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The Fountain Valley City Council takes action against the will of the voters

Posted on November 21, 2015 by Editor Posted in Cheryl Brothers, Drugs, Fountain Valley, Health, John Collins, Marijuana, Mark McCurdy, Michael Vo 1 Comment

Fountain Valley Mayor Steve Nagel (on the right) and Friends

The Fountain Valley City Council passed an ordinance this week banning all cannabis activity and cultivation, according to the O.C. Register.

Only one Fountain Valley City Council Member, Mark McCurdy, voted against the ordinance – and he did so with good reason. As McCurdy pointed out there are cancer patients and others who could benefit from medical marijuana – which should be legal in California because voters passed Prop. 215. Continue reading→

Can FV City Council candidate Tom Nguyen knock out the vile Michael Vo?

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Editor Posted in 2014 Elections, Fountain Valley, Michael Vo, Orange County, Tom Nguyen Leave a comment

The Fountain Valley City Council race features two Vietnamese Americans – but they could not be more different from each other.

Incumbent Councilman Michael Vo has a sordid history of selling his vote for campaign contributions. When he did not allow the waste disposal contract in Fountain Valley to go to bid he was rewarded with a campaign contribution from the city’s longtime trash vendor – Rainbow Disposal. The people of Fountain Valley have paid for that deal with trash rates that are among the highest in Orange County!

Vo also recently got caught taking a campaign contribution from Clear Channel, an advertising company that is trying to install a dangerous digital billboard near the Fountain Valley Water Tank. Why is it dangerous? Because it will have freeway visibility for those driving on the 405 Freeway. Studies show that these signs can distract drivers and cause fatal car accidents. But Vo doesn’t care. He already got paid! Continue reading→

Penny Ante in Fountain Valley

Posted on October 27, 2014 by John Fields Posted in 2014 Elections, Fountain Valley, Orange County Leave a comment

Two years ago, the Fountain Valley City Council approved a large commercial and housing development at Brookhurst St. and the 405 freeway interchange that included a new Ayres Hotel. Ayres is well-known in southern California for the success they’ve had, and their new structures always seem welcome wherever they’re built as they’re great hotel tax generators. In FV’s situation, the development also revitalized an area that had been occupied by a ten year-vacant office building and its unused parking lots. Continue reading→

Did Michael Vo pre-sell his vote on a digital billboard to Clear Channel?

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Editor Posted in 2014 Elections, Fountain Valley, Michael Vo, Orange County 1 Comment

We already busted Fountain Valley Mayor Michael Vo for refusing to allow competitive bidding for Fountain Valley’s waste hauling. He took a campaign contribution from Rainbow Waste – which got what they paid for as the trash contract in Fountain Valley continues to be evergreen – and the result is one of the highest monthly trash pick-up rates in Orange County, as we posted here.

Now we have discovered that Vo is at it again. This time he accepted a campaign contribution from Clear Channel, an advertising company that wants to place a new digital billboard by the Fountain Valley Water Tank, located at Euclid – with visibility from the 405 Freeway. Continue reading→

Fountain Valley Councilman Vo caught pretending he is OC GOP endorsed

Posted on October 16, 2014 by John Fields Posted in 2014 Elections, Fountain Valley, Michael Vo, Orange County 1 Comment

Michael Vo mailer in Fountain Valley today

While implied in this mailer, FV Mayor Michael Vo was not endorsed by the Orange County Republican Party per ocpolitical.com.

Incumbent Vo had been criticized by Scott Peotter on the Endorsements Committee for supporting evergreen contracts in his city. The Fountain Valley Council recently awarded without competitive bidding to Rainbow Environmental Service for trash collection and recycling. We covered that 4-1 vote where the Council majority, including Vo, had each taken $500 campaign contributions from Rainbow: Here’s Why Fountain Valley Rejected Competitive Trash Bidding. Continue reading→

Will Fountain Valley Mayor Vo stand with the haters or with his people?

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Editor Posted in 2014 Elections, Fountain Valley, Larry Crandall, Michael Vo, Tom Nguyen, Vietnamese, Westminster Leave a comment

Mayor Michael Vo

Former Fountain Valley Councilman Larry Crandall resorted to the race card this week in going after leading City Council candidate Tom Nguyen. Crandall noted in a phone conversation with Nguyen that Fountain Valley “isn’t Westminster” when Crandall was complaining about Nguyen’s signs.

Lost in the debate is the fact that Fountain Valley Mayor Michael Vo has signs all over the place – but Crandall doesn’t care because Vo is his stooge on the Council. Continue reading→