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Top Aide Accuses Anaheim Mayor of Racist Remarks and Workplace Harassment

https://www.californiacitynews.org/2026/09/top-aide-accuses-anaheim-mayor-racist-remarks-and-workplace-harassment.html

The top aide to Anaheim Mayor Ashleigh Aitken has accused her boss of making racist remarks, repeatedly questioning her sexuality, and engaging in workplace harassment.

The allegations were made in a September 11 letter sent to the city attorney by Aitken’s chief of staff, Berenice Ballinas. The four-page letter, signed by Ballinas’ attorney Lawrence Lennemann, seeks mediation with the city ahead of possible litigation.

According to the letter, on multiple occasions, Ballinas drove Aitken home from city functions after the mayor had consumed alcohol. Aitken allegedly said she did “not want her car driven by a dirty Mexican,” the letter states.

Ballinas also claims that Aitken questioned her sexuality in front of a group of people during a visit to Disneyland back in June. According to the letter, Aitken also made derogatory comments about a Disney worker’s perceived sexual orientation and ethnicity, leading at least two Disney employees to complain about the mayor’s behavior.

The letter states that former Anaheim City Manager Jim Vanderpool engaged in similarly inappropriate behavior while he was employed by the city. It further claims that Anaheim officials have retaliated against Ballinas, including by withholding a pay raise that had previously been approved.

Some of the allegations look like they can be verified or falsified by third parties; at least one appears to be she-said--she-said. Relevant or irrelevant, Aitken is up for reelection this year.

orangecrush (33,285 posts)

The Jack Smith hearing is backfiring spectacularly

Reminding everyone of the shit Trump pulled on January 6th.

Letting everyone see how nervous certain GOP members are

https://democraticunderground.com/100221533102

My eyes just rolled into  the next zip code

I wonder if their thought process goes something like, “Trump is planning martial law, because that’s what we would do, because of ‘disinformation’ or something”.

Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Daughter Delivers a Devastating Verdict on Her Mother’s School Experiment

Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Daughter Delivers a Devastating Verdict on Her Mother’s School Experiment

Nikole Hannah-Jones, a leading author behind the infamous 1619 Project and a prominent face of DEI and progressive education politics, has found herself under fire after enrolling her own daughter in a struggling public school, a decision critics say put ideology ahead of her child’s education. Hannah-Jones said she hoped the move would draw attention to the school’s problems and help spur improvement. Instead, the experiment reportedly backfired when her daughter’s education began to suffer, the sort of sacrifice that is much easier to romanticize when it is someone else’s child making it.

Now, the story has become even more damning. Newly surfaced audio reportedly captures Hannah-Jones’s daughter blasting her mother for putting ideology ahead of her education.

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Her 16-year-old daughter, Najya Hannah-Jones, responded that she should not have been expected to sacrifice her own education for a broader political statement.

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“Why? Why? It makes no sense. You're talking about, 'oh, I'm just going to give you the worst just because it's not fair that you...' I didn't ask to be born. All you're supposed to do is just, like, put me in a good school,” Najya Hannah-Jones replied. “Like, oh, well, I didn't want to put you in a great school and have you have advantages over other kids. Isn't that what you want? Isn't that what you want me to have? Is that not a normal thing you want me to have? You don't want me to...”

“You do, though. But you do. You have advantages. You have so many advantages,” her mom said.

Najya countered that a solid education is not just another privilege, but an advantage that shapes nearly everything that follows. Hannah-Jones then argued that her daughter had still managed to reach the same level of academic success as her classmates, an assertion Najya immediately challenged.

“I got through it because... Well, not even, though. Like, I... Everyone last year, I had my grade come out. I remember crying because everyone else's, like, score was so good,” Najya said. “And I was just like, how is it so easy for everyone else but me? So, no, I don't think that I got through it. I think I just tried my hardest.”

“Everyone's not your kid,” she added.

Even guinea-pigged minor daughter "gets" what has drawn so much criticism: NH-J sacrificed her own child in a multi-year stunt aimed to somehow benefit NH-J's ethnic-fantasy tribe.

I stopped by Lowes this past Sunday, and, DAMN it was crowded. Not only that, but I talked with 2 employees and neither one shared their political opinions with me.

0 bongs. Cool story bro.
You should have started it out with "So"   

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