On Wednesday I fired off a post claiming that Jabbering Jabba the Greenhut was wrong about the amount of Sheriff Carona’s pension benefit. Jabba had claimed in a post on th Regiister’s Orange Punch Blog that day that Sheriff Carona…
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Jabba the Greenhut: Wrong Again!
by Chris Prevatt • • 6 Comments
You know, I just love it when people who should know better jump on their keyboards with an opinion before checking ther facts. I’m scrolling through the Register’s Orange Punch Blog and I find this post by Steven Greenhut titled…
Lemmings on the march
by Chris Prevatt • • 1 Comment
Yesterday, the Orange County Board of Supervisors took a step towards challenging the decision of the Board of Supervisors in 2001 to grant an additional 1% of salary per year of service to the pension calculation for public safety officers. …
A Gift of Public Funds… to Rich People with Boats
by Chris Prevatt • • 7 Comments
So Moorlach, why wasn’t this action by you and your colleagues not unconstitutional? Folded into the Orange County Budget Resolution for 2008 was the following as item #5: Authorize Auditor-Controller to pay 2003 through 2006 Possessory Interest Tax for Dana…
Black Helicopters: Hovering over Red County
by Chris Prevatt • • 1 Comment
Psst… I think Matt Cunningham’s off his meds. Black helicopters are part of a conspiracy theory, especially prevalent among the United States militia movement, that claims that special unmarked black helicopters are used by secret agents of the New World…
Moorlach’s Folly: It Just doesn’t add up.
by Chris Prevatt • • 3 Comments
Over at The Tin Star Blog Sergeant wrote a couple of days ago (Thursday) about Supervisor Moorlach’s invention of a “Pension Spike” for Orange County Deputy Sheriffs. While he agrees that there was an increase in the overall pension liability…
Moorlach’s Folly: Part 2
by Chris Prevatt • • Comments Off
There are plenty of reasons why Supervisor Moorlach’s assumptions related to the retroactive portion of pension benefit changes for the Orange County Deputy Sheriffs are wrong. In the first installment of Moorlach’s Folly I covered the primary point used by…
