Lee Fink gets a Year Probation for that Docent-Shoving thing.

Let’s just say up front that we like Lee Fink, we’re glad he won the Tustin Council race in November, and his righteous “lawfare” against OC corruption especially at the OCBOE and in Huntington Beach has been expert and indispensable, sine qua non.

But we are NOT down with shoving elderly docents. Docent shoving is never the answer. And today we came into possession of the “CASE SUMMARY” regarding Lee’s docent-shoving incident of last May, which we believe retains too much public interest for us to just sit on. In short, Lee got a year’s informal probation, and ordered to pay unspecified restitution, two days before Yuletide last:

But… why are we only hearing of this disposition now, nearly a month later? Back in November, reading Matt Cunningham, other Republican blogs, and the Register, it seemed like Lee’s docent-shoving was the crime of the century, crying out for justice, depriving anyone in the County possessing a conscience of a peaceful night’s sleep. But then, as soon as the election was over, everyone sorta forgot about it.

Here’s the thing: Republicans across the County who hated Lee for good reason spent unprecedented, inordinate amounts of money trying to keep Lee off the Tustin Council. Dan at the Liberal OC actually wrote a good piece about this strenuous effort. (At first I didn’t think Dan could have written the piece, but it does have a typical absurd Dannish “what-about” paragraph – i.e. “What about when Jerry Amante was mean to Deborah Gavelo? What about Wagner covering for Do?” so now I do think Dan wrote it. In any case if you read THAT it’ll save me some work here.)

And these Republicans, dying to defeat Lee at the ballot box cuz they could never defeat him in the courtroom, believed the late discovery of the docent-shoving Ring video would be a godsend in that cause. If you really gotta see that, click here.

But once Lee won the Council race, suddenly nobody seemed to care about the incident any more. Strange. Oh *I* know what happened! After the election the MONEY DRIED UP that kept Matt all up in arms about this, hammering on the incident several times a week. Now the Orange Juice Blog is left holding the bag, sorry.

Funny how elections make misdeeds like docent-shoving seem like a huge deal one month, and then forgotten the next. That reminds me – whatever happened with that guy who allegedly got choked out by OCBOE’s Ken Williams, after Ken ran into him on the road? Was that even true? We never heard about it again, after that election.

It is so simple though, and it’s a good thing to remember whether you’re a political candidate or not – do NOT shove the docent. Shoving the docent is NEVER, or, rather, ALMOST never the answer. I am working on a song to help drive this lesson home, it’ll start something like “Who deserves your shovin’, shovin’? The Docent Doesn’t, the Docent Doesn’t.”

Anger management, Lee! And aside from that keep up the good work!