Anna Wilding & James Sved Go To The LAPD Over Webworm
As Wilding runs for Congress, she & husband James Sved go to the LAPD with criminal allegations against Webworm.
Hi,
If you’ve been following along, you will be aware that New Zealand born woman Anna Wilding is running for US Congress in California’s 32nd congressional district.
How is a New Zealander able to run for US Congress, I hear you ask? Well, in 2014 she married American man James Sved, following this gushing press release from Wilding announcing “Celebrity Wedding Planned for Christchurch.”
Webworm has been following Wilding’s political run with curiosity, especially when she started accusing running mate Marena Lin of being a “Chinese spy”, seemingly based on Lin's ethnicity and her background in data science. That kind of behaviour saw Wilding lose her one and only major endorsement from California's Progressive Democratic Club.
She also began referencing her husband Sved in her various ramblings: “As my husband was in navy [SIC] and a top secret nuclear program we were both witness to the discovery and ousting of chinese [SIC] spies”.
All this struck me as incredibly fascinating, so I started digging into Sved as well. Like Anna, the American also seemed to enjoy courting the press, in pieces like “Rising Stars: Meet James Sved of Malibu”. Sved also tried his hand at politics back in 2018, running for local council.
All of this was both newsworthy and fascinating, especially when you consider Wilding’s colourful past.
Throughout all of this reporting, I reached out to both Wilding and Sved for comment. It's important in journalism to give people the right of reply. In the past, Anna has mostly responded with rambling “cease and desist” letters (written by her). Sved chose to never reply.
Then things got weird, and very American.
