Success! I just got an update from Jim Poterfield, of Stop Government Greed, has apparently succeeded in stopping the greedy Orange County Fair Board from taking any more “free” concert tickets! Well done Jim!
Here is Porterfield’s update:
I am sure most of you heard by now that on August 28th, the OC Fair Board reduced their concert ticket allotment to six each. They also seriously reduced the number of admissions and pins and other things they have taken in the past, except for the dinners.
The reason I am writing to all of you is that the FPPC’s (Fair Political Practices Commission) PROPOSED revision of this regulation that allowed the OC Fair Board to take these tickets was recently published. So, it looks like the OC Fair Board will be stripped of all of their personal tickets as they will have to justify in
the future “what governmental or public benefit” was derived by giving away each ticket. It’s not yet a hurrah, but darn close! The FPPC will make their final ruling next Thursday. I hope by sending you all this email I have not jinxed it in anyway. Read more…
Matt/Jubal Cunningham just can’t help himself. The Red County editor had to toss in his two cents after State Senator Lou Correa stuck to his guns by abstaining from voting on the state budget rather than break his pledge to not raise taxes. Here’s what Cunningham had to say about whether Correa will continue to honor his no new taxes pledge:
“If two Senate Reeps go wobbly and follow Schwarzenegger’s lead, the pressure on Lou to break his no-new-taxes pledge will grow even more intense. After all, he’ll be standing between the government hogs and more slop in the trough.”
Wow - talk about an unfortunate choice of words. Cunningham is one of the greedy O.C. Republicans who has admitted to taking “free” O.C. Fair concert tickets last year. And he ate the “free” gourmet food offered to the Fair Board members and their crooked friends. He was also seen at the Fair this year, with a “Willy Wonka” style “golden ticket” Fair pass hanging on a lanyard around his neck. He just can’t help himself! Read more…
Kudos to Jim Porterfield, our friend from “Stop Government Greed.” You may recall that Porterfield filed a complaint with O.C. District Attorney Tony Rackauckas after the O.C. Fair Board refused to let him speak before they voted to allow themselves to take ten O.C. Fair concert tickets each. Prior to being outed by the O.C. Register, the greedy pigs on the O.C. Fair Board used to give themselves up to 26 “free” O.C. Fair concert tickets - to each show!
The O.C. Register found that the greedy board members had given themselves almost a million dollars in “free” concert tickets and “free” gourmet meals - this is money that SHOULD have gone into the public till. Remember that these very same board members just raised prices, again, for next year’s Fair!
So on Thursday, at the Board meeting, the board members finally allowed Porterfield to speak, then they did what their own staff had recommended at their last meeting - they cut their concert ticket allocation to six tickets each. That’s better. But they are STILL going to be eating gourmet meals at public expense. That’s not good - particularly when the public is paying more than ever for THEIR Fair food!
So here’s what Porterfield told the greedy Fair board members, according to the O.C. Register: Read more…
Even when GOP blogger Jon Fleischman tries to be nice to Democrats, he misfires. Fleischman wrote a recent post regarding State Senator Lou Correa, in which he talked up his supposed friendship with Correa, who apparently promised not to vote to raise our taxes. So far Correa is holding firm, even though surely his Senate President, Don Perata, is making life hard for him.
That’s all well and good, but check out this excerpt from Fleischman’s article:
You can tell that Correa has a lot of cache in Orange County, because the table-talk amongst Republicans down here is that Correa won’t go up on any bill that includes the taxes. But I can tell you that there is a resolve here to “take care of business” if he does — meaning the recruiting and funding of a strong anti-tax candidate against Correa in his next run.Read more…
Costa Mesa is a interesting City. For those of us living down the hill in Newport Beach….there is something somewhat distant about it. People in Costa Mesa seem more down to earth…more interested in specifics…more interested in providing a town type atmosphere. It is only a perception, but have you noticed that most Costa Mesa electeds….never move on to greater office. Maybe they do…we just can’t think of any right off hand.
We know we love Wendy Leece….she was on the NMUSD school board. We do know that Katrina Foley is a smart one that knows her stuff and she still seems like a real person. We know former Mayor Gary Monahan now owns a restaurant after starting out as a bartender, being the Mayor for a couple of terms and ya-da-ya-ya-da. We know that Jim Righeimer moved from Fountain Valley with his lovely family. We know that Eric Bever was hand selected by Mayor Alan Mansoor and got in just one cycle. We don’t know a lot of the others running this time: Bill Sneen, Chris McEvoy, Lisa Reedy, Chris Bunyan or Nick Moss. They all seem like nice folks and we will do our best to hear what they have to say. Read more…
“Amid concerns that it may have violated open meeting laws, the Orange County Fair Board has decided to take a second vote on its newly adopted policy limiting each board member to 10 complimentary tickets for each of the summer concerts at the Pacific Amphitheatre. The policy that was approved in June will be temporarily rescinded because a Newport Beach resident who wanted to address the nine-member board was not given an opportunity to speak until after the board voted,” according to the L.A. Times.
Kudos to our friends at “Stop Government Greed” for forcing the OC Fair Board to vote again on their new plan to rip us off by taking “Free” tickets to OC Fair concerts. Read more…
The first thing everyone should know before they read this: I recently found out that I’m a drug addict. I’m going to come ‘clean,’ so to speak, and tell you that I’m, um… not. I’ve been using for almost 9 months now. I didn’t mean to get hooked, but he promised me it would make me feel better, and like an idiot, I believed him. Now I’m having withdrawal symptoms. Thanks a lot, buddy. You’re swell. And I’m going to reveal your game at the end of this article just so everyone knows the danger you pose.
So you probably heard, Dana called McCain a whore the other day. The story was splashed all over Dan C.’s august Liberal OC, which got it from Allan Bartlett’s venerable Powder Blue Report, and Allan evidently saw it live, at one of those CRA tea parties.
So, how can a politician be a whore? It is unheard of (and I have scoured the archives) for anyone to pay a politician for sex! The money always goes the other way, with politicians and sex. I guess it’s always subjective and arguable, but we might call a politician a “whore” when they take what we think is an unreasonable position for the benefit of someone who contributes a lot of money to them, or is likely to offer them future employ, or if they change their positions nonsensically in order to get more votes and power, or if they just generally use their powerful position to get more money than we think is reasonable, or if their rise to power was originally funded by a sugar-daddy or wealthy heiress second wife.
In this case, when Dana called McCain a whore, he was addressing his anti-immigrant faithful on the subject of the imprisoned border guards Ramos and Compean, and referencing McCain’s failure to speak out on their behalf and his general moderation on the immigration issue. Dana evidently considers this a sellout to the “moneyed interests” tearing the GOP away from its (in Dana’s mind) nativist base. Read more…
Here is an update from Jim Porterfield, of “Stop Government Greed,” regarding the ongoing shenanigans of the greedy Orange County Fair Board:
I want to personally thank each of you for your support and concern regarding the OC fair board. Though I had to re-focus on my work, I have still pursued this issue with a vengeance, and luckily things are starting to move in the right direction.
Here is a brief update and request for you to “spread the word” one more time: Read more…
