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OC Weekly Author Gustavo Arellano to Speak at Fullerton Library
Author Gustavo Arellano, will be speaking at Fullerton's Main Public Library on Monday, May 4, at 7:00 p.m. Gustavo is the author of "Ask a Mexican" and "Orange County: A Personal History". FJC's 2009-2010 curriculum will include Gustavo's Personal History book for its One School, One Book program. Participating Hornet students and faculty will read and discuss the meaning of the book. Click here to read more. SAEA Santa Ana Teacher’s Union Election Jam Down
On Orange Juice Blog’s most popular posting thread about SAUSD corruption (Link) , the subject of the local teacher’s union elections has been a topic of discussion. Here’s the list of candidates and the positions for which they are running according to the SAEA (Teacher’s Union) Link. OJ wanted to get information posted about the candidates, their positions and their statements for the upcoming election, so I was tasked to request that information. I posted a general website invitation of, “Candidates, post your stuff at OJ!”. The 3 presidential candidates all responded by posting statements of intent. They are, in no particular order, Patricial O’Neil, Robert Chavez and Susan Mercer. I think they all showed good intention and leadership in sharing their views with our readership. Good on you guys! Now for the sad news. We contacted SAEA Vice President, Jeffrey Goldberg who is the webmaster at the SAEA website and asked for the list of all candidates and their statements, so that we could add that information to the discussions. It wasn’t ready yet. He gave me a notification when it was assembled at SAEA and OJ reposted it all (post # 603). When we requested that ALL of the candidates be sent a little notice by the union officials who have those private emails for notification, Jeff started getting all faux legaleze and basically said that union officals cannot practice freedom of speech on blogs AND there is another person in charge of elections. Not him. I asked him to forward my request to the Elections officer, Maureen Doughtery. No response back from him after a couple more attempts. So I used public information and notified SAEA Grivance Chair Jennifer Isensee - Jennifer also wants to take up a second position of Secretary during the elections - that she could post the speech she made at the last union meeting up on our website. No response. I also notified Scott Miller who is the SAEA ChalkTalk editor- who also wants to take up the second position of Treasurer- if he’d like to post his speech on OJ. No response. I was given SAEA Elections Officer Maureen Doughtery’s email and I requested directly to her to please notify ALL candidates about our free public forum so that they could choose to post here if they wished. No response back. If this is the typical treatment from the union ”leaders” for simple information requests, then what happens when teachers really NEED help? Man, you teachers are SCREWED. You pay about a thousand bucks a year for this kind of “Leadership”. LMAO! You are all idiots to let this group of disorganized cowards “lead you”! But this story gets better….. Just yesterday, Grievance Chair and Candidate for the position of SAEA Secretary, Jennifer Isensee, sent out an email notice to ALL SCHOOL SITE REPRESENTATIVES to vote for her and her list of suggested candidates. And hurry up and vote early and tell all of the school site members to hurry up and vote. Huh? Is that even allowed? It doesn’t even make any sense that she did that! This election smells rotten and unethical right out of the gate. Let’s recap:
This year’s SAEA elections may be won by this small group of cronies, but I am predicting that it will not be “Business as Usual” for them, going forward. SAUSD corruption thrives with the active help of SAEA officers and our readers are paying attention this time around. Do yourselves a favor: tell your friends! Adios Jack Kemp, vaya con Dios
“Former congressman and Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp died Saturday at age 73 after a battle with cancer, his family announced,” according to CNN. Kemp went from being a football player to serving nine terms in Congress and then serving as Bob Dole’s Vice Presidential candidate in 1996. He also mounted an unsuccessful presidential bid in 1988, but he lost to George H. Bush in the GOP primary. “Unlike many of the other conservatives of his era, Kemp actively courted African-American support. In 1992, he told CNN’s “Larry King Live” that the GOP “could be a Lincoln party in terms of attracting black and brown and men and women of color and low-income status and immigrant status who want a shot at the American dream for their children.” Too bad most of the GOP didn’t listen to Mr. Kemp. He will be missed. But at least he won’t have to see his beloved party go the way of the Whigs. A Divorce Decree
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al: We have stuck together since the late 1950’s, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future Here is a model separation agreement: Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
We don’t like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. Since you hate guns and war, we’ll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. You We’ll keep the capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street. You can have your beloved homeless, homeboys, hippies and illegal aliens. We’ll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO’s and rednecks. We’ll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood . You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we’ll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us. You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we’ll help provide them security. We’ll keep our Judeo-Christian values. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N. but we will no longer be paying the bill. We’ll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find. You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors. We’ll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right. We’ll keep The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the National Anthem. I’m sure you’ll be happy to substitute Imagine, I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing, Kum Ba Ya or We Are the World. We’ll practice trickle down economics and you can give trickle up poverty your best shot. Since it so often offends you, we’ll keep our history, our name and our flag. Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just move on. In the spirit of friendly parting, I’ll bet you ANWAR which one of us will need whose help in 15 years. Anonymous Politicians Who Twitter! Tweet Them!
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Santa Ana City Manager Dave Ream doesn’t want you to know what is really going on “City officials have refused to release several key documents that could shed light on how they chose a low-ranked firm to head a $6-million streetcar project. Those documents include price estimates, internal memos and scoring sheets from an expert panel that reviewed the three companies that applied for the job. The City Attorney’s Office said that releasing those documents “unnecessarily impinges” on the city’s deliberations and negotiations as it tries to ink a final contract,” according to the O.C. Register. The project’s “evaluation committee included the city managers of both Santa Ana and Garden Grove, as well as city planners, an engineer and a representative of the OCTA. It met in early February, heard presentations from each of the companies, and gave a team led by Parsons Brinckerhoff the highest average score, 93.7. A second company, David Evans and Associates Inc., came in second with a score of 77. Cordoba, with a score of 72.9, was just a few percentage points above the city’s minimum-qualification cutoff of 70.” This story should be unbelievable, but those who follow our Santa Ana stories know that corruption is the name of the game at Santa Ana’s City Hall. Here are a few more telling excerpts from the O.C. Register: That decision “raises serious doubts as to the integrity of the process,” Parsons Brinckerhoff wrote in a letter to the city.
We all know why Cordoba got the contract. It’s owner, George Pla, is a funder and board member of the Santa Ana Business Bank, whose board includes a who’s who of corrupt Santa Ana business and political “leaders.” I am guessing that Plan will be banking his money in his own bank - propping up a bank whose shares have plummeted down to $3 a share. New! Republican iPhone“As much as you like Palin you really dont need this kind of tax deduction.” There’s an app for that! Hieu Nguyen is no politician, but he wants to be the next O.C. Clerk-Recorder
What were you doing when you were seven years old? Chances are you were relishing your youth. Not so for Hieu Nguyen. He was rushing to the airport, with his family, trying to escape from a war-torn Vietnam. They made it to the airport, only to see the tarmac blown up by the communist army. They spent the night there and the next day the U.S. government airlifted them out in helicopters. Hieu’s mother got left behind for ten years. His uncle was tortured in prison for six years. Hieu ended up in El Centro and eventually his aunt moved the family to Orange County. He grew up in Santa Ana and met his wife at Saddleback High School, where he also befriended a fellow named Sal Tinajero. Today Hieu is a candidate for the office of Orange County Clerk-Recorder. He just might be the most qualified candidate for that office - that no one knows a thing about. I met with Hieu today and asked him why he was running - against no less than Supervisor Chris Norby. It turns out that Hieu knows quite a bit about the Clerk-Recorder’s office. He served as a Deputy Clerk-Recorder for the past two Clerk-Recorders, before he got a promotion to serve as Assistant Clerk to the Board of Supervisors. He spent 12 and a half years in the Clerk-Recorder’s office. Hieu was hired by Gary Granville and in 1997 they installed the first electronic recording system at a County office. Granville later died and was replaced by Tom Daly. While Granville focused on innovations, Daly focused on customer service. Hieu says he thinks he can continue to innovate - but that as a fiscal conservative he also wants to do more to cut costs at the Clerk-Recorder’s office. I asked him why the Clerk-Recorder doesn’t make more use of the Internet. Hieu says he will definitely look for more ways to make his office accessible to the public. And of course I had to ask what Hieu’s relationship is with Assemblyman Van Tran and Supervisor Janet Nguyen. He says he admires them both. We also spoke about the antagonism that both Van Tran and Janet Nguyen have had for Latinos. Hieu doesn’t have a bone to pick with Latinos - in fact he married a Latina. His father was an American GI, so his kids are quite the ethnic mix. Finally, I asked Hieu how he planned to raise money. He is talking to some high-powered consultants - and I am happy to report that none of the corrupt GOP consultants that we loathe so much here at the Orange Juice are involved. Hieu is confident that he will succeed in raising money. His first fundraiser is coming up on May 15. You can’t help but like Hieu. He is a dedicated and experienced county administrator. His opponent, Norby, is simply a horrible fit for the Clerk-Recorder’s office. And Norby is working with the downright evil John Lewis. Sorry Chris! I don’t support anyone associated with John Lewis. Hieu Nguyen has my support. In case you are wondering, Hieu is a Republican, but he does not seem to be a Talibani-type. And, as he noted, the Clerk-Recorder’s office is not a political office. So why not elect a guy who can do the job, instead of a recycled politician? Makes sense to me! Hieu’s supporters include the aforementioned Santa Ana Councilman Sal Tinajero, as well as La Habra Councilman Tim Shaw and labor activist Max Madrid. He says he will be publicizing more of his backers at his May 15 event. His supporters include both Democrats and Republicans - and that is a good start. Just what the doctor ordered. Raise taxes and destroy the ailing auto industry“Ready fire, aim” sounds like members of our state legislature who raised our taxes and now hope to persuade us to pass Prop 1A with all their deceptive TV ads. Let’s look at one key segment of our state and local revenue stream, auto dealers. I read that there are between 1,200 to 1,600 surviving dealerships in CA. One hundred and twenty (120) closed last year with another fifty closing their doors in the first four months of 2009. Reading a Dec. report from KGO it points out that “the average auto dealer in Silicon Valley employs 85 people and pump $1 million of sales tax into the city.” In the city of Mission Viejo “10-20% of the total sales tax revenue is derived from car sales.” Wait, there’s more to the story. Gilbert note: Don’t be misled. Vote NO on Prop 1A Small Santa Ana gang was armed to the teeth!
Picture Courtesy of the O.C. Register “Authorities seized more than a dozen rifles and handguns during an early-morning raid Thursday that spanned Orange and Riverside counties and targeted a small Santa Ana gang,” according to the O.C. Register. All of the guns pictured above belonged to a “small” gang? I wonder what sort of heat the “large” gangs are packing? No wonder our SAPD cops rather patrol Floral Park instead of the inner city… “Judge Judy” for US Supreme Court to replace Associate Justice David Souter
By now we have all read that 69 year old U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter, from New Hampshire, is retiring from the highest court in the land. “Article Two of the United States Constitution gives the President power to nominate Justices, who are then appointed “by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.” However, that person must receive the confirmation of the Senate, meaning that a majority of that body must find that person to be a suitable candidate for a lifetime appointment on the nation’s highest court.” As we await president Obama’s recommendation to replace retiring Associate Justice Souter a recommendation was made on the radio today that he consider CBS’s “Judge Judy.” Judy Sheindlin, “Judge Judy,” a former family court judge, nominated 11 times for daytime EMMY awards, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She surely has a national ID and meets the US Constitution’s criteria to serve on this court. Judge Judith Sheindlin The following web site contains “Judge Judy’s Lessons on Life and the Law” http://www.judgejudy.com/judys_tips.php Those of us who followed the Kelo case will not forget Justice Souter. “The Lost Liberty Hotel or Lost Liberty Inn was a proposed hotel to be built on the site of United States Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter’s properties in Weare, New Hampshire. The proposal was a reaction to the Supreme Court’s Kelo v. New London (2005) decision in which Souter joined the majority ruling that the U.S. Constitution allows the use of eminent domain to condemn privately owned real property for use in private economic development projects.” Juice readers: You never know how these judges will vote after approved by the Senate. Justice Souter was appointed by president Bush 41 who was under the impression that Souter was a conservative. Justice Souter was in the Court Minority in their 5-4 ruling of the Florida recount in Bush v. Gore presidential election. |
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