Yep. The day after former State Senator Joe Dunn addressed the County Board of Supervisors about establishing a mechanism for keeping track of the professional lobbyists who haunt the 5th floor of the Hall of Admin, Matthew Cunningham popped up serially on the “Red County” blog to explain to his readers why the system ain’t broke and […]
Behind Closed Doors
Greenhut Counsels CSPAN on Fullerton’s Pension Problems
In this video from CSPAN’s BookTV, Steven Greenhut talks about his book Plunder!: How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation. Fast forward to 22:20 and listen to Greenhut recount the story of how Shawn Nelson saved Fullerton taxpayers from a secretive retroactive pension spike orchestrated by council RINOs […]
Joe Dunn Proposes Transparency for OC Lobbyists
Former State Senator Joe Dunn has submitted a proposal to the OC Board of Supervisors that would register and track the activities of lobbyists at the County, as reported in the OC Reg by Jennifer Muir. In the article Dunn is careful to point out that his mission is to restore faith in government rather […]
A Good Article, By George!
Although George Will can be stuffy and, well, fat-headed on occasion, there is nothing off the mark about his opinion piece in the Washington Post the other day about the Atlantic Yards eminent domain scandal occurring in Brooklyn, New York. Read it here. Sounds kind of familiar, doesn’t it? Trumped up findings of blight that justify […]
“Fiscal Conservative” Pam Keller Blows More Than $1200 Bucks At Local League Of Cities Meeting
Hoo Boy! So this is how a self-proclaimed fiscal conservative squanders our money. In the fall of 2008 Pam Keller attended the California League of Cities Annual Meeting, a useless agglomeration of bureaucrats and bureaucrat lovin’ electeds who like to micromanage everybody’s life while we pay for it. The event was held at the Hyatt […]
Another Disaster in the Making
How come our electeds don’t seem to be able to grasp simple concepts; why have they no resistance to the bureaucratic sales pitch; why must they obscure their own ignorance in a cloud of asinine nonsense or outright lies? Last Tuesday night the Fullerton City Council/Redevelopment Agency approved the idiotic Richman housing project, a staff-concocted, no-bid, […]
On the Agenda: December 15th, 2009
The Fullerton City Council has just released their agenda for December 15, 2009 and it’s a fat package! Something near and dear to me is baseball so I take a little more interest when the subject shows up on the agenda. Item 2 of the closed session is a conference with the real property negotiator […]
More Fair Follies: Supes Told To Avoid Fair Board
I came across some choice nuggets in a Daily Pilot article about the OC Fair Fiasco. Apparently the DAs office is at least going through the motions: the county district attorney is investigating the activities of the fairgrounds’ board, said Susan Schroeder, public affairs counsel at the D.A.’s office. Well that’s good news – unless your name is […]
You’ve Got To be Joking. Please, Tell Us You’re Joking!
Yesterday a truly weird balloon was lofted over the dismal, cratered landscape of the Red County. It was another one of those the Fair Deal is Dead, I Don’t Care Once way or Another, Privatization is Good blog posts done by Matthew J. Cunningham. But Lo and Behold, he finally got around to actually discussing the […]
Just A Quick Question to The Fringe
Has anyone other than me wondered why neither of the two main partisan blogs in OC – the Liberal OC and Red County have even mentioned the OC Fair scandal a-brewin’? Red seems intent to chatter about all sorts of Fair topics – but not the crooked Foundation itself. Blue doesn’t seem to have posted a […]
More Fair Follies. Dick Ackergate Body Appendage Firmly Trapped in Wringer
Over the week-end we read some interesting things about the surreptitious “Fair Foundation” and their publicly paid lobb….er, consultant, Dick Ackerman. It transpires that the State AG, Jerry Brown has pulled the plug on legal support for the Fair Board, arguing quite reasonably that the Board majority are members of the clandestine Foundation, and that […]
A Blast From The Past?
We got a hold of an invite to a Harry Sidhu for 4th District Supervisor campaign event. It’s hosted by Curt Pringle and it will cost its well-heeled attendees $500 bucks a pop. Here’s the text: Dear Supporter: I have had the great pleasure to work with Harry Sidhu on the Anaheim City Council over […]
Get Rid of The Fair Board
Here is a very good column we came across today by Barbara Venezia. in light of some of the non-conversations we’ve been having here lately with a Fair Board supporter, we thought we’d share it. Venezia: OC Fair Board should be removed BARBARA VENEZIA FOOD FOR THOUGHT Barbara Venezia [email protected] Why isn’t anyone calling for […]
The Fullerton City Council And It’s Trail of Tears to Nowhere
We have almost exhausted ourselves relating the long and troubling story of the Poisoned Park, AKA the Union Pacific Park, a perfect case study in local government overreach, squandered millions, and zero accountability from our “very, very good” City Manager or anybody else for that matter. First the Redevelopment Agency interfered in a private sector transaction; then […]
Red County Blog Still Kicking Up Dust To Obscure OC Fair Monkey Business
Today Red County blogger Matt Cunningham ran true to form, wasting thousands of keystrokes on another weirdly irrelevant post about the OC Fair, once again failing to even mentioning the fact that Fair Board members met in secret to organize a “Foundation” to buy the Fair; that a few days later they voted to hire a “consultant” […]
Is Pam Keller Qualified to Be Mayor?
Yes. At least based on the abilities of those who have preceded her. People like Dick Jones, Don Bankhead, Mike Clesceri, Leland Wilson, etc., etc. Well, you get the point. To use a Harpoon line: a ling cod could do the job. Yes, Friends it’s that time of year, when the largely brain-dead city council selects […]
Bruce Whitaker Sharpens Axe, Eyes Giant Turkey
Here’s a great youtube clip showing Fullerton Friend and Planning Commissioner Bruce Whitaker argue against the ridiculous Richman housing project that intends to provide enormously subsidized houses to people. This “project” has waddled and gobbled along for quite some time, the darling of the Redevelopment staff who conceived, concocted, and cajoled this thing, with their specially selected McSpanish […]
County Counsel Fires Shot Across Fair Board Bow; Will Ackerman Get Hit?
We’ve been tracking the Sell the Fair (To Us) Movement recently and noted that Dick Ackerman had already admitted to being hired by an insider Board cabal whose intent was to get the State to sell the Fair – to themselves. A couple days ago word leaked out that the County had gotten into the act, […]
On the Agenda: November 17th, 2009
The Fullerton City Council has just released their agenda for November 17, 2009. Let’s start off with agenda item #8. At a glance it looks like a little book keeping business. Upon closer inspection it appears that the Feds gave the County a grant for the City to purchase 35 tasers. The proposed cost is […]
Business Ackerwoman and the MWD Board
We have thoroughly and comprehensively debunked the campaign blather about Linda Ackerman being some sort of businesswoman. She’s not, of course. That’s just a lie, and almost as bad as her claim to be living in Fullerton. The sum and substance of her business experience seems to be calling up lobbyists to raise moolah for her […]
