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Some guy with a worker's comp claim against the L.A. school district emails me that in a desperate plea to push his case, he has registered web domains in the name of county Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, L.A. schools chief Roy Romer and the school district's lawyer in the case. Now he intends to blackmail them. His threat, in his own words:
Gay porn will be uploaded to this site this coming Monday, along with a press release similar to the one below. Every week from now on, another jackass politician in California will be honored with a porn web site. They don't pay my medical bills, so I'll put these sites to work making money for me.
Sure enough, he has stocked RoyRomer.com with pages of not-safe-for-work gay porn. He lies that Romer (whose picture is also there) has a connection to the site. I didn't look everywhere, but he doesn't seem to admit anywhere that it's an unauthorized site. The press release he mentions, titled Former DNC Chair connected to Gay Porn Site, does admit the website is a fake, and explains he is a former student who lost a limb in a campus explosion and has been stuck in worker's comp hell for 10 years. He goes into it in a more G-rated fashion at ZevYaroslavsky.com.