Month: March 2013

We’ve been waiting for the Orange County Register to cover this story… Yesterday afternoon, the Register’s county government beat reporter wrote about the toll Brandman’s contract may have on the prospects for Acting Clerk-Recorder Renee Ramirez getting the job permanently.

We’re still only hearing crickets from the Orange County Register, but Voice of OC reports today that the County Counsel’s office has sent a letter to Anaheim Councilman Jordan Brandman demanding that he either turn in the final report or issue a refund of the $24,000 that he has already been paid.

On Friday, we wrote about the posting of a job opening for a Senior Legislative Assistant at County of Orange. Our sources had informed us that the position had been specifically opened up to provide retired Supervisor Bill Campbell’s Chief of Staff Laura Cunningham with a place to land. We may have been wrong.

Regarding Brandman’s report: “I have no idea how Orange County operates, but if I were presented with this as a public official, I would not be inclined to accept it as it is. Because its something that frankly a high school intern could have done, anyone could have done,” Judy Nadler told Voice of OC.

Crickets from the Register: On Thursday, Voice of OC broke the story about the questionable contract that former Clerk-Recorder Tom Daly granted his protege, Anaheim City Councilman Jordan Brandman, when Brandman left the agency to campaign for his city council seat.