Jordan Brandman formally announces bid for Congress

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1. It’s safe to say that he will get the corporate welfare queen vote.

2. I am tol Greg Diamonds “BS EXPRESS” article may do him in. When a member in good standing, who is the face of young democrats announces an ambitious challenge to seek a coveted seat in the most professional way possible and is met with this by his own party member……..

   I am told there are by laws and aethod to remove Greg. Some are opposed but most know…..this guy will DESTROY anything he touches. He is like a crack head. He knows NO boundries. Including insuating Jordan is Gay while denying it….

   GOOD BYE DIAMOND

   • That insomniac dippitydot whith his drunken friend Vern and convicted felon Paul are all in for Bao. That says everything you need to know

   • Well, they’d have to do it under their own names, so that would at least be some progress.

     I’m all for opening up a wider debate on Brandman’s record. (It was good on School Board; it’s terrible on Council.) So let them try to remove me if they think they can. Maybe this time they can manage it without breaking state campaign finance laws by having the Chair and others pay the dues — just when the item came up at the end of the meeting — of those who had not satisfied their dues commitments by the beginning of the meeting, when it was required. (And of course one can’t make a contribution to a PAC — which is what “party dues” is — in another person’s name at all.)

     I decided not to file an FPPC complaint at the time because at that time I still had hope for internal reform. That was probably too gentle on my part. If anyone wants to challenge the story, I can find my list of who did it.

     Actually, unlike many Democratic insiders, I *don’t* insinuate that Jordan is gay. As I’ve said repeatedly, I have no evidence of his having any sexuality at all. (Some people are like that.) But I’m not asserting THAT either; I simply have no way of knowing.

     • Jordan’s sexuality, Bao’s sexuality, your sexuality for that matter is no one’s business. No one needs to present you with any evidence of their private lives at all

       • I’ve never seen or heard Greg mention Jordan’s sexuality. You’ve got Greg confused with me or Jason Young.

         • Not even so much me.

           • What business is it of yours?

             • Not much really. Just letting you know you’re wrong about Greg as usual.

               • I’m not as wrong about Greg nearly as often as he’s wrong about me.

               • I think that I’m right that you love confident and unprovable generalizations and I love actual data. So you tote up all of the places where I’m supposedly “wrong” about you and I can do the same for you. My question is whether I get to impute all of the anonymous things said on your site — some of which may or may not be written or solicited by you — to you.

                 You’re going to answer with some reference to “Dan D. Stalker” on OJB. I don’t know his identity, but I also know that he (or she) is writing wildly exaggerated satire that no one could take seriously. (He’s got your tone and bluster down, though.) That’s most unlike your menagerie of masked trolls here.

               • Actually Greg, I love actual data too. For example, I won’t contest that your ballot statement for an anti-Poseidon message wasn’t cost effective; it was cheap, no doubt. However, given that the electorate overwhelmingly elected your opponent is evidence that the message wasn’t effective. I also look at data that 70% of the party voted to remove you from your party leadership position. And let’s not ignore that actual data suggests you bend over backwards to support anything Tom Tait and those candidates Tait supports want to do regardless of party affiliation. I believe there’s considerable satire on the anonymous commenters here; I do search IP addresses because I don’t like when people with the same IP address use multiple names, but I don’t do the search-and-destroy searching you do with attempts to tie things to the Anaheim chamber.

                 1:17AM? Honestly, get some sleep. Read a book. Walk. Exercise. Try a sleeping pill.

               • I was running against an incumbent in a water board race, who would otherwise have been unopposed. And, unlike my other two races, I didn’t campaign at all. Getting 1/3 of the vote is fine. You really think that none of that 1/3 of the electorate — a respectably large number — was affected and educated by the message? First, you have no way of knowing. Second, you wouldn’t apply that same logic to Irvine’s results, I’d bet. Third, you clearly know nothing about building political movements. You don’t usually start out above 50%.

                 One reason that 70% of the party voted to remove me because the Chair and his gang cheated, literally making illegal campaign contributions to the party on behalf of others so that they could vote. (Without those illegal contributions, I easily win.) Didn’t I already write about that before here last week, or was that somewhere else?

                 I’ve disagreed with Tait plenty of times. But I don’t think that I’ve ever disagreed with him about something involving corruption, the issue that underlies most of the contentious issues in Anaheim.

                 You’re quite the poster boy for the benefits of exercise.

               • To answer your questions:
                 1. No.
                 2. Not applicable and up against a wall of developer-funded signs, mailers that were flat out lies.
                 3. Duh, but you’re a poor architect of movements with the possible exception of bowel movements.

                 On your removal: you win? the majority still would have voted to oust you. Cheated? You mean like the deals proposed to retain some position for you in violation of the party’s bylaws which your side indicated was no problem. OK if it favors you, but you join Deborah Pauly in people so detested by their own party they got booted. The one party meeting I showed for (as I hold no position in the DPOC) I honestly couldn’t believe how much you talked and interjected yourself into dialogue; you’re desperate to lead the party but no one wants to follow you because you value no one’s ideas but your own.

                 Tait…blah, blah….as I recall, you trashed the party’s endorsed candidate in that race which certainly didn’t help.

                 Benefits of exercise…poster boy. Join me at Bootcamp someday counselor; let’s see how many push ups and sit ups you can do in two minutes. But spoiler..its starts at 5:30 AM and you probably can’t afford it.

     • Diamond – This article could be valuable to you. But I doubt if you will take heed of it.

       10 Reasons Why People Hate You

       http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/01/top-10-reasons-why-people-hate-you-2877896.html

3. I don’t think people HATE Greg as much as they tire of his antics.

   His constant berating of others and ignorance of veiwpoints that counter his make him the quinsential outcast. But he thrives on that. Because when you talk louder, act prouder its always easier than doing the real work: listening.

   The next time you hear Greg talk about taking on incumbants in the name of Social Justice ask yourself: at what/whose cost. Certainly not his as he begs for help offsetting his ridiculous ballot statement that few if any read.

   Greg. Go get a job. Support yourself.

   • I don’t recall anyone of your name being involved with local Democratic politics. The ninjas are getting more clever.

     But I really am interested in how you know how many people read my ballot statement. Is that data published somewhere? Don’t cite the election returns; those have much more to do with ballot designation, especially “incumbent.”

     • Instead of spending money you don’t have Greg, you should have used it to help your family pay bills. I suggest you seek work in the lucrative legal profession so you can commend a high salary and always be busy and well paid.

4. Yecchhh.
   Hasn’t he already proven the Peter Principle hypothesis?