Marijuana Cartel Invaded Fullerton Election. Big Time
If you check the Independent Expenditure forms on the City Clerk’s website you’ll notice the comically named “Working Families For Kitty Jaramillo, Yadda, Yadda.” This committee was “sponsored” by the United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 324, in beautiful Buena Park. At first glance you might think this was an odd sponsorship given the name of the union and the nature of Jaramillo’s would-be job. A second glance at the committee’s inaugural Form 497 filing is even more astonishing – $60,000, paid through the national HQ in Washington DC.
Hmm. That’s a lot of cabbage from the grocery store and food service workers for this council seat.
The day before the election the OCEA, the union of government paper pushers, chipped in $25,000 more.
At least this OCEA contribution to the PAC makes some sort of sense, since Jaramillo proclaimed to the OC Register that she wanted to represent City Employees in their battle against oppressive management (the taxpayers). The amount is unprecedented for the OCEA, however.
But what about the United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 324? Why the involvement, and why the massive donation and the expenditure for campaign workers? Well, let’s go to their website and see.
It turns out that Local 324 represents employees in the cannabis business. Well I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell ya.
Suddenly all sorts of things fall into place. The connection between the Long Beach marijuana cartel and Cannabis Kitty Jaramillo, whose previous support of the most liberal dispensary plan was rewarded by the cartel.
I find it really difficult to believe that the workers themselves ponied up this cash, but I don’t find it difficult at all to believe that their employers and their employers’ lobbyists did. As OC saw in the case of Ahmad Zahra’s pal, the now convicted Melahat Rafiei, 60 grand is chump change. So who really kicked in that dark money, laundered through the home office, into the campaign to elect Jaramillo, and what did she promise them?
And did all those paid precinct walkers tell their targets a word about marijuana dispensaries 101 feet from their homes? Bet not.
I bet the Observer Sisters will be all over this any day now. They like to ask about people’s motives for donating to candidates. Oh, wait, that’s only for candidates they don’t like.
Yeah, those sisters sure like to impute made-up motives about people they hate – mostly Tony Bushala, but they will NEVER raise a quibble about Jaramillo.
I’m willing to bet they ignore the whole issue now that one of their own is the recipient of a fortune in dark money.
UFCW donated an additional $60,000. So it is 60 + 60 = $120,000. Dunlap, Whitaker, and Jung are accused of supporting a developer for taking between $2,000 and $5,000 from said developer by the phony Fullerton Observer. Were is their manufactured scorn from Kennedy District 2 resident that Jaramillo is bought and paid for by an industry that is federally illegal.
If this is true, it would make it the most expensive district race in Fullerton’s history.
I only saw one Form 497 logged with the City Clerk from the dope cartel – September 27, 2024.
Did I miss something?
Working families shows a 497 from 9/30 that has $60k from the UFCW out of DC. It also has a 497 from 11/5 that shows $25k from OCEA. What’s interesting is that Working families also shows $44,215 in independent expenditure “field expenses” from its 11/5 Form 496 that was filed with the clerk. The 460 filed on 10/25 is also interesting. You might recognize the name James Barlow, son of Dick Jones’ attorney Kim Barlow. You also notice that numerous salaries and payroll expenses are paid from the account. Appears there is close to $140k flowing through this and her own campaign account from these entities.
The campaign workers would have to be independent employees working for the PAC.
Jaramillo is corrupt. Imagine how amoral she could be?
You mean “is.”