Don Palabraz

Solidarity with whom? / <asmdc.org>

As an extended subsidy to a hotelier was being blessed at city hall, the home of former Anaheim city council hopeful Belal ‘Bill’ Dalati played host to a fundraiser Tuesday evening for current candidate Jordan Brandman. The invitation for the event asked members of the Arab-American community to join Hussam Ayloush, Nahla Kayali and Rashad Al-Dabbagh in support of the Anaheim Union High School District Trustee’s latest campaign. All are prominent players noted for their good work in the city’s unofficial Little Arabia enclave.

Ayloush is the Executive Director of the local Council on American-Islamic Relations; Kayali heads the non-profit Access, which held an event yesterday at Pearson Park in Anaheim for World Refugee Day. As faithful readers will recall, Al-Dabbagh is a young activist involved in the movement to officially designate Little Arabia. So why are all these gada’a people supporting the douche Brandman?

Read more on my latest OC Weekly Navel Gazing Blog post:

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2012/06/jordan_brandman_anaheim.php