Mission Viejo Buzz - 11/24/12

The Buzz

The OC Registrar of Voters is nearly finished counting ballots from the Nov. 6 election. According to the RoV website, 100 ballots are uncounted as of this writing. Mission Viejo council incumbents Frank Ury and Cathy Schlicht were reelected to the two open seats, and the order among the six council candidates never changed throughout two weeks of counting. The RoV has until Dec. 4 to certify results, with unofficial tallies at:

  1. Frank Ury, 18,760 (27.3 percent)
  2. Cathy Schlicht, 15,892 (23.1 percent)
  3. Wendy Bucknum, 15,614 (22.7 percent)
  4. Ed Sachs, 10,013 (14.6 percent)
  5. Richard Coleman, 4,768 (6.9 percent)
  6. Desi Kiss, 3,720 (5.4 percent)

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Tea Party Patriot Kris Hauter writes, “Can we start the Obamacare All or Nothing Movement? All judges, congressmen, senators the U.S. president and all their families shall be required to be under Obamacare and must pay for it personally from their salaries. No opt outs or exceptions. Also no opt outs for unions or union leaders. We need a Skin in the Game Movement for a lot of things. E.g., don’t vote unless you pay taxes, no law that Congress, executive branch or any other government employee can opt out of, no special retirement system for government aside from good ol’ Social Security and a 401(k). They need to start living like the rest of us instead of creating a ruling royalty class that is apart from or above the rest of us. We are not peasants or subjects. That’s why we broke from England in the first place.”

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The OC Register is trying to stay alive with new ideas. Missing is an old idea, coverage of communities. OCR recently found a new reporter to cover Mission Viejo – the third in three years. OCR has not had a real news reporter in Mission Viejo since Lindsey Baguio was banished for revealing the corruption in city hall. She wrote about Easelgate and exposed the lies of city employee Keith Rattay. Her investigative skills resulted in her swift reassignment to Laguna Niguel after city manager Dennis Wilberg faced off with OCR administrators. OCR reporters since then have chosen survival by penning only city hall approved copy or paraphrasing material written by city staffers. City administrators censor local stories, and only the real blogs – MissionViejoCA.org and MissionViejoDispatch.com – reject the drivel hatched by city employees.

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Council loser Wendy Bucknum stood at the public microphone during the Nov. 19 council meeting, thanking her “thousands” of volunteers and claiming her campaign was a model for young people. Her special interest money and nasty hit pieces were shameful, even in politics. Voters who learned Bucknum is a professional housing lobbyist dropped her like a hot potato.

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Steve Martel of ACT for America invites everyone to attend an event at the University of California Irvine in support of free speech on campuses. “Freedom of Speech vs. Blasphemy in Islam” will be presented on Mon., Nov. 26, 6:30 p.m., Pacific Ballroom D, in the Student Center at UC Irvine. The panel discussion will feature Robert Spencer, Nonie Darwish, Jamie Glazov and Raymond Ibrahim.