Lance “F-bomb” MacLean Goes on Record

After Councilman Lance MacLean was charged in October 2007 with assault and battery on a UCI co-worker, he succeeded in keeping it quiet for a while. In February 2008, a Register reporter discovered court records regarding the October incident and gave the councilman a call. MacLean responded by falsely claiming his middle name is Ralph, not Robert, and he lied about his age. On Feb. 15, 2008, Mission Viejo Councilman Lance Robert MacLean’s assault and battery charges were reported in the Register.

In a well-written and amusing OC Weekly article last week [“Lance MacLean has learned that Mission Viejo’s political players always go for the throat,” Mar. 4], reporter Spencer Kornhaber airs both sides of the story. Kornhaber provides insight about MacLean’s character through the councilman’s own words, spelling out f-bombs and other expletives. The following paragraphs include MacLean’s quotes from the article.

When four UCI policemen wrestled MacLean to the ground and handcuffed him after his attack on a co-worker, his words were quoted in the UCI Police Department crime report, “Get the f--- off me; get the f--- off me.” MacLean in the Mar. 4 article dismisses the police report as “largely a work of fiction.”

MacLean asserts that the recall effort initiated in February 2009, not his behavior leading to assault and battery charges, interrupted his career path following his 2007 departure from UCI. He says, “I’m having a hard time getting a job. Look at all the blog sh-- out there [about me].”

MacLean told Kornhaber about his early days on the council when he first learned the dais is literally bulletproof. MacLean remembers thinking “What the f--- did I get myself into?” MacLean lamented to Kornhaber that he has no life insurance if a Mission Viejo resident decides to murder him. He gave murder as an example of a job-related risk after being asked about bestowing lifetime healthcare benefits on council members for 12 years of part-time service.

Read the OC Weekly article, http://www.ocweekly.com/2009-03-05/news/lance-maclean-mission-viejo/1