Jim Porterfield, a resident of Brea, will be protesting again at the Orange County Fair this Friday and Saturday. Porterfield is upset that the Orange County Fair Board is continuing to get far too many free OC Fair Concert Tickets and they and their political sycophants eat fancy dinners every night at public expense!
If you want to get involved email Porterfield here. You can read more about his efforts to stop government greed at this link.
They're moving along slowly but surely and Check it out - there’s a total of 14,597 ballots left to count,…
No, that fit the tune fine.
(Comment copied from the pre-race post to this more appropriate locale.) https://ocvote.gov/results/whats-left-to-count/total-ballots-left-to-count Registrar's "What's Left to Count" page says: 16,307…
The rule of thumb that red votes come in more quickly than blue ones still stands. As I recall, they…
https://ocvote.gov/results/whats-left-to-count/total-ballots-left-to-count Registrar's "What's Left to Count" page says: 16,307 ballots left to process. (As you'll see, that 16,307 number is…
You know what, Tardif? Your tears are pretty tasty too! Anyway, how are things in Sacramento? I presume that you're…
It's been at least a decade, maybe two, since I've heard that song. I could've done a bit better with…
Florice's physical appearance is very far down on the list of issues we've had with her. Don't say that again…
Maybe. Probably. Tony's 1443 votes ahead of his magic 50% goal, but how many votes will still be trickling in?
Willie the weenie is going to sleep happy. Florice “I look like [entertainment-related reference deleted]” Hoffman not so much.
I continue to hope someone will step inside the Memorial Gardens “back yard” and photograph the political porkers at the trough. Inside the yard, approximately 10 large, round tables have 10-12 chairs each. Anyone who visits the fair during the dinner hour can take the photo. The dinners go on for hours.
Good for Jim Porterfield. It would be nice to see this whole pork-out discontinued.
Art, what’s this post? I thought you had an issue with poor people carrying signs. Don’t you believe the Fair Grounds board deserves some perc’s for working hard to get into positions of prominence?
From the LA times article below …. And yet the pittance paid to the campus service workers (and hospital workers) has the potential to call into question the compensation paid to just such administrators, beginning with the $828,084 a year promised to the university’s incoming president, Mark G. Yudof — a compensation package nearly twice what his predecessor was paid. As it happens, the accelerating concentration of wealth in the United States is a hot academic topic just now. The cover story in the July-August issue of Harvard magazine is “Unequal America: The Growing Gap.”….
O.C. Register, July 15, 2008
UCI smashes fundraising record with $130 million haul
UC Irvine has shattered its previous record for private donations, raising $130 million during the past year, a sumthat includes large, previously unannounced gifts for stem cell research and studying how children use digital media. The donations are $10 million higher than the university’s previous record and will help UCI kick off its first $1 billion fundraising campaign, set to begin on Oct. 4.
LA Times, July 16, 2008
Who’s cleaning up at UC?
The strike by service workers raises questions about administrators’ pay. By Jack Miles July 16, 2008
A single parent living in Riverside County or Orange County needs to earn $24.74 an hour to make ends meet, according to a report released last October by the California Budget Project, a nonpartisan think tank. In a two-parent household, each parent needs to earn at least $17.48 an hour to break even.
But after 10 months of negotiation, $11.50 an hour is the last, best offer the 10-campus University of California has made to 8,500 gardeners, janitors, kitchen workers, parking attendants and the like. In response, their union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, called a five-day strike, which began Monday.