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OUSD bond Measure S is a rip off supported by tax-wasting Pringle acolytes

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Editor Posted in Arianna Barrios, ARTIC, Bond Measures, Bonds, Curt Pringle, Kris Murray, Orange, Property Taxes, Taxes 8 Comments

Orange Lutheran High School completed a facilities upgrade in 2014 for $15 million. Now the Orange Unified School District is asking voters to approve Measure S, a bond measure, that will provide $72 million per high school for similar upgrades. What gives?

Orange Lutheran is over 40-years old and enrolls 1,300 students. The 1-year-long upgrade and expansion project was funded with $5-million in school reserves, $5-million in financing and $5-million in donations. It added 40,000 square feet, ripped up floors, added technology upgrades, new furnishings, a comfy place for students to hang out with couches, flat-screen TVs and a coffee-juice bar …the works! Continue reading→

Orange County lobbyist Curt Pringle’s client list revealed at last

Posted on August 27, 2016 by Editor Posted in Anaheim, Curt Pringle, Orange County, Republican Party 1 Comment

Remember Curt Pringle? The former Mayor of Anaheim has been very busy at his lobbying firm, Curt Pringle & Associates. As they have been reluctant to release their full client list (maybe it’s too much work?) Sean Paden has decided to help them out. Below is a list of every client that Paden could confirm from an internet search and the source. The list may not be complete but it is a darn good effort

Some of these clients are high profile, others are below the radar: Vulcan Industries, for example is apparently the largest supplier of gravel in Southern California (so if a construction project gets built there’s a good chance they’ll make money on it); Mobilite/ Mobilite of Newport Beach is a cell phone tower company, Jamboree Housing recently obtained bond funding from the City of Fullerton for a $5 million low income housing project (approved on March 18, 2014). Continue reading→

Jordan Brandman drops his Congressional campaign with his political career in ruins

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Editor Posted in 2016 Elections, Anaheim, Bao Nguyen, Curt Pringle, Democratic Party, Gay Democrats, Joe Dunn, Jordan Brandman, Latinos, Loretta Sanchez, Lou Correa, Lynn Schott, Santa Ana 10 Comments

Days after Anaheim Councilman Jordan Brandman betrayed his fellow Democrats and Anaheim’s Latino residents by abandoning the effort to develop City Council districts in his city he has dropped his campaign for the 46th Congressional District, according to the O.C. Register.

Brandman was recently reprimanded by the Democratic Party of Orange County when he joined in a 3-2 November Anaheim City Council vote to put the district with a majority of voting age Latino citizens on the ballot in 2018 instead of 2016.

Brandman was one of several Democrats vying to replace U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez, who is running for the U.S. Senate and is vacating her House seat. Continue reading→

Anaheim Councilman Brandman condemned by his fellow Democrats

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Editor Posted in 2016 Elections, Anaheim, Curt Pringle, Democratic Party, Jordan Brandman 8 Comments

Kris Murray and Jordan Brandman

It was not a good night for Anaheim Councilman Jordan Brandman, who is also running to replace Loretta Sanchez in the 46th Congressional District. You see Brandman has run afoul of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

Why? Because Brandman did something completely unforgivable when he voted to delay Anaheim’s Third District residents from holding an election until 2018 – an action that disenfranchised Anaheim’s Latino voters.

Jeff LeTourneau led the charge against Brandman at tonight’s Democratic Party of Orange County Central Committee meeting. And his effort succeeded as his party passed a resolution to condemn Brandman by acclamation. The District Elections will go to a second reading on December 8 at the next Anaheim City Council meeting. Continue reading→

The Democrats will be retaking control of the S.C.A.Q.M.D’s Board in a few weeks

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Editor Posted in AQMD, Christina Shea, Curt Pringle, Democratic Party, Dwight Robinson, Environmental, Fred Whitaker, Irvine, Jeff Lalloway, Larry Agran, Miguel Pulido, Orange County, Republican Party 3 Comments

The Sacramento Democrats are looking forward to punking the OC GOP

The OC GOP’s Chairman, Fred Whitaker celebrated the Republican takeover of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) that took place this week when Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido, a moderate Democrat, was replaced by Lake Forest Councilman Dwight Robinson, a Republican.

But Whitaker’s celebration might be very short lived. A well-placed source told me today that the Democrats in Sacramento are livid about the GOP’s shenanigans – which were engineered, allegedly, by none other than former Anaheim Mayor, turned lobbyist, Curt Pringle , on behalf of the oil industry. Continue reading→

Why Mayor Pulido was booted from the South Coast AQMD’s Board today

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Editor Posted in Anaheim, AQMD, Curt Pringle, Environmental, Fred Whitaker, Irvine, Jeff Lalloway, Jim Brulte, Larry Agran, Miguel Pulido, OC GOP, Republican Party, Santa Ana Leave a comment

Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido used to be friendly with former Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle back in the day. The two of them often teamed up with former Irvine Mayor Larry Agran – and were referred to as the Tres Caballeros. Well Agran was booted off the Irvine City Council when the Republicans took over in Irvine and Pringle went on to become a lobbyist. And now Pringle has, as a lobbyist, turned on Pulido.

Pulido served on the Board of Governors of the South Coast Air Quality Management District for over a decade. That gig is over now as Pringle and several prominent Republican leaders led a movement to dump Pulido and replace him with a Republican – Lake Forest Councilman Dwight Robinson. Continue reading→