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June 4, 2010June 4, 2010Harry Sidhu

“Jobs, Jobs, Jobs,” Got Lost in Sidhu’s Bermuda Triangle

Harry Sidhu likes to blather on about jobs, jobs, jobs, but maybe he would be well-advised to remember that government shouldn’t be in the jobs business and that lots of things government does destroys jobs. Sidhu should know.

In Anaheim he’s been Curt Pringle’s right hand man in the (over development) of the much lauded, now ghost town like “Platinum Triangle.”

Pringle, Sidhu and Company changed the zoning to benefit the big developer who comes in and clears out lots of businesses who employ people in order to over build monster apartment and condo blocks. Where’s the outrage from Lucy Dunn and the OCBC when their golden boy Curt Pringle led this charge? Who benefited from the loss of jobs, surely not the city of Anaheim.

The fact that Curt Pringle was employed as a lobbyist for Lennar while Lennar was buying up several industrial buildings in the Triangle while Curt and Sidhu were secretly planning to rezone the “Platinum Triangle” does not sit well now that the entire project is a flop, jobs are gone and the property is vacant, or a shit-load of condos are in default. Where’s the outrage Ms. Dunn? Can’t hear you.

If there ever was an example of what not to do in planning and business this is the model project for it.

June 4, 2010Harry Sidhu

A New Sign of the Times

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June 3, 2010June 3, 2010Dead heads

Here’s An Irony: OCEA Heavy Petting Pedo-Perv Kept On Payroll

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The OCEA seems to be fixated on sexual pervs and pedophiles these days. At least they are as it relates to Shawn Nelson’s law practice – that seems to be guilty of having the potential to defend one some day.

A Friend forwarded a rather disgusting story about a creep sicko named Kevin Duane Van Otterloo – an OCEA member and Health Care Agency co-worker of OCEA PAC Treasurer Chris Prevatt, pictured above. The tale was told by the OC Weekly’s Gustavo Arellano back in 2004.

It seems that Van Otterloo was busted for lewd acts perpetrated upon a disabled kid at the County’s Juvie Hall. He plead down the worst felonies but lost his nursing license. Did the County dump this perv? According to Arellano they gave him a $70,000 make-work job in the Animal Care Services Division.

But was there any outrage at OCEA HQ that an admitted pedophile was kept on by the County but was actually promoted? Maybe we will hear back from Nick “Bullhorn” Berardino about any role he and the union may have had in helping Van Otterloo stay on the public payroll. Or maybe Chris Prevatt will chime in on why Van Otterloo got the kid glove treatment instead of being canned.

June 3, 2010Harry Sidhu

Frank Mickadeit on Harry Sidhu

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Today the Register’s Frank Mickadeit penned an interesting column about Harry Sidhu’s desire to drop the county’s pending lawsuit that would eliminate a retroactive union pension spike. The same pension scheme that’s breaking our government.

The lawsuit, by the way, has already been filed and is pending review by the court. And yet Sidhu says “it’s a waste of money to go further”.

A waste of money? Imagine filing a lawsuit, doing discovery and depositions to the point where all that’s left is for a judge to decide if your case has merit to go to trial… and then you decide to drop the lawsuit?

It makes no sense, but that’s what Sidhu wants. And that’s what the unions want, too.

June 3, 2010June 3, 2010Harry Sidhu

Waste And Deception. So What’s New? They’re Unions.

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So far the Orange County public employee unions have spend over a million dollars in this year’s 4th District Supervisor’s election.

Doing what? Calling Shawn Nelson a pedophile supporter; claiming what a virtuous and honorable man Harry Sidhu is. A million bucks.

Lest anybody thinks these goons are going to give up their death grip on the taxpayers without a struggle had better think again. A million times.

Forget issues. They only care about their own selfish interests and Heaven forfend anybody suggests that a County paper shuffler shouldn’t be able to retire at 55 and enjoy most of his pay for rest of his life. Naturally these people are going to do everything they can to distract attention from the main issue of this campaign: unfunded liabilities on the taxpayers caused by public employee union greed and spineless politicians.

And so Hide and Seek Sidhu, carpetbagger and perjurer, the man who doesn’t even know what a defined benefit is suddenly a paragon of virtue; Nelson is an unspeakable monster.

There you have it. Fear and Loathing, and enough to go around.

June 3, 2010June 3, 2010Behind Closed Doors

Criminal Complaint Filed With DA Against Harry Sidhu

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REPUBLISHED 6/4/10

Yesterday a complaint was filed with the District Attorney, Tony Rackaukas, against Harry Sidhu for falsifying public documents when he created a fake residence where he never lived in order to run for 4th District County Supervisor.

How do I know a complaint was filed? Because I’m the one who filed it.

First, take a look at my letter to Mr. Rackaukas.

Now that’s some serious stuff, right? Here are some of my supporting documents.

At the end of December Harry Sidhu re-registered to vote at 2230 West Lincoln Avenue, #106, aka the Calabria Apartments.

Here’s the re-registration form from the end of December, 2009.

One month later Sidhu re-registered yet again, this time to a place called Lucky Way. He cited the Calabria Apartments as his previous dwelling.

The only problem is that Sidhu never lived at the Calabria Apartments. Our investigation revealed that nobody, including the apartment manager and neighbors ever saw Sidhu there; no furniture was ever moved in; that the unit in question appears to have been vacant for a long time; that no leases or receipts exist to document Sidhu’s alleged tenancy.

It’s crystal clear. Harry Sidhu concocted a phony address in order to run for office in the 4th District and he never lived there. That was an outright lie. And he lied again when he changed his registration a second time citing 2230 West Lincoln as his previous address. This is blatant voter fraud and a knowing falsification of public documents.

I have no doubt that some in the political community will want to brush aside this sad, inconvenient truth as inconsequential. Sidhu will no doubt play the victim card like all politicians do when they get caught in a trap created by their own overarching ambition and arrogance.

Was a crime committed? Well, that’s for the DA to decide, or perhaps to lateral the issue to the State Attorney General. You can be sure we’ll keep you informed.

June 2, 2010Harry Sidhu

Republicans Slam Carpetbagging Union Puppet Sidhu

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Today the Republican Party of Orange County trained it’s sights on the incompetent illiterate campaign of Hide-n-Seek Sidhu just like we have been telling you all along. And here’s the piece:

June 2, 2010Orange County Government

IS TOM DALY HIRING ILLEGAL ALIENS?

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That is the question of the day. We have previously reported here that Tom Daly likes to give jobs to relatives or friends of campaign donors. But this hiring takes the “Manager of the Year” to a whole different level. According to department insiders, Tom Daly hired the wife of a City of Anaheim employee who also happens to be a personal friend of Tom’s.

Even during these tough times at the County, Daly has been budgeting at least $200,000 per year for extra-help hires. Despite revenues and workloads being at their lowest levels ever, Daly feels it is more important to keep his friends employed than to protect the interests of the public. Extra-help employees are basically at-will employees and can be let go at anytime.

Not surprisingly, Daly hired his friend’s wife under this category which means no competitive recruitment was held to bring her on board.

Clerk-Recorder employees tell me they are upset because this person speaks very little English. Due to her lack of English skills, this person is given very menial work but is getting paid the same as others who do much more. Word has it this person doesn’t seem to posses any qualifications or skills or even a verifiable high school diploma, the minimum educational threshold for the county, but was even given a raise over all the other extra-help employees in the department. How does this happen? Loophole-finding Tommy boy allows the assignment to expire and then re-hires the person at a higher position thus earning higher wages.

Other extra-help employees have been told by department HR that per County policy they were not entitled to raises.

Even more disturbing is that Assistant Clerk-Recorder Renee Ramirez approached several staff when this person was being hired and asked them “do you know how to hire an illegal alien?”

Is this a liability for the County? Is Tom Daly opening himself to a lawsuit where the taxpayers will have to foot the bill?

This clearly demonstrates that Tom Daly feels he can do no wrong and that no one will hold him accountable. Let’s show this CAREER POLITICIAN that we are watching him and that we will vote him out of office sooner than he thinks.

June 1, 2010Orange County Government

Sticks and Stones and a Protest Too

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I just received this email from the Bill Hunt campaign and I believe it’s worth a post, so here you go:

ATTENTION: CONCERNED CITIZENS OF ORANGE COUNTY !

This is a “Call to Arms!”

WHAT: A peaceful lunchtime Public Protest of political gamesmanship against Bill Hunt for Sheriff by the District Attorney’s Office, SAPD Chief Paul Walters, The Orange County Register, Channel 2/9 news reporter Dave Lopez, Sheriff Candidate Craig Hunter, Sheriff Candidate Sandra Hutchens.

WHEN: Wednesday June 2^nd, from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM

WHERE: In front of the Santa Ana Police Department Headquarters, 60 Civic Center Drive West, Santa Ana , Ca.

WHAT TO BRING: American Flags, posters expressing your thoughts about the recent hatchet job against Bill Hunt in the MSM, Bill Hunt signs.

BACKGROUND: Inside operatives of both the Craig Hunter and Sandra Hutchens campaigns for Sheriff have appeared to join forces in an attempt to falsely discredit Bill Hunt. Hunt was hired as a Private Investigator by a defense attorney on behalf of a client who was arrested as an alleged gang member and accused of committing a crime (P.I.’s are routinely hired by attorneys on both sides of a case to help support or refute the known facts in a legal matter or to bring new facts to light). Hunt conducted a thorough, objective investigation of the circumstances surrounding the arrest based on his two-decades plus, experience in all facets of evidence gathering, apprehension, arrest and prosecution of an alleged criminal. The findings of Hunt’s report concluded the wrong man had been arrested and both the DA’s Office and SAPD leadership were complacent in their zeal to prosecute the case anyway.

If it wasn’t for the fact Bill Hunt is a Candidate for Sheriff this would be a non-issue. However, D.A. Spokeswoman, Susan Schroeder (a staunch Hunter supporter), and SAPD Chief, Paul Walters (a staunch Hutchens supporter), in an attempt to silence and discredit Bill Hunt, employed their contacts in the media – specifically Dave Lopez of Channel 2/9 and the Orange County Register, to “expose” Bill Hunt as supporting gang members and to express “outrage” over this falsehood. Throwing all objective reporting codes of conduct aside, both Lopez of Channel 2/9 and Tony Savedra of the Register gladly acquiesced to the smear campaign, reporting whatever “facts” had been scripted for them by political insiders associated with both of Bill Hunt’s opponents. This resulted in lies and distortions of Hunt’s objective, ethical conduct as a Private Investigator to be presented to the voting public a mere two weeks before the June 8^th Election. This is nothing more than Election Engineering at its worst and a prime example of why we need at a minimum, a wholesale eviction and/or rejection of Establishment Incumbents or Candidates in Orange County .

Please join fellow outraged Citizens who can take time off from lunch to draw attention to this matter and seek redress for the unethical and possible illegal conduct of political insiders in high positions of authority within the law enforcement community of Orange County .

The Constitution matters! Our Bill of Rights matter! Bill Hunt was simply standing up as a principled man and placed the Rule of Law over the “Code of Silence” as he helped an accused man exercise the Fifth Amendment Right to due process and our Sixth Amendment Right to a defense when charged with a crime.

God help us if this kind of conduct is allowed to be reported as a negative attribute of a Candidate running for the highest law enforcement office in the county – the Office of Sheriff.

I’m outraged! Are you?!

Please forward this urgent message to everyone you know and please show up tomorrow!

June 1, 2010June 1, 2010Orange County Government

IS TOM DALY BUYING HIS STAFF’S VOTES?

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We were looking through Clerk-Recorder Tom Daly’s campaign expenditures and stumbled upon a very interesting expenditure or shall we say “more monkey business”. In his statements, Tom listed a $275.37 payment to current Clerk-Recorder employee Rosa Chavez for “refreshments for 80 staff” since he knows they hate both him and his minion Assistant Clerk-Recorder Rene Ramirez.

This payment is very suspicious and it appears that Daly is working his staff for votes. Why would he pay an employee out of his campaign funds for something that was done at his work place? As we all know, campaign activity is to be kept out of your county work place especially if you are the elected official. Someone call Shirley!

The more interesting thing is that since this payment was made to Rosa Chavez, she has been promoted to a supervisory position. Is Tom Daly rewarding Rosa Chavez so she can rally the troops to vote for him? This is a total conflict and disregard for all the rules.

Or perhaps this is a desperate attempt by “Manager of the Year” Tom Daly to win over his staff who is praying that he gets voted out due to his lack of leadership and commitment to the department. After seven years of neglecting his staff and hiring his friends, Tom Daly is now realizing that he has dropped the ball. Like your typical career politician on election year, he is now trying hard to win over a staff that has little respect for him and his assistant Renee Ramirez. Has he acted late? I guess he will know the answer this June 8^th.