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The Buzz Wonder why taxes are so high? The salaries and benefits of just three city employees in Mission Viejo total $780,128. Two of the three are in the county’s top 10 in their category: 1) Mission Viejo city finance director, $263,709, 2) Mission Viejo community development director, $207,633, and 3) Mission Viejo city manager, $308,786. 1) http://taxdollars.ocregister.com/2011/06/29/who-has-the-highest-paid-city-finance-director/86707 *** As the California Republican Assembly rights itself, some issues are still to be resolved. The Ladera Ranch unit has existed only on paper from the time of its 2006 inception. On July 23, CRA’s directors imposed a relatively light penalty on the master of “paper” units in Orange County, Scott Voigts of Lake Forest, http://www.rightondaily.com. The specifics of Voigts’ disservice to CRA have not been announced. The penalty was given prior to information coming out on a blog about the extent of the fraud in one of the phony units, Ladera Ranch. *** Blog writer Geoff Willis admitted in his comments last week that his name was put on the Ladera Ranch membership list without his knowledge, and he never became a member or paid dues. CRA records show Willis as a dues-paying member who was appointed as an alternate to the unit’s delegation at the CRA state convention in April. According to Willis’ blog comment, Greg Woodard asked him if he was “interested” in CRA, and Willis said yes. Somehow, Willis’ name mysteriously appeared as a paid member, and he mysteriously became an alternate. *** CUSD Supt. Joe Farley was formerly superintendent of the Anaheim Union High School District. The new Capo High School principal, Kevin Astor, was a co-worker of Farley’s in Anaheim. Astor’s merit will soon be known in his high-visibility position at Capo. His background, however, was known beforehand, and he has no experience as a high school principal. On July 1, CUSD hired Jason Allermann, another of Farley’s former co-workers in Anaheim, as the Dana Hills High School principal. *** A Capo news item has been reported by OC Weekly, the coach kickback scheme, *** Two coaches in CUSD were named in the district’s internal investigation, Chi Chi Biehn (a former Capo High coach and current social science teacher) and Eric Patton (a football coach at San Clemente High). A CUSD constituent commented, “Those who are allegedly involved are still on the job and in front of the kids when they could be on administrative leave. I want to compare this with the no-tolerance practice applied to students, such as allegations of cheating and computer hacking. I see students held to a higher standard than adults, and I am asking why. I am well aware the parents’goal is education for their children, and the district’s goal is about employment and benefits.” *** The Great Park of Irvine quickly became The Great Pork, and everything else is developing slowly. Mission Viejo activists participated in four initiatives, which took nearly a decade, to prevent the former El Toro Marine base from becoming a commercial airport. No one seems to care whether it’s a great park or a great pork, just as long as it isn’t a great big airport. *** If anyone still wonders why newspapers are falling off the planet, check out a story in the July 31 OC Register about conspiracy theories, http://www.ocregister.com/news/-132270-ocprint--.html . Maybe the people who formerly subscribed to newspapers expected reporting, not political bias. Register writer Martin Wisckol writes about “cultural Marxism” and then throws in Obama’s birth certificate issue as an example of what – cultural Marxism? Wisckol says the issue – (actually, one aspect of the debate is whether Obama has produced anything but phony documents) – has already been dismissed by “academic experts, media outlets and the majority of the American public.” If so-called media outlets had vetted the guy in the White House, who would be president today? Better luck to the American public in November 2012. |
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