This just in from my friends at the Associated Builders and Contractors, Southern California Chapter and the Western Electrical Contractors Association – they are hosting a fund raiser today for Supervisor Janet Nguyen. Here are the details:
As you know, our good friend Janet Nguyen was elected to the Orange County Board of Supervisors last year in a very close election. Janet Nguyen is a real up and comer.
Hensel Phelps has agreed to host an event for her in their Irvine office on the 21st of December (this Friday) and we would appreciate your support. Corporations can give up to $1600 as can PACs. Please let me know if you can attend and/or contribute. Even if you can
Can’t I just make my checks out to Mr. Greer, her lawyer, like I used to?
Irvine isn’t in the 1st district. Who is our supervisor representing?
Irvine isn’t that were the offices of the SIV’s seller’s located?
I hope this is not payback for voting to allow gambling with the county’s saving account.
First off, the title is “Democratic” for her challengers. Democrat is a right wing slur. Get a clue. Glad to hear she’s standing up for her constituents in the building industry, which I suppose includes all the projects and developments going on in her district. This site once again proves itself a shill for the Repubic Party. Does Mickey weep?
Democratic challengers? Ha ha ha ha!
Joe Dunn will not make up his mind until it is too late! Just look at his State Controller’s race.
If Claudia Alvarez is the Democratic option against Janet Nguyen, I will take the conservative over the crazy.
Just like Art to criticize Santa Ana scumbags like Alvarez, Bustamante and Tinajero (etc. . . . ) but suck up to scum bags like Nguyen and dishonestly report the facts regarding Nguyen.
Let’s see the latest commentary about Nguyen from the L.A. Times:
Janet Nguyen was barely losing the February election for county supervisor. When she decided to ask for the recount that would eventually put her ahead, she did what many Orange County Republicans do when they need election law advice. She hired Phillip Greer.
The attorney’s client list reads like a Who’s Who in county Republican politics. Besides Nguyen, among those Greer has represented on election matters are county Supervisors Bill Campbell, Pat Bates and Chris Norby. He also represents Treasurer Chriss Street, who is under scrutiny in his role as a bankruptcy trustee.
Despite his status as an advisor to Orange County Republicans, the State Bar of California has disciplined Greer twice in the last 11 years and ordered him each time to take ethics courses. His advice to Nguyen that she set up a secret defense fund, which was later ruled illegal, led state election officials to rebuke the supervisor. When Greer returned the donations, which had been sent to one of his accounts, at least one of the checks bounced.
Greer’s emergence as the GOP’s go-to guy in election matters was greatly aided by John Lewis, a former Republican state senator and influential political consultant in Orange County. Campbell and Norby said they hired Greer on Lewis’ recommendation, and Lewis said he recommended his friend of 25 years to Dave Gilliard, Nguyen’s campaign consultant.
Neither Lewis nor the supervisors said they were aware of the state bar’s disciplinary action against Greer.
“I’ve always thought he was a very competent attorney,” said Lewis, who said he would continue to recommend Greer.
This month, Nguyen agreed to pay $5,000 in fines to settle investigations into the fundraising scheme. The county supervisor has said she acted on Greer’s advice. Nguyen did not return phone calls seeking comment for this article.
In soliciting money to defend her seat on the board, Nguyen asked donors to make checks out to Greer’s client trust fund and to mail them to her campaign office in Garden Grove. The donations were not reported.
State law prohibits county officials from having legal defense funds. Nguyen also violated county law, which says the donated money amounted to political contributions that should have been reported. In addition, the three contributions the Fair Political Practices Commission cited were larger than the maximum $1,600 the law allows.
In April, Gilliard and Nguyen’s county staff denied she had a secret fund or said they did not know of one. Nguyen admitted the fund’s existence in May, after The Times obtained a copy of an e-mail she had sent soliciting money. The settlement with the FPPC said the investigation did not determine that the violations were deliberate and that the donations were returned within a month after Nguyen’s campaign received them.
Greer, 54, whose office is in Newport Beach, was admitted to the state bar in 1981 after graduating from UCLA and Southwestern University School of Law. He agreed to be interviewed for this article and then changed his mind. The state bar disciplined him for ethics violations in 1996 and 2004.
According to state bar records, Greer represented a Georgia company in one lawsuit at the same time he was suing the firm in another case in 2002. The state bar investigation found that Greer’s representation of both parties was a “willful violation of Rules of Professional Conduct.”
In the earlier disciplinary action, Greer settled a client’s personal injury lawsuit for $5,000 in 1990, withholding $1,634 to pay her medical bills. The money should have been kept in Greer’s client trust account.
In 1991, the client asked Greer for the remainder of the money because her insurance had paid the bills, records show. Greer did not pay her for three years, and when he did he used a cashier’s check instead of one from his client trust account. According to the state bar’s findings, his trust account daily balances “consistently fell below $1,634,” the amount that should have always been in the account.
Greer blamed his office manager, saying the employee had removed client files, which he discovered after closing his Long Beach office. The state bar said Greer’s failure to supervise the office manager prevented him from properly representing the client.
Greer was required to take ethics courses in both cases.
There were also apparent problems in repayment of at least one $5,000 contribution made to Greer’s client trust account for Nguyen’s defense fund.
The refund check was written from Greer’s office account to Townsend Public Affairs, a lobbying firm based in Irvine, and marked “Nguyen refund.” The check was dated April 15, 2007, but the firm did not receive it until June 7, according to sources familiar with the transaction. It bounced June 12.
Eight days later a firm official wrote Greer, asking him to mail another check. It didn’t arrive until Oct. 18, sources said. This appears to conflict with the finding that Nguyen returned the donations within a month of receiving them.
In an e-mail to The Times, Greer wrote, “I have no idea as to why the April check was not tendered till June, and it is my understanding that they were made good as soon as we were informed there was a problem.”
Well, Art, remember: lie down with scum, contract their disease. Nguyen is dishonest, hires unethical attorneys and acts surprised when they are unethical, claims to not have a secret, illegal fund, then claims not to know about it, and then cops to it only after one of her e-mails is contained by the L.A. Times. THEN she tries to lie about it further, gets hammered for it, blames her attorney (the expressway to your heart, Art)and then refuses to call and comment on the matter.
Prediction, Art: Janet is going down, hard. Prepare for the gag reflex.
Wow Anonymous 12/22/2007 1:06 PM, I guess because the media ignores what the other Supervisors do and only reports on what Supervisor Nguyen does, we should all assume that she is bad and then what…vote for someone worse like Troung Nguyen? That is way too funny! The Trannies should look in the mirror once in awhile.