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CA-04 Republican Terbolizard Arrested for DUI in Grass Valley

Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 07:14:09 AM PDT

Republican Candidate for California's 4th Congressional District Theodore Terbolizard, running to replace retiring, Abramoff scandal encrusted John Doolittle, was arrested early Sunday morning February 10 in Grass Valley on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. http://www.theunion.com/...

Terbolizard, who was pulled over for speeding at 1:43 am near the exit for Grass Valley's famous, historic gold tunneled Empire Mine State Park,  failed his field sobriety assessment and was arrested and taken to jail, where he took a blood test. He was released on his own recognizance later that morning.

"This will not affect my campaign other than giving me publicity," Terbolizard said Sunday afternoon.

No, It's Not the Onion. It's My Congressional District.  Please continue reading...

Republican Terbolizard, who has made several you-tube videos for his CA- 04 campaign describing and actually showing his skiing abilities on the slopes, suddenly seemed to have a klutz attack when accosted after midnight by Grass Valley's intrepid DUI speedtrap squad.

"I did my field sobriety tests on a wet, gravely slope in soft mud," Terbolizard said. "It would have been impossible for a ballerina to do."

From Terbolizard's Livejournal.com page, where he posted a link to the original breaking story in the GV paper:  http://terbolizard.livejournal.com/...

Terbolizard: "I understand your concerns. I'm fine, my vehicle is fine, I was completely coherent throughout the entire process and cooperated fully with the local law enforcement officials. It didn't seem to me that I was a physical liability to operate the vehicle; I did, as the article states, work with the breathalizer and blood test procedure, unaware that I would be at risk of testing greater than the legal blood alcohol limit. It's not like the sort of Lindsay Lohan story or Nicole Ritchie story where I was driving 5mph the wrong way on the freeway with the doors open and a car full of narcotics, it was absolutley nothing like that; no car crash or anything."

(To their credit, many of the livejournal commentors do a better job of emphasizing to Terbolizard why it was an irresponsible, dangerous thing to do than the comments I saw on the regular msm paper. )

While Republican Terbolizard didn't, Thank Whatever Higher Power, have a "car full" of illegal drugs in Grass Valley, ( WTF? with pot the biggest cash crop in Norcal,  insert own witty punchline)  he did have something else very interesting that the cops confiscated... a laptop computer full of campaign information, a camera, and a box containing $10,000 in cash. Which they are not going to give back to him until Tuesday.

Here is Terbolizard's campaign website:  http://terbocongress.org/

Welcome
Thank you for visiting terbocongress.org. I intend to serve in the United States House of Representatives, which requires your help and your economic support. I will be asking the people in Gold Country- and the rest of California's 4th Congressional District- for their vote in the June 3, 2008 Republican primariesDaily discussions regarding my candidacy are taking place on the internet, at places like myspace, youtube and meetup. I invite you to join in the discussions, I'm listening.

Registered Republican      Personal Freedom   Government Restraint    
Greater Understanding
Theodore Terbolizard

Fundraising:
San Francisco Fundraiser Friday Feb 8
Auburn Wed Feb 20
North San Juan Mar 1
"Fight Fire with Snow"  http://www.fightfirewithsnow.com/   (this was an internet fundraiser connected with Ron Paul that they started back in January during the President's Birthday week "We estimate they will need upwards of two million dollars each to win their races. If just 100,000 people to donate $20 to each candidate this holiday season, they can reach their goals. That's just $5 per week as the winter sets in!"

 

Here's the link off this campaign site for the fundraiser he held Feb 1 in Grass Valley
http://terbocongress.org/...  

Grass Valley Fundraiser, Friday, February 1, 2008
Silver Stock Report invites you to attend the first fundraising dinner for national Congressional Candidate Theodore Terbolizard

Partial Speaker List:

Jason Hommel of SilverStockReport.com will discuss silver investments, and answer questions.
Local Ron Paul Presidential Campaign meetup organizers will speak and provide promotional materials, just days before the California Presdential Primary on February 5th. REVOLUTION!   Gold Miners In Banquet Hall, Holiday Inn, Grass Valley, CA  Cost: Dinner $100, Lectures, Free to the public at 7pm.  

The reason I am linking and quoting this information is that I want to emphasize that while the MSM media reports on Mr. Terbolizard are refering to him as a Paleo Libertarian, or as That Congressional Candidate,  he is clearly refering to himself as a REPUBLICAN.
I know the other Republicans in the Primary want to pretend he's not, but he's not one of ours. He's yours. Just be glad he didn't have a hooker in the car with him, because he's not showing a wife on his website and he has all this stuff up on MySpace. http://www.myspace.com/...
And facebook. Requires a login, so we'll skip that one.  
Jason Hommel, the silver speculator speaker mentioned above ? Here's his website.  http://silverstockreport.com/  Click on that link and have a look, see any resemblance? That's his brother.  Theodore Terbolizard was born Theodore Hommel, and changed his name.

Terbolizard is also filed with the FEC as a Republican last November, to run for the CA- 04 seat. Now here is where it gets more interesting.  I've checked, and unless I'm missing something, his statement of candidacy and his statement of organization (forms 1 and 2) are the ONLY things he's filed since November.  There is no financial year end report for 2007, which was due to be filed Jan 15 2008.  There is nothing for this year, either. No monthly reports, nada zip nothing.
I also have done other searches with other sites, trying to find any contributors or records, and am pulling up nothing. This means that either all contributors are flying under the radar by giving donations under $200, or the book keeping is ... lacking.  
Here's the link to Terbolizard's Campaign Committee FEC page. There it sits, all by its lonesome, the single filing.   http://query.nictusa.com/...

Now I'm looking at FEC image 27039564905, page 3,  and it lists Theodore Terbolizard of Cedar Ridge, CA as the Treasurer and the Custodian of Records for the TerboCongress Campaign Committee.  The next page lists the bank depository as Bank of America, 4th Street and Brannan, San Francisco, CA, 94107

Now, if you are Republican Terbolizard, and you were listing your residence as a PO box in Cedar Ridge (that's next to Grass Valley)  for residency, and you're the one man band with this campaign financial stuff, why would you be using a bank in San Franciso as your campaign depository?

In his alternate universe, Terbolizard is a San Francisco based infomercial video spokesperson.

from his myspace profile:
http://groups.myspace.com/...

In his professional career, Ted has worked with advertising agencies to create digital marketing products for some of the world's leading corporations, generally in the technology and entertainment industries. Terbolizard also has extensive experience creating custom promotional materials for small businesses, startups and home-based entrepreneurs. In 2006 Terbolizard was anchorman and producer of an internet-based world news program in association with D7TV.com. In 2007, Terbolizard has been busy as a video producer, voice-over talent or on-camera spokesman. ...

As a musician, Terbo has DJ'd on four continents, released six CDs of original electronic music and been singer, guitarist and songwriter for a number of unsigned rock and roll bands. He has licensed original songs for TV commercials, and CDrom soundtracks he composed in the early 1990s for software and computer manufacturers were printed in excess of ten million copies. In 1992, he was the first person ever to DJ at the then-unknown Burning Man Festival in Gerlach, Nevada; he played to ten miles of empty desert on a Friday afternoon.  

Here's the link to Terbolizard's youtube page for his ... other line of work. "Tedsaidit"
http://www.youtube.com/...

What do YOU want Ted to say?

You can hire tedsaidit.com to:

* promote your product * promote your event * add video to your website * spread your personal message * spread your political opinion * spread your religious view * put your ideas into online video  
Name: Theodore
Age 39'
City: Oakland, California
United States
website http://tedsaidit.com  

If I was going to recommend just one video off of that page to show Terbo Ted's versatility in things besides politics, I'd go for the Sports Illustrated "Blue Bikini World."  Then check out "bibleprophesy."

Terbolizard also has another video website called "tedsaidit" that is not the youtube page but has video links.
WARNING CLICKING THIS LINK MAY AUTOMATICALLY PLAY INFOMERCIAL FOR VACATION CONDO TIMESHARES
http://www.tedsaidit.com/

Terbolizard was running ebay auctions for videos last summer. I checked Terbo's Ebay auctions feedback, and he's a talented video producer, his customers absolutely loved it and gave him 100% positive feedback.

Here's a list of the infomercials he's done, this page loads silently. http://tedsaidit.com/...

Off of that list, check out the 5 Feb 2007 Armageddon dreams, the 12 Mar 2007 YumYum Guide to Dining in San Francisco, the 27 Mar 2007 Enlightened Dating, the 19 April 2007 Matrix diamonds, and the 19 May 2007 Firoozeh Hotel in Mashad, Iran.

Yes, in the Too Weird to Be Believable Category, Republican Candidate and Ron Paul Devotee for CA- 04 Theodore Terbolizard did an informercial for a hotel in Iran in a city with a holy mosque (Eman Reza)  that got bombed in 1994 by the same people involved in the first World Trade Center bombings in NY in 1993, who was also a nephew of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, named Ramzi Yousef.  The Pakistanis caught the first alleged bomber, an associate of Ramzi Yousef.  Khalid Sheik Mohammed is currently being held in Guantanamo bay and is known as the chief planner of 9/11. He was finally charged with murder on Feb 11, 2007, another strange coincidence. You've also heard his name because Bush had him tortured by waterboarding.  http://en.wikipedia.org/...

Terbo spent a night in the Grass Valley slammer. His laptop's hard drive must be piqueing the curiosity of the custodians. Single guy from San Francisco running around CA- 04 in a fast jeep after midnight with a big wad of dough? He's lucky that neocon Repub Doolittle, who's never gotten thru a campaign speech without blaming all of society's ills on San Franciso "liberals,"  didn't have him waterboarded.  No word as to if and when he'll be doing a pitch for the Holiday Inn.  From Cuba.  In a CIA tape.

As I said, it's not the Onion,  It's My Congressional District.  I was going to save these videos, which I found a few months ago, for later in the primary season, for some fun and speculation on to just who and what actually hired Terbolizard to "run" for the CA- 04 seat held currently by Doolittle, (was it Rove, the RNC, the RNCC,  Oller, Ose, or Doolittle?) but it looks like Mr Terbolizard may have gotten himself into a bit of a pickle with the GV Cops having confiscated his laptop and all that cash.  I have always maintained that Ron Paul and the Paulbots were nothing more than some entertaining ways for Republicans to gather cash and then use the money for "soft" PAC donations to other causes. With cash in short supply this year for Republicans, you can't tell me it's unlikely somebody at the bar didn't make a phone call the second he finished his beers and left.

Tags: CA-04, Theodore Terbolizard, John Doolittle, Republicans, Jack Abramoff, Ron Paul, Iran, Mashad, Eman Reza Mosque (all tags) :: Previous Tag Versions

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