Ed Kovac

Smollar explains enenies list facts to dispell drivel of Fleming sychophant Erin Kutnick

David Smollar, The Capistrano Dispatch "James Fleming denied for two weeks the existence of any hit list, even though the OC Register had three versions of such a list. He first had Asst. Supt. Susan McGill tell the Register that it must be a list from the Registrar of Voters. (Interesting that he remembered his Registrar list instantly, although he later lied to the OC Register and LA Times that he had ever received that list.) The OC Register then faxed him the first two pages of one version to “refresh his memory.” He still claimed no knowledge of the list, and then said that any such list would have been prepared by me! He had special software ordered to put on my old computer to find the list. (Sorry, Jim, I never had it.) He made available to the media various sycophants in his employ, including Dan Crawford and Jeff Bristow, to say what a miserable, disgruntled employee I was (Hmmm, I worked 4 1/2 years under Fleming, and never received any evaluation, oral or written, complaining about my performance.) The Register, fortunately, had the facts and printed the article. And then a week later—two weeks after first asked about the list—lo and behold the good Dr. Fleming issues reams of paper worthy of Rube Goldberg to explain that the list was all part of a hacking investigation. Of course! Just slipped his mind. How risible! To conduct a hacking probe, you don’t need to compile an extensive list of 150 parent names, including the schools attended by their kids and replete with special notations on 40 of the individuals. And Fleming still hasn’t said who created the list, which he now admits was in his possession. “Journalist” Kutnick conveniently glides over the fact that Fleming ordered me to withhold the list from Kevin Murphy, as well as a memo to Fleming from security director Ed Kovac, despite the fact that they were public documents from files in Fleming’s office."

Kutnick is a columnist for The Capistrano Dispatch. Smollar is the former Director of Communications at Capistrano Unified School District.