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Monday, November 16, 2009

Batshiat Crazy Harry on losing: "The horror," the horror, the horror

The man with the heart of darkness faces his own political apocalypse and the results are not pretty
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Batshiat Crazy Harry Walia may come back for more self-created public abuse next year. Then again, he may not. It all depends.

In an open letter to his supporters (PDF file, one page), Walia shows off his math skillz, thanks his supporters, comments on "the horror of smear" aimed at him, and warns that he may come back for sloppy seconds next year.

Walia claims in his letter that he endured "the horror" only to lose by 70 votes. In fact, the margin was 139 votes, but who's counting? It's only math.

"Your hard work... helped us to dispel the difficulties, to withstand the horror of smear, insults, and personal attacks."

Claiming that his campaign was "a success even though it did not bring me a victory," Walia claimed to have run a "clean campaign."

Hold that thought for a moment. Here's an email I received on October 29, a week before the election.

During Sun Fiesta I had a yard sale and used one of his illegally posted [on city property] signs as the foundation for my yard sale sign. During the parade they blocked off an entrance to my street, so I went to check on my signage. The sign I posted below Walia's sign had been ripped off and was nowhere to be found (in other words, it had been stolen).

Several days later, I happened to look out my window and saw Harry placing one of his signs in MY yard. I promptly went out, picked it up, saw that he was walking back to his car which was parked halfway down the street, and approached him saying, "You cannot place your sign on my property."

He responded that it was not my property, but the property of the doctor's office next door.

I replied that a) he was mistaken, it was my property; and b) that regardless of whose property it was, it was illegal to post the sign so close to the road as it obstructs drivers' views.

I handed him his sign and he said, "You're miserable!"

I bit my tongue and only responded, "Well, at least I didn't throw your sign away. And, by the way, there are at least 30 of my friends and family whose vote you will not be getting."

After reading the comments on this website, and the article in the paper yesterday, I wonder, "Who's miserable NOW???" Cheers.

The real horror (or the real fun, depending on your point of view) comes in his less than obscure threat to maybe sort-of  return for more self-created public abuse: "I will only say I may return, God willing."

Hell, Harry, don't go away mad.

4 comments:

  1. John--
    It's seems to me it's time for some reconciliation. Harry Walia has much to contribute to Venice and it would be wise to listen to him as he Emilio accounted for about 60% of the vote.

    Everyone knows there is much dissatisfaction with the way things have progressed (regressed) in Venice for a number of years. What's needed is a strategic plan that voters can understand and generally agree along with a council with the courage and wisdom to make it happen.

    Accordingly, I think Ed Martin and the council should ask Harry to chair a citizens advisory committee that would provide a strategy and recommendations for consideration by council.

    To me this would be smart politics and good for Venice.

    Mike Dowd

    PS: By the way Harry was right about the 70 votes. This assumes 70 less for Bennett.

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  2. Wait... WHAT???

    Walia supporters are currently circulating a top ten hit list. Martin and Lang are one and two respectively. I'm number three. The list is hilarious, but underscores the fact that Walia doesn't want peace, he wants power.

    Two attorneys are on the list: Marshall Happer and Dan Lobeck (misspelled as Loebeck). Apparently Dan and Jeff Boone are up for sainthood.

    Harry Walia's best contribution to Venice would be to leave. You forget -- this is a man who sent a woman to try to get me into a fight. When that didn't work, the pair of them tried to have me arrested. I still need to file a complaint about the pair of them filing a false complaint against me, mainly to bolster the case against Walia for filing a false police report against landscaper Garry Moore.

    I don't know what you are thinking, but Walia couldn't pass a background investigation needed to become a garbage collector.

    Ed Martin has let a number of political enemies stay or come in under the guise of reconciliation. Didn't work. Not once. Every single one of them squandered the chance to make peace and move forward as a chance to commit political assassination. Paula Dumas, Diana Mier, Greg Shanika, Janis Fawn, and Nancy Woodley immediately spring to mind, but there are others.

    Martin's weakness is that he tried to become a reconciliator when he should have been taking notes from Machiavelli.

    Finally -- Walia's math is not right in any sense of the words 'math' or 'not right.' Nobody EVER reports or math accounts an election by dividing the difference in half and reporting that as the margin of loss. Except maybe losers. Well, singular. Loser. As in this particular loser, Harry Walia.

    The only reason Walia's race was so close is because both newspapers went on a campaign of refusing to report the facts. Finally, the Herald-Tribune took a look at part of the Walia story, but by then it was almost too late.

    The voters have been misinformed about Ed Martin and Sue Lang for two years, why stop now? Oh here's a solution -- maybe if we let Harry Walia in, everything will be nice again.

    As though politics in Venice were ever nice.

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  3. John--
    Thanks for prompt reply. Perhaps we should try to do our part to make politics in Venice more amicable.

    It will be interesting to see what Ed Martin has to say about my proposal.

    And, by the way, Machiavelli advocates keeping your enemies even closer than your friends.

    Mike Dowd

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  4. If Harry Walia needs reconciliation, he needs to stop his lawsuits. Venice cannot hang the change it needs on one person as if Walia is their hero--he is not. He has been despitefully using people and would do so in office. Change can happen without Walia and his money. His "success" in his campaign has more to do with his money. Once they know the other side, they won't be happy.

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