Mike Giancola accepts Supervisors’ unanimous appointment as OC CEO as AFSCME President Sandra Fox (foreground left) looks on.
Just so no one who doesn’t want to has to pay for the story in the Register, the Board of Supervisors unanimously appointed Orange County’s former Waste and Recycling Director Mike Giancola to succeed Tom Mauk as OC’s next permanent CEO. As you can see from the number of people in the audience wearing teal, lots more happened today as well. More on this story — or better to say “these stories” — coming soon in updates.
About Greg Diamond
Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that.
Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too.
He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.)
His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
Oh great, union hacks in the crowd you know it’s feeding time at the taxpayers trough!
That is a somewhat fascinating comment, Carl. Yes, members of a union were in the audience. Do you know what they said? Do you have any actual reason to call them “hacks”? Yours was a more telling reaction than you may realize.
My apologies.
Yes Greg, you’re right it is. I have a familial background with unions and it isn’t one I’m proud of. I also had friends who were union reps, when I was young. Let’s just say I will never, ever be a part of one. I’ve seen and heard way too much to trust any of them. To much power in too few hands, that always somehow manged to make tons of cash for the top and next to nothing for those who actually did the work.
Then there is the political corruption. My grandfather was a insider in the Pendergast machine, before and during Truman’s rise to power.
feeding time? what an intelligent comment…do you realize how much the BOS and the new CEO make?1 it is ridiculous….but if course the good ol boys of the OC could care less just as long as they make sure there are enough working poor for them to look and make themselves feel better.
CONGRATULATIONS to Giancola! It is nice to see an OC employee can work their way up and get somewhere! He will do well.
Note to readers: my day got busy shortly after posting this, so I wasn’t able to do the updates I had intended (lots of video, etc.) Those will appear in one or more separate stories, hopefully as early as today, work schedule permitting.
Note: “… AND MUCH MORE” has been moved to next week, by which time I will have MUCH MORE time to prepare the videos, etc.
*As they always say: “Put a busy Italian guy on the job!”
It is 8:10 PM on May 10 and I continue to wat for MR. Diamond’s promsed updates.
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Aiming for Monday. My week suddenly got hella busy and there wasn’t enough time to process the videos. I’m working both days this weekend, but plan to take a break to put together a new story about it.
It is now Wedneday, May 15. I think the site is getting a bit stale.
OBNO
Work demands raise their ugly head, OBNO. If only we were lavishly funded by SOAR, we could write much more.