steve rocco, crazy school board man

Remember Steve Rocco, the seemingly crazy man who somehow got elected to an California school board seat without ever appearing in public? Well, he was sworn into office yesterday, forcing him to make himself known.
And guess what? He’s crazy after all!
With camera shutters whirring, Rocco used his first chance to speak as an elected official to offer a rambling, agitated, five-minute diatribe that summarized his belief that Orange County is controlled by a cabal of corrupt politicians, judges and officials.
In Italian, he paid homage to his late father. Then switching to English, he said, “I am and always have been the anticorruption candidate,” adding later: “We are living in a time of secret organizations, living in a time of corruption and, most of all, living in a time of dictatorships.”
From the outset, Rocco signaled that his would not be the usual tenure. Dressed in black, he never removed his dark sunglasses or ski cap.
Personally, I wonder if he’s the same Californian Steve Rocco who put together this site dedicated to advancing the theory that Andy Kaufman faked his own death. The most recent entries dance around the subject, but provide no real answers. Kaufman and Rocco certainly have similar performance-art overtones.