Who - Or What - Is "Fontana First"?
Posted by: El Caudillo | 04/29/2008 10:58 PM
Two relatively-sophisticated and well-produced video presentations have recently begun circulating on the internets. The target of the video clips is Fontana's two-term Republican mayor Mark Nuaimi.
The videos were first posted in popular internet website YouTube, where members of the electronic forum are allowed to contribute videos they self-create. YouTube management does not verify indentities of site members who wish to contribute videos for public viewing, and thus, a culture of anonymous members creating videos and posting them for increased awareness has been spawned on their website.
Viewers can easily access and watch hundreds of thousands of video presentations - including the two visual shorts aiming to discredit Mayor Mark Nuaimi.
Not much is known about who or what organization is behind both of the anti-Nuaimi videos which each last no more than four minutes. The YouTube member who created and posted the visual indictment of Mayor Mark Nuaimi's performance as Fontana's directly-elected mayor is only named as "fontanafirst."
An extensive internet and public records search for an organization calling itself fontanafirst or any derivation thereof reveals no such entity prior to the first posting of the videos on Monday April 21, 2008.
See the anti-Nuaimi clips here. One video actually compares Mark Nuami to legendary fictional television character Tony Soprano. (However, you gotta give the producer of the political hit piece entitled "The Mayor Of Fontana" credit for using the music of the pop group Fun Loving Criminals - a rock band most Americans are only familiar with as the outfit that did the theme song to the outstanding HBO series The Sopranos.)
Whoever is creating the anti-Nuaimi films clearly possesses both a heightened level of video savyness and political research. Each of the anti-Nuaimi videos include well-produced graphics, equalized sound and easily readble chyrons that are far more technologically advanced than a mere citizen-activist/political gadfly who has an issue with a municipal politician over an issue who only has the resources of a simple home computer. In watching the short films a viewer can also see the tremendous editing, quick-cuts and research the videos' producers have expended on the anti-Nuaimi project.
So, who is fontanafirst? Or, a better question, who is financing the sophisticated and well-researched effort of the anti-Mark Nuami campaign?
It is unclear at this point exactly who really are Fontana Mayor Mark Nuami's new-found internet opponents. But the campaign against him appears well-coordinated and shockingly well financed.
Who could it be?



Looks like the Baca machine has Nuaimi in it's sights.