Water, Water Everywhere Nor Any Drop to Drink
Friends may remember the tussle on the City Council in the weeks following City Councilmember Ahmad Zahra’s election in 2018. At first he opined that a replacement election to fill Jesus Quirk-Silva’s vacate at-large council seat was right and proper. There was applause.
But then something weird happened. A month later Zahra went back on his word and voted to appoint Council retread Jan Flory for another lap around the track. After Flory was safely installed on the council, she, Jennifer Fitzgerald, and Zahra voted to replace Bruce Whitaker on the OC Water District Board with…Zahra.
“Well, Joe, who cares” I can hear some of you saying. But apart from the role the OCWD plays in the OC water wars, and the huge pile of cash the agency sits on, the appointment pays. And pays damn well. For an unemployed “film producer” what could be better? Suddenly the Flory appointment didn’t look weird at all.
So check this out, Transparent California’s report for our hero, Zahra.
During his two years on the water board Zahra made some damn good money – tens of thousands of dollars in pay and benefits. And while on the board he pimped the awful Poseidon desal scam and got district PR people to write articles he published in the Fullerton Observer under his own name.
In 2021 Fitzgerald and Flory were mercifully gone; Zahra was removed from the OCWD, replaced with Bruce Whitaker. Zahra’s Mother’s Milk was turned off at the spigot and he has only collected his council stipend since
Fullerton Folk are now speculating about whether the 2024-elected council will appoint Zahra as Mayor, an honorific job he desperately wants. A Vivian Jaramillo victory in District 4 would have got him that. But it also would have gotten the ability to vote himself back onto the OCWD board, and back on that gravy train.
Alas ’twas not to be for Zahra. Jaramillo was beaten by newcomer Jamie Valencia who was denigrated by Jaramillo’s precinct walkers and by Jaramillo herself. She owes the Democrat nothing and may not have any inclination to do favors for the man who promoted her opponent, big time.
Good post. He needs the money. He can’t raise campaign dough to live of, at least not legally. Nor that silly legalisms ever bothered the marriage fraud.
Doing well by doing good!
Let’s hope Valencia teams up with Jung and Whitaker to kick Zahra square in the nuts. No cushy water job, no mayorship. Let him stew in his own juices.
Would be Dunlap.
Whitaker is gone.
No one want to hear about Zahra’s juices.
Well, now in all fairness you should write about the amount of loot Mr. Anti-goverment Whitaker has pulled down from the OCWD over the past 4 years.
That sounds fair.
For the love of JESUS H. QUIRK, no more pictures of the pink mudslide.
That’s probably the most money that hump has ever seen in his entire life. I think he might actually be eligible for a pers pension too.
Not true. He needed $5000 to get Michelle Salmon to marry him.
No. They “liked” each other. That’s what Zero told Vern Nelson. But somehow it didn’t work out. She stayed in Little Rock with her $5k and her kid from her (other) boyfriend, while Zero lit out for California with Big Movie-making Dreams and a fraudulent Green Card.
Never trust the word of a con man like Zara. Someone should ask the ex wife. Bet she has a story to tell. I would pay for that Only Fans account.
awkwardmad Zahra’s family friend Assad has run away from Syria. Could we all pitch in an pay for a ticket for awkwardmad’s welcome return to a free Syria? I’m happy to start a Go Fund Me. Syria is finally free after 50 years. Fullerton can finally be awkwardmad free too.
Hey maybe there’s an opening in the new Syrian Department of Health and Human Services.
Zahra is so thirsty, (no pun intended), to get back on the OC Water District board, it’s honestly hilarious. He’ll do anything to get there, even if it means making up fake candidates and getting his friends to run for city council. All so he can just appoint himself wherever he wants.
Be careful what you wish for Ahmad. Life is brutal and unforgiving. Those who know rarely speak. Those who speak rarely know. Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue at all Ahmad.