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Team Hutchens Gets All Puffed Up

January 7, 2010 4

In response to the Orange County Employees Association (OCEA) asking its members if they might be interested in a brief collective work stoppage, Under Sheriff John Scott sent a memo out to all OCEA represented department members. He instituted a new policy, effective immediately, that any employee represented by OCEA who calls in sick must have a doctor’s note to return to work.

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19 Year Old Bristol Palin launches a PR firm

January 6, 2010 11

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q6ZW2t2Ubc[/youtube] Ok, I’ve just stopped laughing about this, but 19 year old Bristol Palin, the daughter of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, has launched a […]

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Help Ensure Prop 8 Trial is Televised

January 6, 2010 8

UPDATE 1.6.10: Per the San Jose Mercury News, “Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker approved court-operated cameras in his courtroom for delayed release on YouTube, […]

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Sheriff Hutchens Dumping All Layoffs on Non-Sworn Personnel

January 5, 2010 0

For the second round of draconian layoffs, the Sheriff notified OCEA on January 4th that they plan to layoff an additional 57 non-sworn personnel. These are the people who support our deputies, and in fact, make the entire department function.

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Senator Joe Dunn Proposes County Lobbying Reform Initiative

January 5, 2010 1

Former State Senator Joe Dunn (D-Santa Ana) is proposing that the Board of Supervisors adopt a major reform of the Orange County political environment by regulating lobbyists and themselves thus establishing more transparency in the way county government decisions are made.

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Olbermann: Cheney Nothing More, Nothing Less, Than A Traitor

January 5, 2010 15

“If Mr. Cheney believes we are at war, then he, as the most recent occupant of the vice presidency, is under the strictest of obligations to put aside his case of terminal partisanship, and rally to the support of his president in a time of war. Instead, his remarks not only give encouragement to the enemies of this country, they give them an exact measure as to how successful they have been in damaging our freedoms.”

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Close Enough

January 5, 2010 0

Some of you know I coach a girl’s 5th and 6th grade basketball team in Irvine. My team is a great group of girl’s and […]