Melissa Fox for Assembly
What’s Wrong in Sacramento
The sale of the Orange County Fairgrounds is a perfect example of what’s wrong in Sacramento.
It was a deal done in the dead of night, with no public hearings and no public input. Instead, lobbyists and wealthy powerbrokers pushed the sale through with bogus claims that this scheme would really “save the fair.”
The scheme promised to raise far more money than any realistic valuation of the property as it is currently zoned, and this imaginary revenue was then used to create another phony “balanced” budget.
The Fairgrounds sale represents one more tax on Orange County residents. One way or another, we all will pay more if the Orange County Fair is sold, whether it’s to a local government agency, a non-profit, or a developer.
Finally, we’re selling our heritage and our future in a shortsighted scheme that does nothing to solve our real budget problems.
This is the same type of bad decision that’s been made on transportation, on education, and on dozens of other major issues that face California.
Please join me in calling our representatives in Sacramento and telling them to support Assemblyman Jose Solorio’s bill to Derail the Sale.
Assembly Members to Call:
70th AD: Chuck DeVore – 949-863-7070
71st AD: Jeff Miller – 949-598-7171
73rd AD: Diane Harkey – 949-347-7301
Senators to Call:
33rd SD: Mimi Walters – 949-457-7333
34th SD: Lou Correa – 714-558-4400
35th SD: Tom Harman – 714-957-4555
29th SD: Bob Huff – (909) 598-3981
38th SD: Mark Wyland – (949) 489-9838
Stop Backroom Deals!
We need to stop making backroom deals like the scheme to sell the Orange County Fairgrounds, and insist on openness, transparency and the restoration of accountability to our government.
We must Derail the Sale of the Orange County Fairgrounds, but even more, we must change the way the people’s business is done in Sacramento.
Melissa
Yeah, the only reason the fairgrounds is selling is because of the current fair board. Local control isn’t such a bad idea but the way they went about it was horrible. They knowingly took the gamble of letting our fairgrounds go to the highest bidder. They are being investigated for breaking a bunch of laws. Out of fear most members of the non-profit they formed to buy it have bailed out leaving Orange County or Costa Mesa to foot the bill. If they truly wanted local control, they should have gone about it in a more open way. It’s kind of hard to trust them because they have been trying to get rid of the equestrian center. Excuse me? They want to get rid of a tradition that dates back to the beginnings of fairs across America. What’s a fairgrounds without horses and farm animals???
The chickens are coming home to roost!
Sacramento has to pay for the massive amounts welfare, education, and prisons are consuming.
Bye bye OC fair!
She’s hot! Sorry Michelle… moving on…