littered with IRS and CA FTB tax liens including a current FTB tax lien. Coupled with her use of dual identities. Rumor has it she just moved in to an apartment. What happened to her condo. Pray do tell us more about your pal.
Why do you keep calling “Tammy Kim” “Tammy shin er Kim”? Was her surname “Shin” at some point? If so, why does that matter?
I vaguely think that you may have explained this before, but now you’ve done it twice in one comments section I don’t know whether you’re trying to make a point with repetition or you just don’t realize that pretending to confuse the names just makes you seem weird. Should we stage an intervention for you?
It still is shin. Her drivers license is Tammy Shin. Her son’s name is Christian Shin. She doesn’t hold the property as Kim but Shin. When she had a problem with the law, she appears in court as Tammy Shin not Kim.
And, she has had tax problems and has a FTB lien recorded against her. Yeah, sure I’m the weird one and Irvine has a mental health problem says Tammy Shin in today’s OC register. Meanwhile the individual that killed his mother and then got killed by IPD is from Las Vegas not Irvine.
https://www.ocregister.com/2024/08/09/man-shot-by-irvine-police-after-fatally-stabbing-his-mother-had-violent-past/
https://www.fox5vegas.com/2024/08/09/las-vegas-man-shot-by-california-police-after-stabbing-mother-death/
Perfectly normal for politicians to have pseudonyms. Right, oh myopic Booby one?? Carry on.
Biggus Dorkus,
Is it normal for politicians to run under something other than their original legal names? I don’t know: maybe you should ask Gary Hartpence or Hillary Rodham.
If you think that she is not entitled to call herself “Tammy Kim,” you should challenge her filing on the basis. I believe that you still have a few days.
Hope this keeps you busy!
Omg. The Bushalas – Tony and George – made the maximum individual contribution to Tammy Shin er Kim er Sham’s Irvine mayoral campaign. Mujajaja.
Ah – the Fred Jung connection!
Here is Shady Sham Tammy Kim’s defunct MySpace page.
https://myspace.com/tammyshin
It appears she started the Korean American Center as Tammy Shin.
https://www.salesgear.io/p/tammy-shin-email-phone
And, then she went and called a vet a racist for stating the truth that she owes a debt to the U.S. military for her freedom which she fired back he was a racist. But, guess what the vet told the truth beyond the Korean War. Her father was enlisted in US Military stationed in Korea when she was conceived.
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/13/tammy-kim-irvine-city-council-anti-asian-hate
And then she had the nerve to endorse Farrah-Khan for her reelection campaign as Mayor after Khan was exposed for being lying racist and after Farrah won Shin was rewarded with a figurative knife in the back instead of a coveted political appointment. Just desserts.
All these AAPI dem electeds including AG Bonta endorsing her don’t know a damn thing about her (just like you, Greg, and Vern) or Irvine.
Oh myopic booby one this is the goddamn United States of America. Tammy Sham has a first amendment right to call herself whatever she wants. She can say she is Princess Leia for f sake and I equally have that same right to call her whatever I want. And she is a shady shyster. EN said it.
Dual identity tax scofflaw much? Not a good look for someone holding or seeking political office.
And let’s not forget Shammy Scamster’s Melahatrat connection and involvement in the Casco fiasco.
https://irvinecommunitynewsandviews.org/publishers-perspective-vice-mayor-kims-self-serving-call-for-investigation/ (Tammy calls for investigation re Melahat and involved in Casco fiasco)
https://irvinecommunitynewsandviews.org/city-councilmembers-carroll-kim-and-kuo-under-scrutiny-for-pushing-through-multi-million-dollar-city-contract-for-electric-charging-stations/
https://youtu.be/1f1l0R3J6RE (More on the Casco fiasco)