“Saying he is very much in love, Supervisor Chris Norby married a Tustin woman this afternoon in a small ceremony at the clerk recorder’s office in Fullerton. Norby and his bride, Martha Phillips, have been dating since last fall. Phillips, who friends say is in her early 30s, and her three children will move into the supervisor’s six-bedroom Fullerton home.The kids are ages 7, 9 and 10,” according to the O.C. Register’s Total Buzz blog.
I met Phillips a few weeks ago at a friend’s house, when Norby brought her and the kids. She is a very nice lady. She hails, if I recall correctly, from Columbia. We spoke in Spanish and it appeared that her English is limited. But she is as smart as a whip.
Phillips told me that she grew up on a coffee plantation and that she helped her family with the business. She has relatives in Spain and is quite the jet setter. Her three kids are her life and they are all fluent in several languages and cute as could be.
I don’t know how she got the name “Phillips,” but I suspect it is from a past marriage.
Now we know why Norby is so anxious to become our next Orange County Clerk-Recorder. He now has an entire household to take care of. Now more than ever we need to find this man a real job so he can run for the Fullerton City Council instead!
I thought it was funny that the Register article mentioned some of Norby’s past, um, situations:
This is the fourth marriage for the 4th District county supervisor, who just last year came under fire for claiming $340 for a week-long stay at a hotel during the summer of 2007, when his previous marriage was on the rocks. The same week he spent at that hotel in August, he was also found sleeping under a bush at the Old Courthouse in Santa Ana.
We broke the story about the sleeping incident and got slammed by Jerbal and his boys. Now even the Register has corroborated the story.
Norby also fell asleep at the function we both attended. Let’s face it, he is no spring chicken. You gotta take those power naps when you can!
So will Norby’s fourth marriage be the one that lasts? Hard to say. Phillips is very sweet and quite pretty and Norby sure seemed taken by her. The only advice I can give him, after 22 years of marriage to my Latina wife Camille, is to apologize often and to never raise his voice with his new bride.
We have to hope that Norby won’t adopt Phillip’s real last name and attach it to his, like red-faced former legislator Ken Maddox did when he married a Latina recently. That would just be too weird!
Norby can now say he has experience in the Clerk-Recorder’s office as he now has collected at least four marriage certificates from them.
Lastly h/t to Norby’s chief of staff Phil Tsunoda, who actually babysat for Norby and Phillips when they took a one night honeymoon in Laguna Beach. Way to take one for the team Phil!
I wish Martha luck. Hope he was a full disclosure kind of guy in entering into this marriage.
Norby is a joke!!! The guy is weird and I can’t understand who would want to marry him. Maybe she will take care of him when he is unemployed.
His chief of staff who I have met is an idiot he is Tom Daly’s pet. What are you going to do now Phil when a new supervisor comes in to office and it won’t be Tom Daly.
We all went to happy hour the other night and someone told us that Renee Ramirez told them that she and Tom Daly are having an affair. It’s been going on for over 7 years. Now we know why she gets to do whatever she wants.
#2,
Well, it sounds like Phil could work as a babysitter – or maybe he and Arnold could star in the sequel to Kindergarten Cop!
“Broke” the sleeping story! What a joke! What you did was accuse Norby of being passed out drunk. Big difference.
All you did was pass along dirt dished to you by Janet Nguyen or one of her staff to get back at Norby for questioning spending money on her “outreach office.” That’s when you were a Janet shill.
#4,
Only Norby knows if he was tipsy that day.
Janet has endorsed him for Clerk-Recorder so apparently they are OK with each other…
Nice dodge, Art. I’d have been shocked if you actually admitted your claim is half-true at best or that you were just shilling for Janet.
#6,
Again, only Norby knows for sure. And there are a lot of folks downtown who knew about this story.
Heck, even the Register found out about it…
“Only Norby knows for sure.”
Funny, how you didn’t “break” it that way. You claimed he was passed out drunk.
“And there are a lot of folks downtown who knew about this story.”
Yeah, like Janet and her staff. Just admit they gave you the info and you shilled it for her. Coming clean will make you feel better.
#8,
I have felt great since I tossed Janet overboard. I look forward to helping any and all of her future political opponents.
Too bad you lack the cojones to admit you were shilling for Janet.
#10,
It is always amusing when an anonymous commenter accuses me of lacking in bravado.
We don’t like to reveal our sources – if we did that then many of our sources would not be so forthcoming.
Honestly, who cares? The fact is Norby was asleep by the Old County Courthouse (I guess there is some debate if he was on the steps or behind a bush). It was an odd thing to do. We at the Orange Juice wish him well with his fourth marriage and encourage him to find more acceptable places to nap.
This Republican family values at it’s best.
A four time loser in marriage, supported and surrounded by Christan fundemendalists who oppose the right for homosexuals to marry, but allow their own to “try and try again”.
EVERY GOP hypocrite who ever supported Norby AND supported Prop 8 should look in the mirror and ask “WHO AM I?”.
This guys a joke, but the bigger joke is the idiots who allow and support him to a position of power.
I recently spent a weekend with a former OC politicain who was popular in the late 1970’s. I was a guest at his place with his Grandkids and my childrenand ten other couples in thier forties and fifties. After a few beers he said:
“Jesus, you’ve been married for longer than anyone here”
I have been married for 15 years.
What does that have to say about the institution of marriage in the GOP?
Why should it amuse you? You let your anon bloggers do it to other people all the time.
What a hypocrite.
#13,
We give our bloggers a lot of freedom. That said, we have only one regular anon blogger, Red Vixen. Everyone else uses their real names or blogs infrequently.
Now why don’t you go back to Red County like a good little Jerbalito?
Art,
make me laugh is Phil Becerra. he is using Ryan Gene Williams Trabucco to hide his IP addres with the scrambler program he has.
Phil was overheard saying the same things he is saying here at Drinking Liberally.
I guess when he agreed to speak at the 68th Assembly democrats three weeks ago, he either was not getting married at that time or he forgot.
I hope this one works for him. Art’s advise is good, it has worked with my partner for the last 11 years. Talk softly, be humble and apoligize often.
Looks like Norby has met his match. “Martha’s” real name is Xiomara T. Cardona and she is an undocumented alian. Apparently, she changes names like she changes men. Until last Thursday she was living with another “unsuspecting” 50 something in Santa Ana and her name was Lorena. She sure works fast….
Norby is a couple of bricks shy of a load. Just what we need in the job. A useless thing, the county system. And this guy, who lived on the public breast for all of these years is an enemy of fair pay and benefits for teachers!!! Still cashes the check.
I trust they will not be living in an automobile and the Chris stays on his regime.
Hey Wedding Bells. Where did you get your info?
Wait is this a gossip blog (gawker?) or a political blog? It seems like if you were going to write about a politician that you would write something that’s relevant. Oh well.
All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Even your dark sins will someday be exposed. Look at what Chris Norby has done for property rights. Exposing government waste and abuses through M.O.R.R. I didn’t spend all my life working and saving to purchase a home only to have my city government condemn my home. And give my house to a developer as an incentive to develop my property for a higher tax increment for the city. Property rights are the same as human rights; marriage, politics, religion, opinions, involvement in government, fair trial etc. A criminal is entitled to a jury but a citizen whose property is condemned is not entitled to a jury and their property is assumed blighted. It is not our job to judge a person’s private life. Our concern should be how he votes.
haha…chris norby can be found on latinamericancupid.com ..perv
why not?…the creep tried it on with my wife in peru.before we were married…and lured her to go to his hotel room in lima