
Garden Grove Mayor Bruce Broadwater, on a fire truck of course
Last August, Garden Grove Mayor Bruce Broadwater told a Voice of OC reporter that he disapproved of nepotism at City Hall and that he was working to bring back the city’s anti-nepotism policy by the end of 2013, but a month after Broadwater made those remarks, his son, Jeremy Broadwater, was selected for hiring by the city’s fire department despite failing a crucial interview with battalion chiefs, according to the Voice of OC.
To make a bad story even worse, Broadwater’s son is so inept as a firefighter that he has posed a threat to the public. Broadwater the firefighter has made a number of “potentially life-threatening mistakes on medical calls,” drawing concern from his superiors and prompting one captain to call for his termination, The Orange County Register reported last week. Continue reading