Because YOU Asked for it
One of our frequent commenters, a loopy lefty and Ahmad Zahra fan complained of a post that included a picture of a kid holding a no Zahra sign, intimating that we were using kids as props.
Yeah precious. Little kid with no agency used a prop for some adult’s fucked point of view.
Kinda gross. No one’s winning anything for that.
I felt constrained to point out that the object of his affection, Zahra, uses little kids as props (and by the way others like Pam Keller, liked to do it too).
Our commenter replied:
I’m sure there’s no comparison to a kid being used as a prop for rank Bushala political schemes.
Hmm. Rank political schemes. Does getting elected and endless self-promotion count as “rank.”
Our boy Zahra created a fake family for a mailer when running for office in 2022, using four Latino looking kids as props in an effort to come off as a family man with a wife and kids. Oops! Hopefully “mom” got paid something for her smile and maybe passed down a few bucks to the dragooned kiddos. More likely none of them were even related, just trawled out of central casting.
And let’s not forget the Zahra photo-op of posing with Maple area kids in 2023 to explain their Latino culture to them.
Oh, well, these BooHoos seem incapable of seeing what rational, honest people see, which explains how a Middle Eastern miscreant who stayed in the USA via Marriage Fraud can yak it up about how we welcomed him to our shores, and in some circles, get away with it.
What ever happened to Pam Keller?
Kids these days need to learn that ice cream from Ahmad isn’t free. It’s gonna cost you something. More than your soul.
Pam Keller once dressed up her little boy as Cupid with wings and a loin cloth so she could preside over marriages at the County Clerks office on Harbor.
Jesus, I remember that. Where the hell was dad?
You mean Zahra hasn’t fathered four kids? Hmm.
Maybe those kids were adopted.
He’s using all the people in D5 as props. Too bad for him the awful melodrama will be over in 2 years.
Zahra’s entire existence is a prop. A facade and complete farce wrapped around a junior high school creative writing exercise. Zahra embodies the absolute worst in political hackery and tomfoolery. May God have mercy on his rotten soul.
Chaka, you’re da bomb!
Amen. The guy never found a photo op or divisive issue he didn’t love. Guy is muy malo.
Guess I struck a nerve.
“Does getting elected and endless self-promotion count as “rank.””
Not in my opinion. Being selected to represent your community is an honor. Doing so is service. Campaign ads are a necessary step and so nothing inherently wrong with them. But a campaign photo with kids in it is different than turning a very young person with no understanding or agency into a human ad hominem.
It’s icky.
I specifically did not ask for this article and gave an argument clearly precluding it when prompted.
“Doesn’t sound comparable. There’s a difference between putting a kid with a negative campaign sign against your political target and the kind of thing fiends have bitched about in the past.
But you decided to do it anyway, and quote me while leaving my reasoning out of your article.
Business as usual.
That was you?
Figures. Caught in another hypocritical self-assfuck.
Sorry for your low reading comprehension, anonymous coward. We all have our crosses to bear.
Man, your kids are seriously gonna hate you.
When they change their last names, I really hope it stings.
I guess you’re projecting? As in, you post anonymously because you’re concerned what your family would think of you if they knew how stupid you are in daily, in print.
You can guess whatever you want.
Don’t say no one warned you. You did this to them, and yourself.
Thank you for your fake concern. Everything is peachy.
We bear your presence.
Barely. It’s like disturbing an ant hill.
I like how this shitty blog deletes comments they don’t like
Stop making shitty comments.
Must be something really bad to get deleted here, huh?
If you are going to slander someone, use your own name and your comment(s) won’t get deleted.
“If you are going to slander BUSHALAS, use your own name and your comment(s) won’t get deleted. Any enemies of Bushalas or Fiends for Fullerton’s Failure (what’s the diff?), do whatever feels good, you know we do.”
Fixed it for you.
That said I find such accusations wrong and deeply offensive. Being anonymous doesn’t make it better or worse. There isn’t much worse than an accusation like that, and it should come with proof sufficient for an indictment.
Nothing better to do this holiday season, Hoogerbooger?
I’m sure the family is used to it.
Working. These are toilet texts.
No they aren’t.
You know it, I know it, your kids know it.
Sad.
You aren’t anyone, so what you claim to know or not know doesn’t matter.
(flush)
Sure thing, bad dad.
You’ll read this comment seven times before another comment. We all know how often you refresh, and boy do you smell ripe.
Refresh? No polling, event driven.
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You’re really full of shit, John.
Be a better father and spend less time on the blog.
“You’re really full of shit, John.”
Not anymore.
(FLUSH)
See you in 30 minutes.
Sadly, can’t say the same for your kids.
Wood working.
no regular working
You haven’t told us what you think of Zahra exploiting kids for political purposes.
I was perfectly clear. Read it again.
Zahra sticks out in that “family” photo like a sore thumb.
John the R stands for retarded Hogerhuis is a sore whining loser. The good guys won. Your team lost sucker! So F off. You don’t get the fake moral high ground because you back Ahmad because he is a POS. You would know that if you had half a brain, but you’re retarded so… No mercy asshole. Nick was weak for giving you guys anything. No more offers of reconciliation or next time we replace Nick and find someone with some balls.
The Jung-Charles dynamic will be interesting to watch. Charles always blasts Jung whenever she gets a chance. At the same time, she gives kudos to Dunlap, probably why he wanted her as mayor so the compliments continue. Jung shouldn’t give her the time of day.
“Jung shouldn’t give her the time of day.”
Seems like you think cliques, personalities and feelings are how things should work on the dais.
I think it should be exactly the opposite. I think they should act like grown ups, be professional and figure out ways to keep such conflicts completely out of it and off the public radar.
Stop boring people.
You are making my point. For Zahra and now it seems Charles, it is all personal. They only make personal attacks disguised as identity politics or some virtue signaling that is nonsense.
The Fullerton Observer website will not let me post this, so I do it here with caution. Has anyone put any thought into this: What if Ahmad Zahra loses his reelection bid in 2026? His 2022 win was underwhelming and his opponents were unknown candidates. So happens if Oscar Valdez gets the full support of the Fred Jung donors and gets an earlier start? What if Zahra doesn’t win and the city council dynamics become cordial and positive all the time? If, a big if, that happens, would everyone supporting Zahra at least entertain the thought the issues on that city council were Zahra? Things that make you go hmmmmmmm.
The answer to that is the Observer crowd needs a victim and the problem would NEVER be with Victim #1, Zahra who has been persecuted his entire life by this or that.
Look at the behavior of Sharon Kennedy screaming LIES, LIES from the back of the chambers and making her escape before the cops could throw her out.
Fullerton Observer comment censoring may end up backfiring. It brings more readers to other outlets for their news. Creates a vacuum and space for another.