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Last night on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, John Oliver explained how Amazon.com has hijacked California’s direct democracy in order to overturn a tax law designed to reduce the state’s $26 billion deficit. Too freaking funny!!!

I don’t know what part of the story is more disturbing, the fact that the Orange County Board of Supervisors gave managers a 2.5% raise, or that they did it behind closed doors so that no one could see what they were doing.

When it comes to CEO Tom Hatch and the good old boys on the Costa Mesa City Council, their callousness is demonstrated with unbridled enthusiasm. As many city workers begin to receive holiday greeting cards in their mail boxes over the weekend they found a letter from CEO Tom Hatch just in time for the holidays.

The construction of Orange County’s tallest building is now back on track. The California Fourth District Court of Appeals has ruled in favor to the City of Santa Ana and ordered Superior Court Judge Derek W. Hunt to vacate his ruling repealing revisions to the One Broadway Plaza Development Agreement.

In the wake of ethics concerns dogging Orange County’s two largest cities, Anaheim and Santa Ana, both cities seem to need an effective way to maintain organizational oversight and accountability for the ethical behavior of their employees, commissioners, and elected officials.