While I will agree that spending $350,000 at a time of a major budget crisis and while we are laying off workers is ill advised and a bit out of sync with reality; I'm not sure that one out of four County Supervisors objecting really makes it a controversy.
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Tags: controversy, feud, memorial, Orange County Board of Supervisors, Orange County Register, Rick Francis, Supervisor Janet Nguyen, Supervisor John Moorlach
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Former State Senator Joe Dunn (D-Santa Ana) is proposing that the Board of Supervisors adopt a major reform of the Orange County political environment by regulating lobbyists and themselves thus establishing more transparency in the way county government decisions are made.
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Tags: Board of Supervisors, COunty of Orange, John Moorlach, Lobbying Reform, Nick Berardino, OCEA, Orange County Board of Supervisors, Orange County Employees Association, Senator Joe Dunn, Supervisor John Moorlach, transparency
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Yup, THE MELTDOWN. Who Could forget. People ran outside to call other politicos on their cell phones just to gossip about the incident. When a certain elected official, who probably was stressed out, went overboard and yelled at a nice woman who was just trying to walk to the restroom. You can click on...
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Tags: Councilwoman Claudia Alvarez, Democratic Party of Orange County, Supervisor Janet Nguyen, Supervisor John Moorlach
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Proving that the elitists on the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) are firmly committed to the destruction of public transportation services, the OCTA Board has decided to cut service hours again.
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Tags: Bus Service Cuts, OC Bus Service cuts, OCTA, service cuts, Supervisor John Moorlach
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After more than $2 million in wasted taxpayer dollars the Orange County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to continue their useless bid to have the pension benefits for Orange County Deputy Sheriff’s declared unconstitutional. These so-called fiscal conservatives are okay with spending millions of dollars on a lawsuit that has failed at every turn...
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Tags: 3 @ 50, Government Pensions, Moorlach, Pension Lawsuit, Supervisor John Moorlach
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I had the opportunity to sit down with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Tuesday afternoon in the offices of the Orange County Labor Federation prior to his town hall meeting at Santa Ana College. Newsom is running for Governor and has conducted town hall meetings across the state talking to voters, introducing himself and his...
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Tags: Anaheim, Community College Tuition, Community Colleges, David Benavides, economic growth, Federal Funding, Gavin Newsom, high-speed rail, John Moorlach, Obama Administration, OCTA, Orange County Labor Federation, Orange County Town Hall, Phil Bacerra, Public Transportation, Supervisor John Moorlach, Tobacco Tax, traffic congestion, Transportation funding
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From our Faith-based Government file we have news that negotiations between the Orange County Health Care Agency and Planned Parenthood have broken down related to a request for funding of a Breast Cancer Health care program.
Not surprising when you consider the faith-based policy decision the Board of Supervisors made a few months ago in...
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Tags: Breast Cancer Detection, John Moorlach, Orange County Board of Supervisors, Orange County Health Care Agency, Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties, Supervisor John Moorlach
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