What the Latest No Kings No Show Showed Me

 

In Torrance, California, a large and influential suburb of Los Angeles, the No Kings protests have shown up with frequent vengeance.

From June 14, 2025, to the current election season, registered Democrats, wokesters, progressive leftists, democratic socialists, the full-blown socialists, and the racialist ethno-nationalists have shown up in large numbers to tell the world how much they hate Trump.

They love setting up along the main thoroughfare of the city, standing in front of Torrance City Hall, holding up their banners, calling the President all kinds of evil. Speakers from the main liberal, left-wing, progressive, Berniecrat (you get the idea) clubs throughout the South Bay rally in the main plaza outside of City Hall, urging everyone to vote.

Since last year, the Torrance No Kings protests have been a significant hallmark, gauging the growing resolve of this moment. The numbers of angry protests have rivaled the Black Lives Matter demonstrations and the opposition to COVID-19 health mandates from 2020 to 2021.

Most of the conservative political commentary reviewing the No Kings movement has mocked their self-righteous hypocrisy. These protesters call President Trump a king, but they said nothing when Barack Obama bragged about his phone and pen, and that he was not afraid to use them. They lavished slavish praise on Michelle Obama when she dressed to the nines for White House engagements: “Bow down to the Queen!” they laughed. Of course, they had no problem with senile Joe Biden’s health mandates and repeated efforts to use taxpayer dollars to pay off student loan debt, plus his repeated refusal to secure our border from millions of illegal migrants.

Yet they slam Trump as a wily, overbearing monarch. Of course there’s nothing serious about these protests. If the United States labored under the tyranny of an absolute monarch, they wouldn’t be allowed to protest him in the first place!

The last No Kings protest on October 17^th, 2026, in front of Torrance City Hall had all the markings of a big bust. No Kings turned into a No Show. There was even another planned protest in nearby Hermosa Beach, according to some ads, but one of the protesters in Torrance told me she hadn’t heard about it.

Walking up and down Torrance Blvd. on that Saturday morning, instead of the ten thousand progressive militants (mostly old hippies who missed the memo that the country has long moved past the 1960s), I saw a mere scattering of old woke white liberals standing still and sullen.

I remembered last year the organizers blaring chants on their bullhorns up and down Torrance Blvd. Last year, the sidewalks were teeming with angry liberals demanding the impeachment and removal of Trump while calling for mass confiscation of Elon Musk’s wealth and property. Since Musk’s falling out with the President and his departure from the White House following the DOGE reforms, the No Kings crowds don’t complain about him as much. With less than a month until Election Day, “low energy” was the vibe, and it was a weak one, at that.

This time, despite the lower numbers, the lack of wisdom, nuance, or appreciation for complexity was still considerable. Signs and banners were displaying all kinds of profanity and obscenity, just like before, and there were children present!

I had the opportunity to interview some of the No Kings people, and they didn’t disappoint in terms of the level of imbecility. One guy carried a “No More Stupid Wars” sign. When I asked him about Ukraine, he said he supported that. When I asked his thoughts about World War II, he supported that military effort to stop fascism around the world. When it came to Israel and Gaza, he talked about proportionality. What? War is about defeating the enemy so that they don’t attack you anymore. It’s not tit for tat!

Another discussion about the Democratic bench for the 2028 presidential election was really interesting. I had to ask, since Trump is not on the ballot in 2026, and he won’t be on the ballot in 2028 either. They should be thinking about the future! Strangely enough, the first few that I spoke with didn’t have any strong candidates to consider. How can they not be thinking about 2028? If they hate Trump so much, you would think they would have some candidate to idolize as the solution to all the nation’s ills. I brought Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, and one lady remarked that he would be a great candidate. When I pointed out that the increasing anti-Semitism among Democratic grassroots could frustrate his campaign, another reluctantly agreed. Democrats are divided going into the next presidential election season, which might have explained why fewer people showed up at this No Kings Rally.

That’s good news for Republicans already, since Shapiro is the Democrats’ best bet for 20218.

I talked with a few other No Kings baby boomers, and they are leaning more towards retiring California Governor Gavin Newsom. This is lunacy on a whole new level. They live in California, too, I presume. I asked them how they feel about the homeless issue or the lack of road repair, or the high taxes and fees. They always turn the subject to something else. They prop up their candidate as a great leader, but when disaster or dysfunction defines their tenure, these progressives seem to think that the ideal candidate has no power or responsibility in the matter! One thing these protesters all agreed on: They don’t want Kamala Harris to run again!

In my last interview at the Torrance No Kings protest, I met an elderly couple demanding another impeachment of Donald Trump. Democrats tried twice to remove the guy, and not only did they fail, but Trump bounced back stronger than ever. The two senior Democrats were convinced that the third time would discourage Trump and he would just resign. “Are you prepared for President Vance?” I asked them. They didn’t want to discuss that. From there, they went on and on about trumped-up (pun intended) corruption charges against the President, while I asked them if they were OK with open borders under Joe Biden. We had a pretty civil conversation until the end, when the older man got in my face and told me he didn’t want to be recorded. His wife had to drag him away so that he didn’t cause more trouble.

Such was my experience at the latest No Kings protest: a lot of angry, old liberals who can’t explain or justify their anger with President Trump, who had no clear plans for the future, and, judging by the limited turnout, don’t have a lot of enthusiasm going into November!

The Torrance Democratic Club Becomes "The Arthur Schaper Fan Club"

Jimmy Gow, President of the Torrance Democratic Club,
Can't Get Enough of Arthur Schaper

                                        

When I had the chance, I used to watch "The Big Bang Theory."

One of my favorite episodes focused on Sheldon Cooper's deep rivalry with Wil Wheaton, who routinely ran rings around poor Sheldon.

At one point, Sheldon was so mad, he renamed his bowling team "The Wesley Crushers."

And when Wil Wheaton comes on the scene, he declares:

"Hey Look! They named their team after me!"

And in a way, that is precisely what the Torrance Democratic Club has done.

Of course, just like Sheldon Cooper, they write too much, and think too much, and don't have a real sense of wit or style.

They must really like me, since they insist on wearing my name on their shirts:

What can I say? They are slowly but surely changing the name of their club!

Oh, and it gets better!

Check out this latest REEEEEEEEEEE! from the Torranec Democratic Club President Jimmy Gow:

                                     

They are OBSESSED WITH ME!

Here's the picture/meme:

More people need to learn "Arthur Schaper" logic ...
It's also known as "Telling The Truth."

You really have to pity these people. They don't know how to spell. They are functionally illiterate. Now that they have started a fan club with my name on it, they are more than welcome to hire me as their tutor, too!

Check out the people who liked the post, too:

A grand total of seven people liked Jimmy Gow's post. That is pretty sad. They need to work on building their "Fan Club" numbers.

At any rate, here are the full comments/rants/whining/whinging/reeeeeeee from the Torrance Democratic Club about yours truly:

For those of you who cannot read the comments, here they are:

“Aurther Schapper LOGIC” = if the Southern Poverty Law Center proclaims your organization a hate group, you say, “Nuh-uh, the SPLC is a hate group for calling me a hate group.” And now you know how to play the game called “Aurther Schapper LOGIC” it’s a “fun” waste of time and energy. If you “call him out” for his anti-LGBTQ+ activities, it’s actually YOU that’s bullying him and YOU that hates “the gays” because you are preventing him from saving the sinners. A special target of his attacks is “Drag Queen Story Hour.” Is that why he wanted to be appointed to the Library Commission, so he could ban its non-existence in Torrance? 

Perhaps more “Aurther Schapper LOGIC” is the math he uses to explain that when he ran and lost to Asm. Al Muratsuchi with only 36% of the vote, it was BETTER than the previous guy who lost with 40% because that guy spent a lot of money to lose. 

But the best example of “Aurther Schapper LOGIC” is when he was the President of the local Republican club and because of his own behavior the organization charter was pulled by the LAGOP. But just because he fails to “play well” with those running the party, doesn’t mean he isn’t a true believer in Republican ideology and he will use “Aurther Schapper LOGIC” to twist it so that despite apparent racism in the GOP, HE is the one fighting against slavery by challenging CRT. 

He’s been using “Alternative Facts” way before Kellyanne ever coined the phrase. He currently has about 6 nesting doll type articles about the Torrance Community Group FB page on his blog. But this is nothing new, he’s been blogging about the TorranceDems for over a dozen years now. So much we had shirts* made. He says he lives “rent-free” in our heads, but I think it’s us Democrats who own the real estate beneath his red hat, we obviously were camping out in there long enough that he just had to write about us, over and over again. But that’s just more “Aurther Schapper LOGIC” if he writes about you and YOU reply, somehow you are the ones obsessed with him. It’s only “Aurther Schapper LOGIC.”

I am thrilled that the Torrance Democratic Club is accepting my arguments about the Alabama Hate Group known as "The Southern Poverty Law Center."

I am glad that they are renaming their club after me (little by little).

I am glad that they are accepting real logic, i.e. standing up to LGBT perversion is necessary.

I am certainly glad that they are willing to recognize that the Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group.

Last of all, I can only hope that they learn to spell. It's too bad that they are so uneducated that they do not know how to write or spell properly.

"Look! They named their team after me!"

So, to sum up:

There's "Living in their head rent free."

Then there's "Having the penthouse in their head."

And then there's "Taking over their world."

I think the Torrance Democratic Club has pretty much given me the keys to the city, state, and country in their heads--rent free!

Schaper Derangement Syndrome: President of Torrance Democratic Club Has Shirts With My Name

This is quite a compliment, actually.

Again, I don't know whether to laugh, or laugh out loud and keep laughing at this point.

Beneath Jen "Karen" Graham's Facebook post targeting me in the "Torrance Community Group," Jimmy Gow, the failed city council candidate, the failed former member of the Torrance Social Services Commission, and the current (really ongoing, because no one else wants the job) president of the failed Torrance Democratic Club, had some things to share about me, too!

There's living in people's heads rent free, and there there's having the penthouse! With Jimmy Gow, I think I have the penthouse view of Fifth Avenue.

Check out what he had to share:

Here's a closer view:

And here's one more:

Frankly, I would love to have this shirt. It's a badge of honor for me.

And don't think that this is some isolated novelty. Other people have this shirt, too!

Wow! This is "Schaper Derangement Syndrome" on a whole other level! WOW! I am starting to wonder if this is a cry for help or something. These people really do need counseling, therapy, something! Why would anyone want my name on a T-shirt, and then they would wear it?

Now, Jimmy Gow claims that because I blog about him by name, he has "made it in local Democratic politics".

Does he define "making it" as losing one city council race after another? He was the bottom vote-getter in the 2018 Torrance City Council elections, and he barely eked out of last place in his latest bid for Torrance City Council in the 2022 Torrance City Council elections for District One. (Once again, he did not win.)

Does he define "making it in local Democratic politics" by having every major endorsement from local and county Democratic officials, only to lose one election after another? It's hard to believe but it's true: Gow had endorsements from both Congressmen (Ted Lieu and Maxine Waters); our state assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, who even walked precincts for him!; and LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn.

And Gow still lost! 

Does "making it" include having members of the Torrance Democratic Club shutting out people who want to speak their Congressman, to petition him for a redress of grievances? That happened in 2013. Click here for information about that.

Does "making it" including trespassing on a veterans hall, and associating with progressive minions who spit at veterans, push people to the ground, and steal their property? For more information, click here.

Does "making it" include getting thrown off a commission? Check here for the whole story.

If that is "making it in Democratic politics," then please count me out. I would rather the clubs I joined have their charters revoked or something ... In fact, that's exactly what happened to me! LOL! (See here for more info)

At any rate, Jimmy Gow clearly has a bad case of Schaper Derangement Syndrome, and all I can say is "WINNING!"

Stupid Sales Tax Desperation? Five Mailers in Two Weeks

In the last two weeks, I have received five mailers with different endorsements and scare tactics telling me that I MUST, MUST, MUST support Measure SST, which will raise the city sales tax by half a percent.

If I do not support the sales tax hike, every core and essential service will shut down!

If I do not tax myself more on every purchase I make in the city, then the whole city will go bankrupt!

If I do not add to the inflation already crippling household budgets and forcing people to cut back on essentials, then life as we know it will end and the world will self-combust in a ball of fire!

Blah, blah, blah.

Councilman George Chen rightly denounced these scare tactics.

It's really insulting that the city staff and the city council majority forced the residents to even consider a tax hike, when so many of us are hurting because of the high costs of gas, groceries, and other goods and services.

How tone deaf, how out of touch can people be?

So, let's take a look at the five mailers which have flooded mailboxes throughout the city begging every voter to cough up more of their dwindling financial resources to the city:

Here's the first one I received:

"Every second counts!"

Yes, indeed, every second counts when it comes to emergency care. No one would dispute that. The argument, however, that we must raise the sales tax to ensure that the fire department and the ambulance services remain running is disingenuous at best.

Last month, I had a health emergency and called the fire department. They arrived on scene within two minutes. In fact, there are six fire stations in the city, and they are currently adequately staffed.

Also, there is already a $23 million reserve in the general fund (not $500k, as the Daily Breeze had earlier reported), and that fund is going to increase to $32 million by June, 2022.

We do not need the sales tax increase. No, we do not have to worry about health emergencies going unanswered if the sales tax increase does not pass.

Now, here's two more flyers pressing for the sales tax increase:

The SST committee is relying on LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn to make the pitch for this stupid sales tax? Really?

Who thought that this was a good idea?

Most people have no idea who their supervisor is, representing them in Downtown LA.

Second of all, so what if some other elected official outside of the city wants a sales tax increase? 

This kind of advertisement is a bigger turn-off than a turn-on to support this tax move.

Let's cut through the crap here: Supervisor Hahn simply wanted to put her face on a mailer so that she could promote herself, and she wants to keep in good graces with the public sector unions in the city. She is a union whore, after all, giving the public sector union lobbies everything they want and then some, no matter how much it costs the taxpayers, and no matter whether the citizens get their money's worth for all the spending.

These two flyers were just an insulting waste of time, to put it mildly. Pure political opportunism and sex promotion, nothing more.

Here are two more flyers. The first one tries to appeal to everyone's sense of Torrance as a nice, home-town place where everyone belongs and everyone shares the long-standing history of the city:

Hey, it's a great map! It's a nice, glossy mailer that gets the reader's attention.

But guess what? I still don't want to pay more in sales tax!

Here's another flyer:

Yes, there is that headline "Every penny stays right here to keep in Torrance."

Actually, such a blunt, obvious headline does not inspire confidence. I guess a focus group or another poll indicated that people are more worried now than before about how the money will actually be spent, and whether it will actually stay in the city of Torrance.

The SST committee is not being completely honest here. There is no certainty that the money will be used for police, fire, or paramedics. There are no specific strings attached to the monies to ensure that they go to essential services. In fact, much of the money will likely go to pensions and benefits for retired workers, which means that the money will NOT stay in the city at all!

But regarding the fact that the money will not be earmarked to specific costs, the city will indeed have the full discretion to spend the new tax revenues on anything they want in the city. That does not inspire confidence to support this measure, even if all the money stays in the city.

When the city council was debating this matter, Councilman Mattucci offered to consider this tax measure if the ballot initiative made it absolutely clear that the monies would only be spent on police or fire. For that kind of initiative to pass, however, would have required a two-thirds vote of the residents.

There is no way that two-thirds of the city would support a tax increase, even if the money would be directly tied to specific essential services in the city only.

In fact, when the city council and staff were investigating how to raise revenue via a sales tax increase, they had initially consider a .075 percent sales tax! After polling on that issue, however, they realized that it would not pass. When they considered a .5 percent sales tax, their polling sample resulted in a bare 52% supporting the tax increase. Of course, all of that was before the price of gas doubled and budget-crippling inflation had set in!

This Stupid Sales Tax Committee has tried so many arguments to make their case. They have threatened residents that core services will suffer if they do not vote to tax themselves more. They have asked Supervisor Hahn to endorse the proposal, and they sent two tacky flyers promoting the self-promoting county politician to everyone in the city.

And now they are trying to assure everyone that the money will stay in the city.

Last of all, they have listed a whole bunch of politicians and city staff, retired and current, who endorse this proposal.

Check out the latest flyer that I received, with a whole bunch of  endorsements!

                                                  

I really have to question this kind of logic.

So what if a bunch of former and current city councilmembers, administrative staff, fire chiefs, police chiefs, etc. endorse a sales tax hike? It's not their money.

It's our money they are asking for more of!

And, the current city councilmembers who endorse this SST measure are the same people who approved spending down the general fund reserves over the last SEVEN YEARS! They were fiscally irresponsible. Why should we pick up the tab on their lack of restraint?

But what really caught my attention with this latest flyer is that they repeat names on the list! Did anyone bother to edit this flyer?

Look at these close-up shots of the listed endorsements:

"Street Racing Kills" is listed twice. What does the fight to curb street racing (which is a dangerous practice, to be sure) have to do with raising the sales tax? And why list it twice? Granted, the second list includes the director for the movement, but shouldn't the organization's endorsement alone suffice?

Oh, and the flyer lists Jimmy Gow, the abused President of the Torrance Democratic Club, as an endorser. This is the shameless, self-promotional politics that we got with the two previous flyers propping up Supervisor Hahn. Give me a break!

Oh, and Jimmy Gow is listed twice, too:

So, because a partisan activist who trespassed on a veterans hall, and went with minions who spit at veterans and stole their property -- he is listed twice on a flyer to endorse a sales tax increase?

What was the SST Committee thinking?!

This is desperation, nothing more.

Torrance voters need to reject this Stupid Sales Tax. One flyer after another indicates clear desperation. Frankly, the committee pushing this measure should be ashamed of themselves, considering all the economic challenges that Torrance residents are facing as it is.

The United States is facing a recession. The S and P Index just touched into Bear Market territory this past week.

The price of gas has skyrocketed, and it's only going higher. The price of groceries is going up by 20%, 30%, 40%. Business is slowing for many small business owners, too.

And with this perfect storm of econmic troubles, the city council and staff want to push a sales tax increase? And this increase is not even necessary, and it will only discourage commerce in the city.

Say NO to the Stupid Sales Tax increase.

                         

Torrance City Council Election 2022: The Fight For North Torrance (District One)

 There are two very contentious races in the 2022 Torrance City Council Elections:

1. Torrance City Council, District One

2. Torrance City Treasurer

For this post, I am going to explore the District One contest more closely. 

This is the northern most district, a region of the city which has not gotten as much attention compared to other areas of the city. Based on the number of Title One enrollees at North High School, it's the poorest area of the city. It has seen a higher degree of crime compared to other areas of the city as well.

It's also the most Democratic region of the city, if one is paying attention to the affilation of voters in the area. Of course, I have found that many residents in the city are not as keenly focused on the party affiliation of city council candidates, as much as they focus on

There are four candidates for this seat. Right away, we understand why this fight is so contentious.

Here are the candidates vying for the seat, with their political affiliations and their endorsements

1. Jimmy Gow

Democrat

Endorsements:

Pat Furey: Mayor of Torrance

Al Muratsuchi: Assemblymember representing Torrance

Maxine Waters: Congresswoman representing Torrance

Janice Hahn: LA County Supervisor representing Torrance

2. David Zygielbaum

Democrat

Endorsements:

Torrance Police Officers Association

Torrance Firefighters Association

Pat Furey: Mayor of Torrance

3. David Kartsonis

Republican

Endorsements:

George Nakano - Former California State Assemblyman

Councilwoman Heidi Ann Ashcraft - Torrance Councilwoman; Former TUSD School Board Member Councilman Mike Griffiths - Torrance Councilman 

Frank Scotto - Former Torrance Mayor 

Tom Brewer - Former Torrance Councilman 

Paul Nowatka Former Torrance Councilman 

Maureen O’Donnell - Former Torrance Councilwoman; Former El Camino College Trustee 

Bill Sutherland - Former Torrance Councilman 

Martha Deutch - Former TUSD School Board Member; President of the Torrance Education Foundation Dr. George Mannon - Former TUSD Superintendent 

Ken Brown - Trustee Area 1; Community College Instructor 

Siannah Collado Boutté - Former ECC Trustee, Former ECC ASO President 

Eman Dalili - Former Trustee; Former ECC Student Body President; Gubernatorial Appointee to the California Board of Governors 

Dr. Thomas Fallo - Former El Camino College Superintendant/President 

Brooke Matson - Former Trustee; Current Board Member of the El Camino College Foundation 

John Vargas - Former Trustee 

Matthew Brach - SCROC Governing Board; Palos Verdes Unified School District School Board 

Mark Burton - Former Manhattan Beach Mayor 

Mark Waronek - Lomita City Councilman 

Hugo Rojas - Vice-President, Centinela Valley Unified High School District

4. Jon Kaji

Independent

Endorsements:

Torrance City Councilman George Chen

Torrance City Councilman Aurelio Mattucci

El Camino College Trustee Trisha Murakawa

City of Gardena Mayor Tasha Cerda

City of Gardena Councilman Rodney Tanaka

City of Gardena City Clerk Mina Simenza

Former State Treasurer John Chiang

Former LA County Supervisor Don Knabe

Former LA County Supervisor Michael Antonovich

Former City of LA Councilmembers Jan Perry and David Ryu

Former LA County CEO William Fujioka

Former Chief of Staff, Rep. Steve Kuykendall,  Garrett Ashley

Former City of Torrance Planning Commissioner,  Ray Uchima

Civil rights attorney, Dale Minami, Esq.

Actor and civil rights activist, George Takei

Actor and comedian, Derek Mio

USC Heisman Trophy winner and Super Bowl Champion, Mike Garrett

Los Angeles Laker legend Michael Cooper

PGA Professional Ted Oh

Former SONY Interactive Entertainment Chairman and CEO, Shawn Layden

This race has a diverse split in all the endorsements. That certain will make for an interesting contest come June 7th, 2022.

How does this all break down, though?

Jimmy Gow is clearly the most partisan of the endorsements. He has gotten complete backing from every Democratic machine politician in the region, from Congress to the county to the state assembly. No one should be surprsied, since he remains the president of the Torrance Democratic Club, an institution with a history of shutting down public participation when residents want to confront their locally elected officials.

The last thing that many TOrrance voters want is an outright partisan, based on how elections have fallen for the last several decades in the city of Torrance. What's worse, though, is that Jimmy Gow was recently removed from the commission that he had served on for a number of years: The Social Services Commission.

It's a bitter irony that he servded on that commission, based on his obstreperous behavior during the 2016 President election. His infamously visited the West Carson Veterans Hall in 2016, in which he and other rabid leftists trespassed on the property, spit at veterans, pushed them around, and one of the hateful activists stole the phone from one of the veterans at the hall.

Jimmy Gow should be a clear "No" for any voter in North Torrance. He ran in 2018, when city council seats were still elected at large, and he was the bottom vote-getter. Will his overt connections to the Democratic Party get him into the seat?

Well, Democratic voters in North Torrance have another, more professional choice: LA County Deputy DA David Zygielbaum.

He's much more likeable and approachable. He also has a young family and he currently serves on a commission, having received the unanimous endorsement of the city council at that time. He helped start a Neighborhood Watch in his area, too. Plus the fact that he has endorsed by the two public safety unions in the city, and Zygielbaum is a viable option for partisan voters who want a city councilman with some panache and substance.

However, any candidate who receives Mayor Pat Furey's endorsement should invite considerable suspicious. Pat Furey has been a disgrace, an absolute disaster for the city of Torrance. A bitter partisan with open disdain for his colleagues on the council, a political hack of dubious moral distinction who colluded with a local PAC during the 2014 Torrance City Council elections, Furey is one creepy fellow. Many people in the city have had nothing but disdain for this man, in large part because of his rampant disrespect to voters and speakers in the city council chambers.

And his complete incompetence when it comes to running city council meetings has harmed everyone in the city. He refused to take a stand against outside hate groups which have long disrupted city council meetings. He has refused to take a stance against the relentless borrowing from the city's general fund.

Pat Furey has been a huge disappointment to the city, and anyone whom he endorses is all the more suspect as a result.

Like Zygielbaum, David Kartsonis has a considerable record of public service in the city of Torrance, specifically for North Torrance, and for the general region due to his advocacy and volunteer efforts with El Camino College. In 2020, he ran for a seat on the El Co Board of Trustees, and he even received numerous endorsements from local and county elected officials from across the political spectrum.

Yet he still lost.

He's running for the North Torrance city council seat with a considerable array of endorsements, but many of them are formerly elected officials, not current ones, aside from Torrance City Councilmembers Mike Griffiths and Heide Ashcraft. 

Kartsonis has considerable ties to the area, no doubt, and he does not have a partisan axe to grind. Is he the best pick for the seat?

Then there's Jon Kaji.

He's an Independent, and an independent business owner. He has the endorsement of two Torrance city councilmembers. He has ties to the Torrance business community, certainly. Most of his endorsements are from his activism and his connections with his alma mater USC.

It helps to have someone who is more of an outsider running for the Torrance City Council. As it stands now, two of the city councilmembers--George Chen and Sharon Kalani--never served on city commissioners before. It's worthwhile for voters to send a message to the community that they will give "outsiders" a chance to serve on the city council, as well.

There is one clear distinction which Kaji holds compared to the other three candidates: he is the only candidate who opposes raising the city sales tax. That is a considerable development, and makes him a worthwhile consideration.

Final Reflection

Diverse, divided endorsements, different political backgrounds, distinct records of public service: all these elements make the race for Torrance City Council District One an election for the Torrance history books. How will the voters assess these different candidates? Will the endorsements play any kind of factor? Each nominee has a number of respectable suppporters, and some of them have supporters from the same government agency (Torrance City Council, El Camino College Board of Trustees.)

The professional background of each candidate is something to consider, as well.

How will this race shape up going into June 7th?

WINNING: Abusive Incumbent, Liberal Partisan Shut Out of Torrance Commission

Torrance Democratic Club President Jimmy Gow has been an engaged, enraged partisan in Torrance politics for many years.

Jimmy Gow, Torrance gadfly and abusive partisan

I first learn about this guy in 2013, when he had shut out constituents from a town hall he hosted, which featured our (former) Congressman Henry Waxman in 2013. You can read more about that embarassing event for Mr. Gow here.

Basically, he shut them out of the town hall, even though the Congressman's own office had advertised the event as "Open to the Public." I even called his office the day after residents in Torrance had told me that they were kicked out. Gow had egg on his face, and the article that I wrote went viral throughout the South Bay.

Later on, he got involved with trying to defend corrupt Torrance Mayor Pat Furey's son, Patrick Furey, who was seated on the Torrance Traffic Commission. In 2015, another story broke in the local press that Patrick Furey was involved in yet another slew of ethical campaign violations.

This time, residents in the city, including myself, took the lead and demanded that Pat Jr. resign from the commission. This move made sense, since the city council had taken the initiative to remove another traffic commission, Omar Navarro, on the supposed charge that he had pepper-sprayed a youth in Cudahy. Video footage of the incident indicated that he had not sprayed any spray or hurt anyone. In any case, Navarro resigned from that commission after the city council took steps to initiative review to have him removed from the commission. If they would go after Navarro for spurious reasons, how could they ignore Pat Jr.?

In April 2016, Pat Jr. resigned before the city council took formal steps to remove him. Read about it here. To his notorious shame (but no one's surprise), Jimmy Gow tried to turn Pat Jr's removal into a partisan affair. He attacked me and others in the city for the emails that we had been sending to the Torrance City Council, urging them to remove God. It was very fitting when members of the audience began to boo Mr. Gow's disrespectful comments. It was quite gratifying for me!

In September, 2016, Jimmy Gow, with a group of violent social justice warriors, trespassed on a veterans hall. These agitators pushed people around, the stole the phone of one of the veterans on the property, and they spit at people.

Here's how Jimmy Gow behaved, and how smug he felt about the whole affair.

Here's a video recording the whole altercation. Click here.

To this day, there has been no recompense or correction for Mr. Gow's egregious actions that day.

Then in 2019, Terreah Duke Heitel, a homeless advocate in the city of Torrance, complained to the city council that Mr. Gow had harassed her, pushing her into a corner and greatly threatened her. Mr. Gow has no limits, no capacity to control himself. 

How is it possible that this disrespectful man can remain on any commission in the city of Torrance?

Then came the Torrance City Council Meeting on June 8th 2021. Click here for the segment on the appointments to the Torrance Social Services Commission.

Torrance Mayor Pat Furey nominated two incumbents from the Social Services Commission, which included Jimmy Gow. Strangely and sadly enough, Mike Griffiths also endorsed Gow.

But the other four city councilmembers endorsed two other nominees. They voted down an incumbent for a commission in the city of Torrance, which is pretty telling in itself. That almost never happens. More importantly, though, Gow got shut out!

Jimmy Gow was shut out of his reappointment to the commission! It's about time.

The city of Torrance does not need embittered, destructive, arrrogant, abusive partisans sitting on city commissions. Gow's long history of abusive behavior should never have been rewarded in such a terrible, destructive fashion in the first place.

This is a welcome turnaround in the city of Torrance. For too long, bad actors have gotten away with all kinds of disrespectful actions. It's time that these bad elements meet a proper end.

Torrance Democratic Club: Racism, Wayward RINOs, Sexual Harrasment Issues, And Schaper Derangement Syndrome

The Torrance Daemocratic Club has some terrible skeletons in their closet.

Who would have known? Who would have guessed?

Some of the Torrance Democratic Club members have engaged in some pretty unseemly acts. TDC President Jimmy Gow's tresspassing on a veteran's hall is right there at the top of the list, for example.

We could also mention how he tried to turn the removal of a traffic commissioner into a partisan affair, going after me at the Beach Cities Republicans because we all took the lead to ensure that Patrick Furey Jr. was removed from the commission right away.

And then I received some incredible intel.

The Torrance Democratic Club is now meeting at the Hometown Buffet in Torrance.

And someone was able to find out for what is going on in there!

I have spies everywhere.

I have friends, contacts, fellow conservatives, activists, fighters of all backgrounds who are furious with the illiberal political perversities of Mayor Pat Furey, Tim Goodrich, and Social Services Commissioner Jimmy Gow.

Check out the info that I got about the Torrance Democratic Club at one of their more recent meetings!

First, let's talk about Sue Herbers. She is running for District Four to replace Councilman Milton Herring.

And she was speaking at the Torrance Democratic Club. However, she is a registered Independent, but still ... she was speaking at the Torrance Democratic Club!

According to one source, Herbers is using Patrick Furey Jr. as her campaign consultant. Wow! This is unbelieveable. What kind of folly is this? What is she thinking? This guy has been hit with multiple ethical violations. He was fined by the FPPC, too!

Her biggest pitch to the Torrance Democratic Club? She wants young blood in the Democratic party and on the city council. She needs to run because of all the "right-wingers" on the city council. Wow. Not a very centered, non-partisan lady, is she? And to think that she was the Clerk for the City of Torrance for years.

Then there was Andrew De Block. He is running against Councilman Mike Griffiths.

He is very progressive, of course, since he was the chief of staff for Al Muratsuchi. He has beeen talking a great deal about the homeless issue, and he is on par with housing the homeless as the best solution to the whole crisis.

Then there's Geoff Rizzo. He has turned out to be the biggest disappointment of them all. This guy is supposed to be a registered Republican, and yet he was speaking at the Torrance Democratic Club meeting at Hometown Buffet earlier this month.

Check out this grainy photo op of Rizzo with Gow:

Here are some things that he shared at the latest Torrance Democratic Club Meeting:

He wants to house the homeless in commercial building, and he wants to build showers for them.

According to my source, Rizzo said that "we must progress " on the homeless issue. Really.

Rizzo has been moving to the left for a long time, since he got elected in 2014, and even after that. He had no interest in doing anything about the pension issues when I talked to him. He has spoken out against concealed carry.

Then he shared that the following image was shared with the Torrance City Council:

This is unreal. Shame on the Black Lives Matter Hate Group that has been harassing Torrance City Council and residents. They think that they have a right to punish everyone else because Christopher "Cowboy" Mitchell chose to steal cars and drive around with an air rifle at his feet.

Notice how they have him floating in the sky with his little angel wings, and a marijuana leaf covering his private parts. Really? This is how they do justice to Christopher Mitchell.

Man, I am so tired of this crap. I am so tired of black thugs getting celebrated, when there are plenty of black lives doing good for this country. Many of these black lives do not want to be seen merely for their skin color, either. They are Americans. They may think of themselves as "African Americans" or "Black Americans", but they are Americans, nonetheless.

Christopher "Cowboy" Mitchell was a violent criminal. If BL(D)M has a problem with the DA not pressing charges on the police, then they need to complain to Jackie Lacey. They are wasting their breath screaming at the Torrance City Council

The very notion of this KKK crap and combining it with the police department is really insulting. On top of that, they have a picture of Christopher "Cowboy" Mitchell looking like some kind of angel, and they portray him getting beaten down by four police officers. Give me a break.

Does the Torrance Democratic Club endorse calling the Torrance Police Department "KKK"?

Rizzo did not want the above picture getting out, because he feared that residents might file a FOIA request on the matter. This is quite disturbing. These Anti-Black haters need to exposed for all that they are doing.

And there's more ...

My source then tod me that there is a major lingering problem in the Torrance Democratic Club.

The California Democratic Party is struggling with several sexual harassment issues. During their meeting in November, Jimmy Gow actually laughed about this. He thinks it's funny.

Another guy was attending the meetings, of course.

His name?

John Paul Tabakian.

This is the same guy who has been switching sides for the longest time, trying to find whichever side he thinks will help him win something or gain ground.

During some he meetings, he says nothing.  He just watches.  When the Torrance Democratic Club talks about the harassment issues that are coming to the forefront, Tabakian supports the women being harassed. In one meeting, John Paul was yelling at Jimmy Gow over the sex harassment issues, and he did this in public, in the parking lot in front of Hometown Buffet.

At one point, John Paul Tabakian announced that he did not want to help the club anymore.

Then there's Torrance Unified School Board member Terry Ragins.

Terry Ragins is seated on the far right

Terry Ragins ... she just sits there, says nothing.  She looked scared. According to my source, she did not react or say anything when the discussions turn to the issue.

And guess who else they talk about?

Yours truly.

They talk about Arthur a lot. Schaper Derangement Syndrome is at an all-time high with the Torrance Democratic Club.

Jimmy Gow saiys I am "unhinged". Tabakian actually spoke in my defense: "At least he doesn't fuck kids."

Jimmy Gow calls me "unhinged." Yes. Right, Sure.

True that. Democrats have a much sicker penchant of doing that. Should we be surprised, since they endorse homosexuality, transgenderism, at the rest of the sorry set of sexual deviance into their arty? Say "No" to all sexual perversions. Of course, Tabakian was very likely alluding to Mr. Eric Bauman, the previous chairman of the California Democratic Party who was ousted after numerous allegations of sexual misconduct. Very serious stuff. So serious, that even Governor Gavin Newsom got involved and demanded his ouster.

But as I wrote above, there is a whole slew of sexual misconduct issues plaguing the California Democratic Party.

They make fun of my videos. They also talked about the video where I got arrested. Good times.

They say I'm a Nazi, part of a hate group, Ku Klux Klan. Blah, Blah, Blah. I wish they could be more original when attacking me.

They are suspicious that I might be bringing in a gun. Funny! They were saying that that is why I can't teach kids anymore. Really funny.

Anti-Immigrant

They make fun of Aurelio... they make cub of his Italian voice. What kind of liberal group goes out of its way to make fun of immigrants? Two immigrants sit on the Torrance City Council, and yet the Torrance Democratic Club and the liberals in the surrounding city go out of their way to mock them. It is nothing short of disgusting. They talk a great game about caring about immigrants, but in reality they just want to use them for their own sick, narrowminded benefit.

My source also told me that:

1. The Torrance Democratic Club wants to raise taxes.

2. They want to form a group to destroy the wall.

3. They are afraid of  Sharon Kalani, who is running for Torrance City Council District Four. They actually that she's is a Nazi, too.

Too bad that they don't know their history all that well. The Nazis were progressives, just like them. EEK!

Final Reflection

A good friend of mine took the time to get this information about the Torrance Democratic Club. This little snippet into their inner workings should give people enough of an idea why people like this--especially Jimmy Gow--should not be anywhere near leadership or governing power in the city of Torrance.

Anti-Social, Anti-Veteran Leftist Running for Torrance City Council (Not Tim Goodrich)

I can't believe how desperate the left has become, even in the "Balanced" City of Torrance.

We have two regressive leftists on the city council, Kurt Weideman and Tim Goodrich, who are both committed to shutting down the Torrance refinery.

Now we have Jimmy Gow, the previous President of the Torrance Democratic Club, is running for city council.

He still serves as the chairman of the Social Services Commission, even though he and a bunch of left-wing anti-social in-justice warriors trespassed on a veterans hall, spit at veterans, and stole the phone of one veteran.

Here's the video:

I confronted about him about his disgusting affront against our veterans:

Apparently, Jimmy Gow doesn't like it when someone reminds him of his trespasses!

Torrance Democratic Club President Gets OWNED at Maxine Waters Town Hall

All the Democratic operatives showed up en masse to stand by their Welfare ueen Maxine.

It didn't turn out so well for them.

Check out Jimmy Gow, the President of the Torrance Democratic Club.

He didn't expect to see so many freedom-loving patriots there.

Instead, he faced incredible opposition, especially after I revealed what he and a bunch of hostile SJWs had done at a veterans Hall in West Carson:

We let him have it!

Police him to step away from the center

The crowds that surrounded him gave him more wrath than he could have imagined.

It was a glorious day, seeing liberal loonies getting a taste of their own medicine!

Check out the extended recording of the event below:

At the end of the town hall, Waters had nowhere to go!

She had to face the wrath of the voters, the constituents, the countrymen who want her gone for good!

What a great day it was!

Open Letter to Torrance City Council: Remove Mayor Furey; Remove Jimmy Gow; Investigate WestCal Academy

To the Torrance City Council:

My name is Arthur Schaper.

I am a long-time resident of Torrance, CA.

I have become more alarmed--not less--with the governing decisions of Torrance.

1. There has been no serious consequences following the massive collusion-corruption between Mayor Pat Furey and the McCormick PAC. He should have stepped down or resigned from office by now.

2. The city of Torrance is now moving FORWARD with Community Choice Aggregation -- and the city has appointed Joe Galliani, who has specifically declared that the Torrance Refinery must be shut down. This is irresponsible madness on many levels. CCA is a power grab that will limit the city's power scope while forcing up energy rates.

350 Joe, the Big Green Ho

And Galliani is an activists of dubious repute who has attacked residents in the South Bay who do not adhere to a full-faith belief in "climate change" as a catastrophic necessity which must be dealt with at all costs.

The mayor claims that is not the case, yet why did the city of Torrance move ahead with  participation in the South Bay Clean Power Advisory Committee, which is headed by Joe Galliani?

3. Furey called me a "sicko" because I confronted him and then one of the WestCal Academy operatives who directed violent, abusive protesters to attack a Veterans Hall in West Carson.

Here's the full video of my confrontation with Harry Tsang and then Mayor Pat Furey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_INug7VSP8

EPIC PUBLIC SHAMING: ARTHUR SCHAPER SHOWS HOW WE NEED TO ... www.youtube.com Arthur Schaper: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3axGiyZUvqdDwSibAxACxw/feed Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RealGrindall61-1863184100629464/ Toll Free I...

And here is the post he wrote about me:

4. Jimmy Gow continues to serve as Chairman of the Social Services Commission --why?, especially in connection with his execrable behavior at the Veterans Hall in West Carson.

Here is the video of that incident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ys7d02uM6I

Torrance Democratic Club President Jimmy Gow and Violent ... www.youtube.com Torrance Democratic Club President Jimmy Gow and a group of violent SJWs (Social Justice Warriors) disrupted a private event held by the South Bay Impact Republicans ...

5. WestCal Academy has an increasingly unethical set of connections with it which need to be explored -- and I want an investigation into the Mayor's increasing connection with this program.

I am fully aware that they are taking in illegal aliens and "Training" to be destructive activists who "protest" private events, like the one mentioned above.

Here are the connections which I have already put together:

http://aschaper1.blogspot.com/2016/10/who-else-is-connected-to-la-raza-hate.html

The State of the Union: Who ELSE is Connected to La Raza ... aschaper1.blogspot.com This is wrong! This is outrageous! We have to stand up to this abusive behavior. And who else is connected with this hate? Who else is connected with this abusive cult?

Here is a statement from Latinos Por Trump leader Marco Gutierrez:

http://aschaper1.blogspot.com/2017/03/westcal-fail-continues-latinosfor-trump.html

The State of the Union: WestCal Fail Continues: Latinos ... aschaper1.blogspot.com Latinos Por Trump is the latest group to expose and break away from WestCal Academy. Life is good, and the truth is setting everyone free. I was not kidding when I ...

I have attached the official PDF Press Release from Latinos Por Trump regarding WestCal Academy, to.

6. I am deeply alarmed that the city of Torrance has not official asserted that it is  NOT a sanctuary city. This issue should have been settled by now.

Our local law enforcement must comply with federal immigration laws to the furthest extent feasible.

It sounded as though Mayor Furey was flirting with introducing a resolution for Torrance to become a sanctuary city:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEgH71ut5iA

Is Torrance a Sanctuary City?! Pat Gets MAD!! www.youtube.com

This pattern of abuse, corruption, malfeasance, and dubious behavior must cease!

Thank you.