Just one more example of How Orange County CEO Tom Mauk lets managers off the hook for errors that cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars to fix. Be it managing personnel OC CEO Mauk condones Bustamantes’ sexist remarks!, or contracts here, he just keeps getting it wrong.
County IT task...
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Tags: Board of Supervisors, ethics, fiasco, History, Media, Orange County, Orange County Budget, Orange County Government, Orange County News, Orange County Register, Outsourcing, Republican mistakes, Tom Mauk, Waste by County Management
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We have heard time and time again from Republicans/Conservatives how private enterprise can do the job better than government; that government workers are too expensive; and if you can find it in the yellow-pages the government workers shouldn’t be doing it.
Tony Saavedra at the Orange County Register has a report out about the County...
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Tags: Bill Campbell, Board of Supervisors, Conservative, fiasco, GOP, Government Pensions, LATimes, Moorlach, OC GOP, Orange County, Orange County Budget, Orange County Government, Orange County News, Orange County Register, Orange County Sheriff's Department, Republican mistakes, Republicans
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Last night’s DPOC meeting was not a death knell for the party and nor was it a shining moment of leadership. The party’s decision to allow Hoa Van Tran to retain the party’s endorsement is not quite a victory for the campaign, but more of a stay of execution when the voters have...
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Tags: 1st District Supervisor, 48th Congressional, Board of Supervisors, Election 2008, ethics, fiasco, Gangs, Hoa Van Tran, Hypocrisy, Integrity, Orange County, Orange County News, Unions
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Apparently, OC Democrats will be meeting tonight for a special purpose. They may just retract an endorsement they recently made for some local candidate whose name I can’t remember {wink wink }. Now yes, I know a whole lot of folks here have made a big deal of this candidate whose name...
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Tags: 1st District Supervisor, Democratic Party of Orange County, Democrats, fiasco, Hoa Van Tran, moving on, Progressive Values, Winning Elections
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A reasonable person might think that the Hoa Van Tran campaign might make damn sure that they got their campaign statement for the period ending May 17, 2008 correct. Well if you are that reasonable person, you’re wrong. If their new treasurer were an archer, he would have missed the target by about 180...
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Tags: 1st District Supervisor, Election 2008, ethics, fiasco, Hoa Van Tran, Orange County, Orange County Register
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OK, this whole campaign has turned into a mess. Janet Nguyen may just end up with a free ride to reelection just at a time when she least deserves it. Van Tran should be embarassed that he ever endorsed Dina Nguyen. And now, we have sufficient evidence to show us that Hoa Van Tran...
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Tags: 1st District Supervisor, Democrats, Dina Nguyen, fiasco, Hoa Van Tran, Janet Nguyen, Orange County, Progressive Values, Winning Elections
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