Campbell and board Chairwoman Janet Nguyen are sponsoring an emergency agenda item that calls for transferring Street’s investment authority to county Chief Financial Officer Bob Franz. “We just don’t believe it’s proper to have someone found guilty in court of breaching his fiduciary duty to be responsible for managing the county’s investment funds,”
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Tags: Bill Campbell, Chriss Street, fraud, Ides of march, Investment Authority, Supervisor Bill Campbell, Supervisor Janet Nguyen, Treasurer Tax Collector
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The Orange County Board of Supervisors voted 3-1 on Tuesday to ratify the contract agreement with the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs. The deal marks a compromise reached after six months of negotiations, as declining tax revenue and climbing retirement costs continue straining county coffers.
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Tags: AOCDS, Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriff's, Bill Campbell, Board of Supervisors, Contract, COunty of Orange, John Moorlach
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One of my biggest complaints about conservative Republicans running for office in Orange County is that they seldom have a record that matches their rhetoric. Rep. John Campbell decries government spending when proposed by President Obama but votes for the bailout of banks and the automobile industry when the ideas are proposed by the...
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Tags: Bill Campbell, Chris Norby, Dana Rohrabacher, Ed Royce, Janet Nguyen, Jerry Amante, John Campbell, John Moorlach, Larry Agran, Melissa Fox, Pat Bates
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Steven Greenhut and Frank Mickadeit were giddy with glee to write a Sunday editorial and a Thursday column to take shots at the “arrogant,” “secretive” and “self-interested” Larry Agran and his “cabal” over a recent appeals judge ruling that awarded legal fees to Irvine City Council members and Great Park Board members Christina Shea...
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Tags: Bill Campbell, Christina Shea, Curt Pringle, Frank Mickadeit, Great Park VBoard, Kurt Haunfelner, Larry Agran, OCTA, Steve Choi, Stevemn Greenhut, Will Kempton
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The OC Register doesn’t like the work of Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, so I guess that means she’s doing something right especially when it comes to the CCW Policy that was used to reward political supporters of disgraced convicted felon ex-Sheriff Mike Carona.
This story in the Register about the OC Board of Supervisors reaction to...
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Tags: Adam Probolsky, Bill Campbell, Jack Anderson, Jon Fleischman, Mike Carona, OC Register, OCSD, Pat Bates, Sheriff Hutchens, Steven Greenhut
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I would never have imagined that I would write this headline in Orange County, California. Long considered a conservative-republican bastion, it flies in the face of all that is conservative to have the “government” involved in the health care conversations between a patient and their doctor. But that is exactly what the Orange County...
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Tags: abortion counseling, abortion referrals, abortions, Bill Campbell, direct clinical services, family planning education, Health Care, Health education activities, John Moorlach, Orange County Board of Supervisors, Orange County Rescue Mission, Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties, promotion or advocacy of abortion, TSR for community clinics, Vietnamese Community of Orange County Clinic
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Jennifer Muir over at the Orange County Register reports that the Board of Supervisors will be considering a new course in dealing with the mess that Supervisor Moorlach pushed them into. After Supervisor Moorlach pushed the Board in between an ideological rock and a hard place over a Planned Parenthood health education contract in March; it looks like...
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Tags: Bill Campbell, community clinics, Health Care, Health Education, Moorlach, Orange County Board of Supervisors, Orange County Coalition of Community Clinics, Planned Parenthood, Tobacco Servies Revenue
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