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County IT Spending – What the OC Register Failed to Mention

December 14, 2009 1

An IT Working Group, which had been chaired by Supervisor Janet Nguyen, was disbanded in 2008 just as it was starting to uncover these very contract issues. While the task force was being stonewalled by Mauk and Ajmani, Mauk recommended it be disbanded. Now it looks like we know why.

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The Holiday Blues….

December 11, 2009 0

There’s a perception that the Holiday season brings about an increase in the suicide rates.  All this Merry-making can be a great cause of stress […]

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Name the Democrats

December 11, 2009 4

We’re getting lots of readers from the link we picked up from a Drudge Report posting here. And many of them are conservatives who are […]

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County IT Spending Like Drunken Sailors On No Bid Contracts

December 11, 2009 2

The practice of contracting out millions of dollars to outside companies and then failing to monitor their progress has been an ongoing problem, particularly with the County IT department. Now it looks like these guys have been monkeying around with the contracts process. I wonder if the Board will actually do anything to curb this behavior.

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John A. Pérez To Be Speaker of the California Assembly

December 10, 2009 1

Sacramento, CA — John A Pérez was elected Speaker of the California Assembly today. Late Wednesday his main competitor for the spot Kevin DeLeon, conceded the contest to Perez. Perez was honored in January 2009 for his labor leadership by the Democratic Party of Orange County with the Samuel Gompers Award.

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Crazy Dana and the Wing-Nuts on Climate Change and e-mails

December 10, 2009 3

“This is about centralizing power into the hands of global government, that’s what Kyoto and Copenhagen are all about, that’s what the globalist alliance is all about;” said Rohrabacher […]

“We must fight the globalist clique that is trying to shackle generations of Americans.”