Aurelio Mattucci's Huge Win Against Two-Time Loser RINO Dishonest Mike Griffiths

 

I cannot rejoice enough over Councilman Mattucci's major win over former city councilman Mike Griffiths for the Torrance City Treasurer position.

Griffiths has a horrid reputation for lying to people in the city.

In 2018, I wanted him to support a Resolution against the Sanctuary State Law, SB 54. He made a bunch of excuses, stating that he didn't want to bring a "circus" of protesters to the city council.

How ironic that another circus--Black Lives Matter--would show up and shut down city council business for years. But that's another story for another day.

Griffiths said he would not support it. And yet, at the next city council meeting, there was a request for concurrence on a resolution against SB 54. Griffiths voted for it, along with Mattucci and Chen.

Councilman Milton Herring voted against it, along with Rizzo, Furey, and Goodrich, so the request for concurrence failed. Why would Griffiths tell me he opposed it, then went along with it when he had the chance?

This kind of double-dealing became commonplace with this guy.

I have shared before that Griffiths was particularly rude to me--as well as diffident--about supporting a Resolution of No Confidence in George Gascon. How could anyone find this problematic? 

Of course, there was his long of history of arrogance toward the general public. I remember when he attended some of the Beach Cities Republicans meetings, and he would snap back at some of the questions posed by the members.

On the council, once George Chen became mayor, Griffiths would routinely remind the public: "Well, since I am the city councilmember with the most experience ..."

Of course, having experience does not make one an expert. The 15th US President, James Buchanan, had more political experience than most presidents before and after--and yet he's regarded as one of the worst presidents in our nation's history. Experience is not enough. Elected officials have to have class, honesty, and integrity.

Those are characteristics which Griffiths has long lacked.

He ran for Treasurer in 2022, and one would think that as a sitting city councilmember, he would have had the best chance. There were four other candidates, including, at that time, former city councilman Tim Goodrich (who left his seat for career reasons, I guess?). The current treasurer, Dana Cortez, was not showing up to work, and there were two other candidates, including conservative Rick Marshall (who managed to send out a mailer that year, too!)

Goodrich won. Griffiths couldn't beat a former city councilman, one who had quit his job before the end of the term! That is pretty sad. I also remember visiting Griffith's campaign Facebook page, and someone had posted my blog post calling out Griffiths for not wanting to take a stand against Gascon!

After George was elected mayor, Griffiths didn't want to issue a Resolution of No Confidence in the Los Angeles Health Director Barbara Ferrer. His opposition failed, since Sharon Kalani went along with it, and Asam Sheikh abstained (something he does quite a lot on the city council dias).

Griffiths supported tax increases. Griffiths was OK with the Pride Resolution. Griffiths wanted to increase the spending. He was never a true Republican.

Then he ran again for city treasurer.

What kind of support did he muster for his second bid for city-wide office?

Councilman Jeremy Gerson endorsed him, but do you notice anything funny about the photo?

It's AI! You can see the Google Gemini logo in the bottom right corner.

It's fake, just like the persona that Griffiths tried to present to the public over his last two campaigns.

Why didn't Gerson bother to show up for a photo shoot, anyway?

Gerson is a Democrat now, by the way, so that showed where his growing interests lie.

Speaking of Democrats, look who else endorsed Dishonest Mike:

If you can't read the circled section, here's a larger print:

Yes, the liberal Democrat state assemblyman, who thinks it's OK for teachers to keep secrets from parents about their children, who made it easier for sex offenders to avoid the sex-offender registry, who wanted to make it harder to fire pervert teachers, who raised our gas taxes, he endorsed Griffiths.

If this doesn't scream RINO, I don't know what will.

I was stunned when I first saw this, and I had hoped to write something about it, time permitting. What a betrayal! Why would anyone, especially a supposed Republican, promote an endorsement from an abusive Democratic lawmaker like Muratsuchi? The state assemblyman even pushed for his chief of staff, Andrew DeBlock, to run against Griffiths in 2020!

I didn't have the time to go after this perverse endorsement. Getting out the vote for Mattucci was more important. Thankfully, that decision paid off.

Former city councilman and two-time loser for city treasurer, Mike Griffiths, has used the domain name "I Like Mike" for his campaign website ever since he ran for office, starting with the city council in 2014. It's time for him to get the message: No, we don't like him, and it's time for him to move on.

Further Reflection on Torrance's "Pride Month" Resolution Controversy

The news has been spreading throughout the city that Councilwoman Sharon Kalani's perverse attempt to push "Pride Month" in the city of Torrance failed this year.

The usual left-wing and progressive agitators are complaining online, but other Torrance community groups on Facebook are generally pleased.

I didn't have the chance over the last year to sound off another deep concern regarding the whole "Pride Month" push.

Last year, when the city council narrowly adopted the troublesome, unwanted resolution, Jean Adelsman targeted Councilman Mattucci (once again) over his outspoken outrage about the resolution.

Here are his full remarks from the May 7, 2024, Torrance City Council meeting on the "pride" resolution:

               

Here are Adelsman's first statements on Mattucci's "rant":

·       Mattucci and Sheikh were the evening’s disappointments. Several people called Mattucci’s comments a disgrace – Susan Niemeyer referred to it as a rant in her FaceBook post on the meeting.

Who is Susan Niemeyer?

When Chen called on Kalani immediately after Mattucci unleashed his wrath, she was clearly shaken and said, “What can you say after that?”

More people should be as upset as Mattucci was. More on that later. If Councilwoman was Kalani was "clearly shaken" by some strong statements from one of her colleagues, then she is not mayor material.

In the next newsletter, she obsessed over Mattucci's comments further:

A number of readers expressed concern over the subject of Mattucci’s recent rant. If you missed that newsletter, go to www.TakeBackTorrance.com and look at Newsletter No. 50.

He was focused on a survey that he said had asked his 10-year-old son questions of a sexual nature. I didn’t originally raise it because, as District 4’s Sharon Kalani pointed out, Torrance Unified School District has jurisdiction here and the City Council has no role. In other words, Mattucci’s comments were inappropriate.

Every adult should be outraged--not just concerned--about school districts giving students sexually explicit or charged surveys. EVERYONE!

As it turns out, he also misspoke. After being prodded by readers, I researched the issue, and thanks to my TUSD source who steered me to the information I was looking for.

Mattucci was referring to the California Healthy Kids Survey, which is a project of the California Department of Education. The survey’s goal: “Helping schools and communities build positive environments for student success.”

How does asking children if they are non-binary or gay contribute to a positive school environment? Why are adults so determined to push these awful themes on children? Why is pushing destructive behaviors on children "Acceptable"?

Its website adds, “At the heart of the CHKS is a research-based core module that provides valid indicators to promote student engagement and achievement, safety, positive development, health, and overall well-being.” The site also said it is “the largest statewide student survey of resiliency, protective factors, risk behaviors, and school climate in the nation.”

Notice how she did not list the specific, invasive questions that the survey poses to California students. I wonder why she left that out?

Most of California’s school districts participate, and the information is also used by a variety of non-academic agencies. For example, the Volunteer Center, whose board I serve on, uses information from it to improve its youth programs, in particular the Impact Makers (more on that later). As does the Beach Cities Health District’s Allcove program for teens.

Mattucci repeatedly said his 10-year-old son received the questionnaire. The problem: TUSD administers the survey to sixth-graders, which rarely includes a 10-year-old. So, his son was not 10 when he took the survey.

If you would like to learn more about the survey, go to https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/he/at/cefchks.asp.

Notice how Jean Adelsman, and LGBT propagandists in general, do not care about the well-being of children. Notice how they don't take notice, or even break a sweat, over the contents of these abusive materials being pushed on children.

The only thing that Jean cared about was that Aurelio supposedly got his dates mixed up when he mentioned the survey. Earlier this month, he corrected the record yet again and said that indeed, his son did receive the survey according to the times he had mentioned last year. He made no mistake.

Why are liberals so deteremined to push LGBT on kids?

Why are progressives so adamant about celebrating sexual degeneracy as a civil right?

Why do some of these Torrance residents think that the "Balanced City" should start picking identity groups to promote against everyoe else? Why do they want to turn Torrance into West Hollywood of San Francisco?

Breaking News: FPPC Investigation of Aurelio Mattucci Recall Underway

Torrance resident Patsy Okada has filed a complaint with the FPPC in connection with Jean Adelsman's recall effort against Torrance City Councilman and City Treasurer candidate Aurelio Mattucci.

This is a significant development, since the FPPC receives between 1,000 and 2,000 complaints each year. Patsy's complaint was accepted!

I received the following text message from Patsy, which she had received from Bob Habel, one of the Torrance Parks and Recreation Commissioners, who organized the failed recall effort against Torrance City Councilman Jon Kaji:

Here's the full message, if you cannot read the text in the picture:

Thanks [sic] you. The names will not appear in the Breeze because we are just going to scare him into that we are going to recall him. After we gather the necessary signatures, we turn them into the city clerk, she verifies that they are valid. Then we can pay someone to serve him that he is being recalled.That is where it ends. Names and addresses will not appear in the paper. It's not going to go that far. Once he is served, he will know that District 1 people are not happy with him. There is no lawyer with the Kaji recall. I don't know who Jean is using for the Mattucci recall.

So, the Kaji recall effort was a hoax.

What about the Mattucci recall?

Patsy shared the following with me:

My complaint was 99% from Jean Adelsman’s newsletters. But in the newsletters Jean asked for donations for the recall. FPPC jurisdiction is money involved in an election/recall. 

In case anyone has forgotten, Jean Adelsman was one of the key organizers of the Mattucci recall. She asked for donations!

She was the biggest cheerleader, outlining all the reasons why Mattucci "needed" to be recalled.

She did have a considerable role in the recall effort:

A few personal points: I am No. 39 out of the 60. If the recall succeeds, I will not seek the seat. I ran in 2022 because, at that moment, no one else was prepared to oppose Mattucci. Some excellent candidates have already indicated that they would be available to fill the seat in 2024. I am neither chair nor treasurer. I am serving as the committee’s communications director. 

She frequently promoted the donation links for the recall effort, too.

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Was the Mattucci effort just another bluff? If so, why raise money for it? If the circulators had no intention of actually collecting enough signatures to put a recall measure on the ballot, why fundraise?

Pasty shared with me:

I got the financial disclosure for this recall and I used it as an exhibit.  The treasurer of the recall is Evelyn Smith, and Marilyn Bailey is the state measure proponent. Also, Jean was interviewed by the Daily Breeze when the recall ended . The reporter asked her how many signatures were collected, and she wouldn’t answer. I gave that as an exhibit.

I contacted the City Clerk for more information regarding who initiated the recall, and here's what she shared with me:

The legal publication lists Mary A. Bailey, Mathilde F. Terre, and Marla Shwarts.

YIKES!

SAY HIS NAME! Aurelio Mattucci Beats Recall Effort (Where's the Money, Signatures, Jean?!)

The Daily BreezeThe Daily Breeze reported the news last week, but I was getting the updates from key contacts within the city, connected to city hall.

Of course, right after he got the news (May 31, 2024), Mattucci shared the news on his Facebook page:

Jean Adelsman has failed. She was not able to get the requisite number of signatures to recall Councilman Aurelio Mattucci.

She wanted to throw out an entire election because she lost. It's just that simple. She is a sore loser, and she wanted to pass on her bitterness to the city with another costly election.

What's really galling about this whole affair is that Adelsman opposed the recall of derelict LA County District Attorney George Gascon! He should be recalled, since he is deliberately, openly violating his oath of office, breaking the law, and not doing his job.

Councilman Mattucci HAS been doing his job. Is he rough around the edges for some people? Sure. Does he ruffle feathers here and there. Yes, and that is a good thing.

There is too much in Torrance politics that aims for moderation and quiescence. It's time for elected leaders to ask questions and push against the civil service status quo.

That "status quo" approach allowed young hoodlums to terrorize the Del Amo Mall for the last two years. No, a fresh approach to leaner, more effective government in order. Let's not fool ourselves, either on this point: the city of Torrance is not ready for the next economic downturn. The city of Torrance is still top heavy with administrative civil service bloat, and spends too much money.

All of this needs to be fixed, and it is not happening fast enough.

Jean Adelsman clearly had a problem with all of these reforms, or she just couldn't stand the fact that after working as a major opinion maker (supposedly) with the Daily Breeze all these years, she didn't have the pull or the political clout to get elected! After all, she was backed by every establishment interest in the city, Republican and Democrat, people who have gone with the "go with the flow" failed mentality for so long.

Yes, she lost by sixteen votes, a very close race, to be sure, but she lost. And there is no evidence of voter fraud, ballot stuffing, voter suppression, etc. In fact, Adelsman didn't even challenge the results! She was willing to let the whole thing go. Following her loss, she even reached out to Mattucci, asking him to join her for a cup of coffee so that they could discuss city issues going forward. What a betrayal that followed!

Now, the next questions come up, and I would ask Jean Adelsman these questions directly:

1. How much money did you raise for this recall effort? We know that you raised money, so what happened to the money? We want to see the financial records!

2. How many signatures did you actually collect, Jean? In Downey, CA, voters went to great pains, including two recall efforts, to get rid of pro-LGBT felon Catherine Alvarez, and they were not afraid to reveal that they were 34 signatures short on the first round. If you were so close, Jean, TELL US! How many recall signatures did you actually collect?!

Where Are You, Dishonest Jean?

"Recall Mattucci ... PLEASE!
Is anyone out there?"

The Recall against Aurelio Mattucci started January 17th, 2024.

That's what Jean told us.

And ... what?

Did she lie again, as he has a habit of lying about other things?

There have been no canvassers so far in District Five.

There have been no door-knockers asking residents to sign the recall effort.

A number of Torrance residents have shared with me that they have not seen anyone standing in front of the local grocery stores to sign up people to recall Mattucci, either.

Where are you, Jean?

Did you realize that this was a bad idea the moment that you launched this failed effort?

Did you get cold feet once the public, including yours truly, exposed you for lying to District Five residents?

Did residents get cold feet about getting signatures for a a very controversial recall when people realized that you had nothing true to say about the current city council?

Was it the fact that people don't like brazen hypocrisy, since you sent your entire campaign during Election 2022 against recalling George Gascon, then turned around and announced your support for recalling Aurelio Mattucci?

Seriously, Jean?

Aren't you embarrassed at this point?

You have lied enough, and people have had enough of your lies.

You lost, lose gracefully, and just move on.

SAY THEIR NAMES: Torrance Residents who Signed Aurelio Mattucci Recall

So, former reporter/editor/loser candidate Jean Adelsman cannot accept that she lost an election fair and square.

She campaigned against the Recall of LA County DA George Gascon. When she lost her bid for city council in 2022, she pledged not to initiate a recall against Aurelio Mattucci.

Yet here we are today, and Jean is trying to collect signature to put a recall measure on the ballot for District Five voters.

Why does she want to get rid of Aurelio?

Well, we all know it's spite, pure and simple. She is making excuses about the LA Metro and statements from the city councilman to justify removing him from office.

What is really alarming is that there are 60+ people in the district who want him gone. (Or do they? More to follow. Some reports claim that some of the residents below really had no idea what they were signing. Other reports suggest that Jean lied to these voters, claiming that Aurelio wanted to defund the police)

So, who signed off on the initial intent to recall? Jean needed to get 60 signatures, or 60 electors (voters) in Torrance City Council District Five.

She obtained 68 signatures, presumably anyone who initiates a recall has to collect more than the minimum, just in case some of the signatures don't match the names, the addresses, etc.

Here are the pages. For your convenience, I have re-typed the names beneath each page, and for the privacy of each voter, I have blocked out their home addresses.

Mary Bailey

Mathilde Terre

Marla Shwarts

Rita Smith

Justin Smith

Evelyn Smith

Carolyn Snider

Isaac Elisaldez

Perla Mejia

Jim Specht

Pamela Popovich

Judy Ann Brunetti

Anthony William Brunetti

Phylis Sanfield (?)

Mitchell Numark

Wendy Wengrow

Barbara Maxwell (?)

Gerald Maxwell

April Telles

James Montgomery

Gail Rodkin

Jonathan Frey

David Frey 

Janet Hake

Thomas Fallo (?)

Julie Nielsen

Richard Johnson

Patrick Garvey

Haram Castello Branco (?)

Sheila Millman

Joseph Millman

Robert Rauzon

Jennifer Nelson

John Nelson

Deborah Kissell

John Kissell

Jean Kissell

Mary Cilva

Jean Adelsman (of course)

James Power

Nancy Power

Thomas Rasmussen

Natalie Brecher

Hydee Ong

Benjamin Mason

Hannah Mason

Brett Woodridge (?)

Charles Costello

Suli Crank

Francisco Morales

Susan Crank

Melinda Stogsdill

Layton Stogsdill

Dianali Sayb

George Buck

Helen Dennis

Leah Lewis

David Lewis

Anne Moore

Gary Moore

Susan Reuter

Dean Reuter

David Olson

Ruth Stevens

Ronald Perez

Andrea Perez

Seth Alvarez (?)

Amber Maron

There are a couple of names which I could not decipher based on the poor printing of the initial electors who signed the first intent to recall.

If I could not read the names, how could the city clerk?

The partisan breakdown of the names who signed the initial intent to recall is:

56 Democrats

1 Green Party Member

2 No Party Preference

7 Republicans

Why 7 Republicans would sign this recall intent is a mystery, since Aurelio is also a registered Republican.

Dishonest Jean Adelsman Lies Again: Intent to Recall is PUBLIC Info

In Dishonest Jean Adelsma's latest post "Take Back Torrance," (which should be called "Make Torrance Great for Jean"), she asserts that residents can sign recall papers to have Councilman Mattucci put up for a recall vote and ultimately removed from office.

AND she asserts that their signatures will be private.

Here's her statement on her latest blog post:

That is yet another lie from Dishonest Jean Adelsman.

Yes, it is public information.

Yes, your name, address, and signature will be made public.

Yes, all that information is available via public records request.

I filed a Public Records Request with the city, and the clerk provided me all 68 signatures of the people who wanted to initiate a recall vote against Councilman Mattucci.

HERE'S THE FIRST PAGE ...

I have blocked out the addresses of the electors who signed the recall papers, but here are their names and their signatures.

The three people who signed the first page of the intent to recall posted above are:

Mary Bailey

Mathilde Terre

Marla Shwarts

Yes, it is public information, and once again, Dishonest Jean gets exposed for the liar that she is.

UPDATE:

Just in case Jean Adelsman tries to cover her tracks and claim that she NEVER said that anyone, I am posting her entire newsletter from January 17, 2024:

Loser Jean Adelsman: Lying Hypocrite, Sore Loser (Trump Wannabe?)

 

Jean Adelsman ran against incumbent Torrance city councilman Aurelio Mattucci in 2022. She was the liberal candidate who pretended to be "bipartisan." She called herself "purple" on her website.

Of course, she lost. She's not on the city council dias today (thank goodness!)

She attempted to play nice shortly after the election, even reaching out to Aurelio briefly to have coffee with him.

That obviously went nowhere.

But she doesn't want to go away ...

Here we are now. Jean wants to recall Aurelio ... and Jon Kaji, too?

Why, now?

She and other wagging tongues in town say that it's due to Kaji and Mattuci's opposition to extending the LA Metro into Torrance. But let's get serious about this: they don't like the fact that a more conservative, a more principled set of politicos is now serving the city on the city council.

That bothers them.

They don't like the fact that the current mayor didn't kiss all the brass rings, from commissions to public sector unions, to become the next mayor of the city. He didn't go through the usual "Torrance Way" to become the next head of state for the city.

The same thing applies to Kaji, of course. He didn't kiss rings and glad-hand the "Good Ol' Boys" in Torrance in order to get elected. That bothers some people in The Balanced City.

It seems to bother Jean, as well.

But what about Aurelio? Why don't they like him? He did sit on commissions, and he participated in a number of city events. He even took pictures with local Congressmen Henry Waxman and Maxine Waters at one time.

They don't like that he speaks his mind, and that he wants--and gets--results. He has certainly disrupted business as usual, and he does not "play nice" with some people.

All of these reasons are not reasons at all. They are embittered excuses from sore losers who don't like the fact that creeping liberalism, and big-spending wastrelism are no longer the order of the day. One can be sure that the local Democratic Party is all over this, too. Jimmy Gow got stomped on--TWICE--after spending time and money and collecting every endorsement from every who's-who in the LA County Democrat zoo. 

He even posted non-stop about me on the Torrance Democratic Club Facebook page last year!

(This photo is one of my favorites!:)

Now, what is it about Jean Adelsman that makes her a lying hypocrite?

One of the voters in District Five made it plain as day:

Jean didn't support the recall of pro-criminal district attorney George Gascon becqause "she didn't believe in recalls." Now she suddenly believes in recalls? Really?

And she says that part of the reason for the recall is that Aurelio and others are opposing the extension of the LA Metro into Torrance. For the record, I confess that I supported this move, and did nothing it would be a big deal to have an extension of the metro rail from Redondo Beach to Torrance. But five years later, and with the rising crime, and the worsening conditions on the LA Metro, the fact that the Board of Supervisors have removed heavy police presence to protect riders on the Metro, and the fact that fewer people are using public transit, I am now inclined to oppose it.

So, Jean wants the LA Metro, she seems so upset about the current council opposing its extension.

And yet ...

Pamela Combar calls out Jean Adelsman for not even showing up to ANY OF THE MEETINGS on the proposed extension!

In short, Jean is making up excuses. She is a lying hypocrite and a sore (liberal) loser who can't stand the fact that she got beat by a stronger candidate who, despite almost every political force against him, prevailed in his re-election bid.

You know, for a lady who hates Trump so much, she is sure starting to sound a like like him,

She lost by a very slim margin in 2022, just as Trump did because of slim margins in key states in 2020.

She is belly-aching about losing, the same way she bellyaches about Trump, who contested his loss in 2020.

She is trying to overturn a legitimate election, and yet she criticizes Trump for doing the same thing regarding Election 2020 (for the record, it do believe that the election was stolen, but a big part of it was his own fault. See here).

She is all in on big government transportation projects, just like Trump.

She is talking about "Take Back Torrance," kind of like how Trump campaigned on "Make America Great Again." But she wants to take us backwards! Does she want Don Wilson to redline housing, too?

She is connecting with the previous Democratic establishment, the same way that Democrats have tried to attach themselves to Trump, who was connected with Democrat politicians for years. She wants to reach out to both sides, all while upsetting the Republican base. Trump wanted to make deals with both sides, he has upset his Republican base, too.

But the big thing is that she is staging an "insurrection" against city hall and trying to remove two duly, lawfully elected people from Torrance city council. It sure sounds like Trump when he shouted "Fight Like Hell!" on January 6th, 2021, but a handul of Antifa miscreants broke windows and assaulted police officers.

Still, the fact that she can't give up complaining aout losing ... yet at the same time she thinks Donald Trump lost and shouldn't complain at all. Wow, how the tables have turned in Torrance!

Torrance City Council Elections 2022: The Lies of Dishonest Jean Adelsman

Here is one more post that I wanted to share. Many people in the city pressed me to show proof that Jean Adelsman, Councilman Aurelio Mattucci's opponent, had lied about him and his term in office.

Well, here you go:

                     

Here's the deal:

Aurelio took donations from a number of business owners and other economic interests in the city.

Why?

Because Aurelio is a fiscal conservative who opposes excessive spending and tax hikes. Every business wants that.

And then there's this post:

                

No, Aurelio did not vote to defund the police. He did not vote to cut funding from the police department. In fact, he followed the recommendations from the chief of police not to fill a select number of positions in order to save the city money and get the general funds back to a healthy reserve again.

So, those are two clear examples of Dishonest Jean's last-minute attacks to take down Councilman Mattucci, and they both failed.

WINNING! Aurelio Mattucci Wins Second Term in Photo-Finish Victory

It's official. It's over.

Councilman Aurelio Mattucci has been re-elected to the Torrance City Council, this time representing District Five.

Here's the report from The Daily Breeze:

Election update 2022: Councilman Aurelio Mattucci narrowlydefeats challenger in Torrance District 5 race

The county registrar certified the election on Friday, July 1. Challenger Jean Adelsman won't request a recount, she said.

Well, that's a relief. It's truly official, and no one can reverse it.

Aurelio Mattucci will remain on the Torrance City Council — and will become District 5’s first elected representative.

The councilman barely edged out challenger Jean Adelsman by 16 votes, 50.11% to 49.89%.

This was the closest race that I have seen in the city of Torrance. I was initialy convinced that Aurelio would enjoy the strongest finish against his opponent. I then pegged George Chen has being able to best Cliff Numark without as much trouble. In all honest, I was more concerned about Jon Kaji as well as Lauren Cotner, since neither one of them were incumbents. 

Of course, everyone now knows that Kaji had the surest victory of the four city council candidates I had supported. It's a considerable victory, and certainly surprised me.

The Los Angeles County registrar’s office announced it had certified the June 7 statewide primary results on Friday evening, July 1, hours after providing its seventh and final post-election update.

An election should not take a month to complete and certify. This dysfunctional process invites suspicion and voter fraud.

Mattucci, reached via phone, called the District 5 race “the most epic election” in Torrance’s history.

I am sure that he went into details, but the newspaper declined to report them. So allow me to share some of the key details about this race:

1. The entire Torrance establishment, the Democratic-Republican uniparty of swamp creatures, special interests, and political dynasties threw all their time and money into defeating Aurelio.

2. Jean Adelsman, Aurelio's unexpected opponent, had served as the Editor-In-Chief for the Daily Breeze. She had considerable influence in the city for decades as a reporter, pushing whatever news, whatever agenda she wanted the readers to take in.

3. Even though Aurelio had received the endorsements of the Torrance Police and Fire Associations, a number of former police chiefs lined up behind Jean Adelsman. Wow would retired police chiefs throw their hat into this fight? Whatever the reasons, it all goes to show contentious and momentous this city council race would be.

Mattucci said he wants to continue working on initiatives such as public safety and homelessness and on keeping the city clean. He said he’s hopeful the money raised from the recent passage of Measure SST, a half-cent sales tax, will go to the right places to enable all that to happen.

It's really striking how most of the candidates who got elected to the city council opposed the sales tax increase. Yet here we are. This outcome just goes to show that voters are not looking at candidates and causes in a "slate-like" mode. They just make the individual decisions on each issue as they see fit.

“We have make sure we don’t go down that dark hole of running in the red,” Mattucci said of having to stave off Torrance’s budget crisis.

But, Muttucci is aware his slim margin of victory is no mandate. He said he plans to reach out to the 3600-some people who didn’t vote for him to learn more about what they want and need.

There have been some rumblings that Aurelio's opponents will launch a recall effort to throw him out. They will have to wait six months after his installation, so at the earliest they can start the process in January 2023. By then, will most voters even care? Will anyone be paying attention? Recall efforts require a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. For local races like city council, recall proponents are almost assured that they have to door-to-door to find the voters to get rid of Mattucci. That is not going to happen.

“I want to reach out to the people who opposed me,” Mattucci said. “What are they looking for and what are the ideas that they have?”

And, he said, Adelsman was a competitor with a lot of character who really cares about the city.

I know that the newly re-elected councilman has to be politick in his comments, but really Jean was a slimeball. She lied repeatedly about the Councilman's votes and his views on issues. She actually claimed that he was bought and owned by the

“I’d like for Jean to be part of that equation,” Mattucci said. “Put the past behind us for the sake Torrance.”

Adelsman, reached by phone, said she was disappointed in the results, but added that she’d still keep working for the betterment of the city.

She really isn't working for the best interests of the city. If she really cared about Torrance, then there was no reason for her to run in the first place. She was another candidate selected by the political establishment because a select group of movers and shakers in the city of Torrance simply do not like Aurelio Mattucci. That is a terrible reason to run for office.

Again, they simply do not like Aurelio. What actions, what results, what decisions, what votes has he made that make him unqualified to sit on the city council?

She won’t request a recount, Adelsman said, calling it a waste of time and money.

Her whole campaign was a waste of time and money. She should have known better than to run in the first place, and the fact that she resorted to so many false, negative ads really ruined her chances. I have followed Torrance politics for about ten years, and I have heard from current and former elected officials that negative campaigning is not very effective in Torrance. Most voters want a clean, quiet, peaceful campaign. They don't want raucous mud-slinging and relentless negativity.

In a recent Facebook post, Adelsman thanked her supporters, wished the new council well and said she would continue to “do as much as I can to make Torrance a better place.”

Mattucci will become the first representative of Torrance’s District 5 as the city completes its switch from at-large to by-district elections.

Final Reflection

This victory is the most vindicating. This victory is the biggest F-U to the political establishment in this town. This victory is the biggest win for everyone who cares about free and fair elections, who cares about honest, dignity, and hard work winning out against lies, cheating, and outright deceit.

I am not as politick as Aurelio was in his comments to the Daily Breeze (and I do not begrudge his desire for comity.) The truth is that Jean Adelsman lied and deceived the voters in the district. She claimed that Mattucci was trying to defund the police. She claimed that Aurelio Mattucci was taking large donations from developers because he planned to sell out the city and bring in massive housing projects. His voting record over the last four years proves otherwise.

Last of all, and one of the first things I shared with people, Jean advertised herself as a bipartisan pol who wanted to make nice with everyone. The truth is that the she was a rugged, partisan liberal who hated Trump supporters. What kind of city councilwoman could she have been if she had such a marked hatred for people who voted for someone she did not like? Jean Adelsman engaged in non-stop negative campaigning, and thankfully enough voters saw through all of it.

This is a big victory for the city of Torrance during the 2022 election cycle, if not the biggest. So glad that Aurelio pulled this off. The fact that it was a close vote makes the win all the more gratifying, since it means that every volunteer's effort to help him win was crucial, essential, necessary. That kind of imput is very satisfying. It's really gratifying for me because I backed another winning horse, along with the two other candidates elected to city council this year. It's even better for me because so many people defamed me and tried to defame Aurelio Mattucci because I supported him, and he bravely supported me in my bid for State Assembly in 2022. I am glad to see that I can have a positive impact in local politics, along with many other concerned and engaged citizens who wanted the best for the city of Torrance.

What else can I say? This is WINNING on a massive scale! I am so glad to live in the city of Torrance!

"Torrance Community Group" Hate: Amy Strauss Josefek Wanted to Target Asian-Americans and Immigrants

The "Torrance Community Group" on Facebook have Schaper Derangement Syndrome.

But their derangement was so bad, that they wanted to defame immigrants in the city of Torrance, too!

Check out what they wanted to do during the Torrance City Council elections earlier this year: 

Amy Strauss Josefek is another hater, and she made the following suggestion:

What about having people outside of eitehr the forums or candidates headquarters with signs that say "endorses racist Arthur Schaper," or something like that??  Maybe iunclude a photo or a quote on the sign.

They wanted to defame the candidates whom I supported for Torrance City Council. They wanted to make it seem as though they are racist.

Of course, it is rank defamation for them to call me racist. I supported Taiwanese-American George Chen for Mayor, Japanese-America Jon Kaji for City Council District One, and Italian-American Aurelio Mattucci for City Council District Five.

Unlike the hateful (mostly white) Karens in the Torrance Community Group, I do not have a problem with a people who do not look like me. In fact, residents in the 99% Hispanic communities of Huntington Park and Cudahy supported my activism, as did the parents in the 80% Hispanic community of Downey, CA. I have never seen any of those hateful men and women in the Torrance Community Group do anything for anyone who did not look like them.

So, who's the racist again?

But I am amazed at the amount of anti-Asian, anti-immigrant rhetoric coming out of these hateful, left-wing harpies and Karens in the "Torrance Community Group". Why do they have a problem with people who do not look like them?

But I really enjoyed the comments which they shared after Amy Josefek's hateful suggestions. Ultra-triggered pro-LGBT Groomer Leah Nora Smith Enciso whined:

The problem is Arthur will target them. I wish I was braver than I am but when he targeted me I was cared to run into him around town.

Oh brother! I laughed out loud (yet again) when I read how triggered Leah Nora Smith-Enciso got.

She was shaming and defaming me, and then she throws a fit when I called her out on it.

These snowlakes love to dish it out, but they can't stand the heat when someone steps up and fights back. (There will be more this post later.)

The most important thing in this post, however, is their insistence in trying to shame and defame immigrants and Asian-Americans in the city of Torrance. This is really disgusting! Isn't this the very "white supremacy" that Black Lives Matter supposedly opposes?!

Again, notice how this Torrance Community Group targets Asian-Americans and immigrants. They target two immigrants, Aurelio Mattucci and George Chen, frequently, and now they want to shame and defame Jon Kaji, too. They all remind me of that violent Long Beach-based Karen who was harassing Asian-Americans in Wilson Park for a few months.

Torrance is better than all of this hate, and I certainly hope that the Torrance Community Group shuts down shortly. They have no business stirring up so much hate in the city of Torrance!

BREAKING: Torrance Community Group in Panic Mode, Members Hide Identity After Exposure for Defaming Local Residents

Well, that didn't take too long.

Today, (June 24th, 2022), members of the "Torrance Community Group" are already panicking because I have exposed their secretive hatefest (and very serious cases of "Schaper Derangement Syndrome") for the public to see.

Check out their latest post:

"A history of being a stalker ..." really?!

I don't whether to laugh or cry at this point. This small cadre of individuals are truly mentally ill, or emotionally immature, or both, or something far worse.

What it all really amounts to, of course, is that they do not like the fact that common-sense residents in the city of Torrance are rising up and fighting back. They do not like the fact that conservatives and constitutionalists generally are not putting up with the social media bullying, hazing, and hating. They simply do not like the fact that everyday citizens are fighting back and giving these hateful leftists a taste of their own medicine.

Check out the comments beneath this post, too:

My  property of "free rent" just got bigger.

This Judd Rose guy comments, "Dude makes himself a public figure."

Funny how he and others can say that, when they have spent much of their time on social media making public comments about me and attack me. They are responsible for making me a public figure, really.

Susan Niemeyer, who promoted hate group "The Southern Poverty Law Center" when she was defaming some of the city councilmembers, says that I am "a complete waste of a person."

They why did she spend time attacking me in the first place? Wouldn't that make her a waste of a person, too? Or at least that she is wasting her time?

There is a price to "Schaper Derangement Syndrome," no doubt, and they are all paying the price. If they just went back to taking care of their own little lives and stopped defaming others who disagree with them, they would not have so much pain and suffering. It's their own fault, and yet one of the core problems with SDS is that they refuse to take responsibility for their thoughts, their feelings, their actions. It's really sad, but in some ways, it's quite funny to see so many people melt down just because I call them out for all the hateful, dishonest things that they write and do.

"Republican" New Majority Betrays Conservatives AGAIN, Endorsed Democrat Against Torrance City Councilman Mattucci

More like "New Permanent Minority"

The so-called "New Majority" is a group of centrist to liberal Republicans trying to improve matters for the center-right in the state of California. The truth is that they are an organization which focused on fiscal issues, and one of their spokesmen claimed that they have no interest in social or cultural issues.

Here's their stance on their website:

New Majority promotes a fiscally responsible philosophy in government and an inclusive mainstream approach towards politics.

Through education and contributions, it seeks to inform its membership and contribute resources to Republican and other philosophically aligned candidates and issues that share its mission.

"Inclusive mainstream" is double-speak for culturally liberal, progressive, or neo-Marxist.

The truth is that they are actually quite liberal on those issues, and they only support Republicans for office in the state of California if they are pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-gun control, etc. One candidate in Torrance was running for a seat on the local college board. He was passed over by the New Majority, and they endorsed the Democrat.

The thing is, though, that on their own website they advertise their push for a "fiscally responsible philosophy in government." How can they support any Democratic candidate in California, then, since the state party platform endorses every big government, quasi-socialist push imaginable?

The Republican Party, in California and across the country, currently exists to serve as the outlet for voters who want a restraint on the state and a restoration of traditional norms and values. The election of Donald Trump via a massive wave of support from Republican voters across the country, including California, confirms this fact.

But the New Majority is not

Sometimes, they do good things. They endorsed David Hadley in his bid for state assembly in 2014 and 2016. He would not have won the 2014 election without their help. It was good to have Hadley in office instead of left-wing, pro-sex offender Al Muratsuchi.

However, the "New Majority" has evinced a growing weakness for embracing the left entirely, even supporting left-wing candidates and other Democratic contenders when there is a Republican running for the same office.

The "New Majority" was supposed to be focused on winning elections for Republicans, right? Then why do they donate time and money to Democrats?

Why did they support a brazen, dishonest liberal like Jean Adelsman instead of Councilman Aurelio Mattucci?

Don't believe me?

Check out this donation to Dishonest Jean's campaign during her failed race for Torrance City Council:

Check the bottom entry, and you will find Gerald Marcil of Rancho Palos Verdes donated $500 to Dishonest Democrat Jean Adelsman.

Gerald, or rather Jerry Marcil, is a member of the New Majority. Click here for more info.

Why is a member of the New Majority committed to taking out a committed, effective conservative in the city of Torrance? How does this advance any good causes for the well-being of the city of Torrance, the state of California, or for the Republican Party?

Why did the New Majority stick their noses into a city council race and try to push out a well-known, effective, and established conservative who has helped other Republicans get elected?

Contact the New Majority, and start demanding answers! Click here.

Call their main office, too: (949) 339-2770

Open Letter to Councilman Herring: Torrance is NOT a Systemically Racist City

Councilman Herring:

I read your editorial published in the Daily Bulletin, entitled "Black Lives Matter, Mr. Mattucci".

I must say that I found the tone and the conclusions of this editorial quite surprising and striking for their serious disregard for facts and evidence.

You claim that "systemic racism that has existed in Torrance since its corporation in 1921."

Would you please explain which systems in the city of Torrance exhibit this racism, and what is your proof of this racism?

Your article did not cite anything specific. In fact, in a city council meeting in 2018, you declared that Torrance could not be a racist city, since the residents had elected you to the city council, and you were the highest vote-getter in the 2016 City Council election.

You assert that "Black Lives Matter is not a terrorist group." However, Black Lives Matter spokesman and activists have talked about taking land from white people in public forums. One of the leaders in New York City stated the following: "If this country doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it." They have claimed that cities with a multi-ethnic heritage like Carson were founded "white supremacy", and in fact I recall that members of Black Lives Matter call you yourself a white supremacist. They have rallied around and then toppled monuments and statues throughout the United States, including memorials for African-American soldiers who fought for their own freedom and their fellow countrymen during the American Civil War. A number of times, BLM protesters have chanted "Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon." These phrases were directed at police officers. These are violent statements, implying perverse threats against police officers.

BLM protests have erupted into riots in many cities across the United States. They have destroyed businesses, homes, attacked police precincts. They have even attacked and murdered other black lives. They have repeatedly intimidated elected officials by disrupting public meetings and preventing other citizens from being heard in these public meetings. I personally have been assaulted and my life threatened by these activists. I must remind you that many of the businesses destroyed in these riots were owned by African-Americans.

Violence, acts of intimidation, destruction of property -- are not these behaviors examples of domestic terrorism?

Mr. Herring, you stated the following in your editorial:

"Mr. Mattucci, when we say that Black lives matter, we are not saying that other lives do not matter."

"We are saying that all lives cannot matter until Black lives matter and receive that same justice."

 All lives matter because they are all endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. The notion that a life matters less because of skin color is antithetical to everything that the United States is founded on. The notion that other lives cannot matter until the lives of one segment of the population matter by receiving the "same justice" is in fact one of the most unjust, racist formulations I have ever read. Justice cannot be a matter of skin color. Justice must be a matter of actions and merits. The very notion that a segment of the population based on skin color has been denied justice because of their skin color requires more rigorous defense than you have provided.

What is your basis for the assertion that black lives are not receiving the same justice as everyone else?

Are you implying that Asian-American lives, which are most often harmed and harassed by black lives, do not matter?

Are you aware that the massive homicide rate in black communities is a result of black-on-black crime?

Are you aware that many black lives are lost because of abortion, and that Planned Parenthood, founded by an embittered racist named Margaret Sanger, deliberately targeted black communities for extermination via abortion?

Are you aware that in predominantly Democrat-run urban areas, most of the black homicides occur?

 Councilman Herring, I have no reason not to take your statements seriously. Precisely for that reason, I found many of your formulations in your editorial to be surprising if not disturbing for their lack of evidence, intellectual rigor, and seriousness. I submit to you that when black lives matter to other black lives, then the import of the larger statement "Black lives matter" will have more integrity. Furthermore, your claim that Torrance is systemically racist is, if I may be so bold, systemically flawed. By what metric can you claim that the city of Torrance is racist?

 Please respond to the questions which I have provided in bold letters above. As a retired city councilman, a pastor, and a retired military official, your reputation and the gravity of your assertions demand a response to the questions I have provided. You all but libeled the city of Torrance and its residents, and such brazen assertions must be challenged.

 Sincerely,

 Arthur Schaper