From the New Anaheim blog Orange County’s Democratic State Assembly Representatives, Tom Daly and Sharon Quirk-Silva, did not vote for the ”Trust Act,” which made its way once more through the California Assembly this week by a final vote of 44-22, according to Gabriel San Roman over at the OC Weekly. San Roman reported that “The
What will our new Clerk-Recorder dig up about Tom Daly and Jordan Brandman?
Did you watch the Orange County Supervisors this week when they interviewed Renee Ramirez, who assisted the former Orange County Clerk-Recorder Tom Daly? Something interesting came out of that interview. Supervisor Todd Spitzer asked Ramirez about a standing order for polo shirts, which I believe amounted to about $3,500 per order. He then asked if
O.C. Supervisors to interview finalists for Clerk-Recorder on April 2
The Orange County Board of Supervisors will be conducting interviews with the finalists who are campaigning to become Orange County’s next Clerk-Recorder. Here is the schedule for Tuesday April 2nd, courtesy of the OC Political blog – the names of the candidates are linked to the packets they submitted to the Board of Supervisors, including
More Adventures in Crony County Contracting
With all the deserved commotion about the unfinished Brandman report, let’s recall this isn’t the first time former Clerk-Recorder, now first-term Assemblyman and still a Democrat Tom Daly pushed a lucrative no-bid contract to a political crony. First reported by the Friends of Fullerton Future, and later named as their Top Boondoggle of 2010, Daly
Did Brandman charge the County Clerk-Recorder $24K for Wikipedia copy?
“An entire section of a government draft report prepared by Anaheim City Councilman Jordan Brandman while he was campaigning for his council seat last year appears to largely have been copied from the Wikipedia entry on Orange County, a Voice of OC review of the report has found,” according to the Voice of OC. This
Supervisors name top 25 finalists to become the next O.C. Clerk-Recorder
The OC Political blog has posted the names of the current top 25 finalists for the open Orange County Clerk-Recorder job that was vacated by Tom Daly when he got elected last November to represent the 69th Assembly District. Here are the finalists: Hugh Nguyen – used to work for Daly’s predecessor. Currently an assistant
Sorry CA GOP, your new Chairman, Jim Brulte, can’t save you from yourselves
The California Republican Party’s Central Committee has elected a new Chairman – Jim Brulte, a former State Senator who currently works as a Public Affairs Consultant for California Strategies. That means that political consultants are now running both the CA GOP and the OC GOP, where Scott Baugh holds court. “Brulte is taking over at
Daly is touting a Republican for Clerk-Recorder, but she was a DTS for years
Former Orange County Clerk-Recorder Tom Daly is backing Renee Ramirez, who was his assistant clerk-recorder and is holding down the top job until supervisors make their appointment, according to the O.C. Register. “She’s a Republican and she’s a Latina and the board should do the right thing and hire her,” Daly told the audience at Friday’s Democratic
Republican politicians well represented at the 2013 O.C. Tet Parade
In the end, it was much ado about nothing. The gay activists who had spent all week complaining about not being able to participate in the 2013 Tet Parade, which is held in Little Saigon every year and celebrates the Chinese Lunar New Year, did not march in the parade, which the Orange Juice blog reported that they
A look back at our top ten O.C. political news stories of 2012
We started this blog on January 1, 2012. What a year it has been! Here are our top ten stories of the year, based on our readership data: Irvine boss Larry Agran lost in his campaign for Mayor and the Republicans took over the Irvine City Council Sharon Quirk-Silva beat Chris Norby in the 65th
