Some might recall that nearly a year ago, we reported on a series of local school board actions that resulted in a recall campaign.

Remember? Three right-wing evangelical individuals were elected to the 5-member Temecula Valley board in 2022 with the backing of a local church pastor. The new majority’s first act was to ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory at all of their schools.

CRT is not taught in K-12 schools in California, but that didn’t stop them from outlawing it anyway. Boy, I bet it sure felt good.

Later, the board majority turned the heat up as they rejected a state-approved social studies curriculum solely because it mentioned the life of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay San Francisco City Supervisor whom they labeled a “pedophile”.

And then all H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks broke loose.

A committee was formed to recall the 3 new board members. They launched a petition drive. Midway through that, one of their targets, Danny Gonzalez, stepped down and moved back to Texas. Of the remaining two, only the board president, Joe Komrosky, got tagged for a recall.

Now, you might think this was just another local yawner election in Hicksville, California, and you could have been right. But the Trumps could not leave this one alone.

No, seriously.

On May 22, TFG’s middle son, Eric Trump, smiled his gummy smile for the cameras at the Temecula Stampede, a local venue hired for the purpose of staging a show of support for the beleaguered board member and president. He brought encouraging words to the assembled throng: “I’m sorry you have to live in communism.” He even brought his wife’s botox twin, Alina Habba, to help out. As it turns out, it was Habba that convinced the Trump scion to throw his family’s support to the beleaguered board trustee.

All for naught.

Because yesterday was election day in Temecula Valley Unified School District Trustee Area 4. Joe Komrosky’s area.

The county sent Area 4 voters a total of 21,578 recall ballots last month, and mail-in ballots have been trickling in for a month now. Combined with yesterday’s in-person vote, a total of 7,521 votes were cast, and Komrosky, who had a soccer ref-like system of yellow and red cards to warn and then oust citizen-speakers at school board meetings, got red carded by citizen-voters.

That’s 4,024 Yes votes to 3,491 No votes.

(For folks from non-referendum and recall states, a “Yes” vote is a vote to fire the man’s a-double-scribble.)

What’s a MAGAn to do? I doubt that Alina will be able to drag Eric out for another tilt at another windmill. So far, it has been crickets from the recall target. So I guess it’s up to me to fill in the deafening silence.

IT WAS RIGGED! THE WHOLE THING IS A HOAX! WE WON BIGLY! THERE WERE SUITCASES OF BALLOTS! WHOLE SUITCASES!
(repeat for effect)

What do you do when a bill for half a billion samoleons crosses your gilded desk? Just as much as can do with a retired federal judge looking over your shoulder, apparently.

Retired federal judge Barbara Jones has been tagged with the task of overseeing TFG’s (The Felonious Guy’s) finances since 2022. She has purview over “any transfers above $5 million”.

You can sell anything, just keep it under 5 mil.

So when you sell your 27-year old Cessna Citation X 9-passenger executive jet, and you don’t want to file a report with Judge Jones, you got to keep it under the limit, right?

No problem. All you have to do is sell it to one of your major donors for the fire sale price of $2.5 million, as reported here.

MM Fleet Holdings out of Farmer’s Branch, Texas bought The Felon’s Junior Jet, serial number 750-0023, in March 2024. The buying agent is Mehrdad Moayedi, who is president and CEO of Centurion American Development Group, which has the same Farmer’s Branch address. Like TFG, Moayedi is a real estate developer. Unlike TFG, Moayedi has never declared bankruptcy.

But among Moayedi’s 241 political contributions, he has contributed $245,000 to Trump Victory PAC from 2019 to 2020 and $2,800 times two to the campaign in 2019.

2.5 mil for a Cessna Citation is a pretty sweet deal when you think of it. EVO Jets estimates the value of the jet as somewhere between $9 and $10 million.

I guess it’s just a little odd, though, that the plane is still listed, at this writing, as one of The Felon’s fleet on the Trump Aviation website (scroll to the bottom).