If you looked closely you might almost see him…
Here is last February’s deposition of former Irvine mayor, Mr. Sukhee Kang by Anthony Taylor, the lawyer the City of Irvine hired to try to sort out the Great Park mess engineered by Kang, Beth Krom, and their puppeteer, Larry Agran.
The deposition is telling, not because Sukhee can remember much of anything (he can’t), but because the picture it paints of a small-time politician – ambitious and attention-seeking, but totally at the mercy of the bureaucrats who are supposed to put his policy into action.
Over and over again we read the hapless Sukhee explaining how he did, or would have, run off to Irvine’s City Manager to find out what to do in any given circumstance.
At one point Sukhee admits that as mayor they just piled stuff on his desk and he signed it. He also admits that as mayor he executed the Great Park Schematic Design Phase Settlement document that had never been voted on by anybody.
As to the overall Great Park fiasco, he reads like the affable idiot Sergeant Schultz from Hogan’s Heroes who made the line “I know nothing!” famous.
Of the eight years the Great Park promises slowly withered into nothingness, Sukhee has only fond memories – when he remembers anything at all – especially his confidence in his wonderful staff and his consultants – one of whom was laying out big bucks to attend some Korean fundraising event at Sukhee’s behest. Nice.
Some have wondered if Sukhee really is some sort of smart, engaged and hands-on guy, or whether he was just a useful stooge and front man for Larry Agran, the real driving force behind the Great Park disaster. Although it hardly matters, the answer is obviously the latter.
By the way, two of really funny (if unintentionally so) lines in the deposition appear on page 70 in which Sukhee asserts “I am a perfectionist;” and, on page 96 where he describes himself thus: “I am very fiscally prudent.”
Well you’d never know it by the comedy of errors and malfeasance that marked Sukhee’s role in the Great Park debacle.
November 4, 2015 at 7:08 am
So he used the Great Park no-bid PR guy to write political speeches for him? How convenient. Anybody wonder what other political stuff Forde Mollrich was doing?
And the part about Kenny the Printer is hilarious!
November 4, 2015 at 7:09 am
A compulsive liar or a completely empty suit. Take your pick.
November 4, 2015 at 7:10 am
Yes, I know. I was giving him the benefit of the doubt regarding his honesty. And that just leaves a cipher, useless to everybody except “Friends of Larry.”
November 4, 2015 at 9:11 am
What all the fuss about? After reading his deposition, Sukhee will fit in just fine
in Sacramento. He will be among his kind – empty suits & lying sacks.
Face it, the majority of California voters are not interested in truth, fairness, honesty, justice, there are more important things to think about.
November 4, 2015 at 9:20 am
Dat purple drank mess wif yo’ memory, ‘n that ain’t no lie, brutha Sukhee.
November 4, 2015 at 5:39 pm
Can you please explain the “purple drank” thing?
November 4, 2015 at 5:43 pm
Da bomb, baby.
A liddle cough-cough, sem Sprite and a jolly or a gum drop ‘n you got yousef a nice sweet lean, bro.
But Brutha Sukhee got it bad. I tol’ him Suke you gotta go easy on dat sizzurp but he kinnot leave it alone.
November 4, 2015 at 7:19 pm
What are you talking about?
November 4, 2015 at 7:25 pm
Sheet, I hook up Suke wif dj screw back in the day. Suke party like theys no tamarra.
That boy Suke suck up the sizzurp like its goin outta style. boo boom sha. I say Suke yo y’all gettin dopey ‘n sheet. Thass how cum he all bent leff. That boy leanin’ hard.
November 4, 2015 at 5:38 pm
Gee that fellow sure does blend in well with the background. It’s almost as if there’s nobody there.
November 7, 2015 at 11:15 pm
Just went through the McDonald’s drive through backwards and got 6 new Democratic endorsements for my efforts.
By the way, I just want to give a big shout out to Eric Bauman, Chair of the LA County Democratic Party, for his recent endorsement of my campaign and for the lovely birthday card that plays music. I don’t care what anyone says about you, Brother Bauman, you are my hero!
#AddictedToCronyism
November 8, 2015 at 4:55 pm
Actually the funniest part of the deposition was right at the start when he says he’s been deposed once before, but he can’t remember what it was about!!
This clown is either a bad liar or is suffering from vascular dementia. Or is really, really dumb. Or maybe some combination?
The Republicans are going to open up this zero like a ripe peanut.