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The Buzz An organization that consistently offers excellent programs at its monthly meetings is ACT for America. The Mission Viejo chapter will hold a General Meeting on Mon., Apr. 8, at the Norm Murray Community Center. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. and the meeting starts promptly at 7:30 p.m. Featured speaker will be Jeff Ferguson, Senior Deputy District Attorney for Orange County. His topic will be “How Judges Can Stop Sharia in America.” The address of the Community Center is 24932 Veterans Way in Mission Viejo. *** Two candidates for the73rd Assembly seat when Diane Harkey terms out in 2014 are Rancho Santa Margarita Councilman Jesse Pertrilla and Dana Point Councilman Bill Brough. Both are conservative candidates and frequent speakers at political meetings. Jesse was featured in March at the meeting of Capo Valley Republican Federated Women, and Bill is speaking on April 13 at the Rush Limbaugh Club of OC, which meets in Mission Viejo. Two other candidates for the same seat are getting zero grassroots support – Anna Bryson and Paul Glaab. Bryson is the Capo school district trustee who ran as a conservative Republican, but she aids and abets the teachers’ union at every opportunity. Glaab is a bomb-throwing “consultant” who creates hit pieces against conservatives when he’s not feeding at the public trough. As an example of Glabb’s politicking, he was one of the trolls pushing toll lanes on the 405 http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2012/10/405-toll-lanes-killed-for-this-year-at-any-rate/ *** New bosses at the Orange County Register gave Saddleback Valley News a facelift a couple months ago. It has a better look and larger format, but the paper’s employees have no connection with the community. After a brief try at improvement, SVN is back to non-news feature stories and thinly disguised government press releases. The paper’s owners indicate they want only good news, which would explain SVN’s lack of city hall coverage. The writers have no grasp of what’s happening in Mission Viejo and, being strangers in a strange land, they apparently cannot distinguish one South County city from another. *** Question from a Buzz reader last week, A.S. asked, “What’s happening with Mission Viejo’s $4.8 million that was traded back and forth with the developer of apartments on Oso near the Mission Viejo Country Club? I was trying to follow how taxpayers were being told the city didn’t lose $4.8 million.” Stay tuned. *** Except for Mission Viejo’s privately owned blogs, real city news is either misreported or hard to find. Aside from this blog, Brad Morton’s Mission Viejo Dispatch was active during the city election last year, and he is occasionally posting articles. A current one airs the controversy involving Southern California Edison’s San Onofre power plant http://missionviejodispatch.com/ *** The SCE employee who spoke against a resolution at the 4-1-13 council meeting (article on this week’s blog) referred to Councilman Frank Ury as a “highly respected engineer.” According to whom? Ury says he has an undergraduate degree in engineering, but what job did he have that involved engineering? He also claims to have an MBA, but he only completed a certificate program. He’s worked in sales and computer departments, and he had a “consulting business” between jobs, which didn’t appear to attract any customers. *** OC Treasurer-Tax Collector Shari Freidenrich announced the Top Ten Property Taxpayers, secured and unsecured categories, for 2012: Secured: Unsecured: |
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