Reply #15: No. It means that he's a rightwing Federalist Society shill, who launched a complaint

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against Kevin Johnson just as the SF mayoral primary season kicked off last year. Walpin pushed hard and loudly for criminal charges during the main campaign season -- but Bush-appointed US Attorney McGregor Scott decided criminal charges would be inappropriate, although Scott did later reach a civil settlement in which Johnson and his group returned some money without admitting wrong-doing. Walpin's complaint was apparently an attempt to create a campaign issue of the form SF won't be able to get Federal money because of the complaint against Johnson. Voters didn't buy that argument last November, and it was finally completely resolved in Johnson's favor in April

I'd bet what happened at the meeting was that Walpin was asked asked some hard questions about what he'd actually been up to and replied "Um ... um ... um ... um ..."