Final_Judgment

Missing, however, was Marcia Milchiker, my foremost critic on the
SOCCCD board. Although for an entire year she had much to say about me
and about my publisher, including making the patently ridiculous
accusation that we were attempting to "bring back the Nazi Party," she
refused (in ADL fashion) to face me when I came to confront her. Although I
had been the center of bitter public argument at SOCCCD meetings for almost
a year, the board, unfortunately, would not permit me any more than three
minutes to speak (the same amount allotted to other speakers).
However, the entire time I was speaking, Irv Rubin, the head of the
violent Jewish Defense League (JDL), and two equally-repugnant associates
were shouting from the audience, resulting in the police finally expelling
one of Rubin's cronies, a bizarre troll named Barry Krugel.
At one point, in exasperation, I told the board, quite frankly, "There's been
a lot of talk here about 'anti-Semitism,' but if ever there was an argument
in favor of anti-Semitism, it's this self-appointed spokesman for the Jewish
community right here," referring to Rubin.
There was a positive side to this most raucous event, however. The day
afterward, I was invited by Saddleback College journalism professor Lee
Williams to address his class on the college campus. Williams issued the
invitation on behalf of the staff of the college newspaper and I met with the
staff in the newspaper office on the campus where the students posed
thought-provoking questions and exhibited the very type of intellectual
curiosity that the ADL was so determined to suppress.
Not only did the students defy the book banners at the ADL by asking
me to pose for a picture with them, but later they went even further and, as a
group, publicly defied the ADL by coming to the defense of Steve Frogue.
But the ADL-instigated clamor for the destruction of Frogue still
continued. The ADL even managed to contrive a short-lived alliance
between Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez of Orange County and her bitter
foe, former Rep. Bob Dornan, the Republican whom Mrs. Sanchez narrowly
defeated in 1996 and then dispatched into oblivion in the 1998 election.
Both Mrs. Sanchez and Dornan endorsed the recall campaign at the ADL's
behest. However, Mrs. Sanchez back trailed after many of her Hispanic
supporters (who despised Dornan) recoiled at her "deal with the devil."
Despite all this firepower, the ADL's recall scheme crashed and
burned. In the end, on November 12, 1998 the ADL hate-mongers suffered
an embarrassing defeat. The ADL's media-backed 16-month-long campaign
to oust Frogue came to a crashing halt. The Orange County registrar of
voters ruled that a two-dozen member team of petition circulators had fallen
short, having submitted some 13,000 invalid signatures.
The media's coverage of the ADL's Waterloo was interesting. The
Orange County Register's Kimberly Kindy, who had reported the ADL's
campaign against Frogue with particular relish, failed to mention the ADL's
role in the scuttled recall in her notably brief report on the demise of the
recall drive. Instead, Miss Kindy focused on the role of Democratic and
Republican politicians in the effort, never once indicating the ADL had
been the prime mover behind the bungled effort to eviscerate Frogue.