Bushala Says Markowitz Scandal Not Over
Phony Fullerton 4th District candidate Scott Markowitz has been arrested by the DA and charged with perjury and falsification of public documents. Somebody other than Markowitz circulated his nominating papers, but he attested that he did.
Normally, in these types of situations that would be the end of the story. Except that in the case of Markowitz – a political unknown – he had help. How much coaching he got, and by whom, remains something of a mystery, but it’s obvious that his perjury was suborned by others.
We do know that one of his manipulators is the former Executive Director of the OC Democrat Party, one Ajay Mohan who accompanied Markowitz to the City Clerk’s office to pull papers. Was Mohan the circulator? Was it somebody else, somebody that the nominators trusted? Who wrote the carefully crafted and cynical MAGA statement Markowitz got on the ballot? Certainly not Markowitz.
Who else may have benefitted from the scam will give us a clue to the extent of the election rigging. Vivian Jaramillo is the number one suspect since Markowitz’s candidacy was meant to attract non-Latino voters from Linda Whitaker.
One layer deeper, we can discern the shadowy figure of Ahmad Zahra, Fullerton’s 5th District representative who desperately needs Jaramillo’s support to finally become America’s first gay, Arab, Muslim Mayor; and who also needs Jaramillo to finally bring home the marijuana dispensary bacon.
Then there’s Ada Briceno, the current Chairwoman of the OC Democrat Party, the group that endorsed Jaramillo without even talking to anybody else. There’s a big prestige issue here, the ambitious Briceno has a record – she was certainly aware of the Tony Castro scandal in 2022, when her ED Mohan created the fake Latino candidate in Fullerton’s 5th District to protect the egregious Ahmad Zahra.
The name Aaruni Thakur has also been mentioned, in the comments section below. He deserves special attention. Apparently his family lives and owns property on Wooodcrest, not far from the abode of Scott Markowitz. He and his family have given a lot of money to Jaramillo, and his previous fake carpetbaggery in the 4th District in 2020 gives a fine example of his moral compass.
Above the lowly riffraff are politicians who have invested their political prestige in Jaramillo’s candidacy and who may want to protect that investment while also creating office holders beholden to them. These include Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk, State Senator Josh Newman, and Congressman Lou Correa. How shallow or how deep are the roots of the Markowitz Conspiracy?
All of these issues are presented as a prelude to the topic of this post, which is a letter from Fullerton activist, Tony Bushala to the District Attorney Todd Spitzer asking that the investigation into the situation be continued to find out who got Markowitz to lie.
It’s very clear that at least one other person was involved in suborning perjury. One would have to be relentlessly stupid, a Kennedy Observer, in fact, to believe that Markowitz the political novice, himself was the sole director of this play; that he cooked up the plan; that he decided to create a campaign committee for appearances; that he decided to change his party affiliation; that he that he made sure his new affiliation was on his FPCC documents when it wasn’t required; that he, for some reason, needed and recruited a surrogate to circulate his petition; that he conceived and wrote his ballot statement; that he knew nothing else was required and quietly disappeared, his apologists at the Observer saying he was somehow “threatened” into hiding.
There is an old Latin apothegm: qui bono? Roughly translated the question asks “who benefits” from a given situation whose origins may not be completely clear. Well, let’s find out.
Spitzer’s got the goods on Markowitz, who I think probably was a witless patsy. So even if he was aware of his malfeasance and was willing to go along with it, the leverage against him ought to pry a few names loose. The first one would be Mohan. Other, bigger dominoes may fall after that.
Doesn’t Markowitz live on the same street as the Aaruni Thakur clan? I can’t help but wonder. Thakur is hungry for a better political office and is certainly tied to some of the names mentioned in the post. He and his family have given thousands of dollars to Jaramillo’s campaign.
Bingo!
Aruni, his wife, Ajay Mohan, Ahmad, and Kitty are all connected to this. If Markowitz has any brains he will sing like a canary.
Wow, right out of the Florida Man MAGA campaign fraud playbook:
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/politics/local-politics/ghost-candidate-says-he-was-offered-50k-to-run-for-office/3423228/
I wonder who is going to pay for this guy’s attorney fees? Criminal defense ain’t cheap.
Ajay Mohan, Aruni and the OC Dem Party?
I don’t know, but I wouldn’t accept legal help from “Ado” Ada Briceno.
Just going to keep saying it: Ranked Choice Voting for Fullerton
I’m dumb. Does it have rounds and you keep going’ til one candidate has 50%+1 votes?
Of votes cast through that round, right? So in the second round all first and second round votes contribute to the total?
Or does a first round vote count more than a second round vote?
Matt Leslie? Please help out.
fairvote.com
Voters rank all candidates from 1 to the number of candidates in the race. For a single seat election the threshold is generally set at 50%+1. If no candidate achieves this percentage of support outright then the last place ranked candidate overall is dropped from consideration and the second choice candidate(s) from the voters who ranked the last place candidate first are then counted toward those candidates’ totals. Repeat until someone crosses the 50%+1 threshold.
https://fullertonrag.com/2018/12/26/ranked-choice-voting-should-be-adopted-for-fullertons-elections/
Someone had a late night flight last night.
Related?
Things that make you go…..Hmm
Another trip back to Assad’s Syria?
Arkansas to see his ex wife.
His ex female wife.
“election rigging” lol. ffs.
There was nothing stopping him from gathering the signatures himself except his own foolishness if true.
And if he had it would have been completely legal and not “election rigging” by any definition. Nor was even what he did “election rigging” since no one was forced to vote for him or have their vote changed.
Now alleging a conspiracy to attest to have but not have gathered his own signatures. It barely works as a sentence. I guess it could be. But again why not just gather the signatures properly.
Lazy half assed shenanigans.
Shenanigans?
Yeah, you go with that Mr. Hog. It’s a felony. FFFF was right all along and now more shit is going to hit the fan. You are really, fucking stupid. And I thought you were dumb before.
See your innocent pal Markowitz in court, Hog. I wonder id Ajay Mohan and Diane Vena and Ahmad will be there.
Try and follow the argument.
I didn’t say perjury was shenanigans. I’m talking about running a dark horse candidate to siphon away votes. Totally legal. No perjury required.
I don’t know Markowitz or Mohan or Vena or your mom.
Not mom. Amad. Ahmad Zahra, the immigrant fraud, phony film maker, phony doctor, phony…
Use spellcheck, Brain Fart.
I don’t need or use spell check. I don’t know your mom either. Or Zahra but author was just enumerating his enemies list. Not going to waste time with that.
Snore.
Except that he was never a real candidate and his nominators were swindled into signing his papers.
The other option is that they were accomplices to the scam – which is more than likely the case for some, if not all of them.
More rotten fruit is soon to drop out of the tree. Sadly, it won’t happen before the election, but the damage to the electorate is done. And so is the damage to the Team Jaramillo.
He had enough people willing sign, why not just collect them in person and answer truthfully? Makes no sense.
Makes lots of sense if these people were conned by someone they knew. You’re smart enough to get that, right?
I’m smart enough to have done this better if I was reckless enough to do something like that. It’s stupid. I can understand stupid things, they’re still surprising sometimes.
No you aren’t.
You aren’t smart enough to not comment on this blog.
Again.
And again.
And again.
Come home, John. Mama misses you.
Seems like you’re too thin skinned to be on the Internet at all, coward.
One of me, several of you, all hiding behind aliases, and yet you cannot handle ANY dissent from your party line.
“you cannot handle ANY dissent from your party line.”
Whic is why you and the Kennedy Sisters spend so much energy talking around the obvious.
Maybe because he never had any intention to run and someone just showed up with the signatures and a pile of money?
BTW, you are about to get real lonely over at the Observer now that everyone has been banned.
Was everyone banned? Or did they just make it so you have to sign in?
AFAIK everyone who follows the posting rules will get their posts through, and those rules do not forbid other opinions.
I don’t agree with banning people unless they refuse to follow the rules after being given a chance to learn them.
More snooty and erudite comments from the seemingly learned JRH, if that’s his name (because Jack Hutt is Vince Buck). He is obviously painfully awkward because he spends so much time responding to comments on FFFF and the worthless Observer. Dude may need a hobby: gardening or biking like Vince.
So am I getting this right, you think this blog is not worth responding to so you share your incredulity that I bother.
As to hobbies, I have plenty. Running, woodworking, motorcycling, retrocomputing. But thank you for your concern, it doesn’t take me long to send compose messages. I’m a programmer, I type fast.
As to identity, I’m a real person. I’m not Vince. I’m not Jack. I’m not any of these people pretending to be. I’m not your bogeyman. I’m me! Ridiculous that I have to say that, but whatever.
Don’t forget, you are also an angry elf and insufferable twat.
Manatee.
We’re all sure you spend a lot of time working your wood.
No doubt it is polished to perfection. When he has time on his hands, he ends up with himself in his hand.
No real human being would have such a ridiculous name. It’s obviously fabricated.
Agreed. It’s got to a fakeroo like the ones the Observer cooks up.
Is Scotty still soaking in OCJ?
$25K bond, so probably not.
Too bad. A month or two in lockdown with the bad boys would be good medicine for Scotty. Scared straight!
Anybody know how well Aaruni Thakur knows Ajay Mohan?
We’ll get right on that.
Well enough to conceive and implement a fraudulent candidate for the election together.