Our County Government Attacks 1st Amendment, Fails
Pretty weird, in a “dress up like a cop and play” sort of way. I mean, who drives around with handcuffs in his trunk, right?
Unfortunately for Spitzer, news of the bizarre incident was finally leaked to The OC Register who reported on it in August 2015, much to the merriment of the pistol-packin’ supervisor’s numerous detractors. But the story gets better – or worse – depending on your point of view.
Photo by MINDY SCHAUER, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER –
Apparently Spitzer couldn’t leave the depiction of himself as a nutcase, alone. Sort of like obsessively picking at a scab. So he enlisted the help of Jean Pasco, the County’s press release writer to write some sort of clarifying/absolving press release. Although this document never saw the light of publication, the Voice of OC got wind of it and did a PRA request for all related docs. Hilariously, the County refused, claiming that unfinished documents don’t constitute “records.” The Voice sued the County for release of the relevant material. The County fought back.
It got worse. Under Spitzer’s guidance County Counsel demanded to depose Voice publisher Norberto Santana, ridiculously suggesting that conversations between him and Spitzer were relevant to the matter. Voice objected to the blatant harassment attempt.
On December 12, Judge Walter Schwarm “quashed” the depostion of the journalist . In legalese that means the judge shoved the matter right up Spitzer’s sorry ass. The County’s effort to intimidate a journalist was met with a stinging rebuke by the jurist.
Nelson is too busy counting the pension he spiked. You know, the pension he wasn’t going to take.
Spitzer has always been a puffed up blowhard and buffoon. Unfortunately there doesn’t appear to be any adult supervision at the County. All this is going to haunt him when he finally runs for DA. And that’s a good thing. We don’t need this clown anywhere near the justice system in OC. It’s already screwed up enough.
Is that really a picture of Shawn Nelson? The last time I saw Supervisor Nelson, he looked a lot fatter and even younger in a weird way.
That abortive press release was leaked to Voice by none other than FF Shawn Nelson who didn’t have the balls to confront Spitzer himself. Chickenshit in every way.
Notice how Spitzer has rolled down his sleeves to show off his phony little yellow wristband – just to get sympathy from the reporter. Didn’t work.
I think he talked himself into a little hysteria there. Pretty funny.
Who cares about this. The real question is which one of them has the worse hair dye job.
Spitzer shades of George Zimmerman who practiced deadly vigilante , law enforcement. Sadly for Spitzer, the ranting evangelist stood his ground at the pulpit of Wahoos. Maybe Spitzer should move to Florida if he wants to play a cop.
Why does Spitzer look like the Exxon Valdez dumped a slick on his face. Icky.