Just keep saying "fiscal conservative."
Yesterday we reported on the dubious contract between Tom Daly’s County Clerk office and a Republican PR man and campaign agent, Brett Barbre, that put a cool $48,000 in Barbre’s pocket, and produced no evident accomplishment. We also learned that Mr. B was not only a political supporter of Daly, but a big contributor, too – to the tune of one thousand bucks.
Today’s revelation is just as startling. Starting in the summer 2004 Daly made an agreement with an operation called Government Finance Research from Rocklin, CA, and it’s principle consultant, Peter A. Lauwerys, for a retainer deal that would cost the County $1695 per month, each and every month with special projects billed separately. Consider the implications: over twenty grand a year to some sort of research firm in order to do….well, nothing.
Read the rest of “The Tom Daly Experience. The Longer You Look, The Worse It Gets”
If the glove doesn’t fit you must………. wait a minute, this one fits. Never mind. Fry him.
Does anyone know if Peter Lauwerys ever donated to Tom Daly campaign?
You have to wonder about a guy who dumps his wife and kids for a hot spicy little Randy Smith lobbyist bimbet! Sleeping with a lobbyist got Mike Duval kicked out of office. Why were Daly’s relationships swept under the carpet? What kind of guy does that? I hope OC Weekly and O.J. Blog will keep after this story on Barbre as well. Where there is smoke there is fire and this political building has zero visibility.
Debbie #1 and Debbie #2 are old and getting old. I’m now looking for a new and younger wife and I think I will call her “Little Debbie”.
You are witnessing the unfettered discretion that county elected department heads have. It is not just the Clerk- Recorder (presently Daily) but also people like Chris steeet (Treasurer-Tax Collector) and the Public Administrator (John Williams) and other electeds who seem to abuse this authority for questionable purposes. Our esteemed Board of Supervisors could sick their auditors on these departments to find out what is going on and expose it to the light of day, but they seem to continuiously be unwilling to take on fellow electeds. One wonders also where the Grand Jury is on this stuff – perhaps they are working on it and we will hear from them later. In the meantime, turning up the heat on the Board of Supervisors to carry out its oversight responsiblity for elected as well as appointed department heads would seem to be in order.
Tony, Art, Sean and contributors;
They are right the OLD MEDIA (OC REGISTER) is dead. How is it that your sluething uncovers this? Thanks for the public service. YOU GUYS ARE IT!
Bush, it occours to me that those bitching the loudest about your resposible door knocking, have the most to lose. Defenders of these practices need to be examined as well.
GOOD WORK MAN!
Once upon a time the OCR was up to the task. They missed the Mike Carona debacle by a country mile and not because a lone reporter at an alternative newspaper wasn’t leaving them a line of breadcrumbs. It goes on today with their convenient ommissions in order to avoid disturbing the establishment status quo. Start with the Board of Supervisors, Duvall, the annointed sheriff and go from there. As a result they are going the way of the Daily Plot.
The OC Register made choices not to cover bigwig corruption, and it continues either to protect or provide cover for the worst ones. How much time does OCR have left before it completely dries up?
I’d like to see OJ Blog compile a list of the TOP 10 big-time offenders in OC — elected officials, lobbyists and other corrupt players.