Amusing story about San Diego GOP

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“There were a lot more suspicious characters heading into GOP headquarters than into the (marijuana) collective upstairs. Plus, the collective pays its rent on time, even early.”

Though it's a local story I thought it was interesting enough to post here.

http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-8667-whine-and-chocolates.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. I am sure the City Beat could dig even deeper

I smell a real large rat here.

[Frustratedlady]

2. I'm glad I'm not the only one. If you read some of the posts on Google...

he really smells. Strange.

Sounds like they hired Cheney's shredder truck, as well.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. It smells like the GOP did a few ilegal things

Que surprise?

[Volaris]

4. hahahahaha.....things like this are what happen

when you kick out all of the people who brought some semblance of smarts and good judgement to your party...as the (un)-offical purges continue to happen, this will only get worse, and if you can't run a campaign office correctly, EVENTUALLY, you won't be able to win elections, either. At this point, it will be a slow death, but (pending some kind of Miracle from On-High,) the death of the modern No-Nothing party is inevitable.

[MindPilot]

5. The County Board of Supervisors claim the MM collectives "attract crime"

and are doing everything they can to shut them down, this has a particular Schadenfreude flavor to it.

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6. Tony Krvaric -- why am I not surprised?

This expose by Miriam Raftery first appeared at Raw Story in 2008. There's a lot more here than I can quote, but the short version is that Krvaric's been a time bomb for GOP just waiting to go off.

http://www.retiretonykrvaric.com/san-diego-gop-chairman-co-founded-international-piracy-ring/

Any job applicant knows that background checks are routine – especially for jobs involving authority or oversight of money. So why didn’t the San Diego Republican Party do a simple Google search before naming Tony Krvaric as its chairman?

Online research reveals that Krvaric is the co-founder of Fairlight, a band of software crackers which later evolved into an international video and software piracy group that law enforcement authorities say is among the world’s largest such crime rings. After co-founding Fairlight in Sweden, Krvaric established U.S. operations for the organization, including an arm headquartered in Southern California—a major center for the computer and video game industry. . . .

Krvaric obtained American citizenship in 2003 and joined the Republican Party, which welcomed him as a refutation of “those claiming the GOP is non-accepting and non-inclusive of immigrants.” He made a meteoric rise through Republican party ranks, taking the helm of San Diego’s GOP just three years later. Krvaric “credits the man he succeeds, Ron Nehring with teaching him much about the functions of the Republican Party.”

However, behind this old-fashioned success story lies another and more shadowy version of Krvaric’s life, his time spent as a video game pirate sporting the alias “Strider.” In 1987, Strider and two buddies, using the names “Black Shadow” and “Gollum” founded Fairlight, devoted to “cracking” the copy protection on video games for the Commodore 64 and other early systems and redistributing them to acquaintances through electronic bulletin boards.

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7. He sounds like a good Republican.

And yes, they welcome immigrants... as long as they are white-collar criminals.