Comments on: Greenhut Gas: 9-20-07 http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/21/greenhut-gas-9-20-07/ Challenging Orange County's right-wing noise machine Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:38:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: La Vida Sofa http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/21/greenhut-gas-9-20-07/comment-page-1/#comment-11166 La Vida Sofa Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:59:04 +0000 http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/21/greenhut-gas-9-20-07/#comment-11166 hmmm... this quote from the Greenhut piece stuck me as odd, "The board has gotten three analyses from outside firms of its legal position — a standard practice as anyone considers legal strategy. All three opinions are protected by attorney-client privilege. The first, by a firm that specializes in municipal bond work, counseled against the strategy. The second argued that that it is a sound constitutional strategy, and the third — which, apparently, ignores the constitutional arguments and looks almost entirely at what pragmatic concerns — is the one that was released to a Register reporter." How did Greenhut know about the legal opinions in the supposedly NON-leaked reports?! hmmm…

this quote from the Greenhut piece stuck me as odd,

“The board has gotten three analyses from outside firms of its legal position — a standard practice as anyone considers legal strategy. All three opinions are protected by attorney-client privilege. The first, by a firm that specializes in municipal bond work, counseled against the strategy. The second argued that that it is a sound constitutional strategy, and the third — which, apparently, ignores the constitutional arguments and looks almost entirely at what pragmatic concerns — is the one that was released to a Register reporter.”

How did Greenhut know about the legal opinions in the supposedly NON-leaked reports?!

]]> By: RHackett http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/21/greenhut-gas-9-20-07/comment-page-1/#comment-11161 RHackett Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:17:43 +0000 http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/21/greenhut-gas-9-20-07/#comment-11161 I thought the commenter <I>Dan</I> hit the nail on the head: <I>Steven your argument defines self serving greed by the dollar amount rather than the act that occurred. Does the dollar amount change the fact that the supervisors increased their own retirement contributions by 33 percent? Especially while claiming to be against pension spiking! I think the title of Peggy Lowe’s article was absolutely on target. Hypocrisy is oozing out of the Hall of Administration.</I> I thought the commenter Dan hit the nail on the head:

Steven your argument defines self serving greed by the dollar amount rather than the act that occurred. Does the dollar amount change the fact that the supervisors increased their own retirement contributions by 33 percent? Especially while claiming to be against pension spiking!

I think the title of Peggy Lowe’s article was absolutely on target. Hypocrisy is oozing out of the Hall of Administration.

]]> By: Dan Chmielewski http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/21/greenhut-gas-9-20-07/comment-page-1/#comment-11158 Dan Chmielewski Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:23:40 +0000 http://www.theliberaloc.com/2007/09/21/greenhut-gas-9-20-07/#comment-11158 IN defense of Steve a bit here; he did praise the Lincoln Club for endorsing her bid for re-election as the right thing for that influential Republican Club to do; and that endorsement makes it harder for the Van Tran Taliban to fund Trung. Janet could be much more proactive in her work with the press. And for our readers, you should know that we do get replies from Steve and Marty Wiskol but for some reason, mail from the Register gets hung in our spam filter. So if there is a delayed response from them, it's our fault it doesn't appear timely or not. IN defense of Steve a bit here; he did praise the Lincoln Club for endorsing her bid for re-election as the right thing for that influential Republican Club to do; and that endorsement makes it harder for the Van Tran Taliban to fund Trung. Janet could be much more proactive in her work with the press.

And for our readers, you should know that we do get replies from Steve and Marty Wiskol but for some reason, mail from the Register gets hung in our spam filter. So if there is a delayed response from them, it’s our fault it doesn’t appear timely or not.

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