Just before their lunch break, today, July 24th, the Orange County Board of Supervisors, in a split vote, approved the request for a satellite office for 1st District Supervisor Janet Nguyen.
Voting in favor of this she was joined by my Supervisor, 5th District Member Patricia Bates and 3rd District Supervisor Bill Campbell.
Opposing this action were Supervisors Moorlach and Chairman Chris Norby.
Well readers. Pandora’s box has now been opened. So much for Republican fiscal responsibility, words only found in dictionaries but not in practice. Let’s not discriminate here. EVERY supervisor deserves equal access to their constituents, vendors and donors. No, no, no. Bad idea, terrible decision!
Your comments on today’s vote are welcome.
That said I want an office with staffing and furnishings within 10 minutes of my home. NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wait till Sean gets a load of this.He’ll scream racist louder than you’ve ever heard.
#1,
Were the “Usual Suspects” or their allies involved in this decision?
As much as I usually disagree with you on these matters, Larry, I must agree with you on this one. I live in the First District. Janet Nguyen is my Supervisor. And you know what? She’s WRONG to expect county taxpayers to pay for improving her public image to assist in her reelection effort next year.
If Janet really cared about helping people access county services, she’d fight all the cuts to our much-needed programs to assist in working poor in finding affordable housing and to assist the mentally ill and programs that generally give a helping hand to those who can’t help themselves. But is she doing that? NO! She only wants to misuse OUR MONEY to play political games.
My goodness, and she still calls herself “fiscally responsible”? This isn’t fiscally responsible. If that were the case, she’d make sure our money is going into programs that help us. But instead, she only helps herself.
This isn’t responsible.
So where is the money coming from?
What county service can be shortchanged to make way for an unnecessary campaign, oops I mean satellite office?
“So much for Republican fiscal responsibility, words only found in dictionaries but not in practice.”
Larry can you honestly identify a period when this was NOT the case? When has the GOP EVER Practiced what they Preached? A few individuals may have a strong record of this ideology but nary a few in the GOP nationwide ever actually live up to this tired old line of BS.
Hell every time I turn around another “Family Values Christian” is snorting Crank out of a Gay Male Prostitutes Crack.
Every time I turn around another Fiscal Conservative is financing a field office on the taxpayer’s dime in the very district the also serves as the County Seat and Hall of Administration.
Every time the Death Toll in Iraq increases I place the new number under the picture of George Bush standing under the “Mission Accomplished” Banner.
Every time I hear Chuck Devore speak I thank God that Governor Swartzenegar is a Strong Democrat.
Every time I pay my auto insurance premiums, I think of Van Tran’s wife and how much money she defrauded from the insurance industry and the costs of that fraud being extracted from my wallet.
The GOP isn in the business of selling you and every other American a series of Wolf Tickets.
Lemmings: is what every Republican is in this country.
Sadly the 2008 BOS election in the 1st District does place a huge cloud over this decision.
Even if that were not the case I disagree based on our policy that we are to promote SMALLER GOVERNMENT!
Email reply from central OC:
Re “Satellite Office” request by 1st District Supervisor Janet Nguyen
Once again, commendable investigative reporting. Here, your reasons are well-stated for opposing Supervisor Nguyen’s request for a “satellite office” for her Vietnamese Dist.
We agree.